r remove from a
place
DISMA'NTLE, _v.a._ strip; deprive of a dress; strip a town of its
outworks; loose
DISMA'Y, _s._ fall of courage; desertion of mind
DISOBE'DIENCE, _s._ the act of disobeying; inattention to the words of
those who have right to command
DISO'RDER, _s._ irregularity; tumult; sickness
DISPA'RAGEMENT, _s._ reproach; disgrace; indignity
DISPLA'Y, _v.a._ exhibit; talk without restraint
DISPOSI'TION, _s._ order; method; temper of mind
DISQUI'ETUDE, _s._ uneasiness
DI'SREGARD, _v.a._ to slight; to neglect
DI'SSIPATE, _v.a._ scatter every way; disperse; scatter the attention
DISSO'LVE, _v.n._ be melted; fall to nothing
DISTANCE, _s._ remoteness in place; retraction of kindness; reserve
DISTE'MPER, _s._ disease; malady; bad constitution of the mind
DISTI'NCTION, _s._ the act of discerning one as preferable to the other;
note of difference; honourable note of superiority; discernment
DISTINCTLY, _ad._ not confusedly; plainly; clearly
DISTRE'SS, _s._ calamity; misery; misfortune
DISTRI'BUTE, _v.a._ to deal out; to dispensate
DI'STRICT, _s._ region; country; territory
DIVE'RGE, _v.n._ send various ways from one point
DIVE'RSIFY, _v.a._ make different from another
DIVE'RSION, _s._ the act of turning anything off from its course
DIVE'RSITY, _s._ difference; dissimilitude; unlikeness; variety
DIVI'DE, _v.a._ part one whole in different pieces; separate; deal out
DI'VIDEND, _s._ a share
DO'CILE, _a._ teachable; easily instructed; tractable
DOMA'IN, _s._ dominion; possession; estate; empire
DOME'STIC, _a._ belonging to the house; private
DOME'STICATE, _v.a._ make domestic; withdraw from the public
DOMI'NION, _s._ sovereign authority; power; territory
DO'RSAL, _a._ pertaining to the back
DO'UBLE, _a._ two of a sort; in pairs; twice as much
DRAMA'TIC, _a._ representable by action
DRA'MATIST, _s._ author of dramatic compositions
DRAW'INGROOM, _s._ a room to which company withdraw--originally
withdrawing-room
DRE'ADFUL, _a._ terrible; frightful
DRE'ARINESS, _s._ gloominess; sorrowfulness
DRE'ARY, _a._ sorrowful; gloomy; dismal; horrid
DU'CAT, _s._ a coin struck by Dukes; in silver valued at about four
shillings and sixpence, in gold at nine shillings and sixpence
DURA'TION, _s._ power of continuance; length of continuance
DU'RING, _prep._ for the time of the continuance
EA'RLY, _ad._ soon; betimes
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