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dab at gardening,” he knows nothing whatever about it. Dabster, 
yy proficient. (A.) S.W. 
} - Daddick, Daddock. Rotten wood. (A.B.) N.W. 
j Daddicky. Of wood, decayed, rotten. (A.B.) N, & S.W. 
Daffy. The usual name in N.W. for the wild Daffodil, 
~ Daglet, Anicicle. (AH) (Village Miners.) N.W. 
E | Dain. Noisome efluyia. (A.B.H.) N.W. 
‘Dainty. Evil-smelling. “That there meat’s ter’ble dainty.” N.W. 
‘Dall. An expletive. (Wilts Tales, p. 50.) N.W. 
Dandy-goslings. (1) Orchis mascula, L., Early Purple Orchis. N.W. 
(2) O. Morio, L., Green-winged Meadow Orchis. Dandy-goshen 
at Salisbury. (English Plant Names.) S.W. 
| *Dane’s Blood. Sambucus Ebulus, L., Dwarf Elder. (Aubrey’s Wilts 
MS.) . 
Dap on. To pounce down on, to take unawares. N. & S.W. 
ib aps. (1) “ He’s the daps of his father,” the very image of him. S.W. 
(2) “He got the daps of his feyther,” he has the same tricks as his 
‘4 iether: N.W. 
D awk, Daak. To stab and tear together; as a cat’s claw does. (Village 
Bye Miners.) (H.) N.W. 
Dead hedge. A wattled fence. (Agric. of Wilts, ch. 10.) N.W. 
Dead year. Often used with possessive pronoun, as “his dead year,” the 
‘a year immediately following his death. (Wilts Arch. Mag., vol. xxii., p. 
111.) A widow should not marry again “afore the dead year’s up.” N.W. 
Dead pen. A sheep pen is occasionally so called in 8. Wilts. 
Deedy. (1) Industrious, busy, as “ He’s a deedy man.” N.W. 
a (2) Intent, as “What bist looking so deedy at ? ” N.W. 
*D ensher. To prepare down-land for cultivation by paring and burning 
the turf. (Aubrey’s Wilts MS.). See Beak. 
Desight. An unsightly object. (H.) N.W. 
Devil-daisy. Matricaria Parthenium, L., Common Feverfew, and An. 
 themis cotula, L., Stinking Camomile, from their daisy-like flowers and 
unpleasant odour. ; S.W. 
/ Jevil-screecher. Cypselus apus, the Common Swift. N. & S.W. 
vil-in-a-hedge. Nigella damascena, Love in a mist. N.W. 
; vil’s-ring. A kind of hairy caterpillar which curls up on being touched. 
(Wild Life, ch. 17.) N.W. 
