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841 words match “DAL”

DINOSAURIA n.
large "bird tracks," so-called, of mesozoic sandstones; others were five-toed and quadrupedal. See Illust. of Compsognathus, also Illustration of Dinosaur in Appendix.
DIRIGE n.
pray you, unto my sepulture To sing my dirige with great devotion. Lamentation of Mary Magdalene.
DIRTY v.
To tarnish; to sully; to scandalize; -- said of reputation, character, etc.
DISAGREEABLE a.
y the doctrine which you have received, and each nothing that is disagreeable thereunto. Udall.
DISCALCEATE v.
To pull off shoes or sandals from. [Obs.] Cockeram.
DISCALCEATED a.
Deprived off shoes or sandals; unshod; discalced.
DISCALCEATION n.
The act of pulling off the shoes or sandals. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
DISCHARGE v. 2 definitions
d away from service; to dismiss. Discharge the common sort With pay and thanks. Shak. Grindal . . . was discharged the government of his see. Milton.
DISCOLITH n.
One of a species of coccoliths, having an oval discoidal body, with a thick strongly refracting rim, and a thinner central portion. One of them measures about
DISCOURSE v.
To treat of; to expose or set forth in language. [Obs.] The life of William Tyndale . . . is sufficiently and at large discoursed in the book. Foxe.
DISCOVER v.
To uncover. [Obs.] Whether any man hath pulled down or discovered any church. Abp. Grindal.
DISGRADUATE v.
To degrade; to reduce in rank. [Obs.] Tyndale.
DISLOIGN v.
To put at a distance; to remove. [Obs.] Low-looking dales, disloigned from common gaze. Spenser.
DISPATCH v.
To rid; to free. [Obs.] I had clean dispatched myself of this great charge. Udall.
DISREALIZE v.
To divest of reality; to make uncertain. [Obs.] Udall.
DISTRUST v.
the justice of your cause. Dryden. He that requireth the oath doth distrust that other. Udall. Of all afraid, Distrusting all, a wise, suspicious maid. Collins.
DITROITE n.
An igneous rock composed of orthoclase, elæolite, and sodalite.
DOBSON n.
The aquatic larva of a large neuropterous insect (Corydalus cornutus), used as bait in angling. See Hellgamite.
DOTEHEAD n.
A dotard. [R.] Tyndale.
DOWN n.
ts, as they must needs acknowledge who have been on the downs of Sussex. Ray. She went by dale, and she went by down. Tennyson.
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