Darts
[da:ts]
Definition
(noun.) a game in which small pointed missiles are thrown at a dartboard.
Editor: Nancy--From WordNet
Examples
- Do you notice how it darts different coloured fires--it flashes really superbly--' They remained in silence. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But Mr Lammle--' She darts a look at him which he cannot comprehend, and shows him another portrait. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The arch?ologists, as the Record continues, are presently able to distinguish scrapers, borers, knives, darts, throwing stones, and the like. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Darts of bright light shot asunder, darkness swept over the centre. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Driver darts up, Brewer leaps in, they cheer him as he departs, and Mr Podsnap says, 'Mark my words, sir. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- They try to fasten on the bull their _banderillas_--barbed darts ornamented with colored paper, and often having squibs or crackers attached. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He will hurl no darts at me, and your pale sun in England is but a shadow of the glorious Helios of our Greek skies. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
Typist: Malcolm