Dandle: alternatives and connections

Proceeding from affection; indicating love; tender; as, the affectionate care of a parent; affectionate countenance, message, language.

The quality of being affectionate; fondness; affection.

Inclined to love; having a propensity to love, or to sexual enjoyment; loving; fond; affectionate; as, an amorous disposition.

To provide one's self with arms, weapons, or means of attack or resistance; to take arms.

Rustling in arms; resounding with arms.

The act or state of attending or heeding; the application of the mind to any object of sense, representation, or thought; notice; excl…

To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a cu…

A blessing; an expression of blessing, prayer, or kind wishes in favor of any person or thing; a solemn or affectionate invocation of…

An heraldic shield; a coat of arms, or a bearing on a coat of arms; armorial bearings.

To have a short, jerking motion; to play to and fro, or up and down; to play loosely against anything.

To bend the head, knee, or body, in token of reverence or submission; -- often with down.

a leg bowed outward at the knee (or below the knee)

To subject to a mode of punishment which consists in tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a st…

A knee, or piece of knee timber

To play; to wanton; to move in gayety; to move lightly and without restraint; to amuse one's self.

Downward; going down; sloping; as, a down stroke; a down grade; a down train on a railway.

To move; to come or go; literally, to draw one's self; -- with prepositions and adverbs; as, to draw away, to move off, esp. in racing…

An officer of state in England who marshals and orders all great ceremonials, takes cognizance of matters relating to honor, arms, and…