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_Douglas._
DAIL, _s._ A ewe, which not becoming pregnant, is fattened for consumption.
_Complaynt S._
DAIMEN, _adj._ Rare, occasional, S. _auntrin_, synon.
~Daimen-Icker~, _s._ An ear of corn met with occasionally, S.
_Burns._
From A. S. _aecer_, an ear of corn, and perhaps _diement_, counted, from A. S. _dem-an_, to reckon.
DAINTA, DAINTIS, _interj._ It avails not, Aberd.
_Ross._
Teut. _dien-en_, to avail, and _intet_, nothing.
DAYNTe, _s._ Regard.
_Wyntown._
~Dainty~, _s._
1. Pleasant, good-humoured, S.
2. Worthy, excellent, S.
_Burns._
Isl. _daindi_, excellenter bonum quid; _dandis madr_, h.o.m.o virtuosus; rendered in Dan., _en brav mand_, S. a _braw man_; perfectly synon. with ”a _dainty_ man.”
~Daint.i.th~, _s._ A dainty, S.
_Kelly._
DAISE, _s._ The part of a stone bruised in consequence of the strokes of the pickaxe or chizzel, Ang.
DAYIS. _To hald dayis_, to hold a truce.
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