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Name	Term description
Name D and S	Term description Disposition and Settlement
Name D D	Term description Doctor of Divinity
Name D, dau, daur	Term description Daughter
Name Dagmaker	Term description Mitten maker (usually for fishermen)
Name Damasker	Term description One who works with damask cloth
Name Dame	Term description Title of lady, usually married or widowed
Name Dancing-master	Term description One who teaches dancing
Name Davach	Term description A measurement of land, amounting to about four ploughgates.
Name Day labourer/day-labourer	Term description Worker paid by the day
Name DBE	Term description Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
Name DCh	Term description Doctor of Surgery (Doctor Chirurgiae)
Name DCM	Term description Distinguished Conduct Medal
Name DD	Term description Doctor of Divinity
Name Deacon	Term description Chief official of craft or trade
Name Deacon convener of trades	Term description Chief official of craft or trade
Name Deacon convener/deacon-convener	Term description Chief official of craft or trade
Name Deacon warner	Term description A deacon was the chief official of a craft or trade, or a lay official in the church; a warner was an official who summoned a congregation to church, or members of a court or council to a meeting
Name Dean	Term description Chief official of craft or trade, head of a university faculty, leader of body of lawyers
Name Dean of guild	Term description Chief official of craft or trade
Name Dec.	Term description Deceased
Name Decay	Term description Pulmonary tuberculosis
Name Decree or decreet	Term description The final judgement or sentence of a court.
Name Decreet of cognitionis causa	Term description The pronouncement of a court ascertaining the amount of a debt to be paid out of the deceaseds estate by the heirs to a creditor; upon obtaining this, the creditor may be confirmed as executor of the estate.
Name Deed	Term description In the most usual Scottish sense, a formal written document in a set form which gives the terms of an agreement, contract or obligation; for practical purposes, any document which isn't a sasine or concerned with the transfer of heritable property.
Name Deed of S	Term description Deed of Settlement