daver, v. dial.
(ˈdeɪvə(r))
[In I. app. cognate with Du. daveren to shake, quake, MLG., LG. dawern, a word of frequentative form, of which the root is uncertain. In II. perh. transferred from the same.]
I. Sc. and north Eng. intr. To move or walk as if dazed or stupefied, to stagger; also to be benumbed. trans. To stupefy, stun, benumb.
| c 1600 J. Burel in Watson Collect. ii. (1706) 30 (Jam.) Bot tauren and dauren, Like ane daft doitit fule. 1785 Jrnl. fr. Lond. 6 in Poems Buchan Dial. (Jam.), We bein wat wou'd soon grow davert to stand..i' the cauld that time o' night. 1796 Macneill Will & Jean lxiii, See them now—how changed wi' drinking!.. Davered, doited, daized and blinking. 1820 St. Kathleen III. 115 (Jam.) ‘Here's the bed, man! Whare..are ye davering to?’ 1824 E. Swinburne in J. Raine Mem. J. Hodgson (1858) II. 45, I am somewhat davered about the vignettes. |
II. south-west. dial. intr. To fade, wither. Also fig. (In first quot. causative or trans.)
| 1621 J. Reynolds God's Revenge agst. Murder i. v. 154 As if time and age had not power to wither the blossomes of our youth, as the Sunne hath to dauer the freshest Roses and Lillies. 1622 W. Yonge Diary 63 [The] hedges..davered as if they had been scorched with lightning. 1654 Vilvain Epit. Ess. vii. 54 My Piety 'gan to daver [L. labefacta cadebat]. 1787 Grose Prov. Gloss., Daver, to fade like a flower. Devon. 1880 W. Cornwall Gloss., Daver, to soil; to fade as a flower. |