Dive
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DIVE, sb. Obs.? Sc. Also written dyve. The putrid moisture which issues from the mouth, nostrils, &c., of a person after death. n.Sc. (JAM.) Frf. With odours, an' the like, belyve They drown'd the dreadfu' smelling dyve, Piper of Peebles (1794) 16. Hence Divie, adj. having much ‘dive.’ n.Sc. A divie corp (JAM.).
DIVE, v. Var. gram. forms and dial. uses in Sc. and Eng. [daiv, dīv.] I. Gram. forms. 1. Present Tense: (1) Deeve, (2) Deve, (3) Dieve. (1) Suf.1 Deeve yar hand in. e.Suf. (F.H.), Sus.1 (2) e.An.1, Nrf.1 (3) Suf. (C.T.) 2. Preterite: (1) Dave, (2) Deave, (3) Deeved, (4) Div, (5) Divet, (6) Dove, (7) Doved. (1) w.Yks. Deəv, Wright Gram. Wndhll. (1892) 129. (2) m.Yks.1 (3) Nrf. He deeved just as I got to him (M.C.H.B.). Suf. (F.H.) (4) Nrf. He div down and got it (M.C.H.B.). (5) Abd. (W.M.), Cum. (J.A.) (6) s.Lan. I will not say I never heard ‘dove,’ as ‘he dove in for it,’ but you would ten times oftener hear people say ‘he dived in for it’ (S.W.). s.Wor. 'E dove into the wauter (H.K.). Nrf. Still in use (M.C.H.B.). Ken. (W.G.), Wil. (G.E.D.) [Amer. Straight into the river Kwasind... Dove as if he were a beaver, Longfellow Hiawatha, c. vii; Bartlett.] (7) Wil. (G.E.D.), w.Cor. (M.A.C.) 3. pp.: (1) Deeved, (2) Diven, (3) Divet, (4) Dove, (5) Doved, (6) Duv. (1) Nrf. He's deeved, don't [if not] I think so. He ha' deeved, I now [just now] see him (M.C.H.B.). e.Suf. (F.H.) (2) e.Yks. Now and then heard in North Holderness (R.S.). w.Yks. Divm, Wright Gram. Wndhll. (1892) 129. Sus. I'd a div'n furdther if I'd a know'd un (E.E.S.). (3) Abd. (W.M.), Cum. (J.A.) (4) s.Wor. Ahter a'd dove in, t'others follered 'im (H.K.). Wil. (G.E.D.) (5) Wil. (G.E.D.), w.Cor. (M.A.C.) (6) s.Wor. (H.K.) II. Dial. uses. 1. To dip; to draw water out of a pond, &c., with a bucket or pail. e.An.1, Suf. (C.T.), Suf.1, e.Suf. (F.H.) Hence (1) Deeving, (2) Deving-place, sb. a place made by and in a pond where water can be best obtained by dipping with a bucket, &c.; (3) Deving-pond, sb. a pond from which water is drawn for domestic purposes, by dipping with a pail or bucket. (1) Suf. You'll find right a good deeving there a little fudder along. A bad place for deeving (C.G.B.); (H.J.L.R.); e.An. Dy. Times (1892). (2) Suf. (C.T.) (3) e.An.1, Nrf.1 2. To plunge, hurry forward. Gall. He dived at once over the turf dyke, Crockett Moss-Hags (1895) 257. w.Yks. Very common in Craven. He dived out o' t'gait (J.T.). Hence (1) Dive-an-dop, (2) Dive-dapper, (3) Divedop, sb. the little grebe, Trachybaptes fluviatilis; (4) Diver, sb. (a) the pochard, Fuligula ferina; (b) the golden eye, Clangula glaucion; (5) Divers, sb. pl. the larger blocks of burr stone used for making river embankments; (6) Divie-goo, sb. the black-backed gull, Larus marinus; (7) Diving-duck, see Diver; (8) Diving-pigeon, sb. the black guillemot, Uria Grylle; (9) Divy-duck, see Divedop. (1) Nrf. Swainson Birds (1885) 216; Cozens-Hardy Broad Nrf. (1893) 50. (2) Lin. Swainson Birds Ken.1 s.v. Didapper. (3) Lin. Swainson Birds (4) Rxb. Swainson Birds 160, 161. (5) Chs.1 They are thrown in first, so as to make a solid foundation between which the smaller stones lodge. (6) Rxb. (JAM.) (7) Sh.I. Swainson Birds 160. (8) Nhb. Farn Islands, SWAINSON Birds 218. (9) Hrf.1 Nrf. Swainson Birds 216. Dor. Barnes Gl. (1863). [OE. dȳfan, to dip, submerge.]
DIVE, see Deave.
DIVE, sb.2 Pem. The stave of a cask. (J.S.O.T.)
DIVE, v.1 Yks. Dor. 1. In comp. Dive-dapper, the puffin, Fratercula arctica. Dor. (E.C.M.) 2. With dive into: to search into, inquire. n.Yks. (I.W.)
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