Dart

Noun

 * 1) A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; a short lance; a javelin; any sharp-pointed missile weapon, as an arrow.
 * 2) * And he [Joab] took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom. - 2nd Samuel 18:14
 * 3) Anything resembling a dart; anything that pierces or wounds like a dart.
 * 4) * The artful inquiry, whose venomed dart Scarce wounds the hearing while it stabs the heart. - Hannah More
 * 5) A sudden or fast movement.
 * 6)  A fold that is stitched on a garment.
 * 7)  A fish; the dace.
 * 8)  A game of throwing darts at a target.

Verb

 * 1)  To throw with a sudden effort or thrust, as a dart or other missile weapon; to hurl or launch.
 * 2)  To send forth suddenly or rapidly; to emit; to shoot
 * The sun darts forth his beams.
 * Or what ill eyes malignant glances dart? - Alexander Pope
 * 1)  To fly or pass swiftly, as a dart; to move rapidly in one direction; to shoot out quickly
 * The flying man darted eastward.
 * 1)  To start and run with speed; to shoot rapidly along
 * The deer darted from the thicket.

Adjectives for Dart
fiery; false; envenomed; swift; imperceptible; slender; sudden; goading; bullet-like; lightning; dribbling; sickening; spiritquelling; singing; flaming; shining.

Verbs for Dart
aim—; blunt—; blow—; brandish—; dash—; defend with—s; envenom—; feather—; flash—; interpose; remove—; poison—; polish—; shake—; shield from—; shoot—; spear—; tip—; thrust—through; —hisses by; —soars; —strikes; —whizzes by; — wounds.

Thesaurus
antelope, arrow, arrowhead, barb, beesting, blue darter, blue streak, bobtailed arrow, bolt, bowl, bustle, buzz about, cannonball, career, cast, catapult, chested arrow, chuck, chunk, cloth yard shaft, courser, dash, eagle, electricity, express train, fang, fire, flash, flight, fling, flip, float, flutter, fly, fork, fuss, gazelle, greased lightning, greyhound, hare, haste, hasten, heave, hie, hump, hump it, hurl, hurry, hurry about, hurtle, jerk, jet plane, lance, launch, let fly, light, lightning, lob, make a fuss, make haste, mercury, pass, peg, pelt, pitch, pitchfork, post, precipitate, put, put the shot, quarrel, quicksilver, race, reed, rocket, run, rush, rush about, rush around, sail, scamper, scared rabbit, scoot, scour, scramble, scud, scurry, scuttle, serve, shaft, shoot, shot, shy, skedaddle, skim, sling, snakebite, snap, speed, sprint, spurt, step on it, sting, stinger, streak, streak of lightning, striped snake, swallow, tang, tear, tear around, thought, throw, thunderbolt, tilt, torrent, toss, volley, whiz about, wind

Etymology
dart:, of origin; compare Old High German tart:, Old English dara, daro, Swedish dart dagger, Icelandic darrar:

Noun

 * Bulgarian: стреличка
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:, ,
 * Lithuanian: smigis
 * Macedonian: стреличка


 * Norwegian: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: дротик
 * Spanish:
 * Volapük: jedot


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish: singahdus


 * Finnish:


 * French: pli piqué


 * Bulgarian: дартс
 * Finnish: tikkapeli,
 * French: fléchettes
 * Macedonian: пикадо


 * Polish:
 * Russian: дартс
 * Serbian: ,

Derived terms

 * dart sac (Zoölogy): a sac connected with the reproductive organs of land snails, which contains a dart, or arrowlike structure.

Verb

 * Bulgarian: мятам, хвърлям
 * Finnish:


 * Norwegian: ,


 * Bulgarian: мятам, хвърлям
 * Finnish:


 * Norwegian: ,


 * Bulgarian: спускам се
 * Finnish:


 * Norwegian: skyte ut


 * Bulgarian: хуквам
 * Finnish:, ;


 * Norwegian: bykse, lange ut,  komme i fullt firsprang

Anagrams

 * drat
 * DTRA
 * tard
 * trad

Noun

 * 1) A spear set as a prize in running. - Geoffrey Chaucer

Etymology
Of origin.

Noun

 * 1) weapon similar to a javelin

Descendants

 * English:
 * French:

Noun

 * 1) there

Alternative forms

 * datt

Noun

 * 1) darts (the game where the competitors throw small arrows against a circular target)
 * 2)  dart (one of the small arrows in the game of darts)

Synonyms

 * pilkastning (1)
 * pil (2)