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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1825 edition. Excerpt: ..."gam to the dike-side." DICKIES, s. pi. Severe reprehension, Upp. Clydes. This is merely a variety of Dixie. V. also Dichels, Dighals. DICTAY, s. Indictment. V. Dittay, under Dite, Dyte, V. To DIDDLE, v. n. To shake to, jog. Add; In this sense it is probably allied to Fr. dodelin-cr, to rock, or jog up and down. To Diddle, V. a. To shake, to jog, Roxb. Add; In his profession he had right good luck At bridals his elbo' to diddle. A. Scott's Poernx, 1811, p. 34. Diddle, S. A jingle of music, Ayrs. As they through the reel are tost,--Some old fam'd musician's ghost Strikes up thunder to the dance. In their ears it is a diddle, Like the sounding of a fiddle. Train's Poet. Rev. DYED r THE WOO', i. e. wool; a proverbial phrase signifying, naturally clever, Kinross. DIET, Dyktt, 1. An excursion, a journey. "Sum of the conspiratouris, who hard tell of the kingis dyctt, followed fast to Leith eftir him, and thought to have gottin him, bott they missed him." Pitscottie's Cron. p. 212. Diet, Ed. 1728.--" The king--prayeth him to waken up all men to attend his coming:--for his diet would be sooner perhaps than was looked for," &c. Calderwood, p. 248. V. Cun Thanks. 9,. Used in an ecclesiastical sense, to denote the discharge of some part of ministerial duty at a fixed time; as a diet of examination, a diet of visitation, on such a day, or at such an hour, S. 3. Used also in relation to the order in which ministers officiate in succession; as, A. lias thefirst diet of preaching, B. the second, S. These may be viewed as oblique senses of the E. word, which is confined to "an assembly of princes or estates." But it seems rather transmitted from the sense in which L.B. dieta has been used in times of Popery....
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- PublisherRarebooksclub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1234351323
- ISBN 13 9781234351328
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages632
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