n. (Zool.) The American black-throated bunting (Spiza Americana). [ 1913 Webster ]
n. or interj. [ Perh. a contr. of the dim. devilkins. ] The devil. [ A vulgar euphemism. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
I can not tell what the dickens his name is. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i. & t. To negotiate a dicker; to barter. [ U.S. ] “Ready to dicker. and to swap.” Cooper.
n. [ Also daker, dakir; akin to Icel. dekr, Dan. deger, G. decher; all prob. from LL. dacra, dacrum, the number ten, akin to L. decuria a division consisting of ten, fr. decem ten. See Ten. ]
A dicker of cowhides. Heywood. [ 1913 Webster ]
For peddling dicker, not for honest sales. Whittier. [ 1913 Webster ]
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prop. n. A genus of tree ferns of temperate Australasia having bipinnatifid or tripinnatifid fronds and usually marginal sori; in some classification systems it is placed in the family
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