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 WEST CORNWALL GLOSSART. 17 Dabbety Fay! an expression formerly tised by old people in W. Penwith as a pious inter- jection, equiyalent to **GiYe us faith!" H. E,a D a ff e r, small crockery • ware. saucers.'' Polwhele. Dagy a mining tool ; an axe. Dagging, jmrt. hanging down; trailing. ** That tree is dogging with fi-uit.*' ** Her dress is dog- ging in the mud." Dane, '^ red-headed Dane^^* a term of reproach. Dame-kn, a jack snipe. B. H. B., through W. NOye. Daps, Dops, an image ; a resem- hlance. * * He's the very d(W9 of his mother." Down-daps, Lost- withiel, J. W. Dash-an-darras, the stinup- glass. This old custom, <to speed the partinff ^est' (his foot in the stirrup) with a dram, still obtains in the W. of Com- walL" Polwhele (1808). Daver, t;. to soil; to fade as a flower. See Bedabber. Davered, p, p, as adj. soiled ; faded. •* Davered flowers." Day-berry, the wild gooseberry. Dead, p,p, as adj, fainted.  She went off deadj^ Dead and alive, adj. apathetic ; dulL Deads, the refuse of mines. Deaf-nettle, wild hemp. Dealsey, Delseed, a fir cone. Deef, adj. deaf; empty; rotten. "A deef nut." "The seeling, being deef, was scat" (broken).— Unde Jan Trenoodie. Benneck. "There is another species of tub-fish caught here (Alousehole) yery similar to, but much smaller than the former (t. e. tub), sometimes called Piper or Peeper, and by others Ellick, i>ennecA:,orEedannech." W.F.P. Devils bit, DevU's button, the blue Scabious. If picked the deril is said to appear at your bedside in the night. Dew-snail, a slug. ** As slippery as a deivsnail." Didjan, a smaU bit. Dido, a great noise. '' The cocks and the hens kicking up such a dido," Dig, Diggy, V. to scratch. " Don't dig your head so." Djey, a small farm. "A veiy small homestead." BottrelL Dimmet, Dnmmeti twilight Ding, V. to reiterate. Dinged, reiterated. " He dinged it into my ears from mominir to night." * Dinky, adj. tiny. F. C. Dinyan (pron, din-yan), a little comer, v "I dont like fitting carpets into these stupid din^ yaneJ* Dippa, a small pit: a mining term. Dish, the revenue received by the .lord of a tin-mine for the right of working it. Now paid in money, formerly in kmd, when eyery fifteenth or twentieth dish was put by for him. In W. Cornwall the country people still speak of a cup of tea as " a dish o' tay." Disknowledge. "He did not dieknowledge it." T. C, St. Just Dissel, Diesel, a thistle. Doat fig, a Turkey fig. "And dabb'd a ge'at doat fig in Fan Trembaa'slap." Dob, V. to throw stones at any- thing,
 * Bring the daffer^^ that is,
 * ' Bring the tea-things, cups and