Anglish wordbook/D
From The Anglish Moot
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| daybook | n | an account of day-to-day events, a record of experiences, ideas, or reflections kept regularly for private use; diary, journal [day + book]
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| deadhouse | n | a building or room in which bodies are kept between death and burial; morgue, mortuary [obsolete, from dead + house]
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| ditch | n | a long narrow excavation in the earth; any small natural waterway; gully; fosse [OE dic "trench, dike]
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| dretch | vb | to afflict, torment, agitate.; vex, gall, upset [rare; unknown in other germanic languages.
In ME esp, to trouble in sleep. < from OE drecc(e)an.]
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| dry-month | n | the sixth month of the year, the dry month; June [Anglo-Saxon, from Sēre-Mōnath]
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| dwale | n | that which produces insensibility to pain, as ether; chloroform, ether [archaic revival from OE]
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| dwine | vb | to waste or pine away, decline in vigour; wither, wane, languish [archaic revival, from OE dwinan dwan]
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