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dagga
a relatively nontoxic South African herb () smoked like tobacco.
Dandruff
A scurf which forms on the head, and comes off in small scales or particles.
Danseuse
A professional female dancer; a woman who dances at a public exhibition as in a ballet.
Darbies
Manacles; handcuffs.
Darkling
Becoming dark or gloomy; frowing.
Deadborn
Stillborn.
Debauched
Dissolute; dissipated.
Decemdentate
Having ten points or teeth.
Decern
To perceive, discern, or decide.
Declaration of Independence
The document promugated, , by the leaders of the thirteen British Colonies in America that they have formed an independent country. See note below.
Dcolletage
The upper border or part of a low-cut (i.e., dcollet) dress.
Deductive
Of or pertaining to deduction; capable of being deduced from premises; deducible.
Definitive
A word used to define or limit the extent of the signification of a common noun, such as the definite article, and some pronouns.
Dehors
All sorts of outworks in general, at a distance from the main works; any advanced works for protection or cover.
Denounce
To make known in a solemn or official manner; to declare; to proclaim (especially an evil).
Deonerate
To unload; to disburden.
Depurgatory
Serving to purge; tending to cleanse or purify.
Dermal
Pertaining to the integument or skin of animals; dermic; .
Despairing
Feeling or expressing despair; hopeless.
Destructor
A destroyer.
Desudation
A sweating; a profuse or morbid sweating, often succeeded by an eruption of small pimples.
Desume
To select; to borrow.
Determinate
To bring to an end; to determine. See .
Devoutful
Full of devotion.
Dewberry
The fruit of certain species of bramble (); in England, the fruit of , which has a glaucous bloom; in America, that of and , species of low blackberries.
Dew-point
The temperature at which dew begins to form. It varies with the humidity and temperature of the atmosphere.
Diagnostic
The mark or symptom by which one disease is known or distinguished from others.
Diastolic
Of or pertaining to diastole.
differentia
The formal or distinguishing part of the essence of a species, by which it is distinguished from other members of its genus; the characteristic attribute of a species; specific difference; .
Difficulty
The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; -- opposed to or ;
Diggable
Capable of being dug.
Digitigrade
Walking on the toes; -- distinguished from .
Diligent
Prosecuted with careful attention and effort; careful; painstaking; not careless or negligent.
Diorism
Definition; logical direction.
Direct
A character, thus [], placed at the end of a staff on the line or space of the first note of the next staff, to apprise the performer of its situation.
Disangelical
Not angelical.
Disciplinary
Pertaining to discipline; intended for discipline; corrective; belonging to a course of training.
Disclosure
The act of disclosing, uncovering, or revealing; bringing to light; exposure.
Discoidal
Disk-shaped; discoid.
Discommission
To deprive of a commission or trust.
Disculpatory
Tending to exculpate; exculpatory.
discussive
Able or tending to discuss or disperse tumors or coagulated matter; discutient.
Dismember
To tear limb from limb; to dilacerate; to disjoin member from member; to tear or cut in pieces; to break up.
Dispeed
To send off with speed; to dispatch.
Dispensary
A place where medicines are prepared and dispensed; esp., a place where the poor can obtain medical advice and medicines gratuitously or at a nominal price.
Displaceable
Capable of being displaced.
Disrank
To degrade from rank.
Distal
Remote from the point of attachment or origin;
Distinctly
With distinctness; not confusedly; without the blending of one part or thing another; clearly; plainly; .
Distractible
Capable of being drawn aside or distracted.
Diswont
To deprive of wonted usage; to disaccustom.
Ditch
A trench made in the earth by digging, particularly a trench for draining wet land, for guarding or fencing inclosures, or for preventing an approach to a town or fortress. In the latter sense, it is called also a or a .
Diureticalness
The quality of being diuretical; diuretic property.
Dividingly
By division.
DJ
same as .
Dockage
A charge for the use of a dock.
Dog bee
A male or drone bee.
Dogshore
One of several shores used to hold a ship firmly and prevent her moving while the blocks are knocked away before launching.
Dog Star
Sirius, a star of the constellation , or the Greater Dog, and the brightest star in the heavens; -- called also , and, in astronomical charts, . See .
Do-little
One who performs little though professing much.
Dominant
Ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling; predominant; .
Dosel
Same as ,
Doucker
A grebe or diver; -- applied also to the golden-eye, pochard, scoter, and other ducks.
Draggle
To wet and soil by dragging on the ground, mud, or wet grass; to drabble; to trail.
Drilling
A heavy, twilled fabric of linen or cotton.
Drimys
A genus of magnoliaceous trees. furnishes Winter's bark.
Droh
of .
Droop
A drooping; .
druggist
One who deals in drugs; especially, one who buys and sells drugs without compounding them; one who owns or operates a drugstore.
ducky
a special loved one; a darling; -- used as a term of endearment.
Dumpiness
The state of being dumpy.
Dung
To void excrement.
Duress
To subject to duress.
Duskiness
The state of being dusky.