130 Contributions towards a Wiltshire Glossary. 



Deaf-nettle. Lamium album, L., The Dead Nettle. S.W. 



Deai-liut. A rotten or empty nut. Z)ea/= useless, inactive. S.W. 



Dee-gee. Mr. Wllliam Cunnington writes us as follows : — " ' Twas a Dee-gee ' 

 was the name of a kind of dance, which our old nurse taught us as children, 

 mostly performed by moving sideways and knocking the feet together." 

 This would seem to be a survival of the Elizabethan heydeguies. See 

 Spenser, Shepherd's Calendar, June. 



Devil's-ring. Eulvet is a misprint for Huloet. 



Dew-beater. Add :— One who turns out his toes {Slow). S.W. 



Dew-pond. See Mist-pond. 

 Dibbs. Add:-^.yj. 



Dicky-birds. Fumaria officinalis, L., Common Fumitory. S.W, 



Diggled. ^rfrf:-*DiggleS, plentiful {Slow). S.W. 



Dog, how beest ? This phrase seems worth noting. At Clyffe Pypard 



a person complaining of loneliness, or the want of sociability or kindness 



amongst the neighbours, will say, " There isn't one as '11 so much as look 



in and say, ' Dog, how beest P ' " 



Dogged, ^rfrf:— S.W. 

 Doner. Add-.—^.-w. 



Doom. Add: — Dum. At Warminster applied only to the sides of a 



door-frame. S.W. 



Double. " He is a double man," i.e., bent double with age or infirmity. S.W. 



Down-arg. Add-.—^.'SR. 



Down-dacioUS. Audacious. " She bo a right down-dacious young 

 faggot." S.W. 



*Down-haggard. Disconsolate {Slow). S.W. 



Dowse. Add :— S.W. 



Drasbel. Add-. — S.W. The correct term for a flail is a drashel, but " a 

 pair o' drashelh " is more commonly used, of, " a pair of trucks," a 

 barred hand-cart on two wheels. 



*Drattle. Much talk {Slow). S.W. 



Draught. A cart-shaft {Slow). S.W. 



Drave. " I be slaving an' draving for he, night and day." N. & S.W. 



Drawn, Drawing. Add -. — " Many of the meadows on either length abound 



in ditches and ' drawns.' " — Fishing Gazette, 18th July, 1891, p. 40, col. 2. 

 " I . . . . descried three birds, standing quite still by the margin of 



a flooded ' drawing.' " — Wilts Arch, Mag., xxi., 229. 



