Dan"ite (?), n.
1.
A descendant of Dan; an Israelite of the tribe of Dan.
Judges xiii. 2.
2. [So called in remembrance of the prophecy in Gen. xlix. 17, "Dan shall be a serpent by the way," etc.]
One of a secret association of Mormons, bound by an oath to obey the heads of the church in all things.
[U. S.]
© Webster 1913.