English Dictionary: dead(p) | by the DICT Development Group |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Adobe \[d8]A*do"be\, n. 1. Earth from which unburnt bricks are made. [Western U. S.] 2. (Geol.) Alluvial and playa clays of desert and arid regions, differing from ordinary clays of humid regions in containing carbonates and other soluble minerals. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Adobe \[d8]A*do"be\ ([adot]*d[omac]"b[asl]), n. [Sp.] An unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective, as, an adobe house, in Texas or New Mexico. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Eau de vie \[d8]Eau` de vie"\ [F., water of life; eau (L. aqua) water + de of + vie (L. vita) life.] French name for brandy. Cf. Aqua vit[91], under {Aqua}. --Bescherelle. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dative \Da"tive\, a. [L. dativus appropriate to giving, fr. dare to give. See 2d {Date}.] 1. (Gram.) Noting the case of a noun which expresses the remoter object, and is generally indicated in English by to or for with the objective. 2. (Law) (a) In one's gift; capable of being disposed of at will and pleasure, as an office. (b) Removable, as distinguished from perpetual; -- said of an officer. (c) Given by a magistrate, as distinguished from being cast upon a party by the law. --Burril. Bouvier. {Dative executor}, one appointed by the judge of probate, his office answering to that of an administrator. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dative \Da"tive\, n. [L. dativus.] The dative case. See {Dative}, a., 1. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dead-pay \Dead"-pay`\, n. Pay drawn for soldiers, or others, really dead, whose names are kept on the rolls. O you commanders, That, like me, have no dead-pays. --Massinger. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Duotype \Du"o*type\, n. [L. duo two + type.] (Photoengraving) A print made from two half-tone plates made from the same negative, but etched differently. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DETAB DEcision TABle. A {decision table} {COBOL} preprocessor written by A. Chapman in 1964. Versions: DETAB 65, DETAB X. [Sammet 1969, p. 315]. (1994-12-07) | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Dodavah, love |