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 18 Dalba, s.—Ashes; dust.

Dalbădă, a.—Whitened with flour or ashes.

Dalbitch—(K. G. S.) Dry.

Dalgăgădăk, s.—A sorcerer; perhaps as exercising a pretended power over the wind.

Dallar, s.—Flame; as Kalla dallar, flame of the fire.

Dallăgă, s.—A strong wind, good for hunting the kangaroo. The wind prevents this very timid creature exercising its acute sense of hearing. The hunter makes his approach against the wind, and screens his movements by a leafy bough which he carries before him, and so creeps within spear-throw of the unsuspecting animal.

Dalyar, s.—Raw, uncooked meat; green wood.

Dambarijow, v.—Pres. part., Dambarijowin ; past tense, Dambarijaga. To bury; to hide.

Dămmălăk, s.—A parrot.

Danda, a.—Angular; having corners like a square bottle.

Dăng-yl s.—A sweetish substance, white; found on certain trees and plants supposed to be some insect secretion, much prized by the natives. Colonially termed Manna. Birds feed upon it and are in excellent condition during the season when it abounds. See Waumilyar.

Danjal, a.—Shallow; not deep.

Danjo, ad.—Together; in company; Ngannildanjo, we two together.

Dappa, s.—The native knife, formed of sharp-edged pieces of quartz fastened on a short stick. See Tabba.

Daran, s.—North word for Dămmălăk, a parrot.

Daran—A name given to those people who live to the eastward.

Darăng-ăn, v.—Pres part., Darang-anwin; past tense, Darang-ănăga. To spill; to let water fall.

Darbal. s.—An estuary. They speak of some great estuary in the interior, at a long distance, which they know only from the report of those who come from that direction. In the neighbourhood of Shark's Bay Capt. Grey discovered a large tract of country which looked like a dried up lake or estuary, having raised lands like islands standing above the surface, and with rolled stones, coral, and shells on the bottom. He walked upon it twelve miles in an easterly course, and could not discern, even with his telescope, any termination to it in that direction. This tract had no visible communication with the sea to the westward, there being a range of high hills interposed between it and the coast.

Dărbălăng, s—A person living on the banks of an estuary.

Dărbow, v.—Pres. part., Darbowin; past tense, Darbăga; to dive; to pass through or under, as in creeping through bushes or juugle.

Dardăk, s.—White clay; lime; fuller's earth.

Dardăknăbbow, v.—To put on white clay as mourning.

Dărdăr, s.—Mourning for the death of anyone. A term applicable to females only, who assume the marks of sorrow by drawing a streak