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D.

_Dale._ _Dale_, a plain, a valley. Deal, from the same root.

_Dales._ _Dale_, a plain; _s_ for _sun_, son. Son of Dale.

_Daley._ _Dale_, a plain; _ig_, an adjective termination. Resembling a plain. Dealy, a kindred term.

_Dawson._ _Dawes_, days; _sun_, son. Son of days.

_Dearie._ _Dearie_, diminutive of _dear_, a dear. A little dear.

_Dern._ _Dern_, secret, hidden, sequestered.

_Dolte._ _Dolt_, stupefied, crazed.

_Dool._ _Dool_, sorrow. To sing _dool_ is to lament, to mourn.

_Dooley._ _Dool_, sorrow; _ig_, an adjective termination. Sorrowful.

_Doupe._ _Doupe_, the backside, the side or part of anything that is out of sight, or that is not observed.

_Douredoure._ _Doure_, stout, durable, sullen, stubborn; _doure_, stout, durable, etc. Very stout; portly; obstinate.

_Dow._ _Dow_, am, or are able.

_Dowie._ _Dowie_, worn with grief, fatigue, etc., half asleep.

_Dripps._ _Dreips_, or _drips_, drops.

_Duddy._ _Duddie_, ragged.

_Dyce._ _Dyce_, dice, checker-work.

E.

_Eldridge._ _Elriche_, _Elritch_, wild, hideous, ghostly, lonesome, uninhabited, except by spectres.

_Enburgh._ _Enbrugh_, Edinburgh.

F.

_Fae._ _Fae_, a foe, an enemy.

_Fallon._ _Fallan_, falling.

_Fallows._ _Fallow_, a fellow; _s_ for _sun_, son. Son of a fellow. Also, _fallows_, plural of _fallow_, a fellow.

_Faust._ _Faust_, a fault.

_Fay._ _Fay_, faith. Faye, of like kinship.

_Fell._ _Fell_, keen, biting, the flesh immediately underneath the skin, a moderately level field on the side or top of a hill.

_Ferley._ _Ferley_, or _ferlie_, to wonder, a wonder. Farley, from the same root.

_Firth._ _Firth_, or _frith_, a wood.

_Flegel._ _Fleg_, a kicker; _el_, denoting a personal name. A kicker; an opposer.

_Fothergill._ _Fother_, fodder; _gill_, from _giolla_, a servant. A fodder-servant.

_Fow._ _Fow_, or _fou_, full, fuddled, drunk.

_Fyler._ _Fyle_, to soil, to dirty; _ere_, an agent. One who soils, or is soiled.

G.

_Gaber._ _Gab_, the mouth; _ere_, an agent. One who uses the mouth; a prattler.

_Gair._ _Gair_, gear, dress, goods, effects, stuff.

_Gash._ _Gash_, wise, sagacious, talkative.

_Gear._ _Gear_, riches, goods of any kind.

_Geary._ _Gear_, riches; _ig_, an adjective termination. Rich; wealthy. Gearey, another spelling.

_Glen._ _Glen_, a dale, a deep valley.

_Goff._ _Gowff_, the game of Golf. A game played with a ball and a bat. It is a favorite game in Scotland and consists in driving the ball from one hole to another. The person who drives his ball into a hole with the fewest strokes is declared the winner.

_Gowdy._ _Gowd_, gould, gold; _ig_, an adjective termination. Gold-like; resembling gold.

_Great._ _Great_, great, intimate, familiar.

_Greely._ _Gree_, prize, victory; _líc_, like. Victorious. Greeley, of like derivation.

_Greer._ _Gree_, prize, victory; _ere_, an agent. One who gains the prize; the victor.

H.

_Hagey._ _Hag_, a scar; _ig_, implying an adjective. Resembling a scar.

_Hale._ _Hale_, whole, tight, healthy.

_Haly._ _Haly_, holy.

_Haldeman._ _Hald_, an abiding place; _man_, a man. A man that has an abiding place.

_Hap._ _Hap_, an outer garment, mantle, plaid. Happ, a kindred term.

_Haphold._ _Hap_, a plaid; _hold_, a captain. A captain invested with his plaid.

_Harner._ _Harn_, very coarse linen; _ere_, an agent. One who makes coarse linen.

_Hasher._ _Hash_, a fellow that neither knows how to dress nor act with propriety; _ere_, an agent. A fellow that does not dress becomingly.

_Haugh._ _Haugh_, a low, rich land, a valley.

_Haughey._ _Haugh_, a valley; _ig_, expressing an adjective. Valley-like.

_Haughton._ _Haugh_, a valley; _tún_, a town. A valley-town.

_Haverley._ _Haverel_, a half-witted person, half-witted.

_Hawkey._ _Hawkie_, a cow, properly one with a white face.

_Hearse._ _Hearse_, hoarse, rough, raucous.

_Heather._ _Heather_, a heath, a place overgrown with heath, a low shrub belonging to the family of ericaceous plants.

_Hecht._ _Hecht_, promised, foretold, the thing promised, or offered.

_Heckle._ _Heckle_, a board in which is fixed a number of sharp pins used in dressing hemp, flax, etc. Heckel, a cognate term.

_Helm._ _Helm_, rudder of a vessel.

_Helmer._ _Helm_, rudder; _ere_, an agent. One who has the charge of the rudder; a helmsman.

_Helmbold._ _Helm_, rudder, helm; _bóld_, a house. The helmsman’s house; pilot-house.

_Helms._ _Helm_, Helm; _sun_, son. Son of Helm.

_Herd._ _Herd_, to tend flocks, one who tends flocks.

_Herder._ _Herd_, to tend flocks; _ere_, an agent. One who tends flocks.

_Herry._ _Herry_, to plunder; most properly, to plunder birds’ nests.

_Hiney._ _Hiney_, honey.

_Hinger._ _Hing_, to hang; _ere_, an agent. A hanger; a hangman.

_Hitch._ _Hitch_, a loop, a knot.

_Hoff._ _Howff_, a tippling house, a house of resort.

_Hoole._ _Hool_, outer skin or case, a nut-shell, a peascod, a pea-pod.

_Hooley._ _Hoolie_, slowly, leisurely.

_Horney._ _Hornie_, one of the many names of the devil.

_Howe._ _Howe_, hollow, a hollow, or dell.

_Howkins._ _Howkins_, diggings.

_Howlett._ _Howlet_, an owlet, a small owl.

_Hoy._ _Hoy_, to urge, to press forward. Hoye, of like derivation.

_Hoyer._ _Hoy_, to urge; _ere_, an agent. One who urges; an urger.

_Hoyt._ _Hoyte_, to amble crazily.

_Hushen._ _Hushion_, a cushion.