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   daily double
         n 1: a single bet on two horse races in the same day

English Dictionary: dolled up by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
delta hepatitis
n
  1. a severe form of hepatitis [syn: hepatitis delta, {delta hepatitis}]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
delta wave
n
  1. the normal brainwave in the encephalogram of a person in deep dreamless sleep; occurs with high voltage and low frequency (1 to 4 hertz)
    Synonym(s): delta rhythm, delta wave
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
dolled up
adj
  1. dressed in fancy or formal clothing [syn: dressed(p), dressed-up, dressed to the nines(p), dressed to kill(p), dolled up, spruced up, spiffed up, togged up]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8d1il-de-bd2uf \[d8][d1]il`-de-b[d2]uf"\, n.; pl.
      {[d1]ils-de-b[d2]uf}. [F., lit., eye of an ox.] (Arch.)
      A circular or oval window; -- generally used of architecture
      of the 17th and 18th centuries. A famous room in the palace
      of Versailles bears this name, from the oval window opening
      into it.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8d1il-de-perdrix \[d8][d1]il`-de-per`drix"\, a. [F., lit., eye
      of a partridge.]
      1. (Ornamental Art) Characterized by, or decorated with,
            small round points, spots, or rings; as, [d2]il-de-perdrix
            pattern.
  
      2. Having a brownish red color; -- used esp. of light-colored
            red wine.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Latibulum \[d8]La*tib"u*lum\, n.; pl. {Latibula}. [L.]
      A concealed hiding place; a burrow; a lair; a hole.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Lautverschiebung \[d8]Laut"ver*schie`bung\, n.; pl.
      {-schiebungen}. [G.; laut sound + verschiebung shifting.]
      (Philol.)
      (a) The regular changes which the primitive Indo-European
            stops, or mute consonants, underwent in the Teutonic
            languages, probably as early as the 3d century b. c.,
            often called the {first Lautverschiebung}, {sound
            shifting}, or {consonant shifting}.
      (b) A somewhat similar set of changes taking place in the
            High German dialects (less fully in modern literary
            German) from the 6th to the 8th century, known as the
            {second Lautverschiebung}, the result of which form the
            striking differences between High German and The Low
            German Languages. The statement of these changes is
            commonly regarded as forming part of Grimm's law, because
            included in it as originally framed.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Lithofracteur \[d8]Lith`o*frac"teur\, n. [F., fr. li`qos stone
      + L. frangere, fractum, to break.]
      An explosive compound of nitroglycerin. See {Nitroglycerin}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Lotophagi \[d8]Lo*toph"a*gi\, n. pl. [L., fr. Gr. [?]; [?] the
      lotus + [?] to eat.] (Class. Myth.)
      A people visited by Ulysses in his wanderings. They subsisted
      on the lotus. See {Lotus}
      (b), and {Lotus-eater}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Deletive \Del"e*tive\, a.
      Adapted to destroy or obliterate. [R.] --Evelyn.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Delitable \De*lit"a*ble\, a.
      Delightful; delectable. [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Deltafication \Del`ta*fi*ca"tion\, n. [Delta + L. facere to
      make.]
      The formation of a delta or of deltas. [R.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Deludable \De*lud"a*ble\, a.
      Capable of being deluded; liable to be imposed on; gullible.
      --Sir T. Browne.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Dilatability \Di*la`ta*bil"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. dilatabilit[82].]
      The quality of being dilatable, or admitting expansion; --
      opposed to {contractibility}. --Ray.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Dilatable \Di*lat"a*ble\, a. [Cf. F. dilatable.]
      Capable of expansion; that may be dilated; -- opposed to
      {contractible}; as, the lungs are dilatable by the force of
      air; air is dilatable by heat.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Dilative \Di*lat"ive\, a.
      Causing dilation; tending to dilate, on enlarge; expansive.
      --Coleridge.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Deltaville, VA
      Zip code(s): 23043

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   Delta-Prolog
  
      A {Prolog} extension with {AND-parallelism}, {don't-know
      nondeterminism} and interprocess communication using
      {synchronous event goal}s and {distributed backtracking}.
  
      ["Delta-Prolog: A Distributed Logic Programming Language",
      L.M. Pereira et al, Intl Conf 5th Gen Comp Sys, Nov 1984].
  
  
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