DAINTY, "men have little _dainty_ of your play" (M13,_b_), _i.e._ little that is agreeable or pleasant, small liking for or delight in. "It was _daynte_ for to see the cheere bitwix hem two."--Chaucer, _Cant._ _Tales_ (1383), 8983. "... and all things which were _dainty_ and goodly are departed from thee, ..."--_Bible_, Auth. Vers. (1611), _Rev._ xviii. 14.
DAISY, "leap at a _daisy_" (R243,_c_), be hanged: see _Anon. Plays_, 3 Ser. (E.E.D.S.).
DALLIATION, "leave your _dalliation_" (M5,_a_), dallying.
DALLY, "quit as a _dally_" (JE365,_b_), what "a tale of titmary tally" (see previous line) or "quit as a _dally_" mean I am unable to discover. The original is, "She helde me with a tale of tytemary tally Tyll my thryfte was gone as quyte as a _dally_."
DA PACEM (M31,_d_), literally "give us peace"; here slang for a knife or dagger: cf. modern "Arkansas toothpick" = a bowie knife, "Meat-in-the-pot" = a gun, and similar locutions.
DEAMBULATORY (M37,_c_), a covered walk, cloister, ambulatory.
DELECTABLE, "my talking _delectable_" (M5,_d_), pleasing, delightful.
DEPARTED, DEPART, (_a_) "how I _departed_ them" (N80,_b_).
(_b_) "till death us _depart_" (WS172,_d_), _i.e._ (_a_) left them; (_b_) till death divides, or parts: now corrupted in the Marriage Service into "do part." "We wille _departe_ his clothing."--_Towneley_ _Myst._, p. 228.
DESTRUCTIONS, "_destructions_ to 'member in my heart" (R234,_d_), instructions: part of People's mangled English.
DETECTED, "ne'er of any crime _detected_" (R183,_b_), possibly here = accused.
DEVER, "put me in _dever_" (M24,_d_), duty, service. "Do the _deuer_ that thow hast to done."--_William_ _of Palerne_ (_c._ 1360), 2546.
DEVOSE, "we must _devose_ how that we may" (WH289,_a_), devise.
DIALECT AND JARGON, see Respublica, Wealth and Health.
DINTY, "no _dinty_ to do" (N49,_d_), pleasure, liking: see Dainty.
DISEASE (_passim_), generic for absence of ease--discomfort, annoyance, trouble, difficulty, sorrow, etc.: see other volumes of this series.
DISPECTIBLE, "thou art _dispectible_" (M33,_c_), despicable.
DISPECTUOUS, "_dispectuous_ and odible" (M33,_a_), unsightly: see previous entry.
DIVUM, "_Divum este justlum weste_" (R232,_c_), Prof. Brandl suggests _Divites estis justi fuistis_.