Part 28

Leaese (1, 4), to glean.

Leaese (1, 4), Leaeze, an unmown field, stocked through the Spring and Summer.

Leer, Leery, empty.

Lence, a loan, a lending.

Levers, Livers, the corn flag.

Lew, sheltered from cold wind.

Lewth, lewness.

Libbets, loose-hanging rags.

Limber, limp.

Linch, Linchet, a ledge on a hill-side.

Litsome, lightsome, gay.

Litty, light and brisk of body.

Lo't (7), loft, an upper floor.

Lowl, to loll loosely.

Lumper, a loose step.

M.

Maesh (2), Mesh, (Blackmore) moss, also a hole or run of a hare, fox, or other wild animal.

Mammet, an image, scarecrow.

Marrels, Merrels, The game of nine men's morris.

Mawn, m[=a]n, (5) a kind of basket.

Meaeden (1, 4), stinking chamomile.

Ment (2), to imitate, be like.

M[=e]sh, (2) moss.

Mid, might.

Miff, a slight feud, a tiff.

Min (2), observe. You must know.

Mither ho, come hither. A call to a horse on the road.

Moot, the bottom and roots of a felled tree.

More, a root, taproot.

Muggy, misty, damp (weather).

N.

Na'r a, never a (man).

Nar'n, never a one.

N'eet, not yet.

N[=e]sh (2), soft.

Nesthooden, a hooding over a bird's nest, as a wren's.

Netlens, a food of a pig's inwards tied in knots.

Never'stide, never at all.

Nicky, a very small fagot of sticks.

Nippy, hungry, catchy.

Nitch, a big fagot of wood; a load; a fagot of wood which custom allows a hedger to carry home at night.

Not (hnot or knot), hornless.

Nother, neither (adverb).

Nunch, a nog or knob of food.

Nut (of a wheel), the stock or nave.

O.

O', of.

O'm (2), of em, them.

O'n (2), of him.

O's (2), of us.

Orts, leavings of hay put out in little heaps in the fields for the cows.

Over-right, opposite.

Oves, eaves.

P.

Paladore, a traditional name of Shaftesbury, the British Caer Paladr, said by British history to have been founded by Rhun Paladr-bras, 'Rhun of the stout spear.'

Pank, pant.

Par, to shut up close; confine.

Parrick, a small enclosed field; a paddock—but paddock was an old word for a toad or frog.

Pa'sels, parcels. See Haymeaeken.

Peaert (1, 4), pert; lively.

Peaze, Peeze (2), to ooze.

Peewit, the lapwing.

Pitch. See Haymeaeken.

Plesh, (2) Plush (a hedge), to lay it. To cut the stems half off and peg them down on the bank where they sprout upward. To plush, shear, and trim a hedge are sundry handlings of it.

Plim, to swell up.

Plock, a hard block of wood.

Plow, a waggon, often so called. The plough or plow for ploughing is the Zull.

Plounce, a strong plunge.

Pluffy, plump.

Pont, to hit a fish or fruit, so as to bring on a rotting.

Pooks. See Haymeaeken.

Popple, a pebble.

Praise (5, 1), prize, to put forth or tell to others a pain or ailing. "I had a risen on my eaerm, but I didden praise it," say anything about it.

Pummy, pomice.

ps for sp in clasp, claps; hasp, haps; wasp, waps.

Q.

Quaer, queer.

Quag, a quaking bog.

Quar, a quarry.

Quarrel, a square window pane.

Quid, a cud.

Quirk, to grunt with the breath without the voice.

R.

R, at the head of a word, is strongly breathed, as Hr in Anglo-Saxon, as Hhrong, the rong of a ladder.

R is given in Dorset by a rolling of the tongue back under the roof.

For or, as an ending sometimes given before a free breathing, or h, try ow,—hollor, hollow.

R before s, st, and th often goes out, as bu'st, burst; ve'ss, verse; be'th, birth; cu'st, curst; fwo'ce, force; me'th, mirth.

Raft, to rouse, excite.

Rake, to reek.

Ram, Rammish, rank of smell.

Rammil, raw milk (cheese), of unskimmed milk.

Ramsclaws, the creeping crowfoot. Ranunculus repens.

Randy, a merry uproar or meeting.

Rangle, to range or reach about.

Rathe, early; whence rather.

Ratch, to stretch.

Readship, criterion, counsel.

Reaemes, (1, 3), skeleton, frame.

Reaen (1, 4), to reach in greedily in eating.

Reaeves, a frame of little rongs on the side of a waggon.

Reed (2), wheat hulm drawn for thatching.

Reely, to dance a reel.

Reem, to stretch, broaden.

Rick, a stack.

Rig, to climb about.

Rivel, shrivel; to wrinkle up.

Robin Hood, The Red campion.

Roller (6, 4). See Haymeaeken. A Roller was also a little roll of wool from the card of a woolcomber.

Rottlepenny, the yellow rattle. Rhinanthus Crista-galli.

Rouet, a rough tuft of grass.

S.

Sammy, soft, a soft head; simpleton.

Sar, to serve or give food to (cattle).

Sarch, to search.

Scote, to shoot along fast in running.

Scrag, a crooked branch of a tree.

Scraggle, to screw scramly about (of a man), to screw the limbs scramly as from rheumatism.

Scram, distorted, awry.

Scroff, bits of small wood or chips, as from windfalls or hedge plushing.

Scroop, to skreak lowly as new shoes or a gate hinge.

Scud, a sudden or short down-shooting of rain, a shower.

Scwo'ce, chop or exchange.

Settle, a long bench with a high planken back.

Shard, a small gap in a hedge.

Sharps, shafts of a waggon.

Shatten, shalt not.

Shroud (trees), to cut off branches.

Sheeted cow, with a broad white band round her body.

Shoulden (Shoodn), should not.

Shrow, Sh'ow, Sh'ow-crop, the shrew mouse.

Skim, Skimmy, grass; to cut off rank tuffs, or rouets.

Slait, (5, 1) Slite, a slade, or sheep run.

Slent, a tear in clothes.

Slidder, to slide about.

Slim, sly.

Sloo, sloe.

Slooworm, the slow-worm.

Smame, to smear.

Smeech, a cloud of dust.

Smert, to smart; pain.

Snabble, to snap up quickly.

Snags, small pea-big sloes, also stumps.

Sneaed (1, 4), a scythe stem.

Snoatch, to breathe loudly through the nose.

Snoff, a snuff of a candle.

Sock, a short loud sigh.

Spur (dung), to cast it abroad.

Squail (5, 1), to fling something at a bird or ought else.

Squot, to flatten by a blow.

Sowel, Zowel, a hurdle stake.

Sparbill, Sparrabill, a kind of shoe nail.

Spars, forked sticks used in thatching.

Speaeker (1 4), a long spike of wood to bear the hedger's nitch on his shoulder.

Spears, Speers, the stalks of reed grass.

Spik, spike, lavender.

Sprack, active.

Sprethe (2), to chap as of the skin, from cold.

Spry, springy in leaping, or limb work.

Staddle, a bed or frame for ricks.

Staid (5, 1), steady, oldish.

Stannens, stalls in a fair or market.

Steaen (1, 4) (a road), to lay it in stone.

Steaert (1, 4), a tail or outsticking thing.

Stout, the cowfly, Tabanus.

Stitch (of corn), a conical pile of sheaves.

Strawen, a strewing. All the potatoes of one mother potatoe.

Strawmote, a straw or stalk.

Strent, a long slent or tear.

Streech, an outstretching (as of a rake in raking); a-strout stretched out stiffly like frozen linen.

Stubbard, a kind of apple.

Stunpoll (7), stone head, blockhead; also an old tree almost dead.

T.

th is soft (as th in thee), as a heading of these words:— thatch, thief, thik, thimble, thin, think, thumb.

Tack, a shelf on a wall.

Taffle, to tangle, as grass or corn beaten down by storms.

Tait, to play at see-saw.

Tamy (3, 1), tammy (5, 1), tough, that may be drawn out in strings, as rich toasted cheese.

Teaeve, (1, 3), to reach about strongly as in work or a struggle.

Teery, Tewly, weak of growth.

Tewly, weakly.

Theaese, this or these.

Theasum (1, 4), these.

Tidden (tidn), it is not.

Tilty, touchy, irritable.

Timmersome, restless.

Tine, to kindle, also to fence in ground.

Tistytosty, a toss ball of cowslip blooms.

To-year, this year (as to-day.)

Tranter, a common carrier.

Trendel, a shallow tub.

Tump, a little mound.

Tun, the top of the chimney above the roof ridge.

Tut (work), piecework.

Tutty, a nosegay.

Tweil, (4, 1) toil.

Twite, to twit reproach.

U.

Unheal, uncover, unroof.

V.

v is taken for f as the heading of some purely English words, as vall, fall, vind, find.

Veag, V[=e]g (2), a strong fit of anger.

Vern, fern.

Ve'se, vess, a verse.

Vinny cheese, cheese with fen or blue-mould.

Vitty, nice in appearance.

Vlanker, a flake of fire.

Vlee, fly.

Vo'k, folk.

Vooty, unhandily little.

Vuz, Vuzzen, furze, gorse.

W.

wo (8, 4), for the long o, 7, as bwold, bold; cwold, cold.

Wag, to stir.

Wagwanton, quaking grass.

Weaese, (1, 4) a pad or wreath for the head under a milkpail.

Weaele (1, 3), a ridge of dried hay; see Haymeaeken.

Welshnut, a walnut.

Werden, were not or was not.

Wevet, a spider's web.

Whindlen, weakly, small of growth.

Whicker, to neigh.

Whiver, to hover, quiver.

Whog, go off; to a horse.

Whur, to fling overhanded.

Wi', with.

Widdicks, withes or small brushwood.

Wink, a winch; crank of a well.

Withwind, the bindweed,

Wont, a mole.

Wops, wasp. ps, not sp, in Anglo-Saxon, and now in Holstein.

Wotshed, Wetshod, wet-footed.

Wride, to spread out in growth.

Wride, the set of stems or stalks from one root or grain of corn.

Writh, a small wreath of tough wands, to link hurdles to the sowels (stakes).

Wrix, wreathed or wattle work, as a fence.

Y.

Yop, yelp.

Z.

z for s as a heading of some, not all, pure Saxon words, nor [or?] for s of inbrought foreign words.

Zand, sand.

Zennit, Zennight, seven night; "This day zennit."

Zew, azew, milkless.

Zoo, so.

Zive, a scythe.

Zull a plough to plough ground.

Zwath, a swath.

Turnbull & Spears, Printers.

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Index: Added missing stops to E, F, G, H.

Realigned 'Scote' alphabetically.