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d8Araucaria \[d8]Ar`au*ca"ri*a\, n. [Araucania, a territory south of Chili.] (Bot.) A genus of tall conifers of the pine family. The species are confined mostly to South America and Australia. The wood cells differ from those of other in having the dots in their lateral surfaces in two or three rows, and the dots of contiguous rows alternating. The seeds are edible. | |
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d8Archierey \[d8]Ar*chi"e*rey\, n. [Russ. archier[82]i, fr. Gr. [?]; pref. [?] (E. arch-) + [b5] priest.] The higher order of clergy in Russia, including metropolitans, archbishops, and bishops. --Pinkerton. | |
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d8De rigueur \[d8]De ri`gueur"\ [F. See 2d {Rigor}.] According to strictness (of etiquette, rule, or the like); obligatory; strictly required. | |
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d8Drosera \[d8]Dros"e*ra\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] dewy.] (Bot.) A genus of low perennial or biennial plants, the leaves of which are beset with gland-tipped bristles. See {Sundew}. --Gray. | |
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d8Raku ware \[d8]Ra"ku ware`\ A kind of earthenware made in Japan, resembling Satsuma ware, but having a paler color. | |
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d8Rasores \[d8]Ra*so`res\, n. pl. [{NL}., fr. L. radere, rasum, to scratch. See {Rase}, v. t.] (Zo[94]l.) An order of birds; the Gallin[91]. Note: Formely, the word {Rasores} was used in a wider sense, so as to include other birds now widely separated in classification. | |
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d8Recherch82 \[d8]Re*cher`ch[82]"\, a. [F.] Sought out with care; choice. Hence: of rare quality, elegance, or attractiveness; peculiar and refined in kind. | |
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d8Rigor \[d8]Ri"gor\, n. [L. See {Rigor}., below.] 1. Rigidity; stiffness. 2. (ed.) A sense of chilliness, with contraction of the skin; a convulsive shuddering or tremor, as in the chill preceding a fever. {[d8]Rigor caloris}[L., rigor of heat] (Physiol.), a form of rigor mortis induced by heat, as when the muscle of a mammal is heated to about 50[deg]C. {[d8]Rigor mortis}[L., rigor of death], death stiffening; the rigidity of the muscles that occurs at death and lasts till decomposition sets in. It is due to the formation of myosin by the coagulation of the contents of the individual muscle fibers. | |
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d8Rigor \[d8]Ri"gor\, n. [L. See {Rigor}., below.] 1. Rigidity; stiffness. 2. (ed.) A sense of chilliness, with contraction of the skin; a convulsive shuddering or tremor, as in the chill preceding a fever. {[d8]Rigor caloris}[L., rigor of heat] (Physiol.), a form of rigor mortis induced by heat, as when the muscle of a mammal is heated to about 50[deg]C. {[d8]Rigor mortis}[L., rigor of death], death stiffening; the rigidity of the muscles that occurs at death and lasts till decomposition sets in. It is due to the formation of myosin by the coagulation of the contents of the individual muscle fibers. | |
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d8Rigor \[d8]Ri"gor\, n. [L. See {Rigor}., below.] 1. Rigidity; stiffness. 2. (ed.) A sense of chilliness, with contraction of the skin; a convulsive shuddering or tremor, as in the chill preceding a fever. {[d8]Rigor caloris}[L., rigor of heat] (Physiol.), a form of rigor mortis induced by heat, as when the muscle of a mammal is heated to about 50[deg]C. {[d8]Rigor mortis}[L., rigor of death], death stiffening; the rigidity of the muscles that occurs at death and lasts till decomposition sets in. It is due to the formation of myosin by the coagulation of the contents of the individual muscle fibers. | |
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d8Terza rima \[d8]Ter"za ri"ma\ [It., a third or triple rhyme.] A peculiar and complicated system of versification, borrowed by the early Italian poets from the Troubadours. | |
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d8Trachearia \[d8]Tra`che*a"ri*a\, n.pl. [NL.] (Zo[94]l.) A division of Arachnida including those that breathe only by means of trache[91]. It includes the mites, ticks, false scorpions, and harvestmen. | |
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d8Trichiurus \[d8]Trich`i*u"rus\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. tri`x, tricho`s, a hair + o'yra` tail.] (Zo[94]l.) A genus of fishes comprising the hairtails. See {Hairtail}. | |
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d8Urocerata \[d8]U`ro*cer"a*ta\, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] tail + [?], [?], horn.] (Zo[94]l.) A division of boring Hymenoptera, including Tremex and allied genera. See Illust. of {Horntail}. | |
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d8Urochorda \[d8]U`ro*chor"da\, n. pl. [NL. See {Urochord}.] (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Tunicata}. | |
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Dark \Dark\ (d[aum]rk), a. [OE. dark, derk, deork, AS. dearc, deorc; cf. Gael. & Ir. dorch, dorcha, dark, black, dusky.] 1. Destitute, or partially destitute, of light; not receiving, reflecting, or radiating light; wholly or partially black, or of some deep shade of color; not light-colored; as, a dark room; a dark day; dark cloth; dark paint; a dark complexion. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day! --Milton. In the dark and silent grave. --Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Not clear to the understanding; not easily seen through; obscure; mysterious; hidden. The dark problems of existence. --Shairp. What may seem dark at the first, will afterward be found more plain. --Hooker. What's your dark meaning, mouse, of this light word? --Shak. 3. Destitute of knowledge and culture; in moral or intellectual darkness; unrefined; ignorant. The age wherein he lived was dark, but he Could not want light who taught the world to see. --Denhan. The tenth century used to be reckoned by medi[91]val historians as the darkest part of this intellectual night. --Hallam. 4. Evincing black or foul traits of character; vile; wicked; atrocious; as, a dark villain; a dark deed. Left him at large to his own dark designs. --Milton. 5. Foreboding evil; gloomy; jealous; suspicious. More dark and dark our woes. --Shak. A deep melancholy took possesion of him, and gave a dark tinge to all his views of human nature. --Macaulay. There is, in every true woman-s heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. --W. Irving. 6. Deprived of sight; blind. [Obs.] He was, I think, at this time quite dark, and so had been for some years. --Evelyn. Note: Dark is sometimes used to qualify another adjective; as, dark blue, dark green, and sometimes it forms the first part of a compound; as, dark-haired, dark-eyed, dark-colored, dark-seated, dark-working. {A dark horse}, in racing or politics, a horse or a candidate whose chances of success are not known, and whose capabilities have not been made the subject of general comment or of wagers. [Colloq.] {Dark house}, {Dark room}, a house or room in which madmen were confined. [Obs.] --Shak. {Dark lantern}. See {Lantern}. -- The {Dark Ages}, a period of stagnation and obscurity in literature and art, lasting, according to Hallam, nearly 1000 years, from about 500 to about 1500 A. D.. See {Middle Ages}, under {Middle}. {The Dark and Bloody Ground}, a phrase applied to the State of Kentucky, and said to be the significance of its name, in allusion to the frequent wars that were waged there between Indians. {The dark day}, a day (May 19, 1780) when a remarkable and unexplained darkness extended over all New England. {To keep dark}, to reveal nothing. [Low] | |
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Deergrass \Deer"grass`\, n. (Bot.) An American genus ({Rhexia}) of perennial herbs, with opposite leaves, and showy flowers (usually bright purple), with four petals and eight stamens, -- the only genus of the order {Melastomace[91]} inhabiting a temperate clime. | |
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Derisory \De*ri"so*ry\, a. [L. derisorius: cf. F. d[82]risoire.] Derisive; mocking. --Shaftesbury. | |
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Derrick \Der"rick\, n. [Orig., a gallows, from a hangman named Derrick. The name is of Dutch origin; D. Diederik, Dierryk, prop. meaning, chief of the people; cf. AS. pe[a2]dric, E. Theodoric, G. Dietrich. See {Dutch}, and {Rich}.] A mast, spar, or tall frame, supported at the top by stays or guys, with suitable tackle for hoisting heavy weights, as stones in building. {Derrick crane}, a combination of the derrick and the crane, having facility for hoisting and also for swinging the load horizontally. | |
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Crane \Crane\ (kr[amac]n), n. [AS. cran; akin to D. & LG. craan, G. kranich, krahn (this in sense 2), Gr. ge`ranos, L. grus, W. & Armor. garan, OSlav. zerav[icr], Lith. gerve, Icel. trani, Sw. trana, Dan. trane. [root]24. Cf. {Geranium}.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) A wading bird of the genus {Grus}, and allied genera, of various species, having a long, straight bill, and long legs and neck. Note: The common European crane is {Grus cinerea}. The sand-hill crane ({G. Mexicana}) and the whooping crane ({G. Americana}) are large American species. The Balearic or crowned crane is {Balearica pavonina}. The name is sometimes erroneously applied to the herons and cormorants. 2. A machine for raising and lowering heavy weights, and, while holding them suspended, transporting them through a limited lateral distance. In one form it consists of a projecting arm or jib of timber or iron, a rotating post or base, and the necessary tackle, windlass, etc.; -- so called from a fancied similarity between its arm and the neck of a crane See Illust. of {Derrick}. 3. An iron arm with horizontal motion, attached to the side or back of a fireplace, for supporting kettles, etc., over a fire. 4. A siphon, or bent pipe, for drawing liquors out of a cask. 5. (Naut.) A forked post or projecting bracket to support spars, etc., -- generally used in pairs. See {Crotch}, 2. {Crane fly} (Zo[94]l.), a dipterous insect with long legs, of the genus {Tipula}. {Derrick crane}. See {Derrick}. {Gigantic crane}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Adjutant}, n., 3. {Traveling crane}, {Traveler crane}, {Traversing crane} (Mach.), a crane mounted on wheels; esp., an overhead crane consisting of a crab or other hoisting apparatus traveling on rails or beams fixed overhead, as in a machine shop or foundry. {Water crane}, a kind of hydrant with a long swinging spout, for filling locomotive tenders, water carts, etc., with water. | |
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Dorser \Dor"ser\, n. See {Dosser}. | |
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Dosser \Dos"ser\, n. [LL. dosserum, or F. dossier bundle of papers, part of a basket resting on the back, fr. L. dorsum back. See {Dorsal}, and cf. {Dosel}.] [Written also {dorser} and {dorsel}.] 1. A pannier, or basket. To hire a ripper's mare, and buy new dossers. --Beau. & Fl. 2. A hanging tapestry; a dorsal. | |
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Dorser \Dor"ser\, n. See {Dosser}. | |
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Dosser \Dos"ser\, n. [LL. dosserum, or F. dossier bundle of papers, part of a basket resting on the back, fr. L. dorsum back. See {Dorsal}, and cf. {Dosel}.] [Written also {dorser} and {dorsel}.] 1. A pannier, or basket. To hire a ripper's mare, and buy new dossers. --Beau. & Fl. 2. A hanging tapestry; a dorsal. | |
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Drawgear \Draw"gear`\, n. 1. A harness for draught horses. 2. (Railroad) The means or parts by which cars are connected to be drawn. | |
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Dray \Dray\, n. [AS. dr[91]ge a dragnet, fr. dragan. [?][?][?][?]. See {Draw}, and cf. 2d {Drag}, 1st {Dredge}.] 1. A strong low cart or carriage used for heavy burdens. --Addison. 2. A kind of sledge or sled. --Halliwell. {Dray cart}, a dray. {Dray horse}, a heavy, strong horse used in drawing a dray. | |
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Dress circle \Dress circle\ A gallery or circle in a theater, generally the first above the floor, in which originally dress clothes were customarily worn. | |
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Dress \Dress\, n. 1. That which is used as the covering or ornament of the body; clothes; garments; habit; apparel. [bd]In your soldier's dress.[b8] --Shak. 2. A lady's gown; as, silk or a velvet dress. 3. Attention to apparel, or skill in adjusting it. Men of pleasure, dress, and gallantry. -- Pope. 4. (Milling) The system of furrows on the face of a millstone. --Knight. {Dress circle}. See under {Circle}. {Dress parade} (Mil.), a parade in full uniform for review. | |
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Circle \Cir"cle\ (s[etil]r"k'l), n. [OE. cercle, F. cercle, fr. L. circulus (Whence also AS. circul), dim. of circus circle, akin to Gr. kri`kos, ki`rkos, circle, ring. Cf. {Circus}, {Circum-}.] 1. A plane figure, bounded by a single curve line called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the center. 2. The line that bounds such a figure; a circumference; a ring. 3. (Astron.) An instrument of observation, the graduated limb of which consists of an entire circle. Note: When it is fixed to a wall in an observatory, it is called a {mural circle}; when mounted with a telescope on an axis and in Y's, in the plane of the meridian, a {meridian [or] transit circle}; when involving the principle of reflection, like the sextant, a {reflecting circle}; and when that of repeating an angle several times continuously along the graduated limb, a {repeating circle}. 4. A round body; a sphere; an orb. It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth. --Is. xi. 22. 5. Compass; circuit; inclosure. In the circle of this forest. --Shak. 6. A company assembled, or conceived to assemble, about a central point of interest, or bound by a common tie; a class or division of society; a coterie; a set. As his name gradually became known, the circle of his acquaintance widened. --Macaulay. 7. A circular group of persons; a ring. 8. A series ending where it begins, and repeating itself. Thus in a circle runs the peasant's pain. --Dryden. 9. (Logic) A form of argument in which two or more unproved statements are used to prove each other; inconclusive reasoning. That heavy bodies descend by gravity; and, again, that gravity is a quality whereby a heavy body descends, is an impertinent circle and teaches nothing. --Glanvill. 10. Indirect form of words; circumlocution. [R.] Has he given the lie, In circle, or oblique, or semicircle. --J. Fletcher. 11. A territorial division or district. Note: {The Circles of the Holy Roman Empire}, ten in number, were those principalities or provinces which had seats in the German Diet. {Azimuth circle}. See under {Azimuth}. {Circle of altitude} (Astron.), a circle parallel to the horizon, having its pole in the zenith; an almucantar. {Circle of curvature}. See {Osculating circle of a curve} (Below). {Circle of declination}. See under {Declination}. {Circle of latitude}. (a) (Astron.) A great circle perpendicular to the plane of the ecliptic, passing through its poles. (b) (Spherical Projection) A small circle of the sphere whose plane is perpendicular to the axis. {Circles of longitude}, lesser circles parallel to the ecliptic, diminishing as they recede from it. {Circle of perpetual apparition}, at any given place, the boundary of that space around the elevated pole, within which the stars never set. Its distance from the pole is equal to the latitude of the place. {Circle of perpetual occultation}, at any given place, the boundary of the space around the depressed pole, within which the stars never rise. {Circle of the sphere}, a circle upon the surface of the sphere, called a great circle when its plane passes through the center of the sphere; in all other cases, a small circle. {Diurnal circle}. See under {Diurnal}. {Dress circle}, a gallery in a theater, generally the one containing the prominent and more expensive seats. {Druidical circles} (Eng. Antiq.), a popular name for certain ancient inclosures formed by rude stones circularly arranged, as at Stonehenge, near Salisbury. {Family circle}, a gallery in a theater, usually one containing inexpensive seats. {Horary circles} (Dialing), the lines on dials which show the hours. {Osculating circle of a curve} (Geom.), the circle which touches the curve at some point in the curve, and close to the point more nearly coincides with the curve than any other circle. This circle is used as a measure of the curvature of the curve at the point, and hence is called circle of curvature. {Pitch circle}. See under {Pitch}. {Vertical circle}, an azimuth circle. {Voltaic} {circle [or] circuit}. See under {Circuit}. {To square the circle}. See under {Square}. Syn: Ring; circlet; compass; circuit; inclosure. | |
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Rehearsal \Re*hears"al\ (r?*h?rs"a), n. The act of rehearsing; recital; narration; repetition; specifically, a private recital, performance, or season of practice, in preparation for a public exhibition or exercise. --Chaucer. In rehearsal of our Lord's Prayer. --Hooker. Here's marvelous convenient place for our rehearsal. --Shak. {Dress rehearsal} (Theater), a private preparatory performance of a drama, opera, etc., in costume. | |
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Dresser \Dress"er\, n. [F. dressoir. See {Dress}, v. t.] A piece of chamber furniture consisting of a chest of drawers, or bureau, with a mirror. [U. S.] | |
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Dresser \Dress"er\, n. 1. One who dresses; one who put in order or makes ready for use; one who on clothes or ornaments. 2. (Mining) A kind of pick for shaping large coal. 3. An assistant in a hospital, whose office it is to dress wounds, sores, etc. 4. [F. dressoir. See {Dress}, v. t.] (a) A table or bench on which meat and other things are dressed, or prepared for use. (b) A cupboard or set of shelves to receive dishes and cooking utensils. The pewter plates on the dresser Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine. -- Longfellow. | |
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Drogher \Dro"gher\, n. [Cf. {Drag}.] A small craft used in the West India Islands to take off sugars, rum, etc., to the merchantmen; also, a vessel for transporting lumber, cotton, etc., coastwise; as, a lumber drogher. [Written also {droger}.] --Ham. Nar. Encyc. | |
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Drogher \Dro"gher\, n. [Cf. {Drag}.] A small craft used in the West India Islands to take off sugars, rum, etc., to the merchantmen; also, a vessel for transporting lumber, cotton, etc., coastwise; as, a lumber drogher. [Written also {droger}.] --Ham. Nar. Encyc. | |
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Drossy \Dross"y\, a. [Compar. {Drossier}; superl. {Drossiest}.] Of, pertaining to, resembling, dross; full of dross; impure; worthless. [bd] Drossy gold.[b8] --Dryden. [bd]Drossy rhymes.[b8] --Donne. -- {Dross"i*ness}, n. | |
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Drowsy \Drow"sy\, a. [Compar. {Drowsier}; superl. {Drowsiest}.] 1. Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness; lethargic; dozy. [bd]When I am drowsy.[b8] --Shak. Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray. --Shak. To our age's drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea. --Lowell. 2. Disposing to sleep; lulling; soporific. The drowsy hours, dispensers of all good. --Tennyson. 3. Dull; stupid. [bd] Drowsy reasoning.[b8] --Atterbury. Syn: Sleepy; lethargic; dozy; somnolent; comatose; dull heavy; stupid. | |
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Drugger \Drug"ger\, n. A druggist. [Obs.] --Burton. | |
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Duressor \Du*ress"or\, n. (Law) One who subjects another to duress --Bacon. | |
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Woad-waxen \Woad"-wax`en\, n. [Cf. {Wood-wax}.] (Bot.) A leguminous plant ({Genista tinctoria}) of Europe and Russian Asia, and adventitious in America; -- called also {greenwood}, {greenweed}, {dyer's greenweed}, and {whin}, {wood-wash}, {wood-wax}, and {wood-waxen}. | |
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Rocket \Rock"et\, n. [F. roquette (cf. Sp. ruqueta, It ruchetta), fr. L. eruca.] (Bot.) (a) A cruciferous plant ({Eruca sativa}) sometimes eaten in Europe as a salad. (b) Damewort. (c) Rocket larkspur. See below. {Dyer's Rocket}. (Bot.) See {Dyer's broom}, under {Broom}. {Rocket larkspur} (Bot.), an annual plant with showy flowers in long racemes ({Delphinium Ajacis}). {Sea rocket} (Bot.), either of two fleshy cruciferous plants ({Cakile maritima} and {C. Americana}) found on the seashore of Europe and America. {Yellow rocket} (Bot.), a common cruciferous weed with yellow flowers ({Barbarea vulgaris}). | |
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Dyer \Dy"er\, n. One whose occupation is to dye cloth and the like. {Dyer's broom}, {Dyer's rocket}, {Dyer's weed}. See {Dyer's broom}, under {Broom}. | |
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Rocket \Rock"et\, n. [F. roquette (cf. Sp. ruqueta, It ruchetta), fr. L. eruca.] (Bot.) (a) A cruciferous plant ({Eruca sativa}) sometimes eaten in Europe as a salad. (b) Damewort. (c) Rocket larkspur. See below. {Dyer's Rocket}. (Bot.) See {Dyer's broom}, under {Broom}. {Rocket larkspur} (Bot.), an annual plant with showy flowers in long racemes ({Delphinium Ajacis}). {Sea rocket} (Bot.), either of two fleshy cruciferous plants ({Cakile maritima} and {C. Americana}) found on the seashore of Europe and America. {Yellow rocket} (Bot.), a common cruciferous weed with yellow flowers ({Barbarea vulgaris}). | |
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Dyer \Dy"er\, n. One whose occupation is to dye cloth and the like. {Dyer's broom}, {Dyer's rocket}, {Dyer's weed}. See {Dyer's broom}, under {Broom}. | |
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Deer Creek, IL (village, FIPS 18940) Location: 40.62934 N, 89.33313 W Population (1990): 630 (233 housing units) Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 61733 Deer Creek, MN (city, FIPS 15184) Location: 46.39127 N, 95.32202 W Population (1990): 303 (155 housing units) Area: 10.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 56527 Deer Creek, OK (town, FIPS 19650) Location: 36.80630 N, 97.51877 W Population (1990): 124 (79 housing units) Area: 0.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 74636 | |
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Deer Grove, IL (village, FIPS 19031) Location: 41.61011 N, 89.68462 W Population (1990): 44 (19 housing units) Area: 1.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 61243 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Dresher, PA Zip code(s): 19025 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Dresser, WI (village, FIPS 20850) Location: 45.36151 N, 92.63376 W Population (1990): 614 (259 housing units) Area: 4.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 54009 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Dry Creek, AK (CDP, FIPS 20020) Location: 63.65340 N, 144.66530 W Population (1990): 106 (27 housing units) Area: 12.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Dry Creek, KY Zip code(s): 41862 Dry Creek, LA Zip code(s): 70637 Dry Creek, WV Zip code(s): 25062 |