D

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