zin _s._ a conjuring device to discover minerals by the twisting of a
hazel-rod

Devil-screech, Devil-swift, or Devilling _s._ the Swift

Devil's Cow _s._ a kind of beetle

Dew-bit _s._ an early morsel before breakfast

Diddlecum _adj._ distracted, mad

Diff _adj._ deaf

Dilly _adj._ cranky, queer

Dir'd _s._ thread, ex. Whaur's my d'r'd and niddel?

Dish-wash, or Dippity-washty _s._ a water-wagtail

Dirsh, Drush, or Drasher _s._ a thrush

Dirt _s._ earth generally, as mould in a garden

Dirten _adj._ miry, dirty, or made of dirt

Dock _s._ the crupper of a saddle

Dockery-stick _s._ phosphorescent wood

Donnins _s._ dress, clothes

Double-spronged when potatoes lying in the ground throw out fresh tubers

Dough-fig _s._ a Turkey-fig

Douse, or Touse _s._ a smart blow, particularly on the face, ex. A douse
on the chaps

Down-arg _v._ to contradict, ex. He 'ood downarg I

Down-daggered _adj._ disconsolate, cast-down

Draen, Drean _v._ to drawl (Fr. _trainer_)

Draffit _s._ a tub for pigs'-wash (_draught-vat_)

Drail _s._ the piece of leather connecting the flail with its handle

Drang _s._ a narrow path or lane

Drang-way a drove or gate-way

Drapper _s._ a small tub

Drash _v._ to thrash; Drashel, or Thrashle _s._ a flail (A S
_therscel_)

Drashold, or Dreshol _s._ a threshold

Drawl, Drail _s._ the forepart of the sull of a plough; in West
Somerset, weng (A S _wang_ or _weng_ a cheek)

Drift _s._ a lask, or looseness

Drimmeling _adj._ slow, continuous pain

Dring _v._ (_pret._ Drang) to throng, crowd, _s._ Dringet, a crowd
(Dutch, _dringen_, to press)

Drink _s._ small beer, or cider

Droot _v._ to drivel

Dro _v._ (_part._ Dro'd) to throw, ex. The tree wur dro'd

Drow, or Drowy _v._ to dry, ex. It do drowy terble now, as applied to
grass; Muck-adrowd, or Muck-adrowy _s._ dust

Drub, Drubby _v._ to throb

Druck _v._ to cram or thrust down

Druck-pieces _s._ pieces of wood let into a wall to support the pipe of
a pump

Drug _v._ to drag, also _pret._ of drag; ex. He drug un out of the pond;
Drugs _s._ harrows or drags

Dub, Dubby, Dubbid _adj._ blunt, squat

Dubbin _s._ suet or fat for greasing leather

Duck _v._ to carry a person under the arms in a suspended state

Dudder _v._ to confound with noise

Duds _s._ foul linen

Dumbledore, Dumbledory _s._ a humble bee, stupid fellow

Dummic, Dunnic _s._ a hedge-