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Halliwell thinks that dowhe, donky, damp, wet, moist, a bath, 

 a dip, is allied to dul. See Dowke. 



" Dump, a deep hole of water, feigned at least to be bottom- 

 less." Yocab. of East AngUa. 



Examples : — 



Black Dub — black pool. 



Tarn Dub — pleonasm. = lake pool. 



Ashdub — ash tree dub. 



Ashdubside — side of ditto. 



Dyance. 



Edge. 



Icel. " egg, acies, a ridge." Cleasby. Dan. eg, edge of sword 

 or knife. Sw. dgg ; Ger. ecTce, as Eolandseck on the Ehine. 



Dut. egge, rand, rug; Elem. rund, hunt; A.-S. ecg, edge. 



Lat. jugum montis ; It. giogo, giogaja, ridge of hills. 



Sp. sierra, cadena de colinas, chain of hills, espina%o, spine, 

 back ; Port, serra, gume, lorda, hills, edge. 



Er. Crete, arete, chain or crest of hills. 



" A.-S. eggian, incitare, acuere, to make keen or sharp ; whence 

 Ger. ecTc, Dut. egge, Sw. cegg, the sharpened extremity, and then 

 applied generally to the extremity, rim, or border." Eichardson. 



Hence to egg on or excite any one to fight, &c. 



" Gr. aK-q, unde a.Kdt,o), acuo; aiguiser, Gall. ; agu%%are, Ital." 

 Ihre. 



Wei. min, rTiyn, ymyl, edge, border, cefn, trum, ridge, back, 

 penrhyn, cape. Gael. ro^V^w, oir. Hie, margin, edge, rim; J.r.rinn, 

 run, rind, ibid. ; Manx dreeym, ridge of a hill. Corn, rhyn, a 

 point of land, a promontory, a hill. Bret, rim, rean. Ibid. 



" Edge, the side of a hill, a ridge." Halliwell. 



" Edge, ege, the highest part of a moorish and elevated tract 

 of ground of considerable extent, generally that lies between two 

 streams, a kind of ridge. So. of Scotland. It is used both by 

 itself and in composition, as Caverton Edge," Jamieson, 



