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51Dismal Swamp — The Great Dismal Swamp located near Virginia and North Carolina The Dismal Swamp located in Middlesex County New Jersey The Dismal Swamp in Tasmania This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an …
52dismal trade — the arranging of funerals for payment Literally, dismal means dreary: There was no reason to believe the bigvolume concerns will demonstrate a more tender regard for the pocket books of their customers than has traditionally been the… …
53Dismal Swamp — a swamp in SE Virginia and NE North Carolina. ab. 30 mi. (48 km) long; ab. 600 sq. mi. (1500 sq. km). * * * or Great Dismal Swamp Wetland region, southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina, U.S. Despite much lumbering and widespread… …
54Dismal Science — A term coined by Scottish writer, essayist and historian Thomas Carlyle to describe the discipline of economics. The term dismal science was inspired by T. R. Malthus gloomy prediction that population would always grow faster than food, dooming… …
55Dismal Swamp — or Great Dismal Swamp geographical name swamp SE Virginia & NE North Carolina between Chesapeake Bay & Albemarle Sound about 37 miles (60 kilometers) long, 10 miles (16 kilometers) wide …
56dismal science — noun Economics or the field of political economy. [N]ot a gay science, but a rueful which finds the secret of this universe in supply and demand . . . a dreary, desolate and, indeed, quite abject and distressing one; what we might call, by way of …
57Dismal Swamp — Sp Niūrióji pélkė Ap Dismal Swamp L JAV (Virdžinija) …
58Dismal Swamp — /ˌdɪzməl ˈswɒmp/ (say .dizmuhl swomp) noun a marshy grassland area on the Atlantic coast of the US, in south eastern Virginia and north eastern North Carolina. About 60 km long, 16 to 24 km wide. Also, Great Dismal Swamp …
59dismal jemmy — noun see dismal jimmy …
60dismal — Synonyms and related words: Cassandra like, Cassandran, Cassandrian, Quaker colored, acier, affecting, afflictive, affording no hope, apathetic, arid, ashen, ashy, barren, bitter, black, blah, blank, bleak, bloodless, blue, canescent,… …
