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Constructed of uncemented stone. "Dry-stone walls." Sir W. Scott.

Doubtfulness; uncertainty; doubt. [R.] Lamb. "The dubiety of his fate." Sir W. Scott.

opinion; being in doubt; wavering or fluctuating; undetermined. "Dubious policy." Sir T. Scott. A dubious, agitated state of mind. Thackeray.

Act of doubting; doubt. [R.] Sir T. Scott.

ntment; ill will; anger; displeasure. I drink it to thee in dudgeon and hostility. Sir T. Scott.

A seaweed of a reddish brown color, which is sometimes eaten, as in Scotland. The true dulse is Sarcophyllis edulis; the common is Rhodymenia. [Written also dillisk.] The crimson leaf of the dulse is seen To blush like a banner bathed in slaughter. Percival.

or bend, as one part over another. [R.] He was a little man, dumpled up together. Sir W. Scott.

ov. Eng.] My old dame Joan is something dunny, and will scarce know how to manage. Sir W. Scott.

A porpoise. [Scott.] Dunter goose (Zoöl.) the eider duck. J. Brand.

See Ern, n. Sir W. Scott.

. He gained their easy hearts. Dryden. He is too tyrannical to be an easy monarch. Sir W. Scott.

Ebony. [Poetic] "Framed of ebon and ivory." Sir W. Scott.

Of or pertaining to ivory. "[She] read from tablet eburnine." Sir W. Scott.

le ecclesiastic, he was subsequently preferred to the highest dignities of the church. Prescott.

Demonstration of admiration and approbation; applause. Prescott.

A dancing tune in the Scotch style.

the perilous edge Of battle. Milton. Pursue even to the very edge of destruction. Sir W. Scott.

thing; in the direction of the edge. Glad to get in a word, as they say, edgeways. Sir W. Scott.

Causing fear; eerie. [Scot.]

An image or representation; a form; a phantom; an apparition. Sir W. Scott.