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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary -- Volume DE

To climb from the brink of Fleet Ditch by a dizzy ladder.
Macaulay.

3. Without distinct thought; unreflecting; thoughtless; heedless. "The dizzy multitude." Milton.

Diz"zy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dizzied (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dizzying.] To make dizzy or giddy; to give the vertigo to; to confuse.

If the jangling of thy bells had not dizzied thy understanding.
Sir W. Scott.

Djerˇeed" (?) or Djerˇrid" (?), n. [F. djerid, fr. Ar. See Jereed.] (a) A blunt javelin used in military games in Moslem countries. (b) A game played with it. [Written also jereed, jerrid, etc.]

Djin"nee (?), n.; pl. Jjinn (?) or Djinns (?). See Jinnee, Jinn.

Do. (?), n. An abbreviation of Ditto.

Do (dō), n. (Mus.) A syllable attached to the first tone of the major diatonic scale for the purpose of solmization, or solfeggio. It is the first of the seven syllables used by the Italians as manes of musical tones, and replaced, for the sake of euphony, the syllable Ut, applied to the note C. In England and America the same syllables are used by many as a scale pattern, while the tones in respect to absolute pitch are named from the first seven letters of the alphabet.

Do (d), v. t. or auxiliary. [imp. Did (dĭd); p. p. Done (ducr/n); p. pr. & vb. n. Doing (d"ĭng). This verb, when transitive, is formed in the indicative, present tense, thus: I do, thou doest (d"ĕst) or dost (dŭst), he does (dŭz), doeth (d"ĕth), or doth (dŭth); when auxiliary, the second person is, thou dost. As an independent verb, dost is obsolete or rare, except in poetry. "What dost thou in this world?" Milton. The form doeth is a verb unlimited, doth, formerly so used, now being the auxiliary form. The second pers, sing., imperfect tense, is didst (dĭdst), formerly didest (dĭd"ĕst).] [AS. dōn; akin to D. doen, OS. duan, OHG. tuon, G. thun, Lith. deti, OSlav. dēti, OIr. dénim I do, Gr. τιθεναι to put, Skr. dhā, and to E. suffix -dom, and prob. to L. facere to do, E. fact, and perh. to L. -dere in some compounds, as addere to add, credere to trust. √65. Cf. Deed, Deem, Doom, Fact, Creed, Theme.]


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