“An’ aye she _dichtit_ her father’s bluidy wounds, When the blude ran reid as wine.” Ballad—The Douglas Tragedy. Doff, C, (do off, Old English) undress, strip. “The bridesmaids o’ wi’ fusslin care The bride, hauf-yieldin’, _doff’t_.” _Stagg._ The Bridewain. Don, C, (do on, old English) to dress. “And up he rose, and he _donn’d_ on his clothes, And he d’upp’d the chamber door.” Hamlet. “He’s nicer in his war-day duds Nor udders _don’t_ i’ aw their best.” _Anderson._ Geordie Gill. Donk, C, damp. “It _donks_ an’ dazzles an’ does, but niver cūms iv any girt pell.” A Boatman, on the Ullswater weather. Dool, S, sadness. “Lang may I weep in _dool_ an’ sorrow.” _Hamilton._ The Braes o’ Yarrow. Douce, S and C, respectable, well-behaved. “An’ now I’m grown sae cursed _douce_, I pray and ponder but the house.” _Burns._ “The _douce_ dapper lanleady criet ‘Eat, an’ be welcome.’” _Anderson._ The Bleckell Murry-Neet. Doucht, S, could; Dowe in the past tense. “They held the nose an’ crook’t the mou’, An’ _doucht_ na bide the smell.” _Hogg._ The Witch o’ Fife. Dour, S, hard, stern. “I’ll set her up on yon crab-tree, It’s sour an’ _dour_, an’ so is she.” Old Rhyme. Dow, S, can, is able. “Gin we canna do as we wad, we maun do as we _dowe_.” Proverb. Dowly, C, melancholy, dismal. “When we turn’t round Windermere Watter heead, t’ waves blash’t seea _dowly_ ’at we war fairly heart-brossen.” _Betty Yewdale._ T’ terrible Knitters i’ Dent. Dree, S, suffer; C, slow, lingering, also to move slowly. “_Dree_ out the inch when ye’ve tholed the span.”—Proverb. “Six _dree_ year hed Susan languish’d Sen her Walter went away.” _Stagg._ The Return. Drook, S, drench. “An’ aye she took the tither sook To _drook_ the stoury tow.” Song—The weary pun’ o’ tow. Drouthy, S, thirsty. “The well o’ life is dribbling dry, An’ _drouthy, drouthy’s_ kimmer an’ I.” Song—My Kimmer and I. E. Eerie, S, fearful, or calculated to cause superstitious fear or awe. “Gloomy, gloomy was the nicht, An’ _eerie_ was the way.” Old Ballad—Young Tamlane. Egg, or Egg on, C, incite, urge.