DONK, vb. to moisten.  Dunbar, T.M.W., 10, 512.  M.E. donken, to
    moisten.  See donk, adj.

DONNART, adj. stupid, stupefied.  Mansie Wauch, 96, 29.  Norse
    daana, Sw. dana, to faint.  For the r cp. dumbfoundered,
    M.W., p. 210, 25.  An excrescent r appears in a number of
    words, so in dynnart, a variant of the word above, Dunbar,
    T.M.W. 10.  Cp. daunert, in stupor, Johnnie Gibb, 56, 44,
    and dauner, to wander aimlessly, Psalms CVII, 40.

DOOCK, DUCK. sb. a kind of coarse cloth.  Jamieson.  Probably in
    this case, as the form of the word indicates, from O.N.
    dukr, O. Sw. d[-u]ker, cloth.  Cp.  Norse d[-u]k, Dan.
    dug, Sw. dial. duk.  Skeat derives the Eng. duck from Du.
    dock, but the Sco. word agrees more closely with the Norse.

DOSEN, adj. stupefied.  Burns 220, 107, 2.  Cp.  Cu. dozent,
    stupefied, and Mansie Wauch, 207, 24, dozing, whirling,
    sprawling.  The Norse work dusen has the same meaning as
    dosen above.  The form dosynt, pp. dazed, stunned (Burns),
    is to be explained from a Sco. vb. dosen (not necessarily
    dosnen in Scotland), corresponding to M.E. dasin, O.N.
    dasa.  See Skeat under doze.

DOWFF, DOUF, DOLF, adj. deaf, dull, melancholy, miserable. 
    Douglas, II, 63, 11; Burns, 44, 4.  O.N. daufr, deaf, Norse
    dauv, drowsy, dull, dauva, make drowsy.  See dowie.

DOWIE, DOWY, adj/ melancholy, dismal.  O.N. doufr, dead, drowsy. 
    Norse dauv, dau, id.  Cp.  Sco. doolie and Ir. doiligh,
    mournful, O.N. daufligr, dismal.

DOWLESS, adj. careless, worthless.  Isaiah, 32, 11.  O.N.
    duglauss, Norse duglaus, good for nothing, said of a person
    who has lost all courage or strength, as opposed to duglegr,
    capable.  Norse dugloysa, weakness, inability.  Cp.  Dan.
    due, to be able.  Germ. taugen.

DRAIK, vb. to drown, drench.  Lyndsay, 247, 714; draikit, Isaiah,
    I, 22.  Apparently from O.N. drekkja, to drown, to swamp.  The
    vowel is difficult to explain.  The Cu. form drakt, drenched,
    wet, indicates a verb, drak.  The change in vowel would then
    be similar to that in dwall from O.N. dvelja, Eng.
    dwell.  Uncertain.

DRAM, sb. a drink.  Fergusson, 40; Mansie Wauch, 9, 9; 90, 2.  Norse
    dram, a drink, always used with reference to a strong drink,
    so in Sco.  Dan. dram, as much of a strong drink as is taken
    at one time (Molbeck).  O. Sw. dramb, drinking in general,
    carousing.  This usage of dram is distinctively Scand. and
    Sco.  Cp.  Eng. dram, Sco. vb. dram, to furnish with drinks.