Dinty, "no dinty to do" (N[49],d), pleasure, liking: see Dainty.

Disease (passim), generic for absence of ease—discomfort, annoyance, trouble, difficulty, sorrow, etc.: see other volumes of this series.

Dispectible, "thou art dispectible" (M[33],c), despicable.

Dispectuous, "dispectuous and odible" (M[33],a), unsightly: see previous entry.

Divum, "Divum este justlum weste" (R[232],c), Prof. Brandl suggests Divites estis justi fuistis.

Do, see Way.

Dogs, "hungry dogs will slab up sluttish puddings" (R[221],a), see Heywood, Works (E.E.D.S.), II. 14a; 357,d(n).

Dort, "a shrewd crank dort" (N[83],d), fit of sulks, a pet, sullen humour.

Doubler, "both dish and doubler" (M[29],a), a large dish, plate, or bowl. "A dysche other a dobler that dryghtyn onez serued."—Early Eng. Allit. Poems; Cleanness, 1145.