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Dimmer
- adjective - a rheostat that varies the current through an electric light in order to control the level of illumination
- lacking clarity or distinctness;
- lacking in light; not bright or harsh; "a dim light beside the bed"; "subdued lights and soft music"
- made dim or less bright; "the dimmed houselights brought a hush of anticipation"; "dimmed headlights"; "we like dimmed lights when we have dinner"
- offering little or no hope; "the future looked black"; "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge; "took a dim view of things"
- slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students"
Dinner
- noun - a party of people assembled to have dinner together; "guests should never be late to a dinner party"
- the main meal of the day served in the evening or at midday; "dinner will be at 8"; "on Sundays they had a large dinner when they returned from church"
Dipper
- noun - a cluster of seven stars in Ursa Minor; at the end of the dipper's handle is Polaris
- a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major
- a ladle that has a cup with a long handle
- small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage
- small stocky diving bird without webbed feet; frequents fast-flowing streams and feeds along the bottom
Dister
- - To banish or drive from a country.
Dither
- noun - act nervously; be undecided; be uncertain
- an excited state of agitation; "he was in a dither"; "there was a terrible flap about the theft"
- make a fuss; be agitated
- Vacillate
Docker
- noun - a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port
Dodder
- noun - a leafless annual parasitic vine of the genus Cuscuta having whitish or yellow filamentous stems; obtain nourishment through haustoria
- walk unsteadily; "small children toddle"
Dodger
- noun - a shifty deceptive person
- Small handbill
- small oval cake of corn bread baked or fried (chiefly southern)
Doffer
- - A revolving cylinder, or a vibrating bar, with teeth, in a carding machine, which doffs, or strips off, the fiber from the cards.