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Fr. _Douairiere_, id.
_Acts Marie._
DOWt.i.t, _part. pa._ Feared.
_Barbour._
Fr. _doubt-er_, to dread.
DOXIE, _adj._ hazy, restive, S.
Isl. _dosk-a_, to delay, _dosk_, inactivity.
_To_ DOZEN, DOSEN, _v. a._
1. To stupify.
_Barbour._
2. To benumb. _Dozent with cauld_, S.
3. Denoting impotency.
_Ramsay._
Su. G. _daase_, stupified; Isl. _das-ast_, languere.
_To_ ~Dozen~, _v. n._ To become torpid, S.
_Ramsay._
_To_ DRABLE, DRAIBLE, _v. a._ To befoul, to slabber, S.
DRABLE, _s._ Perhaps a servant.
_Houlate._
DRAFF, _s._
1. Grains, S.
_Wallace._
2. Metaph., any moral imperfection, S.
Teut. Isl. _draf_, siliquae excoctae.
~Draff-pock~, _s._
1. A sack for carrying grains, S.
2. Metaph., any imperfection.
_S. Prov._
DRAGON, _s._ A paper kite, S.
DRAGOUN, _s. To raiss dragoun_, to give up to military execution.
_Barbour._
_To_ DRAKE, DRAIK, DRAWK, _v. a._ To drench, S.
_Bannatyne Poems._
Isl. _dreck-ia_, aquis obruo.
~Draiks~. _In the draiks_, in a slovenly disordered state, S. B.
_Popular Ball._
DRAM, _adj._
1. Melancholy. S.B. _drum_, synon.
_Douglas._
2. Indifferent, S. B.
_Ross._
Isl. _draums_, melancholicus.
DRAMOCK, DRAMMACH, DRUMMOCK, _s._
1. Meal and water mixed in a raw state, S.
