inconsistent or "donnart,"
_i.e._, stupid.

Daffin' does naething.

Playing accomplishes nothing.

Daily wearing needs yearly beiting.

Literally, clothes that are worn daily, require to be renewed
annually.

Dame, deem warily, ye watna wha wytes yoursel.

"Deemer," one who judges.--_Jamieson._ That is, judge other people
cautiously; we know not who blames ourselves.

Dammin' and lavin' is gude sure fishing.

"'Dammin' and lavin',' a low poaching mode of catching fish in
rivulets, by _damming_ and diverting the course of the stream, and
then _laving_ or throwing out the water, so as to get at the devoted
prey."--_Jamieson._

Danger past, God forgotten.

Daughters and dead fish are kittle keeping wares.

A suggestion that daughters should be married, and dead fish eaten,
otherwise they will both spoil on the hands of their possessors.
"Daughters are brittle ware."--_Dutch._ "Marry your son when you
will, and your daughter when you can."--_Spanish._

Daughters pay nae debts.

Dawted bairns can bear little.

Dawted daughters mak daidling wives.

Daughters who have been too much indulged or petted at home before
marriage make but indifferent wives.

Daylight will peep through a sma' hole.

Dead men are free men.

Dead men do nae harm.

Deal sma' and ser' a'.

Death and drink-draining are near neighbours.

In allusion to the drinking usages formerly common at burials.

Death and marriage break term-day.

Death at ae door and heirship at the other.

Death comes in and speirs nae questions.

"Death does not blow a trumpet."--_Danish._

Death defies the doctor.

Death pays a' scores.

Death's gude proof.

Deil be in the house that ye're beguiled in.

A compliment, meaning that a person is so shrewd that no less a
person than his Satanic majesty can deceive him.

Deil be in the pock that ye cam in.

Deil mend ye if your leg were broken.

The two last sayings are directly opposed to the preceding one, as
they wish all manner of evil to the agencies that bring any
particular person, whose presence is disagreeable.

Deil speed them that speir, and ken fu' weel.

That is, shame befall those who ask questions upon subjects with
which they are perfectly well acquainted; and who, by cross
questioning, &c., lead people to commit themselves.

Deil stick pride--my dog died o't.

Deil'