DISGUISED. Drunk.
DISGRUNTLED. Offended, disobliged.
DISHED UP. He is completely dished up; he is totally ruined. To throw a thing in one's dish; to reproach or twit one with any particular matter.
DISHCLOUT. A dirty, greasy woman. He has made a napkin of his dishclout; a saying of one who has married his cook maid. To pin a dishclout to a man's tail; a punishment often threatened by the female servants in a kitchen, to a man who pries too minutely into the secrets of that place.
DISMAL DITTY. The psalm sung by the felons at the gallows,
just before they are turned off.
DISPATCHES. A mittimus, or justice of the peace's warrant,
for the commitment of a rogue.
DITTO. A suit of ditto; coat, waistcoat, and breeches, all
of one colour.
DISPATCHERS. Loaded or false dice.
DISTRACTED DIVISION. Husband and wife fighting.
DIVE. To dive; to pick a pocket. To dive for a dinner; to go down into a cellar to dinner. A dive, is a thief who stands ready to receive goods thrown out to him by a little boy put in at a window. Cant.