Dictionary
Found: 6,960 words.
D
2 defs
As a numeral D stands for 500. in this use it is not the initial of any word, or even strictly a letter, but one half of the sign / (or / ) the original Tuscan numeral for 1000.
A kind of slide valve. See Slide valve, under Slide.
Dab
6 defs
A gentle blow with the hand or some soft substance; a sudden blow or hit; a peck.
A large, spine-tailed lizard (Uromastix spinipes), found in Egypt, Arabia, and Palestine; -- called also dhobb, and dhabb.
of Dab
That with which one dabs; hence, a pad or other device used by printers, engravers, etc., as for dabbing type or engraved plates with ink.
of Dab
Dabble
3 defs
To play in water, as with the hands; to paddle or splash in mud or water.
of Dabble
Dabbler
2 defs
One who dabbles.
of Dabble
In a dabbling manner.
A small water bird (Podilymbus podiceps), allied to the grebes, remarkable for its quickness in diving; -- called also dapchick, dobchick, dipchick, didapper, dobber, devil-diver, ...
A large and highly venomous Asiatic viper (Daboia xanthica).
One who is skilled; a master of his business; a proficient; an adept.
From the beginning; a direction to return to, and end with, the first strain; -- indicated by the letters D. C. Also, the strain so repeated.
A small European cyprinoid fish (Squalius leuciscus or Leuciscus vulgaris); -- called also dare.
One of a breed of small dogs with short crooked legs, and long body; -- called also badger dog. There are two kinds, the rough-haired and the smooth-haired.
Dacian
2 defs
A native of ancient Dacia.
One of a class of robbers, in India, who act in gangs.
The practice of gang robbery in India; robbery committed by dacoits.
Same as Dacotas.
Dactyl
3 defs
A finger or toe; a digit.
Dactylar
2 defs
Of or pertaining to a finger or toe, or to the claw of an insect crustacean.
A dactyl.
Dactylic
3 defs
A line consisting chiefly or wholly of dactyls; as, these lines are dactylics.
Dactylioglyph
2 defs
An engraver of gems for rings and other ornaments.
The art or process of gem engraving.
Dactyliography
2 defs
In general, the literature or history of the art.
Dactyliology
2 defs
That branch of archaeology which has to do with finger rings.
Divination by means of finger rings.
A writer of dactylic verse.
An inflammatory affection of the fingers.
The art of communicating ideas by certain movements and positions of the fingers; -- a method of conversing practiced by the deaf and dumb.
Dactyliomancy.
The art of numbering or counting by the fingers.
Having the inferior rays of the pectoral fins partially or entirely free, as in the gurnards.
The scaly covering of the toes, as in birds.
A kind of zooid of Siphonophora which has an elongated or even vermiform body, with one tentacle, but no mouth. See Siphonophora.
Father; -- a word sometimes used by children.
of Dadle
of Dadle
The rotten body of a tree.
Diminutive of Dad.
Daddy longlegs
2 defs
A name applied to many species of dipterous insects of the genus Tipula, and allied genera, with slender bodies, and very long, slender legs; the crane fly; -- called also father l...
Dade
2 defs
To hold up by leading strings or by the hand, as a child while he toddles.
To toddle; to walk unsteadily, like a child or an old man; hence, to do anything slowly or feebly.
Dado
3 defs
In any wall, that part of the basement included between the base and the base course. See Base course, under Base.
of Dado
Alt. of Daedalian