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'd for 't (it), bla'd wind, bla'd weet, II, 21, (Child #58 A) (Child #58 B) 6; doo'd, IV, 464, 16; born'd, deal'd, 465, 22, 37; 471, 41; lai'd, 520, 10; dee'd, V, 248, 12.
dabs II, 167 b, F: pricks.
dada, dadda II, 339, (Child #93 T) (Child #93 U) (Child #93 V) 16, 18; V, 112, B b 5: daddie.
daft (love), II, 410, (Child #101 B) (Child #101 C) 8: foolishly fond.
dag-durk I, 55, (Child #4 A) (Child #4 B) 12: dagger.
daggie IV, 258, (Child #226 B) (Child #226 C) 25: drizzling (dag, a slight rain).
daghter, dather daughter.
daghterie IV, 324, (Child #236 B) (Child #236 C) 1: a word of no meaning, the original being simply daughter: see V, 272 b, 1.
daigh, daighe I, 302, A (Child #33 A) 10; II, 467, (Child #110 E) 42: dough.
dail IV, 430, (Child #261 A) 5: (dool) the grief, the ill consequences.
daily, dayly daily flower, I, 76, (Child #5 D) (Child #5 E) 9, 15, 18; II, 393, (Child #99 K) (Child #99 L) 2; IV, 19, (Child #192 B) (Child #192 C) 8: (Icelandic dselligr, Danish deilig) beautiful, charming.
daily dight IV, 432, (Child #262 A) 6: beautifully adorned.
dairgie II, 195, (Child #73 H) 41: refection given after a funeral.
dale been at a, III, 161, (Child #134 A) 28, 30: dole (to mendicants), satirically.
dam II, 192, (Child #73 G) 10: dame.
damasee II, 327, (Child #93 D) (Child #93 E) 32: damson plum.
dame addressed to an unmarried girl by her father, IV, 195, (Child #217 C) (Child #217 D) 7.
dandily V, 106, E (Child #277 E) 5: over nice or dainty.
dandoo III, 5, C (Child #114 C) 7, 8: dun doe?
dane, done I, 68, (Child #5 A) 20, 24; 69, 45, 53; II, 81 f., (Child #62 J) 41, 56: done, dane him to, III, 273, (Child #157 G) 15, 27: betaken himself. See do.
dang pret. of ding, I, 55, (Child #4 A) (Child #4 B) 12; 129, D 6; 130, P 5; 133, M 7, 10; II, 253, (Child #81 H) (Child #81 I) 19; 261, 9; IV, 305, (Child #233 B) (Child #233 C) 18: beat, struck, knocked, thrust, shoved, dang down, III, 460, (Child #184 A) 32. p.p., II, 282, (Child #86 A) 10: overpowered.
danger do danger, III, 163, (Child #134 A) 67: exercise of the power of a superior? violence?
dank (moat), V, 295, 7: damp, wet.
danting, danton IV, 287, (Child #231 C) (Child #231 D) 1 (burden); V, 267, 1 (burden): (Fr. dompter) sexual conquest.
danton V, 248, 19: subdue, intimidate. See daunton.
daown adv., V, 304, 8: down.
dapperpy IV, 185, (Child #215 app) 11: diapered, of variegated cloth.
dather, dother V, 257, 15: daughter.
datit IV, 467, 15: dawtit, caressed. dative of pronoun: III, 58, (Child #117 A) 37, 44; 60, 82; 61, 100; 65, 184; 75, 381, 391. after verbs of motion (dative of the subject): I, 244, (Child #23 A) 10, 13; 326, 1; III, 70, (Child #117 A) 281.
daunton, danton I, 325, (Child #37 B) (Child #37 C) 6; III, 364 b: daunt, subdue, put down.
daut, dawt IV, 104, O; 277, 4; 302, 2: fondle, caress, make much of, pet.
daw v., II, 146, (Child #68 B) 7: dawn. p.p. dawen, II, 139, (Child #67 A) (Child #67 B) 7, 12.
dawdy II, 308, (Child #90 D) 5: the unborn young of an animal.
dawt, daut IV, 304, (Child #233 A) (Child #233 B) 3; V, 106, D (Child #277 D) 3: caress.
dawtie V, 117 f., B (Child #280 B) 5, 9, 13; 173, 11: darling.
day, dey, die, dye IV, 257, B (Child #226 B) 9; 259, 7, 17; 260, 7, 16; 262, 16; V, 265 a, 10: dairy-woman.
day, dayed die, died.
dayly See daily.
de, dee, dea, deei, die = do: I, 165, N (Child #12 N) 8; 183, 24; II, 175 f., (Child #72 A) (Child #72 B) 1, 8. a dee, II, 110, (Child #64 F) (Child #64 G) 25: to do. dee'd, V, 248, 12: do it. p.p. deen. See dee.
dea die.
dead, deed, deid, dede, died n., I, 104, (Child #7 F) 14; 353, 13; 388, A 11; 465, 19; II, 385, (Child #99 D) (Child #99 E) 25; 505, 92; III, 387, (Child #173 C) (Child #173 D) 16, 10; IV, 36, (Child #195 A) 3; 505, 57: death.
dead, be dead, II, 58, (Child #61 A) 5, 7; III, 23, (Child #116 A) 25; 28, 120; 99, 50: die.
deak V, 270, 7: deck.
dean, den IV, 167, D (Child #214 D) 5, 6, 11: hollow where the ground slopes on both sides, valley.
dean done.
dear, deare, dere I, 411, (Child #45 A) 5; III, 164, b 67: injury.
Dear-Coft II, 62, (Child #61 app) 18: Dear-Bought.
dearly IV, 98, F (Child #204 F) 6: costly.
dearsome III, 488 f., (Child #188 A) 38, 44: costly.
dear vow interjection of surprise or commiseration.
deas II, 189, (Child #73 E) 24: pew (stone seat at the door of the church. Chambers). Same word as dais. See dice.
deave I, 389, C (Child #42 C) 3; IV, 69, (Child #200 E) 17: deafen.
debate III, 314, (Child #162 B) 64: quarrel.
deceivin (tree), III, 396, N (Child #173 N) 3: corruption of savin (see 380 a).
decencey V, 242 b, 8: corruption of bencite, benedicite.
deck-board, deck-buird, oer (over), V, 138, B (Child #286 B) 5, 6; 139, c 6, 7: overboard.
dede V, 283, 8: death. See dead.
dee, deei, do how can this dee, I, 453, (Child #52 C) (Child #52 D) 6: be allowed, borne; and so, perhaps, a' this winna dee (wont do), II, 97, (Child #63 J) 14. a' this winna dee, gif ony prayer can dee, II, 132, (Child #66 C) 16; 176, 10; it wad na do, IV, 509 b, 13; it widne deei, V, 227, 2: avail.
dee, deei, do See de.
dee, deei die.
deed, death See dead.
deed v., I, 164, K (Child #12 K) 6; 165, O 5: died.
deed indeed, by my deed, III, 262, (Child #156 D) (Child #156 E) 12: on my word.
deed-thraw III, 501, 10: death-throe.
deei do, avail; die. See de, dee.
deemed, demed III, 61, (Child #117 A) 95: judged. III, 356, (Child #168 app) 35: condemned.
deen I, 16, C (Child #2 C) 18; II, 182 a; 409, 18, 19 done (with no sense in 19).
deerlye (dight), III, 340, (Child #167 A) 28, 36: expensively (ornamented). III, 356, (Child #168 app) 16, 31, 35: perhaps, with great cost to the sufferer, possibly, to his hurt; lovingly, out of love, would answer in the first two cases, but not in the third.
deft III, 145, (Child #128 A) 3: neat, nice-looking.
degree III, 323, (Child #164 A) 58; IV, 258, (Child #226 B) (Child #226 C) 20: rank, sort, served him in his ain degree, V, 191, (Child #305 A) 19; 193, 57: rendered him respect accordant with his rank, wee shall beare no degree, III, 333, (Child #166 A) 19: shall have no position, standing, (requite, thank, show) in euerye degree, V, 84 f., (Child #273 app) 9, 14, 27: to the full extent demanded by the occasion.
deid I, 105, 26; 353, 13: death. See dead.
deighte IV, 504, 29: dight, furnished, adorned, equipped.
delated III, 449 a, b; IV, 63 b: accused.
dell V, 79, (Child #273 app) 32: deal, bit, whit.
dell II, 345, (Child #94 A) 29: we are apparently to understand that it was a dismal dell that brought James into the world (not in itself, but from the melancholy fact of his being born there). Possibly we may understand dell = dule, affliction. But the piece is spurious, and we need not be nice.
delle I, 327, 22: perhaps, dally, talk, disport; perhaps, deal.
demean IV, 41, note *; 107, 3: treat, maltreat, (in 107, 3, treat as he deserves, damage, do harm to.)
demed See deemed.
den, dean IV, 166, B (Child #214 B) 8; 168, 5, 11; 169, 3, 9, G 2; 174 f., 2, 7; 306 f., 12, 20, 48; V, 119, D (Child #280 D) 2: small valley, glen, dingle.
den, dien V, 260, 8, 14: done.
denay, deny V, 110, (Child #279 A) 10; 260, 3, 4: refuse.
deol V, 297 b: sorrow.
dep gave him a dep unto the heart, III, 281, (Child #158 C) 14: perhaps dab, Old Eng. dabbe, stroke. But Dr. Davidson suggests that the line was misheard, and that what was said was, a dep 'oon (wound), which seems to me very likely.
depart III, 139, (Child #126 A) 27: part company.
deputed III, 414, (Child #176 A) 52: consigned, handed or delivered over (used of a fugitive carried back for trial).
dere, dear, deare III, 99, (Child #119 A) 59: injury.
dere-worthy III, 58, (Child #117 A) 36, 37; 59, 60; 61, 111; 67, 219; 68, 250; 73, 346: precious, dear.
derf derf blowes, III, 422, (Child #177 A) 73: powerful.
derne I, 327, 30; III, 57, (Child #117 A) 21: secret, hidden, privy, obscure.
descryvd IV, 405, (Child #252 B) (Child #252 C) 50: described.
desae I, 328, 45: dais, the elevated part of the hall, on which was the table for the chief personages.
deuylkyns III, 79, 73: devilish sort of.
develling come, I, 302, (Child #33 A) (Child #33 B) 5: moving like the devil, whether hieing, scouring, bouncing, or what not; or, possibly, O. Fr. devalant, descending; an equivalence to daundering, sauntering, has been suggested.
devyse I, 327, 16: will, pleasure.
dey, die, dye IV, 257, (Child #226 A) (Child #226 B) 9; 259, 7, 17; 260, 7; 262, 16: dairy-woman. See day.
deythe, dyth III, 112, (Child #121 A) 59: dight, prepared.
di, die II, 132, (Child #66 C) 24; V, 35, B (Child #269 B) 5: do. dinna, I, 146, 6, and passim: do not. See dinne.
dice IV, 416, (Child #256 A) 17 = deis: pew in a church.
did I, 104, (Child #7 F) 3, 4: used for should.
did (be wrought), II, 506 a: caused.
did him to See do to.
did of See do.
die IV, 264, (Child #226 F) (Child #226 G) 5: dey, dairy-woman. See day.
die See de.
die, do, din, dien done.
died IV, 386, (Child #246 B) (Child #246 C) 19: death. See dead.
died IV, 407, (Child #252 C) (Child #252 D) (Child #252 E) 7, 8: dead.
dien See den, die.
dight, dicht, dycht, deight, dyght III, 57, (Child #117 A) 19: prepared, dedys that here be dyght, III, 72, (Child #117 A) 320: done, of grain, I, 16, B (Child #2 B) 16; IV, 242 a: winnow, dight shoon, V, 105, A (Child #277 A) 11: clean, had not men to dight my men, III, 300, (Child #161 C) 18; IV, 500, 19: serve, handle, she dighted her father's wounds, I, 101, (Child #7 B) (Child #7 C) 8; 103, D 6: dressed, pinnace, hachebord deerlye dight, III, 340, (Child #167 A) 28, 36; IV, 504, 29: fitted out. dill (grief) to him was dight, II, 58, (Child #61 A) 4: ordained.
dight adv., bird sang fu dight, II, 261, (Child #82 A) 10: readily, freely (strange use of the word). Cf. complete.
dild God, III, 35, (Child #116 app) 31: God ild, yield, reward (d carried on from the subject).
dill II, 58, (Child #61 A) 4, 11: dule, grief.
dimitted III, 447 b: discharged, released.
din, dien done.
din I, 133, (Child #10 L) (Child #10 M) 10; II, 186, (Child #73 C) 16: dun.
dine I, 127, (Child #10 B) 23; II, 94, (Child #63 G) 12; 194, 13, 17; 313, 17; III, 267, (Child #157 A) (Child #157 B) 18; V, 277 f., 18, 29: dinner, meal.
ding II, 62 a, (Child #61 app) 17; 261, 8; IV, 97, F (Child #204 F) 2; 304, 16, 17: beat, knock, ding down, II, 240, (Child #80 A) 6; III, 5, D (Child #114 D) 2, 6; 6, 2, 6; 8, 5; 9, 2, 7: lay low, overthrow, pret. dang, dung. p.p. dung, dang, my ain wand dings me now, IV, 97, F (Child #204 F) 2: I am suffering the consequences of my own folly.
dink I, 74, (Child #5 C) (Child #5 D) 72: neat, trim.
dinna do not.
dinnë V, 229 a, 35: do (you) not. V, 229 b, 6: (disne) does not. dinner = dinna, dinne.
dinne I, 272, (Child #29 A) 25: (noise) ado, trouble.
dint (of arrow), III, 345, (Child #167 B) 48; 350, 48: stroke, impact.
dirt v., V, 304, 2, 3: soil.
dis does.
Disaware V, 49, (Child #271 A) 29; 51, 61, 62: O.E. aver (O.Fr. aver, avoir) seems to be the basis of the word, which would mean stripped of wealth, sans aver (avoir); a Galterius Sine Avero is noted by Ducange.
discared III, 38, (Child #116 app) 85: revoked, withdrawn (apparently for discarded).
discharged IV, 63 b: revoked.
discreene II, 439, (Child #108 A) 2: descry, spy out, discover.
discreeue II, 58, (Child #61 A) 3, should be disceuere, diskevere, discover, reveal.
disgrate V, 269, 17: disgrace.
disgrate III, 58, (Child #117 A) 48: unfortunate, out of fortune's favor. (Ital. disgraziato.)
disna does not.
distan IV, 329 a, after 16: (distance) distinguish.
dittay IV, 245 a: indictment.
dive II, 132, (Child #66 C) 25: do.
diuel's mouth He could not finde a priuy place, for all lay in the dieul's mouth, II, 483, (Child #112 A) 4: as the devil's mouth is depicted wide open in painted windows, etc., Professor Skeat has suggested that meaning for the phrase.
do it wad na do, IV, 509 b, 13: avail. See dee.
do See doo.
do, doe doe my thy hawkes, I, 211, (Child #18 A) (Child #18 B) 20: give, deliver,
do adowne III, 67, (Child #117 A) 226; 69, 263: put down.
do away III, 59, (Child #117 A) 63: have done with, stop.
do be I, 184, (Child #15 A) (Child #15 B) 47: are.
do down See do to.
do gladly III, 58, (Child #117 A) 34; 61, 103; 67, 232: make yourself happy (= make glad chere, 67, 215).
do of, do off, doe of, doe off II, 138, (Child #67 A) 13; III, 78, (Child #117 A) 449; V, 49, (Child #271 A) 23-25: put off. pret. doft, II, 490 b.
do on III, 23, (Child #116 A) 27; 76, 421: put on, don.
do to, do till with reflexive pronoun, I, 86, (Child #6 A) 30; 87 b; 115, B 3, 4; 182 f., 7, 11, 13, 17; 352, 32, 44; III, 72, (Child #117 A) 328: betake. So with up, dawn, V, 300, 5, 8.
do up See do to, and dop.
doited IV, 427, (Child #260 A) 10: stupid, doting.
doll, dolle, dol, dule I, 217, (Child #19 A) 3; V, 111, (Child #279 A) (Child #279 B) 19, 21: grief.
domineer in, domineer wi III, 268, (Child #157 B) (Child #157 C) 9; 270, 9; V, 242 b, 8: with haughtiness, superciliously. (Perhaps a corruption of III, 270, E (Child #157 E) 7, since the captain is said to be buke-learned in 268, 9.)
doo (ynnë gon), III, 91 a: cause, make.
doo, dou, dow I, 163-165; 497, L 2; V, 40 f., (Child #270 A) 3, 9, 15, etc.: dove.
don down.
done how done you? III, 35, (Child #116 app) 31: old plural, how do you do?
done upon V, 48, (Child #271 A) 6: put on.
doo'd IV, 464, 16: do it.
dool, doll, dule II, 175, (Child #72 A) (Child #72 B) 17; IV, 85, (Child #203 A) (Child #203 B) 42; V, 17, (Child #267 B) 31; 111, 19, 21: grief. See dail.
dool dool and down, II, 271, (Child #83 E) 26: corruption of dale and down; cf. II, 175, (Child #72 A) (Child #72 B) 14; 273, 33; IV, 219, B (Child #221 B) 5: and elsewhere.
doon II, 198 b, 2d line: a corruption, or possibly an Irish word, of which I can make nothing.
doon youar begun yar doon, V, 304 b, 4.
doorcheeks II, 99 b, 33: door-posts.
dop III, 34 f., (Child #116 app) 6, 21: do up, open.
dorn II, 300, (Child #89 A) (Child #89 B) 5: (sheets of) dornic, table-linen, ordinarily, from Dornick, the Dutch name for Tournay.
dorty IV, 288, (Child #231 E) (Child #231 F) 10: pettish, peevish, saucy.
dother IV, 327, (Child #236 E) (Child #236 F) 15; V, 110, (Child #279 A) 1; 237 f., 6, 7, 12, 22, etc.; 264, 7: daughter.
dottled V, 94, A 3: in a state of dotage.
dou dove. See doo, dow.
dou, dow (A.S. déah, dugon), III, 245, B (Child #155 B) 12; 247, 18; 370, 10, 13; IV, 472, 22: can (of physical ability). II, 78, (Child #62 I) 4; 104, 24; 105, 16; 168, 12; III, 386, (Child #173 B) (Child #173 C) 21; IV, 31, (Child #194 A) (Child #194 B) 9; 512, 12: (with negative) am unable from aversion, want of resolution, etc. dought (A.S. dohte, pret. of dugan), pret., I, 146, (Child #11 B) 20; II, 401, C (Child #100 C) 7; III, 465, (Child #185 A) 22; IV, 23, A c 18: was able, could. Subjunctive, I, 326, (Child #37 C) 18, 19 (be at liberty); I, 330, B (Child #38 B) 3: should be able, dought, he neere dought good day, I, 434, (Child #48 A) 32: he never was good for anything a good day. But we should expect him: never a good day profited him.
double-horsed III, 489, (Child #188 A) (Child #188 B) 42: with horse carrying double.
doubt, doute, dout n. and v., I, 295, (Child #31 A) 35; 478 f., 19, 28; II, 52, (Child #60 A) 22; III, 57, (Child #117 A) 10; 76, 406; 125, 26; 188, 4: fear.
doubt if tho[u], II, 449, (Child #109 B) 58: corrupt. A 53, without all doubt.
doubtit III, 364 b: redoubted, held in awe. See doubt.
douce I, 184, (Child #15 A) (Child #15 B) 1; V, 210 a, 1: staid and sober, violence douce, II, 271, (Child #83 E) 19: corrupt; read done?
doue douey = dowie, V, 257, 7, 17: dreary, melancholy. V, 220 f., 6, 7, 9 (of bran): wretched.
doughetë III, 308, (Child #162 A) 28: doughty man.
dought See dou.
douk, duck II, 151, H (Child #68 H) 6; 153, 16, 17, 19, 21: dive.
doukers, duckers II, 151, H (Child #68 H) 6, 8: divers.
doulfou II, 159, (Child #69 A) 23: doleful.
dounae See dou.
doup (dish-doup), II, 463, (Child #110 C) 23: bottom.
dour, doure I, 117, (Child #9 E) 17: hard, severe. V, 295, 3: savage, knocks bauldly and dowr, II, 341, R after 3: hard, or pertinaciously.
dout, doute See doubt.
dow, dou, doo I, 163 f., J (Child #12 J) 1-6, etc.; II, 299, (Child #89 A) 22-24; 301, 14; V, 111, (Child #279 A) (Child #279 B) 18; 302, 17: dove.
dow do.
dow, downa v. See dou.
dowie, dowy I, 56, B (Child #4 B) 11; II, 146, (Child #68 B) 19; 148, 21, 22; 189, 36, 37; IV, 33, (Child #194 C) 24; 165, 12; 166, C 4, 5, 6; etc.: sad, doleful, melancholy, wretched. See doue.
dowilie I, 439, (Child #49 B) (Child #49 C) 11: sadly.
down wi meikle dool and down, II, 271, (Child #83 E) 26: nonsense; corruption of, beheld baith dale and doun, F 33.
down-browed scowling; I, 302, A (Child #33 A) 11.
downfall, downcome of Robin Hood, with the, III, 271, (Child #157 E) (Child #157 F) 10; 274, 30: knocked down in R. Hood's fashion?
dowr See doure.
doyn III, 111, (Child #121 A) 39: done.
doyt III, 109, (Child #121 A) 1: doth (plural).
draff refuse, dirt.
drank II, 30, (Child #58 K) (Child #58 L) 7: gave to drink, drenched.
drap III, 281, (Child #158 C) 10, drap down: perhaps, drap[d] down; otherwise, should drop.
draps drops.
draught I, 432, (Child #48 A) 1: sketch, picture.
draw drew her table, V, 304, 13: see explanation, 304 a.
draw III, 6, (Child #114 D) (Child #114 E) 14, 15: move (cf. Germ, ziehen).
draw to, draw ti, draw till draw to hose and sheen, II, 249, (Child #81 D) (Child #81 E) 15; 256, 9; IV, 464, 10: draw on. drew till him his hose, II, 189, (Child #73 E) 35. drew to him his sheen, II, 257, 30.
draw up wi II, 114, (Child #65 A) 14: take up with, enter into intimacy, relations of love, with.
drawght that thowe dost drawe, IV, 503, 16: of the drawing of a bow. (So "Chaucer's Dream," v. 788, Morris.)
drawn ere the horse was drawn and brought, IV, 346 b, I b 5: chosen.
drawn a stroke behind his hand, II, 63, (Child #61 app) 24: evidently means give a back-handed stroke, but the phrase sounds factitious.
dreaded II, 169, (Child #70 B) 14: suspected.
dreads IV, 32, C (Child #194 C) 7: suspicions.
dreamed I was, I, 432, (Child #48 A) 1: dreamed, had a dream.
drede n., III, 296, (Child #161 A) 8: doubt.
dreder II, 403, (Child #100 F) (Child #100 G) 3, 4: dread, apprehension.
dre, dree, dri, drie, drye suffer, undergo, hold out, stand, be able, dree pine, II, 466, (Child #110 E) 35; 467, 45. doom, III, 391, (Child #173 G) (Child #173 H) 9. death, III, 391, (Child #173 G) (Child #173 H) 1. dill I drye, II, 58, 11. dreeing trying hour, I, 73, (Child #5 C) 47. as fast as they might dree, III, 286, (Child #159 A) 49: could do it; so, II, 149, (Child #68 D) (Child #68 E) 7; 255, 10; III, 106, (Child #120 B) 12; 267, 9; IV, 2, (Child #189 A) 6; 6, 13; V, 195, (Child #305 B) 13, 35; 196, 37. whylle the myghte dre, III, 298, (Child #161 A) 58; 309, 47: as long as they could hold out. draw carts, which horse were wont to drie, I, 465, (Child #53 B) 2: do, perform, drie to feel, III, 479, (Child #187 A) (Child #187 B) 5: be compelled, come to feel.
dreel gie a, I, 403, (Child #44 A) 9: stir up, put into a flurry, make scud. (Old Dutch drillen, ultro citroque cursitare gyrosque agere, etc. Scottish dreel, to move quickly.)
dreigh IV, 47, (Child #196 C) (Child #196 D) 4: seems to mean here, far to jump from.
dress III, 336 b: redress.
dressen v. the dressede into the countrey, V, 71, note †: betaken.
drew (her table). See draw.
dri See dree.
drie n., III, 415, 22: an unauthorized word of Percy's, to mean suffering.
drie, dri See dree.
driep drop.
drifts IV, 2, (Child #189 A) 10: droves.
drive IV, 6, (Child #190 A) 19; 7, 30, 32: drive off.
droonet I, 133, (Child #10 L) (Child #10 M) 13: drowned.
droop droop and drowsie (of blood), IV, 220, (Child #221 B) (Child #221 C) 13: droop might be the Old English drup, sad, piteous, but a word indicating the quality or condition of the blood would be expected (as in German trübe, thick, muddy). The nearest is drubly, turbid, muddy. Cf. wan and drousie, IV, 224, (Child #221 F) 23. her lothely lere is droupy and drowsy, Skelton, Elynour Rummynge, 15: downcast and drowsy. See drousie.
droped III, 164, (Child #134 A) 88: drooped.
drouflye III, 85, 22: sad. See drousli.
drousie wan and drousie, IV, 224, (Child #221 F) 23. droop and drowsie, IV, 220, (Child #221 B) (Child #221 C) 13 (of blood): sluggish, perhaps slowly dripping. The combination occurs in Skelton's Elynour Rummynge, 15, droupy and drowsy, with sense. See droop.
drousli III, 82, 22, should be droufli (drouflye, or drouslye, 85, 22): (Old Eng. drof, droflie) sad.
drowryis I, 415 b: love-tokens. See drury.
drowsie See drousie.
drucken II, 155, A b 3: drunken (and in A a 3, where there is a misprint).
druken, drucken p.p., II, 285, (Child #87 A) (Child #87 B) 9; V, 99, (Child #275 B) (Child #275 C) 11, C 6; 155, C 2: drunk, imbibed.
drumlie, drumly (stream), IV, 185, (Child #215 app) 8, 14; (eye), IV, 368, (Child #243 F) (Child #243 G) 10; 369 b: perturbed, turbulent, turbid, gloomy.
drunken p.p. of drink, II, 110, (Child #64 F) (Child #64 G) 24; 134, 26. drunken was = had drunken, IV, 46, (Child #196 B) (Child #196 C) 5, 6.
drunkilie III, 490, (Child #188 B) 25: merrily (as being tipsy with pleasure?).
drury IV, 58, A b 5: dowry. Drowry is used as synonymous with morning-gift in the Acts of James VI. Jamieson. See drowryis.
drussie V, 257. 14: drowsy.
drye See dree.
drywyng driving.
dub I, 164, J (Child #12 J) 3; III, 162, (Child #134 A) 49; IV, 470, 25, 26; V, 169, (Child #296 A) 9: pool.
dubby IV, 257, A (Child #226 A) 6: dirty, having many small pools.
ducatdowns, dukedoons IV, 128, (Child #209 B) 8; 139, I b 21: ducatoons. corrupted ridiculously, IV, 137, (Child #209 J) (Child #209 K) 2, to ducks.
duck, douk II, 145, (Child #68 A) (Child #68 B) 18, 19, 22, 23: dive.
duckers, doukers II, 145, (Child #68 A) (Child #68 B) 18: divers.
ducks See ducatdowns.
duddie I, 208, G 15: ragged.
duddies, dudes V, 111, (Child #279 A) (Child #279 B) 24; 112, B 13; 113 b, 13: duds, poor clothes.
duȝty III, 98, (Child #119 A) 32: doughty, valiant.
duke IV, 295, D (Child #232 D) 5: dyke, wall.
dukedoons See ducatdowns.
dulchach, dulget I, 305, (Child #33 G) 1; V, 213, 1: bundle, always applied in Aberdeenshire to ill-shaped, untidy bundles of clothes carried on the person (also, bulshach).
dule, dool I, 169, B (Child #13 B) 3; 442, E 15; II, 290, (Child #88 B) 8, 12; IV, 86, (Child #203 B) (Child #203 C) 20; 303, 14: grief.
dulget I, 305, (Child #33 G) 1. See dulchach.
dumped V, 227, 4: struck with the feet.
dumpes III, 313, (Child #162 B) 50: in the modern sense, but not inelegant.
dune I, 302, (Child #33 A) (Child #33 B) 2; IV, 326, (Child #236 D) (Child #236 E) 15: done.
dune out V, 27, (Child #268 A) 28: worn out, used up.
dung pret. of ding, beat, knock, strike, II, 132, (Child #66 C) 17. p.p., II, 62 a, (Child #61 app) 17; 392, J 9; 472, 20, 28; III, 161, (Child #134 A) 43; IV, 479, 4: beaten, worsted, overpowered, put down. IV, 183, (Child #215 H) 8: overwhelmed, disconsolate, dung over, V, 127, (Child #282 A) 22: knocked over, struck down, dung down, I, 345, (Child #39 B) (Child #39 C) (Child #39 D) 5: thrust down.
Dunny's well, Dunny's dyke II, 189, (Child #73 E) 28: an impersonation, signifying that the washing and drying have been done in dark-colored water and on a dark-colored (dirty) wall.
dunts III, 491, (Child #188 C) 13: dints, blows. See dynt.
dwine IV, 303 f., (Child #233 A) 12, 21, 27; 304, 10: pine, waste.
dwrf IV, 290, D c 5: dowf seems to be intended, lethargic, inert, impotent; rather than dwarf, as being puny or incomplete.
dyd him to III, 72, (Child #117 A) 328: betook himself. See do to.
dyde adowne III, 67, (Child #117 A) 226: put down.
dye IV, 260, (Child #226 D) 16: dey, dairy-woman. See day.
dyght III, 72, (Child #117 A) 320, dedes that here be dyght: prepared, concerted.
dyght (to the deth), III, 309, (Child #162 A) 40: done, brought.
dyghtande III, 75, (Child #117 A) 388: making ready (but seems to be intended for a past participle).
dyke = wall, IV, 295, E (Child #232 E) 6; 296, F 6. castle-dyke, II, 410, (Child #101 B) (Child #101 C) 4. garden-dyke, II, 370, (Child #97 B) 5; 371, 5. fail dyke, I, 253, 2: turf wall, hollan dyke, II, 195, (Child #73 H) 32; nettle-dyke, II, 463, (Child #110 C) 22: wall on which hollies, nettles, are growing.
dyke III, 441, (Child #179 A) 36: ditch.
dyne garre me ones to dyne, III, 296, (Child #161 A) 24: give me my dinner, my fill, beat thoroughly. (Able to give the greatest prince in Christendome a mortall breakfast, if he had been the king's enemie. Holinshed's Chronicle, III, 512, ed. 1807-8. G.L. Kittredge.)
dynt, dynte, dint III, 309, (Child #162 A) 42, 45, 46: stroke, hit, lunge, shot (of spear, arrow). See dunts.
dypper V, 283, 5, 15: deeper.
dysheryte III, 60 f., (Child #117 A) 87, 95: dispossessed.
dyspyse II, 478, (Child #111 A) 6: cause to be despised.
dyth, deythe I, 334, 7: dight, furnished or built.
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