GLOSSARY

Words

(north

With

LANCASHIRE,)

Illustrative

from

the

of Furness

Phrases

and

Old

Quotations, prijicipally
Writers.

Northern

BY

P.

J.

COER.

F.A.

MORRIS,
MEM.

SOC.

ANTH.

OP

PARIS.

hough
"Hytsemetha
gret wondur
of Englyschemen
the burth-tonge
ys
longage and tonge ys so dyvers of soun
" "

A.

Higderi
D.

Polychronicon,

trans,

S. L.

Englysch
and
in

by John

De

here
this

CARLISLE:

J.

SMITH.

RUSSELL
GEO.
MDCCCLXIX.

COWARD.

oune

ylond."

Trevisa,

'1387.

LONDON:

that

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THESE

OF

DUKE

THE

GRACE

AND

THE

HUMBLE

AUTHOR.

SERVANT,

PREFACE

In

presenting

humble

it

to

is

philologist.

The

has

oblivion

which

are

speech

obscure

also

as

phrases

been

the

few

of

our

to

on

of

good

old

becoming

whereby

means

early

of

tention
in-

mantle

begun

purpose

the

Author's

the

work,

fast

now

of

himself

carried

for

as

literature

the

from

to

mainly

and

far

pages

the

to

assume

amusement,

from

following

contribution

Lancashire,

the

the

of

as

its

an

clusion
con-

rescuing
forms

of

obsolete

some

English

of

the

writers

Vlll.

viii.

"

the

following:

"

heuene

"

In

Wenest
Thin

Both

thou

these

with

longe

so

in

occur

Christ, edited

Early English

Furness
writer

the

at

of the

above

Chaucer

in

is

meaning

A.D.

yeare,

it

as

in

and

the

are

tainly."
cer-

used

in

by

the

was

A.D.

1430,

and

Literallyits

1380.

this year

"

is also used

lines

to

Furnivall,

commonly

as

time

present

Hymns

1 A.S.

"

yeere.''''

to

Society,and
"

doubtfully glossed :

reche

to

Mr.

by

Text

But, ta-yeereis

by

heuene

hond

be

not

yeere.''''

foolis to

no

thin

passages

Virgin and

thus

cometh

wole

arme

for the

stance
in-

for

Take

elucidated.

possiblybe

may

the

metaphoricallyfor

phrase

same

long time, or

never.

Although

designated
Phrases
to

use

on

the

Glossary of

of Furness.

imply

that

elsewhere.

title page

many

the

it is

by

of

the

words

of

them,

Most

no

this

work

Words

is
and

intended

means

are

not

subiect

in
to

IX.

slight orthographical changes,

all counties

dialect

in which

was

those
found

in

the great Northumbrian

spoken;

once

in

found

are

of

and

others,

origin, are

Anglo-Saxon

widely separated

pecially
es-

parts

of

the

in

the

country.
In

preparation
the

were

at

the

acts

hands

of

Harland

editor

of

scholar;

are

he

interested

mention

may

Lancashire

"

his

in dialectical

G.

Geo.

Rev.

and

the

Rev.

Way,

late
M.

A.,

Esq.,

Parvulorum;
Chaucerian

Skeat, M.A.,

W.

Plowman.

latter two

thanks

W.

the

Perry,

Albert

Promptorium

of

Edwin

"

"

Poet

Arthure;

Morte

of Piers

the

varied

received

Author

Morris, Esq., the eminent

Richard

To

and

many

the

gentlemen

; the

editor

M.A.,

volume,

and

early English literature, chief

the

Waugh,

studies,

of kindness

whom

amongst

editor

this

of

and

J.

his

prosecuting

due

gentlemen
for

the

more

many

especially
valuable

to

the

'as the

work

through

passed

sheets

made

additions

and

suggestions, corrections,

the

press.
In

conclusion,
his

of

notwithstanding

taken

been
doubt

have

words

of

would

say

"

Richard

in;

De

will
but

Hampole

"

if

Can

fynde

he
if

For

wille

men

I make

That

I wil

ilka

Of
That

my

Sandstone

til the

rightwyse

lered

here

Road,
Swan,

errour

erroure

tretice

se,

be,

protestacion,

stand

defaut

any

werk,

favour,

that

this

in

this

that

me

here

defaut
here

in

amende

may

if any

Or

do

he

clerk,

es

errour

any

hym

pray

that

man

any

Liverpool.

coiTeccion
man,

correcte

has

care

That

Old

Author

many

crept

RoUe

the

every

errors,

unavoidably

And

22,

exclude

to

scious
con-

more

than

short-comings

and

himself;

be

can

one

no

can."

in

no

the

he

AUit.

P.

West

"Early

English

Midland

Dialect

Cent."

Text

English

three

Cant.

Tales.

The

RoUe

1349.)"

Virg. "

to

Romance
Rev.

the

of

by

G.

Perry,

to

the

Devils,

Virgin
other

and

J. Fumivall,

F.

Society, 1867.)

Text

"

A.D.

Society, 1866.)

"Hymns

Laik

Scottish

A.D."

1500

Skeat,

W.

Geo.

Rev.

of

M.A.

Metrical
Edited

by

(Early English

Society, 1865.)

Text

Arthure.

Morte

M.S.,

Con.

from

Edited,
the

by

(Early English
"

Died

1490

W.

respond
cor-

(who

Edited

about

lines

the

Hampole

Parliament

the

Esq., M.A.

edition.

Christ

of

Geoffry

Treatises

Poems."

"Lancelot

B, C.

Prose

(Early English

M.A.

A,

as

"English

by

The

Christ,

Religious

Orth.

of

(Early English Text

M.A.

the

numbering

De

Edited

tains
con-

of

Wright,

Tyrwhitt's

volume

Tales

Thos.

by

Treats.

Richard

and

quoted

are

Canterbury

date.)

Prose

Hymns

which

Edited

with

Hamp.

This

The

Chaucer.

(No

Society) 1864.

poems,

(Early

Esq.

Morris,

the

14th

the

of

(Lancashire)

by Richard

Edited

in

Poems

Alliterative

Text

Brit.

Geo.

Rev.

Robert

G.

ton's
Thorn-

Perry, M.A.

Society, 1865.)
Of

Tongue.

the

Orthographic

and
H.

Congruitie of
B.

1865.)

Wheatley.

the

Britan

Tongue.

(Early English

Edited
Text

by

Society,

p.

of

Consc.

The

conscientige) :
RoUe

De

for

the

of

Pricke

Northumbrian

by Richard

Poem
A.D.

(circa 1345

Hampole

(stimulus

Conscience

Edited

).

Morris,

Richard

Philological Society by

Esq., 1863.
Piers.

Plow.
Piers

Plowman,

1362.
Rev.

Vision

The

Edited,
W.

W.

William

of

by

William

from

the

A.D.

Langland.
Vernon

M.S.,

the

by

(Early English Text

M.A.

Skeat,

concerning

Society, 1867.)
the

Pierce

A.D.)

W.

which

to

Plough,

Ploughman's
is

(about

W.

(Early

1394
the

Spede

Edited

A.D.)

M.A.

Skeat,

God

appended

500

(about

Crede,

by

the

English

Rev.

Text

Society, 1867.)
Pol.

Rel.

"

P.

Love
Edited

Poems.

(Early English
Rel.

Literature, "c.
and

M.A.,

Relig.

vols.

by the Rev.

Eng.

from
A.D,

the
1400.

Scraps from

G.

Specimens
chief

By

English

Wright,

Halliwell, Esq.,

Pieces

in

Thornton's

Robert
Geo.

Thos.

Ancient

Esq.,
F.R.S.

1843.

Religious

Pieces.

by

Orchard

London,

Edited, from

Sp. E.

Edited

Jas.

Love

Society, 1866.)

Text

Illustrating chiefly Early

Manuscripts,

"

J. Furnivall, Esq., M.A.

F.

by

Reliquise Antiquse

Ant.

Political, Religious,

Perry,
of

EngUsh
R.

Prose
M.

and

Verse.

S. (circa 1440),

M.A.

Early

English,

Authors,

Morris, Esq.

selected

A.D.

Oxford,

1250

"

1867.

The

(about

Romances

Arther

of

Anters

and

Amadace,"
Sir

Sir

Gawan,

Bretan."

"The

of

Avowynge
Sir

and

Kaye,

Edited

"Sir

Tarnewathelan,"

the

at

"The

containing

A.D.),

1300

Metrical

English

Early

Three

Arth.

K.

Avow.

of

Bawdewyn

den
(Cam-

Esq.

Robson,

by John

Arther,

King

Society, 1842.)
The

of William

Works

The

Lonsdale

(Globe

Shakespeare
3 vols.

Magazine.

edition)

Kirkby

dale,
Lons-

1820-2.

North

The

Lonsdale

Magazine.

Ulverstone,

1867.
The

Lancashire
the

by

Illustrated

Dialect,
Rev.

GaskeU,

W.

in

M.A.

Two

tures
Lec-

London,

1854.
Cumb.

The

Ball.

Ball.

Ballads

older

than

of

Edwin

of

Songs

19th

Cent.

from

the

Heather

London

of Lancashire

Waugh.

Lancashire
1866.

the

and

Waugh.

Sketches
Edwin

of Cumberland.

Lancashire,
By

J.

chiefly

Harland.

1865.

London,
Tufts

BaUads

1866.

London,

Lane.

and

Songs

Songs.

Northern

By

(no date).

Life

London,

Moors.

and

Localities.

By

1857.

By Edwin

Waugh.

London,

Chambers's

Etymological

Language.

London,

of

Glossary

Rev.

J. C.

Short

By

Parv.

Circa

of

(Camden

Society,

og

Friderich

Parvulorum

Tauchnitz'
Dutch

"Way,

Esq.,

af

Copenhagen,

M.

A.

Christian

1824.

Dictionary

Languages.

of

the

English

and

Leipsic.

Dictionary.

By

Alfred

Elwes.

i866.

London,

Rask's

Albert

Princeps.

Haand-Lexicon

Pocket

French-English

by

Cleri-

Sive

1865.)

Engelsk
Bay.

1859.

Anglo-Latinus

Edited

1440.

Philology.

London,

Dictionarius

Dansk

Comparative

D.C.L.

the

By

1868.

London,

Promptorium

corum,

English

Dialect.

Cleveland

Atkinson.

Clarke,

the

1867.

Handbook

Hyde

Prompt.

the

of

Dictionary

Icelandic

Granamar.

By

Dasent.

London,

1843.

Tauchnitz'
Swedish

Pocket

Dictionary

Languages.

Welsh

and

Pughe,

D.C.L.

of

Leipsic,

English

EngUsh

and

1867.

Dictionary.

London,

the

1836.

By

W.

Owen

GLOSSARY

Furness

ofj

"

Words

Though

Just

Aa

for

I'd

Aamas

geen

single word."

y.

S.

A.S.

A.S.

of

of

following quatrain

the

old

inhabitants

beggars

'

Yan

for

Three

alms

"Yan

o'

"

aan.

Abide
"Then

Slaff

Lonsdale

"

"

the

as

usual

some

address

"

aamas

God

G.

;
two

wedt,

Magazine,

vol.

to

Paul,

awn

an'
2,

all."

us

O.E.

egen

A.S.

for

'at meead

gat

sons

endure
is better

paamas.

Peter,

for

Su.

own

"

Furness,

by

'

Pity, pity
Pray give us

Aan

172.

p.

ah

is still remembered

of

soliciting

watch

cehnesse

"

The

silver

my

Shifting Scenes,

Bigg.

aa

alms

"

'"

ya

I si.

owe

"

Phrases

have

on;
"

"

hed

p.

son

of

his

90.

abidmi
the

abyde

Alia.
1

bur
P.

"

vmbestoundes.
ed.

Morris

C.l.

7.

Addle

edlean, cedlemi

"A.S.

earn

"

or

; to

recompense

signify to give
general sense."

therefore

would

Addle

recompense.
reward
a

in

earn

reward,

"

Morris.

"

"An'
An'

daddy's

sell my
addle my

an'

corn

hay,
Ball.

Lane.

Addle
eggs

A.S.

rotten

"

addle-heekd

Addled-tgg^

adl

is

"

day.

sixpence iwery

frequently

used

as

183.

p.

rotten

"

of

term

contempt.

Adun

have

"

often

done,

for kave

occurs

' '

in

the

madame,

mercy,

In

quiet

be

imperative
this

on

afraid

"

"

He

he

For

Aisht
"

and

vowes,

is

978.

Crist,

on

cryes

that

asskes. Is

"Then

the

Aither

it

?"

soe

king asshed,

either

"

"

A.S.

Chese

Art

thou

lever

along

through

the

Thus

A.S.

length
past

raine,

he

and

The

Art.,

wrothe?"

"

st. xxiv.

St. Ivii.

ware

stille stand."

or

Tristram,

Sir

"

K.

Avow.

aitlier hand,

the

Sinke

"

cegther

on

Whether

In

of Palerne,

he sal be peryst."
afered
Pricke
of Cottscience,ed. Morris, IL 2942-3.

Gauan

"

"

asked

"

Alang

mood.

af(zred

A.S.

then

mas

English,

here.

man

William

Afear'd

Old

andlang

Hall.

Germ,

Diet.

ejttlang,

of

alang

wet,

King

a
many
weary
and
in foule mire."

and

poore

mile.

Northern

Man.

An'ole

and

"

all, also

' '

past an'

Apple-noddy's
thou's

An'

fool's

April

Apple-Noddy-Day"

gone,

on."

for thinkin'

noddy

day

Rhyme.

Local

Argie

:
'

Rustic

A.

S.

Armenac

over

Cott.

earc,

thou

cane

errand

A.S.

sped hem

And

the

to

chest

arly

to

mete

into

kud

King

"^

Arval
The

fidget

"

at

lang.

over

Galba

ix.,

e.

more

lyghtly

gang,

f.

65,

on

Hall.

Diet.

in

arne

S.

day.

twey.

Ashnwle,

"

Hall.

Diet.

(zrend

Spayne

spacli in

Alphouns

kithed

while,

here

arnd."

of Palerne,

Belg. cerselen,to

of this word

derivation

(zrfe,succession
from

air

go

5287.

backwards

funeral

"

Goth,

"

Will:

Arsle

ark

G.

Su.

Moes.

M.

And

and

meal

keeping

wyll drynke

he

Fore

Than

"

want

earnian

A.S.

earn

"

dus'ta

almanack

"

"

for

(zrlice

sit tharat
S.

M.

Arn'd

wosn't

it

say

arc

noght
fer to

ne

"

or

A.S.

early

"

used

arc,

Gael,

area

"and

Arn

chest

large

flour.
Lat.

dud

Why,

arguer

morning."

fine

F.

arguo

"

"

Arly

'

argie?

Ark

It's

"

Tourist

to

Lat.

dispute

"

the

feast

to

property,

named

appears
and

to

be

from

A. S.

ealo, ale ; cf

bridal

bride-ale.

Jamieson
says
evidently originated 'from the stance
circumentertainment
being given by one
who
the possession of an
inheritance.
"

"The

of
entered

has

term
an

upon

"

Arval-bread
which

Asks
"

each

Arskes

And

I kan

ashes

ashes,

At

to

at

thou

A.S.

it

Attercob

thou

axis

Eng.,

p.

156.

h-.?).ahse,

jaw

at

in

sette

thi yate,
sete."

thi

Tarnewathelan,

xiv., 1. 10.

st.

the

and

erth,

na

les.
it as."

heghe

swa

of Conscience,

11. 7733-4.

spider's web

spider; literallya poison-cup

"

of the

called

so

that

gees,

yhere

at

from

poison-head,

A.S.

atior

"

poison,

and

coppa

or
"

head

or

"

Ac

Bute

Au"

felle,
"

at

com

"

Attercop

The

Morris.

"

Isl.jaxl;

Pricke

cup

eavroskes,

dirty child

art

thowsand

Or

laveroc."
wormes

at, who,

O.N.

to
'

O. E.

Isl.aska

the

TheAntersofArtheratthe

'

of

O.E.

tooth
near

applied

"

Quen

"

form

Inglis telle.
Homilies, Sp. E.

being placed

"Those

At

newt

in

noht

molar

"

that

"

funeral

asc^

other

cakes,

of

cinder

Ass-cat

form'

M.oq?,. G. azgo

Assal-tooth
from

and

Metrical

English
"

another

arskes

That

Ass

be

cf. lark, from

water-frogs;
"

at

Gael,

newts

may

the

received

guest

water

"

in

bread

"

and

A.S.
"

etestu,

attercoppe

Owl

all

wat

the

thu

lighe,
fule vlighe.
ne

"

and

Nightingale, Sp.

E.

Eng.,

(zl

Listeneth

An'

that

I woll

now

tell to

to

merlin's

saw,

aw."
Hall.

Diet.

p.

29,

Aukert

and

wrong,

Back-end
ta

gaen

leeav

Backston
I eel.

latter

"

me

bakstjarn,

Badger

Fr.

towns.

upon

purchases butter,

who

one

etc., in country

eggs,

baking

for

plate

baking-iron

vendor

"

"

I'se
e.g.
part of the year;
spot (situation)this back-end.''''

iron

an

"

direction

ward,

S.

A.

awk,

O.E.

awoh

A.S.

awkward

"

for

markets,

bedour

Low

Lat

retailing in large
bladarius, a com

dealer

Badly

sick, unwell

"

I've

"

rayder badly

been

Wm.

Bang

strike

to

"

Cumb.

Dickinson.

Bag-and-Baggage

all

"

Ball.

528.

p.

person's goods

beat

; to

back."

pain't i' my

and

banka,

Sw.

to

knock,

pummel
"

If that

Ise

I doe

by

swear

this

staffe

The

Bang

to

"

that

a7id

King

poor

French,
ba^ig'd'Ca.Q

duin

and

Barfut
'

'

In

"

little

"

sumer

bang."

Northerne

the

aye,

Man.

thing complete."
Cumb.
Gilpin.

cake

made

of

ginger

Gael,

bonnach

an'

out

Miss

Bannock

foes,

surpass

"We've
An'

fewd
your
their hide
I won

with

meete

ever

out,

Ballads,

p.

62.

oatmeal, treacle,

bare-foot
ge habbeth
The
Ancren

leave

barfot gan

Riwle,

Rel.

and

Ant.

sitten.
v.

2,

p.

"

3.

Bass

species

"

mill-races

Niirture"

of

they

says

flownders,

Baase,

sett."

to

Basset!

it be

"Thagh

cheven,

blow

"

of the

Bat

of

sound

yesterda,
Baum
"

Of

Fr.

herbes

And

oyle

and
and

bolle, other

'

'

tres,

"I

as

spring

To

catch

To

lap his bonny

An'

daddy's

rabbit

again.

ful

lile

babby

huntin',

gone

its

as

clwose

skin,
in."

nought had
sat
gruntin'

"

and

Rhyme.

Beetle

"

to

sail

'Batyledoure

bairn

Cunib.

Ballads,

p.

282.

be in-gettynge of
joy now
grace,
be syghte of joy.
Hampole's Prose
Treatises, p. 4"

come

staff" with

beetled

been,

be

Sothely they
in time

'

Lonsdale.

A.S.

by

gude,

"

fude.

by th' hudd
Wheyle
Mary Cairn, to Wulson'
Was
singin' be-bo-btmfm'.'"

Be"

"

of Conscience, 1. 652.

for

doz'd

Wulson

Mark

145.

weel

varra

Local
Auld

rhyme

nurser}^
,

' '

1.

imitation

wos

baiim

for man's

Be-bo-bunti7t'
a

B.

P.

scole."

baume

wyne

"

bat, an

Gael,

P^'icke

Be-bo-buntin'

ther

ye

174.

p.

I'se at t'ald bat

now

balm

"

and

position;

but

blow-

or

with

up

synamome

Book,

bassyn,

A.S.

-place

"

bassin

Fr.

bot

served

Allit.

Bat

"

Babee^s

basin

"

carpe,

The

"

be

must

of cinnamon

made

sauce
"

Labrax)

plentifullyin the tarns, lakes, and

very
of Furness.
Iohn
in his "feoke
Russell

found

fish

perch (Perca

of

which
A.

clothes

or

washed.

or

wasshynge betylle.

S.

bitl,beatan,
"
"

merly
for-

were

Prompt

to

beat.
Parv.

Beetlin'-steean

the

"

were

beetled.

stood

by

few

the

and

the

Beean

wool

known

was

Beck

large boulder

of

corner

the

called

^'

that, the
the

foot

Beetlinstone

same

of

Well

Soutergate,

Woo'-stee".n.

"

ban

bach

Germ,
the

brooks,

"The

clothes

stickle-back

the

"

stream

"

then

was

A.S.

Beeany-prick

well

the

as

bone

"

ago
at the

before
years
market
at

Some

in

was

it

which

upon

years

of the

side

Street, Ulverston,
steedn."

stone

A.S.

becc Teut.

beke

becks, the rills,the rivulets."

Drayton.

"

Humpty

With

lay

Dumpty

all his

in

round

sinews

his neck.

HalliweWs

Beck-bibby,

Beeas

( Cinclus

Ouzel.

Water

cattle ; the

"

Beggar-inkle

"

it

by which

i.e.

large

the

hence

room,

north

plural

Dipper,

being
could

number

phrase

"as

form

or

of beast

the

tape;

narrow

manufactured

the

"

Rhymes.

aquaticus. )

coarse

was

that

compact

Nursery

Craa

Watter

or

beck

be

thick

as

looms

small

so

placed

and
in

one
"

m/^Z?

weavers

particularlyintimate.

Be-gock

"

dyke,

that

Belder

or

rustic
t'e?"

can

Beller

"

begock!

"Yes,

to

Thou

"

oath.

can't
I can."

A.S.

cry

loup

bellan,

to

bellow
"

I've
Wiff's
Tales

thy noise,

'Hod
to

t' fadder,

say,' says

gowlin'."
"

and

thoo

Rhymes,

Author
p. 30.

bellerin^ coaf, an'

as

he

gat

of Joe

oot

and

o'
the

hear

what

patience

at

Geologist.

Belkin

bolke,boke great. \cQ\..bulka

full," "a belkin fellow."

the

mean
"

ben

Nurses

bene's

for

prayer

is

understood

an'

hands

your

the

"

Yellow

( Emheriza
Bete

from

and

pray,"

fire, as
"

Hammer,

t' fire."

I fete

"

Diet.

Wheyle
John

to

louse

beet

the

the

fyr bete."
P.

B.

1.

627.

elden."

Cumb.

Ballads,

p.

221.

great

very

cp.

the

on

Stagg.

to

betan

A.S.

quat fat thou

sum

anything

"

"

S.

Yeorling

Allit.

Biddy

Hall.

Yellow

A.

"c.

generally applied

now

"Bete

Quyl

Bezzler

the

citrinella.)

amend

"

"

bun."

See

Bessy

to

cum,

ceik

evidently corrupted

"clasp

"

to

"belkin

e.g.

children

to

say

daddy
bring lile babby a

meaning

"

generally

now

hands.

Clap

An'
The

is

this

"

swell;

to

"

"

Bene's

O.E.

bealcan

A.S.

belching

"

bott,a belly-worm

hoads,

maggots

"Bowde,

Bigan

malte-worm."

'

Cherubin

Bigan

to

wit

barley
"

An'

John

Mundi,

I si.

southy

chere

tel him

Cursor

"

Prompt

Parv.

begun

"

'

Bigg

"

bygg

crops

that

Dan.

Cumb.

"

child.

Sp.

o' beans

Stagg.

milde,

sa

E.

Eng.,

p.

143.

p.

221.

byg
an'

bigg."

Ballads,

^fe^y^y^"

"^

J^^^,-^,,^,^
"

OtrtrtC

tt^Wvw-

.(fV"

^^A,*ZsJj-*.K^^

^td%] UoaUZUJ,
ltr1^UC^\

Boose

stall for

"

Borrans

rough

"

Bor-tree

Box

blow

"

"And

reches."

As

iask^

Brak
' '

clock

brande

1.

broke

"

And

he

II

Bran-new

of braken

bent

to

brant

"

Brast

"

And

That

be

erbes."

"

1.

B.

P.

1675.

brcec
and

doyng

clogs

thank-

difficult

place
brant."

"Sw.

steep rock."

"

of

burst

A.S.

berstan

blode

ran

alswa

doun,
Pricke

on

is

ascent

en

Janiieson.

bercesen, to rush

scourges

6.

I've

brant, steep;

A.S.

of the

viii.,v.

c.

to-day."

on

rash

the

hyme

Sist'a, min,

"

new.

any

"varra

klippa,

Brash

A.S.
looues,

seuene

o' bran-nerw

par

steep

"

said

"

he

beetle

small

quite

"

gitten
Brant

box

gaf to his disciples."

(Wy cliff
Gospel of St. Mark
is)

The

blow

and

brak,

ynyes,

shelter.

or

il.

Isl. hraak

takynge

or

brdken

the

on

"

hill

sounding

Allit.

Brackin-

security

tree

Sw.

best, byte

for

run

burrow

burly che

fern

ders
boul-

beorga^i, to protect

Arthure,

Morte

"

Bracken"
"

his

huge

beo7'g, beorh,

A.S.

Dan.

with

foxes

which

Elder

the

"

with

places

craggy

lying about, to
when
hard
pressed.
place of safety. Germ,
Cf. Eng. borough, and

bosig

A.S.

cow

pt.

t.

upon
bcerst

that

brast

ilk

syde."

his

of Conscience,

A.

hyde.
D.

340.

13

Brat

coveringfor the

acoarse

"

cloak, clout

Bray
Brek

break

"

"

Fr.

Goth,

Bot

destroy

briar

"

' '

landes

many

A.S.

Red

Romance

Brickie
"

being

"

To

hart

With

76.

2, p.

v.

G.

and

fer fro

nat

ant

Ch.

Canterbury

x.

bricg

brigge.
Tales,

1. 3920.

broc

nights thro'

hynd,

do

ant

II.,

brockes-

c.

"

that

over

catt

iv.

Cantebrigge,

and

hardiliche"
to

A.S.

brygga

of Edward

hunte

seem."
,

woods

he

wand'ring brock."
Cumb.
Relph.

foxe,

ant

Charter

go
bores

Ant.

brickie likest

A.S.

i' th'
the

treace

Hare
A

brook,

mair

"Nea

"And

Su.

^badger

'

brere.''''

on

B.

goth

'

blosme

as

s Fairy
Queen,
Spencer''

Ther

To

4465.

colour,

did

Trompyngtoun,

"

off here

glass

fair and

"At

Brock

1.

of Conscience,

of Athelston, Rel.

bridge

Brig

"

obout.

brittle

"

But

out

brer

rose

bryght

As

The

as

Fries, brekke
sal brek

Pricke

Breer

bratt^

broyer

brikan
last thai

the

at

And

A.S.

brat, a clout, pinafore

beat, pound

to

"

W.

dress

to

that

ant

leads,
Ball.

p.

8.

bokke.

brocke."
Rel.

Ant,

hares

and

breketh

v.

to

I, p.

168.

foxes,

adown

mynne

hegges."
Piers

Plowman,

ed.

Skeat,

Text

B, Pass,

vi., 1. 30.

14

Brog"

A.S.

bough

angel

An

com,

bogh

"But
t' sand

on

men-fo'k

ye

was

Sp. E. Eng., p. I37if ye

sic buzzards,

er

it

think

wod

ye

broken."

Mundi,

Cursor

spoken,

this word

had

he

Unnethes

"

bogh

E.

O.

bog

I've

t' French.

wos

patience wi' sic daffy's." Sieged Brou'ton,

"

Brong

brought,

"

"

hrong

his

lug

burst

"

6.

p.

Ball.

301.

p.

brestan

Germ,

O.H.

whang."

Cumb.

Ajiderson.

Brossen

nea

gave

Wulson

Ned

brog

sa

A.S.

herstan

See

Brown-leeraers

dressed

Buck't-up
"

! he's

"Ey
his

Built

cleeas.

Bull-jumpings,
after

given

Bullyrag
,

rook,

with

style.
to-day!"

o' iicck't up

the

"

which

in

mass,

use

harsh

hopes
first

boiled

when

is then

called

language

hectoring, boisterous

is

false

beastings

or

and

to

"

best

"

calving,

custard-like

the

lile Tommy
he's
when

elevated

be

to

"

fine

parlish grand

Sunday
up

in

up

"How

hutz

Germ,

Leemers

fellow."

milk

forms

ings."
"Bull-jump-

"cp. bully"

Bailey. Sw..

duller,noise
Bummel-bee

the

"

Humble

Bee

Isl. buml

"

resounding

Bung-grog

the

"

But-an-splic
"

son

hat, formerly
in

Pap

"

washings
game
very

common

the Bonnet

of

spiritcasks

played

with

in Furness

pins
; cf.

upon

Jamie-

(f:2oiiX

c-^V-^'

i6

Carpin
"

Ane

ryghte

es

Catty

sayeyng
Dan

carpere

game
wood,
pointed

ball,

of the wordes."'

and

carpyng

Jon

Gaytryges Sermon,
with

played

"

Lat.

speaking

"

W.

stone

or

small

p. 7.

piece

cht

"

of

small

piece
Chaffs

Jaw,
"

^jaw bones

"

Dan.

snout

At

An'

Su.

nought
chafts was

th'

by

aw

Mark

Chammerly

kiaefts

A.S.

teeth

gaun,

but

was

tether't."

Lonsdale.

Cumb.

Ballads,

urine; chamber-/y^

"

ceajl,

kiceft

when

time

G.

See

p.

239.

Aid

Lant

Chance-barn

Chang

talk

noisy

"

child
illegitimate

an

"

Chappel-i-laa

"

mode

of

punishment formerly

for pulling hazel

by the boys of Fumess,
in
before
conducted
nuts
they were
ripe. It was
The
into two
this manner
boys di\'idingthemselves
laid themselves
down
with
their feet together,
rows,
the
then
made
the
to
run
culprit was
gauntlet
their
each
legs, when
amongst
boy, as opportunity
s
aluted
him
with
kick.
a
presented itself,

",resorted

to

"

Chass

"

to

hurry, same

as

chase; originally,
to

drive

Chatter-Basket
child

"

"Thou's

Chepster
Chig

"

to

"

the

chew

"

name

applied to

talkative

fair lile chatter-basket,that

ist'a."

(Sturmcs vulgaris)
Starling,

17

Childer

children

"

"Thay

lyke

ere

Prose

"

Tharfor

maysters
childer

has

That

person

Chitter

' '

As

kippa, to totter, be

chiteryngeon

swalwe

eny

"

' '

commonly

wren

full to the

"

brim,

full

to

with

chargyde
chokkefulle

choking
golde."

Arthure, 1. 1552.

Morte

Chops

called

wren.

Charottez

"

"

heme.

"

werchitty-

Chock-full

; also the

cat

steady
un-

Tales, 1. 3258.

Cant.

Chitty

in

used

term

5880-1.

11.

quickly,chatter

talk

to

"

up
D.

Sw.

wrestling ring.

the

lere undir

to

trip a

to

"

the wand,
thair hand."
nses

of Conscience, ed. Morris,

Pricke

Chip

Treatises,p. 39.

tyme

som

aftere

ik\z!irynnes

childir

the

vnto

buttyrflyes." Hampolis
' '

cildra,cildru

A.S.

^jaws

"

Chow

chaw

O.E.

chew

"

Deavie, corly pow,

"Deavie,
First

bite an' then

chow."
Old

Churn

"

corolla from
and

it up

with

down

"

claw

Claak
O.E.

"

to

repeat the

"

Churn,

Butter

"

Rhyme.

the
separate
and working
pistil,

bearing the
a
churning motion

the stem

followingrhyme

Claa

children

Daffodil;

Local

cum

A.S.
catch

churji
ta t'

clea

hold

chop,
top."

O.E.

cle

of, clutch

cloke,a claw
2

h..^. gelcBccan

Claaty-Molly"
Clack"

that

is

Owl

and

the

Clag"
Clam"

klamme,

Dan.

""

Clanter

cUng

22.

cf.

clammy

A. S. clam,

together

clay comly with-inne."

AUit
Poems, B. 1. 312.

with

hit

make

to

"

p.

sticky
"^/":s^"

up.

cleave

or

Eng.,

clay

cleme

thenne

dry

to

up,

to

also

bandage,

songe."
Nightingale, Sp. E.

I'iX.kleggiDan.

clag

to

longe,

of thine

on

adhere

to

and

oft

clackest

thu

Thar-mid

And
The

claqiter

F.

chatter

to
"

See

woman.

Clarty

and

Clag

dirty, slovenly

noise

in

(See

walking

Clatter)

Clap-breead
thin

clapped

Clarty
' '

oat-cakes,

"

filthy,sticky

"

spatel that
spittlethat so

That

That

0.

Clash

hands

the

with

bang

to

"

See

defiled

Clashy

ti leor

"
"

thy face.

besmeared

Homilies,

ed.

Dan.

Morris,

kladske,

rainy, uncomfortable

"

"

Yence

Whyte

p.

279.

to

flap

neet,
clashy winter
wi' loungin' on
i' t' nuik."

on

weather

maiz'd

Cumb.

John Stagg.
Clatter

"

to

received
adheres
common

noise

"

Du.

stick.
on

to

This

accoiuit

any

but

another

provincial name
of the
tenacity

animal.

phrase.

Bali.

Dan.

217.

p.

klateren

gad-fly; cleg is

the

"

clag
'

being rolled

klatsch

Ger.

Cleg

of

Clag

or

door

formerly

were

instead

biclarted

swa

E.

which

To

"stick

klceg,sticky

form

it has
with

like
N.

no

of

doubt

which
a

ir/^^"is
klegg

it
a

'^
i^-^^l'

claj-tS
tJUJfJi,

Clot-hee^d"

klotteren,

O.Du.

clotted

Clotter'd"

fellow

lumpish

clod-head,

to

late.
coagu-

(SeeCludder.)

Clout
W.

patch,

"

oi ^toAs..'" "Golding.

clod

Clottred

"

A.S.

clut

clwf
' '

clout

nabbe

ich

For

Bote

lay

thou

thi

And

wite

the

from

Political, Religious,

Cludder

"O'

fet

to

and

i' t'

wimmin

basens,

an'

pots,

pappe,

my

colde."

the

Foems,

Love

6' V

Cob

round,

"

W.

Cobbin'
the

bunch

person's

cobbin',

Cob

them

Cob

him

Cob

him

If he

cobbin,

whistles

him

Cob

unsteady

"

cob

is

pulled by

all

barley bum,

come

him

whistles

twice,
thrice

meear,

any

till his

hair

'at doesn't
yance,
till he

ness
co, round-

W.

cobbin

it is called

company,

Cockly

"cob-coal"

when

to

as

cobyn,

"

ston, p. 5-

clodhopper

"

abowt

of o' kinds."

cans

Invasion

Clunch

227.

together,
romid

chtdder'd

town

p.

heap

together,
press
with
clod, clot, cloud

t' poor

wi'

lappe,

ne

to

"

connected

'em

cloth

of

piece

or

heead's

Germ,

seear

Local

Rhyme.

kuglen

O.N.

kogla^

roll

Cock-penny
in

"

apennyformerlygiven

Furness,

This

penny

cock

fight,which

was

when

they paid

expected
took

to

place

be
on

to

their

staked
Shrove

boys
school-

school-fees.
on

the

school

Tuesday.

Coddled

embraced,

"

coddled

"I

her

an'

clwose,

calf-lick,a

"

which

her
gave
Cumb.

Clark.

Ewan

Cofe-lick

cuddled

tuft of

Ballads,

155.

p.

hair

on

the

will

not

part

and

upwards

grows

smack."

many

head
forelie

or

straight
Coke

the

"

kolk

Dutch

of

core

O.E.

"Til

That

even

fruit

any

"

in

That

evere

Piers

Con

Our

friend

young

in
on

that

squirrel."
"

Conny

t. oi cuman
banne

Caym*

ed.

Skeat,

com

A.

dissipated

con

the

tyme
eorthe."

vppon
Pass,
x.,

11.

165-6.

them

all

Lonsdale

There's
quantity, as
thrang i' t' hay field owerbye.

'em

; also

good-looking

of

sense

[our

fears]

only the provincial name

Magazine, vol. 2, p. 124.

was

handsome,

"

the

6444-5.

11.

squirrel

by telling us
for

pt.

mouwen

cursede

Plowtnan,

"

"

that

tre,
colke.''''
a

of Conscience,

com,
ben"

now

has

myddes

A.S.
that

Beestes

of

appel

rounde

came

"

caoch

colke

Pricke

Com

Gael,

used

' '

a
"

conny

lock

Dan.

kjon,

pretty
Coot

cwl-iar,

'Coord

Rail

Water

"

coot

bob-tailed,

cwta,

^a.ttr-'h.e.u.""

or

Wedgwood.

accord

"

"Bi

good ensaumplis

The

vnleerned

If her

how

"

word

stool

"

preestis schuld

the

thei

schuld

coorde

werk

Hymns

Coppy-

W.

"

to the

small

not

Virgin

wooden

doo

en

in

lere

fere."

and

stool

Christ,

p.

38.

for children

Corn-craik

representation of

Corby
beau

Ital.

Fumess.

Cote
a

by

; the

raven

the

cottage,

Fr.

cor-

used

in

Lindal

as

Cote,

A.S.

"c.

cote,

cottage
"And

he

there

made

litel cote."

the

Havelok

Coup

the

the

"

urine

in

trench

shippon

And

summe

leye

And

summe

in

dikes

slenget,

gripes."
1. 1923.

Havelok,
Cow-skarn

cow-dung

"

Dan.

Craa

Craa

Gie

me

An'

I waint

lile

Forness

Craa-feet

of the

flowers

Crack

wrinkles

"

"

tell.

'

sit

Come

thy

in

ways

"

rock

to

W.

bawl

the

; the

eyes

blue

Hyacinth

moment

down

give

Cumb.

careg
Sc.

an'

Dickinson.

"

Rhyme.

about

common

chat;

fell

apple

Fumess

Creean

filth

skarn,

crow

"

Crag

receive

to

S. g7'ep

A.

' '

Craa

1. 737-

Dane,

cart

"

Cow-grip

"

"

bird

much

(Not

corvus

crake

"

"

crow

Lat.

corvo

made

sound

the

carrion

the

"

Craik

Rail

Land

the

"

Gael,

c7-oo7t,

to

boast

thy crack."
Ballads, p. 528.

us

creag

long

moan

24

Cushie-cow-lady
in

addressing

Cutt'rin'

form

another

let down

thy

of silk."

gown

Du.

chittering,chattering

of

possibly

koeteren,

jabber
"

cutter' d

They

but

on,

Dab
Dab

father

Dad"
"

as

He's

W.
an'

dad

My
My

mam

brother's

fast

are

up

foolish

"

"Thou

dotest

an'

with

hand

dab

at

it."

asleep,
the

sheep."

to the Fair.

Old

Plowman,

DuUe

Text

A,

Song.

deaf, deaf;

A.S.

person

daffe,quath heo"
Piers

thi wittes."

are

pass,

i, 1. 129.

soft,foolish

"

Dannet

Dan.
"

of

term

"

nought"

Cu'

reproach;

dogenigt,a
thy

ways

worthless
thou

on

P'

Darrak-

meade

Mark

"

literally"^i?
fellow

dannet."

Siege d BrotCton,

p. 5-

day's work

"

"Thou's

Dathit

376.

p.

tad

Jockey

Daffey

Ball.

Cumb.

blow

"

"

good,

very

"

low."

varra

Anderson.

Daft

milk

muttering, whispering

"

sect
in-

"

sail hev

thou

An'

to

lady-bird is a favourite
which
they sing

Cushie-cow-lady

"

used

term

pet.
children, to

with

dear

Cushie,

"

mild
' '

bonny

Lonsdale.

curse

Dathcit
Evere

hwo
more

Cumb.

O.Fr.
it hire

hwil

darrack."
Ball.

p.

276.

deshait,a mishap
yeve

i live !

Havelok, 300.

25

Dazed

starved, cold

"

heated
Icel.

Du.

N.

dasedm

was

ay

I stod

to

stun,

dased

quayle."

"

Yette
He

does

constantly

G.

him

as

dure

of

called

the

by

ded

"And

Piers

Deet

dore-nayV

but

Plowman,

Text

sayd, Jhesu,

He

as

thou
Sir

Deg"

to

damp,
Another

Dett"

to

1. 8.

st. xxv.,

certainty;

used

for doors

are

nails."

the

folewe."

deede

A.,

pass,

i, 1. 161.

died

"

"

Arth.,

"dead

ironmongers

as

sore."

nails

The

diddere

dedur,

and

K.

24.

2, p.

O.E.

to

dead

"

phrase.

common

very

nail

him

me."
vol.

Poems,

sadde

Avow,

Deead

noise

with

deave

zittern

dyntus gerut

stroke

1084.

1.

A,

stupify

tremble

to

"

Poems,

stupify

Burns''

Dedur

wits

charite."

to

or

minnie

"My

one's

of Conscience, 1. 6647.

stylleas

as

deafen;

to

doyva,

sufficiently
in-

an

stupefied,

lose

to

Allit

"

dazed

daesen,

Pricke

Deave

in

Etymologicum).

"And

"

baked

is said to be

oven

dasdr, faint

(see Kilian's

; bread

to

deet

Amadace,

sprinkle

form

the rode."

on

of dew

st. xxxv.,

water
Sw.

upon

dagg

1.

I.

thing.
any-

Dan.

dug

debt
The

dette of payn

may

Pricke

be

qwitte son."

of Conscience,

1.

3617.

26

Deuce

the

"

deuce
of

devil

Armor,

teuz,

this word

Dusii

of

in fact

Lat.

God

and

been

all

Deus,

of

Dues

the

to

us

the

Gothic

"c.
"c. ! !
Armoricans,
these
words, like dsemon,
,

have
are

sent

the

'all

says,

to

seem

of

Teus

nations, the

have

derivation

the

For

the

Augustine,

deus^ the

Fr.

demon.

"lexicographers

S.

Thomson

and

Du.

'

good

sense

Teutonic

Tiw

Havelok.
mean

devil.

secondarily, the
! lemman

to

Teus, all

or

and

root."

corruptions of the same

Note
by Sir F. Madden

old

"Deus

in

used

once

! hwat

"

this be ?

may

Havelok, 1. 13
"

Z'^2:!r^ tek

the clock

! click-clackin

Anderson.

Dibs

money

"

; as,
"

Gregor's

See

"

wi'

"Down

Dialect

Diddle-daddlin

Cumb.

sae."

308.

Ball. p.

thy dibs,then."

of Banffshire."

dawdling

"

12.

about.

gor's
Gre-

See

of Banffshire."

Dialect

Dilly-dallying procrastinating,
puttingthings
"

off;
"

reduplicationof dally, to

ne'er

There

comes

luck

Ewan

Ding

to

"

"Thus

strike

Icel.

dyng
gi-etglowand

them

hamers

Pricke

Dinnel

"

to

Are

Ball.

Sw.

p.

"

162.

ddnga

ever-mare,

and

spare."

nane

of Conscience, 1. 703

1.

tingle

Divel's-bow-an'-arrow
"The

Cumb.

dengia
on

time

wark.
dilly-dallying

Clark.

sail thai

With

of

lose

spink

'

and

the sparrow,
the diveV s-bow-an^ -arrow

"

Nursery

Rhyme.

Don

to

"

put

"

clothes, literallydo

on

bad

Grim

That
For

don

to

"

clothes.

his

on

the

Havelok
' '

th' order

When

doff

To

There'll

these

surely

comes

to

owd

clooas

be

Auld
An'

they'll nit
Miss

Donk

Cf.

damp

Du.

"

Dan.

donketk

Lyrical

Douk

Douker
bus

Dowly
Goth,
But

throw

to

daaleg,

But

neeaw."

"

p.

108.

dive

bird

sea

any

( Colym-

person

Connected
Dan.

with

Su.

daarlig, foolish

dowly pleace when

and

ofjoe

"

to

Eng.

winter

neeghts

lang."

growe

Down-fo

upon

dull

weak

! it is

loave

Author

"

water

lonely,

"

ducker,

E.

auritiis.

"

dukke,

make

to

"

dounes.

Sp.

p. 52.

dank

O.E.

Poems.

Dan.

i.e. the

"

Douse

"

duck

to

"

Ball.

donke,

D.

the

40.

tatter,

Cumb.

donker, dark

Deowes

p.

I fear."

her

Blamire.

moist, damp

"

Songs,

till

worn

don

new

576.

don."

to

La7icashire

England's gown's

1.

Dane,

us

uns

new

WaugK's
"

lict,

bringen

Leve

on

sawp

the

fall of
o'

Waugh.

Geologist.

T.

rain, hail, or

deawnfd'
Sketches

ud

do

of Lane.

and

R.

p.

63.

snow

sect

o'

Life,

good just
p.

199.

^^^

Ic^ofv

29

Dow

good

"

A.S.
for

Germ,

dugan,

taugen,

profit

to

be fit

to

dtie,to

Dan.

be

for,avail

good

fit

or

anything
"

For

dancin'

But

he

prime han'

Mark
"In

nought

was

for

dow.

at

drinlier."

Lonsdale.

Cumb.

Ball.

her

aw

What

is

flegmagaries donn'd
she?
nought at dow"
"

Anderso7i.

Drafif

malt

"

lye as

draf-sak in

Icel.

"

slow, tedious, as

"

but

it

wos

dree

varra

Tales. 1. 4240.

I gat it done
Dan.

job."

draf

bed."

my

Cant.

Dree

p."279.

Ibid

grains after brewing

"And

213.

p.

last,

at

droi, heavy,

tedious

Dub

pool

"

Duds

Dummel-heead

"

Earls

dwindle

the

channel

The

till oure

an

"

"

is it

inciting
syne

blockhead

Bot

rags

Cf.

dummy

duru
A.S.
of

dwinan

river

sands

the

on

How's

"

"

t' ma

of God

thurghe

Gael,

penny
O.N.

.?

how

"

is

es

any

that
ill

we

thurgh the eggyng

iarlus

A.S.

eggia
tume

eggia^i

noghte

agayne

eggyng."

Hamp.
"

dud,

good crossing ?

earnest

drede

deep place

or

Gael,

Ex.

stream.

channel,

Eggin
"

A.S.

"

A. S. ^a,

the

"

door

"

Dwinnal
Eaa

clothes

ragged

"

Dure

a
dip
literally

of Eve

Prose

he

ete

Aim.

Treat,
of
P.

p.

12.

apple."

an

B.

1. 241.

3"

Eigh

-yes

"

coii'd

"Hoo

simpert

boh

(no)

now

opp'n

naw

Eilet-hooals

Tim

"

which

through

holes

"

m."

sed

an

t' sey eigh or

Bobbin.

meawth

her

band

passes
"

Oylet,made

sperynge."

for

clothe,

yn

Parv.

Prompt.
Elba

elbow

"

Elba-greace

"give

it elba

fuel

A.S.

said to

Eldin
"^

"

work

to

"

Eldynge,

fire
(zld.,

' '

the north

In

several

of

names

in

Yorkshire,
ahms;
ellyrtre,
ANG."

Erchin

CATH.

beest

alnetiLm

ANG.

says

that

'

est

locus

ubi C7'esamt.''

CATH.

"

Lat.

ericius

Cf. Fr. heris-

vrchone, ericius, erinacius."

Urchone, /^e';'/JJ"t'7^.Irchen, a lytell

prickes,

vrchin
"7?/(:(:/"',
an
' '

an

"An

"

full of

called

Parv.

bristle.

to

221.

eller, whence
Ellerbeck, Ellerburn, "c.
An
A. S. air, ahms.

as

hedge-hog

"

is

derived.

Prompt.

"

ser,

places,

are

p.

(Alnus glutinosa)

alder

the

Parv.

Ball.

Cumb.

Stagg.

eld

elden."

the

on

Sw.

Prompt.

"

beet

to

and

G.

Su.

Focale.^''

Alder-tree

"

"
/;"L'r/"(7;/.

hedgehog."

or

Yrchyns

or

In

palsg.

Horman

florio.

hedgehoggis
have
longer

be

Italian

full of

sharpe
pryckillys than

pryckillys; porpyns
yrchyns."
According to Sir John Maundevde,
the
Isles
of Prester
"there
John's dominions
als grete as wylde swyn."
Urchounes
Pro7}ipt. Parv.
Ev'n-doun
"

An

"

is

"

John
Eller-tree

anything

upon

greace.

fowayle.

or

While

"

hard

straight

ev'n-doun

sham.

"

down

very

in
ben

p. 512.

great,

as

32

Feckless

jegfik,

Dan.

gainless,a bungler

"

acquired, gained
"

there

Indeed,

luik'd

That

be

to

Just like

pyk't

This

word,

Fagyn

Fell"

"

Fell

mountain

"

"Thow
mountes."

for

London

\h.Q

to

Arthure,

Morte

"

riches,

for poverty

Kendal

note

"

"

1.

felle, and
2489.
for

Preston

forraye

elyot."

Fellon-wood
anum

Fendin'

on

leevin'."

soore

called

pride,

"

Rhyme.

felon

plant

also
on

Bitter-Sweet

a
a

soore

man's

(Sol-

striving,seeking, as
K.S.

Parv.

"

the

dL

happeneth

hear,
Prompt.

Dulcamara.

"

the

t\\efell-side.

whiche

cattes

fynger.

''Jeil-

sore

Furunculus,

callid

146.

Y.xig.
field)

as

Local

Fellon

p.

Y.^.

/^//

word

(thesame

foonde

sail

Norfolk

in skins

dealer

monger,

flatter

to
old

200.

pilaris)

Germ.

and

A.S.

skin

Parv.

Prompt

( Tiirdus

Field-fare

"

p.

flateryny

ox

See

Fel-faa

of the

form

another

be

to

appears
^'

fcegnian,

A.S.

flatterer

"

Ball.

Cumb.

yohn Stagg.

Fee^g

an' eat.

mice."

monie

as

nice,

owre

nibbhn'

nobbet

That

fecklessfwok,

some

was

fajtdian,

to

seek

"

Fendin'

fer

33

Fettle
"When

make

to

"

hit

ready,

right

set

watz/fi'^/^ar"
forged "

to the

Come,

be donnin'."

sud

we

ybkn Siagg.

Fidge
"

an

"

uneasy

Fidgin' fain."

Firm
and

been
the

Cumb.

parts of

person,

Ball. p.

198.

meat

fidget

Burns.

"

wife

Hodge

as

have

or

the tendonous

"

B. 1. 343.

Tcmn/eiileup outsells,

we

It's time

Fic-fac

fitla

fuUegraythed."

Allit. P.
"

N.

confirmed

phrase is

Hodge's

"

wife is said to

(by the Bishop) several times,

applied to anything very

now

firm

secure

Flaach"

wheedle

to

G.

flehen, to

beseech

O.Y..fieech

Flang

threw, flung

"

Flannin

Flap

"

"And
and

flannel

"

stroke
thane

M.

"

' '

In

S.

sett

Lincoln,

A.

vender

es

the ende

For

to

if the devels
obout

flay hym

"Divent

heflait on
let's

cower

48.

(Hall.)

flee

than

com

synfulman,

and

tempte

Pricke

But

i. 27, f.

frighten O.'^.flaja,to

to
Na

hym up in his bedd,

grtteflappeon the cheke."

Alexander

gaffehymselfe

Flay

flap

Du.

and

pyn."

of Conscience,

1. 2242.

them, lad Tom,

i' this

doon

John Stagg.
3

dyke
Cumb.

back."
Ball. p. 2l8.

34

Fleak

A. S.

plaice

(see Flaach) ;

flatterer

"

as

z.

fleryande lyppys."

fluke, with

anything

"

Fleet

t' milk
"

of broth.""

Morris'

in

for the

serves

Gloss,

take

milk,

to

off the

Allit. P.

the cream,

skim

fleet,or
used

the

ing
dash-

or

flotan, to float; O.N. flof, the act

the surface
the
on
swimming
grease

floating;

"To

showy

very

A.S.

cream.

of

skim

to

"

1. 1088.

Arthure,

Morte

Flee-ma-geary

or

flat fish

floe,a

"fflatt mowthede

flook

East

is

the

and

Anglia,
is termed

purpose
take
away

z.

still

verb

monly
com-

which

utensil

'

fleeting-^\^.

lyeth above
it when
rested.
it hath
palsg.
Esburrer, to fleet
the creame
potte ; laid esburrg, fleetedmilke ; maigne,
Treaszirie.
or
fleeted milke
whaye.' Hollybands'
COTG.
milke, uncreamed."
"Escremg,
fleeted, as
K.S. flet,
flos lactis." Way in Prompt. Parv.
fleU mylke,

the

that

creame

'

'

"

"

Fleish

flesh

"

"forsothe

Flick

"

"

spiritis redy, but thefleisck syk."

)
Gospel of Mark, c. xiv, v. 38. (Wycliffe's.

Befe

the

side

of

and

moton

bacon, flitch
wylle

for to seche

And

so

ferre

serve
a

wele

the brim

"

Flit

hat

Ant.

2, p.

v.

29.

lce\.Jlipa Tidxi.flip,

flap
to

"

Flite
^^

of

lytillh3k.onflyk."
Rel.

Flipe

enow

"

to

Dan.

remove

scold

Fly tin, or

K..'S".flitan

chydin

"

Slynge awey
shrtvfid fliting."
"

fiytte

"

CONTENDO."

these

scomers,

Piers

Plowman,

"

he

Prompt
seith"

Pass.

Parv.

with

here

viii. 1. 125.

36
Foor-brest
"On

rightin

"

the flour
\!a!tfore-breste,

in

frounte

front

forward, early,

"

"

tung

For-elders
"

Sum

sic

forefathers

"

'em

on

wadn't

like to

hes

see

'

the

"

"

yeer

Fomess

the

"

further
"

As

z.

Fornenst
For set

t'

as

for-end

o' t'

the
Yx^mt^'a^fer-nese,

fiimace

ful of flot that vpon fyr boyles."

Allit P. B. 1. ion.

forms

opposite

"

forsettaji,to

A.S.

waylay

to

"

wi'

anything

district of
;

up

d' U^sfon, p. 7.

"

beginning,

promontory

m'appen

laa.'"

Linch

the front part of

'at

mix't

for-eldersneeams
7^ Invasion

For-end

'em

behint

left bams

\h."x

bit o' Fomess

forrat

varra

"

taties.
'"^forrat

"a

as

knyghtez."

Arthure, 1. 1990.

Morte

Forrat

of his

stop,

delay
'"At
An'

ola.'s
beath

Author

Fra
"

hym

"

m.e
foorseii

to

want

of

^''

Joe

from

i't'lonnings aboot

sweetheart

and

the

^Jwohnny git oot !"

Cumb.
BaU. p. 428.
Geologist.''''
me

O.N./rtf

Aristotill sais that the bees

that will draw

Fratchin'

thaire

are

hony/ra

feghtande agaynes
thaym."
Relig. Pieces,p. 8.

quarrelling

"

"

"

Twea

gimin' gibbies in a neuk

SzX. fratchin^ yen anudder,

An'

nowte

Wad

wad

them

but

they
together."
Ball.
John Stagg. Cumb,

hev

sarra

match

p.

204.

37

Frap
*^

blow

"

Yx.f rapper

hiAfrappez

faste at

hys

face

ferselyther-aftyr."
Arthure, 1. 1115.

Morte

Frekt

"

Freet

"

to

"

rub, produce friction

wood

"

grieve

or

fright

Fridge
Frith

fret

to

"The

fox ^

W.

Lat.

ffridd

the folmarde

to

'Ca."fryth
wyndez."
B.

Allit P.

Frosk

1. 534,

K.'S).frosc

frog

"

fricare

this term
tells me
was
only
My friend Mr. Bolton
Furness, with regard to
employed at Urswick, in Low
of a very lightyellow colour.
those
frogs which were
'"'"Oerca..frosch, Dan.

froske,
rana."
"

/rosk,

ortus."

frogge
Way in Prompt.

or

"

the felle of

As

a.

frog."

"A

froske"

Fr.

affront

to

"

woolly, spongy

Fuffy
"

Full-but

right in

"

in the
'"^ffulle-butt

the

as

"

skin

""

frog.

Arthure, L 1081.

affronter
fug, flue,fluff

Ban.

front
frounte

he

flyscheshyme

evene."
1.

Arthure,

\sfunde

fUl few

of hit

fayth dedes.
Allit P.

spungy

of

2769.

found, pp.

"

Fuz-bo

froske, agredula

Morte

Fund

J?ana,

Parv.

Morte

Frunt

"

"

fungus (Lycoperdon)

B.

Du.

"

1. 1735.

voos^

38

Ga

Icel. ga

go

"

prioure

the

"Thane

thy synnes."

till

said

going to

"

wrytte

Treats,

Prose

Hamp.
Gaain'-at-Bruk

and

gaa

contricione.

in-perfecta

de

hym,

make

cheese

7.

p.

break

the milk

Gaby

Gaddin'
of

to her

gaddirC

Ya

'"'"

of

Gainest

Joe

the

"

when
and

neighbours'houses

gray thes
gayneste." Morte
"

Gakin'

the

instead

o'

gaily thrang."
T. and
R. p. i.
Geologist.''''
we

war

readiest,nearest

"And

Sw.
the

Glasschenberye

to

Arthure,

Gamashes

the

at

gate

1. 4309.

"

"

pleasuring,
jaunting
leggings

"Gramashes,

gaiters reaching to the

of stockings worn
instead
of boots.
(See

Jamieson.

"

Gammerstang
gammet

"I'

near

gen,

staringabout

"

Galevantin

aches.'"

is

woman

at home

foomeun

het

Author

kind

person

very

"

"

about

runs

remaining

Gaily

about

going

"

that

one

a, gaj"mg
literally

soft person;

"

an

"

old

in

Gamashes

tall awkward

woman

Dan.

Fr.

O.E.

woman

stang,

pole

they were
rwoaring an' dancing
Big Nancy, the greet gaymjierstang,
Went
t' fluir lyke a hay-stack,
up an' doon
The

fain wad

hev

RafflesMerry

coddled
Neet.

Ned

Cumb.

gam-

Wedgwood.)

the loft

An'

knees.

Strang."
Ball.

p.

533.

40

Ge^t
a

"

Su. G.

path

or

way

Of

whase

gate

men

"It's

olez

Tho'
An'

wintry winds

theer's

th' heart's
blow

may

one

kind

^s

Gekvlock

W.

javelin

Gebby
Gers

"And

Umbegrippede

A.S.

\hQgerse,and

laughing

"

Gimmer

W.

"

ravine

girt giglin

"a

ex.

"

Icel.

two

year

machine

for

"

Girdle

Arthure, 11. 3944-5.

lass"

gickelen

"

armes

grouffe fallene."

one

gosUngs

"

Giglin

"

p. 50.

gqfeloc,a

in his
gaye

gude
Morte

O.Du.

Songs,

gers, gcers
the

Gawayne

syr

Gezhns

faut,

stick

A.S.

grass

"

Lane.

crowbar

th'

to

gaflach
hooked

"

iron

an

"

content,

gate 'at's so
likes to go."

never

th' gate

As

where

summer

"

fynd.
of Conscience, 1. 7076.
trace

na

may

Pricke

Gin

gata,

path
' '

Gill

O.N.

gata

plate

of

gil, a
old

gap

in

sheep

drawing
iron

mountain

Su. G.

gimmer

ore

for

baking

upon

greidyll Eng. grid-iron

"Aunt

Ester

spoil'dihegurdle
Anderson.

Cumb.

ceakes."
Ball.

p.

301.

41

Girn

grin

to

"

"Jim

Sw. grina, to

and

George
They fought all in
And

when

great lords,

two

were

chum

grin
;

that

Jim got George by the

George began to girn.

Then

nose,

"

Hall.

Nursery Rhymes,

p.

12.

Girsly gristly
"

Gizzen

gizzard

"

Giversum

Gladder
"

Who

avaricious

"

more

"

A.S.

gifer^greedy

glad

that

drynketh wele, mych

that drynketh to moch, more

Who

is he
is he

Rel.

Glent
"

slip aside

to

"

ffloridas with

Bot

the

AUe

flesche

W.

as

he

"

Here,

here

it

(a

was

first I gzX. 2.

That

wae

"

"

to

Heedless

gliffo'

look

O.N.

"

1.

2781.

to

Cumb.

glynCd,

nor

could

een
my
Cumb.

shine, sparkle,glisten

glyssa

Ball.

p.

16.

askance, glance aside

Relph.

Glisk

Arthure,

lighton the pleace,)

Betty'sfeace."

Relph.

Glime

he

glimpse

"

2, p. 288.

v.

by glenttys,
flappes in sondyre."

Morte

Gliff

gladder.

the madder."

ysglent,a slide

swerde,

of the flanke

Ant.

the

command."
Ball.

A.S.

p.

16.

glisnian

42

Gloppen
to
"

glhpa^

O.N.

alarm, astonished

to

"

stare

Thow

to

wenys

glopyne

goos hur heart, an' hoo

hke
hoo'd
for
o' th' winder

bounce

That

out

Warrikin

Fair,

1548.

A.D.

1.

Arthure,

Morte

"Then

"

thy gret wordez.

witli

me

gloppen.

%o

were

2580.

loppen."

to

Ball.

Lane.

p.

69.

"

Quen Jhesus sagh tham glopnid be,

kne."
He
lighted of his moder
Cursor
Mundi,
Sp. E. Eng.

Gloppers
to

blinders

"

for

horse

O.N.

134.

gld,pa,

stare

Glour

to

"

Quha

Du.

stare

"Theire's

gloren, to glitter

lads in Earnslaw,

braw

sca"glowr wi'

gape

Marion,

ee."

their

Rel.

Percy's

Glumpin
Gob

p.

213.

sulking

"

mouth

"

T)-^x\.gab

d2"i.gob

O.^.gobet,

mouthful

following brief dialogue

The

in Cheshire

"

up

tongue,

your

he

his

knew

gob,

kick

Which

meade

yo

meon.

reet

weel

sud

"

"

fool

I ga

!
"

oppen

fool

he

directly she
hell's

up

him

delight i' t' house,

mum

onie

as

yohn Stagg.

Goke

"

"

whot

shud

Yo

Would

occurred

boy.

my

speik Inglish, doctor

lad, an' pull aat thi loliker.

Because

Gofif"

have

"

Turn

Set

out

dunna

Au

Mother

' '

Put

' '

:
:

gob.

to

"

"

Boy

is said

Doctor

thi

p.

Fr.
Sw.

gowlende

mouse."

Cumb.

Ball. p. 224.

gofe
gdck
a-bowte'

al

so

Rel.

dos
Ant.

a
v.

goke."
i, p.

291.

44

he

can

O.N.

graythely gesse." Allit P. A. 1. 498.

greitha, to unfold, set right; A. S. ge-rcedian,
ful

"

The
ready ; O. E. graitke, to prepare.
that g is
Du.
gereed, ready, G. bereit, ready, shew
form of
merely a prefix,and gradely is only another
readily,with the meaning exactly,completely,"c.
make

to

Grapplin

in holes

or

Greavin
"

the

Gravyn,

' '

for

Meas.

I.

ing
Grop-

2.

grane

grafan,

dig, grave

to

the erth.

yn

the fish under

of the brook.

side

A.S.

grubbyn

or

catching trout,

grappling

O.E.

groan

delving

"

of

in Meas.

occurs

to

"

by

"

for trout

Greekn

and

in the becks

by wading
stones

mode

common

"

fodio."

Prompt.
Grece

built

when
"

incHned

the

"

over

Gradus,

grice,whereby
Grece

to

grece,
a

or

steppe

gothe

manne

at,

up

go

shippon

to

way

or

barn

stable

in the

in

etc.

manorial

parish of Dalton,

in certain

gre,

step.

steppe

into

vppe

granary,

hygh

or

bedde.

stayre, degre."

old

an

"

Fr.

; scamnum,

Way
Green-hew

or

Parv.

for

Parv.

Prompt.

rent,

libertyto

cut

still

paid

pea-sticks,

woods

Grey-George
dialects

Grime

"

brown-

use

to

"

earthenware

an

Norse

is of

spotty, ho

body

grima,

grain,
"

Let

"

coarse

other

lasses shine

fix fause

hair

Sec

fashions

I'll ne'er

as

spot

A.

1.

1069.

Fr. gros-

grain

An'

Lang

P.

stuff for dresses

coarse

grytn."

to

Allit

Grogram

Some

George

soil,blacken

"To

bottle.

upo'

plain grogram
Ewan

in silken

gowns,
their cockin' crowns.

follow
and
Clark.

while
thur

I'se whick,

locks

Cumb.

please Dick.
Ball.

p.

161.

45

Grund

the

"

earth

"That

al thair

idels,in a stund,
Grovelings fel into the grund."
Cursor
Mundi, Sp. E. Eng.
Grunstan

Haffel

grindstone

"

hesitate

to

"

Hagworm

138.

p.

the

"

in

speaking
snake

common

literally,
hedge-

worm

Haister
^'

hastener,

that

rostythe

"

Hastier

Dutch

oven

mete,

assarius."

assator,

Prompt.
Hack

pickaxe

"

"

Fr.

For-wroght

Of

himself

he

hacher,

wit his kak

Mundi,

April wi' his

hack

Sets

on

flow'r

hack

to
and

spad,

al sad."

wex

Cursor

Sp.

E.

Eng.

hold

"

And

"

put
hald

And

A.S.

iv'ryhill.

butte

on,

quere

Hank
"

Kennett

Bishop

when
or

loop

it

comes

twisted.'

twist ; but

ye

hald

men,

ten."
st.

i, I.

10-

11.

confusion, untidy

"

"

of your

Amadace,

Sir

Ham-sam

Rhyme.

haldan
fialle mony

away

140.

p.

an' bill,
Local

Hald

Parv.

of yarn
"

reel, and

Perhaps
it

comes

*a hank

gives

off the

thread

or

much

from

Sax.

nearer

Way

of yam
or
is tied in the

in

hangan,
to

the

Prompt

to

thread,
middle,
tie

Isl. haunk.
Parv.

p.

or
"

238.

46

Hankie

said

"Yes,
without

Hangment

get hanMed
among
may
Lonsdale
Magazine,

"

expletive,as

an

"

is

ground

What

the

Hansel

has

liangment

What

the

ta

it

sent

Hansh

to

"

to

"

into

Ben.

/land-

form

hancher

of

lap, wlap,

whap
whappyn yn clothys ; happyn
togedyr." Pro7npt. Pa^-v.
or

togedyr,

"

Aw'm

Matty,
finished,

'

"

to

my

cool

thinkin'

yed

my

happed
nicely up, an' said,
it
\vi' drinkin'.'
Thae's
on
brought
Lane.
WaugKs
Songs,
"

harsh, keen, dry.

is said to be

Haver,

an

whar

hask"

"van-a

Haver-breead

"O

and

come,

him

Hoo

^'

124.

hang-

Besom

A.S.

O.Fr.

jaws

; another

"Come,

Hask

"

the hands

the

snap

cover

"Lappyn,
wrap

and

"

for ?

us

be the first purchaser

to

"

selen, a giving

or

2, p.

v.

Waugk's

Hap

rough,

the bushes.

is ta du'in?"

mettt
"

landlord, the

the
you

care,

(See Hank)

twist,entangle

to

"

old

gat

term

ye

Sw.

hdrsk

bread

oat

"

for oats."

that

frosty wind

keen

G.
"

hqfer, oats

Jamieson.

haver-va.e.Si\ bannock?"

Jamieson!s

Haw-buck

"

country

p. 32.

clown

Did.

48

for

his

best
lord
a

that

chattle

by

custom

hath

tenant

service."

or

the

toward

death

at

due

A.S.

Coles.

"

the

now

war,

to

the

here-geatu,

provision

warlike

Hesp

preparation

better

clasp

"

hook

or

haspe

Germ,

O.N.

kespa
Hezal-oil
Hidin'

"

HiUoky"
Hind

"

placed

ploughman,

in

charge

of

hoste

him

For

And

am

wont

eame

my

or

to

go

meate

the

"

hit Ee

I ; or,

Hoble-de-hoy

Ho'd"

er

that I dine."
Flovj.

not

or

G.

Ut
;

miss

he

on

the

between

"

hold

Crede,

p. 45.

^vi/J|t**J^

hit
literally,

; like

or

willy-nilly

skin

youth

a
man

ner

hod, min

"Seaz

hindumists

and

man

boy."
!

can't

t'e!"

hold

Hog'us
A

thou

plow.

Moes.

nader
hoble-de-hoy,

"Girt

take

or

blebs

water

"

the

to Piers

last

hit it

"

Hives

servant

to

napkin U4^

Hitty-missy
miss

art

man

kine

an

hina,

obstructive

"

Hindermast

"

A. S.

am

servant

upper

axed, what

Notes

dersum

an

farm

Sir, (quod he,) I

Hippin

wand

hilly

"Our

Hin

hazel

flogging

"

thrashingwith

hog

"

is

house

young

or

hutch

sheep

; see

on

the fells for

Hall.

sheep

y^i/U4.

^cJf

JcUy]^-

"

Urtite-yJC

49

Hoit^a

clumsy

hmita^

Icel.

person

flutter

to

about

HoUin"

the

"

Bot

in his

That

honesschen
"

thennes.

Horse-stang

Howmer

"

Hull

winter

Hulk

are

"

HuUet

howling
"

htdled.

cry

used

Poke

Pass.

daye, thou

Cp. yig-kull

owl

so

called

48.

nigra)

umbra

bees

covered
A. S.

noght

for the

helan, to

its

from

cover

peculiar

Sc. howlet
ta

say

it wod

hke

screeam

HuUy-butterflee properly
"

(Arctia caja), but

any

xi. 1.

Lat.

Lebby Beck

to

him

fellow

lazy
the

"

A.

ho ten

1. 1688.

covering; potatoes

"

Text

and

Fr. ombre

Arthnre,

Morte

delyverde."

hound*

the roots

hufe alle the

thow

"Gif

an

out

offend

; to

rage

by

shade

to

"

bobbe

dragon-fly

pull up

to

"

holyn

knap-weed ( Centaurea

the

"

as

Plowman,

the

"

had

bare."
when
ar
greuez
grene,
Gr. Knt.
Sp. E. Eng. p. 227.

him

Piers

"

Horse-nop

"

he

wearied, tired

"Bote

Hufif

and

Gaw.

Honish't"

Howk

honde

on

grattest in

is

Sir

go

Holly-tree

of the

the

term

heavy

is

bodied
4

the

kullet."

Dobby,

Tiger

p. 4.

moth

indiscriminatelyapplied
moths
night-flying

5"

Hurkle

stoop

to

"

kurka

O.N.
"Then

in

ther

come

And

litill brid

hydis

and

hurkils

ther

Hysta

make

"

Ice-shokles

Gloss,

And

haste

lang

S.

Ike

Iky-piky

"

"

tame.

Allit. P.

p.

162.

hurry

to

Norse, isjukel
Alfred

Bigg.

diminutive

"

were

to

fleghe,

arme

hande

danglin' doon."

ice-sJiockles

J.

his

hasta,

Sw.

icicles ; cf.

"

into

sche

as

Morris's

"

hurken

Du.

squat

or

Staunton,

p.

20.

of Isaac

corruption of Ipecacuanha

Ill-willy grudgingly
"

Intack

enclosed

an

"

intaga,

Jammy-Crane
Probably

Jam-rags

Janders
Jannak
Sw.

so

to

"

"

(See Way's

Jew-trump
J ike-

"

to

its

(Ardea
long legs.

cinera).
Fr.

Jambe.

cooked

over

jaundice

to

adjust; jiimn,

splash with

to

"

Jemmer

Sw.

common

honest, straightforward,
fair, even.

"

Jedder

Heron
from

named

^the

"

Jamka,

Jarble

the

"

anything

"

of

in

take

to

piece

"

tremble,
door
note

the

squeak

mud

or

hinge.
to

even.

Gymowe

shake
From
in

Jew's harp

; cf

Deddur

Lat.

Prompt.

gemellus.
Parv.

C-PUrM^-'J

j^StAA^--'
[-%"""

52

to

catch

Skurrle,

skurrle

Kep
' '

"

A.S.
thee

cepan

down

I'll kep thee

"

thy

come

"

ways."

Kep-bo
Kerse
"

"

Of

hand-ball

"

he

Ball.

Christmas.

"

following lines

are

cerse

kers."

nat

Tales,

Christmas

On

by boys

sung

an' beake
up aid wives
yer
It's Kersmas
i'
t'
day
morning.

rennet,

"

"Ther

cheese

Kest
"

Ket^

gat

carrion, or

"

of

flesh

G.

koett ;

Ketment

"Thou's

kiln

Kin"

kindred
This

to

"

writte

W.

"

Kinkin'

"

crease

cast,

as

teer't."

died

of

disease.

ket
of

mess

anything;

hettle-d -fishon't."

cyl
Icel.

was

279.

Jamieson.

"

bonny

gett
Cursor

Kink

have

Cf

make

; lit. a

p.

of filth

that

people

meead

Kill"

"

kind

any

the

kalflope

Ball.

a' bin

I wod

er

animals

low

"

the way

coup

eve

Sw.

Cumb.

Icel. kvett, caro."

Kettle-o'-fish
as

1. 3754.

kezzlup-^va..''''

as

Lonsdale.

lift on

kest in

"The
Su,

ride ;

"

teugh

was

Marh

kers

pies,

calf's stomach

155.

"

Git

Keslop

Du.

or

Cant.

Kersmas

p.

catch-ball.

ccerse,

sette

ne

paramours

lit. a

A.S.

cress

Cumb.

Clark.

Ewan

Du.

laughing

kyn

A.S.

fra kin

kink,
A.S.

/^m."

to

Mundi,

cyn

Sp. E. Eng.
a

p,

128.

twist,twirl

cincung,laughter

53

Kipe

to

"

Kipper
"

Cf.

retort

salmon

"

Salmon

Eng. gibe
of

out

in the

of

state

season

spawning.

Teut.

kippen."
yaniieson.

' '

and

Kippe7-thne, the
twelfth
of May,
' '

forbidden.

Kirk

of time
between
space
in which
fishing for

of

names

third

salmon

is

Ash.

"

church'; frequently

"

the

with

met

places, as Kirk-\)j, Torver

in

JTtrk-ns

the

(church-

house).
Kist

chest

"

Su.

G.

kzsfa

"

he

with

"

Kittle
A.S.

Germ,

keyes vncloses

tickle

to

"

ark

or

ktsfe

A.S.

"

kystesful

mony.
Allit P. B.

Du.

dsf

kittelen

1.

Icel.

1438.
kitla

citelian

"

Todd

Leyll Arthey
An'
Be

she

brast

oot

quiet full

Thou

Kittlin
"In

"

the

is thus

dea

when

me

Mark

back,

squeelin';

or

"

kittles

till her

crap
what

wull

tou

!
"

I's dealin'."

Lo7isdale.

Ball.

Cumb.

p.

276.

kitten

earlier

rendered

Wiclififite version, Deut.

'

To

Dan

he

seith, Dan,

xxxiii.

22,

keetlyngof

lyon, (catulus leonis, vulg.^ shal flow largely fro

Basan.
Palsgrave gives the verb to 'kyttellas a catte
dothe, chatonner.
kytelleth,
Gossype, whan
your catte
I
have
let
a
me
kytlynge (chatton)\"
pray you
Way in Prompt. Parv.
a

'

Kith

"

"Thai

country

A.S.

ferd al sauf into

Cursor

cyth, a region
thair

Mundi,

kytk."
Sp.

E.

Eng.

p.

132

54

Kizen't
"

dried

"

Kizen,

exposed

Knap
Kysty

the

"

Jamieson.

"

knappen,

G.

weshed

they wom't

crack

to

their chammer

out
"

Icel. kvithr

belly

"

cwitha

"jTheir kytesweel tugg'd wi' solid

began to guzzle."
They now
"

An'

theear

An'

efter blaain' owt

Ball, in

Local

' '

With

thi laa

Butte

him

love

Lafter
of

sat

we

they fed

"

p.

200.

like

me

eyeren

sing."

1st, 1867.

lag
him

made

is lothe

to

of

avow,

be
K.

leyce,
pece."

in

ArtJi,

st. xxvi.

1. 9.

of

hen

chickens

sits upon

; the

during

number
incubation.

see

"

legghen,ova
the

hare;

ponere."
"

A.S.

Jamieson.

la, lo! and

hara,

old

hunting phrase in Fumess.

Probably
because
the term
is not of Anglo-Norman,
French
or
it
does
in
"Le
not
De
occur
origin,
Venery
Twety,"
and
work
on
a
hunting
hunting terms, by the chief
a

hare

lachter

"Teut.

hurr

Sep.

Mirror,

hase

brood

which

eggs

ifI'd

me

southern-wood

"

one

"

Scotch,

La

Ball.

Cumb.

kyte,they ex'd

O.N.

The

Lad's

mi

Ulverston

law

low;

"

heead

gear,

king,

Laa

teables

at

be

may

U^sto7t,p. 6.

A.S.

John Stagg.

ye

"

filled."

'em

an' hed

kysty

pots

Invasion

Kyte

being

dainty

"

"Some
suer

drought.

or

sun

blow

"

of

in consequence
shrink, especially

to

to

parched

up,

huntsman
Ant.

V.

an

to

I, p.

King
149.

Edward

the

Second.

See

Rel,

56

"

prevent them

to

legs of horses, etc.,

fore

the

tying

Langlin'

straying.

or
bynd to-gedder. Colligo. In the
Langdyn,
to
noth
hopple, or fasten the legs
to laftgelsignifies
To
with
langle^ in Norfolk, implies to
a
thong.
^^

other."

the

foot before
"

if it

slowly, as

saunter

Langel

To

were

difficult to

advance

in

Parv.

Way

"

legs of a horse,
a horse.
/i5!;?"r/

animal,

other

or
'

Su.

G.

together the

tie

properly to

"

Prompt.

one

lang-a,

side

one

on

'to

; as,

"

retard.

to

two

Jamieson.
Lant

urine

"

"It
lant."

Lap

warld

"

Lappy7z,
togeder
wrap

whappyn

or

in

sal be

Involvo."

wyndyng
lapped

his

obout

Lash-kome
a

"

Lathe

lath

barn."

of

barn,
ASH.

very

horreum,
commonly

Chaucer

"Why

A.S.

which
Za^'/^,?,

the

Skinner

dan.

used

in

gelang

lat

house;
does

Promptorium,
into

"

hair

Du.

store

or

introduction

Danish

Lade,

"

place in

proper

and

Germ,

onely.
body.

of Cotucience, 1. 841.

for the

comb

"

"

of

account

on

"

Parv.

Prompt.

"

clothe

Pricke

Lat

owd

arron

clothys (happjm to-gedyr,

yn

clothes).

it be

Bot
That

Lang-of

boh

God

loo

Eng.

enfold

to

"

oth'

cards

Bobbin.

Tim

"

at

game

nowt

wus
"

the

a
'"'"Lathe.,

not

is

occur

possibly a

Lincolnshire.

word

counties.

eastern

observes

in its

that it
It

was

in

occurs

ne

hadst

thou

put the

capel in

the lathe.'"
Reves

"

Tale.

lathe. ""i?(?jfM.S.
Granarium,
17 c. xvii.
lathe,apotkeca, horreum."
Way in Prompt. Parv.
"

"A

57

"

Whyle t' fiddlers they're at wark

An' thrang their fiddles tuning.
John Stagg.

Lea

Leace

Leat

Ledder

leather

"

'

mi

When

I kill mi

cow

A.S.

lyge

lie

Leemers

hazel

"

from

easily

o' ledder

lad

Icel. lima, to

leemers

'^Learner, Leemer,

husk,

fell an' leet o' my

Leister-

"

"We
where

all

Her

Letter

river

G.

rather

"I

liuster

side

the

above

assembled

were

bridge,
poles and

with

catching salmon."
Victoria''s
Journal

for
^Listers,''

Majesty Queen
Life in the Highlands,

denotes

Lever"

separates easily from

Jamieson.

Su.

the

to

i' t' cannel

candle

that

"

heead.

tenants

rather

or

spears,

our

brown

"day-/^^/,-"to alight,as

fish spear

walked

called

then

away

"

alight, as

"

cut

ripe, separate

are

being fally ripe."

as

t' bladder."

sal hev

and

nut

when

husks,

as

followinglocal rhyme

thou

nuts

the

It is used

leader

in the

That's

"

Leet

199.

p.

Dan.

of commendation

term

the

Ball.

late

"

'

Cumb.

look

to

"

lie

Sw.

leathe,

castigate

to

"

Leak

Lee

scythe

"

i' t'
"

that

letter is

our

in

the

coming

to

wick
the

of

house.

leof,dear, comparative,

A.S.

; from

of

125.

p.

spark

"

' '

^^

leofra.
"

schal

What?
Yet

had

I lever

buy

it

wedde

on
no

my

fleisch

wyf

to

Cant.

so

yere

deere
!

"

Tales,

1. 5750-

58
Ley

lea

"

F.

the

after

"Ley, field

Bi

to

Christ."

Virgin "
"

Gloss,

in

Furnivall

y.

ley, etc."
to the
"Hymns

is cut, clover

crop

forest

as

walke

y gan

paleys in a leye."
to Virgin "=
Christ,
Hymns

With-out

Lick

Lig

lie

"

"

That

he

ere

dog

little

"

pluckt

leeak't

But

what

at

"

manorial

Lilt

"

Come,
An'

Ling
Lish

"

"

"

residences

link

Mary,

m'

lilt away

song
thi

arm

active ; another

Their

mine,

Lane.

Songs,

15.

p.

marriage

smart,

some

i'

me."

( Calluna

last

"

ing
spectral apparition,haunt-

certificate of

At

nout.

"

Shifting Scenes, p. 172.

Bigg.

heath

"

lile lass

matters

Waugh's
Lines

out

reet

the sweet

"

Step lightly;

to

"

Man.

towoi,

spak

answered

S.

Lily-white-Lady
old

an'

me

she

y.

Northern

poore

U'ston

to

heart

up

She

bed,

tire."

lille
gat

we

his

licgan

bodily injury

Dan.

Afoore

"

and

King
do

to

"

full ill did

he

A.S.

Ugga

lig in

to

came

and

The

Lig-a-leam

Su. G.

Hggja

Icel.

His

Lile

95.

p.

beat

to

"

vulgaris)
form

Dan.

lyng

of lithe

lish young
souple lads
frae t' steable
brought. "

naigs
yohn

Stagg.

Cumb.

Ball.

p.

201.

6o

Loup
"

I'se wi' Nell

When
It

Sw.

leap

to

"

loups, and

Lounder

Clark.

lounge

about

to

is to

make

"

idleness,
Low

keeps such
wad
loup out.

Ball.

Cumb.

rout,

"

p.

159.

wood

in

in idleness

whittle

of

piece

lounter-pins.

flame

"

if it

as

Ewan

Lounter-pins

run

heart

my

loups,

to

"

I'opa,to

"O.N.

Dan.

logi

lue,

A.S.

love.

O.E.

Iceg,lig

loge,leie.
And

brint

The

in their

bright.

sinfiil downright."

it swath

lowe

fire ful

sinagog

Gloss, to Fricke

the small

Lucky-beekn"

shaped

hammer

(os Iiyoides)of the sheep, which

the
their clogs, or
shoes, under
will bring them
luck.

Lug

the

"

etc.

pans,

short

ear;

the

pull

to

projectives upon
hair

; Sw.

Then

with

lowpt

spang

I scratch' d my

lug;

what

dish

The
Shews

with

could

Lug-an'-a-bite

"

and

to

whoever

thee

down.
with
frown.
a

hay.

say."

or

Ball. p.

children's

Fool

distance, the boys

obtains
it first,bites

throw
"

it away
and
so

An
then
at

on

until

"

only

look

; lit. look

apple

run

other

the

apple

thou

but

eaten.

Luthobut

aster.

it until

again by the

155-

"

of Alunc

game.

some

compelled to
pulling his hair

the

Cumb.

The

is thrown

pots,

that I do cany
here.
Itigges
livingis in good strong beer.

all my

it

lugga.

amang
I dui

Clarke.

Ewan
"

down

in

impression that

Stand

bone

'wear

children

luive, quo I, I'll waanly tak

off, thou gowk ! she answer'

"Come

Conscience.

of

for it,
he

is

boys
is all

e^2c^
j.^^^,.^^^

,ft^.v.uX^e.^

A.

6i

Maa

to

"

Maak

Sw.

maggot

"

down

cut

mow,

""Make, mathe,

wyrm

mask

yn

the fleshe."

Prompt.

Maapment
' '

nonsense

"

Map'' merit
Thou

Martha

"

kna'sn't

Thow

"

says

heart

my

"

owt

'^

Mackly-what

in

"

Magazme,

blunder

p.

i8.

fashion

some

confuse,

to

"

thow

"

Lonsdale

Mafifie

what

ment

thy Hie contrairy ways.

the Geologist.''''
of
North
Joe and

Atithor

"

maf

"

fair torments

Wi'

Maddle

Parv.

muddle

O.E.

mamelen,

babble

to

I'll niver

while Bobby's my
git heam
neam,
But
an'
maffle
sing till I dee, dee, dee."
Author
and
the Geologist.''''
T. and
R. p. 25.
of '"'"Joe

Mafifle-horn

Maid

"

Mak

clothes

kind, as

"

Maikin

the

"

blunderer

"

horse

"Thou's

queer

;;z"/^of

chap."

yellow iris (IrisPseuda-

common

corus).
Mam

mother

"

Manegy

cross,

"

Manifaads

small
"

"

of

surface

W.

which

mam

ill-tempered

particular kind
is covered

with

of

tripe, the

many

folds;

the

intestines.
An'

he

laid the

An'

he laid the

manifaads down,
manifaads down."
Old

poor

Local

man,

Song.

62

Manish
' '

manage

"

that's

But

thing

kna

ye

'at I cud

weel

reet

niver

manish.
An'

sooa,

I,

ses

if that

I'd

think

want,

ye

better

vanish."
Ulverston

Happen
' '

' '

of

Marra

Joe and

' '

the

I needn't

"

if I

now

say

May-gezzelin'

to

seaf an'

to

customary

the

"

fools

make

Sc.

426.

marrow

sound.
marra."

Sep. 14th, 1867.

May-gosling
of

ist

Ball. p.

mee".r,
Barra,

fool ; lit. a

May-gezzelin' day
of

ga'in

git back

"

1st

any

I'll send
this sang
ye
Ulverston
Mirror,

To

was

Cumb.

equal.

an

It's settled I'se

An'

happen

Geologist.

companion,

"

I say

of Amen,

Asteed

1st, 1867.

7rCappeal I may
;
I
nUappeti may."

it cums,

I may,

Mappen

Author

; it may

perhaps

"

Sep.

Mirror,

of

when

May,
people,

as

on

it
'the

April

Melder

quantity

"

"

Melder, the quantity of meal

Icel. malldr, mohtura, from mala,

ground

at

once.

giind."

to

Jamieson.
"

"

Under

girtseeks

liletime."

Mell

"

pile o' hay they

full
"

an'

Invasion

"

mallet;

a
"

For

with

he

sic

dudn't

to

meddle

us

he

so

"

melder

o' meeal

it owte

i' varra

O.Yx.

meslee

viells

England dwells,

were

somewhere
Skelton^s

Memaws

they lug
d' Vston, p. 5.

*rhat within
I wold

fand

antics,mouthing

else."
Satire

on

Wolsey.

Cw

""^^"?W."4^

VCt.

\iV"^i".

U*JiLi*i^

r^JvM^

4
a-j

^u*

-vt^tl^

[n"ro^)

64

Moider

an' drink, an' ither

meat,
"
moider^ d vfere
Reet
amang.

An'

'

'

stupify,confuse

embarrass,

to

"

the

night

Mooter
miller
Fr.

claims

his

as

of

meal,

fee

for

etc., which

grain.

the

grinding

pet

"

Mopsy

of endearment

term

"

puellula^

KXii'Ae. mopse,

Morgen
roads

"T'

"

rwoads

er

Dan.

word

"

dirt ;

mud,

"

mud.

with

Mot

goods during

of

mouture

Moppet

"

portion

"

194.

the landlord

cheat

to

removal

"

Ball. p.

Cumb.

John Stagg.

Moon-leet-flittin

things,

"

mog,

Fm-v.

Prompt.

"

NOTE.

generally applied
o' in

i.e.
morgeii^''

the

to

covered

muck

Thow's

'casion

nea

to

put thy

mot'va..''''

Moudiwarp

the mole

"

and

mold, earth,
Muck-sweat

Mufifatees

"

"Mittens,
worn

old

by

Muggy

"

"

( Talpa vulgaris)

-weorpan,

high

to

state

cufifs for the

men.

Icel.

drizzly

perspiration

wrists

of leather

either

about

toss

of

A.S.

muffa

or

of
Dan.

Icel. 7fmgga,

knitted

worsted,

7noffe.''''
yamieson.
mist

J^rj-tnA-

feCv-^

du"Ar

^_}OmAyeyt^

"v"-sft/vM-Jv"-

'^
^^^^^-^
""

65
dust

Mull"

Du. muUen,
to crumble.
mul, gemul, dust.
7null, loose earth, dust ; Cf. peat mtdl, the

"Flem.
PL

Du.

dust

and

peat."

of

fragments

Morris

Gif I mele

"

mul

that

lyttelmore

AUit.

to

askez."

"

am

"

Sw.

to mutter

"

Of

I milite"

this matere

Mun

mouth

"

"

Much

Icel.

maugre

ivil longe."

momele

Sw.

mun

his mun,

Pass.

A.

Text

Plow.

Piers

to

"

"Thei

hem

han

I-maunget

nede

he mote

an

"

Naggin"

abusive

suffer."

to

Text

A.

Pass.

Goth,

noga,

as

stingy

gnaw

neither

"

Natterin

"

C. 1. 44.

maketh

"

no

A.S.

ndthor

^jangling Teut.
A.S.

na

vii. 1. 245.

greedy,
Cf.

Sw.

"naggin" pain

near

"

that

designation for

tormenting,

nage,

Nather

Neaa

muche*

ouur

Plow.

Su.
stingy person
1, strict,accurate

Nar

21.

eat, munch

Piers

Dan,

1.

ofte."

grone

Nagas

v.

mun

Allit. P.

Munge

736.

mommelen

Du.

munila

1.

B.

Allit. P.

Mumle

Poems.

dust.

mull, mould,

also Sw.

Compare

Gloss,

"

knoteren

66

Nekf

fist

"

"Give

O.N.

me

Sweet

Neavy-nack

part of Hejiry the IV.

the

night

"

object,
and

back,

Neavy
neavy
(See Neaf. )

"

neavy-nack."

at

Lonsdale.

with

"

will ta tak."

Marie

the

the

behind

repeated

lass lak'd

"Brough

i.

ii. Sc. 4.

Act

hands, with

placed
is

hand

nack, whedder

The

iv. Sc.

children

played by

"

following rhyme

Neet-Haak

Act

thy neif.''''

I kiss

knight

game
marbles, buttons, etc.
it may
whatever
be, are
the

Mustard-seed."

Nighfs Dream,

Midsummer

Second

n"zve

w^^/ Monsieur

your

"

Dan.

hnefi

Ball. p. 281.

Cumb.

(Caprimulgus

jar

EuroJxBus)
Neb

the

"

"Blod

A.S.

nose

his faire neb

was

Jieb
his -mid
Rel.

Pol.

Nesh

soft,tender

"

follows,

xxiv.

Chron.

of the book,

wordis

and

and

27

'

P.

Germ.
the

For

thi herte

wide."

an

Love

nesc

version
Wyclififite

the later

"In

A.S.

depe

en

word

thou

is maad

Way

in

214,

p.

7iass
occurs

as

herdist

Prompt.

the
'

neische.

"

Parv.

Destroy a Wrang
callyd
Nayle, otherwise
Take
and
Come.
wylde tansey,
a
grjaide yt, and
make
yt neshe, " ley it thereto, and it %vyl bryng yt
Pol. Rel. and
Love
P. p. 36.
owght."
"For

to

"

the saul

"And
Than

es

the

tender

mare

body

with

Nesp

"

"

to

to

nestle

nip

A.S.

off the

nessJie

the flesshe."

Pricke

Nessle

and

of Conscience, 1. 31

nestlian,to
stalks

previous to preserving or cooking

of

10.

nestle

gooseberries

MtrwJLe"i.M

k"

68

Offen

frequent, often

"

Ofter

0-maks
Owre

frequently

more

"

all makes

kinds,

all

"

over

"

"

Owre

Hit

servyd

clene,

of watur

streme

brygge

as

I wene."
Hall.

Outrake
rayke,
"

Outrake

When

is

their

have

Paeps

palm
a

"

shepherds.

among

enclosed

from

passage

it

airygrounds, they call

Percy's Reliques.

"

"

free

and

open

outrake.'''' Gloss, to

Paamus

term

common

sheep

into

pastures

O. E.

about

wander

to

land

enclosed

near

common,

"

Diet.

foolish

(See Aamus)

alms

give us

us,

good

youth; perhaps ixQXQ.paepes,

paps

"quhilk

noe

I trow,

man,

that

deny

can

suked

ever

the paepes of reason."

Ort/i. and

Paddock

appHed

"

toad

and

The

strange

India,
"

frog

is thus

and

heom

Du.

padda

natives

the later

the
upon
Paddockis.

land

of Taracounte,

"Paddocke,
I

there

wene

"

snakes,

2.nA

paddokes brode.

gode.

mete

PALSG."

"

"Paddock

Wycliffiteversion,

"

Egypt,

Exodus

the

Alis.

v.

frogs that

viii.

6.,

are

W^fzy in

some

6126.
came

called

(croulle)
belly crowleth
paddockes in it (grenouilles)

crapavlf. My
be

in

thoughte

of

the

to

padde

King
In

Tongue.

indiscriminately

of the

diet

described

Evetis,
That

Icel.

of Brit.

Con.

Prompt.

Parv.

cdlls.'"" Macbeth,

Act

i,

so.

I, 1. 9.

69
Paddock-steeal

fungus, toad-stool

"

"A

padokstole, boletus,fungus, tuber, trusca, aspercalls Fungi paddock

Gerarde
CATH.
ANG.
agus.
stooles.
Teut. padden-stoele.''''
Way in Prompt. Parv.
"

Palliass

straw

"

Fr.

mattress

paillasse, a

bed

straw

Parlish

terrible,
perilous,used

"

an

fying
intensi-

sc.

i, 1. 154.

as

term
"

boy."

'tis z. parlous

Richard
"Thou

in

art

2.

you

Hercules,

'M.zA^

parlish

it.Act

3,

that

ballats

say,

That

Parrock

stoop."

monsters

cowle.

or

"Parrock,

"

Cumb.

Ball. p. 8.

enclosure

lytellparke."

Cp.

2, 1. 45.

some

an

"

Parrok,

palsg.
a

small

Dan.

VWpash

baske,
him

to

"

enclosure.

grounde."

Piers

Plow.

Paupin'

^moving

Peeakin
Peedlin'

"

"

o' rain."

girtpash

o'er the face."

Plomtres'

"

pearroc."
Jamieson.

slap

and
"

A.S.

"a

Parv.

Prompt.

Trail, and
"Piries

Parrocke,

saginarium.

fall,a blow,

"

sc.

day suin at Skinbumess

They'd hev z. parlish bout."
Ball. p. 194.
John Stagg. Cumb.

"

Pash

3,

Like

Relph.

"

Act

parlous state, shepherd."

As

"Thus

III.

Cress.

Text

about

weore

Act

2,

3, 1. 213,

passchet

A, Pass.

v.

awkwardly

peeping
creeping about

sc.

slyly

1. 16.

to

the

70

Pe^t

turf;

pet,
lilepedf."

"

"Thow
"

endearment,

of

term

as

pretty peat / it is best

Put

Peewit

fingerin

the

"

Pee-wittal

tlie eye,
Tarn,
of

why."

she knew

an

Act

Shrew,

i,

i, 1.

sc.

78.

Lapwing
micturate; always applied

to

"

to

cliildren

Pelt

Pelter

in

The

passion

G.

polyle that

\s,penne-fed "

partrykes bothe."
Allti.

Pester

to

"

Pey-swads

known

cobble

Puke

or

VL^fs,

Pick-dark
^^

shells

vomit, throw

to

"

dark

Pick-black"

^2""

While

pitch.

as
as

"

"

geologically

up

; Shak-

small

Jamieson

pitch."

the neet

was

wooden

A.S.

dark

John Stagg.

Piggin

empestrer

of peas

whinstone,

"

puking

"

"

or

B. 1. 5;

P.

greenstone

as

speare

husks

the

"

O.Fr.

torment

annoy,

Pesz-meeal

Pick,

pelzen

stall-fed

"

My

pelz

beat, abuse

to

Pen-fed

Germ,

be

to

"

means

"

skin

the

"

z.%

Cumb.

pail

gives

jpic^pitch

pick.^^
Ball. p. 244.

Gael,

pigean

They drank vnpiggins, pmts, or quarts,

Or ought that com' to han'."
Ball.
John Stagg. Cumb.

p.

200.

-^^j^^^fhH^

"

"yyr~V'

"'":'.'

'i'-'l'X-C

72

Pissebed
Pissemire

dandelion

the

"

the ant

"

Fries, pisimme

(Formica)

pis-miere,so called from its dischargingmoisture

like urine ; pis, urine, and mier, an ant
Du.

"He

is angry

Plain

said

occurrence,
"

"

phrase

anything that

of

Tales, 1. 7407'

Caitt.

"

pike staff

as

ptssemyre."

a,

as

of very

common

is self-evident.

why that blushing cheek?

I hope 'tis right plain English that I speak.'
what
need
I say?
'Plain
as
a pike staff- but
silent, luive?

'Why

and

"

I'se

ready,

and

have

Clark.

Ewan

Pleany-pyat
Pobbies
"

W.

porridge

"

We'r

o'

short

But

Cumb.

that of

pobi,

pobbies fer

or

bag

tha

course

know,
lad

ta

Welcome

sack

or

bake

"

Brid.

Bonny

A.S. pocca,

pouch

bag
"

In

a.

blac

ful and

poke
he

Sone

him

caste

on

his bac."

Havelok,

Poppet
poupee,
"

162.

p.

Joe,

ar

didn't

Laycock.
"

Ball.

to

Did

Pooak

day.'

tell tale

"

"

this monie

been

"

of

term

puppet,

Papyn, chylde

of

endearment,

1. 555.

doll

Fr.

baby

clowtys. Pupa."
Parv.

Prompt.

gives the
poppin-shew, as still
"Forby

it to

supposes

be

word
retained

derived

briske, prettie.' It may

derived
from poupon,
a

play with, poopee.'

Pordy

"

short

and

poppin,
from

more

baby.

palsg."

fat

in

"

use

puppet,

in Norfolk.

and
He

^Popin, spruce, neat,

properly, perhaps, be
'"

Popet for

Way

in

childre

Prompt.

Sw. p'dsa, to

swell

Parv.

to

73

Porse

"

O.

purse

"And

lyk

short

"

borse
his chekes."

letherne/orj''luUede

Piers

Porsy

Fr.

Text

Plowman,

of breath

A,

Pass.

v.

1.

I lo.

^r.poussif,broken

O.

winded

Pouk

pock

"

A. S. pocca,

Pot-skaar

"

bleb

or

skin,

the

on

boil

pouch.
of

piece

broken

Dan.

pottery

potteskaar, a potsherd
Pow-cat

the

"

animal

Polecat

which

emits

"stink

phrase, to
pnclent,stinking

Prog

thrust

to

"

Proker

Puddin-kite

Pudgy
Puke
Pum

"

fat

"

disagreeable smell,
sipow-cai." O. Fr.

thrust

procio^to

unfledged bird

M\[.pwg,

swelling

spucken, to spit

Cf. Germ,

is struck

knur

the

which

like

an

procio

implement

the

"

an

vomit

to

"

W.
W.

poker

"

strong

the

hence

(mustela putorins) ;

(a

kind

in the game

of
of

bat)

with

"Spell

and

Knur."

Pummer

Pund

Pun-faad
have
to

pound

"

large

^very

"

"

been

pound,

Su.

G.

pund

pinfold,or pound
found
shut

for cattle

straying A.S. pyndan,

in ; znAfald, a fold

to

which
hinder,

74

Put

"To

verb

with the head

butt

to

"

put,
still in

push,

or

in

use

Pyannet
Gael,

horns,

or

been

push
a

from

derived
Parv.

sometimes

called

Pyat

piodeit

used

word

head

Prompt.

Qiiindecem, fifteen.

as

the

to

fifteenth;evidently a corraption

"

of Lat.
this

W.

pighaidi

Quindam

in

Way

"

Magpie,

"

with

as

Yorkshire, has

to butt."
boiiter,

Fr.

W.pwHo,

My

in Fumess,

authority for giving

is the Rev.
J. Park,

of

has
favoured
with
the
Island, who
me
Walney
Book.
"The
following excerpt from the Church
Tax
is charged in Dalton
by the Lord's Rent
poor
Rent pays
\g. at the Qidndain
3^'.\d. Lord's
every
Tax
160
S. Hunter
Qiundams.
1783 poor
pays
"

"

equal to

proportion being 1.25 Farthg.

my

Park

Mr.

informs

assessed

was

a^. 2d.

Tax

the poor

towards

at

called

tax

"God

poem

that

me

the

at

late

so

Lord's

as

Rent

"

Quindam."

1826

the rate

Quindams.

400

Fiftene

the

of in the

spoken

Plough"

the

Spede

is thus

written

about

old

1500

A.D.

"To

paye

uncooked

"

Raake

ayenst

our

of

our

rente

and

damp

hawk

to

"

lordys

the

Besides

Raa

Fiftene

the

and

ease.

londe."

chill

spit

Dan.

A.S.

raa

hrczcan

Icel. hraka

rabble

Lat.

hasty, rash

Icel.

Rabblement
Rackle
"

"

"

Wost

Right
An

as

arm

whereof

thou

tonge

swerd

atuo,

my

cutteth

racle

and

"

to

for-kerveth
so

frendschip al atuo."
Cant.

Raffle

sei^veth

right

sone,

brawler

i^akkr,bold

tonge

for-kutteth
dere

rabula,

entangle

Du.

Tales, 11. 172 7 1 -4.

rafelen

76

Rawky
"

Roky,

Re^sty

Icel. rakr

damp, foggy

"

rancid

"

"Reest

nebulosus."

mysty.

or

flesche

as

Prompt.

"

usually applied

Parv.

bacon

to

(resty)Rancidus."
Parv.

Prompt.
"

for to seche

And

Which

hath

ferre

so

bakon
lytill

long hanggid

resty and
Rel.

Rear

under-done

"

Ant.

half

meat,

flyk,

tow."
v.

2, p. 29.

cooked

A.S.

krere, raw
Reir

laugh

to

"

Recklin

the last of

"

the smallest.

Red-raddle

cud

podish."

to

"

Icel. renna,

"

West.

right;

Render

Raw

Dan.

to

dough

"Paliis

or

"

batter

acetous

down
to

cause

repent

or

riddle

iron

ore

marking

wood

lile reedan
p.

(hcematife),
rhuddel,

W.

A.S.

sour

which

fermentation

paddock

meead

14.

wright,as

to

that
Dial.

melt

Riddle-bree^d
until

what

co

Sp.

"

"

generally

cross-tempered

"

If ya

Reet

is

frequentlyapplied to
to cast out, reject
vrage,

by
ruddy hue

Reeden

ridere

is

term

soft fibrous

"

Lat.

which
litter,

builders,etc. for

used

"

The

child ; from

puny

Fr. rire

suet

wheel-reef
mill-r^i?/,
fat of any

or

kind

run

hreowan

cakes
has
has

made
been
set

allowed
in

tliin

from
to

O. E.

stand

cribil,a

seive

cribarius,cribil di^ede"^~Rel.

Ant.

v.

I, p. 9.

77

Riff-rafF"

sweepings,

raff,refuse, rubbish

reduplicate

Germ,

form

of

raffen, to sweep

(See

Rip-rap)
Rift
Rin

belch

to

"

Moes.

run

"

Rip-rap

G.

rinnan

worthless

"

the

Dan.

Dan.

person

rip-raps,

rascality

Rive-rags

destructive

"

child

Sw.

rifva, to

pull asunder
Roan-tree
Sw.

mountain

"

riinn, mountain
i' th'

Robin-run

ash

(Pyrus auaiparia)

ash

hedge

goose

"

(Galium

grass

aparine)
Rone

the

"

offish

roe

Suio. G.

Dan.

ron

rogn,

spawn

Rooky
Rooar

to

"

Roum

A.S.

smoky

"

roar,

A.S.

room

"

renischche

"Mony

cry

reac,

loudly

rec, smoke

A.S.

rarian

rum

renkez, " yet is

more."

roum

Allif. P.

Rowly-powly
flour and

Ruck
Su.

"

G.

Rumshun
Cf.

O.E.

"

rolled

dumpling,

1.

B.

made

96.
of

suet

A.S.

heap

ricg

O.N.

hruka,

pile

roek

"

rem,

disturbance
an

outcry

Icel. rumr^

noise

78
Ruttlin'
"

liond

thin

And

in
rattling

"

quaket

the throat

Relig. and

Pol.
"

shulle

his teth

"

Love

P.

221.

p.

Ratelen.

shal Rotelen."

his throte

"

riiteletgh."

thin throte

and

reutelen

Du.

Ibid. p. 224.

Saa

to

saw;

"

Sackless
Icel.

to

saw;

useless

"

A.S.

Schal

synful "

Dan.

sa

innocent

sadeas,

suffer al

sakhs

payne."

on

firm

"

the flesh of

child is firm

boorde."

sadiaw,

W.

to make

When

firm.

"as

sad^s

is also called

'"'sad

it is said
bread

Unfermented

716.

1.

B.

Allif. P.

Sad

suae

Sc. sackless

saklaicss,useless

"

Icel.

sow

be

to

bread."

Sal

shall

"

hegh,
of thine fingresslegh."
And
werkes
Eng. Psalter, viii. v. 4, Sp. E. Eng.

"

Met.

Saim

I sal

For

lard

thine

se

W.

hevenes

Fr.

saim,

grease
O. Fr. sain, lard
hog's lard
vb. sainar, to fatten, and
whence
of

"

grease,

fluid,such

as

"Ge

When
to

one

The

"

Jonah
of

honey

schulen

ne

secneise."

relish.

our

Ancren
was

sb.

sainete,a taste
seivi, any viscous

of slime.

used

flesch

eoten

ne

saim

Riwle, Rel.

swallowed

old Lancashire

saindoux,

Span, saijt, lard,

Cf. Germ,
; also

p. 82.

by

bute

Ant.

v.

the whale,

poets of the

i muche

2, p.

i.

according

14th century,

he"
"

Stod
Ther

vp in his stomak, that stank as the

in saym
" in sorghe that sauoured

Allit. P.

Sampleth
from

"

Sampler

piece
Lat.

of needlework

exemplar

deuel
as

C.

helle."
11. 274-5.

corrupted

8o

Scoup
of

ladle

"

"

I laade

dytche

Scouder

or

"

Keep

thy

up

heart

Our

bits o' bairns

Sae

dry

that

rind

the

"

' '

And

ilk

ne'er fear !

"

'11 scraffle
up,

tear."

sworry

And

thair

Cumb.

other

scratte

refuse

of

race."

of-rjrveand

flessch

awen

the

"

306.

face,

in the

Pricke

Scratchins

Ball. p.

kratsen

Du.

ane

skreflaz,

O.N.

of cheese

scratch

"

out

difficulty

feet with

Atiderson.

Scrat

thyng
283.

p.

affray; to struggle

an

"

"

Scram

other

any
Parv.

hurry, confusion

keep one's

to

scowp

pytte." Prompt.

or

"

Scraffle

with

water

of Conscience, 1. 737S'
lard

tallow

or

after

melting
Screed

shred,

"

Icel. skridna, to be

Scree

Scroggs
trees,

"Urs\vick

as

shrivelled

"Discoveres
That

scrob,

Scrud

"

hedn't

shnib

Dan.

skrog,

other,
us

here-aftyre."

Arthure,

11.

1641-2.

slide

any
a

Germ.

Ulverston

sekerlyskroggesand
in the skroggezskome

now

to

"

stunted

carcase

Morte

Scroo

shred

hill side

Scivggs,"near
A.S.

skathelle

no

on

arockyplace aboundingwith

"

schrag, crooked
a

screade,a

torn

shinglyplace

"

A.S.

rag

scrud

portion
on

him.

"

of

clothing,

A. S. scnid,

as

"He

clothing

t^iL

^"^^"-y^

1^0^
d
(V

firt5^2^

*M.a^.)

Scrow

in

"

Scuff

Scufter

in

"

swiftly

Sekn

Seap

"

Seater

scud

Lat.

sore

sar,

and

W.

the

air,to

run

skim

sef

sigti,Dan.

to

"

Seav-o'

and

Icel.

saar

worn

Sw.

thin

so

in

seater."

to

be

O.N.

siv, a rush

Dan.

sdf

as

save

all; a

save

"

drop their

opening

narrow

money

(savings)

sieben

Germ,

seven

"

with

box

children

which

through
Sebben

G.

wound

garment

rushes

"

Su.

holes, is said to be "o'

sigte,Sw. sikt,a sieve

in

Seaves

sore,

sapo

painful

any

"

almost

"

Eng. scuffle

flythrough

to

Eng.

soap

"

A.S.

Sed

C"

soon

"

Seav

neck

certain, safe

"

Sear

Cf.

state

hurry

throw,

to

"

Sekf

of the

nape

"

Scun

untidy

an

said

"I'se

neither

am

The

Seea-Pye
Seea-Maa

the

"

"

blinde

King

nor

and

drunke, he sed.''''
a

Poor

Northerne

Oyster-Catcher

Sea-Mew,

any
6

of the

Gulls

Man.

82

Sek

sack

"

Du.

Seh, of clothe

"

"

On

sak^ sek

sek ful of

Tourn.

Selt"

"

in

rich and

"

It's nobbut
Sen!

Parv.

syt soft."
p.

the

93, 1.

phrase "gentle

76.

and

poor

this time

last year, come

walkt
to U'ston

an'

Polly
Stanyan Bigg.

me

Service-silver

an

"

said

now

Settle

"

to

manorial

manor

attains

seat,

be

for the

or

bench

tomom,
fair."

ShiftingScenes,

old

the heir to the

when

171.

tax, payable
his

majority.

purchase of silver
A. S.

p.

It

spoons.

setl,seat, bench,

stool

or

ShafF

pshaw,

"

Shafflin
Sham

"

nonsense

when

For

so

be

Shandry-dan

"

they

shall have

What

"

shuffle

shame

Ye

Shap

E.

vacillating,
prevaricating

"

"

"

sac

since

"

is

Prompt.

"

fedyrs, for scho schuld

of Tott. Percy's Rel.

as

poor,

"

semple

"

W.

sold

Semple

Sen'

sacus."

lethyr.

or

scBk

Dan.

pray,
nay,

they

sey,
I
ffor sham
ware,
Rel. Ant.

with

fitted up

cart

at

home,

"

v.

1, p. 23.

springs

shape

Therfor

bide

Tylle

the world

be

what

turnyd

so

ever

into
Rel.

hap,
shap.''^

another
Ant.

v,

2, p. 29.

Sipe

drain

to

"

sipiaw,

W.

Skaar

"

to

"

'Let's

looking

somewhear

crosses

11 may

mine."

Skiander

Skift
"

to

"

to

"

Loke

it
sTcyfte

ye

His

of

that

so

that

abeawt

p.

oft bothe
Ful

Sir

Gaw.

Skilf"

ashelf

Skirl

to

"

cry,

skete

blysse
hatz

and

Green

"

call

"

diarrhoea

scylan

skifte

blunder

skyfted synne."
Knt.
Sp. E. Eng.

loudly

Icel.

o'

l3rmpe."
1. 1643.
Arthure,

Su.

outcry

Skitters

e'e-seet

skathe

A.S.;ro'^^,ashelf
to

ill

jackass

A. S.

Dan.

Morte

""

skens

94.

about

no

us

bit,

'A

Life, p. 25.

Lane.

skifta

eyes

his nose.'"

on

of Heather,

Sw.

bit ?'

glass, welly.

disperse,spread

remove

the

He

skett

Tufts

scamper

bit, by Guy.

Sketches

sombry

Waugh.

"

slyly with

th' end

abeawt

Waitgh.
"Aw'

skala, to

'at skens

him

It's aboon

crack

to

Sw.

look

to

isn't that

see,

ta, lass ?

enough

lug."

t'

skelp on

quickly

run

squint

to

"

Gael.

strike

to
skelfa.,

Icel.

blow

"

Skelter

says

trickle

ooze,

fearful, timid

skjarr,

I eel.

sgeilp, a stroke

"

to

sipen,

shell

Skell"

Sken

D.

off"
'^Sipe'xt

as

sky, terror, horror

G.

Skelp

drink,

to

Piatt.

sip

to

fear

"

Su.

also

skitr

p.

220.

Qi.%c.skelj
G.

skorl,

an

^l?CaVj^(
iCoUf' UJi

3 \Zu\J^
,

viCo-e^

yU.

^^iZmx^j "a^

|tyWl-

)Lt

Jvtii^\MU"

^*^-c-/vivM^

'l

i^^^li^

85

Skoggars

covering for

"

the

to

arms,

protect

them

from

were

usually

made

of old

off

Su.

being sun-burned.
They
stockings with the feet cut
shade
Icel. skygga, to shade

skugga, a
a

shade,

Slaa

what

defends

slow

"

Sleea

A.S.

the

"

Dan.

from

Cf

Sc.

G.

skug,

heat

sldw

fruit of

the

black

thorn

A.S.

sld

slaa

Sleea-worm

the

"

slow

worm

blind

or

worm

(A nguis fragilis
)
Slaak
to

slobber

Slair

to

"

Slamp

and

"

"

feace"

is

"

O.N.

slippery

Slapper

to

"

"

Sleeveless

to

"

thinks

an' wrosthn',
"

very

of Heather,

bare

slamp
p.
'"'"

32.

slape

scope,"
3'Z(7/5^
smooth
and
slape''
"

of whiskers.

miry,
Sw.

slaske

Dan.

looks

varra

"

large object

wet;

"

This

"

sleipr

any

"

Waugh.

Tufts

sloppy

slamp."

varra

Thae

way

slap, loose

witho?

T' ice is

make

to

indolent

an

it fleish's

devoid

one

head.

bald

He

in

slaska,

slippery,

smooth,

Slape

wark."

up

G.

Dan.

badly,

th' face."

Sledder

Su.

about

what's

abeawt

"

kiss

be

mun

Slatter

dirtyor slovenly manner

soft,loose

"But

Slash

in

move

"

barne

work

to

"

as

slask

spillwater

"a
Su.

varra

G.

slashy day."

slaska

about

slowly

move

useless
o'
an'

Waugh.

nought i' th' world

but

pigeon flyin',an'

sich

Tufts

of Heather,

race-runnin',
like

p. 319.

sleeveless

86

Slipe

stroke

"

glass an'
"

;"

cu' thi ways

alle at

Slouen

also

Slipe off thi

"

drink,

; to

as

cheat

to

ther-inne."

slype that served

Slobber

Slocken

fire

Su.

Cf.

in

noise

cool

hot

iron,

Sw.

slockna,

Prompt.

Parv.

slockna

G.

1264.

eating

thirst ; to

quench

to

"

the

or

make

to

"

1.

B.

Allit. P.

to

be

extinguished
'"^

Slohiynge, or quenchyng."

Slonk
Slotch

lazy slinkingfellow

"

inactive, dull

slokr, an
Sluff

Slutch

"

told

slog,slough

A.S.

yslwch

the

from

forth

whale's

"

smack

"

smida,

He

to

Sw.

shop

Dan.

"

to

smorit

Snail's-trot

"

as

"I'll

smedja,

snow

"

smitsom,

infectious

smother

A.S.

thame

smuke."

smithy

smite

with

Gloss,

Snaa

palm,

open

infectious,contagious

"

spot

Smooar

smith's

"

G.

Smittal
to

the

1. 341.

C.

P.

thi mouth."

Smiddy
Su.

with

blow

"

clothes."

in sluchched

sonde

the

to

swepe

Allit.

Smack

belly

he

Thenne

slceki,

person

cast

was

Cf. O.N.

gooseberry

W.

Jonah

are

of

mud

"

When
we

skin

the

"

character

drunken

"

"

slow
A.S.

pace
sndw

to

W.

ysmotiau,

Belg. smettelick

smorian

Pricke

of

Conscience.

Snifter
"

He

wind

cold

got

sniftergain'

gey

made

Snot

trim

neat,

"

Jamieson.

"

muir."

the

our

of Banffshire.

Dialect

Gregor.
Snod

day

siKEfur, frigidus,austerus."

Icel.

"

cold

"

snodinn

O.N.

snbydd,

N.

smooth

from

mucus

"

the

A.S.

nose

Dan.

snote

snot
"

His

smellid

neys

of the

Gloss,

Snotty

Snout-band
fi-ont

the

the

with

(snout) of

"

soegen,

of

iron

the

sole.

nailed

In

upon

South

shire
Lanca-

snouted

factory girls are

fair

Sooa-sooa

Soople

inactive

thi

soofle
Gael,

Gael.
"That

J''

sogram

quiet, as

hide

fatness

'^Sooa,

pliant,flexible;

"

through

soeglyd, puffed
lile fat sogram."

"Thow

be

"

female

swaggy

Ex.

bame's

for

the."

barnes"

sooa,

thrashing,

Sc.

souple

"I'll

as

Fr.

souple

subailt

Soppy

wet,

"

the

"

"I

clog

fellow

saucy

of sheet

person

seachran

Soss

clogs

neat

foul

brass

Sogram
W.

piece

"

spitting."
of Conscience, p. 318.
and

sjtot

Pricke

to

dirty person

"

Jew's

cud

plastic, sloppy

sound

hear

caused

t' soss.''''

by
"I

soft

tummelt

body faUing;
wi'

sic

soss

on

t' ice."

Sotter

"

to

boiling by
A.S.

boil
any

seothan,

slowly
thick

to

; the

substance,

seethe

sound
as

emitted

oatmeal

in

porridge

89
Sotus

the
Salt-house,

"

of

name

hamlet

near

Ulverston

Souk

suck

to

"

"

Thai
Of

A.S.

sucan

sal for threst the hevedes

the nedders

that

The

of Conscience, 1. 6764.

cradil at hire beddes

To

rokken,

and

feet is set,
child to souke.''''

the

give

to

sal rouke."

tham

on

Pricke
"

souke

Tales, 1.

Cant.
"

Surge
And

mea

see

in sight,
swete
sponsa,
thi sone
thou gafe souke so
to the

Hymns
So'der

Sour-dock
* '

"

scheene.

and

Christ, p.

I.

sawdrio

W.

Sorrel

(herbe).

Prompt.

"

Parv.

great

very

"

solder

"

Dolcke

Span-new
'"''

wild

"

Sowre

Sowen

join,to

to

"

Virgin

41 54-

quite new

"

lit. 'as

Spannew,

as

new

chip,'from

A. S. spon,
with
Sw.

spillerney span
new,
chip ; cf. Swed.
and
Eng. spill." Coleridge.
spiltra,a splinter,
a

"

"

Spang-wiew
of

middle

board, the

suddenly
aloft."
Toads

end

other

the

strike

up,

and

Jamieson.

"

place anything

"To

"

of which

smartly,
fling what
Seldom

rests

on

wall,

to

make

is upon
done
to

it

so

as

end

one

on

and

it start

violently

anything

but

Frogs

or

nails

small
Sparrabls Sparrow-bills,
"

used

by

shoemakers

Spe^d

"

spade

Speal-beean
"

A. S.

the

A.S.

spdd

small

bone

spelc,a splint

of

the

leg (Fibula)

90

Spean'd

wean'd,

"

yet."

that bame

Spell

spell on^t."

Spink

of wood

chock

in the

Sprint

turn,

hed

in
teat

lang

change

Citrinella

wheel

W.

pine

by putting

piece

spokes

short

"

spelung,

spetie,a

"He's

as

used

slightshower

to

"

Sw.

teats

time,

of

Einberiza

"

A.S.

the

"

Spittin'
Sprag

Halliwell

portion

"

spean^d

ye
gives Speans, as

A. S. spana,

for teats

Kent

hev

"Mally,

as

race

spring

the

at

end

of

race

Sprod

the

"

Sproguin

of salmon

young

strutting;wandering,

"

rambling

or

about

Cf.

"

'Sproaging, courtship mider

To Sprog, Sproag, to make
night ;' and
of night.' A.S.
covert
spreocan, loqui
Jamieson.
colloquium.
'

the

shade

love

under

Su.

G.

of
the

sprok,

"

"

Sprush

in best

up
"

Geh

o'

an'

half

"

Cf

put

in

order

Eng. spruce

children's

glass

of any

; to

Sc.

sprush yirselup."
Dialect
Gregor.

I spy;

"

; to

clothes

'wa

Spy-eye
Squib

deck

to

"

dress

sprush

of Banffshire.

game

liquor,as

"a

squib

gin."
"

Seeah
As

after he'd
sooart

keearfully lapt

o' resate

he

steead

Sp.

Squeel

"

to

scream

up
for

West.

his

dibs,

squibs.''''
Dial.

p.

24.

t\A*JL*ls4^u^i^

92

Steeak

""

when

Germ,

in

steken the yates ston-harde

therinne."

yow

1. 352.

B.

P.

stalworth

wyth

barrez."
L

884.

p.

309.

Ibid.
"

steeks the

He

fa'-yett
softlytoo."
Cumb.

Anderson.

Stele

stile

"

Ball.

diminutive

the

ladder,

or

stecken

AKL
""

with

secure

staued, styflystekez

am

ye

; to

stician, to stick

A. S.

stake

fasten

shut, to

to

"

of

(See Stee.)

stee

Stickin'-bit

Stiddy

the

"

neck-end

Stithie

or

an

"

of mutton

anvil

Icel. stethi

"Of

these, thre be, as it were, hammers

stryking,
and
the rest stiddtes,
kepping the strakes of the hammeres."
Con.
Orth. and
of the Brit. Tongue, p. 12.
"

"

Als

it

That

dintes

war

to

"

can't

"I

as

"It

the

see

see

faintest

ya

"

in

smethey.
of Conscience, preface, p.

stime.'''' Su.

pick dark,

was

stethi,

thes smittes

smy

Pricke

Stime

on

cuddn't

form

"

crowded

Stived-up
"

stufva, to
St.

see

stow

Stoo

outline

stime."

West.

Dial.

14.

p.

strap

small

space

Sw.

"

double

hazel

repletion

to

nut

Germ,

sfauen,

to

away

stool

"

Stoop
a

Nut

full

"

an

stew

John's

Sto'-fed

in

anything,

G. stomine,

Sp.

Stirrup-oil a flogging with

of

ix.

"

support

post,

as

"Gate

stoop

"

Su.

G.

sto/pe,

^"^^B^tC

VniMJ^.

4lX"^

J'

[ii,.

V^\Ai

C^
Cjli4J"Jifl^

Urxsui-

\%ufV".]

93

Stordy

stiff in

"

stordy, for
person,

Stotter

to

"

truss

Strang

"

wrang

sheaf

of

or

bundle

of

stordy lad"

rare

Cf

corn

he

Strang

so

nevjrr

flake

of

See

Sam,

yo,

struck,

"

lug."

or

Strinkle

A.S.

Strenkelyn, or
straggle

v.

2, p.

bar, theer."
of Lane.
Life, p. 28.

make

to

me

t'

ower

scatter

distresse

my

with

used

at

Cf.

Prompt.\Parv.
"

strye al togeder."
B.

stupeo,

to

stupified
Stutter
o' in

Sudn't
Suff"

"

"

to

stammer;

stutter.''^ Du.

should
drain

not

confusion,
stotter

en

full

about

Lat.

fellow

full

prostrate

"

foolish

"

the

of stranger

Allit. P.

Stupe

109.

th'

sprenkelyn."

strenkle

schal

"

lang streakt," lying

sprinkle;

'"'"

"I

^^

streccan,

to

"

Ant.

generally

lang prefixed, as

length

thefe.

streak

"He

as

Strang

coming

Sketches

stretched

"

stauche,

streichen

Germ,

Streakt

the

stranger uppo

Waugh.
Streak

stor,

flutteringon

carbon

fire grate is said to betoken

"

A.S.

Germ,

A.S,

Rel.

"

stiff built

flax,etc.

strong, powerful

Stranger

sooa

about

stagger

"Be

be

storked, bigness

"

"Don't

as

thow's

Dan.

vast

"

kna's

"He's

as

great,

Stouk

thow

opinion,

Germ,

as

"Hewos

stottern

307.

be

94

Sump

shaft

the

deep pit,at

"

of

foot

mine

swtip, mire, puddle

Dan.

Sumph
Swad

soft fellow

"

shell

the

"

and

Peas
Cf.

schwaden

Germ,

zwaad

Du.

of

pod

or

Eng.

Beans

swathe

and

swaddle
' '

peighs

Like

i' one

sui"ad.

"

Swallow-hooal

water

it traverses

others

in

makes

then

and

It is said that
Lindal

In

to

"

Swankin

with

in

all the

up

the rock
under

the
; and

ground,

Yarl-Wells,

climb

pole

Dalton,

tree

or

anything very large

"

Swanky

24.

its appearance
again on the surface.
into
Swallow-hole
chaff thrown
at
a

at
re-appears
miles
of about
two

Swammel

of

distance

some

p.

instances

some

fissures

Moor,

distance

met

swallow

which

poured into them.

lodges in cavernous

water

Heather,

frequently

of Fumess,

Limestone

the

holes

"

of

Tufts

Waugh.

small

"

beer,

weak

or

ale;

Cf. Wankle

infra

Swap

to

"

I wodn't

but

wife,

"Dick

exchange

him

swap

thinks

he's

like his.

for two

"

gud
Icel.

skipfa,to change
Sward
"

Swarde,

"

He

or

A. S.

Coriana.

Swarm

rind

the

"

"

same

or

skin

sworde

of

of bacon
flesche

(swad
' '

swtard, cutis porcina.

as

JWflr;w^fl? up

(Halliwell) Cf. Eng.

"

swarde)
Prompt. Parv.
or

Swammel
into
worm,

tree."
to

"

Syr Isenbras, 351,

wriggle, twist

Tackle

put right; to lay hold

to

"

Taffled

used

; another

entangled

"

Taggelt
as

of

term

Taistrel

ragged

"

taggelt."
a
fibre, a

Dan.

Icel.

Tak

the

fluff

small

take

Icel.

Tongge,

the

in

same

Lebby Beck

taisfrels

in

the

on

Cumb.

clothes

of

scharpnesse

or

p. 218.

elsewhere

or

lycure

acer.^''
"

other

or

haft

A.S.

Tangle

the

word

generally,but
says

of the

the

natural

from

the

best

gust
Dutch

in Ibid.

Way
or

that

instrument,

and

Dan.

portion
which

of

is inserted

knife,
in

the

tunge

weed

sea

"

is tang, but

derives

tongue,

tastyng.

yn

Parv.

tast, that

no

Skinner

"

fork

Tantrum

BalL

'

ofoyl.'
Tangwe,

Tangs

p. 8.

Dobby,

taka

Prompt.

"

oil, 'it hath

Du.

as

way

leyne."

Forby gives Tang, a strong flavour

Fuller
always an unpleasant one.'

Tang

taaga,

flavour

strong

"

Acumen."

not

Sw.

taggelt."

tceta

"

Tang

dirty

nasty

taistrel,thow."

brouc'd

Up

always

tosse

drukken

"

Caffled
;

"Thow

John Stagg.
Tait

of

useless

as

; used

booby

"

form

drukken

7"

'

taclu,

tear

"

"Thow

person

contempt,

"Thow

Taggelt

'

W.

deck

to

"

of

Dan.

fang,

sea

weed

tang

"

"

pair of tongs
a

rage

W.

A..^.

tant,

tange
whim

Du.

or

tang

flight

97

Targus
Tarn

worthless

"

mountain

"

Tarrant

Gael,

Icel. tjorn

lake

crabbed
ill-natured,

an

"

tair^contempt

A. S.

person

torn, anger

Ta-t'-foore
An'

"

ready prepared

"

sum

When

be

may
we

ta

under

ga

already

foore for t' bams,

t'

grund."

North

Ta-yeere

this

"

or

Lons.

wedde

I lever

A.S.

toe

"

Tead-in-a-pot
"

wyf

no

19.

ere."

to y

Tales, 1. 5750'

formerly
to

was

toad

the

taa

mode

common

put

in

toad

dwindled

jar, and

so

away,

of
would

bewitched

person

Tead-spit
the

udder;"

as

same

"

Tean"

Dan.

ta

bewitchmg any one

it closely; as
cover
the

p.

metaphorically,a longtime,

Cant.

Teea

Mag.

never

had

"Yit

year

saved

as

one,

taken,

Cuckoo-spit
"

"Thow's

as

tean

hat

my

leav

an'

t' tean

Teck

asteed

t'
o'

thi aan."

Teav

tievsle, to unravel,

Dan.

Teddisum
Teem

"

empty,
"

anything about,

tumble

to

"

unravel

unweave

tedious

"

to

or

Dan.

to

pour

out

to

make

void

Icel. t677ir,empty

maken

empty.

Vacuo,

evacuo."

Prompt.
"Tittez

totn,

empty,

t6in7ner,

Temyn,

to

tirantez

doune,

and

temez

Morte

theire

Parv.

sadilles."

Arthure,

1. 1801.

98
Teemin'
teemifC

Telt"

rainin'

and

down."

terrible

"

A.S.

tire, fatigue

to

"

Cf.

fair

"It's

told

Terble

Tew

pouring, as

"

teon,

to

tug

Toar

Tewat

the

"

Thack

Lapwing

Vanellus

thatch, a roofing of

"

cristatus.)
A.S.

straw

thcec

Icel. thak
"

He

coude

theche

hous,

and

daub

wall."

Rel. Ant.

Thible
"

"

Her

th'
th'

Wi'

stick

porridge
tung

Sin

it makes

"

I, p. 43.

v.

fair go

mo

cowd,

i' th' fowd

day hoo broke my nose
edge o'th porritch thible.''''
Lane.
Waugk.
Songs,

Thick-Dicks

expression

cant

"

p.

for

44.

thick

porridge

Thimmel-pie
thimble

Thoum
"

on

head

To
The

the

berith

thowme

moch

awai."

goth
he

cardiacle

wol

that

Ant.

which

the butter

"

is

an

spread

v.

2, p.

176.

branche,

on

stanche."
Ibid.

Thoum-butter-ceak

the

tomme

Rel.
"

with

finger
Dan.

tkowmes

the

on

woman's

thumb

"

Yur

blow

"

oatmeal
with

the

V.

cake
thumb

I, p.

190.

upon

Tlirbp's-wife
said

was

the

always throng, or busy, giving rise to

thrang as Throp s wife,''''
phrase "As

common

Thrums

thromr,
of

end

corruption

of

ends

of

the

"

of the

thump

as

Thumpin

An'

Tice

and

louse

S.

A.

bump

thunder

to

large ;

A.S.

thuner

tempt

the

sound,

thoden

very

had
miss'd
hairy mon
th' clog fair crackt
by th'
of
Sketches
Waugk.

induce,

( Oniscus),

from

blow;

or

th'

to

"

fall

anything

"

"

Boh

"

Icel.
yarn
Du.
droni, the

Isopoda

order

heavy

Thunner

or

trumi?t

wood

the

"

crustacean

same

thread,

thing

"

wife

Thorpis

Germ.

edge

an

Thrush-louse

Thud

who

personage

be

to

evidently

apocryphal

an

"

beating

thowt,

my

bowt."

thunner
Lane.

p.

103.

abbreviation

an

Life,

of entice
"

with

ansuerd

Adam

eddyre tysed

The

wykyd

wyll
theretyll."

me

JIalL

Tickle-tail

loose

Heo

is

"

"

Tickle-tail
Tift

"

Tikel

birch

Tayl."

oi\iv!:e
Text

A,

Pass.

iii. 1. 126.

rod

condition

bodily

"

woman

Flowman,

Piers

Diet.

I'se in

"

rare

tiftfer

owte.ta-day."
Tifter

"

an'

now,

Tiftin

"

hurry, bustle,
don't

be

i' sic

tifterower

breathing hard,

iiftinclim'in

that

"Du

as

hill ; it's

as
sooa

it
it.

"It's
brant.

quietly

"

geen
"

me

t}

^wiTi^e^

V^te.
"

VfvAxt^^,

V^

UOOt^
tgV---

lCia)L^y^

ju,^uiV"?^

Tike"

odd

an

or

Sw.

hound,

Tilt

lean
"

f.

senseless

frequently applied

bitch,

lout

downe

of

foolish

man."

woman

trestes

heythene tykes."
Morte
Arthure, 1. 3643.
A.S.

overturn

or

tylt to the

Tinny-winny
form

of

"

woze

the

Dan.

fealtian,to

table

if

In

the

kynd

shuld

He

Than

lyknes

for

ferdnes

devel

any

that

t' time

For

Titter

Stanyan
Tittivate

he

"

day

A.S.

to

Ther

wos

neets

fll

Toar

"

on

A.S.

teon,

"So

Betty

An'

Icel.

leeat

through

drag

heaw

tug,

to
wur

hoo

"

the

fox

p.

171.

til

afooar

tow

they went
Lebby Beck

laft to

poo'd

Icel.

toar

Fr.

bi

on

throo

it

Tufts

tove
/"?"?,

t' market-

yam."
Dobby,

p.

5'

difficulty; to

Icel.

Cf.

on

away

life

weary

Waugh.
Tod

reate.

up

struggle through

to

o' birds."

lot 'at fuddled

quite

sic

at

11. 2352-5.

Shifting Scenes,

Bigg.

and

ol'as

syn

in,

mught se."
of Conscience,

wings

dress

to

"

his

se

it falles be

flang by

nor

832.

titter it fie

Pricke
"

1.

titt.,
soon

properly
that

B.

P.

small

O.N.

mught

man

bothe."

reduplicative

ty7id,thin,

quicker

sooner,

"

small;

very

"

tiny.

That

T'll"

Atkinson.

"

Allit.

"

m.

over

The

Titter

to

hertly yon

incline

to

"

tik,

Hewe

also

fellow

queer

D.
a

""

dog

cur

totcer,

tora,

to

hersel
mortal

no

of

drag

to

live

poorly

can

tell."

Heather,

p.

220.

Toit

turn

to

"

heeling
be

to

et /wV."

was

said

Cf.

Eng.

myght
loken,

And

in

and

given

"

about

brother

Piers

Plowman's

kind

of

O.E.

eighe*

zinc

to

tote,

toppr,

Eawr

Tummy's

He's

topper

spelter."

the

"

hair

man

on

or

pots
tea-

"A

name

Brande.

than

better

mon
com-

word

next

preitchin'

to

"

it too."

Waugli.

Toppin

which

of

"

taen
at

mote

toten."

T)?iXi. tuttenage

or

see

bare

Crede, 11. 141-42.

surpassingly great,
O.N.

bem

pewter

made

are

spoons

"

"

Songs,

Lane.

growing just above

animals

A.

S.

top,

p.

the

tuft

at

48.

head
fore-

the

top

anything
The

tayle "
Gaio.

Sir
"

to

woman

totter, toddle

eighe" nought

owen

in India

Topper

in thine

tou

thyn

Toothanegg

"

Fumess

vessel

about

spy

of

small

by

peeping, spying

"

Whow

side,

one

"gaan

Tootin

"

to

upset;

over,

Sup,

his toppymg
6^

Green

Knt.

Tufts

Waicgh.

Toppins
for

Sp.

straighten that reawsty

an'

the

"

top sods,

of

twynnen

cut

E.

sute."

Eng.

226.

toppin^ o' thine."

of Heather,

of

p.

p.

moss-land,

21

1.

used

burning

Topple

"

Torfel"

on

overturn,

to

tumble

die

to

Tormentle
found

to

"

an

mossy

astringent herb,
land

Dan.

tormentil

generally

I04

Trunnel

the

"

axle

trendl, anything
Trunlins

A.S.

round

A.S.

fall,tumble

to

"

wheel

barrow

sheep droppings

"

Tummle

of

trendl

tiimle

Dan.

Sw.

tuinla

Twang
the

peculiar

"

voice,

in

be

to

"

Cf. Germ,

of

twaiig^o. wosn't

his

to

"

A.S.

of

state

twiccian

tremulous

pense
sus-

zittern,to tremble

overturn,

to

tumble, metaphorically,

die

to
"

by

pull or jerk suddenly

to

"

Twitters^

Type

tell

cud

intonation

or

fella."

Forness

Twitch

"I

as

accent

"

doun

type

yonder

when

toun

Allit.

"Th'
forenoon."

tyft o'er

lad

owd

Unforbiddan

of

A.S.

"Thou's

forbid.

P.

varra

1.

C.

o'clock

ten

Heather,

disobedient

"

forbiddajt, to

abeawt

Tufts

Waugh.

"

were."

hit turned

p.

506.
this

74-

not, and
unforbiddan

tin,

bame."

Uphod

uphold,

"

anything,

will do

Up-on-end
varra

"

to

badly for

to

guarantee

"I'll

as

from

recover
a

uphod

while,

but

that

person

\h." he'll du

sickness.
I've

it."

"

wos

gitten iiponend

again."

Upsadoun
'

and

"

upside

down

turnyde upsodotm the boordis of chaungeris,

the chaieris of men
sellingeculueris."
(Wydiffe's), c. xi. v. 15.
Gosp. of Mark

'And

he

I05

Upshot
"He

result,consequence,

"

of

gat on t' spree, an' t' tipshot wos

o' neet."
up i' t' black -hooal

him

Upsides

to

"

serve

"Rowland
thou'U

Uptak

for

the fixed

"

laid down

the

object

the'

sarra

be

uptaking

owt

the money-

taken

; also

up

finding of

or

day."

some

can

give

to

price of anything,

for the

given

sum

"I'll

tipsideswi' the'

affair

an

'at they lock'd

out,

person

Oliver."

an

I'll be

see

being
a

end

article

an

of value

Varjus

verjuice,acid

"

liquor expressed

crab-apples, hence the phrase,

Fr. vejjus, vert, green
varjus.''''
Varra
"

lock
a
greeave
weel
fer eldin."

varra

"

Varsal

wad,
vaad,

Waaken

niver

wos

in

cuz

his

Ital.

voga,

"Thou

is

awake

gwario,

afoore

"Then

a
"

or

snow,

wade

grass
waaden

Du.

slairin

thou

sleep, to

waaken

thing;

to

out
"Mind

thou

to

up
awake,
awake

waakenin

up."

spend

W.

dusn't

thou

to

move,

wants

money,

rouse

vczkke, to

Dan.

wcecan,

wacan,

spend

to

to

fiom

Du.

lay

to

"

water,

wet

A. S.

incite

mudther."

top a t'fell ez
Dialect, p. i.

fashion

or

through

inaction

brass

juice

jus,

"vi2sA.(world)."

ford ; wddan,

to

"

from

Waar

wade

to

"

Dan.

crab

as

fashion

mode,

A. S.

Sp. West.

mode

way,

"

"Ther

i' o' this varsal

marra

Waad

a'peeats

universal.

"

Vogue

and

sour

very

"

We

"As

from

waar

o' the

gitsyam."

mun
a
thowt, what
Sp. West. Dialect,

waar

p.

i8.

summat

fer my

io6

Waar

Dan.

worse

"

He's

"

worse

I think

badly,

varra

A.S.

vcerre

he's

wczrra,

ta-day

waar

common."

ner

Waar
Du.
"

in

where,

"

which

A.S.

place

hwar

waar

Whaar

did

t' lad."

sed

mow,

Wabble

top, just before

of this
other

any

it

barbarous."

nor

I' t' toppin

2, p.

v.

hobble

in

90.

walking

the

language.

W.

spinning,
place can not be supplied by
wabbles.

"'It's

in

Mag.

to

ceases

word,

word

t' judge.

? said

Lonsdale

"

unsteady,

"

says

find 'em

ta

gwibio,

to

Webster

It is neither
in

move

low

circular

form

WafFy

weak, tasteless,
insipidfood

"

feeling

of faintness

vapor.^^ Pi^ovipt.Parv.

"Weffe,

"

Waggle"
Du.

shake,

to

Dan.

waggelen

Walla

insipid

"

move,
vakle,

Cf.

zvalla; ther's neaa

C"
walcw, nauseous

or

sit

to

Welshed

loose,

i'them.

wdgian

wag

"These

saut

varra

er

A.S.

wag

poddish

"

O. E. walle

ivalgen,to loathe, turn

Du.

the stomach
"

Venim

Wamp

"

flog;

to

wallop

"A

Wan

"

"

vinegre, J trowe,
waxeth, ich wene."
Text
A, Pass. v. 11. 70-1.
or

flap

to

with

anything

soft

t' lug."

ower

wasp
won,

"

or

wombe'
in my
Piers Plowman,

Walldh

Wallop

vernish"

or

gained

that

For, by hym
Thou

hast

contest

makyd

al
me

thys world
a

man."
Pel.

"Perkyn

wan

five, and

Turn,

of

Hud

Tott.

wan

Ant.
wan

v.

2, p. 88.

twa."

Percy's Rel.

p.

94.

io8

Wark

ache, generally appliedto

to

"

pain

head-ache

the

as

tooth-ache.

or

shooting

"Werkyn,

or

Parv.
In
note
Doleo," Prompt.
a
akyn.
humor
Cepkalia est
Way
capitis,
quotes
the
hedde
warke.
"The
Hedeortus.
Anghce
ang."
A.S.
warke, Cepkalia, cephalargia CATH.
Dan.
verke, to pain, smart
"weorcan

heed

"

"

Mr.

"

"

Now

full to the

Some

\^t2A-warks

the clock-kease

to

crap

thropple,wi'

Warm

Warse
"

worse

"

Of

Cumb.

Ball. p. 340.

beat

to

"

aches,
heart-

o' the dure."

instead

Anderson.

and

deth

life and

chuse

nowe

G.

Moes.

warse

; wars,

wairs

the.

is the woman,
here is the galowe tree
boothe
choyce harde is the parte ;

There
Of
The

is the

woman

drive

wai'sse,

forthe

Pel.

Waster
cast
to
"

Wastrel

or
as

away

"

I, p. 288.

V.

useless, a useless fellow

A.S.

westan,

waste

He

bad

wastors

Piers

worche'

go

Plow.

"From

ed.

what

Skeat,

Text

Pass.

A,

alle suche

"And

waisters
Sir

Watter

water,

"

A.S.
"And

Piers

wasse."

he

st. xxi.

Amadace,

as

1. 8.

Coniston

watter, Elter-watter,etc.

Dan.

waiter

alle waiters

als thai

Pricke
made

vii. 1. 31.

Pass.

lake, tarn,

waiter, Windermere
vater

as

1. 24.

v.

men."

wikkede

and

wastors

best couthe."

thei

Ibid.,

"And

carte.

spendthrift, anything

"

Ant.

the

William
Plow.

to

ed.

weope"

Skeat,

sal

rynne."

of Conscience, 1. ^'JTJ.
with

watur

Text

A,

Pass.

his
v.

eyen."
1. 44.

I09

Watter-brash
character

eructations

watery

"

Dan.

vater,

of

brcekke

and

water,

acid

an

sig,

to

vomit, disgorge
Wax~to
A.S.
"

increase

grow,

O. N.

Sw.

vaxa

viixa

weaxan

Waxyn,

or

Cresco, accresco."

growyn.

Prompt.
Wax-kernals

signs of growing

said to be
^'

MED.

glandular swellingsin

"

nodus

Glandula,
In Roy.

S.

M.

kemell.'

elyot."

Wedder

weather,

"

A.S.

etc.

well

"

"

But

Parv.

a' I

Fruites

Plow.

or

waxynge

276.

p.

to

schal

Pass.

weel.

me

Shifting Scenes,

weight.

about

him."

"Give

"He
it

some

hes

wefV'

"

p.

172.

Cf. Dan.

support, importance, energy

energy,

vii. 1. 310.

"

knaw.

Bigg.

vcegt,

fayle."

wcel

loved

she

care

A,

A.S.

vel

heed

niver

Stanyan

"

necke,

wedder, dry wedder,

wet

foul weder'

and

Dan.

That's

Weft

the

Talks,

Prompt.

va.

Piers

Weel

'

palsg.

as

in

weder

Flodes

"Thorw

de

knobbe

or

Way

"

curnelle.'

waxynge
'

glandre.""

where,

xvii.

c.

Kyrnell

glande, glanders.

neck,

infirniitatibus,
are
kymel.'' Waxyng
kymels

7,

the

waxing

or

cute,

''Glanduli, wax

mentioned

other

sub

Parv.

deeal

give

o'
it

weft
some

weight
Welsh'd
"

"

fairlywelsh'd

I'se

"Walsh,

welsche,

insuavis

sapore

Mr.

Atkinson

loathe."

"

insipidityof food,

sufferingfrom

Clev.

aut

insipid,Teut.

odore.."

gives
Gloss.

wi' sic walla

away

"

"Du.

as

stuff."

gaelsch, ingratus,

Jamieson.

walghen,

to

nauseate,

Weltin

"

anything

very

innocent

looking,quiet

large, as

"Girt

weltin

fella."

Weme

"

think

he

bequem,

it in

hed

him, he looks

A. S.

easy

"

weme.''''

sooa

O. E.

cweman

wodn't

Yan

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Portrait

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She

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deal

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Miss
Miss

of

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far too modest

an

into,and sometimes,

extremes

with

think

to

Gilpin

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tages.
disadvanif

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her

by

Without

POEMS;

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are

binding.

AND

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herseK

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the
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The charsimple,undisguisedthoughts
acteristic
they contain.
of her poetry is its simplicity. It is the simphcity
of genuine pathos. It enters into all her compositions,and is
perhaps pre-eminent in her Scottish songs.
Carlisle Journal,184^.
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In her songs, whether
English,or in the Cimibrian
Scottish
she
is
or
dialect,
animated, simple,and tender, often
chord
which
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a
a
touching
sympathetic stringdeep in
the reader's bosom.
It may,
indeed, be confidently
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"

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homely

customs, and

as

an

of ways
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tastes, habits, and language of the most

interesting
feelings,
in
other
and
class in a most
d
istrict,
some
interesting
respects,
hold Anderson
to be unequalled,not in Cumberland
we
only,
in

England.

As

descriptionof a long,rapid,and varied

scenes
one
a
photograph occurringat a
every
gathering of country people intent upon enjojdng themselves
uncouth
in their own
roystering fashion, given in rattling,
regularlyirregularrhymes, with a chorus that is of
jingling,
of uproariousfun and revelry,we
itself a concentration
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read
heard
or
"Worton
anything Hke Anderson's
never
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Whitehaven
Wedding.
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of

succession

"

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(A
One
been

of the most

New

Edition

collections
interesting

latelypublished

is the

"Songs

of

and

in preparation. )

poetry which

Ballads

have

of Cumberland."

How

people know
many
anything of Miss Blamire ?
she was
Yet
the author of that most
beautiful and
pathetic
of ballads
silk
shall
walk
in
attire."
beginning,"And
ye

Every

thank
will,therefore,

one

in which

way
account

he

of her

has

life.

the editor for the conscientous

issued
It

her

pieces,and

she, too, who

was

given

us

some

that other

wrote

beautiful

ballad, worthy of Lady Anne

Lindsay, "What
this heart o' mine ?
which, in our opinion,is poetry
"

truth

and
it

upon

tenderness.

should

we

be

look

disposedto

critical

touchstone, and to say that those who did

possiblyappreciate true poetry.
can
only advise the reader to buy the book, and we feel
that he, like ourselves, will be thankful
to the editor.
as

like it could

not

Indeed,

ails
full of

not

...

We
sure

Westminster

"

Review.

like the

We

Lancashire

Cumberland
which

ones

more
go and
fresher,and we

is

has

got

reviewed

we

do not

wonder

put in prent"

"tern

We

certainlycannot

the

author

of

"Joe

verse

as

describe

well

as

roaring scenes
predecessorswitnessed.
in good
words
the volume
altogetheris
shelf

of

The

language.

truly Cumbrian
to have

century

seems

of rural

courtship,and
of

weddings,

soil."

T^e

Spectator.

should
and

find

; and

the

place on

student

some
a

the

of

manners,

still

other

healthy
riotous

close of the last

Scotch

the

been

have
of

words

English

towards

approached
as

like that his

Reader.

minstrel
to

the

love to

dialect is rich in reduplicated

old

in

poetry

He had
peculiarcharacter.
feminine
beauty, and his most
and less purely alcoholic than
native

"

that

one

The

"

represented

he cannot

forms

of

reader

every

customs, and

The
.

shall rest

be well

though
suppose
at weddings and

"

he

now

While
.

Geologist" lives,we
dialect will
we

the

them

"

the

prose,

the

There

"

England canncrt bang them.

recollect a better collection.
and

than

; the hill-air makes

Mr. Gilpin feels

that

that the Cumberland

assured

good deal better

back.
a fortnight

varietyin them

more

Aw

in

Songs

greater

pictures

in his descriptions

festivities of

and

mirth

that which

in his

robust
was

more

flourished

more

standard

of
athletic

in Burns's

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were

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in those

treated

instructive,showing the great difference which

very

the condition

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during

of the

brief

in

recounts

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in his notes

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