10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DWAUM»
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The English dialect dictionary, being the complete ...
Cor. Also \\'ritten dwaam Ayr. Edb. n.Cy. ; dwalm Sc. 11am.) Edb. N.C_v.l th.l n.
Yks.': dwame Pen: dwarm Ant. N.C_v.' e.Dur.I : dwaum Se. LIAM.) N.l.' N.Cy.' ;
dwawm Slk. Cor. ; and in forms daum m.Yks.'; dualm Sc.t_|n'.u.) [dw5m.dwam.] 1.
sb.
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Scottish Dictionary and Supplement: In Four Volumes. A-Kut
DUALM, Dwalm, Dwaum, «. 1. A swoon, S. See S. But toil and heat so overpowr'd
her pith, That she grew tabetless, and swarft therewith : — At last the dwaum
yeed frae her bit and bit, And she begins to draw her limbs and sit. Ross's
Hclenore ...
3
Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the ...
piled to one who has not strength in proportion to size ; as, She's wet grown, but
she's a mere dwaub, Ang. To DWAUM, ». a. To fade ; to decline in health. It is still
said in this sense, He dwaum'd away, Loth. V. Dualm, ». DWYBE, ». "An over-tall
...
John Jamieson, John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.), John Longmuir, 1867
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A Dictionary of the Scottish Language
To dwell, S. ; pret. du'alt. DWALLING, a. Dwelling, South of S. It has been justly
observed, that the Scots almost always pronounce short e as broad a, as mall, for
ttrelce, wall for well, mat for wet, who" for when, M. DWALM, DWAUM, a. V. Dunn.
John Jamieson, John Johnstone, 1846
Minding a coorse queer song like that often slid him off in a dwaum. His eyes
would narrow, and ... never hear Awa inyir dwaum, again till his father repeated
YEREAWA IN A DWAUM! this pinko tendency Stolid faces slid into view, scores
of 20.
6
Helenore, or, the Fortunate Shepherdess ... Also Songs, by ...
... indifferent so dree, to undergo, suffer Dridder, dread Drez'g/J, flow Drousty, an
ale-house in Lochlee hair, ragged cloaths )ung,driven,discouraged Dwaum,
faintness, sickness )weble,weak and yielding Arnbliterflhesnipe Eek, addition ic/
zst, ...
Alexander ROSS (Schoolmaster at Lochlee.), 1804
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
... when I went up the stair and found it was naebody ringing, I was gaun up to cry
on Jenny, for I was feart, when they' a' rung again ; a flash of fire glanced in my
een, and an unearthly , like a howlet's whusht, made me fa down in a. dwaum.
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The Noctes Ambrosianœ of "Blackwood".
... presence, clutch our verra conscience by the hair o' the head, and bendin' back
its neck, break its very spine, till it's murdered or maimed, in death or dwaum —
and oh ! mercy I what a hubbub noo amang a' the desperate distractions !
John Wilson, John Gibson Lockhart, William Maginn, 1843
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The Fortunate Shepherdess: A Pastoral Tale
And for a while shot out baith hand and foot, As she had been with an elf arrow
shot : - A At last the dwaum yeed frae her bit and bit, i And she begins to draw her
limbs and sit. * And by the help of a convenient stane, To which she did her ...
10
The Dialect of Craven in the West-Riding of the Country of ...
Sc. dwaum. Coles, o'eliquium pati. TAVE, To kick with the feet like a distracted
person. “Sick people are said to tuve when they catch at any thing or wave their
hands, when they want the use of reason.” Ray. TEUT. toven, furere. Coles uses
it ...
