Dowry, the smallest and last-hatched of a breed of birds. FrontItal. dopo; or, as an ingenious friend will have it, from its being always least feathered par arriere. See RITLING, and WRECKLING.

Doxy, a sweetheart; but not in the equivocal sense used by Shakspeare, and other play writers. Fr. doux-cil.

DOZENED, spiritless, impotent, withered-in a doze.

DRAB AND NORR, a game. York. The drab is what is elsewhere called a trippit; and the drab-stick, a buck-stick. See SPELL AND ORE, and TRIPPIT AND COIT.

DRABBL❜D, DRABBLE-TAILED, dirtied. See DAGGLE, DAGGLED. DRAFF, brewers' grains, with which cows and swine are fed.Teut. and Swed. draf. Both Hanmer and Johnson have misinterpreted this Shakspearian word, and Archdeacon Nares hath perpetuated the error. In Dunbar's singular performance, "The Testament of Mr. Andro Kennedy"-representing the character of a drunken, graceless scholar-the facetious testator, after having consigned his soul to the wine-cellar, orders his body to be laid

In ane draf-midding for ever and ay.

DRAPE, a cow whose milk is dried up. Sax. drepen, to fail— having failed to give milk. Drape sheep, oves rejiculæ, credo ab. A. S. dræpe, expulsio, draped, abactus. Skinner. DRAUP, DREAP, to drawl, to speak slowly and monotonously. DRAW, for drawer; and DRAWS, for drawers; by the usual Newcastle mode of slurring the r.

DRAWK, DRACK, to saturate with water. Su.-Got. draenka, aqua submergere.

DREAP, to drench, to drop with wet. Sax. drypan, to drip.Swed. drypa. Sc. dreip.

DREE, v. to suffer, to endure. Sax. dreogan, to undergo.

He did great pyne and meikle sorrow dree.—Ross, Helenore. DREE, a. weary, long, tediously tiresome. "A dree road." The word is apparently a rapid pronunciation of Germ, durre, dry,

both in a physical and metaphorical sense; but see Jamieson, vo.dreich, where several corresponding terms in other languages are enumerated. See also Wilbraham.

DREE, s. a sort of cart without wheels, drawn by one horse, used

by the farmers in Northumberland, within the memory of old people. This carriage is probably the same as the traga, traha, or sledge of Du Cange. The sledge peculiar to Bristol is called a draw.

DRIBLET," a small sum; odd money in a sum."-Dr. Johnson. It, however, means a small inconsiderable thing of any sort. DRIP, a north country term for stalactites, or petrefactions. DRITE, to speak indistinctly; as it were through the nose, like country children when they are learning to read.

DRONING, a lazy indolent mode of doing a thing.—Dronish is a very old word. Swed. droenig, dull, sluggish.

DROP-DRY, water-tight; said of a building well secured in the roof. DROUGHT, a team or draught of horses in a cart or waggon, both collectively taken.

DROUK, to drench, to soak, to besmear. Fr. druger, to wet thoroughly.

DROUTH, thirst, dryness. The old form of drought; which was also written dryth and drith. V. Tooke, Vol. II. p. 413, 414. DROUTHY, thirsty. "To moisten his drouthy clay."

DRUCKEN, possessed of a "full measure of the best"-drunken. Su.-Got. and Dan. drukken. Isl. druckin. Sc. drucken. DRUMLY, DRUMMELY, muddy, thick; as applied to the mind, confused. Misled by Hanmer and Pegge, to drumble is in Todd's Johnson misinterpreted, to drone, to be sluggish. The example from Shakspeare's Merry Wives of Windsor, “Look how you drumble," unquestionably means how confused you are. DRUMMOCK, meal and water mixed. V. Jam. Supp. dramock. DRUNKARD'S-CLOAK, a great tub or barrel of a peculiar construction, for the punishment of drunkards in Newcastle. V. Gardiner's England's Grievance discovered, p. 3, and Brand's History of Newcastle, Vol. II. p. 192.

DRUVE, DRUVY, dirty, muddy. Sax. ge-drefan, turbare.

DUB, a small pool of water; a piece of deep and smooth water in a rapid river. Celt. dubh, a canal or gutter.

DUBLER, or DOUBLER, a large dish of earthenware. Dubler, Mr. Watson says, is a British word for a dish. Old Fr. doublier plat, assiette. Dobeler occurs in Peirs Ploughman. DUB-SKELPER, a bog-trotter; a term applied to the Borderers. DUCKET, a dove-cot. Sc. doucat. Ducket-close, and ducket-garth, are common names of fields in the North.

DUCKS AND DRAKES, a pastime. Flat stones or slates are thrown upon the surface of a piece of water, so that they may dip and emerge several times, without sinking. "Neither

son.

cross and pile, nor ducks and drakes, are quite so ancient as handy-dandy."Arbuthnot and Pope, quoted in Todd's JohnI do not pretend to know the exact age of handy-dandy, but the sport of ducks and drakes is of high antiquity, and elegantly described by Minutius Felix. V. Min. Fel. Octav. notis Ouzeli, 8vo. Lug. Bat. 1672, p. 24.

DUCKY, a drink. “Give the bairn a ducky.”

DUD, a rag. Gael. dud.-DUDS, clothes of a dirty or inferior kind. V. Jam.-DUDDY, ragged.-DUDMAN, a scare-crow. DUFFIT, a sod. Identical with DIVET, or Divor. “Duffit theek'd," thatched with sods.

DUG, the female breast; a word now only among the vulgar; though it was formerly otherwise.

Lord Chancellor Hatton sent to Queen Elizabeth, a ring against infectious air, "to be worn betwixt the sweet dugs” of her bosom. Fosbroke's Encyclop. Antiq. Vol. I. p. 213.

DULL, hard of hearing. It is the same in Scotland. DULLBIRT, DULBARD, a stupid person, a blockhead-one of dull birth; or it may be a provincial corruption of dullard, a word used by Shakspeare. But see Jam. Supp. dulbart; which the learned author derives from Isl. dul, stultitia, and birt-a, manifestare; q. one who shews his foolishness. DUMB-CAKE, a species of dreaming-bread, prepared by unmarried

females with ingredients traditionally suggested in witching

doggrel, When baked, it is cut into three divisions; a part of each to be eaten, and the remainder to be put under the pillow. When the clock strikes twelve, each votary must go to bed backwards, and keep a profound silence, whatever may appear. Indeed, should a word be uttered, either during the process, or before falling asleep, the charm is broken, and some direful calamity may be dreaded. Those, who are to be married, or are full of hope, fancy they see visions of their future partners hurrying after them; while they, who are to live and die old maids, or are not very sanguine of obtaining their errand, see nothing at all.

DUMPY, sullen, discontented.-DUMPS, ill-humour, sullen taciturnity. Dut. dom, dull, stupid. Dump is an old word for melancholy, sadness.

DUN-cow, a celebrated legend relating to the Cathedral of Durham. V. Surtees, Gen. Hist. p. x.

DUNELM OF CRAB, a dish of a gouty complexion. Dr. Hunter says, it takes its name from an ancient city in the North of England, where 'good eating' and 'good living' are clerically considered as synonymous terms.

DUNGEONABLE, shrewd; or, as the vulgar express it, devilish.— As Tartarus signifies hell and a dungeon; so dungeon is applied to both.-Ray. See also Jam. dungeon.

DUNSH, or DUNCH, to push or jog with the elbow. Teut. donsen. DUNTER, a common name for a porpoise. Sold for food in Newcastle market, in 1575.

DUSH, to push violently, to move with velocity. Teut. doesen, pulsare cum impetu et fragore.

Su.-Got. dyst, "Down with your

DUST, tumult, uproar. "To kick up a dust." dust, tumultus, fragor. Also money.

dust." The association is obvious in both these vulgarisms. DWAIN, DWARM, or DWALM, a fainting fit or swoon. See DWINE. DWINE, to pine, to be in a decline or consumption. Sax. dwinan, tabescere. Swed. tvyna, to languish, to dwindle. Teut. dwynen.-DWINING, a lingering illness, a consumption.-DWINY, ill thriven.

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EALD, old age. Pure Saxon. Chaucer uses elde, and Shakspeare, in Measure for Measure, palsied eld.

EALDREN, ELDREN, advanced in life-elderly. Dan. aldrende, old.

EAM, EAME, uncle. Sax. eame, avunculus. Germ. ohm.

Henry Hotspur, and his came,

The Earl of Wor'ster.-Drayton, Polyolbion.

The nephues straight depos'd were by the came.

Mirror for Magistrates.

EAR, a kidney; as the ear of veal. It is supposed to be so called from its resemblance to an ear, and being a name more delicate than kidney; but it is probably a corruption of Germ. niere, a kidney-a pronunciation partially retained in the county of Durham, and also in Yorkshire. Swed. njure.— The old name, presenting a less familiar idea, might be retained from delicacy, as the old French words mutton, veal, beef, and pork, are considered less offensive than sheep, calf, ox, and pig, when these animals are brought to table. It is, however, curious, that the meat which would have been, one might have imagined, most annoying to the feelings by its real name, yet retains it-lamb.

EARLES-PENNY, or ARLES-PENNY, an earnest-penny. See ARLES. EARN, YEARN, to coagulate milk. Germ. gerinnen, to curdle. EARNING, YEARNING, cheese-rennet. Sax. gerunning. V. Lye. EASINGS, the eaves of a house. Sax. efese. Somner. Peirs Ploughman has evesynges.-EASING-DROP, an eaves-drop. EATH, EITH, easy. Sax. eath. Sc. eith, eyth.

Where ease abounds yt's eath to do amiss.-Spenser, F. Q.

EAVER, EEVER, a corner or quarter of the heavens. Common in Cumberland, and also in Cheshire. V. Wilbraham.