death chair
         n 1: an instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles an
               ordinary seat for one person; "the murderer was sentenced
               to die in the chair" [syn: {electric chair}, {chair},
               {death chair}, {hot seat}]

English Dictionary: ditch reed	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ditch reed n tall North American reed having relative wide leaves and large plumelike panicles; widely distributed in moist areas; used for mats, screens and arrow shafts Synonym(s): ditch reed, common reed, carrizo, Phragmites communis
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
dodger n a shifty deceptive person [syn: dodger, fox, slyboots] small oval cake of corn bread baked or fried (chiefly southern) Synonym(s): corn dab, corn dodger, dodger
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
dowitcher n shorebird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Dutch iris n bulbous Spanish iris having blue flowers [syn: {Dutch iris}, Iris tingitana] bulbous Spanish iris with red-violet flowers Synonym(s): Dutch iris, Iris filifolia
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Autocratrix \[d8]Au*toc"ra*trix\, n. [NL.]       A female sovereign who is independent and absolute; -- a       title given to the empresses of Russia.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Diatessaron \[d8]Di`a*tes"sa*ron\, n. [L., fr. Gr. [?] (sc.       [?]); dia` through + [?], gen. of [?] four (sc. [?].).]       1. (Anc. Mus.) The interval of a fourth.          2. (Theol.) A continuous narrative arranged from the first             four books of the New Testament.          3. An electuary compounded of four medicines.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Hatti-sherif \[d8]Hat"ti-sher`if\, n. [Turk., fr. Ar. knatt a       writing + sher[c6]f noble.]       A irrevocable Turkish decree countersigned by the sultan.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Idiocrasis \[d8]Id`i*o*cra"sis\, n. [NL.]       Idiocracy.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dead \Dead\ (d[ecr]d), a. [OE. ded, dead, deed, AS. de[a0]d;       akin to OS. d[omac]d, D. dood, G. todt, tot, Icel. dau[edh]r,       Sw. & Dan. d[94]d, Goth. daubs; prop. p. p. of an old verb       meaning to die. See {Die}, and cf. {Death}.]       1. Deprived of life; -- opposed to {alive} and {living};             reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of             motion and life have irrevocably ceased to perform their             functions; as, a dead tree; a dead man. [bd]The queen, my             lord, is dead.[b8] --Shak.                         The crew, all except himself, were dead of hunger.                                                                               --Arbuthnot.                         Seek him with candle, bring him dead or living.                                                                               --Shak.          2. Destitute of life; inanimate; as, dead matter.          3. Resembling death in appearance or quality; without show of             life; deathlike; as, a dead sleep.          4. Still as death; motionless; inactive; useless; as, dead             calm; a dead load or weight.          5. So constructed as not to transmit sound; soundless; as, a             dead floor.          6. Unproductive; bringing no gain; unprofitable; as, dead             capital; dead stock in trade.          7. Lacking spirit; dull; lusterless; cheerless; as, dead eye;             dead fire; dead color, etc.          8. Monotonous or unvaried; as, a dead level or pain; a dead             wall. [bd]The ground is a dead flat.[b8] --C. Reade.          9. Sure as death; unerring; fixed; complete; as, a dead shot;             a dead certainty.                         I had them a dead bargain.                  --Goldsmith.          10. Bringing death; deadly. --Shak.          11. Wanting in religious spirit and vitality; as, dead faith;             dead works. [bd]Dead in trespasses.[b8] --Eph. ii. 1.          12. (Paint.)             (a) Flat; without gloss; -- said of painting which has                   been applied purposely to have this effect.             (b) Not brilliant; not rich; thus, brown is a dead color,                   as compared with crimson.          13. (Law) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of             the power of enjoying the rights of property; as, one             banished or becoming a monk is civilly dead.          14. (Mach.) Not imparting motion or power; as, the dead             spindle of a lathe, etc. See {Spindle}.          {Dead ahead} (Naut.), directly ahead; -- said of a ship or             any object, esp. of the wind when blowing from that point             toward which a vessel would go.          {Dead angle} (Mil.), an angle or space which can not be seen             or defended from behind the parapet.          {Dead block}, either of two wooden or iron blocks intended to             serve instead of buffers at the end of a freight car.          {Dead calm} (Naut.), no wind at all.          {Dead center}, [or] {Dead point} (Mach.), either of two             points in the orbit of a crank, at which the crank and             connecting rod lie a straight line. It corresponds to the             end of a stroke; as, A and B are dead centers of the crank             mechanism in which the crank C drives, or is driven by,             the lever L.          {Dead color} (Paint.), a color which has no gloss upon it.          {Dead coloring} (Oil paint.), the layer of colors, the             preparation for what is to follow. In modern painting this             is usually in monochrome.          {Dead door} (Shipbuilding), a storm shutter fitted to the             outside of the quarter-gallery door.          {Dead flat} (Naut.), the widest or midship frame.          {Dead freight} (Mar. Law), a sum of money paid by a person             who charters a whole vessel but fails to make out a full             cargo. The payment is made for the unoccupied capacity.             --Abbott.          {Dead ground} (Mining), the portion of a vein in which there             is no ore.          {Dead hand}, a hand that can not alienate, as of a person             civilly dead. [bd]Serfs held in dead hand.[b8] --Morley.             See {Mortmain}.          {Dead head} (Naut.), a rough block of wood used as an anchor             buoy.          {Dead heat}, a heat or course between two or more race             horses, boats, etc., in which they come out exactly equal,             so that neither wins.          {Dead horse}, an expression applied to a debt for wages paid             in advance. [Law]          {Dead language}, a language which is no longer spoken or in             common use by a people, and is known only in writings, as             the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Death \Death\, n. [OE. deth, dea[?], AS. de[a0][?]; akin to OS.       d[?][?], D. dood, G. tod, Icel. dau[?]i, Sw. & Dan. d[94]d,       Goth. daupus; from a verb meaning to die. See {Die}, v. i.,       and cf. {Dead}.]       1. The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of             resuscitation, either in animals or plants.          Note: Local death is going on at times and in all parts of                the living body, in which individual cells and elements                are being cast off and replaced by new; a process                essential to life. General death is of two kinds; death                of the body as a whole (somatic or systemic death), and                death of the tissues. By the former is implied the                absolute cessation of the functions of the brain, the                circulatory and the respiratory organs; by the latter                the entire disappearance of the vital actions of the                ultimate structural constituents of the body. When                death takes place, the body as a whole dies first, the                death of the tissues sometimes not occurring until                after a considerable interval. --Huxley.          2. Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the             death of memory.                         The death of a language can not be exactly compared                      with the death of a plant.                  --J. Peile.          3. Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.                         A death that I abhor.                        --Shak.                         Let me die the death of the righteous. --Num. xxiii.                                                                               10.          4. Cause of loss of life.                         Swiftly flies the feathered death.      --Dryden.                         He caught his death the last county sessions.                                                                               --Addison.          5. Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally             represented as a skeleton with a scythe.                         Death! great proprietor of all.         --Young.                         And I looked, and behold a pale horse; and his name                      that at on him was Death.                  --Rev. vi. 8.          6. Danger of death. [bd]In deaths oft.[b8] --2 Cor. xi. 23.          7. Murder; murderous character.                         Not to suffer a man of death to live. --Bacon.          8. (Theol.) Loss of spiritual life.                         To be [?][?][?][?][?][?][?] m[?][?][?][?][?] is                      death.                                                --Rom. viii.                                                                               6.          9. Anything so dreadful as to be like death.                         It was death to them to think of entertaining such                      doctrines.                                          --Atterbury.                         And urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto                      death.                                                --Judg. xvi.                                                                               16.          Note: Death is much used adjectively and as the first part of                a compound, meaning, in general, of or pertaining to                death, causing or presaging death; as, deathbed or                death bed; deathblow or death blow, etc.          {Black death}. See {Black death}, in the Vocabulary.          {Civil death}, the separation of a man from civil society, or             the debarring him from the enjoyment of civil rights, as             by banishment, attainder, abjuration of the realm,             entering a monastery, etc. --Blackstone.          {Death adder}. (Zo[94]l.)             (a) A kind of viper found in South Africa ({Acanthophis                   tortor}); -- so called from the virulence of its                   venom.             (b) A venomous Australian snake of the family                   {Elapid[91]}, of several species, as the                   {Hoplocephalus superbus} and {Acanthopis antarctica}.                            {Death bell}, a bell that announces a death.                         The death bell thrice was heard to ring. --Mickle.          {Death candle}, a light like that of a candle, viewed by the             superstitious as presaging death.          {Death damp}, a cold sweat at the coming on of death.          {Death fire}, a kind of ignis fatuus supposed to forebode             death.                         And round about in reel and rout, The death fires                      danced at night.                                 --Coleridge.          {Death grapple}, a grapple or struggle for life.          {Death in life}, a condition but little removed from death; a             living death. [Poetic] [bd]Lay lingering out a five years'             death in life.[b8] --Tennyson.          {Death knell}, a stroke or tolling of a bell, announcing a             death.          {Death rate}, the relation or ratio of the number of deaths             to the population.                         At all ages the death rate is higher in towns than                      in rural districts.                           --Darwin.          {Death rattle}, a rattling or gurgling in the throat of a             dying person.          {Death's door}, the boundary of life; the partition dividing             life from death.          {Death stroke}, a stroke causing death.          {Death throe}, the spasm of death.          {Death token}, the signal of approaching death.          {Death warrant}.             (a) (Law) An order from the proper authority for the                   execution of a criminal.             (b) That which puts an end to expectation, hope, or joy.                            {Death wound}.             (a) A fatal wound or injury.             (b) (Naut.) The springing of a fatal leak.          {Spiritual death} (Scripture), the corruption and perversion             of the soul by sin, with the loss of the favor of God.          {The gates of death}, the grave.                         Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? --Job                                                                               xxxviii. 17.          {The second death}, condemnation to eternal separation from             God. --Rev. ii. 11.          {To be the death of}, to be the cause of death to; to make             die. [bd]It was one who should be the death of both his             parents.[b8] --Milton.          Syn: {Death}, {Decease}, {Demise}, {Departure}, {Release}.          Usage: Death applies to the termination of every form of                   existence, both animal and vegetable; the other words                   only to the human race. Decease is the term used in                   law for the removal of a human being out of life in                   the ordinary course of nature. Demise was formerly                   confined to decease of princes, but is now sometimes                   used of distinguished men in general; as, the demise                   of Mr. Pitt. Departure and release are peculiarly                   terms of Christian affection and hope. A violent death                   is not usually called a decease. Departure implies a                   friendly taking leave of life. Release implies a                   deliverance from a life of suffering or sorrow.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Death's-herb \Death's"-herb`\, n.       The deadly nightshade ({Atropa belladonna}). --Dr. Prior.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dedecorate \De*dec"o*rate\, v. t. [L. dedecoratus, p. p. of       dedecorare to disgrace. See {Decorate}.]       To bring to shame; to disgrace. [Obs.] --Bailey.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dedecoration \De*dec`o*ra"tion\, n. [L. dedecoratio.]       Disgrace; dishonor. [Obs.] --Bailey.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dedecorous \De*dec"o*rous\, a. [L. dedecorus. See {Decorous}.]       Disgraceful; unbecoming. [R.] --Bailey.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ditcher \Ditch"er\, n.       One who digs ditches.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dodger \Dodg"er\, n.       1. One who dodges or evades; one who plays fast and loose, or             uses tricky devices. --Smart.          2. A small handbill. [U. S.]          3. See {Corndodger}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dodgery \Dodg"er*y\, n.       trickery; artifice. [Obs.] --Hacket.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dowitcher \Dow"itch*er\, n. (Zo[94]l.)       The red-breasted or gray snipe ({Macrorhamphus griseus}); --       called also {brownback}, and {grayback}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
{Dutch oven}, a tin screen for baking before an open fire or             kitchen range; also, in the United States, a shallow iron             kettle for baking, with a cover to hold burning coals.          {Dutch pink}, chalk, or whiting dyed yellow, and used in             distemper, and for paper staining. etc. --Weale.          {Dutch rush} (Bot.), a species of horsetail rush or Equisetum             ({E. hyemale}) having a rough, siliceous surface, and used             for scouring and polishing; -- called also {scouring             rush}, and {shave grass}. See {Equisetum}.          {Dutch tile}, a glazed and painted ornamental tile, formerly             much exported, and used in the jambs of chimneys and the             like.          Note: Dutch was formerly used for German.                            Germany is slandered to have sent none to this                         war [the Crusades] at this first voyage; and that                         other pilgrims, passing through that country,                         were mocked by the Dutch, and called fools for                         their pains.                                 --Fuller.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Equisetum \[d8]Eq`ui*se"tum\, n.; pl. {Equiseta}. [L., the       horsetail, fr. equus horse + seta a thick,, stiff hair,       bristle.] (Bot.)       A genus of vascular, cryptogamic, herbaceous plants; -- also       called {horsetails}.          Note: The {Equiseta} have hollow jointed stems and no true                leaves. The cuticle often contains siliceous granules,                so that one species ({E. hyemale}) is used for scouring                and polishing, under the name of {Dutch rush} or                {scouring rush}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Coachman \Coach"man\, n.; pl. {Coachmen}.       1. A man whose business is to drive a coach or carriage.          2. (Zo[94]l.) A tropical fish of the Atlantic ocean ({Dutes             auriga}); -- called also {charioteer}. The name refers to             a long, lashlike spine of the dorsal fin.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dyadic \Dy*ad"ic\, a. [Gr. [?], fr. [?] two.]       Pertaining to the number two; of two parts or elements.          {Dyadic arithmetic}, the same as {binary arithmetic}.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Dutch Harbor, AK       Zip code(s): 99692
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
Death Square n.   The corporate logo of Novell, the people who    acquired USL after AT&T let go of it (Novell eventually sold the    Unix group to SCO).   Coined by analogy with {Death Star}, because    many people believed Novell was bungling the lead in Unix systems    exactly as AT&T did for many years.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
data service unit          (DSU or "data service unit") A device used in       digital transmission for connecting a CSU (Channel Service       Unit) to {Data Terminal Equipment} (a terminal or computer),       in the same way that a {modem} is used for connection to an       analogue medium.          A DSU provides a standard interface to a user's terminal which       is compatible with {modems} and handles such functions as       signal translation, regeneration, reformatting, and timing.       The transmitting portion of the DSU processeses the customers'       signal into bipolar pulses suitable for transmission over the       digital facility.   The receiving portion of the DSU is used       both to extract timing information and to regenerate mark and       space information from the received {bipolar} signal.          (1995-01-30)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
datagram          A self-contained, independent entity of data carrying       sufficient information to be {route}d from the source to the       destination computer without reliance on earlier exchanges       between this source and destination computer and the       transporting {network}.          See also {connectionless}, {frame}, {packet}.