Dare

1. To have adequate or sufficient courage for any purpose; to be bold or venturesome; not to be afraid; to venture.
   

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.

Formerly durst was also used as the present. Sometimes the old form dare is found for durst or dared.
v. t.

1. To have courage for; to attempt courageously; to venture to do or to undertake.
2. To challenge; to provoke; to defy.

1. The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness; dash.
2. Defiance; challenge.

1. To lurk; to lie hid.
   

1. To terrify; to daunt.
   
To dare larks ,
to catch them by producing terror through to use of mirrors, scarlet cloth, a hawk, etc., so that they lie still till a net is thrown over them.

1. A small fish; the dace.