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DEDST, or DIDST.—Did you?

DEEDILY.—Earnestly, intently.

"A looked at I maain deedily as though a had zummit to zaay."

DEEDY.—Industrious.

"Us was deedy at ut all daay."

DELVE.—To dig (but nearly obsolete).

DEMIREP.—A word applied to a woman for whom contempt is felt.

DERLIN'.—The smallest pig in a litter. The same as "Dall."

DERN.—An imprecation.

DESPERD.—Very great, desperate.

A zimmed in a desperd hurry."

DEW-BIT.—A small meal that perhaps could equally well be done without.

DEWSIERS.—The gristle of valves adjoining a pig's heart.

DIBBLE.—A gardener's implement. To hole for planting seeds; also to fish by dropping the bait on the surface of the water, and then alternately lifting it and letting it fall.

DIBS.—A game played with the small knuckle bones taken from legs of mutton; these bones are themselves called dibs.

DICKY.—"Upon my dicky" is a phrase sometimes used in support of an assertion.

DlCKY-BIRDS.—Children's phrase for all wild birds.

DIDDLE.—To cheat; to play a trick; to out-wit.

DIDDLED.—Out-witted.

DIDN'T OUGHT.—Ought not.

"A didn't ought to tawk like that ther' avoor the childern."

DIFFICULTER.—Comparative of difficult.

"This yer be difficulter to maayke than what that ther' be."

DILL, or DILLY.—The call for ducks, either word is repeated about four times in the call.

"Pray what have you for supper, Mrs. Bond?

Ge-us in the larder an* ducks in the pond.

Dilly, dilly, dilly, dilly, come an' be killed,

Passengers around us an' thaay must be villed."