dill2 (dil)

t. [North. E. and Sc.; I haif thee luiot baith loud and still, Thir tomwonds twa or thre; My dule [grief] in dern bot giff [unle ] thou dill , Doubtle but dreid Ill die. Robin and Makyne , Percy's Reliques. I know what is in this medicine. It'll dill fevers. S. Judd, Margaret, p. 140. A fine hair The smallest tin which pa es through the wire sieve is put into another finely weaved horse-hair sieve, called a Dilluer , by which and the skill of the workman it is made Pryce (1788). dillweed (dil'wed), n. [Also written dilweed ; dill1 , 2, + weed1 .] Mayweed. dilly1 (dil'i), n. An abbreviation of diligence2 . So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides The Derby dilly , carrying three insides. dilly (dil'i), n. G. Canning, in Loves of the Triangles. Same as daffodil , daffodilly . dilly3 (dil'i), n. A small sapotaceous tree, Mi musops Sieberi , specifically called the wild dilly , found on the Florida keys and in the West Indies. Its wood is very heavy and hard, of a dark-brown color, and susceptible of a beautiful polish.