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 ALMONDBURT AND HUDDERSFIELD. 35 Dagger, a word used as an oath : * By dagger / * Also as an exela- mation : ' What the dagger * (sometimes daggermefU) * art ta doin ? ' and so on. Damp, offensive fumes from hot coals. Used in a similar way in the words fire-(2amp, ohoke-(2a7np. Dampy, adj, damp ; moist, &c, Damstakes, the inclined plane, built of stones, or otherwise, over whieh flows the excess of water beyond what is necessary for^the mill. Dance, pronounced donee, or donfz. See Letter A (3). Dark, blind : said of persons who have lost their sight Dateless, heedless ; stupid ; without sense. Dand, or Dandy (pronounced Doad)y the nickname for George. I had originally written the word Doady according to the sound I heard ; but I noted Htdliwell's spelling, and remembermg that Saul and Patd are called Sole and Pole, I have thought it better to spell as above. 8<yul itscdf is frequently called eowl to rhyme to fowl, Dawgy, soft ; flabby. Used of under-done bread, <&c. Dawkin, a slut. See Dnle. Daytle, or Daytall (pronounced dayfJ), a man who works by the day, frequency changing his master. The word occurs in Tristram Shandy y where it is written daytall. It stands for day-Me, DeXf, pronounced as two syllables. See Letter Eea. So tefif De&f-yed, stupid head ; a dull fellow. DeSn, t. e, deam (r silent). A ' yato dean * is a stone gate-post. See Deam in HalliwelL Deem, to doom, judge, condemn. Used chiefly of a magistrate in some such form as this : * The chairman deemed him te pay a five shilling fine.' Deewark, or Dewark, i, e, a day-work : a term often used to mean ' three-quarters of an acre,' that being about what a man may mow in a day. The word is employed when no allusion to mowing is mada Deff, to wet with water ; the same as to ' leek/ or sprinkle. ' Get them clothes degged.* Jn some parts the form is dag; to 'leek,' however, is more usual herei Delf, a stone quarry ; a place where stone is delved. Delf-case, the sideboard on which the crockery, &c. are displayed. Delve, to dig. Demio, t. e, epidemic. So liver for deliver^ posit for deposit^ &c. A diseased potato is ' a demick^d un.' This mode of abbreviation is D 2