dizen
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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 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
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 Thomas Hughes
I dinna consort wi' shoplifters, an' idiots, an' suckin' bairns—wi' long nose, an' short nose, an' pug nose, an' seventeen Deuks o' Wellington, let alone a baker's dizen o' Queens.
From Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography by Thomas Hughes
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
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