Glossary - D

DAFF to befool To put off; this seems to be a corruption of 'doff.'

DAMN to condemn

DANGER reach, control, power

DANSKER a Dane

DARE to challenge

DARKLING in the dark

DARRAIGN to set in array

DAUB to disguise

DAUBERY imposition

DAY-WOMAN a dairy-maid

DEAR dire That which has to do with the affections Piteous Important

DEARN lonely

DEBOSHED debauched, drunken

DECK to bedew. This is probably a form of the verb 'to dag,' now a provincial word

DECK a pack of cards

DECLINE to enumerate, as in going through the cases of a noun

DECLINED fallen

DEEM doom, judgment

DEFEAT to undo, destroy

DEFEAT destruction

DEFEATURE disfigurement

DEFENCE art of fencing

DEFEND to forbid

DEFENSIBLE having the power to defend

DEFTLY dexterously

DEFY renounce

DEGREES a step

DELAY to let slip by delaying

DEMERIT merit, desert

DEMURELY solemnly

DENAY denial

DENIER the 12th part of a French sol coin

DENOTEMENT marking Note or manifestation

DENY to refuse

DEPART departure

DEPART to part

DEPARTING parting, separation

DEPEND to be in service

DERIVED born, descended

DEROGATE degraded

DESCANT a variation upon a melody, hence, metaphorically, a comment on a given theme

DESIGN to draw up articles

DESPATCH to deprive, bereave

DESPERATE determined, bold

DETECT to charge, blame

DETERMINE to conclude

DICH optative mood, perhaps contracted for 'do it.'

DIET food regulated by the rules of medicine

DIET to have one's food regulated by the rules of medicine

DIFFUSED confused

DIGRESSING transgressing, going out of the right way

DIGRESSION transgression

DIG-YOU-GOOD-DEN give you good evening

DILDO the chorus or burden of a song

DINT stroke

DIRECTION judgment, skill

DISABLE to disparage

DISAPPOINTED unprepared

DISCASE to undress

DISCONTENT a malcontent

DISCOURSE power of reasoning

DISDAINED disdainful

DISLIMN to disfigure, transform

DISME a tenth or tithe

DISPARK to destroy a park

DISPONGE to squeeze out as from a sponge

DISPOSE disposal

DISPOSE to conspire

DISPOSITION maintenance

DISPUTABLE disputatious

DISPUTE to argue, examine

DISSEMBLY used ridiculously for assembly

DISTASTE to corrupt

DISTEMPERED discontented

DISTRACTION a detached troop or company of soldiers

DISTRAUGHT distracted, mad

DIVERTED turned from the natural course

DIVISION a phrase or passage in a melody

DIVULGED published, spoken of

DOFF to do off, strip To put off with an excuse

DOLT a small Dutch coin

DOLE portion dealt Grief, lamentation

DON to do on, put on

DONE 'done to death,' put to death

DOTANT one who dotes, a dotard

DOUT to do out, quench

DOWLAS a kind of coarse sacking

DOWLE the swirl of a feather

DOWN-GYVED hanging down like gyves or fetters

DRAB a harlot

DRABBING whoring

DRAUGHT a privy

DRAWN having his sword drawn

DRAWN drunk, having taken a good draught

DRIBBLING weak

DRIVE to rush impetuously

DROLLERY a puppet-show

DRUMBLE to dawdle

DRY thirsty

DUC-DAME perhaps the Latin duc-ad-me, bring him to me

DUDGEON a dagger

DULL soothing

DULLARD a dull person

DUMP complaint

DUP to do up, Lift up