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dane
  • (n.) A native, or a naturalized inhabitant, of Denmark.
 
danegeld
  • (n.) Alt. of Danegelt
 
danegelt
  • (n.) An annual tax formerly laid on the English nation to buy off the ravages of Danish invaders, or to maintain forces to oppose them. It afterward became a permanent tax, raised by an assessment, at first of one shilling, afterward of two shillings, upon every hide of land throughout the realm.
 
danewort
  • (n.) A fetid European species of elder (Sambucus Ebulus); dwarf elder
  • wallwort
  • elderwort
  • -- called also Daneweed, Dane's weed, and Dane's-blood. [Said to grow on spots where battles were fought against the Danes.]

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