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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1090, Page 431

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    dunt = butt as from a goat or sheep
    dab = pick at
    dag = heavy shower
    daft = mad
    dast = in phrasess, or sentences like "I'm dast if I agree" = I certainly won't agree
    daw = a slatternly girl or woman, fonder of finery than cleanliness
    dockens = dock-leaves
    dull = wire snare for rabbits
    door= (pron. as boor) - sulky taciturn
    drachy = moist weather, fine showers
    driddle = dribble
    dreg = making two halves of a horse's load: necessary in soft or uneven ground
    droon = drown
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