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Dalmanites
Same as .
Dandyism
The manners and dress of a dandy; foppishness.
Daymare
A kind of incubus which occurs during wakefulness, attended by the peculiar pressure on the chest which characterizes nightmare.
Debride
to remove (e. g., dead tissue) surgically from a wound.
Debtless
Free from debt.
Decease
Departure, especially departure from this life; death.
Deceivableness
Capability of deceiving.
Decide
To cut off; to separate.
Deciduousness
The quality or state of being deciduous.
Decoct
To prepare by boiling; to digest in hot or boiling water; to extract the strength or flavor of by boiling; to make an infusion of.
dedicated
wholly committed to a purpose or cause; .
Deep
Extending far below the surface; of great perpendicular dimension (measured from the surface downward, and distinguished from , which is measured upward); far to the bottom; having a certain depth; .
Defecate
Freed from anything that can pollute, as dregs, lees, etc.; refined; purified.
Deflector
That which deflects, as a diaphragm in a furnace, or a cone in a lamp (to deflect and mingle air and gases and help combustion).
Deifier
One who deifies.
de-iodination
the removal of iodine atoms from organic compounds.
Delude
To lead from truth or into error; to mislead the mind or judgment of; to beguile; to impose on; to dupe; to make a fool of.
Delusion
The act of deluding; deception; a misleading of the mind.
Delve
To dig; to open (the ground) as with a spade.
Demidevil
A half devil.
Demon
A spirit, or immaterial being, holding a middle place between men and deities in pagan mythology.
Denudate
To denude.
Deoxygenation
The act or operation of depriving of oxygen.
Depend
To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above.
Dependent
One who depends; one who is sustained by another, or who relies on another for financial support or favor; a hanger-on; a retainer; .
Depolarizer
A substance used to prevent polarization, as upon the negative plate of a voltaic battery.
Depute
A person deputed; a deputy.
Descry
To spy out or discover by the eye, as objects distant or obscure; to espy; to recognize; to discern; to discover.
Despicableness
The quality of being despicable; meanness; vileness; worthlessness.
Deutzia
A genus of shrubs with pretty white flowers, much cultivated.
Dew-point
The temperature at which dew begins to form. It varies with the humidity and temperature of the atmosphere.
Dezincify
To deprive of, or free from, zinc.
Diabase
A basic, dark-colored, holocrystalline, igneous rock, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and pyroxene with magnetic iron; -- often limited to rocks pretertiary in age. It includes part of what was early called .
Diagnostics
That part of medicine which has to do with ascertaining the nature of diseases by means of their symptoms or signs.
Dialogist
A speaker in a dialogue.
Diandria
A Linnan class of plants having two stamens.
Didym
See .
Diffame
Evil name; bad reputation; defamation.
digitalize
to record digitally, on digital tape or compact disks.
Dimness
The state or quality being dim; lack of brightness, clearness, or distinctness; dullness; obscurity.
Dipping
The act or process of immersing.
Dipterygian
Having two dorsal fins; -- said of certain fishes.
Disadorn
To deprive of ornaments.
Disarmature
The act of divesting of armature.
Disboscation
Converting forest land into cleared or arable land; removal of a forest.
Discipless
A female disciple.
Disclusion
A shutting off; exclusion.
Discomfort
To discourage; to deject.
Discriminate
To set apart as being different; to mark as different; to separate from another by discerning differences; to distinguish.
discussant
a participant in a discussion, especially a member of a panel.
Disdained
Disdainful.
Disedge
To deprive of an edge; to blunt; to dull.
disfranchised
deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote. Opposite of .
Dishabited
Rendered uninhabited.
dishelm
To deprive of the helmet.
Disjoint
Difficult situation; dilemma; strait.
Disordinately
Inordinately.
Dispensableness
Quality of being dispensable.
Dispensative
Granting dispensation.
dispensed
distributed or weighed out in carefully determined portions; .
Dispose
Disposal; ordering; management; power or right of control.
Disquietly
In a disquiet manner; uneasily; .
Dissemblance
The act or art of dissembling; dissimulation.
dissimulating
concealing under a false appearance with the intent to deceive.
Dissymmetrical
Not having symmetry; asymmetrical; unsymmetrical.
Disturb
To throw into disorder or confusion; to derange; to interrupt the settled state of; to excite from a state of rest.
Divestiture
The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.
Dogbolt
The bolt of the cap-square over the trunnion of a cannon.
Dogeate
Dogate.
Dog-headed
Having a head shaped like that of a dog; -- said of certain baboons.
doll
a small, usually flexible figure representing a human being, especially a toy baby for a little girl; a child's puppet.
Dollardee
A species of sunfish (), common in the United States; -- called also , and .
Donne
Lit., given; hence, in a literary work, as a drama or tale, that which is assumed as to characters, situation, etc., as a basis for the plot or story.
Doom palm
A species of palm tree (), highly valued for the fibrous pulp of its fruit, which has the flavor of gingerbread, and is largely eaten in Egypt and Abyssinia.
Downfall
A sudden fall; a body of things falling.
Doxologize
To give glory to God, as in a doxology; to praise God with doxologies.
Drab
To associate with strumpets; to wench.
Drill
To practice an exercise or exercises; to train one's self.
Duck
Any bird of the subfamily , family .
Dug
A teat, pap, or nipple; -- formerly that of a human mother, now that of a cow or other beast.
Dulcitude
Sweetness.
Dupe
To deceive; to trick; to mislead by imposing on one's credulity; to gull; .
Dwarfling
A diminutive dwarf.