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What does "dart" mean?

Dart: 2. Anything resembling a dart; anything that pierces or wounds like a dart. The artful inquiry, whose venomed dart Scarce wounds the hearing while it stabs the heart. Hannan More.

Additional senses

  1. 2.A spear set as a prize in running. [Obs.] Chaucer.
  2. 3.(Zoöl.) A fish; the dace. See Dace. Dart sac (Zoöl.), a sac connected with the reproductive organs of land snails, which contains a dart, or arrowlike structure.
  3. 4.To throw with a sudden effort or thrust, as a dart or other missile weapon; to hurl or launch.
  4. 5.To throw suddenly or rapidly; to send forth; to emit; to shoot; as, the sun darts forth his beams. Or what ill eyes malignant glances dart Pope.
  5. 6.To fly or pass swiftly, as a dart.
  6. 7.To start and run with velocity; to shoot rapidly along; as, the deer darted from the thicket.

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