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D5
- Discussion
- n. A method of confirming others in their errors.
- Disobedience
- n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.
- Disobey
- v.t. To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity
of a command.
His right to govern me is clear as day,
Israfel Brown
My duty manifest to disobey;
And if that fit observance e’er I shut
May I and duty be alike undone. - Dissemble
- v.i. To put a clean shirt upon the character.
Let us dissemble.
Adam - Distance
- n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs, and keep.
- Distress
- n. A disease incurred by exposure to the prosperity of a friend.
- Divination
- n. The art of nosing out the occult. Divination is of as many kinds as there are fruit-bearing varieties of the flowering dunce and the early fool.
- Dog
- n. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world’s worship. This Divine Being in some of his smaller and silkier incarnations takes, in the affection of Woman, the place to which there is no human male aspirant. The Dog is a survival — an anachronism. He toils not, neither does he spin, yet Solomon in all his glory never lay upon a door-mat all day long, sun-soaked and fly-fed and fat, while his master worked for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition.
- Dragoon
- n. A soldier who combines dash and steadiness in so equal measure that he makes his advances on foot and his retreats on horseback.