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Webster 1913 Edition
Darrain
{
, Dar′raign
,Dar′rain
, }Verb.
T.
1.
To make ready to fight; to array.
[Obs.]
Darrain
your battle, for they are at hand. Shakespeare
2.
To fight out; to contest; to decide by combat.
[Obs.]
“To darrain the battle.” Chaucer .
Webster 1828 Edition
Darrain
DAR'RAIN
,Verb.
T.
But for thou art a worthy gentil knight, and wilnest to darraine hire by bataille.
Definition 2024
darrain
darrain
English
Alternative forms
- darraign
- dereine, dereyne
Verb
darrain (third-person singular simple present darrains, present participle darraining, simple past and past participle darrained)
- (obsolete, transitive) To make ready to fight; to arm oneself for combat.
- (obsolete, transitive) To fight out; to contest; to decide by combat.
- 2001, Scott Lynch-Giddings, A Fancyfull Historie of that Most Notable & Fameous Outlaw Robyn Hood, San Jose, Calif.: Writers Club Press, ISBN 978-0-595-18078-3, page 108:
- Now everything I had or sought, I've lost; / Upon a glimpse, I am disparadised. / So: go defiant to the nether world, / And darreign[sic] Lucifer's dread minions to / Worse torment than thou wouldst do thyself.
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Usage notes
Not to be confused with darrein.