Glossary.
Letter D
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- 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
- 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