Ob POPULAR NAMES 



Du. duif, a dove, but perhaps with better reason referrible 

 to the theve-thorn of Wycliffe's Bible. See THEVE-THORN. 



Kubus csesius, L. 



DEW-GRASS, from its rough dew-besprent blades, the 

 cocksfoot grass, Dactylis glomerata, L. 



DEWTRY, from L. Datura (see Hudibras, iii. c. 1), 



D. Stramonium, L. 



DILL-SEED, from O.N. ditta, lull, being used as a carmi- 

 native to cause children to sleep, 



Anethum graveolens, L. 



DITCH-BUR, called by Turner Dychebur, from its bur- 

 like involucre, and its growth on dykes, not in ditches, as 

 its modern name would lead us to suppose, the dyke being 

 the dry bank that confines the water, 



Xanthium strumarium, L. 



DITTANDER, or DITTANY, apparently a corruption of 

 L. dictammts, the name of a very different plant, but 

 applied to a cress, of which Lyte says (b. v. ch. 66), " It 

 is fondly and unlearnedly called in English Dittany. It 

 were better in following the Douchemen to call it Pepper- 

 wurt." Lepidium latifolium, L. 



DOCK, A.S. docca, which seems to be the same word as 

 Norw. dokka, G. docke, Dan. dukke, a bundle of flax or 

 hemp, a word that corresponds to Fr. bourre, a flock, and 

 O.E. harde or herde, explained by Batman on Bartholomew 

 (c. 160), as "what is called in Latin stupa, and is the 

 clensing of hempe or flexe." The name Dock would seem 

 from this to have been first given to the burdock from 

 the frequent occurrence of its involucres entangled in wool, 

 and to have been transferred from this to other broad- 

 leaved plants. Used absolutely, it means at the present 

 day those of the sorrel kind. See BDRDOCK and HARDOCK. 



Ruinex, L. 



BUR-, see under BURDOCK. 

 CAN-, see under CANDOCK. 



