_To_ DRESS, _v. a._

1. To treat well or ill.

_Wyntown._

2. To chastise, to drub, S.

3. To iron linens, S. _Dressing_-iron, a smoothing iron, S.

DRESSE, _s._ Exhibition.

_G.o.dly Ball._

DRESSER, _s._ A kitchen table, S.

Teut. _dressoor_, Fr. _dressoir_, a sideboard.

DREVEL, _s._ A driveller.

_Dunbar._

DREUILLYNG, DRIUYLLING, _s._ The vagaries of the mind, during unsound sleep.

_Douglas._

Isl. _draefl_, _drafl_, sermo stultus; also apinae, fooleries.

DREW, _s._

1. A species of sea-weed that grows very long, Orkn.

_Neill._

2. Sea laces, Fucus filum, S.

Isl. _driugr_, prolixus.

DREW, _s._ A drop.

_Palice Honour._

DRIB, DRIBBLE, _s._

1. A drop, S.

_Ramsay._

2. Drizzling rain, S.

_Burns._

Belg. _druppel_, a drop.

DRY GOOSE, a handful of the finest meal, pressed very close together, dipt in water, and then roasted among the ashes of a kiln, S. A.

DRYCHYN, DRYCHYNG, _s._ Delay.

V. ~Dreich~.

_Wallace._

_To_ DRIDDER, _v. a._

V. ~Dredour~.

_To_ DRIDDLE, _v. n._

1. To spill from carelessness, Loth.

2. To have a diarrhoea.

_Montgomerie._

_To_ DRIDDLE, _v. n._

1. To move slowly, S. B., same as _druttle_, q. v.

2. To be diligent without progress, Border.

DRIDDLES, _s. pl._ The intestines of a slaughtered animal, Fife.

DRIDDLINS, _s. pl._ The knotted meal left after baking, S.

Germ. _trodel_, _treidel_, veteramenta.

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