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DADHAS
EALLACH
Dadhas, dais, dathas (see
Dabhasg).
Dairt, dartaidh, a heifer.
Dallag, a dormouse, fetid shrew,
a mole ; any little blind crea-
ture.
Dallag-an-fheoir, dallag-feoir
or fheoir, a dormouse, mole,
shrew.
Dallag-an-fhraoich, field shrew.
Damh, an ox, buck, hart, stag,
the male of the red deer.
Damh-allaidh or alluidh, a wild
ox or stag, etc. ; the pygarg.
Damh-cabrach, an antlered
stag.
Damh-de.\rg, the stag of the
red deer.
Damh-feidh, a hart.
Damh-fiadhaich, wild ox, buffalo,
pygarg.
Damh-nartaidh, a bullock.
Damhra, a wild beast.
Damh-ursainn (lit.), door-j)osts
ox — the best or only ox a
widow had — due and taken,
of old, by proprietor or other
at death of husband.
Daoi, a wild beast.
Daol, a fierce animal.
Dartach, a two-year-old bull.
Dart AN, cattle.
Dartan-eallaigh, herd or drove.
Dath-reodha, a mole.
Dealtag, a bat.
Dearg, a deer, red deer, moun-
tain deer, roe (lit. a "red").
Deargainmheadh, red cattle.
Deat, deata, a one-year-old
unshorn sheep.
Deathaid. two-year-old sheep.
Deghel, deodhal, deoghal, a
sucking calf.
Deil, deileang, deile-mhuc, or
deile-thorc, a pig, a young
two-year-old sow or hog.
Deilf, a dolphin.
Diaalag, dialtag, a bat.
Dianag, dionag, a two-year-old
sheep or goat, a hoggerel.
Di-millteach, a wandering,
destructiye cow or horse.
DiNiE, a lamb (Old Irish).
Diosc, diosg, a barren cow.
DoBHAR-cHU, doborci, dubharci,
an otter hound, an otter ; also
beaver.
DoBHRAN, doran, doran-donn,
douran, an otter, beaver,
dog.
DoBHRAX, doran-leas-leathann,
or leaslan, a beaver, an
otter.
DocoisLE, a whale.
DoRCAX, durcan, a yearling bull
calf.
DoR-CHU, dur-chu, an otter (see
Dobhar-chu).
Draineag, a hedgehog.
Drioman-dubh, a white-backed
cow (Druim-fhionn).
Drobh, a drove of cattle, etc.
Dromadair, drom;in, a drome-
dary.
Dubhag, a little black cow, etc.
(Blackie.)
Dubh-radan, a sable.
Dubh-reabh, a mole.
DuiL, an animal, a being.
DuRRAiDH, a sow or porker.
Each, a horse.
Each-coimhliongadh, a drome-
dary.
Each-mara, a sea-horse, the
morse or great walrus.
Each-reidh, a hackney.
Each-sith, a fairy horse (fabu-
lous).
Each-uisge, the water-horse —
a fabulous animal.
Eallach, eallaidh,eallamh, cattle
given as a tocher or dot.