| daggle-tail | A slovenly woman; a slattern; a draggle-tail. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| Dagnini | Giuseppe, Italian physician, 1866-1928. See: Aschner-Dagnini reflex. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dagon | The national god of the Philistines, represented with the face and hands and upper part of a man, and the tail of a fish. "This day a solemn feast the people hold To Dagon, their sea idol." (Milton) "They brought it into the house of Dagon." (1 Sam. V. 2) Origin: Heb. Dagon, fr. Dag a fish: cf. Gr. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| daguerreotype | 1. An early variety of photograph, produced on a silver plate, or copper plate covered with silver, and rendered sensitive by the action of iodine, or iodine and bromine, on which, after exposure in the camera, the latent image is developed by the vapor of mercury. 2. The process of taking such pictures. Origin: From Daguerre the inventor + -type. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| DAH | <abbreviation> Disordered action of heart. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dahlia | Origin: Named after Andrew Dahl a Swedish botanist. <botany> A genus of plants native to Mexico and Central America, of the order Compositae; also, any plant or flower of the genus. The numerous varieties of cultivated dahlias bear conspicuous flowers which differ in colour. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dahlin | <chemistry> A variety of starch extracted from the dahlia. Synonym: inulin. See Inulin. Origin: From Dahlia. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dahllite | CaCO3-2Ca3(PO4)2;a naturally occurring calcium phosphate, similar in structure to the mineral portions of bones and teeth. Synonym: podolite. (05 Mar 2000) |
| daily dose | The total amount of a remedy that is to be taken within 24 hours. (05 Mar 2000) |
| daintiness | The quality of being dainty; nicety; niceness; elegance; delicacy; deliciousness; fastidiousness; squeamishness. "The daintiness and niceness of our captains" (Hakluyt) "More notorious for the daintiness of the provision . . . Than for the massiveness of the dish." (Hakewill) "The duke exeeded in the daintiness of his leg and foot, and the earl in the fine shape of his hands," (Sir H. Wotton) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dainty | Origin: OE. Deinie, dainte, deintie, deyntee, OF. Deintie delicacy, orig, dignity, honor, fr. L. Dignitas, fr. Dignus worthy. See Deign, and cf. Dignity. 1. Value; estimation; the gratification or pleasure taken in anything. "I ne told no deyntee of her love." (Chaucer) 2. That which is delicious or delicate; a delicacy. "That precious nectar may the taste renew Of Eden's dainties, by our parents lost." (Beau. & Fl) 3. A term of fondness. Synonym: Dainty, Delicacy. These words are here compared as denoting articles of food. The term delicacy as applied to a nice article of any kind, and hence to articles of food which are particularly attractive. Dainty is stronger, and denotes some exquisite article of cookery. A hotel may be provided with all the delicacies of the season, and its table richly covered with dainties. "These delicacies I mean of taste, sight, smell, herbs, fruits, and flowers, Walks and the melody of birds." (Milton) "[A table] furnished plenteously with bread, And dainties, remnants of the last regale." (Cowper) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dairy products | Raw and processed or manufactured milk and milk-derived products. These are usually from cows (bovine) but are also from goats, sheep, reindeer, and water buffalo. (12 Dec 1998) |
| dairymaid | A female servant whose business is the care of the dairy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dairywoman | A woman who attends to a dairy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| daisy | Origin: OE. Dayesye, AS. Daegeseage day's eye, daisy. See Day, and Eye. <botany> 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. The whiteweed (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum), the plant commonly called daisy in North America; called also oxeye daisy. See Whiteweed. The word daisy is also used for composite plants of other genera, as Erigeron, or fleabane. <botany> Michaelmas daisy, the whiteweed. See Daisy . Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |