Chapter Dwile to Dyzemas Day of D by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

incestuous passion. Geel, or Gheel, has long been a famous colony for the insane, who are sent thither from all parts of Europe, and are boarded with the peasantry.

Dynamite (3 syl.). An explosive compound consisting of some absorbent (as infusorial earth) saturated with nitroglycerine. (Greek, dunamis, power.)

Dynamite Saturday January 24th, 1885, when great damage was done to the Houses of Parliament and the Tower of London by explosions of dynamite. The Law-Courts and some other public buildings were to have been attacked by the dynamiters, but happily were well guarded. (See Clan-Na-Gael.)

Dyot Street Bloomsbury Square, London; now called George Street, St. Giles. Made familiar by a well- known song in Bombastes Furioso:

"My lodging is in heather lane,
A parlour that's next to the sky ..."
Rhodes.

Dyser The deities who conduct the souls of the deceased to the palace of Odin. (Scandinavian mythology.)

Dyvour The debtor's badge in Scotland (French, devoir, to own). Bankrupts were compelled to wear an upper garment, half yellow and half brown, with a parti - coloured cap. This law was abolished in the reign of William IV.

Dyzemas Day Tithe day. (Portuguese, dizimas, tithes; Law Latin, decimæ.)