Origin and history of Dana

blade, stout strip of soft rubber set in a wooden handle," 1844, a nautical word originally, earlier squilgee, squillagee (Dana...

as hard as thou art able And on the seventh holystone the decks and scrape the cable ["The Philadelphia Catechism," Dana...

reference to the whale's use of flukes to get along rapidly (to go a-fluking or some variant of it, "go very fast," is in Dana...

The original reference (Dana, "Two Years Before the Mast") used the word to describe the life of "half of the Americans and...

Henry Dana Washburn, surveyor-general of the Montana Territory, in reference to the regularity of its outbursts....

Dana, "Two Years before the Mast," 1840]...

[Married] In Dana, [Mass.], on the 30th ult. by Ephraim Whipple, Esq. Mr. Jason W. Williams, M....D. to Miss Malinda Chamlin, of Dana,—a couple of six footers....

1640s, a legal word, "held through the favor of another," from Latin precarius "depending on favor, pertaining to entreaty, obtained by asking or praying," from prex (genitive precis) "entreaty, prayer" (from PIE root *prek- "to ask, entreat"). The notion of "dependent on the wil

early 14c., "act of conceiving in the womb," from Old French concepcion (Modern French conception) "conception, grasp, comprehension," from Latin conceptionem (nominative conceptio) "a comprehending, conception," noun of action from past-participle stem of concipere "to take in a

early 14c., wan-towen, "resistant to control; willful," from Middle English privative word-forming element wan- "wanting, lacking, deficient," from Old English wan-, which was used interchangeably with un- (1), and is cognate with Dutch wan- (as in wanbestuur "misgovernment," wan