[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

dare \dare\ d^ar, v. i. imp. durst d^urst or dared
   d^ard; p. p. dared; p. pr.  vb. n. daring. oe. i
   dar, dear, i dare, imp. dorste, durste, as. ic dear i dare,
   imp. dorste. inf. durran; akin to os. gidar, gidorsta,
   gidurran, ohg. tar, torsta, turran, goth. gadar,
   gada'ursta, gr. tharsei^n, tharrei^n, to be bold, tharsy`s
   bold, skr. dhrsh to be bold. root70.
   to have adequate or sufficient courage for any purpose; to be
   bold or venturesome; not to be afraid; to venture.
   1913 webster

         i dare do all that may become a man; who dares do more
         is none.                                 --shak.
   1913 webster

         why then did not the ministers use their new law?
         bacause they durst not, because they could not.
                                                  --macaulay.
   1913 webster

         who dared to sully her sweet love with suspicion.
                                                  --thackeray.
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         the tie of party was stronger than the tie of blood,
         because a partisan was more ready to dare without
         asking why.                              --jowett
                                                  thu?yd..
   1913 webster

   note: the present tense, i dare, is really an old past tense,
         so that the third person is he dare, but the form he
         dares is now often used, and will probably displace the
         obsolescent he dare, through grammatically as incorrect
         as he shalls or he cans. --skeat.
         1913 webster

               the pore dar plede the poor man dare plead.
                                                  --p. plowman.
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               you know one dare not discover you. --dryden.
         1913 webster

               the fellow dares not deceive me.   --shak.
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               here boldly spread thy hands, no venom'd weed
               dares blister them, no slimy snail dare creep.
                                                  --beau.  fl.
         1913 webster

   note: formerly durst was also used as the present. sometimes
         the old form dare is found for durst or dared.
         1913 webster
see also:
durst dared daring 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

dare \dare\, v. t. imp.  p. p. dared; p. pr.  vb. n.
   daring.
   1. to have courage for; to attempt courageously; to venture
      to do or to undertake.
      1913 webster

            what high concentration of steady feeling makes men
            dare every thing and do anything?     --bagehot.
      1913 webster

            to wrest it from barbarism, to dare its solitudes.
                                                  --the century.
      1913 webster

   2. to challenge; to provoke; to defy.
      1913 webster

            time, i dare thee to discover
            such a youth and such a lover.        --dryden.
      1913 webster
see also:
dared daring 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

daring \dar"ing\, n.
   boldness; fearlessness; adventurousness; also, a daring act.
   1913 webster

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

daring \dar"ing\, a.
   bold; fearless; adventurous; as, daring spirits. --
   dar"ingly, adv. -- dar"ingness, n.
   1913 webster
see also:
dar"ingly dar"ingness 

[5] : WordNet (r) 2.0

daring
     adj 1: disposed to venture or take risks; "audacious visions of the
            total conquest of space"; "an audacious interpretation
            of two jacobean dramas"; "the most daring of
            contemporary fiction writers"; "a venturesome
            investor"; "a venturous spirit" syn: audacious, venturesome,
             venturous
     2: radically new or original; "an avant-garde theater piece"
        syn: avant-garde
     n 1: a challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy; "he
          could never refuse a dare" syn: dare
     2: the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve
        risk or danger; "the proposal required great boldness"
        syn: boldness, hardihood ant: timidity
see also:
audacious venturesome venturous avant-garde dare boldness 
hardihood timidity 

[6] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

168 moby thesaurus words for "daring":
   adventuresome, adventuresomeness, adventurous, adventurousness,
   arrogance, arrogant, audacious, audaciousness, audacity, balls,
   blazon, bold, bold front, boldness, bottle, brash, brash bearing,
   brashness, brassiness, brassy, bravado, brave, bravery, bravura,
   braw, brazen, brazenness, brilliancy, brinkmanship, bumptious,
   bumptiousness, challenging, cheekiness, cheeky, chichi, cockiness,
   cocky, contempt, contemptuous, contemptuousness, courage,
   courage fou, courageous, courting disaster, daredevil, daredevilry,
   daredeviltry, daringness, dash, dashing, death-defying, defial,
   defiance, defiant, defying, demonstration, derision, derisive,
   derring-do, despite, disdain, disdainful, display, disregard,
   disregardful, dramatics, dressy, eclat, enterprise, enterprising,
   etalage, exhibition, exhibitionism, exhibitionistic, false front,
   fanfaronade, fearless, fearlessness, figure, fire-eating, flair,
   flashing, flashy, flaunt, flaunting, flirting with death, flourish,
   foolhardiness, foolhardy, forward, forwardness, frilly, frothy,
   gallant, gay, glittering, going for broke, greatly daring, grit,
   guts, gutsy, hardy, harebrained, harebrainedness, histrionics,
   impertinence, impertinent, impudence, impudent, insolence,
   insolent, intrepid, intrepidity, jaunty, jazzy, madbrain,
   madbrained, madcap, manifestation, mettle, mettlesome, nerve,
   nervy, overbold, overboldness, pageant, pageantry, parade, pert,
   pertness, playing with fire, pluck, plucky, presumption,
   presumptuous, presumptuousness, rakish, rash, reckless,
   regardless of consequences, sauciness, saucy, sham, show,
   showing-off, showy, snazzy, spectacle, spirit, splash, splashy,
   splurge, splurgy, sporty, spunk, staginess, temerarious, theatrics,
   unafraid, valor, valorous, vaunt, venturesome, venturesomeness,
   venturous, venturousness, wild, wild-ass

[7] : THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)

daring, n.  one of the most conspicuous qualities of a man in
security.

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