Part 15

=Vag=. To reap in the modern style, with a broad 'rip-hook' and a crooked stick, chopping the straw off close to the ground, so as to leave little or no stubble (_Walks in the Wheatfields_). True reaping should be done with the hand instead of the crooked stick.--N. & S.W.

=Vagging-hook=. The hook used in vagging.--N. & S.W.

=Vagging-stick=. The crooked stick, usually hazel, with which the corn is drawn towards the reaper in vagging (_Amateur Poacher_, ch. iv).--N. & S.W.

*=Valiant Sparrow=. _Yunx torquilla_, the Wryneck (_Birds of Wilts_, p. 257).

=Vallens=. See ~Falling~ (S.).--S.W.

=Vamp=. To walk about (S.). Much more used in Dorset. 'I zeed she a-vamping half round the town.'--S.W.

*=Vamplets=. Rude gaiters to defend the legs from wet (A.H.). Cf. Bams. Also used in the New Forest. See _Cradock Nowell_, ch. xviii, 'Not come with me ... and you with your vamplets on, and all!' where the word is applied to shooting gaiters.--N.W.

=Veer=. (1) _n._ A furrow.--N.W. (Glouc. bord.) (2) _v._ 'To veer out the rudges,' to mark out with the plough the 'rudges' or 'lands' before ploughing the whole field.--N.W.

=Veer weather=. Chopping, changeable weather.

=Veldevare= or =Veldever=. See ~Velt~.

*=Vell=. The salted stomach of a young calf, used for making rennet.--N.W. (Malmesbury).

*=Velleys=. The drain where the eaves of a cottage meet.

=Velt=. The fieldfare. _Turdus pilaris_ (_Wild Life_, ch. xvi), the usual name for the bird in N. Wilts, there being a few local variants, as ~Vulver~ at Huish and ~Veldever~ at Clyffe Pypard. Also ~Veldevare~.--N.W.

'Tom was a regular gawney ... and went about wi' a handful o' zalt to catch the veldevares.'--_Wilts Tales_, p. 177.

=Vert=. See ~Plim~.

*=Vessel=. See quotation.--N.W. (Castle Eaton.)

'To wash up the vessel (_sing._ not _pl._) is to wash up plates, dishes, &c.'--Miss E. BOYER-BROWN.

=Vinney=. (1) _adj._ Mouldy (A.C.S.), as applied to bread or cheese. A.S. _fynig_. _Cunnington MS._ points out that it is only used of white or blue mould, never of black or rotten mould. It was said at Hill Deverill of a woman feigning to be bed-ridden, that 'she would lie there abed till she were vinney.' See ~Blue-vinnied~. (2) _adj._ Nervous. 'Do 'ee stop telling about they ghostises, or 'tull make I vinny.'--N. & S.W.

=Vlonkers=. See ~Flunk~ (S.).--S.W.

=Vrail=. The whip part of the old-fashioned flail.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

=Vrammards=, =Vrammerd=. (1) Order to a horse to go from you, as opposed to ~Toward~.--N.W. (2) Hence sometimes used as _adj._ by ploughmen and others in speaking of anything distant or leaning away from them (_Great Estate_, ch. viii), as a load of hay or corn with a list to the off.--N.W. (3) _n._ A _vrammerd_ is a blade set at right angles on a short handle, used for splitting laths or rails.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

=Vrow=. See ~Brow~.

*=Vuddles=, =Vuddels=. A spoilt child (A.B.C.H.). In Hants to _vuddle_ a child is to spoil it by injudicious petting.--N.W., obsolete.

=Vulver=. See ~Velt~.

=W=. Often not sounded at the beginning of a word. Thus _want_, a mole, becomes '_oont_, and _within_ and _without_ are usually _athin_ and _athout_.

=Waddle up=. To wrap up with an excess of clumsily arranged clothing; usually applied to infants.--N.W.

=Wag=. (1) 'To wag the Church bells,' to set them ringing. Also used of tolling the bell for a funeral.--N. & S.W. (2) To move (S.). 'I be that bad I can't scarce wag.'--N. & S.W. (3) In carrying, the boy who stands at the horses' heads, to move them forward as required, is said to 'wag hoss,' and the order given is 'wag on!'--N.W.

=Waggon=. The various parts of a waggon in N. Wilts bear the following names:--the bottom is the ~Waggon-bed~. The transverse pieces which support this over the ~Exes~ (axles) are the ~Pillars~, ~Peel~ (A.). The longitudinal pieces on each side on which the sides rest are the ~Waggon-blades~. The similar pieces under the centre of the bed are the ~Bed-summers~. The cross piece at the back into which the ~Tail-board~ hooks is the ~Shetlock~ or ~Shutleck~. The ~Tail Pole~ joins the front and hind wheels together underneath. The ~Hound~ is the fore-carriage over the front wheels. The ~Slide~ is the cross-bar on the tail of the 'Hound.' The ~Dripple~ is the strip running along the top of the side of the waggon from which over the hind wheels project the ~Waggon-hoops~, and over the front wheels the ~Raves~. The shafts are the ~Dills~ or ~Thills~. The ~Parters~ are detached pieces of wood at the side, joining the 'Dripple' to the 'Bed.' The ~Thorough-pin~ is the pin which fastens the 'Waggon-bed' to the 'Carriage.' Also see ~Arms~, ~Hoops~, ~Overlayer~, ~Sharps~, ~Draughts~, ~Limbers~, ~Strouter~, ~Ridge-tie~, ~Blades~, and ~Spances~.

=Wagtails=. _Briza media_, L., Quaking Grass.--N. & S.W.

=Wag-wants=. _Briza media_, L., Quaking Grass (S.). Also ~Weg-wants~, ~Wig-wants~, ~Wing-Wang~, and ~Wagtails~.--N. & S.W.

=Wake=. (1) _n._ The raked-up line (broader than a hatch or wallow) of hay before it is made up into pooks (_Wild Life_, ch. vii).--N.W. (2) _v._ To rake hay into wakes (D.).--N.W.

=Wake-at-noon=. _Ornithogalum umbellatum_, L., Star of Bethlehem.--N.W.

=Wallow=. (1) _n._ A thin line of hay (_Great Estate_, ch. iv). _Weale_ in Dorset. (2) _v._ To rake hay into lines.--N.W. =Want=. A mole (B.S.); also ~Woont~ (B.) and 'oont (Wilts Tales, p. 173; _Gamekeeper at Home_, ch. ii).--N. & S.W.

'1620. Itm. to William Gosse for killing of wants, xijd.'--Records of Chippenham, p. 202.

=Want-catcher=, 'oont-catcher. _n._ A professional mole catcher.--N. & S.W.

=Want-heap=. A mole-hill.--N. & S.W.

*=Want-rear=. A mole-hill.--S.W.

=Waps=, =Wopse=. A wasp (A.S.). A.S. _wœps_.--N. & S.W.

=Warnd=, =Warn=. To warrant (A.S.). 'You'll get un, I warnd.'--N. & S.W.

=Warning-stone=. See ~Gauge-brick~. Also see _Addenda_.

=Wart-wort=. (1) _Chelidonium majus_, L., The Greater Celandine, the juice of which is used to burn away warts.--N. & S.W. (2) _Euphorbia Peplus_, L., Petty Spurge.--N.W.

=Wassail=. A drinking-song, sung by men who go about at Christmas wassailing (A.B.).--N.W.

=Wassailing=, =Waysailing=. Going about singing and asking for money at Christmas (A.B.).--N.W.

*=Wasset-man=. A scarecrow (A.B.G.H.Wr.); also ~Wusset~ (H.Wr.).--N.W.

=Watch=. If a hay-rick is so badly made that it heats, the owner is often so ashamed of it that he attempts to set the matter right before his neighbours find it out. If a passer-by notices him poking about the hay as if searching for something in it, the ironical question is asked--'Have you lost your watch there?'--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) Cp. 'To drop your watch in the bottom of the rick.'--_Upton-on-Severn Words_, p. 34.

=Watchet=, =Wetched=, =Wetchet=. Wet about the feet. ~Wotshed~ at Cherhill. ~Wetched~ (A.).--N.W.

'Either way, by lane or footpath, you are sure to get what the country folk call "watchet," i.e. wet.'--_Wild Life_, ch. vi.

'You'd best come along o' me to the lower lands ... for it be mighty wet there these marnins, and ye'll get watshed for certin.'--_The Story of Dick_, ch. xii. p. 142.

*=Water Anemone=. _Ranunculus hederaceus_, L., Ivy-leafed Crowfoot.--S.W. (Zeals.)

*=Water-blobb=. _Nuphar lutea_, Sm., The Water-lily (A.B.). See ~Blobbs~.

*=Water-buttercup=. _Ranunculus Flammula_, L., Lesser Spear-wort.--S.W. (Zeals.)

=Water-Cuckoo=. _Cardamine pratensis_, L., Lady's Smock. See ~Cuckoo~.--S.W.

=Water-lily=. (1) _Caltha palustris_, L., Marsh Marigold.--N. & S.W. *(2) _Ranunculus aquatilis_, L., Water Crowfoot.--S.W. (Charlton All Saints.)

*=Wayside-bread=. _Plantago major_, L., Plantain (_English Plant Names_). Cp. M.E. _wey-brede_ in the 'Promptorium.'

=Weather-glass=. _Anagallis arvensis_, L., Scarlet Pimpernel. See ~Shepherd's Weather-glass~.--N. & S.W.

=Weeth=. (i) _adj._ Tough and pliable (A.B.C.S.).--N.W. (2) _adj._ Of bread, moist and yet not too soft. 'I puts my lease bread on the pantony shelf, and it soon gets nice and weeth.' Often pronounced as _wee_.--N. & S.W.

=Weffet=, =Wevet=. A spider.--S.W., occasionally.

=Weg-wants=. See ~Wag-wants~.

=Weigh-jolt=. A see-saw (A.B.H.Wr.).--Formerly in common use at Clyffe Pypard, N.W.

=Welch-nut=. A walnut (_MS. Lansd._).--N. & S.W.

*=Well-at-ease=. In good health, hearty.--N.W. (Malmesbury.)

=Well-drock=. The windlass over a well.--S.W.

=West= (pronounced _Waast_). A stye in the eye. See ~Wish~.--S.W.

=Wheat-reed=. Straw preserved unthreshed for thatching (D.). See ~Elms~ and ~Reed~.--S.W., obsolete.

*=Wheeling=. 'It rains wheeling,' i.e. hard or pouring.--N.W. (Lockeridge.) =Whicker=, =Wicker=. (1) To neigh or whinny as a horse, bleat as a goat, whine as a dog, &c. (S.; _Village Miners_; _Wilts Arch. Mag._ vol. xxii. p. 114).--N.W. (2) To giggle.--N.W. *(3) 'To find a wicker's nest,' to be seized with an irrepressible fit of giggling (_Village Miners_).--N.W.

*=Whip land=. Land not divided by meres, but measured out, when ploughed, by the whip's length (D.).

=Whippence=. The fore-carriage of a plough or harrow, &c. (D.).--N.W.

=Whipwhiles=. Meanwhile (S.). A Somersetshire word.--S.W.

=Whissgig=. (1) _v._ To lark about. Wissgigin, larking (S.).--N. & S.W. (2) _n._ A lark, a bit of fun or tomfoolery. 'Now, none o' your whissgigs here!'--N.W.

=Whissgiggy=. _adj._ Frisky, larky.--N.W.

*=White=. 'Cow white'=cow in milk. 'Calf white'=sucking calf.

'All the small tithes such as wool and lamb, cow white and calf &c. throughout all parts of the parish unexpressed in the several foregoing particulars. The usual rates at present being fourpence a cow white--sixpence a calf ... the sheep, lambs and calves are due at St. Mark's tide--the cow white, and fatting cattle at Lammas.'--_Hilmarton Parish Terrier_, 1704. See _Wilts Arch. Mag._ vol. xxiv. p. 126.

Usually defined as above, but perhaps more correctly written as _cow-wite_ and _calf-wite_, i.e. the mulct or payment for a cow or calf.

'Tythes of Wool and Lambs and Calves, and three half pence which is due and payable at Lammas being Composition Money for the Tythe White of every Cow.'--_Wilcot Parish Terrier_, 1704.

As regards the ordinary derivation, compare _white-house_, a dairy, _white-meat_, milk, _whites_, milk.

'Wheatly (_On the Common Prayer_, ed. 1848, pp. 233-4) quotes from a letter of one G. Langbain, 1650, as follows:--"certe quod de Lacte vaccarum refert, illud percognitum habeo in agro _Hamtoniensi_ (an et alibi nescio) decimas Lacticiniorum venire vulgo sub hoc nomine, _The Whites of Kine_; apud Leicestrenses etiam Lacticinia vulgariter dicuntur _Whitemeat_."'--SMYTHE-PALMER.

=White Couch=. See ~Couch~.

=White-flower=. _Stellaria Holostea_, L., Greater Stitchwort.--N.W. (Huish.)

*=White-house=. A dairy (H.Wr.).

=White-livered=. Pale and unhealthy-looking (S.).--N. & S.W. At Clyffe Pypard the word has a yet stronger idea of disease about it, and a 'white-livered' woman is popularly supposed to be almost as dangerous as was the poison-nurtured Indian beauty who was sent as a present to Alexander the Great. How the 'whiteness' of the liver is to be detected is not very clear, but probably it is by the pallor of the face. At any rate, if you discover that a young woman is 'white-livered,' do not on any account marry her, because the whiteness of the liver is of a poisonous nature, and you assuredly will not live long with a white-livered young woman for your wife. It is most unhealthy, and if _she_ does not die, _you_ will! The word is so used of both sexes.

=White Robin Hood=. _Silene inflata_, L., Bladder Campion.--S.W. (Zeals.)

=White-wood=. _Viburnum Lantana_, L., Mealy Guelder-rose.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) ~White-weed~.--S.W. (Farley).

*=Whitty-tree=. _Viburnum Lantana_, L. (Aubrey, _Nat. Hist. Wilts_, p. 56, ed. Brit.)

=Whiver=. (1) To quiver, hover, flutter. ~Wiver~ (S.).--S.W. (2) To waver, hesitate.--S.W.

*=Who'say=, =Hoosay=. An idle report.--N.W. (Malmesbury.)

=Wicker=. See ~Whicker~.

=Wig-wants=. See ~Wag-wants~.

=Wild Asparagus=. _Ornithogalum pyrenaicum_, L., Spiked Star of Bethlehem.--S.W. (Som. bord.)

=Wildern= (_i_ short). An apple-tree run wild in the hedges, as opposed to a true crab-tree.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

*=Wild Willow=. _Epilobium hirsutum_, L., Great Hairy Willow-herb (_Great Estate_, ch. ii).

=Will-jill=. An impotent person or hermaphrodite.--N.W. Compare _Wilgil_ and _John-and-Joan_ in Hal.

*=Willow-wind=. (1) _Convolvulus_, Bindweed (_Great Estate_, ch. viii). (2) _Polygonum Fagopyrum_, L., Buckwheat (_Ibid._).

=Wiltshire Weed, The=. The Common Elm. See notice in _Athenaeum_, 1873, of Jefferies' _Goddard Memoir_, also _Wilts Arch. Mag._ vol. x. p. 160. This is a term frequently occurring in books and articles on Wilts, but it would not be understood by the ordinary Wiltshire folk.

=Wim=. To winnow.--S.W.

=Wind-mow=. A cock of a waggon-load or more, into which hay is sometimes put temporarily in catchy weather (D.), containing about 15 cwt. in N. Wilts, and a ton elsewhere.--N. & S.W.

=Wing-wang=. See ~Wag-wants~.

=Winter-proud=. Of wheat, too rank (D.), as is frequently the case after a mild winter. See ~Proud~.--N.W.

=Wirral=, =Worral=, or =Wurral=. _Ballota nigra_, L., Black Horehound.--S.W. (Som. bord.)

=Wish=, =Wisp=. A sty in the eye.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard, &c.)

=Wissgigin=. See ~Whissgig~ (1).

=Withwind=, or =Withwine=. _Convolvulus sepium_, L., Great Bindweed, and other species (A.B.D.S.). ~Wave-wine~ or ~Wither-wine~ (_Cycl. of Agric._); ~Withywind~ on Som. border.--N. & S.W.

=Wivel=, =Wyvel=. To blow as wind does round a corner or through a hole.--N.W.

=Wivelly=, or =Wivel-minded=. Undecided, wavering, fickle, and untrustworthy (_Village Miners_).--N.W.

=Wiver=. See ~Whiver~.

=Womble=. _v._ To wobble about from weakness, &c. (_Dark_, ch. iv, where it is used of children who come to school without having had any breakfast).--N. &. S.W., occasionally.

=Wombly=. _adj._ Wobbly (_Dark_, ch. iv).

=Wonderment=. (1) _n._ A sight or pastime of any kind.--N.W. (2) _n._ Any occupation that appears fanciful and unpractical to the rustic mind. Thus a boy who had a turn for inventions, drawing, verse-making, butterfly-collecting, or anything else of a similar nature which lies outside the ordinary routine of a labourer's daily life, would be described as always 'aater his 'oonderments.'--N.W. (3) _v._ To play the fool, waste time over unprofitable work.--N.W.

*=Wood-sour=. _adj._ Of soil, loose, spongy. Also ~Woodsere~.--N.W., obsolete.

'The strong red land on the high level parts of the Downs ... once wood-land, and sometimes expressly called "wood-sour" land.'--_Agric. of Wilts_, ch. xii.

'A poor wood-sere land very natural for the production of oaks.'--AUBREY, _Miscell_. p. 211.

'It is a wood-sere country abounding much with sour and austere plants.'--AUBREY, _Nat. Hist. of Wilts_, p. 11, ed. Brit.

=Wood-wax=. *(1) _Genista tinctoria_, L., Dyer's Greenweed (D.), Aubrey's _Nat. Hist. Wilts_, pp. 34 and 49, ed. Brit.--N. & S.W. (2) _Genista Anglica_, L., Needle Whin.--S.W. (Farley.)

=Wooset=. See ~Houssett~.

=Wooster-blister=. A smack in the face or box on the ear.--S.W. (Som. bord.) Cf. Som. ~Whister-twister~, and Dev. ~Whister-poop~.

*=Works=. In a water-meadow, the system of trenches and carriages by which the water is brought in and distributed (_Agric. of Wilts_, ch. xii).

=Worsen=. _v._ To grow worse. 'You be worsened a deal since I seen 'ee laast, I d' lot as you bean't a gwain' to live long.'--N. & S.W.

=Wosbird=. A term of reproach (A.),=_whore's brood_. There are many variants, as ~Hosebird~, ~Husbird~, and ~Oozebird~. Much commoner in Devon.--N. & S.W.

'They're a couple o' th' ugliest wosbirds in the vair.'--Wilts Tales, p. 89.

In his _Dictionary of Provincial English_, Wright defines this as 'a wasp,' a mistake too amusing to be passed over! Probably his informant heard a rustic who had got into a wasp's nest, and been badly stung, 'danging they wosbirds,' and on asking what he meant by 'wosbirds' was told that they were the 'wopses,' and not unnaturally concluded that the two words were synonyms.

=Wout=. A carter's order to a horse to bear off. The opposite to Coom hether.

=Wrap=. _n._ A thin strip of wood. See ~Rap~.

=Wrastle=. To spread, as cancer, fire, roots, &c.--N.W.

'These fires are, or were, singularly destructive in villages--the flames running from thatch to thatch, and, as they express it, "wrastling" across the intervening spaces. A pain is said to "wrastle," or shoot and burn.'--_Wild Life_, ch. iv. p. 68.

*=Wreaths=. The long rods used in hurdle-making (D.).

=Wrick=, =Rick=. To twist or wrench. 'I've bin an' wricked me ankly.' M.E. _wrikken_.--N. & S.W.

=Wridgsty=. See ~Ridge-tie~.

=Wrist=. To twist, especially used of wringing the neck of a rabbit or fowl (_Amateur Poacher_, ch. xi).--N.W.

=Wug=, =Woog=. Order to a horse (S.).--N. & S.W.

=Wusset=. See ~Wasset-man~.

=Wusted=. Looking very ill, grown worse.--N.W.

=Y=. Many words beginning with H, G, or a vowel, are usually sounded with Y prefixed, as _Yacker_, acre; _Yeppern_, apron; _Yat_, or _Yeat_, gate; _Yeldin_, a hilding; and _Yerriwig_, earwig.

Verbs ending in _y_ often drop that letter. Thus empty and study become _empt_ and _stud_.

The free infinitive in _y_ was formerly much used, but is now dying out. It was used in a general question, as 'Can you _mowy_?' Were a special piece of work referred to, _mowy_ would not be correct, the question then being simply 'Can you _mow_ thuck there meäd?'

The following example of the 'free infinitive' is given in _Cunnington MS._:--

'There is also here a Peculiar mode of forming active verbs from Nouns, which are generally in use as apellations for professions--take an Example. Well Mary, how do you get on in Life? what do you and your family do _now_ to get a Living in these times--Wy Zur we do aal vind Zummut to do--Jan, ye know, he do _Smithey_ [work as a smith] Jin the beggist wench do spinney the Little one do Lace makey--I do _Chorey_ [go out as a Chore Woman] and the two Boys do Bird keepey--that is One works as a smith--one spins one makes Lace one goes out as a Chore woman & two are Bird keepers which Latter term were more to the purpose if expressed Bird frightener or driver.'

=Yap=, =Yop=. (1) To yelp as a dog (S.).--N. & S.W. (2) To talk noisily. 'What be a yopping there for?'--N.W.

*=Yard-land=. Land sufficient for a plough of oxen and a yard to winter them; an ancient copyhold tenure (D.).--Obsolete.

*=Yard of land=. A quarter of an acre, because formerly, in common lands forty poles long, the quarter acre was a land-yard wide (D.).--Obsolete.

=Yea-nay=. 'A yea-nay chap,' one who does not know his own mind.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

=Yeemath=. Aftermath (B.). ~Youmath~ (A.B.). ~Yeomath~ (A.H.Wr.). Probably = _young math_, cp. _young grass_ in W. Somerset. Cp. ~Ea-math~, ~Ameäd~ at Cherhill, ~Ea-grass~ in S. Wilts.--N.W.

=Yees=. An earthworm. See ~Eass~.

=Yelding=, =Yeldin=. n. A hilding (A): a woman of bad character (_Wilts Tales_, p. 3).--N.W.

'I've allus bin respectable wi' my women volk, and I wun't ha'e no yeldin' belongin' to ma.'--_Dark_, ch. xix.

=Yellucks=. See ~Hullocky~.

=Yelm=, =Yelms=. See ~Elms~ (S.).--N. & S.W.

*=Yellow-cups=. Buttercups in general.--S.W. (Zeals.)

=Yellow-Thatch=. _Lathyrus pratensis_, L., Meadow Vetchling.--N. & S.W.

*=Yoke=. See ~Fork~ (_Wild Life_, ch. vi).

=Yop=. See ~Yap~.

*=You=. This word is often thrown in at the end of a sentence, sometimes as a kind of query--'Don't you think so?'--but usually to give a strong emphasis to some assertion.--N.W.

'A' be a featish-looking girl, you.'--_Greene Ferne Farm_, ch. i.

'Fine growing marning, you.'--_Ibid._ ch. i.

'That be a better job than ourn, you.'--_Hodge and his Masters_, ch. vii.

=Yuckel=, =Yuckle=. A woodpecker (A.H.Wr.). So called from its cry, _Yuc_, _yuc_.--N.W.

=Yaught=, =Yawt=. To swallow, to drink. 'There's our Bill--he can yaught down drenk like anything,' or 'He can yaught a deal.'--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard, Huish, &c.)

=Z=. Among the old people _S_ is still usually sounded as _Z_, as _Zaat_ or _Zate_, soft; _Zound_, to swoon; _Zorrens_, servings, &c. See _S_ for many such instances.

*=Zaad-paul=. This term used to be commonly applied about Aldbourne to an utterly good-for-nothing fellow, but is gradually dying out now. It probably means 'soft head.' See ~Saat~.

*=Zam=. To heat anything for some time over the fire, without letting it come to the boil.--N.W. (Malmesbury.)

=Zammy=. (1) _n._ A simpleton, a soft-headed fellow (S.).--S.W. *(2) _adj._ 'Zammy tea,' half-cold, insipid tea.--N.W. (Hullavington.)

=Zam-zodden=. Long-heated over a slow fire, and so half spoilt. This and the last two words belong to Som. rather than Wilts. A.S. _sām-soden_, half boiled.--N.W. (Malmesbury.)

ADDENDA

=Afterclaps=. Consequences, results. ~Atterclaps~ (S.).--N. & S.W.

=All-amang=. _Add_:--

'Zweethearts, an wives, an children young, Like sheep at vair, be ael among.' E. SLOW, _Smilin Jack_.

=All as is=. All there is to be said, the final word in the matter. Used when giving a very peremptory order to a labourer to carry out your instructions without any further question. 'Aal as is as you've a-got to do be to volly on hoein' they turmuts till I tells 'ee to stop!'--N.W.

=Along of=. (1) On account of. ''Twer aal along o' she's bwoy's bad ways as her tuk to drenk.'--N. & S.W. (2) In company with. 'Here, you just coom whoam along o' I, an I'll gie 'ee summut to arg about!'--N. & S.W.

=Aloud=. _Add_:--S.W. (Deverill.)

*=Altrot=. _Heracleum Sphondylium_, L., Cow-parsnip. See ~Eltrot~.--S.W. (Zeals.)

=Apple-scoop=. A kind of scoop or spoon, made from the knuckle-bone of a leg of mutton, and used for eating apples, the flavour of which it is supposed to improve.--N.W.

=At=. (1) _Add_:--S.W. (2) _Add_:--S.W.

=Away with=. _Add_:--N. & S.W.

*=Babes-in-the-Cradle=. _Scrophularia aquatica_, L., Water Figwort.--S.W. (Little Langford.)

=Bachelor's Buttons=. _Add_:--*(3) _Aquilegia vulgaris_, L., Garden Columbine.--S.W. (Deverill.)

=Back-friends=. _Add_:--S.W.

=Bag=. (2) _Add_:--S.W.

=Bake-faggot=. _Add_:--S.W.

=Bannix=. To drive away poultry, or to hunt them about. 'Go an' bannix they vowls out.' 'Dwon't bannix about they poor thengs like that!'--S.W.

=Barley-buck=. A boy's game, played by guessing at the number of fingers held up.--S.W. (Deverill.)

=Bash=, =Bashet=. At Harnham, Salisbury, a small raised footpath is known as the Bashet, while at Road certain houses built on the upper side of a similar footpath, close to the boundary line dividing Wilts and Somerset, are spoken of as being 'on the Bash.'

=Bay=. (1) _Add_:--S.W. (2) _Add_:--S.W.

*=Bayle=. Some plant which we cannot identify.--Obsolete.

'In this ground [near Kington St. Michael, grows] bayle.'--AUBREY'S _Nat. Hist. Wilts_, p. 49, ed. Brit.

=Bee-hackle=. The straw covering of a hive. See ~Hackle~ (2)--S.W.

*=Belly-vengeance=. _Add_:--Also used of very inferior cider.

=Bennets=. (1) _Add_:--S.W.

=Bird's-eye=. _Add_:--(4) _Veronica Buxbaumii_, Ten., Buxbaum's Speedwell.--S.W. (Charlton.)

=Bivery=. _Add_:--S.W.

=Bleat=. _Add_:--S.W.

*=Blicker=. To shine intermittently, to glimmer. 'I zeen a light a blickerin' droo th' tallot dwoor.'--S.W.

=Blind-house=. _Add_:--N. & S.W., obsolete.

=Blooms=. Flushes in the face. 'Ther you knaws as I do allus get the hot blooms ter'ble bad.'--S.W.

=Bolster-pudding=. A roly-poly pudding.--N.W.

*=Bookin='. See ~Buck~.

=Bossy=. _Add_:--S.W.

=Boys=. _Add_:--S.W. (Deverill.)

=Brash=, =Braish=. Of weather, cold and bracing.--N.W.

=Brashy=. Full of small stones and grit. 'Th' vier wer ter'ble braishy 'smarnin',' the coal was bad and stony.--N.W.