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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare - Israel Gollancz William Shakespeare [3640]

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DARKING - eclipse

DARK HOUSE - a mad house

DARKLING - in the dark

DARKNESS - nighttime; death

DARRAIGN - arrange

DARTING - shooting darts

DASH - to frustrate; to set aside

DAUB - to disguise, cover; to smear; to color

DAUBERY - imposition

DAY-WOMAN - a dairy-maid

DEAD-KILLING - mortal; deadly

DEADLY - death-like; mortally

DEADLY-HANDED - murderous

DEAD-STANDING - eyes fixed and staring like the dead

DEAR - dire

DEARN - lonely

DEBOSHED - debauched, drunken

DECK (1) - to bedew This is probably a form of the verb

DECK (2) - a pack of cards

DECLINE - to incline or lean; to bend

DECLINED - fallen

DEEM - doom, judgment

DEFEAT (1) - to undo, destroy

DEFEAT (2) - destruction

DEFEATURE - disfigurement

DEFENCE - art of fencing

DEFEND - to forbid

DEFENSIBLE - having the power to defend

DEFICIENT - failing; fainting

DEFTLY - dexterously

DEFY - to challenge; to reject

DEFUSE - disorder (King Lear, 14)

DEFUSED - deformed; shapeless

DEGREES - a step

DELAY - to let slip by delaying

DEMERIT - merit, desert

DEMURELY - solemnly

DENAY - denial

DENIER - the 12th part of a French sol coin

DENY - to refuse

DEPART - departure

DEPART - to part

DEPARTING - parting, separation

DEPEND - to be in service

DERIVED - born, descended

DERIVATIVE - inheritance (Winter's Tale, 32)

DEROGATE - degraded

DESCANT - a melody

DESIGN - to draw up articles

DESPATCH - to deprive, bereave

DESPERATE - determined, bold

DETECT - to charge, blame

DETERMINE - to conclude

DEVEST - to undress

DICH - a corruption of "do it"

DIET (1) - course of life; regimen; food

DIET (2) - to feed; to prescribe a diet for

DIFFUSED - confused

DIGRESSING - transgressing, going out of the right way

DIGRESSION - transgression

DIG-YOU-GOOD-DEN - give you good evening

DILDO - the chorus or burden of a song

DINT - stroke

DIRECTION - judgment, skill

DISABLE - to disparage

DISAPPOINTED - unprepared

DISCASE - to undress

DISCONTENT - a malcontent

DISCOURSE - power of reasoning

DISDAINED - disdainful

DISEDGE - to reduce the appetite

DISLIMN - to disfigure, transform

DISME - a tenth or tithe

DISPARK - to destroy a park

DISPITEOUS - pitiless

DISPONGE, DISPUNGE - to squeeze out as from a sponge

DISPOSE (1) - disposal

DISPOSE (2) - to conspire

DISPOSITION - maintenance

DISPUTABLE - inclined to dispute

DISPUTE - to discuss; to resist

DISSEMBLY - Dogberry's misuse of the word assembly (Much Ado 421)

DISTAIN - to soil; to stain; defile

DISTANCE - disagreement; hostility; not close

DISTASTE - to have no taste for; cause disgust

DISTEMPERED - discontented

DISTRACTION - division, detachment

DISTRAUGHT - distracted, mad

DIVERTED - turned from the natural course

DIVISION - a phrase or passage in a melody

DIVULGED - published, spoken of

DOFF - to put off

DOG-APE - a male ape

DOG-DAYS - hottest days of the year, corresponding to the rising of the Dog-star

DOIT - a small Dutch coin

DOLE - share, portion; destiny

DONE - 'agreed!'; ruined, lost

DOTANT - one who dotes, a dotard

DOUT - to do out, quench

DOWLAS - a kind of coarse sacking

DOWLE - the swirl of a feather

DOWN-GYVED - hanging down like gyves or fetters

DRAB - a harlot

DRABBING - whoring

DRAUGHT - a privy

DRAWN - having his sword drawn

DRAWN - drunk, having taken a good draught

DRIBBLING - weak

DRIVE - to rush impetuously

DROLLERY - a puppet-show

DRUMBLE - to dawdle

DRY - severe, hard; dull, stupid; thirsty

DUC-DAME - perhaps the Latin duc-ad-me, "bring him to me", but usually regarded as a nonsense word

DUDGEON - a dagger

DULL - not quick or sharp; slow, heavy, drowsy; gloomy; blunt

DULL-EYED - having the eyes dimmed; wanting

DUMP - mournful melody; tune in general

DUN - an old Christian game in which a heavy log was carried by the players; the color of a mouse

DUP - to open

DURANCE - confinement

DUST - particle of dust

DUTEOUS - dutiful; submissive

DWELL - to remain; to stand on

DWINDLE - to become smaller and smaller; waste away; shrink (invented by Shk, Macbeth 13)

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EAGER - pungent; sour; ardent

EAGLE - an ensign of

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