DAPILL, adj. gray.  Douglas, II, 257, 19; Scott 72, 126, “till hair
    and berd grow dapill.”  O.N. depill.  See Skeat.

DAPPLET, adj. spotted, flecked.  Burns, VII, 11.  See dapple in
    Skeat Et.D.

DASH, vb. to strike.  Burns, 210, 872, 8, 7.  O.N. daska, to
    strike, sb. dask, a strike, Norse daska, Dan., Sw.
    daska, M.E. daschen.  See Bradley’s Stratmann.

DE, DEE, vb. to die, M.E. deyen.  Undoubtedly a Scand. loan-word. 
    Luik (91-93), agreeing with Napier, thinks the word is native
    from primitive Gmc. *_daujan_.  I think, however, with Kluge,
    that if the word had existed in O.E. it would have appeared
    earlier.  See Kluge P.G.(2)I, 933.  O.N. doeyja, Norse doei,
    O. Dan. doeia, Dan, doe.  On M.E. deyen see Brate.

DEGRAITHIT, pp. deprived of.  Lyndsay, 523, 3935.  Formed from the
    sb. graith, possessions, hence degraith, to dispossess. 
    Cp. the Eng. parallel.  See graith.

DEY, DEE, sb. maid, woman.  A.P.B., 151; Ramsay 399.  O.N. daeigja,
    a dairy maid, Norse deigja, servant, budeie, dairy maid,
    O. Sw. deghia, deijha, maid, girl, sweetheart, O. Dan.
    deije, mistress, deijepige, servant.  The Sco. word has
    nearly always the general sense of “woman.”

DING, vb. to drive, strike, beat, overcome.  O.N. dengja, to
    hammer, Norse dengja, denge, to whip, beat, O. Sw.
    daengia id., Sw. daenge, O. Dan. daenge, M.E. dingen. 
    A very common word in Sco., used quite generally as Eng.
    “beat,” in the sense of “surpassing.”  “To ding a’” = to beat
    everything.  Cp. “to cow a’.”

DIRDUM, sb. tumult, uproar.  Douglas, I, 117, 9.  O.N. dyra-domr,
    “doordoom, an ancient tribunal held at the door of the house
    of the suspected person, which often was followed by uproar
    and bloodshed” (Small).  The word appears in Gael. as durdan.

DOIF, adj. deaf, dull.  Irving, 214.  See douff.  For similar
    parallel forms cp. gowk and goilk; nowt and nolt;
    howk and holk; lowp and loip; bowdyn and boildin,
    etc.

DONK, adj. damp, moist.  Douglas, II, 196, 32; Dunbar, G.T., 97. 
    Cu. donky.  See Skeat under dank.  Cp. donk sb.

DONK, sb. a moist place.  Rolland, I, 2.  Sw. dial. dank, a moist
    marshy place, small valley.  O.N. doekk, a pool, Norse dok,
    a valley, Shetland dek.  Exhibits E. Scand. non-assimilation
    of nk to kk.