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Dainty
() Requiring dainties. Hence: Overnice; hard to please; fastidious; squeamish; scrupulous; ceremonious.
Dairies
() of Dairy
Dairy
() The place, room, or house where milk is kept, and converted into butter or cheese.
Dairy
() That department of farming which is concerned in the production of milk, and its conversion into butter and cheese.
Dairy
() A dairy farm.
Dairying
() The business of conducting a dairy.
Dairymaid
() A female servant whose business is the care of the dairy.
Dairymen
() of Dairyman
Dairyman
() A man who keeps or takes care of a dairy.
Dairywomen
() of Dairywoman
Dairywoman
() A woman who attends to a dairy.
Dais
() The high or principal table, at the end of a hall, at which the chief guests were seated; also, the chief seat at the high table.
Dais
() A platform slightly raised above the floor of a hall or large room, giving distinction to the table and seats placed upon it for the chief guests.
Dais
() A canopy over the seat of a person of dignity.
Daisied
() Full of daisies; adorned with daisies.
Daisies
() of Daisy
Daisy
() A genus of low herbs (Bellis), belonging to the family Compositae. The common English and classical daisy is B. prennis, which has a yellow disk and white or pinkish rays.
Daisy
() The whiteweed (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum), the plant commonly called daisy in North America; -- called also oxeye daisy. See Whiteweed.
Dak
() Post; mail; also, the mail or postal arrangements; -- spelt also dawk, and dauk.
Daker
() Alt. of Dakir
Dakir
() A measure of certain commodities by number, usually ten or twelve, but sometimes twenty; as, a daker of hides consisted of ten skins; a daker of gloves of ten pairs.
Daker hen
() The corncrake or land rail.
Dakoit
() Alt. of Dakoity
Dakoity
() See Dacoit, Dacoity.
Dakota group
() A subdivision at the base of the cretaceous formation in Western North America; -- so named from the region where the strata were first studied.
Dakotas
() An extensive race or stock of Indians, including many tribes, mostly dwelling west of the Mississippi River; -- also, in part, called Sioux.
Dal
() Split pulse, esp. of Cajanus Indicus.
Dale
() A low place between hills; a vale or valley.
Dale
() A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump.
Dalesmen
() of Dalesman
Dalesman
() One living in a dale; -- a term applied particularly to the inhabitants of the valleys in the north of England, Norway, etc.
Dalf
() imp. of Delve.
Dalliance
() The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play.
Dalliance
() Delay or procrastination.
Dalliance
() Entertaining discourse.
Dallier
() One who fondles; a trifler; as, dalliers with pleasant words.
Dallop
() A tuft or clump.
Dallied
() of Dally
Dallying
() of Dally
Dally
() To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle.
Dally
() To interchange caresses, especially with one of the opposite sex; to use fondling; to wanton; to sport.
Dally
() To delay unnecessarily; to while away.
Dalmania
() A genus of trilobites, of many species, common in the Upper Silurian and Devonian rocks.
Dalmanites
() Same as Dalmania.
Dalmatian
() Of or pertaining to Dalmatia.
Dalmatica
() Alt. of Dalmatic
Dalmatic
() A vestment with wide sleeves, and with two stripes, worn at Mass by deacons, and by bishops at pontifical Mass; -- imitated from a dress originally worn in Dalmatia.
Dalmatic
() A robe worn on state ocasions, as by English kings at their coronation.
Dal segno
() A direction to go back to the sign / and repeat from thence to the close. See Segno.
Daltonian
() One afflicted with color blindness.