The Foolish Dictionary Words starting with D

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

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 : Mud with the juice squeezed out.
DYNAMITE : The peroration of an anarchist's argument.

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