Nominally, separation of husband and wife from the bonds of matrimony. In the vicinity of Newport it is frequently a legal formula that immediately precedes a fashionable wedding.

     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.

     DRUM

    Something noisy, and made to beat.

     DRUMMER

    Something noisy, but impossible to beat. From the Grk.

     drimus

    , meaning sharp. Hence, something sharp, that always carries its point and sticks whoever it can.

     DUST

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