Dornoge [_d_ sounded as in doodoge above]; a small round lump of a stone, fit to be cast from the hand. Irish _dorn_, the shut hand, with the dim. _óg_.
Double up; to render a person helpless either in fight or in argument. The old tinker in the fair got a blow of an amazon's fist which 'sent him sprawling and _doubled_ him up for the rest of the evening.' (Robert Dwyer Joyce: 'Madeline's Vow.')
Down in the heels; broken down in fortune (one mark of which is the state of the heels of shoes). { 250}
Down blow; a heavy or almost ruinous blow of any kind:--'The loss of that cow was a down blow to poor widow Cleary.'
Downface; to persist boldly in an assertion (whether true or no): He downfaced me that he returned the money I lent him, though he never did.
Down-the-banks; a scolding, a reprimand, punishment of any kind.
Dozed: a piece of timber is dozed when there is a dry rot in the heart of it. (Myself for Limk.: Kane for North.)
Drad; a grin or contortion of the mouth. (Joyce.)
Drag home. (Simmons; Armagh: same as Hauling home, which see.)
Drass; a short time, a turn:--'You walk a drass now and let me ride': 'I always smoke a drass before I go to bed of a night.' ('Collegians,' Limerick.) Irish _dreas_, same sound and meaning.
Drench: a form of the English _drink_, but used in a peculiar sense in Ireland. A _drench_ is a philtre, a love-potion, a love-compelling drink over which certain charms were repeated during its preparation. Made by boiling certain herbs (_orchis_) in water or milk, and the person drinks it unsuspectingly. In my boyhood time a beautiful young girl belonging to a most respectable family ran off with an ill-favoured obscure beggarly diseased wretch. The occurrence was looked on with great astonishment and horror by the people--no wonder; and the universal belief was that the fellow's old mother had given the poor girl a _drench_. To this hour I cannot make any guess at the cause of that astounding elopement: and it is { 251} not surprising that the people were driven to the supernatural for an explanation.
Dresser; a set of shelves and drawers in a frame in a kitchen for holding plates, knives, &c.
Drisheen is now used in Cork as an English word, to denote a sort of pudding made of the narrow intestines of a sheep, filled with blood that has been cleared of the red colouring matter, and mixed with meal and some other ingredients. So far as I know, this viand and its name are peculiar to Cork, where _drisheen_ is considered suitable for persons of weak or delicate digestion. (I should observe that a recent reviewer of one of my books states that drisheen is also made in Waterford.) Irish _dreas_ or driss, applied to anything slender, as a bramble, one of the smaller intestines, &c.--with the diminutive.