Daglet. An icicle (A.H.S.Wr.). See Daggled.—N. & S.W.
'Thatched roofs are always hung with "daglets" in frost.'—Village Miners.
Dain. Noisome effluvia (A.B.C.H.Wr.). Formerly applied mainly to infectious effluvia, as 'Now dwoan't 'ee gwo too nigh thuck there chap; he've a had the small-pox, and the dain be in his clothes still.' (See Cunnington MS.). Now used of very bad smells in general.—N.W.
Dainty. Evil-smelling. 'That there meat's ter'ble dainty.'—N.W.
Dall. An expletive (S.).—N.W.
''Od dal th' vor'n ungrateful varment!'—Wilts Tales, p. 50.
Dandy-goshen. See Dandy-goslings.
Dandy-goslings. (1) Orchis mascula, L., Early Purple Orchis. See Gandigoslings, &c.—N.W. (2) O. Morio, L., Green-winged Meadow Orchis. Dandy-goshen at Salisbury (English Plant Names), also at Little Langford.—S.W.
*Dane, Daner. In Kingston Deverill there was an old man who called red-haired men 'Danes,' or 'Daners,' as 'Thee bist a Dane.' This being in the centre of the Alfred district, the term may be a survival. In Somerset red-haired men are often said to be 'a bit touched with the Danes.'
*Dane's Blood. Sambucus Ebulus, L., Dwarf Elder (Aubrey's Nat. Hist. Wilts, p. 50, ed. Brit.). It is popularly believed only to grow on the ancient battle-fields, and to have sprung originally from the blood of the slain Danes.