Glossary: Den - Fiel'
Den—a place of concealment | |
Dinna—do not | Eastlin—eastern |
Ding—to overcome, to push, to defeat, to excel | E'e—the eye |
Dish-clout—a cloth for cleaning dishes | Een—the eyes |
Disputit—disputed | E'en—even, evening |
Dizen—a dozen | Eening—evening |
Dight—to wipe, to clean, to rub | Eerie—frighted |
Doited—walked in a stupid or deranged manner | Eerocks—chickens |
Doitet—stupified | Eith—easy, easily |
Doon—done, down | Eild—old age |
Doos—doves | Eldren—aged |
Dously, dowsely—wisely and cannily | Eldritch—ghostly, frightfully |
Douse, dowse—sober, wise | Empron—eel, a lamprey |
Doup—the backside | En'—end |
Dool—sorrow, to lament | Erls—earnest money |
Doolfu—mournful | |
Douk—to dip | Fa'—fall |
Douket—dipt | Fab—a fob |
Durk—dirk | Fac't—faced |
Duds—rags | Faes—foes |
Duddy—raggy | Faintive—faintly |
Dugs—dogs | Fallow—fellow |
Durstna—durst not | Fallow'd—followed |
Douf—melancholy, void of animation | Fan, fun—found |
Draff—brewers' grains, used for feeding swine, &c. | Fa'n—fallen |
Draigled—bespattered with mire | Farest—farthest |
Drap—a drop, to drop | Fash—to trouble |
Drapt—dropped | Faut—want, fault |
Drappan—dropping | Faught—fight |
Drawin near—approaching | Fearsome—frightful |
Dree—to bear, to endure | Feart—afraid |
Dreein—suffering, enduring | Fegs—faith (an exclamation) |
Dreepin—dropping | Fell—keen, biting, vigorous |
Dreadfu'—dreadful | Fenny—affording comfortable entertainment |
Drogs—drugs | Fern-year—last year |
Dribbling—drizzling | Ferly—a wonder |
Drucken—drunken | Ferlies—wonders |
Dryster—a person who has charge of the drying of grain on the heated plates of the kiln, preparatory to grinding | Fit—able, the foot |
Dyke—a wall inclosure | Fit—mood, inclination, purpose |
Dyvour—a shabby tippling person, a bankrupt | Fiel' —field |