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Leighton, Revised by Alexander

"Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV."


DAWTIE, _s._ a favourite; a darling.
DAWTIT, _part. pa._ doted; fondled; caressed.
DAYWERK, DAWERK, _s._ a day's work.
_To_ DEE, _v. n._ to die.
DEAN, DEN, _s._ hollow with sloping banks on both sides; a
small valley.
_To_ DEAVE, DEEVE, _v. n._ to deafen.
DEDE-THRAW, _s._ in the agonies of death.
DEED-DAIL, _s._ the board on which the dead are laid
before being coffined.
'DEED, _adj._ indeed.
DEEIN', _v. n._ dying.
DEEVIL, _s._ the devil.
DEIL, DEEL, _s._ the devil.
DEIL'S-BUCKIE, _s._ a wicked imp.
DEIS, _s._ the upper part of a hall, where the floor was
raised, and a canopy erected over it, as for festivals, etc.
DELIERET, _adj._ delirious.
_To_ DEMENT, _v. n._ to deprive of reason.
DEMENTED, _adj._ insane; unsettled in mind; crazy.
DEN, _s._ a hollow in a hill or mountain.
_To_ DEPONE, _v. n._ to testify on oath.
_To_ DEVALL, DEVALD, _s._ to cease; to intermit.
_To_ DEVE, _v. n._ to stupify with a noise.
DEUCHANDORACH, DEUCHANDORIS, _s._ a drink taken at the
door before departing.
DICHT, DYCHT, _v._ to wipe.
DIDNA, did not.
DIKE, DYKE, _s._ a wall either of mud or stones.
DING, _v. a._ to beat; to drive.
DINNA, do not.
_To_ DINLE, _v. n._ to tremble.
DIRD, _s._ a stroke.
DIRDUM, _s._ an uproar.


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