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Balfour: domera, domeral. In old Shetl. legal documents, legal ordinances, the word is found several times in the form dwmra (dumra). “…Quhilk [payment] is ordanit to be done within ane moneth ilk persoun under the paine of ane dwmra” (Anent payment of Syse herring. Court of Burray, etc. at Hous the XXV day of Junij 1604. Acts and Statutes). “Compeirit etc. and dwmlawit (submitted in judgement)… that thai and ewerie ane of thame sould cast and win ther peitis [‘peats’] yeirlie in time of yeir according to the ordinance set down in my Lordis precept direct theranent wnder the paine of ane dwmra” (Anent casting of peitis, etc. Court of Burray, etc. at Hous the XXV day of Junij 1604. Acts and Statutes). O.N. dómrof, n., failure to comply with a judgement.

domra² [dȯmra], sb., fog; dimness of the atmosphere; gathering of drizzly clouds, a d. o’ mist. Mⁿ. (not comm.). Deriv. of *dumm-, parallel form to “dimm-”; No. dumm, adj., = dimm (O.N. dimmr), adj., dim; obscure, inter alia, of the sky. r in domra may be original (cf. forms such as Ger. dämmern, Dämmerung, Da. dæmre, dæmring); note, however, No. dumla, vb., of the sky: to become dense and dark.

domsket [dȯ‘mskət], adj., dejected; silent; melancholy; Nm^w. (Esh.); occas. also dumsket [do‘mskət]. 2) gaping; struck dumb with astonishment; also domsi [dȯ‘msi]; Du. Deriv. of O.N. dumbr, adj., dumb; speechless (with paralysed senses); cf. Shetl. dummi, adj., hard of hearing. For the derivative ending cf.: a) No. dumsken, adj., hazy (R.), from “dumm” in sense of dim; dark; further, b) Shetl. dimsk-. — doms [dȯ‘ms], adj., out of sorts; peevish; sullen (Y^h.), is possibly a word different from domsket, domsi, arisen

by shortening of the Eng. expr. (also used in Shetl.) “in the dumps”.

don¹ [dȯn], sb., prop. dust, used in the foll. senses: 1) adhesive meal-dust which, in grinding corn, settles on the edges of the millstones; it is used e.g. in the preparing of “sooens” (L.Sc. sowans), pottage made of “sowans” mixed with meal; comm.; more rarely dun [dun], de d. o’ de meal (Conn.). 2) misty covering of clouds; haze in warm weather; der’r a het [‘hot’] don ower de land; Nm^w. Along with this, doni [dȯni], adj., of weather: hazy, misty and warm, d. wadder (Nm^w.). 3) a grain; trifle; particle, a don o’ meal, o’ sugar; no a don, not a grain; cf. dost, sb., in the same sense. Generally pronounced diff. from dun [dūn, dun], sb., bird’s down. — Cf. a) No. “dun” in “dunjord, dunmold”, f., a sort of loose, light earth; b) No. dunk, m., a quantity of refuse of hay, straw, etc.

don² [dȯn], sb., boom; din, of wind, esp.: a) gust of wind; sudden squall, a d. o’ wind (Uⁿ.); b) a whistling sound of the wind in the roof-opening, somewhat stronger than dod; Conn. *dun- or *dyn-. O.N. duna, f., and dynr, m., boom; noise; No. dun, dune and dyn, m.; Fær. dun, n., and duni, m. The form din [dɩn], boom, may have arisen from *dyn-, but is rather to be regarded as Eng. din, sb.

don [dȯn], vb., to boom; din; make a noise; to crash; of wind: to come with a gust or with a sough. Also din [dɩn], = Eng. din, vb. O.N. duna and dynja, vb., to boom; crash. See don², sb.

donder, sb. and vb., see dunder.

donek [donək (dɔnək)], sb., a swampy hole; puddle. Du. Prob. to be classed with dien, dine-, sb., with dropped i-mutation; see further dien.

doner [dȯnər], sb., a fierce blaz-