dizen
Americanverb (used with object)
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O man," said he to Robin, "I wad pay ye half a dizen bottles o' wine wi' as great cheerfu'ness as I raise this glass to my lips.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 8 by Various
To-morrow, when the masks shall fall That dizen Nature's carnival, The pure shall see by their own will, Which overflowing Love shall fill, 'T is not within the force of fate The fate-conjoined to separate.
From Poems Household Edition by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shall we build to the purple of Pride, The trappings which dizen the proud?
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 by Various
Scarborough's ower classy for t' likes o' Mary an' me; it's all reight for bettermy-bodies that likes to dizen theirselves out an' sook cigars on church parade.
From Tales of the Ridings by C. Vaughan
Ye think ye've a hard time o't, but there's waur things than sewin' jackets at thirteenpence the dizen.'
From The Guinea Stamp A Tale of Modern Glasgow by Annie S. (Annie Shepherd) Swan
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