Chapter Distrait to Do of D by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Dizzy A nickname of Benjamin Disraeli (Lord Beaconsfield) (1805-1881).

Djinnestan' The realm of the djinns or genii of Oriental mythology.

Do A contraction of ditto, which is the Italian détto (said), Latin dictus.
   How do you do? i.e. How do you fare? It should be, How do you du (Anglo-Saxon, dug-an = valere); in Latin, Quomodo vales.
   Well to do. This, again, is not the transitive verb (facre) but the intransitive verb (valere), and means "well to fare." (Anglo-Saxon. dug-an = valere.
   To do him, i.e. cheat or trick a person out of something
   I have done the Jew, i.e. over-reached him. The same as outdo = excel.

Do (to rhyme with go). The first or tonic note of the solfeggio system of music.
   Do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, Italian; ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la, French. The latter are borrowed from a hymn by Paulus Piaconus, addressed to St. John, which Guido, in the eleventh century, used in teaching singing:

"Ut queant laxis, Re -sonare fibris,
Mi -ra gestorum Fa -muli tuorum,
Sol -ve pollutis La -biis reatum."
Sanctë Joannës.

Ut -tered be thy wondrous story,
Re -prehensive though I be,
Me make mindful of thy glory,
Fa -mous son of Zacharee;
Sol -ace to my spirit bring,
La -bouring thy praise to sing.
E.C.B.

   (See WEIZIUS in Heortologio, p. 263.) Le Maire added si (seventeenth century). (See Aretinian Syllables.)