and melts, called in Middlesex, FLARING. Ab A. S. SWÆLAN, to kindle, or set on fire; to burn. N. and S.

SWANG, a fresh piece of green swarth, lying in a bottom, among arable or barren land; a dool.

N.

SWAPE, the handle of a pump. Norf.

SWAPE, an oar when used as a rudder to a barge. Northumb.

SWARTH, the fetch, or ghost, of a dying man ; perhaps from the A. S. SWEART, black, dark, pale, wan. Cumb.

SWARTH, grass just cut to be made up into hay. C. SWASH, and SWASHY, soft, like fruit too ripe. Derb.

SWAT, to throw down forcibly. North.

SWATCH, a sample. N.

SWATCH, a pattern, or tally, a term among dyers in Yorkshire, &c.

SWATH-BAWK'D, grass that has escaped the scythe. Lanc.

SWATHE, calm. N.

SWATHE-BANK, a swarth of new-mown grass or corn. N.

SWATTER, to scatter or waste; he swattered away all his money. N.

SWATTLE; to swattle away, to waste.

SWEAMISH, i. e. SQUEAMISH, used for modest. N.

SWEB, or SWELT, to swoon. N.

SWEE, a giddiness in the head. North.

SWEIGHT, the greatest part of any thing. North,

SWELTED and SWELTER'D, overpowered with heat. Derb.

SWILL, a keeler to wash in, standing on three feet. Also to guzzle, or drink greedily. N.

SWILKER, OR SWELKER, to make a noise, like water shaken in a barrel. N.

SWILKER O'ER, to dash over. N.

SWILLET, growing turf, set on fire for manuring the land. Exm.

SWILLINGS, hog's meat. N.

SWINE-HULL, or SWINE-CRUE, a hog-stye. N. SWINE-PIPE, i. e. whine-pipe, the Red-wing. Pen

nant.

SWINGE, to singe. N.

SWINGE, to beat or whip a person. Northumb. SWINGLE-TREE, crooked pieces of wood, put to the traces of ploughs, &c. to keep them open. North.

SWIPES, bad small-beer. The same as TAPLASH. SWIPPER, nimble, quick; ab A. S. SWIPPRE, crafty, subtle, cunning, sly, wily.

SWITHER, to throw down forcibly. N.

SWIZZEN, to singe. N.

Swoop, the preterit of Sweep. North.

Swop, or SWAP, to exchange. North. Var. Dial. SWORLE, to snarl like a dog. S.

SYKER, such; SYKER-LIKE, such like. N.

SYLE, or SILE, to pour or run; the pot siles over, the pot boils over. N. He siled a gallon of ale down his throat, he poured a gallon of ale down his throat.

T.

TAB; the tab of a shoe, the latchet of a shoe. N.. Also children's hanging sleeves.

TABERN, a cellar; à Lat. TABERNA.

TACKING-END, shoemaker's end.

TAGGE, a sheep of the first year. Suss.

TAIL ENDS, the refuse of wheat or other corn, not saleable in the market, but kept by farmers for their own consumption. Glouc.

TAKE ORDER FOR, to provide for or against any thing. North.

TAKE-TO-UN; to take-to-un, to attack any one, either with blows, words, or law. W.

TAKE-TO-UN; TO TAKE TO ANYTHING is to answer for the truth of it, or stand to a bargain. North. TALLET, (i. e. TOP-LOFT) a hay-loft. Exm. TANBASTE, OF TANBASE, Scuffling, struggling. Exm. TANG, to sting. TANG also signifies a sting. N. TANGLING, slatternly, slovenly. Perhaps a corruption of dangling, from loitering, and doing nothing. N.

TANTLE, to walk feebly, to todole, or toddle. Lincolnshire.

TANTLE, to attend.

TANTRELLS, idle unsettled people, who will not fix to any employment. N.

TAPLASH, the last and weakest running of smallbeer. North.

TAPLEY, or TAPELY, early in the morning. Exm.

TARN, a lake, or meer-pool. N.

TASTE; to taste, i. e. to smell, in the North; indeed, there is a very great affinity between the two senses. It is not uncommon, in the South, to hear a man desire another to let him taste his snuff.

TASTRILL, a cunning rogue. N.

TASSEL, a silly fellow. N.

TATCHY, touchy, peevish. W.

TATTER, cross, peevish; old mistress is tedious tatter. Kent.

TAUM, to swoon. N.

TAVE, to rage. Lincoln.; à Belg. TOBBEN, TOPPEN, DAVEN; Teut. TOVEN, furere. Sick people are said to tave with their hands, when they catch at any thing, or to wave their hands when they want the use of reason. N.

TAW, a whip. N.

TAW-BESS, a slatternly woman. North. Perhaps a corruption of TALL-BESS.

TEAGLE, a crane to raise heavy goods. North. TEAM, or TEEM, to pour out, to lade out of one vessel into another perhaps from the Danish word TOMMER, to draw, to draw out or empty; bnt TOMMER comes from Toм, empty. N.

TEAMFUL, brimful, as much as can be team'd in. In the old Saxon it signifies fruitful, abundant, plentiful.

TEAMING-TIME, time of bringing forth.

TEASTER, or TESTER, the head-piece or canopy of the bed; also a vulgar term for a sixpenny piece, all over England.

TECHY, (i. e. TOUCHY) peevish, cross, apt to be angry. S.

TED, or TET, to be ordered or permitted to do a thing; as, I ted go home, i. e. I am to go home. Exm.

TED, to spread abroad the new-cut grass, to make it into hay. C.

TEEM, to pour out. North.

TEEMING-TIME, the time of a woman's delivery. North.

TEEN, angry. N. From the Saxon TYNAN, to provoke, stir, anger, or enrage.

TEEN, harm, injury. Also sorrow. North.
TEETY, fretful, fractious. N.

TEEZLE, a kind of thistle, used in the cloth manufactory. To teezle wool, to pull it asunder with the fingers. N.

TEMSE, a small sieve; from the French TAMISE, Ital. TAMISO; whence comes the word TEMSEBREAD, i. e. bread, the meal of which has been made fine by temsing or sifting out the bran.

N.

TEMSE, to sift.

TEMSING-CHAMBER, the sifting-room.

TENT, to tend or look to. Var. Dial. "I'll tent thee, quoth Wood: If I cannot rule my daughter, I'll rule my good." Chesh. Prov. Also, to prevent.

TERRA, a turf. Exm.

TERVEE; to tervee, to struggle and tumble to get free. Exm.

TETTIES, (from teats) breasts. Exm.