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| dail | n | son, daughter, child; son, daughter, child ['dele' + a later melding of PG '-iaz' and '-ia'; cognate with Latin filius and filia]
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| dale | n | valley; coomb; [cognate with modern German 'Tal']
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| daresty | adj | venturesome, presumptuous; [OE dyrsig]
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| dark kitchen | n | s a result of unfavorable market conditions for bricks and mortar restaurants, dark kitchens, also known as cloud kitchens or ghost kitchens or restaurants, are becoming more common. These delivery only establishments have no physical restaurant premises in the conventional sense, where diners can walk in, sit at a table and enjoy a meal. Instead, their food is only accessible online or through a mobile app, and solely via home delivery. The benefits of this model are clear, and offer a much needed efficiency boost to restaurant businesses. The elimination of customer seating and waiting areas – which are often underused or even simply vacant – slashes rent costs, and there is no need to employ serving staff. Reducing overheads whilst simultaneously catering to an increased consumer preference towards home delivery appears to be a win win for all concerned, except for those who seek employment in the food and restaurant industry .; []
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| dark-brooding | adj | sullen.; [OE 'dark' & 'brooding']
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| darkword | n | inkhorn word.; hardword. [OE 'dark' & 'word']
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| dark world | n | life beyond life.; [OE 'dark' & 'world']
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| daven | adj | fit, suitable; [OE dafen]
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| daybook | n | an account of day-to-day events, a record of experiences, ideas, or reflections kept regularly for private use; diary, journal [day + book]
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| dayleat | n | viaduct; [dale + leat]
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| daymaker | n | a meteorite shower whose disintegration lights up the night sky turning it almost into day.; [OE: day & maker]
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| deadhouse | n | a building or room in which bodies are kept between death and burial; morgue, mortuary [obsolete, from dead + house]
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| dearworth | adj | precious; [OE deorwierðe]
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| deel | n | part; piece; portion; section; [dǣl; cognate with modern German 'Teil', Dutch 'deel', Frisian 'diel']
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| deelock | n | an element of something, the simplest part of a whole, a morpheme in a word; [deal (<OE dǣl) + -ock (<OE -uc, a diminutive marker)]
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| deemer | n | a judge; [OE dēma]
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| deeplearning | n | a complete way of learning something that means you fully understand it and will not forget it: Deep learning is the kind you take with you through the rest of your life. 2. in computing specialised a type of artificial intelligence that uses algorithms (= sets of mathematical instructions or rules) based on the way the human brain operates:; [OE : deep & learning]
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| deer | n | animal; beast; creature; sentient non-human living being; an animal in general. (Not to be confused with the specific modern English hoofed animal "deer"); [O.E.; cognate with modern German 'Tier', Swedish 'djur', Icelandic 'dýr', Dutch 'dier']
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| dele | n | nipple; nipple [OE delu]
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| delvern | n | quarry; [delve + -ern]
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| dere | n, vb | (to) hurt; (to) harm; [mainly dialectal; <ME dere]
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| dern | adj | secret, a language spoken by only a few people.; [mainly dialectal; <OE dyrne]
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| devil-filth | n | the iniquitous behaviour and language of those possessed, or doing the work of, the devil; [OE]
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| dew drier | n (slang) | the sun; day-candle [OE]
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| dight | n | decoration, ornament(ation); [from O.E.]
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| ditch | n | a long narrow excavation in the earth; any small natural waterway; gully; fosse [OE dic "trench, dike]
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| dotung (bodung) | n | The action of explaining the meaning of something; interpretation [O.E : bodung]
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| dovetail | vb | to cause something to fit exactly together We've tried to dovetail our plans with theirs.; [CED]
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| downmust | vb | to cause to do something as if by force; force, compel [compound: 'down' + 'must']
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| dree | v | endure; suffer, tolerate, undergo [from OE dreogan]
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| dretch | vb | to afflict, torment, agitate.; vex, gall, upset [rare; unknown in other germanic languages.
In ME esp, to trouble in sleep. < from OE drecc(e)an.]
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| driem | vb | rejoice; [OE drīeman]
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| drovebeam | n | vine; [from Frisian 'druvebeam' - "drove' = grape (see Dutch 'druif', NHG 'Traube', Swedish 'druva')]
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| dry-bite | n | a bite from a snake where venom is not inject into the victim.; [O.E. words 'dry' & 'bite"]
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| dry-month | n | the sixth month of the year, the dry month; June [Anglo-Saxon, from Sēre-Mōnath]
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| (Dust) like a working-bee in blossom dust | phr | a description of a miller at work.; []
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| dustsucker | n | a vacuum cleaner.; [dust & suck]
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| dustbin of life | n | where those rejected (figuratively) end up; [O.E.]
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| dwale | n | that which produces insensibility to pain, as ether; chloroform, ether [archaic revival from OE]
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| dwild | n | error; [OE]
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| dwine | vb | to waste or pine away, decline in vigour; wither, wane, languish [archaic revival, from OE dwinan dwan]
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| dwolma | n | chaos; [OE]
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| ðes | ' | afterwards, regarding, in respect of, on that account, therefore, so, as, because, after; [OE þæs]
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