DOCK A place for laying up.

DOCTOR One who lays you up.


DREAM What a man may call a woman, though a Pill may have suggested it. Sweethearts are dreams because they seldom come true; wives, because they're often a night-mare, and both because they go by contraries.


DRAFT (DRAUGHT) What gives a cold, cures a cold, and pays the doctor's bill.


DROP-STITCH A kind of feminine hosiery designed to prevent the men from paying too much attention to the open-work, "peek-a-boo" shirt-waist.