dart'

n. [ OF. dart, of German origin; cf. OHG. tart javelin, dart, AS. darað, daroð, Sw. dart dagger, Icel. darraðr dart. ] 1. A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; a short lance; a javelin; hence, any sharp-pointed missile weapon, as an arrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

And he [ Joab ] took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom. 2 Sa. xviii. 14. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Anything resembling a dart; anything that pierces or wounds like a dart. [ 1913 Webster ]

The artful inquiry, whose venomed dart
Scarce wounds the hearing while it stabs the heart. Hannan More. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A spear set as a prize in running. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Zool.) A fish; the dace. See Dace. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dart sac (Zool.), a sac connected with the reproductive organs of land snails, which contains a dart, or arrowlike structure. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To fly or pass swiftly, as a dart. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To start and run with velocity; to shoot rapidly along; as, the deer darted from the thicket. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. dartre eruption, dandruff. √240. ] A kind of scab or ulceration on the skin of lambs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a circular board of wood or cork used as the target in the game of darts. It may have any of several patterns on it, such as concentric circles, or a central circle with rays. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. 1. One who darts, or who throw darts; that which darts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) The snakebird, a water bird of the genus Plotus; -- so called because it darts out its long, snakelike neck at its prey. See Snakebird. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) A small fresh-water etheostomoid fish. The group includes numerous genera and species, all of them American. See Etheostomoid. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Like a dart; rapidly. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. To pierce or shoot through; to dart repeatedly: -- frequentative of dart. [ 1913 Webster ]

My star that dartles the red and the blue. R. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the dartos. [ 1913 Webster ]