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Definition of Dilled
1. flavored with dill [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dilled
Literary usage of Dilled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other ...by Church of England by Church of England (1809)
"... who is like unto thee ? thy th, mod mighty Lord, is on every fide. 10 Thou
ruled the raging of the fea: thou dilled the ves thereof when they arife. ..."
2. Recollections of a Lifetime: Or Men and Things I Have Seen: in a Series of by Samuel Griswold Goodrich (1857)
"There's beef in the larder and ducks in the pond: Dill, dill, dill, dill, dilled,
Come here and be killed !" Col. Bradley's house, that seemed once so awful ..."
3. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"dilled. Quite finished. Cumb. DILLING. A darling, or favourite. Also, the youngest
child, or the youngest of a brood. DILLS. The paps of a sow. East. DILLY. ..."
4. Cursor Mundi: (The Cursur O the World). A Northumbrian Poem of the XIVth by Hugo Carl Wilhelm Haenisch, Heinrich Hupe, Max Kaluza (1874)
"... it ay quilis soho moght, And ioseph lete he wist it noght, And wist and dilled
it as fe wise, ..."
5. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1847)
"Í. dilled. Quite finished. Cumb. DILLING. A darling, or favourite. Also, the
youngest child, or the youngest of a brood. ..."
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