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  • 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.