Part 16

=Bread-and-Cheese=. (3) _Add_:--S.W. (Deverill.)

=Break=. (1) _Add_:--Still used in this sense at Deverill, S.W. (2) Of a spring, to rise.--N. & S.W.

'When the springs doe breake in Morecombe-bottom, in the north side of the parish of Broade Chalke, which is seldome, 'tis observed that it foretells a deer yeare for corne.'--AUBREY'S _Nat. Hist. Wilts_, p. 34, ed. Brit.

=Breeding-bag=. The ovary of a sow.--N.W.

=Brevet=. (1) _Add_:--'Brevettin' into other folks' business.'--S.W. (Deverill.)

*=Brimmer=. A broad-brimmed hat.--S.W. (Deverill.)

=Brit=, =Brittle out=. (1) _Add_:--S.W. (2) _Add_:--S.W.

=Broken-mouthed=. Children are said to be 'broken-mouthed,' when they are losing their teeth.--N.W.

=Broom=. 'I bain't a-gwain to hang out the broom,' I intend to be very particular as to character, &c., before engaging any servants or labourers.--N.W. (Wedhampton.) In Berks, 'to hang th' brum out o' winder,' means that the wife is away, and so the husband is at liberty to entertain any bachelor friends of his who like to drop in.

=Buck=. _Add_:--At Deverill 'Bookin'' is used instead, a 'good bookin' o' clothes' being a large wash.--S.W.

=Buck-hearted=. Of cabbages, the same as ~Crow-hearted~.--S.W. (Deverill.)

*=Budget=. The leather pouch in which a mower carries his whetstone.--S.W. (Deverill.)

*=Bunt-lark=. The Common Bunting.--S.W. (Deverill.)

=Buttercup=. _Add_:--N.W. (Huish); S.W. (Charlton.)

*=Butter-flower=. _Caltha palustris_, L., Marsh Marigold.

'The watered meadows all along from Marleborough to Hungerford, Ramesbury, and Littlecot, at the later end of April, are yellow with butter flowers.'--AUBREY'S _Nat. Hist. Wilts_, p. 51, ed. Brit.

=Buzzel-hearted=. A cabbage or broccoli plant that has lost its eye is said to be 'buzzel-hearted.' Compare ~Crow-hearted~.--S.W.

=Caddling=. _Under_ (3) _add_:--'A caddlin' place' is one where as soon as a servant begins one piece of work he or she is called off to another, and can never get a chance of finishing anything off satisfactorily.--N. & S.W.

=Call over=. To publish the banns.--S.W. (Deverill.)

=Callus= or =Callis=. _v._ To become hard, as soil in frosty weather: to cake together (_Wilts Arch. Mag._ vol. xxii. p. 109).--N. & S.W.

=Cank=. _Add_:--*(2) _n._ Idle gossip.

=Canker=. (1) _Add_:--Also ~Cankie~.

=Cankers=. 'The baby hev a-got the cankers,' viz. white-mouth or thrush.--N.W.

=Carpet=. _Add_:--S.W.

=Cart=. _Add_:--S.W.

=Chap=. _Add as example_:--'Hev 'ee zeed how thuck ther ground is aal chapped wi' th' dry weather? They chaps be so gashly big, the young pa'tridges 'ull purty nigh vall in.'

=Chin-cough=. The whooping cough.--N.W.

=Chip=. _Add_:--See Davis's _Agric. of Wilts_, p. 262.

=Clacker=. _Add_:--(2) A couple of pieces of wood, rattled together to scare birds off the crops.--N. & S.W.

=Clam=. (1) To over-fill and choke up anything, as a water-pipe. The throat sometimes gets quite 'clammed up' with phlegm.--N.W. (2) To surfeit any one with food.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard, &c.)

=Clamp about=. To stump about noisily.--N.W.

=Clean-and-wholly=. Entirely. ''Tes aal gone clean-an'-wholly out o' she's yead!'--N.W.

=Cleaty=. _Add_:--S.W.

=Clinkerballs=. Balls of dried dung or dirt in a sheep's wool.--S.W. (Wilton, &c.)

=Cloddy=. _Add as example_:--'He's a cloddy sart o' a chap.'

=Clogweed=. _Add_:--(2) _Arctium Lappa_, L., Burdock.--S.W.

=Cludgy=. Clingy, sticky; used especially of bad bread.--N. & S.W.

=Collets=. Young cabbage plants. A man will say in spring, 'I got a good lot o' collets, but they bean't cabbages.'--N.W.

=Come away=. To spring up.--N.W.

'Owing to the long drought [barley] came away from the ground at different periods, which will, without doubt, materially injure the sample for malting purposes.'--_Devizes Gazette_, June 22, 1893.

=Comical=. _Add_:--Round Warminster everything but a tom-cat is _he_.

=Conigre=. _Add_:--Other localities which may be noted are Blacklands, Winterbourne Bassett, and Mildenhall. See Smith's _Antiq. N. Wilts_.

=Conks=, =Conkers=. (1) _Add_:--S.W. (Deverill.) (2) _Add_:--S.W. (Deverill.)

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

=Coward=. _Dele_ *, and _add_:--Clyffe Pypard.

*=Cow-down=. _Add_:--On the Ordnance Map there are 'Cow-downs' marked at Deverill, Wylye, Steeple Langford, and Westbury.

*=Creeping Jane=. _Lysimachia Nummularia_, L., Moneywort.--N.W. (Heddington.)

=Creep-mouse=. To play 'creep-mouse,' to tickle babies and make them laugh.--N.W.

=Criddlin Pudden=. A kind of pudding, made of the nubbly bits left over when pigs' fleck has been boiled and pounded and strained. _Crittens_ in Berks.--N.W.

=Crutch=. (1) A large earthen jar, such as butter is potted in. Cf. Critch.--N. & S.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) (2) A cheese-pan.--N.W.

*=Cuckoo-pint=. _Cardamine pratensis_, L., Lady's smock.--S.W. (Charlton.)

=Daffy=. _Add_:--S.W.

=Devil's-ring=. _Add_:--S.W. (Deverill.)

*=Devourous=. Ravenous.--N.W. (Berks bord.)

=Dicky-birds=. After S.W. _add_:--(Deverill.)

=Dillcup=. _Add_:--*(2) _Ranunculus acris_, L., Meadow Crowfoot.--S.W. (Charlton, Little Langford.)

=Do=. To thrive (used reflexively). 'He does (_o_ pronounced as in the infinitive) hissel well, dwon't he?' said of an animal that does credit to its owner by the way in which it thrives.--N. & S.W.

=Doer=. A pig that thrives well, even on poor food, is a 'good doer,' while a 'bad doer' refuses to fatten, give it what you will.--N. & S.W.

=Dog, how beest=? _Add_:--Also used at Deverill, S.W.

=Dog-in-a-blanket=. A roly-poly pudding--N.W.

=Dough-fig=. _Add_:--S.W. (Deverill.)

*=Down-lanterns=. Heaps of chalk, marking the tracks from village to village over the downs, to prevent people going astray at night.--S.W.

=Drashel=. _Dele_:--As two men generally work together.

*=Draw-sheave=. (Pronounced _Draa-sheave_.) A wheelwright's draw-knife.--S.W.

*=Druck=. n. 'A druck of people,' a great crowd.--S.W. (Wilton.)

=Drug=. (1) _Add_:--S.W. (Deverill.) (2) _Add_:--~Drugshoe~ at Deverill, S.W.

=Duck's-frost=. _Add_:--Ironically used at Deverill, as, 'Ther'll be a frost to-night.' 'Ah, a duck's-frost,' viz. none at all.--S.W.

=Dumble=. _Add_:--~Dummil~ (C.).

=Dunch-dumpling=. _Add_:--S.W.

*=Elm-stock= (_Yelm-stock_). A forked stick for carrying straw for thatching.--S.W.

=Enemy=. _Anemone nemorosa_, L., Wood Anemone. So generally used in Wilts that it seems advisable to note it, in spite of its being a mere corruption.--N. & S.W.

=Ent=. See ~Ploughing terms~.

=Faggot=. _Add_:--Used as a general term of abuse.--S.W.

=Falling=. _Add_:--This requires some slight modification. 'We'm a-gwain to ha' a vallen' seems to be restricted to snow; but when there is some doubt as to what sort of weather is coming, the phrase would be 'A vallen o' zum zart,' or 'zum vallen,' thus covering snow, rain, or hail.

*=Feggy=. Fair.--N.W., obsolete.

'Their persons [in North Wilts] are generally plump and feggy.'--AUBREY'S _Nat. Hist. Wilts_, p. 11, ed. Brit.

=Fiddler's-money=. Small change (threepenny and fourpenny bits).--N. & S.W.

*=Fiddle-sticks=. _Scrophularia aquatica_, L., Water Figwort.--S.W. (Little Langford.)

=Fighting-cocks=. _Add_:--_Plantago lanceolata_, L., Ribwort Plantain.--S.W. (Charlton.)

=Firk=. (2) _Add_:--S.W. (Deverill.)

=Flashy heats=. Hot flushes, that come and go when one is feverish and weak, as a woman after her confinement.--N.W.

=Flask=. A limp straw-basket used to carry food and tools. Used in Glouc.--S.W., occasionally.

=Flip=, =Flip-tongued=. Smooth-spoken, glib.--N.W.

=Folly=. _Add_:--In Berks the word is frequently applied to a round clump of fir-trees on a hill.

=For=. _Add_:--S.W.

=Friggle=. _Add_:--S.W. (Deverill.) *=Furze-tacker= (_Vuzz-tacker_). _Saxicola rubetra_, the Whinchat.--S.W.

=Fussicky=. Fussy, fidgetty.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard, &c.)

=Gallows-gate=. _Add_:--S.W. (Deverill.)

=Gawley=. _adj._ Patchy: used especially of root-crops that grow unequally.--S.W., in common use.

=Gay=. _Add_:--(2) In good health. 'I do veel main gay agean 'smarnin', but I wur gashly bad aal laas' wick wi' th' rheumatiz.'--N. & S.W.

=Get out=. To 'get out' a drawn or carriage in the water meadows is to clean it well out and make up the banks. To 'get out' a set of posts and rails is to cut them out and prepare them for putting up.--N. & S.W.

=Gibbles=. _Add_:--Underground Onions.

*=Gilliflower-grass=. _Carex glauca_, L., and _Carex panicea_, L.--N.W., obsolete.

'In Bradon Forest growes ... a blew grasse they call July-flower grasse, which cutts the sheepes mouthes, except in the spring.'--AUBREY'S _Nat. Hist. Wilts_, p. 49, ed. Brit.

*=Gipsy-nut=s. Hips and haws.--S.W. (near Trowbridge.)

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

=Good liver=. A person who lives an exceptionally good and pious life.--N.W.

=Good-living=. Leading a very pious life. 'Her wur allus a good-living sart o' a 'ooman.'--N.W.

=Grained=. _Add_:--~Grinted~ in Berks.

=Gramfer= (or =Granfer=) =Grig=. A woodlouse. At Deverill, S.W., children try to charm it into curling up, when held in the hand, by singing:--

'Granfer Grig killed a pig, Hung un up in corner; Granfer cried and Piggy died, And all the fun was over.'

=Granny= (or =Granny's=) =Nightcap=. _Add_:--*(5) _Geum rivale_, L., Water Avens.--S.W. (Little Langford.)

=Grigger cake=. Fine paste spread thin like a pancake, and baked on a gridiron over a mass of glowing wood-coals.--S.W.

=Ground=. _Add_:--S.W.

*=Gubbarn=. _Dele_ 'Should not this be _adj._ instead of _n._?' and _add_:--Also used in Glouc. as a noun.

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

=Hack=. (1) _Add_:--To hoe; frequently used in S. Wilts.

=Hackle=. (2) _Add_:--~Hackle~, and sometimes ~Shackle~, are used at Deverill, while elsewhere in S. Wilts ~Bee-hackle~ is the word employed.

=Hames=. _Dele_ 'in drawing,' and add 'with staples to take the traces.'

=Hand=. (3) _Add_:--S.W. (Deverill.)

=Hand-staff=. _Add_:--S.W. (Deverill.)

=Hanging-post=. _Add_:--S.W. (Deverill), where ~Har~ is seldom used.

=Hanglers=. _Add_:--In Deverill, a hook used for this purpose is known as 'a hangles.'--S.W.

=Har=. _Add_:--S.W. (Deverill, occasionally.)

=Harl=. _Add_:--~Hardle~ is also used in S. Wilts.

*=Harvest-man=. A kind of Spider with long legs.--S.W. (Deverill.)

=Heal=. _Add_:--A house is said to be 'unhealed,' or uncovered, when the thatch has been stripped off by a storm.--S.W. (Deverill.)

=Hearken-back=. To recall.--N. & S.W.

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

=Heaver=. _Add_:--'Van, heavier, caffin or caving rudder, the winnowing fan and tackle' (D.).

=Hill-trot=. _Add_:--*(3) _Anthriscus sylvestris_, Hoffm., Wild Beaked-Parsley.--S.W. (Charlton.)

*=Hitch off=. To release horses from work.--S.W.

*=Honey-pot=. A children's game, in which one child lifts another.--S.W.

=Hop-about=. _Add_:--S.W.

*=Hopped=. Cracked, as a boiler, by heat.--S.W. (Deverill.)

=Huck down=. To beat down in bargaining. 'I hucked un down vrom vive shillin' to vower an' zix.' Formerly used at Clyffe Pypard, but not known there now.--N.W.

=Huckmuck=. (3) _Add_:--S.W. (Deverill). _Add_:--(4) _v._ To mess about.--S.W.

*=Hun-barrow= (or =-barrer=). A tumulus.--S.W.

*=Hunger-bane=. To starve to death. See ~Bane~.--Obsolete.

'At Bradfield and Dracot Cerne is such vitriolate earth ... [which] makes the land so soure, it bears sowre and austere plants ... At summer it hunger-banes the sheep: and in winter it rotts them.'--AUBREY'S _Nat. Hist. Wilts_, p. 35, ed. Brit.

*=Idle=. Full of fun.--S.W.

=It=. Sometimes used in a peculiar way, as 'We'm best be gwain, hadn't it?' or, 'We can aal on us ha' a holiday to-day, can't it?'--S.W.

=Jack-and-his-team=. _Add_:--S.W. (Deverill); also ~Jack-and-his-team-goin'-to-pit~, the constellation's motion seeming to be from Deverill towards Radstock collieries, as if it were a farmer's team going by night to fetch coal thence.--S.W. (Deverill.)

=Jag=. _Add_:--(2) 'Wull, to be shower, they chrysantums is beautiful! They be aal in a jag!' i.e. all out in large heads of flowers.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

=Jerry-shop=. A 'Tommy-shop,' conducted on the truck system, now illegal. Much used about Swindon at the time the railway was being made there.--Obsolete.

*=Jiffle=. _Add_:--Mr. F. M. Willis writes us that he once heard this word used in connexion with a horse, when a bad rider who was pulling its head about was told not to jiffle it.

=Job=, or =Jobble about=. To do little jobs. 'I cain't do moor'n jobble about now.'--N.W.

*=July-flower grass=. See *~Gillyflower-grass~.

=Kiss-me-quick=. _Add_:--S.W. (Deverill.)

=Lady-cow=. _Add_:--S.W.

=Lily=, or =Lilies=. _Add_:--*(3) _Ranunculus aquatilis_, L., Water Crowfoot.--S.W. (Charlton.)

=Linnard=. A linnet, as 'a brown linnard,' 'a green linnard.' Formerly used at Clyffe Pypard, where, however, it is obsolete, the pronunciation there now being distinctly _Linnut_. Conversely, _orchard_ becomes _archet_.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard, &c.)

=Long-winded=. _Add_:--S.W. (Deverill.)

=Lords-and-Ladies=. _Add_:--The purple spadices are the 'Lords,' and the yellow or very light-coloured ones the 'Ladies.'

=Maggotty-pie=. _Add_:--At Deverill, thirty years ago, there was a nursery rhyme as follows:--

'Hushaby, baby, the beggar shan't have 'ee, No more shall the maggotty-pie; The rooks nor the ravens shan't carr' thee to heaven, So hushaby, baby, by-by.'

=Mandrake=. _Bryonia dioica_, L., White Bryony. The root is popularly supposed to be Mandrake.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard, Heddington.)

=Mask=. To collect acorns. A variant of _mast_.--N.W. (Potterne.)

=Melt=. The spleen of a pig, which forms a favourite dish when stuffed.--N. & S.W.

*=Milkmaid's-Way=. The Milky Way.--S.W. (Deverill.)

=Mimp=. To make believe, to sham. 'Look at she a-settin' up ther, mimpin'!' idling, playing the fine lady.--N. & S.W.

*=Min=. An exclamation, used like '_snaw_, as 'I'll ketch thee, min!'=Note that well. See Barnes, _Glossary to Poems_.--S.W. (Deverill.)

*=Monkey Must=. _Melampyrum arvense_, L., Cow-wheat.--N.W. (Heddington.)

=Mump=. To sulk. 'How ter'ble mumping she do look!'--N.W.

=Nammet-bag=. A luncheon-bag.--S.W.

=Neck-headland=. _Add_:--Common at Deverill.--S.W.

=Noddy=. Weakly, ailing.--N.W.

=Nog=. _Add_:--Also used of a lump of cheese, &c.--S.W.

=Not-cow=. _Add_:--S.W.

=Nuncheon=. _Add_:--About Salisbury Nuncheon is between 10 and 10.30 a.m., and again at 4 p.m., and is a very small meal, merely a piece of bread and glass of beer, while Nammet is at 12, and is equivalent to dinner.

=Off=. 'A can't be off puttin' up a covey o' pa'tridges, if so be as a goes whoam athert Four-Acre,' i.e. he cannot possibly help doing it.--N.W.

=Out=. _n._ The outcome or result of an attempt to do a thing. 'A offered vor to do some draishin', but a made a ter'ble poor out on't,' i.e. he had little to show for his labour.--N.W.

=Parson's nose=. A goose's tail, when served up at table.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

=Peter Grievous=. _Add_:--Children who look as if they thought themselves sadly 'put upon' by their elders are said to be 'Peter-grievous.'

=Pigs=. (2) _Add_:--In Berks woodlice are called _Church-pigs_.

*=Pimple=, =Pumple=. The head. Used by children.--S.W. (Deverill).

*=Pisty-poll=. A child riding with his legs on your shoulders is said to be carried 'a pisty-poll.'--S.W. (Deverill.)

=Ploughing terms=. The first furrows ploughed are those 'veered out' to mark the 'lands.' On each side of this 'veering out' furrow a fresh furrow is ploughed, turning the earth into it. This is 'topping up,' or 'shutting the top up,' and becomes the centre and highest point of the 'land.' When the 'lands' have been all but ploughed, there remains between them a strip, two furrows wide, still unploughed. This is 'the Ent,' and is halved by the plough, one half being turned up one way, and the other half the other way. There remains then a furrow just twice the ordinary width. The plough is taken down this, and half of it is turned up again on one side, the result being a narrow furrow some inches deeper than any other, called the 'Zid-furrer' or Seed-furrow.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

=Plumb=. 'A plumb man,' an upright man, one who always keeps his word.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

*=Polly Dishwasher=. _Motacilla_, The Wagtail.--S.W. (Deverill.)

*=Pot-hangel=. The same as Hanglers, q.v.--S.W. (Deverill.)

=Prick-timber=. _Euonymus Europaeus_, L., Spindle-tree.--N. & S.W., obsolete.

'Prick-timber ... is common, especially in North Wilts. The butchers doe make skewers of it,--because it doth not taint the meate as other wood will doe: from whence it hath the name of prick-timber.'--AUBREY'S _Nat. Hist. Wilts_, p. 56, ed. Brit.

=Purry=. Turnips sometimes get quite 'purry,' i.e. become spongy and bad and full of holes. Perhaps a contraction of _purrished_ (perished).--N.W.

*=Quag=. _n._ A shake, a state of trembling. 'He's all of a quag with fear.'--S.W.

*=Quean=. _Add_:--S.W. (Deverill.)

=Quob=. (2) _Add_:--S.W. (Deverill.)

=Quobble=. _n._ and _v._ After being a long while at the wash-tub a woman's hands are apt to get 'all in a quobble,' or 'ter'ble quobbled,' that is, shrivelled and drawn and wrinkled up. See ~Sob~.--N.W.

=Ramblers=. Potatoes left by chance in the ground, which come up again the next year.--N.W.

*=Rammil-cheese=. Cheese made of raw unskimmed milk.--S.W.

=Ramp=. _Add_:--(2) _v._ To rage, as 'My bad tooth just about ramped aal laas' night.'--N.W.

=Ramping=. _Add_:--(2) Of pain, violent, raging. 'I wur in that rampin' pain, I didn't know whur to get to.'--N.W.

*=Rook-worm=. A cockchafer grub.--Obsolete.

'I have heard knowing countreymen affirme that rooke-wormes, which the crows and rookes doe devour at sowing time, doe turn to chafers.'--AUBREY'S _Nat. Hist. Wilts_, p. 67, ed. Brit.

*=Round market=. See quotation.

'Warminster is exceeding much frequented for a round corn-market on Saturday.'--AUBREY'S _Nat. Hist. Wilts_, p. 114, ed. Brit.

=Ruck=. (1) _n._ A crease in a stocking, &c.--N.W. (2) _v._ To crease or wrinkle up. 'My shirt wur aal rucked up under my arms, an' I cudden' kip un down nohow.'--N.W. (3) Hence, to rub and gall. 'Thuck ther new boot hev a-rucked she's heel ter'ble bad.'--N.W.

*=Ruddock=. _Sylvia rubecula_, Robin Redbreast. In common use at Warminster, though unknown a few miles away.--S.W.

*=Rumpled-skein=. _Add_:--Used of a tradesman's books, when badly kept and hard to balance.--N.W. (Glouc. bord.)

=Sankers=, =Shankers=, or =Sinkers=. Stockings without feet.--N.W. See _The Scouring of the White Horse_, ch. vi. p. 128.

=Sar=. _Add_:--*(3) To earn. See note on Akerman, in Ellis's _English Dialects_, p. 29.

=Scrinchet=. A scrap of food, a shred of stuff, &c.--N.W. (Huish.)

=Scroop=. (1) _n._ A saving or miserly person.--N.W. (2) _v._ To save up, to screw and scrape.--N.W.

=Seed-furrow=. See ~Ploughing terms~.

=Serve=. See ~Sar~.

=Shacketty=. Ricketty, shaky.--N.W.

*=Shackle=. The straw covering of a hive. A sibilated form of _Hackle_, q.v.--S.W. (Deverill.)

=Shail=. To walk crookedly or awkwardly, to shamble along.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

*=Shame-faced Maiden=. _Add_:--*(2) _Ornithogalum umbellatum_, L., Spiked Star of Bethlehem.--S.W. (Little Langford.)

=Shankers=. See ~Sankers~.

=Shatter=. To scatter, to sprinkle. 'Shatter th' pepper well auver'n, do 'ee!'--N.W.

=Shattering=. A sprinkling. 'Put just a shatterin' on't.'--N.W.

*=Shirpings=. The rough grass and weeds by the river banks, which cannot be mown with the scythe, and have to be cut afterwards with a sickle.--S.W. (Salisbury.)

=Short=. Tender. Roast mutton ought to 'eat short.'--N.W.

*=Shreeving=. Picking up windfalls, &c., in an orchard.--S.W.

=Shrimpy=. Shrivelled, poor.--N. & S.W.

*=Shrovy=. Puny, as 'What a shrovy child!' Cp. _Shrievy_, applied in Hants to stuff with some of the threads pulled out.--S.W. (Deverill.)

=Shucky=. Rough, jolty: used of roads when the surface is frozen and rutty.--N.W.

=Shuffle=. To hurry along. 'I wur shufflin' to get whoam avore dree.' Cf. ~Shuffet~.--N.W.

=Sinkers=. See ~Sankers~.

=Slink=. Bad diseased meat.

*=Sloot=. To defraud.--N.W. (Berks bord.)

=Slox=, =Slocks=. (2) To wear out clothes by careless use of them. Compare ~Hock about~.--N.W.

*=Slut's-farthings=. Small hard lumps in badly kneaded bread.

=Snake-stones=. Fossil Ammonites.--N.W., occasionally still used.

'About two or three miles from the Devises are found in a pitt snake-stones (_Cornua ammonis_) no bigger than a sixpence, of a black colour.'--AUBREY'S _Nat. Hist. Wilts_, p. 45, ed. Brit.

'In this parish [Wootton Bassett] are found delicate snake-stones of a reddish gray.'--JACKSON'S _Aubrey_, p. 204.

=Snug=. Well, in health, comfortable. 'I be main glad to hire as your missus be so snug [is doing so well] a'ter her confinement.'--N.W.

=Sob=. To sodden with wet. Cf. ~Sobbled~.--N.W.

*=Split-house=. A joint tenancy?

'Whereas we ... being inhabitants of the town of Marlborough ... have ... for many years past, fed and depastured our mares and geldings, two to each inhabitant not being certificate men nor split houses, in the said earl's Forest of Savernak, &c.'--1790, Agistment Deed as to Savernake Forest, quoted in Waylen's _History of Marlborough_, p. 421.

=Spray=. To splay a sow, when set aside for fattening.--N.W.

*=Squailings=, =Squailens=. Ungathered apples.--S.W.

=Staid=. _Add_:--Sometimes applied to an old horse or other animal.

*=Stars-and-garters=. _Ornithogalum umbellatum_, L., Star of Bethlehem.--N.W. (Heddington.)

=Starvation cold=. Extremely cold. See ~Starve~.--S.W.

=Steart=. (1) _Add_:--Used at Salisbury by a gas-fitter of the small projection turned by the gas-key.

*=Stipe=, =Steip=. _Add_:--~Steep~.--S.W., still in use about Salisbury.

*=Strikes=. Segments of iron for wheel-binding.--S.W.

=Stubs=. (4) _Add_:--S.W.

=Studdly=. _Add_:--also ~Stoodly~.

*=Sucker= (_Zucker_). A spout from the roof.--S.W.

=Summer-folds=. Freckles which come in summer time.--N.W.

=Tear=. _Add_:--Mr. Powell writes us that at Deverill this is still used of breaking crockery, &c.--S.W.

=Teart=. (3) _Add_:--Acrimonious. _Tort_ in Aubrey.

'The North Wilts horses, and other stranger horses, when they come to drinke of the water of Chalke-river, they will sniff and snort, it is so cold and tort.'--AUBREY'S _Nat. Hist. Wilts_, pp. 23-24, ed. Brit.

'This riverwater [Chalke stream] is so acrimonious, that strange horses when they are watered here will snuff and snort, and cannot well drinke of it till they have been for some time used to it.'--_Ibid._ p. 28.

=Terrify=. *(3) _Add_:--This is a Gloucestershire use of the word.

*=Thee and Thou=. (1) 'He thee'd and thou'd us,' said of a clergyman who was very familiar with his flock.--S.W. (2) _v._ To abuse violently, to insult a person by addressing him in the second person singular. A man complained of the way in which his neighbours had been abusing him, the climax of it all being reached when they began to 'thee and thou' him.--N. & S.W.

=Thetches=. _Add_:--~Thatch~. _Vicia sativa_, L.--S.W. (Charlton.) All vetches are known as 'Thetches' or 'Thatches' in Wilts, being 'Blue,' 'Yellow,' or 'Red' Thetches according to the colour of the flower.

=Thread-the-needle=. A very complicated form of this children's game is played at Deverill, under the name of Dred-th'-wold-'ooman's-needle.--S.W.

*=Thunder-stones=. Nodules of iron pyrites. *~Hunder-stones~, q.v., may be merely a misreading of the MS.

'Thunder-stones, as the vulgar call them, are a pyrites; their fibres do all tend to the centre. They are found at Broad Chalke frequently.'--AUBREY'S _Nat. Hist. Wilts_, p. 40, ed. Brit.

=Tine=. _Add_:--(6) To collect and burn couch and weeds in the fields.--N.W.

'What 'ould thy husband do ... if thee was too vine to turn hay, or go tinin' or leazin'?'--_Dark_, ch. XV.