Dan|ite

Dan|ite
Dan|ite «DAN yt», noun.
1. a descendant of Dan (in the Bible, Judges 13:2).
2. a member of an alleged secret order of Mormons, supposed to have been formed about 1837 and to have been guilty of various atrocious crimes.

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