DRY, without Juice, void of Moisture, empty, flat; also reserved, sly, stingy.
To DRY, to make dry.
To DUB, a Knight, to confer the Honour of Knighthood upon one.
DUBIOUS, doubtful, uncertain.
DUBIOUSLY, doubtfully.
DUBIOUSNESS, Doubtfulness.
DUCAT, a foreign Coin of Gold or Silver, of different Values, according to the Places where coined.
DUCATOON, foreign Coin, much the same with Ducat.
A DUCE, the Two, upon Cards or Dice.
DUCE take you, the Devil, or an evil Spirit take you.
A DUCK, a Water Fowl.
To DUCK, to dive under Water, to stoop, to bow.
DUCTILE, that may be easily drawn out into Wires or hammered into thin Plates.
DUDGEON, Stomachfulness, Grudge, disdain.
To take in DUDGEON, to take in bad part, to be displeased at.
DUE, to be owing, or unpaid.
DUEL, a Fight between two Persons.
DUELLER, a Person who fights a Duel
A DUG, the Teat of a Cow or other Beast.
DUKE, the highest Title of Honour in England.
DUKEDOM, the Dominion and Territories of a Duke.
To DULCIFY, to make sweet, or sweeten.
DULCIMER, a musical Instrument.
DULCINISTS, a sort of Hereticks, who asserted that the Father having reigned from the Beginning of the World to the Coming of Christ, then the Son's Reign began, and lasted till the Year 1300, when the Reign of the Holy Ghost began.
DULL, heavy, sluggish, stupid.
DULLY, heavily, stupidly.
DULNESS, Heaviness, Stupidity.
DUMB, not having the Use of Speech, also silent.
DUMBLY, silently
DUMBNESS, the being Dumb
DUMP, a sudden Astonishment, melancholy Fit.
DUMPISH, somewhat melancholy.
DUMPS, Melancholy, fixed Sadness.
DUN, a Colour something like Brown.
A DUN, a glamorous or pressing Demand for a Debt.
To DUN, to demand a Debt with a Clamour.
A DUNCE, a blockish, stuid Person.
DUNG, Ordure, Soil, Filth.
To DUNG, to manure Land with Dung.
DUNGEON, the darkest, closest, and most loathsom part of a Prison.
DUNMOW Vide DONMOW.
DUNNY, deafish, somewhat Deaf.
DUNSTABLE, a Town in Bedfordshire, thirty Miles from London.
DUNWICK, a Town in Suffolk, 82 Miles from London.
DUODECIMO, in Twelves; as a Book that has Twelve Leaves in a Sheet.
A DUPE, a Cully, a Fool, a Ninny.
DUPLICATE, a Transcript, or Copy of Writing.
DURABLE, which is of long Continuance, lasting.
DURABLY, lastingly.
DURABLENESS, Lastingness.
DURANCE, Confinement, Imprisonment
DURATION, Continuance.
DURHAM, a Bishop's See, two Hundred Fifty-five Miles from London.
DUSKISH, DUSKY, somewhat dark, obscure
DUSKISHLY, darkly.
DUSKISHNESS, Darkness, Obscurity.
DUST, Earth dried to a Powder.
DUSTY, full of Dust.
DUTCHESS, the Wife of a Duke.
DUTCHY, the Territory of A Duke.
DUTIFUL, obedient, respectful.
DUTIFULLY, obediently.
DUTIFULNESS, Obedience.
DUTY, any thing one is obliged to do, also a publick Tax
DWARF, a Person of very low Stature.
DWARFISH, like a Dwarf.
To DWELL, to inhabit, to abide in a Place.
To DWINDLE, to decrease, waste, or decay gradually
To DYE, to dye Colours, also to give up the Ghost.
DYSENTERY, a Looseness, accompanied with Gripings in the Bowels.
DYSPNÆEA, a Difficulty in Breathing.
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EACH, every one.
EADITH, a proper Name of a Woman.
EADGAR, EDGAR, the Name of a most powerful and peaceful King of the English Saxons.
EADWIN, a Christian Name of Men.
EAGER, sharp, sour, tart; also earnest, vehement, sharp set.
EAGERLY, sharply, earnestly.
EAGERNESS, Sharpness, Earnestness.
EAGLE, the largest and strongest of all Birds of Prey.
EAR, put of an Animal Body, also the Tops of Corn.
To EAR, to shoot out Ears as Corn.
EARL, a Title of Nobility, between a Marquis and a Viscount.
EARLDOM, the Dignity and Jurisdiction of an Earl
EARLINESS, the being early.
EARLY, betimes.
To EARN, to get or obtain by Labour, &c.
EARNEST, industrious, diligent, important, weighty
EARNEST, Money given in Hand, to bind a Bargain
EARNESTLY, industriously, eagerly.
EARNESTNESS, Eagerness.
EARST, before, formerly.
EARTH, one of the Four Elements.
To EARTH, go to into a Hole under Ground, as a Fox, &c. Also to cover Trees or Plants with Earth.