Cuss _v._ to curse; Cussin Sarvice the Commination
Custin _s._ a kind of small wild plum
Cutty _adj._ small, as cutty-pipe, cutty-wren; Cutty-bye, a cradle, a hob-gobblin
Dadd.i.c.k _s._ rotten-wood; Dadd.i.c.ky _adj._ perished like rotten-wood, applied metaphorically to the old and feeble
Dag-end _s._ applied to a sheaf of reed
Daggers _s._ sword-gra.s.s, a kind of sedge
Dame _s._ never applied to the upper ranks of society, nor to the very lowest, but to such as farmer"s wives, or the schoolmistress: rarely if ever applied to a young woman
Dandy _adj._ distracted
Dap _v._ to hop as a ball
Dap _s._ the hop, or turn of a ball; also habits and peculiarities of a person, ex. I know all the daps on"m
Dor, Dare _v._ and _s._ to frighten, stupify: ex. Put a dor on"n
Dare-up _v._ to wake or rouse up a person that is dying or asleep
Dave _v._ to thaw
Davver, or Daver _v._ to fade, to droop; Davered drooping
Dawzin _s._ a conjuring device to discover minerals by the twisting of a hazel-rod
Devil-screech, Devil-swift, or Devilling _s._ the Swift
Devil"s Cow _s._ a kind of beetle
Dew-bit _s._ an early morsel before breakfast
Diddlec.u.m _adj._ distracted, mad
Diff _adj._ deaf
Dilly _adj._ cranky, queer
Dir"d _s._ thread, ex. Whaur"s my d"r"d and niddel?
Dish-wash, or Dippity-washty _s._ a water-wagtail
Dirsh, Drush, or Drasher _s._ a thrush
Dirt _s._ earth generally, as mould in a garden
Dirten _adj._ miry, dirty, or made of dirt
Dock _s._ the crupper of a saddle
Dockery-stick _s._ phosph.o.r.escent wood
Donnins _s._ dress, clothes
Double-sp.r.o.nged when potatoes lying in the ground throw out fresh tubers
Dough-fig _s._ a Turkey-fig
Douse, or Touse _s._ a smart blow, particularly on the face, ex. A douse on the chaps
Down-arg _v._ to contradict, ex. He "ood downarg I
Down-daggered _adj._ disconsolate, cast-down
Draen, Drean _v._ to drawl (Fr. _trainer_)
Draffit _s._ a tub for pigs"-wash (_draught-vat_)
Drail _s._ the piece of leather connecting the flail with its handle
Drang _s._ a narrow path or lane
Drang-way a drove or gate-way
Drapper _s._ a small tub
Drash _v._ to thrash; Drashel, or Thrashle _s._ a flail (A S _therscel_)
Drashold, or Dreshol _s._ a threshold
Drawl, Drail _s._ the forepart of the sull of a plough; in West Somerset, weng (A S _w.a.n.g_ or _weng_ a cheek)
Drift _s._ a lask, or looseness
Drimmeling _adj._ slow, continuous pain
Dring _v._ (_pret._ Drang) to throng, crowd, _s._ Dringet, a crowd (Dutch, _dringen_, to press)
Drink _s._ small beer, or cider
Droot _v._ to drivel
Dro _v._ (_part._ Dro"d) to throw, ex. The tree wur dro"d
Drow, or Drowy _v._ to dry, ex. It do drowy terble now, as applied to gra.s.s; Muck-adrowd, or Muck-adrowy _s._ dust