dextro trop ous (dekstrotropus)

[L. dexter, right, + Gr. -τροπος (cf. τροπή, a turning), dextrous, dextrously, etc. See dexterous, etc. deylt, n. [ME. dey, deye, deie, daie, a maidservant (sometimes applied to a man-servant) about a farm, a milkmaid, milk), munkedeje, monk's concubine (munk, monk), etc. Usually referred to Icel. deig = Sw. deg = Norw. deig, dough, = E. dough, as if the deigja were orig. a 'baker' (cf. bakster deigja, above); but there is no evidence of this except the perhaps accidental similarity of form. Among the duties of the dey is mentioned that of feeding the young and weak of a flock or herd with foreign milk; this, in connection with the regular duty of milking the cows, gives some color to the phonetically doubt ful derivation from Sw. dagga, OSw. dæggja, suckle, = Dan. dægge, feed with foreign milk, cade, coddle (prob. not connected with Sw. dia = Dan. die, suck, = AS. ppr. " * diende, lactantes" (only in Benson's Lex.): see dug2. Hence dairy, v.] A female (sometimes a male) IMG:content-2538.png:[blocks in formation] In 1877 the introduction of a steam laundry broke the monopoly of the dhoby . Encyc. Brit ., XII. 142. Dhobie's itch, Tinea circinata, a kind of ringworm common in hot, moist climates. Also called washerman's itch, Indian ringworm , etc. dhobieman, dhobyman (do'bi-man), n.; pl. vant who had charge of a dairy and all things dhobiemen, dhobymen (-men). In the East, a pertaining to it; a female servant in general. She was as it were a maner deye. Chaucer, Nun's Priest's Tale, 1. 26. There my father he is an auld cobler, My mother she is an auld dey . washerman. [The] dhobyman was waiting outside, and in a few moments made his appearance - a black washerman, dre ed in cotton. W. H. Ru ell , Diary in India, I. 110.