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In the English alphabet, the fourth letter, and the third consonant or articulation. \u2014 Webster, 1882<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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“Daisy Deane”<\/p><\/div>\n

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“Dakota Land”<\/p><\/div>\n

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“Darling Nellie Gray”<\/p><\/div>\n

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“De Boatmen’s Dance”<\/p><\/div>\n

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Declaration of Independence<\/p><\/div>\n

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depot \/ station<\/p><\/div>\n

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De Smet bird’s-eye view<\/p><\/div>\n

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De Smet Cemetery<\/p><\/div>\n

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Father Pierre Jean De Smet<\/p><\/div>\n

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De Smet history<\/p><\/div>\n

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De Smet today<\/p><\/div>\n

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dickcissel \/ dickie-bird<\/p><\/div>\n

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dictionary<\/p><\/div>\n

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dipper<\/p><\/div>\n

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“Dixie”<\/p><\/div>\n

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Dolly Varden<\/p><\/div>\n

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Do not trust him, gentle lady<\/p><\/div>\n

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“Don’t Leave the Farm, Boys”<\/p><\/div>\n

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Hattie Dorchester<\/p><\/div>\n

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dovekie<\/p><\/div>\n

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dove-in-the-window<\/p><\/div>\n

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“Down in ‘Alabam \/ The Old Gray Mare”<\/p><\/div>\n

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“Doxology”<\/p><\/div>\n

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dragon-fly \/ dragonfly<\/p><\/div>\n

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drop the handkerchief<\/p><\/div>\n

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dug out \/ dugout<\/p><\/div>\n

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dumpling<\/p><\/div>\n

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Little Georgie Dwight<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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daisy<\/strong> \u2013 A plant of the genus Bellis<\/em>, of several varieties.<\/p>\n

Dakota \/ Dakota Territory<\/strong><\/p>\n

damper<\/strong> \u2013 That which damps or checks; as, a valve or movable plate in the flue or other part of a stove, furnace, &c., used to check or regulate the draught of air.<\/p>\n

dance<\/strong> \u2013 To leap or move in measured steps, or to a musical accompaniment; to go through, either alone or in company with others, with a regulated succession of movements, to the sound of music.<\/p>\n

dandle<\/strong> \u2013 To move up and down in affectionate play, as an infant; to caress; to fondle.<\/p>\n

dank<\/strong> \u2013 Damp; moist; humid; wet.<\/p>\n

darkey \/ darkie<\/strong> \u2013 A negro.<\/p>\n

dapper<\/strong> \u2013 Little and active; nimble; lively; neat in dress or appearance; spruce; smart.<\/p>\n

dapple<\/strong> \u2013 Marked with spots of different shades of color; spotted; variegated; as, a dapple <\/em>horse. One of the spots on a dappled animal. To variegate with spots; to spot.<\/p>\n

darn<\/strong>, sewing \u2013 To mend, as a rent or hole, by imitating the texture of the cloth or stuff with yarn or thread and a needle; to sew together with yarn or thread.<\/p>\n

darts<\/strong>, sewing \u2013 Folds or tucks coming to a point, sewn into fabric to take in ease and provide shape.<\/p>\n

dast<\/strong> \u2013 Dare.<\/p>\n

David<\/strong>, horse<\/p>\n

dawdle<\/strong> \u2013 To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle.<\/p>\n

Andrew Day family<\/strong> \u2013 Almanzo’s uncle, married to Sarah Wilder.<\/p>\n

John Wesley Day family<\/strong> \u2013 Almanzo’s uncle, sister of Almanzo’s mother.<\/p>\n

“Dearest May”<\/strong> \u2013 song<\/p>\n

debate<\/strong> \u2013 Contention in words or arguments; discussion for the purpose of elucidating truth; strife in argument between persons of different opinions; dispute; controversy; as, the debates in Parliament or in Congress.<\/p>\n

deer<\/strong> \u2013 A ruminant quadruped of the genus Cercus, of several species, the males of which have branched horns. The common American deer is C. Virginianus.<\/p>\n

delaine<\/strong> \u2013 A fabric for ladies\u2019 dress-goods. The original French fabric was all wool. The English and American delaines are composed of cotton and wool, or worsted.<\/p>\n

delirious<\/strong> \u2013 Having a delirium; wandering in mind; light-headed; insane; demented; as, a delirious<\/em> patient; delirious <\/em>fancies.<\/p>\n

denim<\/strong> \u2013 A coarse cotton drilling used for overalls, &c.<\/p>\n

De-old Jim riber, I float down<\/strong>, see IT WILL NEVER DO TO GIVE IT UP SO<\/p>\n

deportment<\/strong> \u2013 Manner of deporting or demeaning one\u2019s self; carriage; especially, manner of acting with respect to the courtesies and duties of life; behavior; demeanor; conduct.<\/p>\n

Des Moines, Iowa<\/strong> \u2013 Capital of Iowa and county seat of Polk County.<\/p>\n

desolate<\/strong> \u2013 Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; as, a desolate <\/em>isle; a desolate <\/em>wilderness. Laid waste; in a ruinous condition; neglected; destroyed. Left alone; solitary; without a companion; lonely; afflicted.<\/p>\n

despot<\/strong> \u2013 1. One who exercises or possesses absolute power over another; a master; a lord; especially, a sovereign invested with absolute power. 2. One who rules regardless of a constitution or laws; a tyrant.<\/p>\n

devil<\/strong> \u2013 1. The evil one, Satan, represented in the Scriptures as the traducer, father of lies, temper, &c. 2. To invest with the character of a devil. Resembling, or pertaining to the devil; diabolical; wicked in the extreme.<\/p>\n

“The Devil’s Dream \/ The Devil’s Hornpipe”<\/strong> \u2013 song<\/p>\n

dew<\/strong> \u2013 Moisture from the atmosphere condensed by cool bodies upon their surfaces, particularly at night.<\/p>\n

diagramming sentences<\/strong> \u2013 System developed in the mid-19th century by Alonzo Reid and Brainerd Kellogg of Brooklyn, New York, by which a parse tree (sentence diagram) is used to pictorially represent words and word-group functions in sentences.<\/p>\n

diary<\/strong> \u2013 An account made day by day of the events or transactions of the day; a journal; a register of daily occurrences; a black book dated for the record of daily memoranda; as, a diary <\/em>of the weather.<\/p>\n

diligently<\/strong> \u2013 In a diligent manner; with industry or assiduity; not carelessly; not negligently.<\/p>\n

dinner horn \/ dinner-horn<\/strong> \u2013 Instrument used to summon distant workers to meals.<\/p>\n

dish-pan \/ dishpan \/ wash-pan<\/strong> \u2013 Vessel used to hold water for washing.<\/p>\n

disparage<\/strong> \u2013 To dishonor by a comparison with what is inferior; to lower in rank or estimation; to under value; to bring reproach on; to vilify; to debase.<\/p>\n

divorce<\/strong> \u2013 To dissolve, either wholly or partially, the marriage contract of; to separate by divorce.<\/p>\n

Docia Ingalls Forbes<\/strong> (1846-1918) \u2013 Charles Ingalls’ sister.<\/p>\n

doctor<\/strong> \u2013 One duly licensed to practice medicine; a physician; one whose occupation is to treat diseases.<\/p>\n

doe see doe<\/strong> (do-si-do) \u2013 Basic dance step in which dancers walk around each other without turning.<\/p>\n

dog<\/strong> \u2013 A quadruped of the genus Canis <\/em>(C. familiaris<\/em>). There are upwards of thirty enumerated varieties, as the mastiff, the hound, the spaniel, the shepherd\u2019s dog, the terrier, the harrier, the bloodhound, &c. The dog is distinguished for intelligence, docility, and attachment to man, above all other of the inferior animals.<\/p>\n

doggedly<\/strong> \u2013 In a dogged manner; sullenly; sourly; morosely; with obstinate resolution.<\/p>\n

doggerel<\/strong> \u2013 Low-styled and irregular verse; mean or undignified poetry. \u201cThe ill-spelt lines of doggerel in which he expressed his reverence for the brave sufferers.\u201d \u2013Maccaulay.<\/p>\n

doll<\/strong> \u2013 A puppet or baby for a child; an image in the form of a child, or sometimes of an adult, for the amusement of little girls.<\/p>\n

“Don’t Go Out Tonight, My Darling”<\/strong> \u2013 song<\/p>\n

do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si, do \/ do ra me fa sol la see do <\/strong> \u2013 Do is 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 names of musical tones. In England and America the same syllables are used as a scale-pattern, while the tones in respect to absolute pitch are named by the first seven letters of the alphabet. Solfeggio is the system of ranging the scale by the names do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si, by which singing is taught.<\/p>\n

dotted Swiss<\/strong> \u2013 Sheer cotton fabric embellished with small, raised dots.<\/p>\n

dough<\/strong> \u2013 Paste of bread; a mass of flour or meal, moistened and kneaded, but not yet baked.<\/p>\n

doughnut<\/strong> \u2013 A small, roundish cake, made of flour, eggs, and sugar, moistened with milk or with water, and fried in lard.<\/p>\n

draft \/ draught<\/strong>, stove \u2013 A current of air.<\/p>\n

draw<\/strong> \u2013 A terrain feature formed by two parallel ridged with low ground (the draw) between them.<\/p>\n

drawers \/ underdrawers<\/strong> \u2013 A close undergarment worn on the lower limbs.<\/p>\n

dress<\/strong> \u2013 To prepare for use; to fit for any use; to get ready; as, to dress a slain animal; to dress food.<\/p>\n

dressing<\/strong> \u2013 The stuffing of fowls, pigs, &c.; forcemeat.<\/p>\n

dressmaker \/ dressmaking<\/strong> \u2013 A maker of gowns, or similar garments.<\/p>\n

drift<\/strong> \u2013 That which is driven, forced, or urged along; a mass of any thing carried onward together; as, a mass of matter which has been driven or forced together into its present position; as a drift of snow, of ice, of sand, and the like.<\/p>\n

dripping<\/strong> \u2013 The fat which falls from meat in roasting.<\/p>\n

drum<\/strong> \u2013 An instrument of music, consisting of a hollow cylinder or hemisphere, upon which a piece of vellum is stretched, to be beaten with a stick; – the common instrument of marking time in martial music.<\/p>\n

drumstick<\/strong> \u2013 Any thing resembling a drumstick in form, as the upper joint of the leg of a fowl.<\/p>\n

duck<\/strong> \u2013 A water-fowl of the family Anatida and order Anseres. The fresh-water ducks are of the sub-family Anatin\u00e6. The common domestic duck is the Anas beschas<\/em>; the wood-duck, A. spons<\/em>.<\/p>\n

ducking<\/strong> \u2013 To duck is to dip or plunge in water and suddenly withdraw; as, to duck a seaman. It differs from dive, which signifies to plunge one\u2019s self.<\/p>\n

dump<\/strong> \u2013 To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it up; as, to dump sand, coal, &c.<\/p>\n

dusk \/ dusky<\/strong> \u2013 Imperfect obscurity; a middle degree between light and darkness; twilight; as, the dusk of the evening. Dusky means partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; as, a dusky valley.<\/p>\n

dust devil<\/strong> \u2013 Formed in updraughts of air from localized heating in dry conditions, and begin to whirl when the warm air is funnelled through an obstruction or over a patch of particularly rough ground. They vary in size from the smallest and most short-lived of wisps to intense dusty vortices capable of causing minor damage.<\/p>\n

Dutch<\/strong> \u2013 The people of the Netherlands, collectively.<\/p>\n

Daniel Dwight family<\/strong> \u2013 De Smet family whose children attended the Wilkin School taught by Laura Ingalls.<\/p>\n

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