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Dog-Days
- - A period of from four to six weeks, in the summer, variously placed by almanac makers between the early part of July and the early part of September; canicular days; -- so called in reference to the rising in ancient times of the Dog Star (Sirius) with the sun. Popularly, the sultry, close part of the summer; metaphorically, a period of inactivity.
Dogbanes
- noun - any of several poisonous perennial plants of the genus Apocynum having acrid milky juice and bell-shaped white or pink flowers and a very bitter root
Dogcarts
- noun - a cart drawn by a dog
Dogshits
- noun - obscene words for unacceptable behavior; "I put up with a lot of bullshit from that jerk"; "what he said was mostly bull"
Dogsleds
- noun - a sled pulled by dogs
- travel with a dogsled
Dogtrots
- noun - a steady trot like that of a dog
Dogwoods
- noun - a tree of shrub of the genus Cornus often having showy bracts resembling flowers
- hard tough wood of any dogwood of the genus Cornus; resembles boxwood
Doldrums
- noun - a belt of calms and light winds between the northern and southern trade winds of the Atlantic and Pacific
- a state of inactivity (in business or art etc); "economic growth of less than 1% per year is considered to be economic stagnation"
Dolichos
- noun - genus of chiefly tropical vines often placed in genera Dipogon or Lablab or Macrotyloma