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Daddy
Diminutive of .
Damaskin
A sword of Damask steel.
Danalite
A mineral occuring in octahedral crystals, also massive, of a reddish color. It is a silicate of iron, zinc manganese, and glucinum, containing sulphur.
Dandy
One who affects special finery or gives undue attention to dress; a fop; a coxcomb.
Darkness
The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom.
Daubreelite
A sulphide of chromium observed in some meteoric irons.
Dawish
Like a daw.
Decapod
A crustacean with ten feet or legs, as a crab; one of the . Also used adjectively, .
Decennial
A tenth year or tenth anniversary.
Decoloration
The removal or absence of color.
decumary
a woody climber of southeastern US () having white flowers in compound terminal clusters.
Decurtation
Act of cutting short.
Defamatory
Containing defamation; injurious to reputation; calumnious; slanderous;
Defame
To harm or destroy the good fame or reputation of; to disgrace; especially, to speak evil of maliciously; to dishonor by slanderous reports; to calumniate; to asperse.
Defeasanced
Liable to defeasance; capable of being made void or forfeited.
Deference
A yielding of judgment or preference from respect to the wishes or opinion of another; submission in opinion; regard; respect; complaisance.
Dejeration
The act of swearing solemnly.
Delay
To put off; to defer; to procrastinate; to prolong the time of or before.
Delftware
Pottery made at the city of in Holland; hence:
Demiss
Cast down; humble; submissive.
Demoness
A female demon.
Denature
To become denatured.
Denmark satin
See under .
Dentiloquist
One who speaks through the teeth, that is, with the teeth closed.
Deplant
To take up (plants); to transplant.
Deplumate
Destitute or deprived of features; deplumed.
Depose
To bear witness; to testify under oath; to make deposition.
Depute
A person deputed; a deputy.
detoxicate
to remove poison from.
Detractor
One who detracts; a derogator; a defamer.
Devil's darning-needle
A dragon fly. See , under ,
Diametral
A diameter.
Diamond-back
The salt-marsh terrapin of the Atlantic coast ().
Dianthus
A genus of plants containing some of the most popular of cultivated flowers, including the pink, carnation, and Sweet William.
Diethylamine
A colorless, volatile, alkaline liquid, , having a strong fishy odor resembling that of herring or sardines. Cf. .
Dimidiation
The act of dimidiating or halving; the state of being dimidiate.
Direct-coupled
Coupled without intermediate connections, as an engine and a dynamo.
Disaffirm
To assert the contrary of; to contradict; to deny; -- said of that which has been asserted.
Disbench
To drive from a bench or seat.
Disclaim
To renounce all claim to deny; ownership of, or responsibility for; to disown; to disavow; to reject.
Disembowelment
The act of disemboweling, or state of being disemboweled; evisceration.
Disennoble
To deprive of that which ennobles; to degrade.
Disforestation
The act of clearing land of forests.
Disingenuity
Disingenuousness.
diskjockey
to comment on music to be played.
Disjunctive
A disjunctive conjunction.
Disport
To divert or amuse; to make merry.
Disposable
Subject to disposal; free to be used or employed as occasion may require; not assigned to any service or use.
Disputable
Capable of being disputed; liable to be called in question, controverted, or contested; or doubtful certainty or propriety; controvertible; .
Divisor
The number by which the dividend is divided.
Dobber
See .
Dock
To draw, law, or place (a ship) in a dock, for repairing, cleaning the bottom, etc.
Docket
A small piece of paper or parchment, containing the heads of a writing; a summary or digest.
Dogbolt
The bolt of the cap-square over the trunnion of a cannon.
doorstopper
same as .
Dor
A trick, joke, or deception.
Doubt
To question or hold questionable; to withhold assent to; to hesitate to believe, or to be inclined not to believe; to withhold confidence from; to distrust; .
Doughtiness
The quality of being doughty; valor; bravery.
Douter
An extinguisher for candles.
Down
Fine, soft, hairy outgrowth from the skin or surface of animals or plants, not matted and fleecy like wool
Draftsman
See .
Draper
One who sells cloths; a dealer in cloths; .
Drawback
A loss of advantage, or deduction from profit, value, success, etc.; a discouragement or hindrance; objectionable feature.
Dreamful
Full of dreams.
Dreamland
An unreal, delightful country such as in sometimes pictured in dreams; region of fancies; fairyland.
Drone fly
A dipterous insect (), resembling the drone bee. See .
Drum
To execute on a drum, as a tune.
Drunkenness
The state of being drunken with, or as with, alcoholic liquor; intoxication; inebriety; -- used of the casual state or the habit.
Druse
A cavity in a rock, having its interior surface studded with crystals and sometimes filled with water; a geode.
Duces tecum
A judicial process commanding a person to appear in court and bring with him some piece of evidence or other thing to be produced to the court.
Dunderpate
See .
Dungaree
A coarse kind of unbleached cotton fabric; blue denim.
Duo
A composition for two performers; a duet.
Dusk
Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.
Dutied
Subjected to a duty.
Dynamo-electric
Pertaining to the development of electricity, especially electrical currents, by power; producing electricity or electrical currents by mechanical power.
Dysnomy
Bad legislation; the enactment of bad laws.