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230 *deverium:—duty.
 * devestire:—to give up possession.
 * devillare:—to leave town.
 * devisamentum:—a devise; a device.
 * devisare:—to devise; to bequeath.
 * devisatio, devisum:—a devise.
 * dextrale:—a bracer, a vambrace or wardbrace. (Fr. gardebras.)
 * dextrare:—to turn to the right; to walk on the right of.
 * dextrarius:—a war horse, a charger.
 * deya. See data.
 * deyla. See daila.
 * diaconatus:—the office of deacon.
 * diaconus:—a deacon.
 * diapretus. See diasperatus.
 * diarium:—daily food.
 * diasperatus:— of various colours; diapered.
 * diatim:—daily.
 * dica:—a tally; a deed; foolish talking.
 * diccus:—a dike.
 * dicenarius. See decennarius.
 * dicra:—a dicker, ten skins or pairs of gloves, ten bars of iron.
 * dictator:—a person charged with the duty of considering and redressing infractions of a peace or truce; an umpire.
 * dictor:—an umpire. Seedictator.
 * dieta:—a day's journey; an assembly; regimen; diet, i.e., the daily scrapings of metal in taking assays at Goldsmiths' Hall, which wore periodically melted up; a daywork of land.
 * diffacere:—to maim, to destroy.
 * diffayium:—neglect.
 * difficultas:—a tax.
 * diffidare:—to defy; to renounce allegiance to; to warn off.
 * diffodere:—to dig up.
 * difforciare:—to deforce.
 * difusculus:—diffuse.
 * digitate:—a thimble.
 * digitare:—to point at.
 * dignarium:—a dinner.
 * dilatura:—an accusation (delatura).
 * diligiatus:—outlawed.
 * dimidicare:—to halve.
 * dimidietas:—a half, a moiety.
 * dimissio:—demise, making over properties by lease or will.
 * dimissoriæ literæ:—letters from a bishop for the ordination of a person in another diocese.
 * diœcesis:—a diocese.
 * dirationare. See disrationare.
 * diribare:—to take away.
 * dirmatia:— for A. S. deornett, a hunting net (?).
 * disadvocare:—to deny, to disavow.
 * disboscatio:—bringing woods into cultivation.
 * discantus:—a chant.
 * discare:—to make dishes.
 * discarcare, discargare, discariare, discaricare, discarkare:—to unlade, to discharge.
 * discifer:—a sewer; a steward.