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daresty | adj | venturesome, presumptuous; [OE dyrsig]
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"darkest time is near the dawn (the)" | pvb | there is hope, even in the worst of circumstances.; never give up hope. [OE]
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darkword | n | inkhorn word.; hardword. [OE 'dark' & 'word']
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daven | adj | fit, suitable; [OE dafen]
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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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dayleat | n | viaduct; [dale + leat]
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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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deal | n | part; [dǣl]
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dealock | n | an element of something, the simplest part of a whole, a morpheme in a word; [deal (<OE dǣl) + -ock (<OE -uc, a diminutive marker)]
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dearworth | adj | precious; [OE deorwierðe]
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deedly | adj | active; [OE dædlic]
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deer | n | an animal in general; [O.E.]
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delvern | n | quarry; [delve + -ern]
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dern | adj | secret, a language spoken by only a few people.; [mainly dialectal; <OE dyrne]
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dew drier | n | the sun; day-candle [OE]
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"Dig One's Grave With One's Teeth" | proverb | by poor diet (and unhealthy lifestyle) one hasten one's journey to the grave.; [OE]
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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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dovetail | vb | to cause something to fit exactly together We've tried to dovetail our plans with theirs.; [CED]
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downmust | vb | to cause to do something as if by force; force, compel [compound: 'down' + 'must']
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dree | v | endure; suffer, tolerate, undergo [from OE dreogan]
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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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drovebeam | n | vine; [from Frisian 'druvebeam' - "drove' = grape (see Dutch 'druif', NHG 'Traube', Swedish 'druva')]
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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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dust-sucker | n | a vacuum cleaner.; [dust & suck]
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dwale | n | that which produces insensibility to pain, as ether; chloroform, ether [archaic revival from OE]
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dwild | n | error; [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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dwolma | n | chaos; [OE]
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ðereright | n | instantly, immediately; [OE ðærrihte]
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ðeresomeness | n | the fact or condition of being present (theresome); presence [‘there’ + ‘-some’ + ‘-ness’]
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ðerestand | n | the manner in which a person or thing is placed or arranged; position [compound: ‘there’ + ‘stand’]
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