| Old English | English |
| Dalk n. | Pin brooch, clasp, buckle. 2 hollow, depression, hole |
| Dare-all adj. | Fearless, dreadnought. Cognate:dareful |
| Daresome adj. | Foolhardy, venturesome |
| Darkhood n. | State or condition of darkness. Cognate: Darkship |
| Dark Inn n. | "The Dark Inn" - the grave, tomb, grass-bed, mould-earth, the pit, the delf, the deep-six, lair, narrow house, long-home, dustbin (sl), burial-place. |
| Darkling n. | One whose personality is dark; chil of the darkness |
| Daswen adj. | Of eyes or sight: dim |
| Daughterhood n. | State or condition of daughterness. Cognate: Daughtership |
| Daw vb. | Dawn with day, wake from sleep, adawe |
| Daybed n. | Sofa, couch |
| Daybook n. | Diary |
| Dayish adj. | Diurnal |
| Dayless adj. | Devoid of day or night |
| Daymare n. | Opposite of nightmare |
| Dayrawe n. | First streak of day or dawn. Sometimes: dayrewe |
| Dayrim n. | Rim of light of the coming of day. |
| Daysman n. | Umpire, arbitrator |
| Dayspring n. | Dawn |
| Dead-alive adj. | Spiritless, lacking animation |
| Deadborn adj. | Stillborn |
| Deaddoing n. | Killing, murdering. |
| Deadhead n. | One admitted to an event without paying to bolster the numbers; a simpleton |
| Deadhearted adj. | Callous, dead-in-feeling, insensible. Deadheartiness. |
| Deadness adj. | |
| Dealerdom n. | Dealers collectively. |
| Dealth n. | Portion dealt |
| Dear adj. | Brave, bold, strenuous, hard |
| Dearworth n. | Of high estimation. |
| Deathless adj. | Immortal. |
| Deathliness n. | |
| Deathling n. | Mortal |
| Deathman n. | Executioner |
| Deathstruck pp. | Killed |
| Death-throe n. | Dying stage |
| Deathward adj. | Dying, heading towards death |
| Deathwothy adj. | Ripe to be killed, not worthy of living |
| Deave vb. | Deafen |
| Deche vb. | Daub, Smear, |
| Deed n. | |
| Deem n. | Judge, dempster, deemer, office of a judge, demstership, |
| Deep adj. | |
| Deep dive vb | To analyse a matter thoroughly and profoundly. |
| Deepfetch vb. | Bring or fetch from the deep |
| Deepmost adj. | Deepmost |
| Deep-read adj. | Well read, |
| Deep-set adj. | Sitting back |
| Deepseen adj. | Seen from afar |
| Deerkind n. | Beast-kind as distinct from human-kind |
| Deft adj. | 1. Gentle, meek, humble 2, skilful, dextrous, clever. 3. neat, tidy, trim, spruce, handsome, pretty. 4. quick. Also: Deftness, deftly |
| Delf n, | Hole, cavity, pit. 2. grave. 3. a sod, cut turf. |
| Delve vb. | To dig, plough, turn over the soil |
| Dent n. | |
| Depe vb. | To immerse as a religious rite; immerse, submerge, plunge |
| Depth adj. | Depthen, depthing, also depthless : shallow |
| Dere vb. | Hurt, harm, injure |
| Dereful adj. | Full of grief, sorrow, dering |
| Derf n.& adj. | Trouble, tribulation, hurt, 2. bold , daring, courageous. 3. strong, sturdy, stout 4. vigourous, forceful. violent. 5. painful, grievous, terrible, dreadful, cruel. 6. troublesome, hard, difficult. Also: Derful, Derfly, Derfness, Dership |
| Dern adj | Secretive, dark, concealed, evil, deceitful, sly, underhand, unrevealed. Of place, secretive, exotic, little known, dark, dreary, deep, profound, hidden. Also Dernly, derned, dernhood(n). |
| Derve vb. | Labour (only in OE.) 2. trouble, grieve, hurt, afflict |
| Devil's Horsemen n | The Mongol warriors of the C12th. |
| Dew n. | The moisture deposited in minute drops pon any cool surface |
| Dewfall n. | Evening |
| Dighel adj | Secret, obscure, hence dighelness: secrecy |
| Dight vb. | To dictate, compose in language, present, 2. manage, direct, govern, rule, appoint, prepare. 3. construct 4. array. 5. maltreat, abuse. 6. to have to do with sexually. 7. Place, put, dispose of. 9. to put put in a specific condition or state: put to death, execute, winnow. |
| Dighter n. | Composer, author, ruler, preparer, winnower. Also dighting: repairing, proposing, winnowing, asf |
| Dightly adv. | In a well equipped manner. |
| Dike n. | Ditch, trench |
| Dilghe vb. | To destroy, erase, blot out, also fig. |
| Dim adj. | Of light-somewhat dark. |
| Din n. | Sound |
| Dinsome adj. | Full of din, noisy |
| Dint n. | Stroke or blow, the dealing of blows, hence force of attack or impact, (lit or fig): violence, force; now only by dint of. 2. stroke of thunder. 3.mark or impression made by blow. Note: dintless |
| Do-all n. | Factotum |
| Doke n. | A small hollow, dimple, depression, dalk, dawk |
| Dole n. | State of being divided, part of a division of a whole portion, dealing |
| Dolk n. | Wound, scar, gash, dint |
| Dolt n. | Dullard, Stupid fellow, blockhead |
| Doom. n. | Statute, law, enactment. Doomsbook: a book or code of Old Teutonic law; spec. that attributed to King Alfred. |
| Doomsday n | Judgement day. |
| Doom-giving n | Judgement. |
| Doom-house n | Courthouse . Doom-tree: hanging-tree, |
| Doom-monger .n | One who preaches disaster and misfortune. |
| Doomsday weapon .n | A hypothesized weapon that has the capacity to destroy the Earth. 2. a bomb that is capable of causing widespread destruction. |
| Doomstead n | A place of judgement. |
| Doom-tree n | A hanging-tree, execution place. |
| Dop vb. | Immerse, baptise, dip, sink suddenly into water 2. Curtsy; drop head suddenly and quickly. (See dope.) |
| Dorr n. | Insects that fly in a loud hummimg noise; that is bees, flies, hornet drone 2. person who is lazy, idle, stupid, blundering. |
| Dought n. | Might, power, sturdiness, stoutness. Doughty adj. Able, capable, worthy, 2. valiant, brave, formidable, stout. |
| Doughty-handed adj | |
| Doughty-hood n | . |
| Douse vb. | To punch, strike, beat, inflict, knock, put-off, throw down, shut up, cease, doff |
| Douth n. | Virtue, good-deed, excellent, nobility, power, richness. 2, manhood, men collectively. 3. company, army, retinue. |
| Douthlike adj | Virtuous, worthy |
| Douthwight n. | Kin, man |
| Dove n. | Gentle, innocent, loving woman or child; appellation of tender affection. |
| Doveling n | Term of affection for a little child. |
| Dovely adj. | Gentle, innocent, affectionate |
| Dow vdj. | To avail, be strong, good, fitting, proper, worthy, valiant, virtuous, manly. 2.to be Valuable or valid, of worth for good. 3. to be of useful or profit for another. 4.to be strengthful, able, |
| Do-well n. | A personification of success. |
| Down n. | Hill, upland, treeless chalky upland, sandhill, open expanse. |
| Downbear vb. | Press down, cause to sink; oppress |
| Downcast n. | The act of casting down(lit & fig); the throwing down of a current of air into a coalmine. |
| Downcast adj. | Ruined, destroyed, dejected |
| Downcoming n. | Descent |
| Downheld adj. | Oppressed, kept back, held down |
| Downlook n. | Having a downcast or downward look, a guilty look, sheepish, demure |
| Downset n. | The setting of the Sun, dusk |
| Downside n. | Disadvantage |
| Downwarp n. | Local sinking of the earth's surface |
| Draft n. | The sediment of brewing; refuse, dross, dregs, lees, wash, swill |
| Draftsack adj. | Stuffed with worthless refuse; vilely gluttonous, worthless. |
| Draggle vb. | To wet or befoul by allowing to drag through mire or wet grass, to make wet, dirty or limp; to trail on the ground. 2. to come, do or follow slowly or stragglingly |
| Drast n. | Dregs, lees, faeces, refuse, residue, swill. |
| Draught n. | Drawbridge. 2. Draught beast, esp. a horse. 3. measure of eels (20lbs), a measure of liquid medicine. $. act of drawing forth. 5. passage of a document 6. cesspool, sewer. |
| Drave n. | Fishing expedition; a haul of fish. |
| Dray n. | Wheelless sled or cart. |
| Dread n. | |
| Dream n. | The sense - "sequence of sensations passing through a sleeping person's mind"- (also as a verb), probably related to Old Norse draumr, Old Saxon drom "merriment, noise." But Old English dream meant only "joy, mirth, noisy merriment," also "music." And much study has failed to prove that Old English dream is the root of the modern word for "sleeping vision," despite being identical in spelling. Words for "sleeping vision" in Old English were mæting and swefn. Old English "swefn" originally meant "sleep." Dream: "ideal or aspiration" is from earlier sense of "something of dream-like beauty or charm" 2. mirth, noise, pleasure, gladness, rejoicing. Music: the sound of a musical instrument, melody. |
| Drear n. | Soundness, gloom, dismalness. Also: drearhood, dreariness |
| Dreary adj. | Gory, bloody, cruel, dire, horrid, grievous. Of persons - sad, melancholy, doleful, 3.dismal, gloomy. 4. repulsively dull or uninteresting. |
| Drearisome adj. | Dreary of character; lonely and destitute |
| Dreck n. | Rubbish, trash, worthless debris |
| Dreng n. | Young man, fellow, lad, 2. Contempuous, low based fellow. |
| Drift-weed n | Seaweed, seawrack, wrack, floatwort, driftwort, |
| Dright n. | Multitude, army, people, . 2. march of a host, procession, throng. Drightfolk: people's army. Drightman: warrior, soldier |
| Droke n. | Furrow, grove, ditch. 2. small watercourse, stream, fleet, ditch, ea. 3. steep narrow ditch. 4. narrow passageway. |
| Dryhood n. | Drought, Rainlessness |
| Dry-lighting n | A lightning display without rain. |
| Dry-thunder n | A thunder roll without rain. |
| Dustyfoot n. | Wayfarer, traveller |
| Dwale n. | Error, delusion, madness, foolishness. 2. Heretic, transgressor, deciever, * Dwalkenned: heretical |
| Dwalm n. | Stupefaction, giddiness, delusion, a faint or swoon, healthfail, sick. |
| Dwell vb. | Lead into error, mislead, delude |
| Dwemercraft n. | Jugglery, magic, illusionism, sorcery |
| Dwere adj, | Doubt, dread |
| Dwild n. | Error, heresy, dwilth |
| Dwine vb. | To waste away or pine away, languish, fade, wither, wane |
| Dy n. | Dung, sediment |
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