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Same as Dempster. [Scot.]

Belgium, and used for hangings, carpets, etc. Also, a stout figured linen manufactured in Scotland. [Formerly written also darnex, dornic, dorneck, etc.] Halliwell. Jamieson.

Foolish; weak; imbecile. Sir W. Scott.

Sober; prudent; sedate; modest. [Scot.] And this is a douce, honest man. Sir W. Scott.

A grebe or diver; -- applied also to the golden-eye, pochard, scoter, and other ducks. [Written also ducker.] [Prov. Eng.]

Hard; inflexible; obstinate; sour in aspect; hardy; bold. [Scot.] A dour wife, a sour old carlin. C. Reade.

To put out; to extinguish. [Slang] " To douse the glim." Sir W. Scott.

A coarse linen cloth made in the north of England and in Scotland, now nearly replaced by calico. Shak.

ring to rest; time of repose. Cavendish. At the downlying, at the travail in childbirth. [Scot.]

positive; as, he spoke in his downright way. A man of plain, downright character. Sir W. Scott.

lve; with or without of before the substantive which follows. "Some six or seven dozen of Scots." "A dozen of shirts to your back." "A dozen sons." "Half a dozen friends." Shak.

iminish or exhaust by drawing. [R.] The Parliament so often draughted and drained. Sir W. Scott.

re without remorse. Spenser. He hastened to draw the stranger into a private room. Sir W. Scott. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats James ii. 6. The arrow is now drawn to the head. Atterbury.

To endure; to suffer. [Scot.]

e poem a compliment on his country in general. Addison. Now thou knowest my drift. Sir W. Scott.

rove against his flying sails. Dryden. Under cover of the night and a driving tempest. Prescott. Time driveth onward fast, And in a little while our lips are dumb. Tennyson.

you and pick you up again. Thackeray. The connection had been dropped many years. Sir W. Scott. Dropping the too rough H in Hell and Heaven. Tennyson.

One who drubs. Sir W. Scott.

Turbid; muddy. [Scot. & Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Wodroephe (1623). Burns.

Of the eyes: Not shedding tears. Not a dry eye was to be seen in the assembly. Prescott.