Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation dishonorable discharge
  • abbreviation Latin Divinitatis Doctor (Doctor of Divinity)
  • abbreviation due date

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An abbreviation of days' date (days after date) used in commercial writings: as, to make out a bill payable 30 d/d (30 days after date).
  • noun An abbreviation of Doctor of Dental Surgery, a degree conferred upon the graduates of a dental college.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun informal A Roman numeral representing thousand (1000).
  • initialism developmentally disabled
  • initialism designated driver
  • initialism Discharged Dead - official designation of a sailor killed in combat
  • initialism Dual Diagnosis
  • initialism Demand Draft
  • initialism Deficit Disorder
  • abbreviation US, navy destroyer, a type of warship
  • abbreviation a bra size
  • abbreviation Internet direct download

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a doctor's degree in religion

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  • Isn't this missing a line?

    August 6, 2010

  • Nope! It's not a limerick, despite initial appearances, just a plain old quatrain.

    August 6, 2010

  • There once was a limerick about Fiddle

    that seemed to be missing its middle.

    But to yarb it was plain--

    the poem's a quatrain--

    and that was the answer to this riddle.

    August 6, 2010

  • Ahhh. I like it better as a limerick!

    August 7, 2010