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DI'LIGENCE, _s._ industry; a.s.siduity
DIMI'NISH, _v.a._ to make less
DIMI'NUTIVE, _a._ small; narrow; contracted
DIRE'CT, _v.a._ aim at a straight line; regulate; order; command; adjust; mark out a certain course
DIRE'CTION, _s._ tendency of motion impressed by a certain impulse; order; command; prescription
DIRE'CTLY, _ad._ immediately; apparently; in a straight line
DISAGRE'EABLE, _a._ unpleasing; offensive
DISA'STROUS, _a._ calamitous
DISCI'PLE, _s._ a scholar; one that professes to receive instruction from another
DISCIPLINE, _s._ education; the art of cultivating the mind; a state of subjection
DISCONCE'RT, _v.a._ unsettle the mind; discompose
DISCOU'RAGE, _v.a._ depress; deprive of confidence
DISCO'VER, _v.a._ disclose; bring to light; find out
DISCO'VERY, _s._ the act of finding anything hidden
DISCRI'MINATION, _s._ the state of being distinguished from other persons or things; the mark of distinction
DISHO'NOUR, _s._ reproach; disgrace; ignominy
DISLO'DGE, _v.a._ to go to another place; to drive or remove from a place
DISMA'NTLE, _v.a._ strip; deprive of a dress; strip a town of its outworks; loose
DISMA'Y, _s._ fall of courage; desertion of mind
DISOBE'DIENCE, _s._ the act of disobeying; inattention to the words of those who have right to command
DISO'RDER, _s._ irregularity; tumult; sickness
DISPA'RAGEMENT, _s._ reproach; disgrace; indignity
DISPLA'Y, _v.a._ exhibit; talk without restraint
DISPOSI'TION, _s._ order; method; temper of mind
DISQUI'ETUDE, _s._ uneasiness
DI'SREGARD, _v.a._ to slight; to neglect
DI'SSIPATE, _v.a._ scatter every way; disperse; scatter the attention
DISSO'LVE, _v.n._ be melted; fall to nothing
DISTANCE, _s._ remoteness in place; retraction of kindness; reserve
DISTE'MPER, _s._ disease; malady; bad const.i.tution of the mind
DISTI'NCTION, _s._ the act of discerning one as preferable to the other; note of difference; honourable note of superiority; discernment
DISTINCTLY, _ad._ not confusedly; plainly; clearly
DISTRE'SS, _s._ calamity; misery; misfortune
DISTRI'BUTE, _v.a._ to deal out; to dispensate
DI'STRICT, _s._ region; country; territory
DIVE'RGE, _v.n._ send various ways from one point
DIVE'RSIFY, _v.a._ make different from another
DIVE'RSION, _s._ the act of turning anything off from its course
DIVE'RSITY, _s._ difference; dissimilitude; unlikeness; variety
DIVI'DE, _v.a._ part one whole in different pieces; separate; deal out
DI'VIDEND, _s._ a share
DO'CILE, _a._ teachable; easily instructed; tractable
DOMA'IN, _s._ dominion; possession; estate; empire
DOME'STIC, _a._ belonging to the house; private
DOME'STICATE, _v.a._ make domestic; withdraw from the public
DOMI'NION, _s._ sovereign authority; power; territory
DO'RSAL, _a._ pertaining to the back
DO'UBLE, _a._ two of a sort; in pairs; twice as much
DRAMA'TIC, _a._ representable by action
DRA'MATIST, _s._ author of dramatic compositions
