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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Dare \Dare\ (d[^a]r), verb (used without an object) [imp. {Durst} (d[^u]rst) or {Dared} (d[^a]rd); 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['u]rsta, Gr. tharsei^n, tharrei^n, to be bold, tharsy's bold, Skr. Dhrsh to be bold. [root]70.] To have adequate or sufficient courage for any purpose; to be bold or venturesome; not to be afraid; to venture.
I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. --Shak.
Why then did not the ministers use their new law? Bacause they durst not, because they could not. --Macaulay.
Who dared to sully her sweet love with suspicion. --Thackeray.
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.).
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.
The pore dar plede (the poor man dare plead). --P. Plowman.
You know one dare not discover you. --Dryden.
The fellow dares not deceive me. --Shak.
Here boldly spread thy hands, no venom'd weed Dares blister them, no slimy snail dare creep. --Beau. & Fl.
Note: Formerly durst was also used as the present. Sometimes the old form dare is found for durst or dared.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Dare \Dare\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Dared}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Daring}.]
1. To have courage for; to attempt courageously; to venture to do or to undertake.
What high concentration of steady feeling makes men dare every thing and do anything? --Bagehot.
To wrest it from barbarism, to dare its solitudes. --The Century.
2. To challenge; to provoke; to defy.
Time, I dare thee to discover Such a youth and such a lover. --Dryden.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Daring \Dar"ing\, adjective Bold; fearless; adventurous; as, daring spirits. -- {Dar"ing*ly}, adverb -- {Dar"ing*ness}, noun
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Daring \Dar"ing\, noun Boldness; fearlessness; adventurousness; also, a daring act.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
daring
adjective
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}]
noun
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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
DARING, noun One of the most conspicuous qualities of a man in security.
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