DISH-CRADLE, or CREDLE, a wooden utensil for wooden dishes, much in use in the North of England, commonly made like a cube, sometimes like a parallelipipidon. N.

DISH-MEAT, Spoon-meat. Kent.

DITING, whispering. N.

DITTEN, mortar, to stop up the oven. N.

DIZEN, to dress. N. Hence bedizen'd out, over, awkwardly, or improperly dressed.

DIZE; to dize, to put tow on a distaff, or dress it. N.

DOAGE, wettish, a little. N.

DOAL, money given at a funeral.

See DOLE. N.

DOBBY, a fool, a childish old man. N.

DOCITY, docility, quick comprehension. Glouc.
Dock, a crupper to a saddle. Devon.

DODD; to dodd sheep, to cut the wool away about

the tail.

DODDED SHEEP, sheep without horns. N.

DODDED, DODDERD, or DODDRED WHEAT, red wheat without beards. N.

DODMAN, a shell snail. See HODMADOD.

DOFF, to put off; doff your hat. W.

DOFF, do off, or put off. DOFF your clothes. North. The reverse of DON.

DOG-WHIPPER, a church beadle. North,

DOKE, a deep dint or furrow. Ess. Also a flaw in a boy's marble. Norf.

DOLE, a charitable donation. C. Dole of land, an indefinite part of a field. N.

DOLL, a child's hand. North.

DOLLOURS; the wind dollours, the wind falls or abates. K.

DOMEL, stupid; as stupid as a beetle. Glouc.

DoN, do on, or put on; don your clothes, put on your clothes. Gloue.

DONDINNER, the afternoon. York.

DONNAUGHT, or DONNAT; i. e. Doe-naught, a good for nothing, idle person. York.

DONK, a little wettish, damp. N.
DONKY, an ass. Essex.

DOOL, a long narrow green in a ploughed field, with ploughed land on each side of it; a broad balk, perhaps a dale or valley, because when standing corn grows on both sides of it, it appears like a valley. S. Used also in the North.

Doose, thrifty, careful; also cleanly, though coarsely clothed. N.

DOR, a cockchafer. W.

DORM, to dose. North.

DORNS, door-posts. Exmoor.

DOSOME; a healthy dosome beast, one that will be content with little; also one that thrives or comes on well. Chesh.

Doss, or PESS, a hassock used for kneeling on at church. Norf. Also to toss or push like an ox. DOSION, more properly DOUGH-SION, a vessel for the batter used in making oat-cakes to leaven them. North.

DOTHER, to totter or tremble. N.
DOUCH, to bathe.

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DOUNDRINS, afternoon drinkings, or luncheon. Der.

DOUT, to do out, or put out; as dout the candle, put out the candle. Glouc.

DOUTER, an extinguisher; DoUTERS, instruments like snuffers, for extinguishing the candle without cutting the wick. N.

DOUTLER, an earthen dish or platter. N.

DOVETH, it thaws. Exmoor.

DOVENING, a slumber. N.

Dow, a cake. N.

Down, dead, flat, spiritless. N.

DOWING, healthful. N.

DowL, the devil. Exm. From the Welsh.

DoWLED, dead, flat, vapid, not brisk. N.

DOWLEY, melancholy, lonely.

DoWLEY, dingy, as applied to colour. York.

DOWN-LYING, just going to be brought to bed. N.

Dowse, a blow; a dowse in the chops, a blow in the face. N.

DOYLE; to look a-doyle, to squint. Glouc.

DOYTCH-BACKS, fences. N.

DOZAND; dozand leuake, an old withered look. N.

D'RABBIT IT, a vulgar exclamation or abbreviation of God rabbit it, a foolish evasion of an oath. N.

DRAFF, brewer's grains. Cumb. Or rather the water wherein barley is steeped before it is malted. North.

DRAIT, a team of horses, with the waggon or cart.

N.

DRANG, a narrow lane or passage. Devonsh.
DRANK, lelium, festuca altera. N.

DRAPE, a cow whose milk is dried

row cow.

up.

N.

A far

DRATE; to drate, to drawl out one's words. N.

DRAITING, drawling. A draiting manner of speaking. Derb.

DRAZIL, a dirty slut. S.

DREAD, thread. Exmoor.

DREAM-HOLES, the openings left in the walls of steeples, towers, barns, &c. for the admission of light. Glouc.

DREDGE, a mixture of oats and barley, now little sown. Norf. and Ess.

DREE; to dree, to hold out, to be able to go. Dree also signifies long, tedious beyond expectation: likewise a hard bargainer, spoken of a person. N. In the Exmoor dialect it signifies three. DRIBBLE; a true dribble, a laborious and diligent servant. N.

DRILL; to drill a man on, to decoy or flatter a man into a thing; also to amuse with delays. D. DRINKING, a refreshment between meals, used by ploughmen, who eat a bit of bread and cheese and drink some beer when they come out of the fields, at ten in the morning and six in the evening. Kent.

DROIGHT, a team of horses in a waggon or cart, both collectively taken. North. Often pro

nounced DRAIT.

DROITS, rights. Kent. From the French.

DROPE, a crow. Yorksh.

DROPPINGS, an early apple. York. Called PER

COCKS, in Derbyshire.

DROU, to dry. Exm.

DROUGHT, the passage. West.

DROZE; the candle drozes, the candle melts in burning, from a current of air. Kent.

DROZE, to melt as a candle. N.

DROZEN, fond. N.

DRUMBLEDRANE, a drone; also a humble bee. Ex.

DRUMLEY, muddy, or thick water. N.

DRUMBLE, to drone; i. e. to be sluggish.

DRUMBLED, disturbed. North. The ale is drumbled; i. e. muddy.

DRUVE, a muddy river. Cumb.

DUB, a pool of water.

DUBBED, blunt. Exm.

DUBBLER, a plate. Cumb.

DUCK; to duck, or dook, or dive in the water. Ex.

DUCKING-STOOL. See CUCKING-STOOL.

DUDDS, rags. N. Also clothes. W.

DUDMAN, a scarecrow; also a ragged fellow. W.
DUGGED, or DUDDED, draggle-tailed. Exm.
DULL, hard of hearing. Somersetsh.
DUMB-FOUNDED, perplexed, confounded. N..
DUMBLE, a woody valley. North.

DUMBLEDORE, the brown cock-chafer. Cornish.

DUMBLEDORE, a humble, or bumble-bee. W.