drawing lots
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~ making a chance decision by using lots (straws or pebbles etc.) that are thrown or drawn
Diospyros lotus
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~ an Asiatic persimmon tree cultivated for its small yellow or purplish-black edible fruit much valued by Afghan tribes
departure lounge
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~ lounge where passengers can await departure
David Low
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~ British political cartoonist (born in New Zealand) who created the character Colonel Blimp (1891-1963)
Damaliscus lunatus
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~ a large South African antelope; considered the swiftest hoofed mammal
disseminated lupus erythematosus
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~ an inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms
discoid lupus erythematosus
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~ a chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40; characterized by an eruption of red lesions over the cheeks and bridge of the nose
Drosophyllum lusitanicum
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~ perennial of dry habitats whose leaves have glandular hairs that secrete adhesive and digestive fluid for capture and digestion of insects; Portugal, southern Spain and Morocco
dasht-e-lut
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~ a desert in eastern Iran
Digitalis lutea
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~ European yellow-flowered foxglove
dwarf lycopod
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~ tufted spikemoss forming loose spreading mats; eastern North America
Dorothea Lynde Dix
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~ United States social reformer who pioneered in the reform of prisons and in the treatment of the mentally ill; superintended women army nurses during the American Civil War (1802-1887)
desert lynx
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~ of deserts of northern Africa and southern Asia
danse macabre
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~ a medieval dance in which a skeleton representing death leads a procession of others to the grave
Decapterus macarellus
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~ small silvery fish; Nova Scotia to Brazil
Douglas MacArthur
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~ United States general who served as chief of staff and commanded Allied forces in the South Pacific during World War II; he accepted the surrender of Japan (1880-1964)
deus ex machina
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~ any active agent who appears unexpectedly to solve an insoluble difficulty
diathermy machine
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~ a medical instrument for local heating of bodily tissues for medical purposes
dialysis machine
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~ a medical instrument for separating substances in solution by unequal diffusion through semipermeable membranes