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   delayed allergy
         n 1: an allergic reaction that becomes apparent only hours after
               contact [syn: {delayed allergy}, {type IV allergic
               reaction}]

English Dictionary: dillydallier by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
dial telephone
n
  1. a telephone with a dial for registering the number to be called
    Synonym(s): dial telephone, dial phone
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
dilly-dallier
n
  1. someone who wastes time [syn: dallier, dillydallier, dilly-dallier, mope, lounger]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
dilly-dally
v
  1. postpone doing what one should be doing; "He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days"
    Synonym(s): procrastinate, stall, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, shillyshally, dilly-dally, dillydally
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
dillydallier
n
  1. someone who wastes time [syn: dallier, dillydallier, dilly-dallier, mope, lounger]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
dillydally
v
  1. postpone doing what one should be doing; "He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days"
    Synonym(s): procrastinate, stall, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, shillyshally, dilly-dally, dillydally
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Doolittle
n
  1. United States Air Force officer who electrified the world in 1942 by leading a squadron of 16 bombers on a daylight raid over Tokyo (1896-1993)
    Synonym(s): Doolittle, Jimmy Doolittle, James Harold Doolittle
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Telegraph \Tel"e*graph\, n. [Gr. [?] far, far off (cf. Lith.
      toli) + -graph: cf. F. t[82]l[82]graphe. See {Graphic}.]
      An apparatus, or a process, for communicating intelligence
      rapidly between distant points, especially by means of
      preconcerted visible or audible signals representing words or
      ideas, or by means of words and signs, transmitted by
      electrical action.
  
      Note: The instruments used are classed as indicator,
               type-printing, symbol-printing, or chemical-printing
               telegraphs, according as the intelligence is given by
               the movements of a pointer or indicator, as in Cooke &
               Wheatstone's (the form commonly used in England), or by
               impressing, on a fillet of paper, letters from types,
               as in House's and Hughe's, or dots and marks from a
               sharp point moved by a magnet, as in Morse's, or
               symbols produced by electro-chemical action, as in
               Bain's. In the offices in the United States the
               recording instrument is now little used, the receiving
               operator reading by ear the combinations of long and
               short intervals of sound produced by the armature of an
               electro-magnet as it is put in motion by the opening
               and breaking of the circuit, which motion, in
               registering instruments, traces upon a ribbon of paper
               the lines and dots used to represent the letters of the
               alphabet. See Illustration in Appendix.
  
      {Acoustic telegraph}. See under {Acoustic}.
  
      {Dial telegraph}, a telegraph in which letters of the
            alphabet and numbers or other symbols are placed upon the
            border of a circular dial plate at each station, the
            apparatus being so arranged that the needle or index of
            the dial at the receiving station accurately copies the
            movements of that at the sending station.
  
      {Electric telegraph}, [or] {Electro-magnetic telegraph}, a
            telegraph in which an operator at one station causes words
            or signs to be made at another by means of a current of
            electricity, generated by a battery and transmitted over
            an intervening wire.
  
      {Facsimile telegraph}. See under {Facsimile}.
  
      {Indicator telegraph}. See under {Indicator}.
  
      {Pan-telegraph}, an electric telegraph by means of which a
            drawing or writing, as an autographic message, may be
            exactly reproduced at a distant station.
  
      {Printing telegraph}, an electric telegraph which
            automatically prints the message as it is received at a
            distant station, in letters, not signs.
  
      {Signal telegraph}, a telegraph in which preconcerted
            signals, made by a machine, or otherwise, at one station,
            are seen or heard and interpreted at another; a semaphore.
           
  
      {Submarine telegraph cable}, a telegraph cable laid under
            water to connect stations separated by a body of water.
  
      {Telegraph cable}, a telegraphic cable consisting of several
            conducting wires, inclosed by an insulating and protecting
            material, so as to bring the wires into compact compass
            for use on poles, or to form a strong cable impervious to
            water, to be laid under ground, as in a town or city, or
            under water, as in the ocean.
  
      {Telegraph plant} (Bot.), a leguminous plant ({Desmodium
            gyrans}) native of the East Indies. The leaflets move up
            and down like the signals of a semaphore.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Dilly-dally \Dil"ly-dal`ly\, v. i. [See {Dally}.]
      To loiter or trifle; to waste time.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Do-little \Do"-lit`tle\, n.
      One who performs little though professing much. [Colloq.]
  
               Great talkers are commonly dolittles.      --Bp.
                                                                              Richardson.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Doolittle, MO (city, FIPS 19828)
      Location: 37.94149 N, 91.88780 W
      Population (1990): 599 (249 housing units)
      Area: 6.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
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