Scottish dictionary and supplement Volume 3; In four volumes. Suppl. Aai-Jux

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 Excerpt: ...a prater," Cotgr.; andO.E.di/sours, story-tellers, Weber's Metr. Romanc.; used in the same sense by Gower, Lib. vii. But there is no evidence that this word was known in S. DICHEL, (gutt.) s. A bad scrape, Ettr. For. This, I think, must be allied to DichaU, q. v. DICHELS, Dighai.s, (gutt.) pi. 1. Reprehension, correction. "I gat my dichals" I was severely reproved, Renfrews.; synon. Dixie. 2. Used also to denote a drubbing, ibid., Dumfr.; as, "Well, my lad, I thinkye'llget your dicheh.'" Tell us how our auld frien's the Stan' 'gainst the warl crouse and stainch; And how the bonny Fernig foichals Gie G n thieves and slaves their dichals. Poetns, Engl., Scotch, and Latin, p. 103. Perhaps from Gael, dioghla, dioghalt, revenge, dioghal-am, to revenge. But it seems more immediately akin to C.B. digiawl, tending to anger, dikLhoned displeasure; from dig-iaiv to offend, to be offended, to be angry. This word may be viewed as a relique of the Cumbrian kingdom of Stratclyde. DICHENS, (gutt.) s. pi. A beating, Galloway; synon. licks. 2. Severe retribution in whatever way, Selkirks. "My master an' she hae this wark to answer for yet; they'll get their dichens for't some day.--They'll squeel for this--let them tak it." Brownie of Bodsbeck, ii. 127. This seems to be only a local variety of Dichals, q. v. To DICHT, Dvcht, v. a. 5. To make clean, to wipe, be Add; In this sense it is very often used to denote the wiping away of tears, S. Butthey cannndight their tears now, sae fast do they fa', Our ladie dow do nought now but wipe aye her een. Lament L. Maxwell, Jacobite Relics, ii. 35. It is singular that this v., in Cheshire, has a sense directly inverted. "To dight; to foul or dirty one:" Ray's Collect, p. 21. 7. To sift, S. ...