Chapter 2

Bodkins _s._ swingle-bars. Weys and Bodkins, portions of plough-harness

Body-horse _s._ the second horse in a team, that which draws from the end of the shafts

Boming _adj._ hanging down, like a woman's long hair

Boneshave _s._ hip-rheumatism

Bore, the tidal wave in the river Parrett

Borrid _adj._ applied to a sow when seeking the boar

Bos, Bus _s._ a yearling calf, a milk sop (Lat. _bos_)

Bottle _s._ a bubble, a small cask for cider _v._ to bubble

Boughten _past part._ of to buy

Bow _s._ a culvert, arched bridge, arch, as Castle-bow, Taunton

Bowerly _adj._ portly, tall, well-made, quy. _buirdly_

Bowsin _s._ fore part of a cattle stall

Brandis _s._ an iron frame to support a pan or kettle over a hearth-fire (A S _brand-isen_)

Brash _s._ a row, tumult, crash (A S _brastl_ a noise)

Brave _adj._ in good health

Brazed _past part._ cramped with cold

Br'd, or Bard, Breaze _v._ to bruize, to indent, as on an apple

Breath _s._ a scent, a smell

Breeze _v._ to braize or solder a kettle

Brickle, Burtle _adj._ brittle

Brineded _adj._ brindled

Bring-gwain _v._ to get rid of, to spend, to accompany a person some way on a journey, bring-going

Brit, Burt, to leave a dent or impression

Brize, Prize _v.a._ to press down

Broom-squires _s._ Quantock broom-makers

Brock _s._ a piece of turf for fuel (Du. _brocke_, a morass)

Broller, Brawler _s._ a bundle of straw

Brow-square, an infant's head cloth

Bruckley, Brode _adj._ as applied to stock given to break fence, to cheese that breaks into fragments

Brummle, Brimmel (A S _brimel_) _s._ bramble

Bucked _adj._ having a strong hircine taste, applied to cheese

Buckle _v.n._ to bend, to warp

Buckle _s._ a dispute _v._ to quarrel.

Buddle _v._ to suffocate in mud

Bug _s._ beetle, as water-bug, may-bug, cockchafer

Bullen _s._ large black sloes; bullace-plum

Bullworks, Bullocking _adj._ rude, romping

Bumtowel _s._ long-tailed tit

Bungee, (g hard), _adj._ short and squat

Burcott _s._ a load

Burge _s._ bridge

Burr _s._ a sweet-bread

Bursh _s._ brush

Busket _s._ a bush or brake

But _s._ a basket for catching salmon; also a bee-hive. But, for Put, a heavy cart

Butter and Eggs _s._ toad-flax, _linaria vulgaris_

Button stockings _s._ gaiters

Butty _s._ a partner

Buzzies _s._ flies

Byes _s._ furrows

By-now, a short time ago

Caddle _s._ bustle, ex. We'rn jussy caddle to-day

Cadock _s._ a bludgeon, a short thick club

Cag _v._ to annoy, vex

Cag _v._ to irritate

Callenge _s._ and _v.a._ challenge

Cal-home, or Cal-over _v._ to publish or call the banns of marriage for the last time

Callyvan' or Carryvan, also Clevant and Vant, a pyramidal trap for catching birds, quy. _colly fang_, (A S _fangen_, to take)

Cannel, Cannal _s._ the faucet of a barrel--tap-and-canal

Car _v._ to carry, ex. Cassn't car'n?

Carry-merry _s._ a kind of sledge used in conveying goods

Carvy-seeds _s._ carraway seeds, (_carvi sem_:)

Cauk _v._ to turn down the ends of shoes for a horse to stand on ice

Caxon _s._ a sorry wig

Chaccle _v._ to caccle as a hen

Chaity _adj._ careful, nice, delicate

Chaine _s._ a weaver's warp

'Ch'am, (A S _ic eom_: Germ. _Ich bin_) I am. 'Ch'ave, I have. 'Ch'ad, I had. 'Ch'ool, I would. Uch'll go, I will go. "Chill not let go, zir, without vurther 'casion." Shaks. Lear, iv, 6. This form occurs chiefly in the neighbourhood of Merriott.

Cham _v._ To chew

Charm _s._ confused noise as of birds

Cheaymer, Chimmer _s._ a bed-room

Cheese-stean _s._ a wring or press for cheese

Chibbole _s._ (Sp. _cepolla_, Fr. _ciboule_) a young onion, before the bulb is fully formed

Chilbladder _s._ a chilblain

Chilver, (A S _cilfer-lamb_), an ewe lamb. Pur, the male lamb

Chilver-hog and Pur-hog, sheep under one year old

Chine _s._ that part of a cask which is formed by the projection of the staves beyond the head. Chine-hoops top-hoops

Chissom, Chism _v._ to bud, to shoot out; also, _s._ a bud

Chowr _v._ to grumble, to mutter (A S _ceorian_, to murmur)

Clam _v._ to handle in a slovenly manner

Clamper _s._ a difficulty, ex. I zined once and a got meself in jissey clamper I never w'ont zine nothing no more

Claps _v._ clasp

Clathers _s._ clothes or rags

Clavy, a shelf. Clavel-tack, a mantel-piece, a place where keys (_claves_) are kept, a shelf for keys. Holmen-clavel, an inn on Blagdon hill, so called from having a large _holm-beam_ supporting the mantel-piece

Cleve-pink, or Cliff-pink, a species of pink growing wild in the Cheddar cliffs, _dianthus deltoides_

Clim, Climmer, Climber _v._ to climb. Clammer _s._ a worn footpath up a steep bank

Clinkers _s._ hoof marks. Clinker-bells, icicles

Clint, or Clent _v._ to clench

Clit _v._ Clitty _adj._ applied to bread not properly kneaded

Clittersome _adj._ troublesome

Clivver-and-shiver _adv._ completely, totally

Clize, Clice _s._ a swinging door, or valve of a dike or rhine, (A S _clysing_)

Cloam, Cloamen, coarse earthen ware

Clothen _adj._ made of cloth

Clotting, Clatting _s._ fishing for eels with a knot or clot of worms, which is also called reballing

Clout _s._ and _v._ a blow in the face or head, to beat about the head

Clumber _s._ a clump, or large piece

Cly, Cliver, Clider, or Clidden _s._ goose-grass

Coathe, or Coe _v.a._ to bane, applied to sheep, rabbits, and hares

Cock-and-mwile _s._ a jail

Cock-lawt, Cock-lart _s._ a garret or cock-loft

Cock-squailing _s._ an old Shrove Tuesday sport--(in Somerset, Shaff Tuesday), flinging sticks at a cock tied by the leg, one penny per throw, whoever kills him takes him away

Cob-wall _s._ made of mud and straw, mud-and-stud, or wattle-and-dab

College _s._ an assemblage of small tenements, having a common entrance from the street, and only one

Colley blackbird; Water-colley water-ouzel; Mountain-colley ring-ouzel

Colt a person entering on a new employment; Colting, Colt-ale a fine on entering; footing; also, a thrashing

Comb-broach _s._ tooth of a wool-combe, a spit, knitting-needle (Fr. _broche_)

Commandement _s._ (Four syllables as in Chaucer and Wiclif), command

Conk, or Skonk _s._ a collection of people (Lat. _concio_)

Connifle _v._ to embezzle, to sponge

Cop-bone _s._ knee-pan, patella

Count _v._ to think, to esteem

Couples, Cooples _s._ an ewe with her lambs; Double-couples _s._ an ewe with twins

Coy _v._ to decoy; Cway Pool _s._ a decoy

Cowerd Milk _s._ milk not skimmed

Cow-babby _s._ a great childish fellow

Crab-lantern _s._ a cross froward child

Crap a bunch or cluster (Fr. _grappe_)

Crap, Crappy _v._ to snap, to crack

Craze _v.a._ to crack

Crease _s._ crest of a horse's neck, a crestaline of a roof

Creem _s._ and _v._ a cold shivering, to shiver; to creemy _adj._ subject to shivers

Creem _v._ to crush or squeeze severely the limbs of a person

Crewel _s._ a cowslip

Creeze _adj._ squeamish, dainty

Crip _v._ to clip--as the hair

Cripner, Kr'pner _s._ crupper strap

Crips, or Curps _adj._ crisp

Criss-cross-lain the alphabet, because in the Horn-book it was preceded by a X (Fr. _croissette_)

Crope _pret. of creep_ crept, ex. A craup'd in

Cross-axe _s._ an axe with two broad and sharp ends, one cutting breadth-wise, the other length-wise, called also grub-axe and twibill

Crowdy, Crowdy-kit (Celtic _crwth_) _s._ small fiddle; to crowd _v._ to grate as the two ends of a broken bone, to make a flat creaking; Crowder _s._ a fiddler (W. _crwthwr_)

Crown _v._ Crowner's quest _s._ Coroner's Inquest. To be crowned, to have an inquest held over a dead body by the direction of the coroner

Crub, Croost _s._ a crust of bread

Cruel _adv._ intensive, as cruel-kind, very kind

Cry _s._ to challenge, bar, or object to

Cubby-hole _s._ a snug comfortable situation for a child, such as between a person's knees when sitting before the fire

Cuckold _s._ the plant Burdock; cuckold-buttons, the burs, (A S _coccel_, darnel, tares)

Cue _s._ the shoe on an ox's hoof, or tip on a man's boot

Curdle _v.a._ to curl, also, _v.n._; Curdles _s._ curls

Cut _s._ a door hatch

Curse _s._ cress

Cuss _v._ to curse; Cussin Sarvice the Commination

Custin _s._ a kind of small wild plum

Cutty _adj._ small, as cutty-pipe, cutty-wren; Cutty-bye, a cradle, a hob-gobblin

Daddick _s._ rotten-wood; Daddicky _adj._ perished like rotten-wood, applied metaphorically to the old and feeble

Dag-end _s._ applied to a sheaf of reed

Daggers _s._ sword-grass, a kind of sedge

Dame _s._ never applied to the upper ranks of society, nor to the very lowest, but to such as farmer's wives, or the schoolmistress: rarely if ever applied to a young woman

Dandy _adj._ distracted

Dap _v._ to hop as a ball

Dap _s._ the hop, or turn of a ball; also habits and peculiarities of a person, ex. I know all the daps on'm

Dor, Dare _v._ and _s._ to frighten, stupify: ex. Put a dor on'n

Dare-up _v._ to wake or rouse up a person that is dying or asleep

Dave _v._ to thaw

Davver, or Daver _v._ to fade, to droop; Davered drooping

Dawzin _s._ a conjuring device to discover minerals by the twisting of a hazel-rod

Devil-screech, Devil-swift, or Devilling _s._ the Swift

Devil's Cow _s._ a kind of beetle

Dew-bit _s._ an early morsel before breakfast

Diddlecum _adj._ distracted, mad

Diff _adj._ deaf

Dilly _adj._ cranky, queer

Dir'd _s._ thread, ex. Whaur's my d'r'd and niddel?

Dish-wash, or Dippity-washty _s._ a water-wagtail

Dirsh, Drush, or Drasher _s._ a thrush

Dirt _s._ earth generally, as mould in a garden

Dirten _adj._ miry, dirty, or made of dirt

Dock _s._ the crupper of a saddle

Dockery-stick _s._ phosphorescent wood

Donnins _s._ dress, clothes

Double-spronged when potatoes lying in the ground throw out fresh tubers

Dough-fig _s._ a Turkey-fig

Douse, or Touse _s._ a smart blow, particularly on the face, ex. A douse on the chaps

Down-arg _v._ to contradict, ex. He 'ood downarg I

Down-daggered _adj._ disconsolate, cast-down

Draen, Drean _v._ to drawl (Fr. _trainer_)

Draffit _s._ a tub for pigs'-wash (_draught-vat_)

Drail _s._ the piece of leather connecting the flail with its handle

Drang _s._ a narrow path or lane

Drang-way a drove or gate-way

Drapper _s._ a small tub

Drash _v._ to thrash; Drashel, or Thrashle _s._ a flail (A S _therscel_)

Drashold, or Dreshol _s._ a threshold

Drawl, Drail _s._ the forepart of the sull of a plough; in West Somerset, weng (A S _wang_ or _weng_ a cheek)

Drift _s._ a lask, or looseness

Drimmeling _adj._ slow, continuous pain

Dring _v._ (_pret._ Drang) to throng, crowd, _s._ Dringet, a crowd (Dutch, _dringen_, to press)

Drink _s._ small beer, or cider

Droot _v._ to drivel

Dro _v._ (_part._ Dro'd) to throw, ex. The tree wur dro'd

Drow, or Drowy _v._ to dry, ex. It do drowy terble now, as applied to grass; Muck-adrowd, or Muck-adrowy _s._ dust

Drub, Drubby _v._ to throb

Druck _v._ to cram or thrust down

Druck-pieces _s._ pieces of wood let into a wall to support the pipe of a pump

Drug _v._ to drag, also _pret._ of drag; ex. He drug un out of the pond; Drugs _s._ harrows or drags

Dub, Dubby, Dubbid _adj._ blunt, squat

Dubbin _s._ suet or fat for greasing leather

Duck _v._ to carry a person under the arms in a suspended state

Dudder _v._ to confound with noise

Duds _s._ foul linen

Dumbledore, Dumbledory _s._ a humble bee, stupid fellow

Dummic, Dunnic _s._ a hedge-sparrow

Dumps _s._ the twilight, ex. Dumps of the yavening; Dumpsy towards twilight

Dunch _adj._ deaf

Dunder-daisy _s._ large field daisy

Dungmixen _s._ a dung-heap

Durgin (g hard) _s._ a great stupid fellow

Durns _s._ side-posts of a door, (? _doorings_)

Ear-burs _s._ a swelling behind the ear

Ear-grass, or Hay-grass _s._ grass after mowing, from A S _erian_, to till; the grass of tilled land

Ear-keckers _s._ the tonsils of the throat

Eave, Heave _v.n._ to give out moisture, as flagstones in wet weather

E'en-to, Ee'nsto _adv._ up to, all but, ex. There were ten e'ensto one or two

Element _s._ the sky, used in this sense by Shakespeare in Twelfth-night

Elem'n, or Elm'n _adj._ made of elm

Eldern _adj._ made of the elder

Elt-pig _s._ a young sow

Elver, Eelver, or Yelver _s._ the young eel

Emmers _s._ pl. embers

Emp, or Empt _v._ to empty

En, or Un _pron._ Him, ex. A zid'n: he saw him (A S _hine_)

Er _pron._ He, ex. Er ziden: he saw him

Errish, Arrish, or Herrish _s._ stubble

Evet _s._ eft, or newt

Ex _s._ an axle

Eye _s._ the cavity beneath the arch of a bridge

Fadge _v._ to fare, to be in good condition. "How will this fadge?" Shaks. Twelfth-night

Fags _interj._ truly! indeed!

Fairy, Fare, Vare _s._ a weasel (old Fr. _vair_, ermine)

False _adj._ forsworn, perjured

Falsing _adj._ coaxing

Fardel _s._ a small bundle, Shaks. Hamlet

Faut (faat) _v._ to find fault

Fauty (faaty) _adj._ given to find fault

Fauth, Foth, Voth _s._ the turning place of the plough at the side of a field

Featy _adj._ pretty, neat

Feaze _v._ to harass, or ferret

Feaver-largin (g hard), _s._ a fit of indolence

Fell _v._ to sew down a hem

Fend _v._ to forbid (Fr. _defendre_)

Fess _adj._ gay, smart, ex. A fess fellow

Few, Veo _adj._ little, as a few broth

Fie _s._ to succeed, ex. Che-ating pl'y'll never fie

Fig _s._ raisin: figgety-pudden, figgy-cake, rich with raisins

Fildefare, Veelvare _s._ a fieldfare: varewell veelvare, farewell winter

Filtry _s._ rubbish

Fitch, Fitchet _s._ a pole cat, ex. As cross as a fitchet

Fitten _s._ an idle fancy, whim

Flap-jack _s._ small pancake, fritter

Flanker, Vlanker _s._ a spark of fire

Flannin, Vlannen _s._ a flannel

Fleet _s._ the windward side of a hedge

Fleet _v._ to float

Flick _s._ the inside fat of animals; also flitch of bacon

Flittermouse _s._ a bat (Ger. _Fledermaus_)

Flook _s._ a flounder; also a parasite in the liver of sheep

Flush _adj._ fledged, in full feather _adv._ even with

Foase _v._ to wheedle, to deceive _adj._ false

Fob _s._ froth, slaver _v._ to put off with a pretence

Fog _s._ old, withered or spoilt grass

Fog-earth _s._ bog-earth, peat

Foggy _adj._ fat, corpulent

Fooase, or Vooase _v._ to force, to oblige

Footer _s._ a worthless shabby fellow _adj._ footy

Fore-spur, or Vore-spur _s._ the fore-leg of pork

Fore-right, Vore-right _adj._ rash, head-long, head-strong

Forrel _s._ the cover of a book, the selvage of a handkerchief

Forware, or Verware _v._ to indemnify

Forweend _adj._ hard to please, wayward, spoilt in nursing

Frame _v._ to form, fashion the speech, ex. If I wur axed I could'nt frame to spake it so

Frange _s._ fringe (Fr. _frange_)

Free-bore _adj._ free, free-born

French-nut _s._ walnut

Fret _v._ to eat, as the lower animals (G _fressen_, A S _fretan_, as opposed to G _essen_, A S _etan_, applied to man): ex. The moth fretteth the garment; a use of the word retained in the West, and usually applied to the browsing of cattle

Furcum, or Vurcum _s._ the whole, even to the bottom

Furr, or Vurr _v._ to cast a stone far

Fump _s._ the whole of a business

Fuz, Fuzzen, Furze _s._ gorse, prov.

When fuz is out o' blossom Kissing's out o' fashin

Fuz-pig _s._ hedge hog

Gad _s._ a fagot-stick; Spar-gad a twisted stick picked at both ends to spar (Ger. _sperren_) or fasten down thatch. Near Bath, spick-gad

Gain _adj._ handy; Gainer more handy

Gale _s._ an old bull castrated

Gall _s._ a wet place, abounding in springs

Gally, Gallow _v._ to frighten; Gallied frightened Shak. K. Lear, iii, 2, "Skies gallow the wanderer"

Gally-baggur _s._ bug-bear, a trace of the time when gallows were a more common sight

Gamble _s._ a leg, (Ital. _gamba_)

Gambril _s._ a crooked stick used by butchers to suspend a carcase

Gammets, Gamoting _s._ whims, tricks, pranks

Ganny-cock _s._ a turkey-cock

Ganny-cock's nob _s._ the appendage to a turkey-cock's beak

Gapes-nest _s._ an idle spectacle

Gare _s._ gear; Ire-gare _s._ plough-gear, iron-work

Garn, or Gearn, Gearden _s._ a garden

Gatchel _s._ the mouth

Gate-shord, or sheard _s._ a gate-way, a place for a gate

Gatfer _s._ an old man (good father)

G'auf to go off; G'auver to go over; G'in to go in; G'on to go on; G'out to go out; Go'vorn go before him or them; G'under to go under; G'up to go up: ex. Thear I wur', d' knaw, carnared (in a corner); coud'n g'auver, g'under, g'in, nor g'out

Gawcum, Gawcumin _s._ a simpleton, a gawkey

Gee-wi' (g soft), _v._ to agree; Gee (g hard), to give, ex. To gee out--to thaw

Gib, or Gibby (g hard), _s._ a pet lamb

Gibby-heels (g hard), _s._ kibed-heels

Giffin (g hard), _s._ a trifle, a small portion of time

Gilawfer, Gillifer, Gilliflower (g soft), stocks; Whitsun Gilawfer, carnation, also the wallflower

Giltin-cup (g hard), _s._ butter-cup

Gimmace (g hard), _s._ a hinge

Gimmaces (g hard) _s._ a criminal is said to be hung in gimmaces, when he is hung in chains

Glare _v._ to glaze earthenware. Also _s._ ex. The roads are all a glare of ice

Glassen _adj._ made of glass

Glou, Glouie _v._ to stare

Glou-beason _s._ a glow-worm, a bold impudent fellow

Glutch, Glutchy _v._ to swallow _s._ the act of swallowing, Glutcher _s._ the throat

Gold _s._ sweet willow; _Myrica gale_, abundant in the moors of Somerset, in the herbalists called _Gaule_

Go-lie _v._ spoken of corn falling after rain; applied to wind, to subside

Gool-french a gold-finch, a proud tailor

Gollop _s._ a large morsel

Gommer _s._ an old woman (good mother)

Good-hussy _s._ a thread-case

Goody _v._ to appear good, to prosper

Goose-cap _s._ a giddy, silly person

Goose-herd, or Goosier _s._ one who breeds or looks after geese

Gore-in, Gore-with _v._ to believe in, to trust

Gossips _s._ sponsors; Gossiping the festivities of the christening

Gout _s._ a drain, a gutter

Gowder _s._ a higgler of fruit

Grainded, Grainted _adj._ ingrained, dirty

Granfer, Grammer _s._ grandfather, grandmother

Granfer griggles _s._ wild orchis

Gribble _s._ a young apple tree raised from seed

Grig _v._ and _s._ to pinch, a pinch

Griddle, Girdle _s._ a gridiron

Gripe, or Grip _s._ a small drain or ditch _v._ to cut into gripes

Grizzle _v._ to laugh or grin

Gronin _s._ labour, childbirth; Gronin-chair nursing chair; Gronin-malt provision for the event

Ground _s._ a field, a piece of land enclosed for agricultural purposes

Grozens, Groves _s._ duck-weed

Gruff, Gruff-hole _s._ a trench or groove excavated for ore

Gruffer, Gruffler _s._ a miner, one who works in a gruff or groove

Gumpy _adj._ abounding in protuberances

Gurds _s._ eructations; Fits and Gurds fits and starts

Gurl, or Gurdle _v._ to growl

Gush _v._ to put the blood in quicker motion by fright or surprise, ex. A' gied I sich a gush

Guss _v._ and _s._ to gird, a girth

Gurt _adj._ great

Hack _s._ the place where bricks newly-made are arranged to dry

Hack, Hacket, Hick, Heck _v._ to hop on one leg, to play hackety oyster, hopscotch, or hack-shell

Hacker _v._ to chatter with the cold, to stammer

Hackle _s._ a good job

Hag-mal _s._ a slattern, a titmouse

Hag-rided _adj._ subject to night-mare

Hag-ropes traveller's joy, wild clematis (A S _Hage_, a hedge)

Hain _v._ to let up grass for mowing

Halfen-deal _s._ moiety _adj._ composed of different materials

Half-strain _adj._ mongrel, half-witted

Halipalmer _s._ the palmer-worm, (holy-palmer)

Hallantide _s._ All Saints' Day, (hallow-een-tide)

Halse _s._ hazel; halse coppice

Halsen, Hawseny, Noseny, Osney _v._ to divine, predict, forebode (A S _halsen_, from the hazel divining rod)

Halve, or Helve _v._ to turn over, to turn upside down

Ham _s._ an open field, usually near a river: on Mendip, old calamine pits

Hame _v._ "rem habere" (A S _haeman_)

Hames, Heamsies _s._ parts of harness

Hang-fair, Hanging-vayer _s._ an execution

Hanch _v._ to gore as a bull

Hangles, (a pair of hangles) _s._ a pot or kettle-rack suspended over the fire

Hank _s._ dealings with

Happer _v._ to crackle, rattle like hail

Hard _adj._ full grown, as hard stock, or sheep; a Hardboy a boy of about 13 years old

Harr _s._ the part of a gate which holds the hinges, ex. Heads and harrs

Hart _s._ haft, or handle as of knives, awls

Hat, or Het _pret._ of _v._ to hit

Hathe _s._ to be in hathe, _i.e._, to be thickly covered with pustules, to be closely matted together

Haydigees, (g hard and soft) _s._ high spirits

Hay-sucker _s._ the white-throat

Hayty-tayty seesaw, also _interj._ what's here!

Hay-ward _s._ pound-keeper, a keeper of hedges or hays (A S _haeig-weard_)

Hedge-bore _s._ a rough workman

Heel, Hell _v._ to pour out or in, hence Heel-taps

Heel _v._ to hide, to cover (A S _helan_)

Heeler _s._ one who hides or covers. Proverb: The heeler is as bad as the stealer

Heft _s._ and _v._ weight, to lift up, from _v._ to heave

Hegler, or Higler _s._ an egg or fowl collector and dealer

Hellier _s._ a tiler, one who covers

Hel'm _s._ haulm of wheat, beans, peas, potatoes (A S _healm_)

Hem _pron._ he or him, ex. If hem had hat hem as hem hat hem, hem 'oud a kill'd hem or hem 'oud a kill'd hem

Hen _v._ to throw, see Aine

Hen-hussey _s._ a meddling officious person, a woman who looks after poultry

Hent, or Hint _v._ to wither or dry up

Hern, His'n _pron._ her's, his

Herret _s._ a pitiful little wretch

Hevel-twine _s._ a fine sort of twine

Hike off _v._ to steal away slily, to skulk off

Hirddick, Ruddick _s._ robin, ruddock

Hird-in, Hird-out _v._ to remove one's goods. Transp. for rid

Hirn, Hurn, Hirnd _v._ _pret._ and _part._ to run (A S _yrnan_)

Hive, or Heave _v._ to urge in vomiting

Hizy-prizy _s._ Nisi-prius

Hoak _v._ to goar as an ox

Hob _v._ to laugh loudly _s._ a clown

Hob _s._ a cheek of a grate

Hod _s._ a sheath, a cover

Hoddy _adj._ hearty

Hog, Hogget _s._ a sheep or horse one-year old

Hogo _s._ strong savour or smell (Fr. _haut gout_)

Holders _s._ fangs of a dog

Holmen _adj._ made of holm or holly, as Holmen Clavel a holly mantle piece

Holme-screech _s._ the missel-thrush, from its eating the berries of the holly or holme tree

Homany _s._ a noise, disturbance

Home-to _adv._ up to

Honey-suck _s._ red clover

Hoop _s._ a bullfinch, ex. Cock-hoop, hen-hoop

Hoppet _v._ to hop

Hornen, Harnin _adj._ made of horn

Horse-godmother _s._ a masculine woman

Houzen _s._ houses

Hove _v._ and _s._ to hoe, ex. To hove banes, hove turmits with an auld hove

How _v._ to long for

Huck-muck _s._ strainer over the faucet

Hud _s._ as of gooseberry, the skin, hull, husk

Huf-cap _s._ a weed commonly found in fields

Hug _s._ the itch

Hulden _v._ to conceal, harbour

Hulley, or Holley _s._ a basket-trap for eels

Hull _v._ to hurl

Hum-drum _s._ a three-wheeled cart

Humacks _s._ wild-briar stocks on which to graff roses

Ich (soft), _pron._ I 'Cham I am; 'Ch'ool I will; 'Ch'ood I would, &c.

Idleton _s._ an idle fellow

Infaring _adj._ lying within, as an infaring tithing, _i.e._, a tithing within a borough

Insense _v._ to inform

Ire _s._ iron, "ire or mire" said of stiff clay soil

Ire-gaer _s._ iron work or gear

Ize _pr._ I, ex. Ize warrant you wunt

Jib _s._ the wooden stand for a barrel

Jigger _s._ a vessel of potter's ware used in toasting cheese

Jitch, Jitchy, Jissy _adj._ such, ex. Jitch placen, such places

Joan-in-the-wad _s._ will-of-the-wisp

Jonnick _adv._ fair, straight-forward

Jot _v._ to disturb in writing, to strike the elbow

Junket _s._ curds and cream with spices and sugar, &c., from Ital. _giuncata_, cased in rushes; from _giunco_, a rush; a name given in Italy to a kind of cream-cheese

Kamics, Kramics _s._ rest-harrow

Keamy _adj._ covered with a thin white mould; applied to cider