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

DISTY-MELDER, s.
1. The last quantity of meal made of the crop of one year, S.
2. Metaph. one's latter end, S. B.
Journal Lond.

To DISTRUBIL, DISTROUBLE, v. a. To disturb.
Douglas.

Distrowblyne, s. Disturbance.
Barbour.

To DIT, DYT, DITT, v. a. To close up, S.
Douglas.

A. S. dytt-an, occludere, obturare.

To DITE, DYTE, DICT, v. a.
1. To indite, S.
Wallace.
2. To dictate to an amanuensis, S.
Baillie.
3. To indict.
Henrysone.

Teut. dicht-en, Sw. dickt-a, to compose; Germ. dicht-en, sententiam dicere, literis mandare.

Dyte, s. Composition.
Wyntown.

Ditement, s. Any thing indited.
Sir W. More.

Dittay, Dyttay, s. Indictment.
Wallace.