DEGENEROUS, degenerate.

Degrees, steps.

Delate, accuse.

Demi-culverin, cannon carrying a ball of about ten pounds.

Denier, the smallest possible coin, being the twelfth
part of a sou.

Depart, part with.

Dependance, ground of quarrel in duello language.

Desert, reward.

Designment, design.

Desperate, rash, reckless.

Detect, allow to be detected, betray, inform against.

Determine, terminate.

Detract, draw back, refuse.

Device, masque, show; a thing moved by wires,
etc., puppet.

Devise, exact in every particular.

Devised, invented.

DIAPASM, powdered aromatic herbs, made into balls
of perfumed paste. (See Pomander.)

Dibble, (?) moustache (N.E.D.); (?) dagger (Cunningham).

Diffused, disordered, scattered, irregular.

Dight, dressed.

Dildo, refrain of popular songs; vague term of low meaning.

DIMBLE, dingle, ravine.

DIMENSUM, stated allowance.

DISBASE, debase.

Discern, distinguish, show a difference between.

Discharge, settle for.

Discipline, reformation; ecclesiastical system.

Disclaim, renounce all part in.

Discourse, process of reasoning, reasoning faculty.

DISCOURTSHIP, discourtesy.

Discover, betray, reveal; display.

Disfavour, disfigure.

Disparagement, legal term applied to the unfitness in any way of a marriage arranged for in the case of wards.

Dispense with, grant dispensation for.

Display, extend.

DIS’PLE, discipline, teach by the whip.

Disposed, inclined to merriment.

Disposure, disposal.

DISPRISE, depreciate.

DISPUNCT, not punctilious.

Disquisition, search.

Dissolved, enervated by grief.

Distance, (?) proper measure.

Distaste, offence, cause of offence.

Distaste, render distasteful.

DISTEMPERED, upset, out of humour.

Division (mus.), variation, modulation.

Dog-Bolt, term of contempt.

Dole, given in dole, charity.

Dole of faces, distribution of grimaces.

Doom, verdict, sentence.

DOP, dip, low bow.

Dor, beetle, buzzing insect, drone, idler.

Dor, (?) buzz; “give the—­,” make a fool of.

Dosser, pannier, basket.

Dotes, endowments, qualities.