A provincial glossary; with a collection of local proverbs, and popular superstitions / By Francis Grose.

  • Francis Grose
Date:
1811
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A provincial glossary; with a collection of local proverbs, and popular superstitions / By Francis Grose. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    > DUC Dredge, a mixture of oats and barley, now little sown. Norf. and Iss. HL LEB alee Dree; to dree, to hold out, to be able togo. Dree also signifies long, tedious beyond expectation: likewise a hard bargainer, spoken of a person. N. In the Exmore dialect it signifies three. Dribble ; a true dribble, a laborious and diligent servant. N. | Drill; to drill a man on, to decoy or flatter a man into a thing; also to amuse with delays. S. Drinking, a refreshment between meals, used by the ploughmen, who eat a bit of bread and cheese and drink some beer when they come out of the fields, at ten in the morning and six in the evening. Kent. Droits, rights. Kent. From the French. Drope, a crow. Yorksh, Drou, to dry. Exm. Drought, the passage. West. Droze; the candle drozes, the candle melts in burning, from a current of air. Kent, Droze, to melt as a candle. N, Drozen, fond: : N, Drumbledrane, a drone; also a humble bee. Ex. Drumley, muddy, or thick water. N. Druve, a muddy river. Cumb. aa Dub, a pool of water. | Dubbed, blunt. Exm. Dubbler, a plate. Cumb. Duck; to duck, or dook, or dive in the water. Ex.
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