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Dubby. Oily. N.W. 
D ck’s frost. A very slight white frost. (Gamekeeper at Home,ch.7.) N.W. 
; ) dge. (1) A bundle of anything used to stop a hole. N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) 
» *(2) “Peg the dudge,” tap the barrel. (A.B.H.) : 
Dumble. Stupid, dull (A-B.H.); also Domel, Dummel, ete. N.W. 
Dumbledore, or Dumble. The Humble-bee. (A.B.) N. & S.W. 
Dump. (1) 2. “A treacle dump,” a kind of coarse sweetmeat. S.W. 
(2) v. To blunt, as “I’ve dumped my scythe against a stone.” N.W. 
nch. (1) Deaf (A.B.); now rarely so used. N. & S.W. 
(2) Stupid, heavy: now the common use. “ The wapses gets dunch” in 
late autumn. N. & S.W. 
(8) Of bread, heavy. (Wild Life, ch. 7.) N. & S.W. 
Dunchy is frequently used in S. Wilts instead of Dunch, but usually 
means deaf. ; 
Dunch-dumpling. A hard-boiled flour-and-water-dumpling. (A.B.) N.W. 
Dunch-nettle, Dunse-nettle. Lamium purpureum, L., Red Dead- 
‘ nettle. S.W. 
D ung-pot. A dung-cart (D.); rarely Dum-put. See Pot. N. &38.W. 
% ‘Dup. To dup the door,” to open it. (Lansd. MS.) Obsolete. 
4 1a STASS. Aftergrass (D.); Lammas grass as well as aftermath. S.W. 
*Edge-growed. Of barley, both growing and ripening irregularly. (D.) 
Ef et, Evet. Lissotriton punctatus, the Newt. (A.) N. & S.W. 
Egegs-and-Bacon, Linaria vulgaris, Mill., Yellow Toadflax. N.W. 
*Blet. Fuel. (d.) Ollit. (Aubrey’s Wilts MS.) N.W., obsolete. 
; Helm, or Yelm. (1) » To make up “elms.” (Wild Life, 
ch. 6.) N. & S.W. 
Be) (2) x. (Almost invariably pl., “elms” being the usual form.) Small 
_ bundles or handfuls of threshed straw, damped and laid out straight for the 
_ thatcher’s use. See Wilts Arch. Mag., vol. xxii., p. 111. According to 
_ Prof, Skeat yelm, seldom now used in Wilts, is the correct form, and it is 
not connected with hawlm, but from A.S. gilm, a handful. N. & S.W. 
Eltrot. Heracleum Sphondylium, L., Cow-parsnip. S.W. 
Emmet. An Ant. “Ant ” igs never used in Wilts. N.W. 
E) (1) pl. termination, as Housen, houses ; Hipsen, rose-berries ; 
 Keyn, keys; ote. N. & S.W. 
(2) adj. term., as Harnen, made of horn; Stwonen, of stone ; 
’ Elmin, of elm wood, etc, | 6“ Boughten bread,” baker’s bread, as 
