< Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
THE
DICTIONARY
OF
PHRASE AND FABLE.
Chapters (not listed in original)
- D (1)
- D or d
- D (2)
- D̅
- D.O.M
- D.T
- Da Capo or D.C
- Dab
- Dab, Din
- Dabaira
- Dabbat
- Dabble
- Dabchick
- Dactyl
- Dactyls
- Dad or Daddy
- Daddy Long-legs
- Dædalos
- Daffodil
- Dag
- Dagger
- Dagger Ale
- Dagger-scene in the House of Commons
- Daggers
- Daggers Drawn
- Daggle-tail or Draggle-tail
- Dagobert
- Dagon
- Dagonet
- Daguerreotype
- Dagun
- Dahak
- Dahlia
- Dahomey
- Daïboth
- Daikoku
- Daïri
- Dairy
- Dais
- Daisies
- Daisy
- Daisy
- Daisy-cutter
- Daisy-roots
- Dalai-Lama
- Daldah
- Dalgarno
- Dalgetty
- Dalkey
- Dalle
- Dalmatica
- Dam
- Damage
- Damask Linen
- Damaskeening
- Dambea
- Dame du Lac
- Damiens' Bed of Steel
- Damn with Faint Praise
- Damocls' Sword
- Damon and Musidora
- Damon and Pythias
- Damper
- Damsel
- Damson
- Damyan
- Dan
- Dan Tucker
- Danace
- Danaë
- Danaides
- Danaos
- Danaw
- Dance
- Dance
- Dance of Death
- Dances
- Dances
- Dancing-water
- Dandelion
- Dander
- Dandie Dinmont
- Dandin
- Dandin
- Dandiprat
- Dando
- Dandy
- Dandy-horse
- Dandyism
- Dane's Skin
- Dangle
- Daniel Lambert
- Danism
- Dannebrog or Danebrog
- Dannocks
- Danse
- Dansker
- Dante and Beatrice
- Dantesque
- Daphnaida
- Daphne
- Daphnis
- Dapper
- Dapple
- Darbies
- Darby and Joan
- Darbyites
- Darics (or) Stateres Darici
- Dariolet, Dariolette
- Darius
- Dark
- Dark Ages
- Dark Continent
- Dark Horse
- Darkest Hour is that before the Dawn
- Darky
- Darley Arabians
- Daron, Daronne
- Daronne
- Dart
- Darwinian Theory
- Dash
- Dash my Wig. Dash my Buttons
- Date
- Daughter
- Daughter of Peneus
- Daughter of the Horseleech
- Dauphin
- Davenport
- Davenport
- David
- David and Jonathan
- Davideis
- Davus
- Davy
- Davy
- Davy Jones's Locker
- Davy's Sow
- Dawson
- Day
- Day of the Barricades
- Day of the Dupes
- Day-dream
- Daylight
- Daylights
- Days set apart as Sabbaths
- Daysman
- Dayspring
- Daystar
- De Bonne Grâce
- De Die in Diem
- De Facto
- De Haut en Bas
- De Jure
- De Lunatico Inquirendo
- De Mortuis Nil Nisi Bonum
- De Nihilo Nihil Fit
- De Novo
- De Profundis
- De Rigueur
- De Trop
- Dead
- Dead
- Dead
- Dead Drunk
- Dead-eye
- Dead-flat
- Dead Freight
- Dead Hand
- Dead-heads
- Dead Heat
- Dead Horse
- Dead Languages
- Dead Letter
- Dead-letter Office
- Dead Lift
- Dead Lights
- Dead Lock
- Dead Men
- Dead Men's Shoes
- Dead Pan
- Dead Reckoning
- Dead Ropes
- Dead Sea
- Dead-Sea Fruit
- Dead Set
- Dead Shares
- Dead Water
- Dead Weight
- Dead Wind
- Dead Wood
- Dead Works
- Deaf
- Deaf Adder
- Deal
- Deal-fish
- Dean
- Deans
- Dear
- Dear Bought and Far Brought
- Dearest
- Death
- Death and Doctor Hornbook
- Death from Strange Causes
- Death in the Pot
- Death under Shield
- Death-bell
- Death-meal
- Death-watch
- Death's Head
- Death's Head on a Mopstick
- Deaths-man
- Debateable Land
- Debon
- Debonair
- Débris
- Debt of Nature
- Decameron
- Decamp
- Decaniller
- December.
- Deception
- Decide
- Decimo
- Deck
- Decking Churches
- Décolleté
- Decoration Day
- Decoy Duck
- Decrepit
- Decuman Gate
- Dedalian
- Dedlock
- Dee
- Dee
- Dee Mills
- Deer
- Deerslayer
- Dees
- Deev-Binder
- Default
- Defeat
- Defeat
- Defender of the Faith
- Deficit
- Degenerate
- Dei Gratia
- Dei Judicium
- Deianira
- Deiphobus
- Deities
- Déjeuner à la Fourchette
- Delaware
- Delectable Mountains
- Delf
- Delia
- Delias
- Delight
- Delirium
- Della Cruscans or Della Cruscan School
- Delmonico
- Delos
- Delphi or Delphos
- Delphin Classics
- Delta
- Deluge
- Deluges
- Demerit
- Demijohn
- Demi-monde
- Demi-rep
- Demiurge
- Demobilisation of troops
- Democracy
- Democritos
- Demodocos
- Demogorgon
- Demon of Matrimonial Unhappiness
- Demos
- Demosthens' Lantern
- Demurrage
- Demy
- Den
- Denarius
- Denizen
- Dennis
- Dénouement
- Denys
- Deo Gratias
- Deo Juvante
- Deo, non Fortunâ
- Deo Volente
- Deodand
- Depart
- Department
- Dependence
- Depinges
- Deputations
- Depute
- Derbend
- Derby Stakes
- Derive
- Dernier Ressort
- Derrick
- Derwentwater
- Desdemona
- Desmas
- Despair
- Dessert
- Destruction
- Destructives
- Desultory
- Detest
- Deucalion
- Deuce
- Dence-ace
- Deuce of Cards
- Deus
- Deva's Vale
- Development
- Devil
- Devil among the Tailors
- Devil and Bag oNails
- Devil and Dr. Faustus
- Devil and his Dam
- Devil and the Deep Sea
- Devil and Tom Walker
- Devil catch the Hindmost
- Devil in Dublin City
- Devil looking Over Lincoln.
- Devil loves Holy Water
- Devil-may-care
- Devil must be Striking
- Devil on the Neck
- Devil rides on a Fiddlestick
- Devil Sick would be a Monk
- Devil to Pay and no Pitch Hot
- Devil
- Devil's Advocate
- Devil's Apple
- Devil's Arrows
- Devil's Bird
- Devil's Bones
- Devil's Books
- Devil's Cabinet
- Devil's Candle
- Devil's Current
- Devil's Daughter's Portion
- Devil's Den
- Devil's Dust
- Devil's Dyke
- Devil's Four-Poster
- Devil's Frying-pan
- Devil's Livery
- Devil's Luck
- Devil's Mass
- Devil's Nostrils
- Devil's Own.
- Devil's Paternoster
- Devil's Snuff-box
- Devil's Tattoo
- Devil's Throat
- Devils (in Dante's Divine Comedy):
- Devonshire
- Devonshire Poet
- Dew-beaters
- Dew-bit
- Dew-drink
- Dexterity
- Dgellabæan
- Dhuldul
- Diable
- Diadem
- Dialectics
- Diamond
- Diamond
- Diamond Hammer
- Diamond Jousts
- Diamond Necklace
- Diamond Sculls
- Diana
- Diana of Ephesus
- Dian's Worshippers
- Dianora
- Diapason
- Diaper
- Diavolo
- Dibs or Dibbs
- Dicers' Oaths
- Dicilla
- Dick
- Dick's Hatband
- Dick = Richard
- Dickens
- Dickey or Dicky
- Dicky
- Dicky Sam
- Dictator of Letters
- Didactic Poetry
- Diddle
- Diddler
- Diderick
- Dido
- Die
- Die
- Die-hards
- Diego
- Dis Alliensis
- Dis Iræ
- Dis Non
- Dis Sanguinis
- Dietrich
- Dieu
- Difference
- Digest
- Diggings
- Diggory
- Digit
- Dignitary
- Dignus Vindice Nodus
- Dii Penats
- Dilemma
- Dilettantë
- Diligence
- Diligence
- Dilly
- Dim and Distant Future
- Dimanche
- Dimetæ
- Dimissory
- Dimity
- Dinah
- Dinde
- Dine
- Dine Out
- Ding
- Ding-dong
- Dingley Dell
- Dinner
- Dinnerless
- Dinos
- Dint
- Diocletian
- Diocletian
- Diogenes
- Diomed's Horses
- Diomedean Swop
- Diomeds or Diomd
- Dione
- Dionysius
- Dionysos
- Diophantine Analysis
- Dioscuri
- Diotrephes
- Dip
- Diphthera
- Diploma
- Diplomacy
- Diplomatic Cold
- Diplomatics
- Diptych
- Dircæan Swan
- Direct Tax
- Directory
- Dirleton
- Dirlos
- Dirt
- Dirty Half-Hundred
- Dirty Lane
- Dirty Shirts
- Dis
- Disaster
- Disastrous Peace
- Disbar
- Discard
- Discharge Bible
- Discipline
- Discord
- Discount
- Discuss
- Disease
- Dished
- Dish-washer
- Dismal
- Dismas
- Disney Professor
- Disorder
- Dispensation
- Dispute
- Dissolute
- Distaff
- Distaffina
- Distemper
- Distinguished Member of the Humane Society
- Distraction
- Distrait
- Dithyrambic
- Dittany
- Ditto
- Dittoes
- Divan
- Divers Colours
- Divert
- Dives
- Divide
- Divide and Govern
- Divination
- Divine
- Divine
- Divine Doctor
- Divine Pagan
- Divine Plant
- Divine Speaker
- Divining Rod
- Divinity in Odd Numbers
- Divino Lodovico
- Division
- Divorcement
- Divus
- Dixie Land
- Dizzy
- Djinnestan
- Do
- Do
- Do for
- Do up
- Doab
- Dobbin
- Dobbins
- Dobby's Walk
- Docetes
- Dock-Alfar
- Dock-side Lumper
- Dock Warrant
- Doctor
- Doctor
- Doctor
- Doctored Dice
- Dr. Diafoirus
- Dr. Dove
- Dr. Fell
- Doctor Mirabilis
- Doctor My-Book
- Dr. Rezio
- Dr. Sangrado
- Doctor Slop
- Doctor Squintum
- Doctor Syntax
- Doctors
- Doctors
- Doctors' Commons
- Doctors Disagree
- Doctor's Stuff
- Doctored Wine
- Doctour of Phisikes Tale
- Doctrinists
- Dodge
- Dodge About
- Dodger
- Dodger
- Dodington
- Dodipoll
- Dodman
- Dodona
- Dods
- Dodson and Fogg
- Doe
- Doeg
- Doff
- Dog
- Dog and Duck
- Dog-cheap
- Dog-days
- Dog-fall
- Dog-grass
- Dog-head
- Dog-headed Tribes
- Dog-Latin
- Dog-leech
- Dog-rose
- Dog-sick
- Dog-sleep
- Dog-star
- Dog-vane
- Dog-watch
- Dog-whipper
- Dog-whipping Day
- Dogs
- Dogs
- Dogs
- Dogs
- Dogs-ears
- Dogs-meat
- Dogs-nose
- Dogged
- Dogged
- Dogaressa
- Dogberry
- Doge
- Dogget
- Doggerel
- Dogma
- Dogmatic Facts
- Dogmatic School
- Dogmatic Theology
- Doiley
- Doit
- Dolabra
- Dolce far Niente
- Doldrums
- Dole
- Dole
- Dole-fish
- Doll Money
- Dollar
- Dolly Murrey
- Dolly Shop
- Dolmen
- Dolopatos
- Dolorous Dettie
- Dolphin
- Dolphin
- Dom
- Dombey
- Dom-Daniel
- Domesday Book
- Domestic
- Domestic Poultry
- Domiciliary Visit
- Dominic
- Dominical Letters
- Dominicans
- Dominie Sampson
- Dominions
- Domino
- Dominoes
- Domisellus
- Don
- Don
- Don Giovanni
- Don Juan
- Don Quixote
- Donation of Pepin
- Donatists
- Doncaster
- Dondasch
- Done Brown
- Done For
- Done Up
- Donegild
- Donkey
- Donkey Engine
- Dony
- Donzel
- Doolin
- Doom
- Doom Book
- Doom-rings
- Doomsday Sedgwick
- Doomstead
- Door.
- Door Nail.
- Door-opener
- Door-tree
- Doors
- Doorm
- Dora
- Dorado
- Dorax
- Dorcas Society
- Dorchester
- Doric
- Doric Dialect
- Doric Land
- Doric Reed
- Doricourt
- Dorigen
- Dorimant
- Dorinda
- Dormer Window
- Dornock
- Dorothea
- Dorset
- Dorsetian Downs
- Dositheans
- Doson
- Doss
- Doss-house
- Dosser
- Do-the-Boys' Hall
- Dot and go One
- Dotterel
- Douay Bible
- Double
- Double Dealing
- Double Dutch
- Double-edged Sword
- Double Entendre
- Double First
- Double-headed Eagle
- Double-tongued
- Double up
- Double X
- Double or Quits
- Doubles or Double-walkers
- Doubting Castle
- Douceur.
- Douglas
- Douglas Tragedy
- Douse the Glim
- Dousterswivel
- Dout
- Dove
- Dove
- Doves' Dung
- Dover
- Dover
- Dovers
- Dovercot or Dovercourt
- Dovetail
- Dowgate Ward
- Dowlas
- Dowling
- Down
- Down in the Dumps
- Down on Him
- Down on his Luck
- Down to the Ground
- Down - hearted
- Down Town
- Down-trod
- Downfall
- Downing Professor
- Downing Street
- Downpour
- Downright
- Downright Dunstable
- Downstairs
- Downy
- Downy Cove
- Dowsabell
- Dowse on the Chops
- Doxy
- Doyleys
- Dozen
- D. P. or Dom. Proc
- Drac
- Drachenfels
- Draconian Code
- Draft
- Draft on Aldgate
- Drag in, Neck and Crop
- Draggle-tail
- Dragoman
- Dragon
- Dragon Slayers
- Dragon of Wantley
- Dragon's Hill
- Dragon's Teeth
- Dragonades
- Dragoons
- Drake
- Drama
- Drama of Exile
- Dramatic Unities
- Dramatis Personæ
- Drap
- Drapier's Letters
- Drat em!
- Draught of Thor
- Draupnir
- Draw
- Draw it Mild
- Draw the Long Bow
- Drawback
- Drawcansir
- Drawing-room
- Drawing the Cork
- Drawing the King's (or Queens) Picture
- Drawing the Nail
- Drawlatches
- Drawn
- Drawn Battle
- Dreadnought
- Dream Authorship
- Dreamer
- Dreng
- Dress your Jacket
- Dresser
- Drink
- Drink Deep
- Drinke and Welcome
- Drink like a Fish
- Drinking Healths
- Drinking Song
- Drinking at Freeman's Quay
- Drive
- Drive at
- Drive Off
- Driveller
- Drivelling Dotage
- Driver of Europe
- Drivers
- Drives fat Oxen
- Driving for Rent
- Driving Pigs
- Droit dAubaine
- Drôle
- Dromio
- Drone
- Drop
- Drop
- Drop in
- Drop off
- Drop Serene
- Drown the Miller
- Drowned Rat
- Drowned in a Butt of Malmsey
- Drowning Men
- Drows
- Drub, Drubbing
- Drug
- Druid
- Drum
- Drum Ecclesiastic
- Drum-head Court-martial
- Drummers
- Drummond Light
- Drumsticks
- Drunk
- Drunkard's Cloak
- Drunken Deddington
- Drunkenness
- Drunkenness
- Drupner
- Drury Lane
- Druses
- Dry
- Dry Blow
- Dry Goods
- Dry Lodgings
- Dry-nurse
- Dry Rot
- Dry Sea
- Dry Shave
- Dry Style
- Dry Wine
- Dryads
- Dryasdust
- Dualism
- Dub
- Dub Up!
- Dublin
- Dubs
- Ducat
- Duchesne
- Duchess
- Duck
- Duck Lane
- Duck's Egg
- Ducks-foot Lane
- Ducks and Drakes
- Duckie
- Ducking
- Duckweed
- Dude
- Dudeism
- Dudgeon
- Dudman and Ramhead
- Duds
- Dudu
- Duende
- Duenna
- Duergar
- Duessa
- Dufarge
- Duffer
- Duglas
- Duke
- Duke Coombe
- Duke Ernest
- Duke Humphrey
- Duke Street
- Duke and Duchess
- Duke of Exeter's Daughter
- Duke or Darling
- Dukes
- Duke's Walk
- Dukeries
- Dulcarnon
- Dulce Domum
- Dulce est Desipere in Loco
- Dulce et Decorum est pro Patria Mori
- Dulcimer
- Dulcinea
- Dulcinists
- Dulia
- Dull as a Fro
- Dull as Ditch-water
- Dulness
- Dum Sola
- Dum Spiro, Spero
- Dum Vivimus, Vivamus
- Dumachus
- Dumb-barge
- Dumb-bell Nebula
- Dumb-bells
- Dumb-bells
- Dumb-bidding
- Dumb-cow
- Dumb Crambo
- Dumb Dog
- Dumb Ox of Cologne
- Dumb-waiter
- Dummy
- Dummies
- Dump
- Dumps
- Dun
- Dun Cow
- Dun in the Mire
- Dunce
- Dunciad
- Dunderhead
- Dundreary
- Dungaree
- Dunghill!
- Dunghill
- Dunkers
- Dunmow
- Dunmow Flitch
- Duns Scotus
- Dunstable
- Dunstan
- Duodecimo
- Duomo
- Dup
- Dupes
- Durandana
- Durandartë
- Durante
- Durbar
- Durden
- Dürer
- Duresley
- Durham Book
- Durham Mustard
- Dus
- Dusiens
- Dust
- Dustman has arrived
- Dusty
- Dusty-foot
- Dutch
- Dutch Auction
- Dutch Clocks
- Dutch Comfort
- Dutch Concert
- Dutch Courage
- Dutch Gleek
- Dutch Gold
- Dutch Nightingales
- Dutch School
- Dutch Toys
- Dutch Uncle
- Dutchman
- Duty
- Duumvirs
- Dwarf
- Dwarf Alberich
- Dwarf Peter
- Dwarfs
- Dwile, or Dwyel
- Dwt
- Dyed Beards
- Dyeing Scarlet
- Dying Sayings
- Dymphna
- Dynamite
- Dynamite Saturday
- Dyot Street
- Dyser
- Dyvour
- Dyzemas Day
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