An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

Barbour.

DYND, part. pa.
Bannatyne Poems.

To DING, v. a.
1. To drive,
S. Bellenden.
2. To exert one's self.
Henrysone.
3. To beat.
Wyntown.
4. To strike by piercing.
Bellenden.
5. To scourge, to flog.
Acts Ja. I.
6. To overcome, S.
Ferguson.
7. To excel. S.
Ramsay.
8. To discourage, S. B.
Ferguson.
9. To ding down, to overthrow, S.
Barbour.
10. To ding in, to drive in, S.
11. To ding off, to drive from.
Douglas.
12. To ding on, to attack with violence.
Barbour.
13. To ding out, to expel.
Bellenden.
To ding out the bottom of any thing, to make an end of it, S.
Baillie.
14. To ding ouer, to overthrow, also to overcome, S.
Poems Buchan Dial.
15. To ding throw, to pierce.
Bellenden.
16. To ding to dede, to kill with repeated strokes.
Wallace.

Isl. daeng-ia, Su. G. daeng-a, tundere.

To Ding, v. n.
1. To drive.
Douglas.
It's dingin on, it rains, or snows, S.
2. To ding down, to descend.
Lyndsay.

DING, DIGNE, adj. Worthy.
Douglas.

Fr. digne, Lat. dign-us.

DINGLEDOUSIE, s. A stick ignited at one end; foolishly given as a plaything to a child; Dumfr.

Su. G. dingl-a, to swing, and dusig, dizzy.

DINK, DENK, adj.
1. Neat, trim, S.
Evergreen.
2. Precise, saucy, Fife.
A. Douglas.