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Lift, adj. lief; used with regard to an equal choice.

Linnow [lin'oa], adj. pliant; soft.

Lissom, adj. nimble; active.

Lug, v. to draw.

Mawn-pit, s. a peat-pit or bog; from Welsh mawn, peat.

Middling, adj. of unequal merit; also poorly; ill. middling;' very inferior, or very ill.

Mixen, s. a dung-hill.

Moither, v. to be delirious.

Nesh, adj. tender; delicate.

Never-sweat, s. an idle, lazy man.

Orl, s. an alder-tree.

Oss [os], v. to attempt. (W. osio.)

'Uncommon

Peart [peert], adj. lively; sharp. Market-peart;' slightly inebriated.

Pergy [pergi], adj. perky; saucy; obstinate.

Pikel [peik 1], s. a pitch-fork.

Pitch, s. a steep hill.

Plack, s. a job, or a situation.

Pleach, v. to lay a hedge (general).

Poon [puon], v. to strike or beat.

Pouk [pouk], s. a sty on the eye (lit. a pock).

Pouking, s. a weak, sickly person.

Cf. puking in Shakespeare.

Quames [quaims], s. pl. qualms.

Ratch, 8. rocky soil.

Ratchety, adj. shaly; gravelly (soil).

Refuse [refeuz], s. refusal; offer.

Rouk [rouk], s. a rut.

Sally, s. a willow. A.S. sealh (cognate with Lat. salix).

Scallion-gate, s. the gate of a church-yard by which the corpse enters; the lich-gate. (In common use at Llandegley and in other neighbouring parishes.) Halliwell gives scallage, a lich-gate, as a Western word.

Scud, s. a passing shower.

Simple, adj. infirm.

Slang, s. a narrow piece of land.

Sned, s. the handle of a scythe.

So, less by; e. g. 33 inches is expressed by four inches, so a quarter.'

(I. e. save.)

Spittle, s. a spade.

Stank, s. a stang or stake.

Steep, s. a short hill.

Stele, Steal [steel], s. the handle of a hammer.

Stoup [stoup], v. to incline; as 'to stoup a barrel.'

Stub, s. a stump; brushwood.

Tare, adj. eager; troublesome (said of flies).

Tidling, s. a hand-reared lamb.

Tidy, adj. respectable; honest; fair.

Tree, s. the handle of a spade.

Tup, s. a ram.

Upright, s. a stake (from its position).

Urchin, s. a hedgehog.

Wain-house, s. a cart-house.

Wench, s. a young girl.

Wheddy, adj. interminable.

Whit! go off! start! said to a horse.

Whitty, s. a mountain-ash.

Whitwhat, adj. unstable; changeable.

Yean, v. to produce lambs.

INDEX TO GLOSSARIES C. XXIII-XXVII.

In this Index, the Numbers refer to those of the preceding Glossaries, the
Isle of Wight Glossary being No. 23.

A, 23
aails, 23

American breez- | arnest, yearnest, | bachelor's but-

ers, 24

aal amang, 23

aal manners,

23

amindted, 24

amoost, 23

ampassy, 25

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24

above a bit, 24

abroady, 24

accoordan, coor-
dan, 23

acks, ax, p. 2;

see ax.

acoolde, 23
act, 24

amsiam, 24

amust, amwust,

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addle (a), 23;

anigh, 23, 24

(b), 26

adone, 23

adwine, 23

afeeard, 23

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anpat, 24

any when, 23

apern, yapern,
23

apeyas, 23

apple-stucklun,

23

aps, p. 69
ar, p. 69
araggin' an'

bwunin', 24

arenest, 23
arg out, 24

argle, p. 113

arn, 24

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24

body hoss, 23

boffle, 24

bog-myrtle,

P. 46

between you an'

I an' the get-
pwust, 24

between whiles,

bonny-goo, 23

boon, 26

boor, 24

boord (a), 24;
(b), p. 69

buck! buck!

p. 64
buckle, 25
buckram, 24
buckut, p. 69
buffle-headed,

23
bug, 26
bugle, 23

bull-head, 23
bullrag, 24
bundle off, 23
bundle out, 23
bunny, 23

bunt (a), (b), 24
burn, 24
burrow, 24
burrow-hurdle,

24

booship, p. 69

bevoul, 23

booun, 23

beyast, 23

bosespreet, 23

biddy, chick-

bosky, 23

abiddy, 23

bothresh, 23

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24
butt, 23

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buttercups, 23
butter-vingers,

23
bwode, 25

awhile, 24
cange-away, 26
cankerd, 23

canst, 23

can't abar, 24

can't be off o', 24

capendur, cap-
pendur, 23

24

capital well, 24
car, 23; carr,
carky, 23
cast (a), (b), 24
casu'lty, 24
cat snifter, 25
cat's creyadul,
scratch cradle,

23
cat's head, 24
cats' tails, 23

caufin, p. 69
cawv, 27
cazzlety, p. 113
cess, sess, 23
chaa, chaw, 23
chackle, 23, 24
chainy oysters,

24
cham, 23
chapel people,

meet'ners,

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cap, 23

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23
collets, 24

com on, 25
combe, 23

come again, 24
come by chance,

25; love child,

comical, 27

cooastun, 23
coodsn't, 23

cookeybeyaby,

23

coom, p. 69

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chef, p. 69

clat-breakin', 24

24

chent, 24

clatty (a), 24;

(b), 26

conceit, 27

chequers, 23

clayders, cliders,

congee, 24

chet, p. 69

23

contrairy, p. 69

[blocks in formation]

contravess, 23

chibbles, 24

cleean, 23

cooas, 23

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coordan, p. 1

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crewel, 23
crib, 23
cricket, 23
crickuts, p. 69

crig, 24

crimassy, 23
cri-me-gem-
miny, 23
crinklin', 24
crock, 23

crock meat, 24

crom, p. 69
cross, 24
crousty, 23
crow, 24
crow-needles,

p. 46
crowner, 23
cruck, 24
cruck back, 24
cruel, 25

cruklins, p. 79
crumpbacked,

23

crumpled, 23
crutlins, cruk-
lins, 24

cub, 24

cubby-house, 24
cuckles, 23
cuckoo spit, 23,
24; cuckoo-
spittle, 24
cues, tips, p. 38
cull (a), 24;
(b), 27
culls, 23

cumman', 25

cumman' and

gangin', 25
cummy, 23

cup, 23

curchy, p. 69

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