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Definition of the day : « dither »
- noun upset
- The planks at his feet had started to dither again, and practice told him that the vessel must be moving.
- Extract from : « The Hero of Panama » by F. S. Brereton
- Without the stimulus of nature before him it was difficult to preserve the "dither" in the drawing, and the life has escaped.
- Extract from : « The Practice and Science Of Drawing » by Harold Speed
- There must be enough play between the vital parts to allow of some movement; "dither" is, I believe, the Scotch word for it.
- Extract from : « The Practice and Science Of Drawing » by Harold Speed
- About seventy-five per cent of the golfers who follow the usual tuition are "all of a dither."
- Extract from : « The Soul of Golf » by Percy Adolphus Vaile
- Every new batch of fluff-balls drove him to a dither of vicarious maternity.
- Extract from : « Wilderness of Spring » by Edgar Pangborn
- The voice broke and the colonel, who habitually roared forth his sentiments, began to dither.
- Extract from : « Windy McPherson's Son » by Sherwood Anderson
- Imagine anyone trying to get the Old Man into a dither—and getting away with it.
- Extract from : « The Best Made Plans » by Everett B. Cole
- And the more perfectly made the engine, the less will the amount of this "dither" be.
- Extract from : « The Practice and Science Of Drawing » by Harold Speed
- I went all o' a dither, while I hardly knew if I were standin' on my heels or my heead.
- Extract from : « More Tales of the Ridings » by Frederic Moorman