Duds. s. pl. Dirty cloaths.
Dum'bledore. s. A humble-bee; a stupid fellow.
Dunch, (Dunce?). adj. Deaf.
As a deaf person is very often, apparently at least, stupid; a stupid, intractable person is, therefore, called a DUNCE: one who is deaf and intractable. What now becomes of Duns Scotus, and all the rest of the recondite observations bestowed upon DUNCE?—See GROSE.
I have no doubt that Dunch is Anglo-Saxon, although I cannot find it in any of our old dictionaries, except Bailey's. But it ought not to be forgotten, that many words are floating about which are being arrested by our etymologists in the present advancing age of investigation.
Durns. s. pl. A door-frame.
Dwon't, Dwon. v. (Don't) do not.
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Eake. adv. Also.
Ear-wrig. s. Earwig.