CRAVE, _vb._ to demand payment of a debt, to dun. A regular Sco. use of the word. O.E. _crafian_ is a loanword from Scand. See Kluge P.G.(2)I, 933. Cp. Norse _kreva_, to dun. CROVE, _sb._ hut, cottage. Ramsay, I, 158. O.N. _kró_, a hut, a little cottage (Haldorson), Norse, _kro_, specialized to "wine or ale house." So in Dan. CUNNAND, _adj._ knowing, skilful, dexterous. Wyntoun, VII, 3, 28; _connand_, V, 12, 1243; Douglas, II, 18, 22. O.N. _kunnandi_, knowing, learned, Norse _kunnande_, skilled. Deriv. _cunnandly_, _conandly_ (Wallace, I, 248). CUNNANDNESS, _sb._ skill, knowledge, wisdom. Wyntoun, V, 12, 280; VII, 8, 667. Sb. formation from _cunnand_. DAGGIT, _adj. pp._ soaked. Montg. S., 68, 11. O.N. _döggva_, to bedew, _döggottr_, covered with dew, Norse _dogga_, id., Sw. _dagg_, thin, drizzling rain, O. Sw. _dag_, dew, Shetland _dag_, dew, "he's dagen," it is misting. Cp. Cu. _daggy_, misty. DAPILL, _adj._ gray. Douglas, II, 257, 19; Scott 72, 126, "till hair and berd grow dapill." O.N. _depill_. See Skeat. DAPPLET, _adj._ spotted, flecked. Burns, VII, 11. See _dapple_ in Skeat Et.D. DASH, _vb._ to strike. Burns, 210, 872, 8, 7. O.N. _daska_, to strike, sb. _dask_, a strike, Norse _daska_, Dan., Sw. _daska_, M.E. _daschen_. See Bradley's Stratmann. DE, DEE, _vb._ to die, M.E. _deyen_. Undoubtedly a Scand. loan-word. Luik (91-93), agreeing with Napier, thinks the word is native from primitive Gmc. *_daujan_. I think, however, with Kluge, that if the word had existed in O.E. it would have appeared earlier. See Kluge P.G.(2)I, 933. O.N. _döyja_, Norse _döi_, O. Dan. _döia_, Dan, _dö_. On M.E. _deyen_ see Brate. DEGRAITHIT, _pp._ deprived of. Lyndsay, 523, 3935. Formed from the sb. _graith_, possessions, hence _degraith_, to dispossess. Cp. the Eng. parallel. See _graith_. DEY, DEE, _sb._ maid, woman. A.P.B., 151; Ramsay 399. O.N. _dæigja_, a dairy maid, Norse _deigja_, servant, _budeie_, dairy maid, O. Sw. _deghia_, _deijha_, maid, girl, sweetheart, O. Dan. _deije_, mistress, _deijepige_, servant. The Sco. word has nearly always the general sense of "woman." DING, _vb._ to drive, strike, beat, overcome. O.N. _dengja_, to hammer, Norse _dengja_, _denge_, to whip, beat, O. Sw. _dängia_ id., Sw. _dänge_, O. Dan. _dænge_, M.E. _dingen_. A very common word in Sco., used quite generally as Eng. "beat," in the sense of "surpassing." "To ding a'" = to beat everything. Cp. "to cow a'." DIRDUM, _sb._ tumult, uproar. Douglas, I, 117, 9. O.N. _dýra-dómr_, "doordoom, an ancient tribunal held at the door of the house of the suspected person, which often was followed by uproar and bloodshed" (Small). The word appears in Gael. as _durdan_.