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dèabhadh

-aidh, sm Drying, draining. 2 Evaporating. 3 Shrinking, as the staves of a dish. 4 Circumstance of becoming dry, having shrunk or become parched. 5 Hasty encounter. 6** Wrangling. †7 Skirmish, battle. †8 Haste, despatch, hurry. Chun ar fuil a dhèabhadh, almost drying up our blood. A' dèabhadh, pr pt of dèabh. A Lochbroom rhymer says “'S e dèabhadh sluagh an t-saoghail thu,” by which he seems to mean, you are of the scum of creation. This word does not appear to be used in this sense elsewhere. — D.U.

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