dizen

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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

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.

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)

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 Hughes, Thomas