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DAWDIE, _s._ a dirty slovenly female.
_To_ DAWT, DAUT, to fondle; to caress; pet; to dote upon.
DAWTIE, _s._ a favourite; a darling.
DAWt.i.t, _part. pa._ doted; fondled; caressed.
DAYWERK, DAWERK, _s._ a day's work.
_To_ DEE, _v. n._ to die.
DEAN, DEN, _s._ hollow with sloping banks on both sides; a small valley.
_To_ DEAVE, DEEVE, _v. n._ to deafen.
DEDE-THRAW, _s._ in the agonies of death.
DEED-DAIL, _s._ the board on which the dead are laid before being coffined.
'DEED, _adj._ indeed.
DEEIN', _v. n._ dying.
DEEVIL, _s._ the devil.
DEIL, DEEL, _s._ the devil.
DEIL'S-BUCKIE, _s._ a wicked imp.
DEIS, _s._ the upper part of a hall, where the floor was raised, and a canopy erected over it, as for festivals, etc.
DELIERET, _adj._ delirious.
_To_ DEMENT, _v. n._ to deprive of reason.
DEMENTED, _adj._ insane; unsettled in mind; crazy.
DEN, _s._ a hollow in a hill or mountain.
_To_ DEPONE, _v. n._ to testify on oath.
_To_ DEVALL, DEVALD, _s._ to cease; to intermit.
_To_ DEVE, _v. n._ to stupify with a noise.
DEUCHANDORACH, DEUCHANDORIS, _s._ a drink taken at the door before departing.
DICHT, DYCHT, _v._ to wipe.
DIDNA, did not.
DIKE, d.y.k.e, _s._ a wall either of mud or stones.
DING, _v. a._ to beat; to drive.
DINNA, do not.
_To_ DINLE, _v. n._ to tremble.
DIRD, _s._ a stroke.
DIRDUM, _s._ an uproar.
DIRK, a dagger.
_To_ DIRLE, _v. a._ to tingle.
DIRL, _s._ a vibration.
DIRT, _s._ excrement.
DIRTIN, _adj._ mean; shabby; contemptible.
DISNA, DOESNA, does not.
DISJASKET, _part. pa._ having a dejected or downcast look.
_To_ DISPARAGE, _v. n._ to despise on account of want of rank.
_To_ DISPLENISH, _v. a._ to disfurnish.
DIV, _v. a._ do. _I div_, I do.
DIVET, DIFFAT, DIVOT, _s._ a thin oblong turf used for covering cottages and mud walls.
DIZEN, _s._ dozen.
DOCHTER, DOUGHTYR, _s._ daughter.
DOCKEN, DOKEN, _s._ the dock; an herb.
DODDY, DADDIT, _adj._ dest.i.tute of horns; bald.
DOGGIT, _adj._ stubborn.
DOIN, _v. n._ doing.
DOIt.i.t, DOITED, _adj._ stupid lack of mental activity.
