dhus

To avoid this temptation some employ mediæval daggers, or skene dhus, but the edges spoil a book.

The Private Library What We Do Know, What We Don't Know, What We Ought to Know About Our Books Arthur Lee Humphreys 1905

S [= a] dhus; and the eighteenth, of the Satn [= a] mis, 'worshippers of the true name,' who, with other minor bodies, such as the N [= a] ngi

The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894

Their fronts are hidden by hangings of tartan cloth; the windows are decked with sporrans, dirks, cairngorm plaid-brooches, ram's-head snuff-boxes, bullocks 'horns and skean dhus.

Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places Archibald Forbes 1869