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Rh it. ,  [dwō]: dáð,, (deed,) good capacity, valour. See, -less,

dod [dɔd (dåd), dɔ̇d],, a low soughing sound, caused by the wind through the opening in the roof (as a harbinger of snow), a snawy d. (somewhat weaker than, ). dɔd (dåd): dɔ̇d:   þot, , a howling; soughing; roaring. in ,

dodd$1$ [dåd(d)],, tuft; tangled lock, a d. o’ hair;, , dodd,, = dott, , tuft; wisp; lump; doddur,, inter alia: tangled tuft of hair. In the sense of a very large piece , is “dawd, daud”, and in the sense of rag, ragged article of dress, it is “dud”.

†dodd$2$ [dȯd],, a broken nail (iron nail).  toddi,, small piece?

dodda [dådda],, expressing surprise: bless us! in the oh, d. me! dátt of dár,, that makes a tremendous impression?

doddel [dȯdəl],, a person constantly occupied, with trifles. . : *dutl. dutta (dytta),, to make repeated, slight jerks; to busy oneself with trifles.trifles, [sic] and dutla,, to be busy with trifles; dutlar,, slow-going person.

doddel [dȯdəl],, to be constantly occupied, with trifles.  See ,

dof [dɔf, dof, dȯf],, stale, having lost its strength, in the phrase “d. [dɔf, dof] mould [møld]”, mould, dried in heaps and (mixed with dry manure) used as litter for cows in the byre. a d. [dȯf] peat, a slow-burning or non-heating piece of peat. dovamold,, loose and barren (“powerless”) mould, with “d. mould”. — In a more comprehensive sense: dull; inert; silly, is  dowf, —, , and ,

dof [dof],, = mould; a (basket) o’ d.  See ,

dofen [dȯfən],, 1) to become slack and feeble (powerless); 2) to abate; calm, of storm, rough weather; he’s i’ de wadder. dofna,, to become slack and feeble. dovna, , to calm; abate, See ,

dofikus [dof··ikus·],, a heap, , of dried (powerless) mould; See, ( mould). ,

dofnin [dȯfnɩn],, calming, abatement of storm and rough weather; he’s a d. i’ de wadder. From ,


 * dogen,, see *.

doger [dōgər],, intense anxiety, anxious waiting, fearing that an accident may have occurred; shø [‘she’] was in a d., she was waiting anxiously.  arisen from the more common [*uppidagaðr] by omission of the first part of the, as the phrase “to be in a ” is with “to be ”; see further under the latter word. Note, however, døger, , day and night, used in sense of: a) point of time with regard to a certain natural or mystic effect of the time of day; b) spirits; humour, = döger ( dœgr,, period of twelve hours).

†doi [dåi],, expletive, in the phrase “ tak’ dee!” Really, name for the devil?

doit [dɔi‘t, dåi‘t],, a dull, indolent person. dottr,  dott, , a dull, incapable, careless person; doit,, a fool; numskull. As the development of sound - > - is regular in Norn (see Introd. V — also N.Spr. VII — § 19), and the, , as