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

Isl. driugr, prolixus.

DREW, s. A drop.
Palice Honour.

DRIB, DRIBBLE, s.
1. A drop, S.
Ramsay.
2. Drizzling rain, S.
Burns.

Belg. druppel, a drop.

DRY GOOSE, a handful of the finest meal, pressed very close together, dipt in water, and then roasted among the ashes of a kiln, S. A.

DRYCHYN, DRYCHYNG, s. Delay.
V. [Dreich].
Wallace.

To DRIDDER, v. a.
V. [Dredour].

To DRIDDLE, v. n.
1. To spill from carelessness, Loth.
2. To have a diarrhoea.
Montgomerie.

To DRIDDLE, v. n.
1. To move slowly, S. B., same as [druttle], q. v.
2. To be diligent without progress, Border.

DRIDDLES, s. pl. The intestines of a slaughtered animal, Fife.