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Detain
- verb - cause to be slowed down or delayed; "Traffic was delayed by the bad weather"; "she delayed the work that she didn't want to perform"
- deprive of freedom; take into confinement
- stop or halt; "Please stay the bloodshed!"
Devein
- verb - remove the dark dorsal vein of (a shrimp)
Devoid
- adjective - completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning"
Devoir
- noun - formal expression of respect
Dhotis
- noun - a long loincloth worn by Hindu men
Diacid
- - Divalent; -- said of a base or radical as capable of saturating two acid monad radicals or a dibasic acid. Cf. Dibasic, a., and Biacid.
Diapir
- noun - a domed rock formation where a core of rock has moved upward and pierced through the more brittle overlying strata
Dickie
- noun - a man's detachable insert (usually starched) to simulate the front of a shirt
- a small third seat in the back of an old-fashioned two-seater
Diesis
- noun - a character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote
- Double obelisk or double dagger, used in printing to indicate a cross reference.