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Dash. ‘To cut a dash;” that is, to 
make a figure. ¢. 
Dash-an-darras, the stirrup glass. c. 
The old custom, ‘¢ to speed the parting 
guest” (his foot in the séirrup) with a 
dram, still obtains in the west of Corn- 
wall. 
~,Daver, to, tofude like a flower. D. c. 
[Iat. cadaver. 
' Davered, faded, withered, 0D. ¢. 
Daweock, a szlly fellow. pv. Its op- 
posite is bawcock, now disused in Devon. 
“Good bawcock, bate thy rage.” 
*¢ The king’s a baweock, anda heart of gold.” 
Pistol, in Henry V. 
Deef, rotten, corrupted. “A deef 
(or deaf) nut.” c, 
Delzeed, a fir cone: Deal seed. “’Tes 
wor. all the wurld ikea DELZEED.” C. 
De’m! You slut. Exm. 
Good den, good e’en; good evening ? 
Mercut. 
woman !” . 
Nurse. §* Is it good een ?” 
Rom. and Ful. vd. 
Dere, to, to hurry or frighten @ child, 
Exm. 
Dewberry. Not used now for ras- 
berry or gooseberry, but preserved in-a 
reproach to a micher; often repeated by 
boys :—“ Blackberry micher! Dewberry 
snail !” 
Dibhben, a fillet of veal. 
Diddling, tatling. 
diddling.”  c. 
Dildrums. ‘** To tell dildrums and 
-Buckingham-jenkins ;” that is, to talk 
strungely and out of the way. This is 
Exmoorian language : Lonce heard the ex- 
pression at South Molton. Buckingham- 
jenkins is conjectured.to be an allusion to 
some old incredible story or ballad cons 
cerning a Jenkins of Buckingham. 
Dimmet, the duskof the evening. Exm. 
Dinder, thunder. Exm. 
Disel, thistle. c. Drashel, thistle. v. 
Dishwasher, diswash, a water wagtail. 
rn. 
Dizzen, dozen. OD. 
Do, <o be do, to be done. 
Doan, wel ; 
Miiles. a 8 
Doattie, to, fo nod the Read in sleep 
while sitting up. N. D. 
Dock, to, ** to dock a horse ;” that is, 
6‘ God ye good e’en, fair gentle- 
D. 
“6 She is always a 
Ms Dinagei it 
dump bread. bd. Dean 
_ to cut off somejoints of the tail. c. 
Dock, a crupper of a saddle. c. 
Documenting, lecturing. N. D. 
Doil, to, to dwall, to talk distractedly, 
er: foolishly. ‘¢ To tell deil;” that is, 
Devonshire and Cornwall Vocabulary. 
[June I, 
to talk wildly oy deliriously, as m 4 
ONE? 4) De . if 
Doll, to, to toll. “The bell dolls.” Ce: 
Don and doff, to, toput on and pul off. 
Literally, to do.on and do off. In this 
sense, dow and doff-are used in Somerset 5 
and doff in Devon; and stjll more 1 
Cornwall. . *¢ He doffs the clothes 3’ 
‘“ he doffs his hat :” that is, ‘* he pués @ 
the clothes;” “he puts off his hat.” €-. 
Doff often occurs in Shakespeare and in, 
Spenser 3 and twice in Milton: 
«¢ T praise thy resolution: deff these links.” 
Samps. Agonist2Se 
‘¢ Nature in awe to him 
Had defft her gaudy trim." 
Ode on the Nativitys 
Done, erpended, consumed: 
«© And now they meet where both their lives. 
are done.--Sir W. Lucy, ia Henry 71. 
(6 Are on a sedden wasted, thaw’d, and. 
done.’ —WVenus and Adenis,~ 
Doodle, to, to trifle. ‘She doodles it» 
away.” WN. D. 
Dorns, door-posts. D. Durns, id. c.” 
Dotefiz, the dry fig. ¢. ; 
Douce, doust, a blow. “A douce ow 
the chucks or chacks ;” that is, “a blow 
on the cheeks.” pv. c. ‘ Vil dousé anp 
wi stoans.” Cornish Dial. - 
Doucet-pie, a sweet-herb pie. [ Doucet, 
perhaps from dulcis.] p.’ Bishop Lyt- 
telton, and Dean Milles’s manuscripts. 
I never heard the word in Devon, or 
elsewhere. 7 vu 
Doveth. “Tt doveth;” that is, “2 
thaws.” N.D. 
Dowl, the devil. N.D. i 
Down, downcast, dejected ; low-spe=" 
rited. ‘ Ve’s down in the mows.” ¢. © 
Down, dewns, a heathland, 4 common, 
an upland. This word (irom Sevvees col- 
lis) seems to extend throughout what Is 
now called the western circuit. 
Drag, a heavy harrow to break the 
clods in stiffland. oD. : 
Drang, « narrow passage between two 
houses; a narrow lane. wv. A gutter, @ 
wheel rut. €, : 
Drashel, the threshold ofa door. De 
Drashal, for thrashal, a flail. “Dp. *** 
Drawbreech. *¢ Amuxy drawbreech ;” 
that is, ‘a filthy jade, that seems laden 
with dirt at her tail” Exm. h 
Dreekstool, the threshold ofa door. €.D. 
Dreule, to, todrivel. c.p. * Dreula 
ling away my time;” that is, ‘* driveliing 
away my treme.” ' . nadie 
Dring, dringet, a press of people; a 
crowd. D.C. | 
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