they go by contraries.

DRAFT (DRAUGHT) What gives a cold, cures a cold, and pays the
doctor's bill.

DROP-STITCH A kind of feminine hosiery designed to prevent the men
from paying too much attention to the open-work, "peek-a-boo"
shirt-waist.

DRUM Something noisy, and made to beat.

DRUMMER Something noisy, but impossible to beat. From the Grk.
drimus, meaning sharp. Hence, something sharp, that always carries
its point and sticks whoever it can.

DUST Mud with the juice squeezed out.

DYNAMITE The peroration of an anarchist's argument.

DYSPEPSIA A good foundation for a bad temper


Out of sight, only in mind.--'Ballad of the Blind Beggar.'

E

A word to the wise is useless.


EAGLE The national bird of a Christian country; (the United