DeDanaan

Doras : (Gaeilge-Irish) pron. “DUH-ruhs”
1. Door; doorway
2. Opening

Donn : (Gaeilge-Irish) pron. “doun”
1. Brown (color)
2. Brown-haired
3. Noble (prince)
4. Made of hard, brown timber; heartwood

Dlí : (Gaeilge-Irish) pron. “dlee”
1. Law
2. Binding principle
3. Divine precept
4. Branch of law
5. Scientific principle
6. Accepted rule of action
7. Study, practice of law
8. Litigation
9. Lawful right; tribute

Dílis : (Gaeilge-Irish) pron. “DEE-lish”
1. Own; proper; what rightfully belongs to someone
2. Genuine; reliable; solid
3. Loyal; faithful
4. Dear

Dentrassis : Sometimes found employed on Vogon Constructor Fleets, the Dentrassis are The best cooks and The best drink mixers, and they don’t give a wet slap about anything else. They’ll usually help Hitchhikers aboard, partly because they like the company, but mostly because it annoys the Vogons.

Dent, Arthur Philip : A hapless six-foot tall ape descendant who was rescued from the Earth by Ford Prefect just before it was destroyed by a Vogon Constructor Fleet to make way for a hyperspace bypass. Things got really confusing when he discovered a girl he once met at a party had absconded with a two-headed alien on a stolen spaceship. This was just the prelude to a string of very strange events, throughout which he would be utterly unable to get a cup of tea.

Deep Thought : Quite simply, the second greatest computer ever created. Activated by programmers Lunkwill and Fook, Deep Thought’s purpose was to produce an answer. No ordinary answer, mind you, but the most important answer ever… the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything. The philosophers Majikthise and Vroomfrondel attempted to intervene in the calculations at this point, but Deep Thought’s circuits were committed to finding this answer, which took seven and a half million years to complete. In time, Deep Thought imparted the answer to descendants of the original programmers, Loonquawl and Phouchg. The answer, of course, was 42. Baffled by this outcome, the programmers were informed that the question was too vague and that not even Deep Thought could extrapolate it. Deep Thought would, however, design the computer that could, and that computer was so vast that organic life became part of it’s matrix. The new supercomputer was known as the planet Earth. Sadly, though, the planet-computer was demolished by the Vogons a mere five minutes before it’s calculations were complete. The Mice were utterly perturbed, but that’s another story for another entry.

Dearg : (Gaeilge-Irish) pron. “DYAR-uhg”
1. Red
2. Glowing; lit
3. Raw
4. Redden; blush

Dé : (Gaeilge-Irish) pron. “day*”
1. Of god; of the gods
2. Smoke, puff; breath
3. Of life
4. Glimmer