dizen
Americanverb (used with object)
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Ye had five cogs, a dizen o' bickers, twa dizen o' piggins, three bowies, four cream dishes, and twa ladles, besides the wooden spoons that I packed up mysel.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 8 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 Vaughan, C.
What is the worth o' anything to me, puir auld deevil, that ha' no half a dizen years to live at the furthest.
From Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography by Hughes, Thomas
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 Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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 Swan, Annie S. (Annie Shepherd)
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