ESCHAR, s. [Escar. French.] To ARG, v. To ARGUFY, S Craven. York, To ARE, s. [Arare Lat. To plough. Aeren] L ARSELINS, adv. Backwards. Norf. Suff. ARTICLE, s. A poor creature; a wretched animal. Norf. Suff. In Sussex and Hampshire it is generally used with the adjunct, poor; as that is a poor article." 66 An individual thing in an account or in a parcel. ARVILL-SUPPER, s. [Arwhul. Welch. Funeral obsequies] a funeral-feast. North. A-SCAT, adv. Broken like an egg. Devon; ARK, 8. [Arca. Lat.] A box; a chest. Craven. ARRAN, s. [Aranea Lat. Araignee Fr. a spider. Craven. ART, s. [Aird Gaelic and Irish; a cardinal point.] A quarter or point, as "the wind's in an ill art." Craven. ARTO', [Art thou, corruption] Craven. ARVELS, s. [Arwhyl Welsh.] Funeral obsequies; funeral. Craven. ASHLAR-WALI, s. [Echelle, a scale, French.] A wall, the stones of which are built in regular course and size. ASH, s. [Erian to plough. Sax.] A AISH, s. ploughed field generally apEARSH, s. plied to one just after harvest, as a wheat ash, that is a wheat stubble. Hants A-POCK, s. A small red pimple. Somerset. APRON, s. [Afore one.] The cawl of a hog. Norf. Suff. The fat skinny covering of the belly of a goose or duck. Hants. Suss. Fenning. EDDISH, 8. Craven. Alonge. Craven. Peestine. Cumb. Publication of Craven. ASKINS, s. [Askings.] marriage banns. OUT-ASKED, 8. On the third time of publication, the couple is said to be outasked, that is the asking is out or over. Sussex. Hants. Kent. AST, part. [Corruption of asked ] York. Sussex. Hants. ASTITE, adv. [Tid. Anglo. Sax. Time. Titt Islandric. ready.] As soon. Craven' York. ASSLE-TREE, s. Craven. York. [Corruption of axle-tree, from axis; Latin.] IX, s. East Sussex. ASH-TRUG, S. [Ash and trough.] A coalscuttle. Cumb. an earthen Devon. [As and lief-willingly.] Northumberland. York. York. ASLAT, adv. [Cracked like Ash-hole. On St. Mark's Eve, the ashes are riddled or sifted on the heath. Should any of the family be doomed to die during the subsequent year, the shoe of that individual will be impressed on the ashes. ASQUIN, adj. From squint. Craven. York. ASWIN, adj. Asswyn. [Welch]. Obliqeuly. Craven. York. ASKEW, adj. And schef-obliquely. [Belg.] East Sussex. Hants. Craven. York. ASCRIDE, adv. Astride. [Coruption.] Somersetshire. ASLEN, adv. [Aslant, from A and slanghe oblique. Belg.] Sloping. Somerset. ASLEW, adv. [Aslant, from A and slanghe oblique. Belg. East Sussex. ASOSH, adv. [See Ahuh.] Awry; aslant. ASHOSH, Norf. Suff. ASSUE, adj. [When a cow's milk is dried off, previous to her calving, she is said to be assue; from to sew; to drain; from sous. French, under.] Somerset. AT, pron. That. Craven. York. ATTERCOPS, s. [Eter. Ang. Sax. Poison. 66 Worcester. AUMRS, s. [Elmess. Sax. Alms.] Cup board A Gaups, an overgrown, silly young per son. Sussex. AUT', s. All the. Craven. York. AUTORITY, s. Authority. Craven. York. AVERAGE, s. [Hiver winter, Fr.; eatage, Eng.[ Winter eating. Craven. York. AVEL, s. [Awel. Ang. Sax.] The beard of barley. Norf. Suff. Advised. Norf. Suff. AVISED, part. [Aviser. Fr.] AVAUR, prep, Before. Somersetshire. AVAWREN, prep. Before them. AVAURN, prep. Before them. Ditto. Ditto. These words are all corruptions of Afore, Old English; not only in Somerset, but in Hampshire, and in the west generally f is hardened into v; thus furrow is vurrow; farrow is varrow; fallow is vallow, and so on. AVRAUR, part. [A and frore, Old English] ALONG, part. act. All owing. "It was all along of your doing so and so." Suss. AWNTERS, s [Query. Haunters from haunt.] Scruples; as "he is troubled with awnters," that is he is haunted with scruples. North. AWVISH. adj. Queer; neither sick nor well. [Qualm, qualmish.] North. AX-WADDLE, s. [Aska. Islandric Ashes. Vado Lat.] To wade. A dealer in ashes, and sometimes one who tumbles in them. Somerset. AW, adj. [Scotch.] All. Craven. York. Kent. AWK, adj. [Corruption of awkward.] Inverted; confused. Bells are "rung awk," to give alarm of fire. Norf. Suff. AWN, pron. [Ain, Sc.] Own. Ditto. AWN, v. To visit. "He never awns,' that is he never ains or acknowledges us, by visiting us. Ditto. AWNS, S. Beards of cron. Craven. York. Hants. Ditto. AWR, pron. Our. sently. Where s is constantly turned into z. AZZLE-TOOTH, s. [Axis Lat. Jaxle. Isl. Axis.] A grinder called azzle, from being near the axle. Yk. [Assellus Latin.] York. in.]{ ASSLE-TOOTH, s. BAATH, adj. To BAB, v. B. [Batwa. Sax.] Both. York. [Corruption of bob.] To bait for fish in the following manner, viz: by stringing worms on worsted, or any garbage on a string, by which eels or crabs are taken. Suff. Norf. By the former process eels are caught in Hampshire, where it is called quodding, while the latter is used in East Sussex. BAB, s. The bait used for fishing in the manner above mentioned. Norf. Suff. BABS, s. [From babes.] Small prints to amuse children.] Norf. Suff. From Bide. To bid makes bad, prep. And why not to bide make bader baad BAAD, part. Continued. York. BADE, part. Of bide, which is corrupted from abide. To BAAD, v. [Badian. Sax.] To bathe. York. BAAL-HILLS, s. [Baal. Isl. Fire.] Hillocks on the moors, where fires have formerly been. York. For the description of a custom still remaining in the west of Scotland, of kindling fires in honour of Beltan or Baal. See Dr. Jamieson, and Craven dialect. BAAN-FIRE, s. [Baal-fire, or bonfire, from Fr. Bon-feu.] A bonfire. York. BAANS, s. [Bones from Ban. Sax.] See the word allemang, and my observations thereon. "To make naa bans" is to make no difficulty. York. "To make no bones." Suss. and South. The meaning is plain. Bones are not so easily devoured as flesh, and therefore they are generally thrown aside; but if a person is very hungry, he does not stop to pick the smaller ones, but grinds them to pieces. BABBLEMENT, s. [Babelen. Sax.] Idle; confused. BABBLING, s. Noise. York. South. BACK-END, s. Autumn; so called from being the latter or back part of the year. Applied also to the end of the York. BACK, ner EDGE,Nothing at all. I can make nothing at all of MOSS, ner SAND. of him. Head nor tail; head, tail nor middle-piece. | Hants. Sussex. Kent. York. week. BAIL, s. or kettle. The bow of a scythe. BAIN, adj. [Query. From bend.] Pliant; limber. Willing; forward. Norf. Suff. Norf. West. BACK-OUT, s. A back yard. iron, on which oat- cake is baked. York. BACKSTER, s. [From bake.] A baker. North. BACKSTERS, s. Wide flat pieces of board, which are strapped on the feet, and used to walk over loose beach, on the Kent. East Suss. sea coast. Similar things are used in Hampshire for walking on the soft mud deposited in harbours by the sea, and are there called mud-pattens. BACKY, s. [Corruption of tobacco.] A beast which used notoriously to be baited; and thus to be badgered was to be batted or worried; a huckster also importunes people to buy of him. BADGET, s. A badger. Norf. Suff. To BAFFLE, v. a. [Befler.] To gull or cheat; to manage capreciously or wontonly; as in the case of children or cattle; to beat or twist irregularly toge. Near; convenient. Mr. Forly derives it from Beina Islandic. BAIRN, s. [Scotch.] A child. North. BAIT, s. A luncheon. E. Suss. Kent. BALK, or BANK-STAFF, s. [From balk and staff, probably because it prevents or balks the blow.] A quarter staff. North. To BALDER, v. [Ang. Sax. bold audax daring.] To use course language. Norf. BALDERDASH, s. Filthy; obscene language. Norf. Suff. BALLET, . [Ballata. Ital.] A ballad. Somerset. BALK, s. A ridge of land left unploughed to serve as a boundary in uninclosed grounds; a ridge so left in the body of the land at certain intervals in a particular mode of ploughing, called balkploughing. Norf. Suff. In Hampshire this kind of ploughing is called "rafter-ridging," from each ridge being separated by a furrow, and this agrees with Junius, who observes the ridge is "tigni instar," like a rafter. BALO, s. A beam in a building; any piece of squared timber. Norf. Suff. WELCH S The failure of an expectation. York, Ditto. BALK, s. A simple piece of machinery used in the dairy districts of Suffolk, into which the cow's head is put while she is milked. It allows her to move her head up and down, but prevents her from withdrawing it; hence, when atIn tempting to do so, she is "balked." Hampshire something of the same kind is used to confine a sheep's head, when the shepherd wishes to dress it for the mange, or any other disease, and then it is called a "bilboes." Straight young tress when felled. Norfolk. Suffolk. BALKER, s. [Bielke. Dan. a beam.] A great beam. Norf. Suff. ‹BALK, s. To be thrown ourt" balk," is to be published in the church. "To hing ourt, balk," is marriage deferred after publication. Before the Reformation, the laity sat exclusively in the nave of the church. The balk here appears to be the rood-beam which separated the nave from the chancel. The expression therefore means to be helped into the choir, where the marriage ceremony is performed. York. BALLOW, s. A pole. North. BALL, adj. Bald. [Bal. Brit.] Somerset. BALL-RIB, s. [Bal and rib.] A spare rib. Somerset. TO BALLIRAG, v. a. 'BULLRAG, Somerset. [Bully and rag.] Sussex. To abuse with violent and foul words. To BAM, v. a. To make fun of a person. TO BAMBOOZLE, v. a. To make fun of a person; and also to threaten or to deceive. York. To BAMBLE, v. n. To shamble; to walk unsteadily and weakly. (Mr. Forby asks whether it may not be traced to bambino, Ital. A young child? Norf. Suff. To BAN, v. a. [Bannen Belg.] To curse. York. Somerset. BANDY, s. [Bander, Fr. to bend.] The crooked stick) with which the ball is I struck at different games. Any game played in the way above mentioned. Norf. Suff. BANDY, S. A hare, so called from the crookedness of her hind legs. Norf. Suff. BANDY-HOSHVE, s. A game played with a ball and a bandy. Norf. Suff. This game is played in West Sussex, and there called "Hawkey," probably from the crooked bandy resembling a hawk's beak. BANDY-WICKET, s. The game of cricket played with a bandy instead of a bat Norf. BANG, s. [Bannen, Belg.] A stick or club. Cheese made in Suffolk from milk several times skimmed; hence it is as hard has a stick, and is sometimes called "Suffolk thump." Hence Bloomfield in his "Far mer's Boy," records the virtue of a piece of it in a hog's trough, as being "Too big to swallow, and too hard to bite." A similar cheese is made in the Isle of Wight, where it is called "Isle of Wight rock," and, in derision of its hardness, is said to be used to make pins to fasten the gates on the farm. BANE, adj. [Bane, Bleg, a path. Bien, Fr. well.] Near; convenient. York. Som. BANGING, adj. [From to bang; to beat; and to beat signifies to excel.] Huge, beating or excelling in size other things of the same kind. Common in many parts. BANGLED, part. [Abbangent, Teut. To bend or hang down.] When cocked hats were worn, one side was sometimes let down to protect the face, and then it was said to be "bangled," The young shoots or broad leaves are said to be "bangled," when drooping under heavy rain or strong sunshine. Norf. Suff. BAN-NUT, s. A walnut. N. of Somerset. BAN-NUT-TREE, s. A walnut-tree. Glouc. To BAN, v. a. [Bannen, Belg.] To shut up; to stop. Somerset. To BANE, v. a. [Bannen. Belg. To curse] to afflict with a mortal disease. Somerset. TO BANEHOND, v. n. [To bear in hand.] To signify intention; to intimate. Dr. Jennings. BARENHOND May it not mean to carry information to a person, that is, bear it in hand. BANES, s. plu. The banns of matrimony. Somerset. BANNIN, s. [Bannen to curse, hence to be under the ban of the Pope, is to be shut out from spiritual privileges.] That which is used for shutting out or stopping. Somerset. BANGS, v. Beats or excels. [See banging.] York. BANNOCKS, s. Loaves made of oatmeal. (Bunna. Sax. a cake; hence, no doubt comes our southern word bun, a small cake.) BAND-KITT, s. [Kettel. Belg. Kettle.] A kind of great can, with a cover. North. BANDY-HE-WIT, s. [Let him bandy or throw about the wit.] A name given to any dog, when persons intend to use it in making sport of its master Lanc. To BANG, v. a. [From Bannen Belg. a stick.] To beat. North. South. BANG-BEGGAR, s. A beadle. Derby. To BANK, v. ɑ. To beat. Somerset. Grose. BANT, s. [From band-] A string. Lanc. BANG-STRAW, s. Bang, to beat, and straw.] A thatcher. BANYAN-DAY, s. [From the Banians in the East Indies, who never eat meat.] A sea-term for those days when no meat is allowed the men. BARGOOD, s. [Beer and good, the good of the beer.] Yeast. This is Mr. Forby's derivation of the word as used in Norf. Suff. Barm is used in the Isle of Wight, [from barm, Sax. to swell or ferment.] for yeast. Thus bar-good will be a corruption of barm-good; good yeast or barm, BARROW-PIG, s. [Query. From bar, to hinder]. A gelt pig. South. North. [Berg. Ang. Sax. Hog. Forby. BARGAIN, s. [Bargen. Brit.] Anything bought or sold, or obtained in any way, as thus: "Two good tidy bargains of hay from an acre," less than waggon loads. Norf. "A poor bargain of wool from three score hoggets." Norf. Suff. "A sad bargain of lazy chaps. Ditto. "A bargain of land." South. Hants. BARK, S. The tartar deposited by bottled wine or other liquor, forming a crust or bark. Norf. Suff. BARLEY-SUGAR, s. Frequently called sugar-barley. [Sucre Fr. sugar brule burned.] A sweetmeat of burned sugar, clarified. Common. BARLEY-BIRD, s. [So called from coming at the season of barley sowing.] The nightingale. Norf. Suff. Thus the Ortolan is in Sussex called the wheat-ear, from its coming when the wheat is in ear. BARLEY-MUNG, s. [Barley and among,] being barley, mixed with milk or water, (consequently having milk or water amongst or in it,) to fatten fowls or pigs. Norf. Suff. To BARN, v. a. [From the subst. barn.] To lay corn up in a barn. Norf. Suff. So in the south, "to house corn," has the same meaning. BARNACLES, s. Spectacles; they before the invention of springs, were made to keep on by simply pinching the nose; and barnacles is the name of an instrument used by farmers, to put on the nose of a restive horse. Norf. Suff. Forby. BARSELE, BARKSELE, BARLEYSELE, S. [Bark and sol. time; opportunity. Ang. Sax.) The season for stripping bark, and also of sowing barley. Norf. BATH, s. BARTON, bark.] A box for receiving the ends of candles. North. BARKIT, s. Dirt hardened on hair, and hence forming a kind of bark. Grose. BARGEST, s. [From Burg. Sax. a town and ghost.]. A ghost frequenting_towns. Craven Dialect. BARMSKIN, s. A leather apron. Lanc. BARNGUN, s. A breaking out in small pustules in the skin. BARR, s. A gate of a town or city. North. The gate at Southampton is so called, the street to the south of it being called below bar, and that to the north above bar. [So called from bar, a barrier,] or obstacle, which a gate is.] stones. Somerset. BARROW, s. [Berg. Sax. a hill.] The side of a rocky hill, or a large heap of North. BARSHAM, s. [Query. From bar and hama, Lat.] The collar barring, or preventing the hames from touching the horses' shoulders.] North. BARKHAM, s. [Bark and hames.] Bark and hames having formerly been made of bark. BARTH, s. [See Barton.] A warm place or pasture for calves and lambs.South. Grose. To BARNISH, v. n. [Burnish.] To shine; to look sleek; as "that bullock begins to banish," that is to look smooth and bright in his skin. E. Suss. BAR, adj. Bare; naked, [corruption] York. BARKED, adj. Covered with dirt, as though with bark. York. BARREL-FEVER, s. [From barrel and fever.] A violent propensity to drunkenness, or sickness consequent thereon. York BARBER'S SIGN, s. A standing pole and two wash balls. The pole has generally two spiral lines, red and white, representing the fillet to bind the arm when a person is bled; barber having formerly been surgeons. In France it is three basins, with a kind of circular notch for the convenience of holding it under the chin while soaping. BARN-MOUSE, s. Bit by a barn-mouse is a term for being tipsy, probably from an allusion to barley, of which beer is made, and which is put into the barn to be thrashed. Classical Dic. Vulgar Tongue. BARREN, s. E. Suss. Suff. [Barton, Sax.] BARRENER, s. West. East. BARKEN, A farm-yard. See Forby's East Anglia Vocabulary. BARGH, S. A horseway up a hill. North. (Berg. Sax. a hill.) BAR-GUEST, s. [Bar and ghost.] A ghost, i commonly appearing near gates or stiles, there called bars. York. Grose. BAR.WAY, s. [Bar and way.] The passage into a field composed of bars or rails made to take out of the posts. E. Suss. W. Kent. BARK, s. [Probably made originally of } A barren cow or ewe. West. BASKING, s. A drenching in a heavy shower of rain. A sound drubbing. Norf. Suff. In the first sense it is said a man gets a wet-jacket; in the second that his jacket has been well laced. Our word may therefore be very well derived from basque, old French a shirt, orflap of a doublet. This is Mr. Forby's opinion. May not "basking" be rather a corruption of "basting," of which the |