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Kid, a Young Goat; also a North-Country Word for a small

Brush-faggot.

Kiderow, 1) (C.) a Place for a sucking Calf to lye in.

Kipe, a Basket made of Osiers, which is used for taking Fish, particularly at Otmore in Oxfordshire.

Kit, a Pocket-Violin; a Musical Instrument: Also a CountryWord for a Milking Pail.

Knoll, (W.C.)2) the Top of a Hill.

Knolls, (C.) Turneps.

Krimnel, (C.) a Powdering-tub.

Latching, (N.C.) catching or infecting.

Lath, a thin piece of cleft Wood; a Turner's Instrument: Also

a Country-Word for a Barn.

Lathing, (N.C.) Entreaty, Invitation.

Lazy, slothful, sluggish, idle; also a North-Country Word for naught or bad.

Leap or Lip, (C.) half a Bushel.

Lear, (C.) as Rich-Lear, is good Ground for feeding and fatning

Sheep.

Leethwake, (N.C.) pliable, limber.

Leys, (C.) a Pasture-Ground.

Lift, (C.) a sort of Stile, that may be open'd like a Gate.

To Lig, (N.C.) to lie.

To Lippen, (Sc.) to trust to, to rely on.

A Lite, (N.C.) a few or little.

Liten, (N.C.) a Garden.

Litten, as Church-litten, a Word us'd in Wiltshire for a Church-yard.

Loe, (N.C.) a little round Hill, or great heap of Stones.

Lovingis, (Sc.) Praises.

To Lowk,3) (N.C.) to weed Corn.

Mainsworn, (N.C.) Foresworn, or Perjured.

Makeless, (N.C.) matchless.

(Mauts v. Mores.)

Maum, a soft brittle Stone, so call'd by the Inhabitants in some Parts of Oxfordshire.

1) Bailey schreibt Kiderow.

2) Bailey: N.C.

3) Bei Bailey verdruckt: lowd.

Mauther, (in Norfolk) a little Girl.

[Mawks, as A great Mawks, i. e. a dirty nasty Slut.]

Mazzards, (W.C.) black Cherries, a Fruit.

Meath, (C.) as I give you Meath of the Buying, i. e. full Power

to buy.

Meedless, (N.C.) unruly.

Meet now, (N.C.) just now.

Meeterly or Meehtly,1) (N.C.) handsomely, modestly.

Meny, (N.C.) a Family.

Midding, (N.C.) a Dung-hill.

Miscreed, (N.C.) descried.

Mixen, (C.) a Dung-hill, or Heap of Dung.

Mizzy, (N.C.) a Quagmire.

Mogshade, (C.) the Shadow of Trees, etc.

Modder, (in Norfolk) a young Girl, or Wench.)

Molter, (N.C.) Mill-toll.

Mores or Mauts, (N.C.) high and open Places; in other Parts it is taken for low and boggy Grounds.

Moss-troopers, a sort of Robbers in the Northern Parts of Scotland. Mosses, (N.C.) moorish, or boggy Places.

Mouse-crope, (C.) a Beast is said to be Mouse-crope, that is run over the Back by a Shrew-Mouse.

[Mousel-scab, a Distemper in Sheep and young Deer.] Muck, Dung; In Lincolnshire, moist.

Mullock, (C.) Dirt, or Rubbish.

Murk, (N.C.) dark.

Mustache or Mustachia, (C.) the Beard of the upper Lip, a Whisker. Muzzey, (C.) a Quagmire.

Neaving,2) (C.) Barm, or Yest.

Nittle, (N.C.) handy, neat.

To Note, to observe, ....; also a North-Country Word for, to

push or gore with the Horn.

Notted, (C.), shorn, polled.

Ollet, (S.C.) Fuel.

Omy-Land, (N.C.) Mellow-Land.

Ost or Oost, (C.) a Vessel, on which Hops or Malt is dry'd.

1) So, statt meethly. Bailey hat dafür meetherly.

2) Wohl identisch mit Bailey's newing, Yeast or Barm. Essex.

Ox-boose, (C.) an Ox-stall, or Stable for Oxen.

Pease-Bolt, or Pease-Hawn, (C.) Pease-straw.
Pedware,1) (C.) Pulse, as Pease, Beans, etc.
Peed, (N.C.) blind of one Eye.
Playing-hot, (S.C.) boiling-hot.

To Polt, (C.) to beat, bang, or thrash.
Poops, (N.C.) Gulps, in drinking.

[Pose, a Rheum in the Head.]

To Pote, (N.C.) to push or put out.
Prattily, (N.C.) softly.

Prich, (N.C.) thin drink.

[Puck-fist or Puff-ball, a kind of Mushroom full of Dust.] Pucker, (C.) a Nest of Caterpillars, or such like Vermin. Puddock or Purrock, (C.) a small Inclosure.

Radlings, (N.C.) the Windings of a Wall.

(Ray v. Ree.).

To Rame, (N.C.) to reach.

Ravel-Bread, (in Kent) a middle sort of Bread.

To Ree or Ray, (C.) to handle Corn in a Sieve, so as the chaffy, or lighter part may gather to one Place.

[Reek-Stavel, a Frame of Wood set on Stones, upon which such a Mow is raised.]

[Rereboiled, half-boiled.]

[Riddle, a hard Question, a dark Saying; also a kind of Sieve, to sift Coals.]

(Ridder v. Rudder.)

To Rine, (N.C.) to touch.

To Ripple Flax, (C.) to rub, or wipe off the Seed-Vessels. Rising, (C.), Barm, or Yest.

Roop, (N.C.) Hoarseness.

Rother-Beasts, (N.C.) horned Beasts, as Cows, Oxen, etc. [Rother-soil or Rosoth, 2) the Soil, or Dung of such Cattel.] Roughings, (C.) latter Pasture, or Grass that comes after Mowing. [Roup, a filthy Boil or Swelling in the Rump of Poultry.] To Rout or Rought, (N.C.) to bellow.

Rowen, (C.) rough Pasture full of Stubble, or Weeds.

1) Bailey: pee-ware.

2) Bailey: Rosoch.

[To Ruck, to squat down.]

Rudder or Ridder, (C.) a wide Sieve for separating Corn from

the Chaff.

Rune, (W.C.) a Water-course.

Runge, (N.C.) a Flasket.

Sackless, (N.C.) innocent.

Saurpool, (N.C.) a stinking Puddle.

(Scuttle v. Skepe.)

Scottering, (in Hereford-shire) the Custom of burning a Wad of Pease-straw, by the Boys, at the end of Harvest.

Seen or Spene, (C.) a Cow's Teat or Pap.

[Setter-Wort or Set-Wort, an Herb.]

Sew, (C) a Cow, when her Milk is gone.

Shack, (C.) the Liberty of Winter-Pasturage: Also a Custom in Norfolk to have Common for Hogs, from the end of Harvest till Seed-time, in all Mens Grounds.

[Shacking-Time, the Season when Mast is ripe.]

Shake-Time, (C.) the Season when Mast and such Fruits fall from Trees.

Shaw, (C.) a tuft of Trees that encompasses a Close; also a
Persian Word for a King.

Sheat or Shut,1) (C.) a young Hog: Also a kind of Fish.
To Sheer, (N.C.) to Reap.

To Shimper, (S.C.) to shine.
Shippen, (N.C.) a Cow-House.

To Shunt, (C.) to shove.

Sicery, 2) (N.C.) Surely.

Sick or Sike, (N.C.) a little Water-course that is dry in Summer. A Sike, (C.), a Quillet, or Furrow.

Sizzing, (S.C.) Barm or Yest.

Skepe or Scuttle, (C.) a sort of flat and broad Basket to winnow

Corn with.

To Slat on, (N.C.) to cast on, or dash against.

To Sleech, (N.C.) to take up Water.

Slim, (in Lincoln-shire) crafty, naughty.

To Smartle away, (N.C.) to waste away.

Snag, a Knot, Knob, or Bunch: In Sussex, a Snail.

1) Bailey: saut.

2) Bailey richtig sickerly.

Anglia N. F. XII.

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Snead, Sneath or Sneed, (C.) the Handle of a Scithe.
Snithe-Wind, (in Lincoln-shire) a cutting Wind.
[Snurl, a Rheum in the Head.]
Soam, (W.C.) an Horse-load.

Souse, (C.) the Offal of Swine.

Spancel, (N.C.), a Rope to tie a Cow's hind Legs.
Speal, (N.C.) a Splinter.

Stam-wood, (C.) the Roots of Trees grubbed up.
Stang, (N.C.) a Cowl-Staff.

Start, (N.C.) a Tail or Handle.

(Stirk v. Sturk.)

Stot, (N.C.) a young Horse, or Bullock.

Stover, (C.), Straw, or Fodder for Cattel.

Stowlt,1) (C.) the Handle of any thing.

Strom, (N.C.) an Instrument to keep the Malt in the Fat.
Strunt, (N.C.) a Tail, or Rump, especially of a Horse.
Stunt, (in Lincoln-shire) stubborn, angry.

Sturk or Stirk, (C.) a Young Ox, or Heifer.

Sull, (W.C.) a Plough.

[Sull-Paddle, a Tool to cleanse the Plough from the Clods of Earth.]

To Summer-stir, (C.) to fallow, or till Land in the Summer. Swale, (O.) swelled: In the North-Country, windy, bleak. Swang, (N.C.) a green Swarth, or Furrow, amidst Plough'd Land. Swathe, (N.C.) calm.

To Sweal, to melt away wastefully, as bad candles do; also a Country-Word for to sindge a Hog.

Sweanish,2) (N.C.) modest.

To Sweb, (N.C.) to swoon.

Swill, Hog-wash: In the Northern Parts, a Shade or Shadow; also a Washing-Tub with three Feet.

Swine-Hull or Swine-Crue, (C.) a Swine-Sty, or Hog-sty.
Sword-sleiper, (N.C.) a Sword-Cutler.

Tag, the point of a Lace; in Kent, a young Sheep.

To Tawn,3) (N.C.) to swoon.

To Ted, (C.) to turn, or spread new-mown Grass.

') Bailey: Stowke.

2) Bailey richtig sweamish.

3) Bailey: Tawm.

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