Definitions for daces

daces dace

Spelling: [deys]
IPA: /deɪs/

Daces is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 75 anagrams from letters in daces (acdes).

Definitions for daces

noun

  1. a small, freshwater cyprinoid fish, Leuciscus leuciscus, of Europe, having a stout, fusiform body.
  2. any of several similar or related fishes of the U.S.

Origin of daces

1400-50; late Middle English darce, darse Old French dars Late Latin darsus

Examples for daces

The dace is another fish which gives sport to the fly-fisherman.

So long as the dace were rising all the pike in the river could not tempt me to accompany them.

And the dace is deserving of respect because it will honestly take the fly.

Sir dace neither sent a messenger nor wrote for any letters there might be.

Minnows I had caught in the Thames and elsewhere, also gudgeons, and occasionally a dace.

Coralie was in the little drawing-room with Sir dace, but not Verena.

On the third day, Sir dace told her that she must be in her place at the dinner-table.

There had been a little trouble about it with Sir dace; and alas!

I should be the most ungrateful of anglers if I did not acknowledge my indebtedness to the dace.

No; I have caught three trout with the fly, and I don't count the dace.

Word Value for daces
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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