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noun
- a grade awarded for a class, better than outright failure (which can be F or E depending on the institution) and worse than a C
proper noun
- (snooker) The semicircle on the baulk line, inside which the cue ball must be placed at a break-off
abbreviation
- Defense
- (US politics) Democrat
- Deny
- Divorced
- Down
- Drive
- Dutch language.
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noun
- A skewer
- A sharpened stick, used for roasting food over a fire. Compare dogwood, formerly dagwood
- A long pointed strip of cloth at the edge of a piece of clothing
- One of a row of decorative strips of cloth, ornamenting a tent, booth, or fairground
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verb (dag, g, ed)
- (transitive) To skewer food, for roasting over a fire
- (transitive) To cut or slash the edge of a garment into dags
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noun
- A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; a short lance; a javelin; hence, any sharp-pointed missile weapon, as an arrow.
- Quotations
- And he Joab took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom. - 2nd Samuel 18:14
- Anything resembling a dart; anything that pierces or wounds like a dart.
- Quotations
- The artful inquiry, whose venomed Scarce wounds the hearing while it stabs the heart. - Hannan More
- A sudden or fast movement.
- A fold that is stitched on a garment.
- (obsolete) A spear set as a prize in running. - Geoffrey Chaucer
- (zoology) A fish; the dace. See dace.
- (in plural): A game of throwing darts at a target.
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noun (Plural: dashikis, also daishiki)
- A loose and brightly colored African shirt.
| | decolletage |
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noun
- (alternative spelling of, décolletage)
| | deerskin |
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noun
- (uncountable) leather, Leather made from deer hide.
- The moccasin maker had a pile of deer-skin on the table, waiting to be cut out.
- (countable) The hide, whether tanned or not, of one deer.
- The hunter exchanged twenty deerskins for a bottle of whiskey at the trading post.
- (countable) An article of clothing manufactured from deerskin. Often constructed in the plural.
- The trapper wore deerskins because they were softer than cow leather garments and rustled less than canvas.
adjective
- Made from deer leather or hide.
- Nichole wore a pair of gloves because she said she could feel more through them.
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proper noun
- A city in the east Midlands of England, once the county town of Derbyshire.
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noun <!-- The following definition, if accurate, needs a citation:
- Short names for people of India
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- A long loincloth worn by Hindu men in India.
- The cotton fabric used for such loincloths.
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noun
- A crown.
- An ornamental headband worn as a badge of royalty.
- Regal power; sovereignty; empire; -- considered as symbolized by the crown.
verb to diadem
- To adorn with a diadem; to crown.
| | diamante |
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noun
- an artificial diamond used as adornment, such as a rhinestone
adjective
- covered in diamante decorations
- shiny or iridescent, as if covered in or made of diamonds
| | dickey |
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noun
- A detachable shirt front, collar or bib.
| | dinner jacket |
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noun
- A jacket, often white, corresponding to a tuxedo jacket.
- What the US terms a tuxedo, nearly always in black.
| | dishabille |
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noun - Extreme casual or disorderly dress, shirt tail out, sleeves unbuttoned, etc.
| | djellabah |
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noun
- (alternative spelling of, djellaba)
| | doeskin |
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noun
- (uncountable) leather, Leather from the skin of a female deer or sheep.
- 1856: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hiawatha http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=447746478&tag=Longfellow,+Henry+Wadsworth,+1807-1882:+Hiawatha;+a+poem,+by+Henry+Wadsworth+Longfellow.+Illustrated+by+John+Rea+Neill,+1856&query=+doeskin&id=LonHiaw
- :He was dressed in shirt of , / White and soft, and fringed with ermine, / All inwrought with beads of wampum...
- (countable) The hide of a doe, as opposed to a buck.
- Frequently, doeskins had a higher value in trade than the skins of bucks, as they were considered of finer quality.
- (countable) A glove made of doeskin leather; usually constructed in plural.
- Elizabeth accidently left her doeskins on the pew at Sunday service.
- (uncountable) A very soft, close-napped fabric, especially of high quality.
- 1905: William Cowper Brann, The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10 http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=105634558&tag=Brann,+William+Cowper:+The+Complete+Works+of+Brann+the+Iconoclast,+Volume+10,+1905&query=+doeskin&id=Bra10Ic
- : In the morning Mr. Logan wore a box coat with pearl buttons nearly as large as alarm clocks in two rows on it.
adjective
- Manufactured from doeskin.
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noun (pl=dominos, pl2=dominoes)
- A rectangular block divided into two squares, each having 0 to 6 dots or pips (as in dice), used in the game of dominoes.
- (politics) A country that is expected to react to events in a neighboring country, according to the domino effect
- A masquerade costume consisting of a hooded robe and a mask covering the upper part of the face.
- The mask itself.
- The person wearing the costume.
- (geometry) A polyomino made up of two squares.
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noun
- a man"s close-fitting jacket, with or without sleeves. Men in Europe wore doublets from the 1400s to the 1600s.
- a pair of two similar or equal things; couple.
- one of two or more different words in a language derived from the same origin but coming by different routes.
- An imitation gem made of two pieces of glass or crystal with a layer of color between them.
- (printing, US) A word or phrase set a second time by mistake.
- (quantum mechanics) A quantum state of a system with a spin of 1/2, such that there are two allowed values of the spin component, -1/2 and +1/2.
| | Down |
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proper noun
- One of the counties of Northern Ireland
| | draper |
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noun
- One who sells cloths; a dealer in cloths; as, a draper and tailor.
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noun (plural: drawers)
- An open-topped box that can be slid in and out of the cabinet that contains it, used for storing clothing or other articles.
- One who draws something.
- (finance) One who writes a bank draft, check/cheque, or promissory note.
| | dreadnought |
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noun
- a battleship in which most of the firepower is concentrated in large guns that are of the same caliber.
| | drench |
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noun
- A draught administered to an animal.
verb (drenches, drenching, drenched)
- To soak, to make very wet.
| | dress |
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noun (es, -)
- (countable) A garment; an item of clothing (usually worn by a woman or young girl) which covers the upper part of the body as well as below the waist.
- Amy and Mary looked very pretty in their dresses'.''
- (uncountable) apparel, Apparel, clothing.
verb (dress, es)
- (transitive) To clothe something; to put clothes on something.
- (intransitive) To clothe oneself; to put on clothes.
- (transitive) To prepare the surface of a material (usually stone or lumber).
- To bandage a wound.
- 1883: w:Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Louis Stevenson, w:Treasure Island, Treasure Island
- : ...he was deadly pale, and the blood-stained bandage round his head told that he had recently been wounded, and still more recently dressed.
- (transitive) To prepare food for cooking, especially by seasoning it.
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noun
- An item of clothing often made from cotton or another absorbent material, in the form of a long open robe with a belt to tie it around the middle and fasten it securely; often worn over pyjamas.
| | dubbin |
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noun
- A mixture of tallow and oil used to soften leather, and make it waterproof.
| | duck |
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noun
- An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet.
- Specifically, an adult female female duck; contrasted with drake and with duckling.
- The flesh of a duck used as food.
- (cricket) A batsman's score of zero after getting out. (short for duck's egg, since the digit "0" is round like an egg.)
- (UK, especially East of the Pennines) Dear, Mate (informal way of addressing a friend or stranger).
- Ay up duck, ow'a'tha?
- (slang) A playing card with the rank of two.
- A tightly-woven cotton fabric used as sailcloth.
- 1912, Katherine Mansfield, "The Woman At The Store", from "Selected Short Stories":
- He was dressed in a Jaeger vest"a pair of blue trousers, fastened round the waist with a plaited leather belt.
verb
- (intransitive) To lower the head in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
- (transitive) To lower (something) into water.
- (transitive) To lower (the head) in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
- (transitive) To try to evade doing something.
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noun
- a hairstyle in which the hair is swept back into an upturned point at the back
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noun (plural of obsolete form dud)
- (context, UK, dated) Clothing, especially those for work or of rough appearance.
- 1890, w:William Morris, William Morris, w:News from Nowhere, News from Nowhere, in the journal w:Commonweal (UK), The Commonweal. (First published in book form 1890.)
- : I looked at what I could see of my rough blue , which I had plenty of opportunity of contrasting with the gay attire of the citizens we had come across; ...
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noun
- An object, now especially a cloth, used for dusting surfaces etc.
- Someone who dusts.
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