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