DA`. s. Day.

DÀyze. Days.

Dade. Dead.

Dad'dick. s. Rotten wood.

Dad'dicky. adj. Rotten, like daddick.

Dame. s. This word is originally French, and means in that language, lady; but in this dialect it means a mistress; an old woman; and never a lady; nor is it applied to persons in the upper ranks of society, nor to the very lowest; when we say dame Hurman, or dame Bennet, we mean the wife of some farmer; a school-mistress is also sometimes called dame (dame-schools).

Dang. interj. Generally followed by pronoun, as dang it; dang Êm; od dang it: [an imprecation, a corruption of God dang it (God hang it) or more likely corruption of damn.]

Dap, v. n. To hop; to rebound.

Dap. s. A hop; a turn. To know the daps of a person is, to know his disposition, his habits, his peculiarities.

Dap'ster. s. A proficient.

To Daver. v. n. To fade; to fall down; to droop.

Dav'ison. s. A species of wild plum, superior to the bullin.

Daw'zin. s. The passing over land with a bent hazel rod, held in a certain direction, to discover whether veins of metal or springs are below, is called Dawzin, which is still practised in the mining districts of Somersetshire. There is an impression among the vulgar, that certain persons only have the gift of the divining rod, as it has been sometimes called; by the French, Baguette Devinatoire.

Ray, in his Catalogus Plantarum AngliÆ, &c., Art. Corylus, speaks of the divining rod: " Vulgus metallicorum ad virgulam divinum, ut vocant, qu venas metallorum inquÍrit prÆ cÆteris furcam eligit colurnam." More may be seen in John Bauhin.

Des'perd. adj. [Corrupted from desperate.] Very, extremely; used in a good as well as a bad sense: desperd good; desperd bad.

Dewberry, s. A species of blackberry.

Dibs. s. pl. Money.

Did'dlecome. adj. Half-mad; sorely vexed.

Dig'ence. s. [g hard, diggunce, Dickens] a vulgar word for the Devil.

Dird. s. Thread.

Dirsh, s. A thrush.

Dirten. adj. Made of dirt.

Dock. s. A crupper.

Doe. part. Done.

To Doff. v. a. To put off.

To Don. v. a. To put on.

Donnins. s. pl. Dress; clothes.

Dough-fig. s. A fig; so called, most probably, from its feeling like dough. JUNIUS has dotefig: I know not where he found it. See FIG.

To Dout. v. a. To extinguish; to put out.

To Downarg. v. a. [To argue one down]; to contradict; to contend with.

Dowst. s. Dust; money; Down wi' tha dowst! Put down the money!

Dowsty. adj. Dusty.

[Dr used for thr in many words:] as droo for through.

Draffit. s. [I suppose from draught-vat.] A vessel to hold pot-liquor and other refuse from the kitchen for pigs.

Drang. s. A narrow path.

To Drash. v. a. To thresh.

Dras'hel. s. The threshold; a flail.

Dras'her. s. A thresher.

Drauve. s. A drove, or road to fields.

Drawt. s. Throat.

To Drean. v. n. To drawl in reading or speaking.

Drean. s. A drawling in reading or speaking.

Dreaten. v. Threaten.

Dree. a. Three.

To Dring. v. n. To throng; to press, as in a crowd; to thrust.

Dring'et. s. A crowd; a throng.

To Droa. v. a. To throw.

Droa. Throw.

DrooÄte. Throat.

Drob. v. Rob.

Drode (throw'd). part. Threw, thrown.

Droo. prep. Through.

To drool. v. n. To drivel.

To Drow. v. n., v. a. To dry.

The hay do'nt drowy at all. See the observations which precede this vocabulary.

Drowth. s. Dryness; thirst.

Drow'thy. adj. Dry; thirsty.

Drove. s. A road leading to fields, and sometimes from one village to another. Derived from its being a way along which cattle are driven. RAY uses the word in his Catalogus Plantorum AngliÆ, &c., Art. Chondrilla.

To Drub. v. n., v. a. To throb; to beat.

Drubbin. s. A beating.

To Druck. v. a. To thrust down; to cram; to press.

Dub, Dub'bed, Dub'by. adj. Blunt; not pointed; squat.

Dub'bin. s. Suet.

Duck-an-Mallard. s. (Duck and Drake) a play of throwing slates or flat stones horizontally along the water so as to skim the surface and rise several times before they sink. "Hen pen, Duck-an-Mallard, Amen."

To Dud'der. v. a. To deafen with noise; to render the head confused.

Duds. s. pl. Dirty cloaths.

Dum'bledore. s. A humble-bee; a stupid fellow.

Dunch, (Dunce?). adj. Deaf.

As a deaf person is very often, apparently at least, stupid; a stupid, intractable person is, therefore, called a DUNCE: one who is deaf and intractable. What now becomes of Duns Scotus, and all the rest of the recondite observations bestowed upon DUNCE?—See GROSE.

I have no doubt that Dunch is Anglo-Saxon, although I cannot find it in any of our old dictionaries, except Bailey's. But it ought not to be forgotten, that many words are floating about which are being arrested by our etymologists in the present advancing age of investigation.

Durns. s. pl. A door-frame.

Dwon't, Dwon. v. (Don't) do not.