Chapter Dickens to Direct of D by Soule's Synonymes

3. Engage cursorily, enter slightly.

4. Dive, plunge, duck, pitch, immerse one’s self.

Diplomacy, n.

1. Art of negotiating, negotiation, international business.

2. Artful management, tact, indirection.

Diplomat, Diplomate, n. See diplomatist.

Diplomatist, n. Negotiator, diplomat, expert in international affairs.

Dipper, n.

1. Plunger, ladler, etc. See verb.

2. Immersionist, dunker, tunker, tumbler.

3. Charles’ Wain, Great Bear, Ursa Major, Cleaver.

4. Water-craw, water-pyet, water-crake, water-ouzel (Cinclus aquaticus).

Dire, a. Dreadful, dismal, fearful, direful, shocking, terrible, horrid, horrible, awful, terrific, tremendous, portentous, gloomy, woful, disastrous, calamitous, destructive, cruel, inexorable, implacable.

Direct, a.

1. Straight, in a right line, not crooked.

2. From father to son.

3. Plain, express, categorical, unambiguous, not equivocal.

4. Open, sincere, ingenuous, frank, out-spoken.

5. (A stron.) In the order of the signs, advancing eastward.

Direct, v. a.

1. Aim, point, cast, turn.