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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Dangerous, a. Also: dangerus, daingerous, -rus, dengerous. [ME. daungerous, dangerus (a 1225), AF. dangerous, OF. dangeros, -eus.]

1. Difficult to please; disdainful, haughty. c1460 Consail Wys Man 176.
Crab nocht lychtly for lytill thing, Na be nocht dangerous of met dichting c1515 Asl. MS. I. 179/25.
Thai haue neuer … dangerous manere, bot allway lufand and gracious chere, … to na man dangerus c1500-c1512 Dunb. Tua Mar. W. 132.
Than am I bot dangerus and dane and dour of my will Ib. xlii. 37.
Scorne … oft on me his babill schuke, Lukand with mony a dengerous luke a1540 Freiris Berw. 55.
Ane fair blyth wyf he had, … Bot scho wes sumthing dynk and dengerous a1570-86 Maitl. F. xlvii. 59.
Be nocht haltane nor dangerous, Nor on na wys dispituous a1585 Maitl. Q. xxxix. 94.
My hairt alwayis to luif ȝow man proceid, Thocht ȝe be daingerous and beir abak

2. Involving or causing danger; perilous.(a) a1500 Henr. Orph. 304.
He fande a ferefull strete, Myrk as the nycht, to pas richt dangerous 1490 Irland Mir. I. 9/5.
Eloquens without wisdome is richt dangerus in realmez c1500-c1512 Dunb. li. 4.
Madame, ȝe heff ane dangerous dog 1513 Doug. iii. vi. 140.
Eschew, tharfor, this passage dangerus Ib. x. 100.
The dangerus schaldis and cost 1531 Bell. Boece I. p. xxiv.
Thay ar strikin oftimes with dangerus … infirmiteis Ib. 147.
The dangerus flude c1552 Lynd. Mon. 2427.
Of that dangerus den he wes releuit 1562-3 Winȝet II. 19/5.
Grete dangerous slonkis of sindry errouris a1578 Pitsc. I. 89/5.
Nobill men that … lamented quiettlie thir dangerus callamitieis 1596 Dalr. I. 28/15.
Gif a dangerous hill … war nocht cummirsum and contrare to it(b) 1562-3 Winȝet I. 2/23.
Quhen thair apperit ane daingerous seditioun in Edinburgh Ib. 3/8.
Ane schip … enforsed … betuix maist daingerous sandy beddis a1585 Maitl. Q. xc. 5.
To eschew such daingerous debat 1608 Conv. Burghs II. 253.
The lying of the mwk … vpoun the hie streitis, … is daingerous … in tyme of plague(c) 1630 Misc. Hist. Soc. II. 256.
It is dengerus to put the hand forder than the sleive can reich