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Dioʹne (3 syl.)

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Venus, who sprang from the froth of the sea, after the multilated body of Uʹranus (the sky) had been thrown there by Saturn.        

“So young Dionē, nursed beneath the waves,

And rocked by Nereids in their coral caves … .

Lisped her sweet tones, and tried her tender smiles.”

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Darwin: Economy of Vegetation, ii.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Dinner (Waiting for)
Dinnerless
Dinos
Dint
Diocletian
Diocletian
Diogenes
Diomed’s Horses
Diomedean Swop
Diomedēs or Diomēd
Dione
Dionysius (the younger)
Dionysos
Diophantine Analysis
Dioscuri
Diotrephes
Dip (A)
Diphthera
Diploma
Diplomacy
Diplomatic Cold (A)

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Dione