Part 3

'Snow-flakes are called "blossoms." The word snow-flake is unknown.'--_Village Miners._

=Blow=. Sheep and cattle 'blow' themselves, or get 'blowed,' from over-eating when turned out into very heavy grass or clover, the fermentation of which often kills them on the spot, their bodies becoming terribly inflated with wind. See the description of the 'blasted' flock, in _Far from the Madding Crowd_, ch. xxi.--N. & S.W.

=Blowing=. A blossom (A.B.H.Wr.). See ~Bluen~.--N.W.

=Blowth=. See ~Blooth~.

=Blub up=. To puff or swell up. A man out of health and puffy about the face is said to look 'ter'ble blubbed up.' Cf. Blobbs.--N.W. Compare:--

'My face was blown and blub'd with dropsy wan.'--_Mirror for Magistrates._

=Blue Bottle=. _Scilla nutans_, Sm., Wild Hyacinth.--S.W.

=Blue Buttons=. (1) _Scabiosa arvensis_, L., Field Scabious.--S.W. (2) _S. Columbaria_, L., Small Scabious.--S.W.

=Blue Cat=. One who is suspected of being an incendiary. 'He has the name of a blue cat.' See ~Lewis's Cat~.--S.W. (Salisbury.)

=Blue Eyes=. _Veronica Chamaedrys_, L., Germander Speedwell.--N.W.

=Blue Goggles=. _Scilla nutans_, Sm., Wild Hyacinth. Cf. ~Greygles~ or ~Greggles~.--S.W.

=Bluen= or =Blooens=. _pl._ Blossoms (S.). Also used in Devon.--N. & S.W.

=Blue-vinnied=. Covered with blue mould. See Vinney. Commoner in Dorset as applied to cheese, &c.--N. & S.W.

=Blunt=. 'A cold blunt,' a spell of cold weather. See Snow-blunt. Compare _Blunk_, a fit of stormy weather, which is used in the East of England.--N.W.

=Blur=. See ~Blare~. In Raleigh's account of the fight in Cadiz Bay, he says that as he passed through the cross-fire of the galleys and forts, he replied 'with a blur of the trumpet to each piece, disdaining to shoot.'

=Board=. To scold, to upbraid. 'Her boarded I just about.'--S.W. (occasionally.)

=Boar Stag=. A boar which, after having been employed for breeding purposes for a time, is castrated and set aside for fattening (D.). Cf. ~Bull Stag~.--N.W.

=Boat=. Children cut apples and oranges into segments, which they sometimes call 'pigs' or 'boats.'

=Bob=. In a timber carriage, the hind pair of wheels with the long pole or lever attached thereto.--N.W. In Canada 'bob-sleds' are used for drawing logs out of the woods.

*=Bobbant=. Of a girl, romping, forward (A.B.H.Wr.).--N.W.

=Bobbish=. In good health (A.B.S.). 'Well, an' how be 'ee to-day?' 'Purty bobbish, thank 'ee.'--N. & S.W.

=Bob-grass=. _Bromus mollis_, L.--S.W.

*=Bochant=. The same as ~Bobbant~ (A.B.G.H.Wr.).

=Bod=. See ~Bad~.

=Boistins=. The first milk given by a cow after calving (A.). See N.E.D. (~s.v. Beestings~).--N.W.

=Bolt=. In basket-making, a bundle of osiers 40 inches round. (_Amateur Poacher_, ch. iv. p. 69).

=Boltin=, =Boulting=. A sheaf of five or ten 'elms,' prepared beforehand for thatching. 'Elms' are usually made up on the spot, but are occasionally thus prepared at threshing-time, and tied up and laid aside till required, when they need only be damped, and are then ready for use. Cf. ~Bolt.~--N.W.

=Bombarrel Tit=. _Parus caudatus_, the Long-tailed Titmouse (_Great Estate_, ch. ii. p. 26). Jefferies considers this a corruption of 'Nonpareil.'--N.W.

=Book of Clothes=. See ~Buck~ (_Monthly Mag._, 1814).

=Boon Days=. Certain days during winter on which farmers on the Savernake estate were formerly bound to haul timber for their landlord.

*=Boreshore=. A hurdle-stake (S.).--S.W.

'This is a kind of hurdle stake which can be used in soft ground without an iron pitching bar being required to bore the hole first for it. Hence it is called bore-shore by shepherds.'--_Letter from Mr. Slow._

*=Borky=. (Baulky?) Slightly intoxicated.--S.W.

*=Borsy=. See *~Bawsy~.

=Bossell=. _Chrysanthemum segetum_, L., Corn Marigold (D.). ~Bozzell~ (_Flowering Plants of Wilts_).--N. & S.W.

=Bossy=, =Bossy-calf=. A young calf, whether male or female.--N.W.

=Bottle=. The wooden keg, holding a gallon or two, used for beer in harvest-time (_Wild Life_, ch. vii).--N. & S.W.

=Bottle-tit=. _Parus caudatus_, L., the Long-tailed Titmouse.--N.W.

=Bottom=. A valley or hollow in the downs.--N. & S.W.

=Boulting=. See ~Boltin~.

=Bounceful=. Masterful, domineering. See ~Pounceful~.--N.W.

=Bourne=. (1) _n._ A valley between the chalk hills; a river in such a valley; also river and valley jointly (D.).--N. & S.W.

'In South Wilts they say, such or such a bourn: meaning a valley by such a river.'--Aubrey's _Nat. Hist. Wilts_, p. 28. Ed. Brit.

(2) _v._ In gardening, when marking out a row of anything with pegs, you 'bourne' them, or glance along them to see that they are in line.--N.W.

=Box= or =Hand-box=. The lower handle of a sawyer's long pit-saw, the upper handle being the ~Tiller~.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

=Boy's-love=. _Artemisia Abrotanum_, L., Southernwood (A.B.).--N. & S.W.

=Boys=. The long-pistilled or 'pin-eyed' flowers of the Primrose, _Primula vulgaris_, Huds. See ~Girls~.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

=Bozzell=. See ~Bossell~.

*=Bozzy=. See *~Bawsy~.

=Brack=. _n._ A fracture, break, crack (S.). 'There's narra brack nor crack in 'un.'--N. & S.W.

=Brain-stone=. A kind of large round stone (Aubrey's _Nat. Hist. Wilts_, p. 9, ed. Brit., H.Wr.). Perhaps a lump of water-worn fossil coral, such as occasionally now bears this name among N. Wilts cottagers.

*=Bramstickle=. See ~Bannis~ (S.).

=Brandy-bottles=. _Nuphar lutea_, Sm., Yellow Water-lily.--S.W. (Mere, &c.)

=Brave=. _adj._ Hearty, in good health (A.B.).--N.W.

=Bread-and-Cheese=. (1) _Linaria vulgaris_, Mill., Yellow Toadflax.--N. & S.W. (2) Fruit of _Malva sylvestris_, L., Common Mallow (S.).--S.W. (3) Young leaves and shoots of _Crataegus Oxyacantha_, L., Hawthorn, eaten by children in spring (_English Plant Names_).--S.W. (Salisbury.)

=Bread-board=. The earth-board of a plough (D.). ~Broad-board~ in N. Wilts.

=Break=. To tear. 'She'll break her gownd agen thuc tharn.' You still _break_ a bit of muslin, but to _tear_ a trace or a plate now grows obsolete.--N.W. Similarly used in Hants, as

'I have _a-torn_ my best decanter ... have _a-broke_ my fine cambrick aporn.'--COPE'S _Hants Glossary_.

=Brevet=, =Brivet=. (1) To meddle, interfere, pry into.--N.W.

'Who be you to interfere wi' a man an' he's vam'ly? Get awver groundsell, or I'll stop thy brevettin' for a while.'--_Dark_, ch. xix.

(2) _To brevet about_, to beat about, as a dog for game (A.).--N.W. Also ~Privet~.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard; Castle Eaton, &c.)

'_Brivet_, a word often applied to children when they wander about aimlessly and turn over things.'--_Leisure Hour_, Aug. 1893.

*(3) To pilfer. 'If she'll brevet one thing, she'll brevet another.'--N.W. (Mildenhall.)

=Bribe=. To taunt, to bring things up against any one, to scold. 'What d'ye want to kip a-bribing I o' that vur?'--N.W.

=Brit=, =Brittle out=. (1) To rub grain out in the hand.--N.W. (2) To drop out of the husk, as over-ripe grain (D.).--N.W.

=Brivet=. See ~Brevet~.

=Brize=. To press heavily on, or against, to crush down (S.). A loaded waggon 'brizes down' the road.--N. & S.W.

=Broad-board=. See ~Bread-board~.

=Broke-bellied=. Ruptured.--N.W.

=Brook-Sparrow=. _Salicaria phragmitis_, the Sedge Warbler; from one of its commonest notes resembling that of a sparrow (_Great Estate_, ch. vii; _Wild Life_, ch. iii).--N.W.

'At intervals [in his song] he intersperses a chirp, exactly the same as that of the sparrow, a chirp with a tang in it. Strike a piece of metal, and besides the noise of the blow, there is a second note, or tang. The sparrow's chirp has such a note sometimes, and the sedge-bird brings it in--tang, tang, tang. This sound has given him his country name of brook-sparrow.'--JEFFERIES, _A London Trout_.

=Brow=. (1) _adj._ Brittle (A.B.C.H.Wr.); easily broken. Vrow at Clyffe Pypard. Also ~Frow~.--N.W. *(2) _n._ A fragment (_Wilts Arch. Mag._ vol. xxii. p. 109).--N.W. (Cherhill.)

=Brown=. 'A brown day,' a gloomy day (H.Wr.).--N.W.

=Bruckle=. (Generally with _off_ or _away_.) _v._ To crumble away, as some kinds of stone when exposed to the weather (_Wilts Arch. Mag._ vol. xxii. p. 109); to break off easily, as the dead leaves on a dry branch of fir. Compare _brickle_=brittle (_Wisdom_, xv. 13), A.S. _brucol_=apt to break.--N.W.

=Bruckley=. _adj._ Brittle, crumbly, friable, not coherent (S.).--N. & S.W.

=Brush=. 'The brush of a tree,' its branches or head.--N.W.

=Brushes=. _Dipsacus sylvestris_, L., Wild Teasel. See ~Clothes-brush~.--N. & S.W.

=Bubby-head=. _Cottus gobio_, the Bullhead.--N. & S.W.

=Buck=. A 'buck,' or 'book,' of clothes, a large wash--N.W.

=Bucking=. A quantity of clothes to be washed (A.).--N.W.

*=Buddle=. To suffocate in mud. 'There! if he haven't a bin an' amwoast buddled hisel' in thuck there ditch!' Also used in Som.--N.W. (Malmesbury.)

=Budgy=. Out of temper, sulky. A softened form of _buggy_, self-important, churlish, from the Old English and provincial _budge_, grave, solemn, &c. See _Folk-Etymology_, p. 42 (Smythe-Palmer).--N.W. Cp. Milton,

'Those budge doctors of the stoic fur.'--_Comus._

=Bullpoll=, =Bullpull=. _Aira caespitosa_, L., the rough tufts of tussocky grass which grow in damp places in the fields, and have to be cut up with a heavy hoe (_Great Estate_, ch. ii; _Gamekeeper at Home_, ch. viii).--N.W.

=Bull Stag=. A bull which, having been superannuated as regards breeding purposes, is castrated and put to work, being stronger than an ordinary bullock. Cf. ~Boar Stag~.--N.W., now almost obsolete.

=Bulrushes=. _Caltha palustris_, L., Marsh Marigold; from some nursery legend that Moses was hidden among its large leaves.--S.W., rarely.

=Bumble-berry=. Fruit of _Rosa canina_, L., Dog-rose.--N.W.

=Bunce=. (1) _n._ A blow. 'Gie un a good bunce in the ribs.'--N.W. (2) _v._ To punch or strike.--N.W.

=Bunch=. Of beans, to plant in bunches instead of rows (D.).--N. & S.W.

=Bunny=. A brick arch, or wooden bridge, covered with earth, across a 'drawn' or 'carriage' in a water-meadow, just wide enough to allow a hay-waggon to pass over.--N.W.

=Bunt=. (1) _v._ To push with the head as a calf does its dam's udder (A.); to butt; to push or shove up.--(_Bevis_, ch. x.) N.W. (2) _n._ A push or shove.--N.W. (3) _n._ A short thick needle, as a 'tailor's bunt.' (4) _n._ Hence sometimes applied to a short thickset person, as a nickname.--S.W.

=Bunty=. _adj._ Short and stout.--N.W.

=Bur=. The sweetbread of a calf or lamb (A.).--N.W.

=Bur'=, =Burrow=, or =Burry=. (1) A rabbit-burrow (A.B.).--N. & S.W. (2) Any place of shelter, as the leeward side of a hedge (A.C.). 'Why doesn't thee coom and zet doon here in the burrow?'--N. & S.W.

=Burl=. (1) 'To burl potatoes,' to rub off the grown-out shoots in spring.--N.W. (2) The original meaning was to finish off cloth or felt by removing knots, rough places, loose threads, and other irregularities of surface, and it is still so used in S. Wilts (S.).

=Burn=. 'To burn a pig,' to singe the hair off the dead carcase.--N. & S.W.

*=Burn-bake= (or =-beak=). (1) To reclaim new land by paring and burning the surface before cultivation (_Agric. of Wilts_, ch. xii). See ~Bake~. (2) To improve old arable land by treating it in a similar way (_Ibid._ ch. xii). ~Burn-beke~ (Aubrey's _Nat. Hist. Wilts_, p. 103. Ed. Brit., where the practice is said to have been introduced into S. Wilts by Mr. Bishop of Merton, about 1639). (3) _n._ Land so reclaimed. See ~Bake~.--S.W.

=Burrow=. See ~Bur'~.

=Burry=. See ~Bur'~.

='Buseful=. Foul-mouthed, abusive.--N.W.

=Bush=. (1) _n._ A heavy hurdle or gate, with its bars interlaced with brushwood and thorns, which is drawn over pastures in spring, and acts like a light harrow (_Amateur Poacher_, ch. iv).--N.W. (2) _v._ To bush-harrow a pasture.--N.W.

=Butchers' Guinea-pigs=. Woodlice. See ~Guinea-pigs~.--S.W.

=Butter-and-Eggs=. (1) _Narcissus incomparabilis_, Curt., Primrose Peerless.--N. & S.W. (2) _Linaria vulgaris_, Mill., Yellow Toadflax (_Great Estate_, ch. v).--N. & S.W.

=Buttercup=. At Huish applied only to _Ranunculus Ficaria_, L., Lesser Celandine, all other varieties of Crowfoot being 'Crazies' there.

=Butter-teeth=. The two upper incisors.--N.W.

=Buttons=. Very young mushrooms.--N. & S.W.

=Buttry=. A cottage pantry (A.B.).--N.W., now almost obsolete.

=Butt-shut=. (1) To join iron without welding, by pressing the heated ends squarely together, making an imperceptible join (_Village Miners_). See ~Shut~. (2) Hence a glaringly inconsistent story or excuse is said 'not to butt-shut' (_Village Miners_).

=Butty=. A mate or companion in field-work (S.).--N. & S.W.

*=By-the-Wind=. _Clematis Vitalba_, L., Traveller's Joy.--S.W. (Farley.)

*=Caa-vy= (? Calfy). A simpleton (S.).--S.W.

=Cack=. See ~Keck~.

*=Cack-handed=, *=Cag-handed=. Extremely awkward and unhandy: clumsy to the last degree (_Village Miners_). Other dialect words for 'awkward' are Dev., _cat-handed_, Yorks., _gawk-handed_, and Nhamp., _keck-handed_. Cf. ~Cam-handed~.

=Caddle=. (1) _n._ Dispute, noise, row, contention (A.); seldom or never so used now.--N. & S.W.

'What a caddle th' bist a makin', Jonas!'--_Wilts Tales_, p. 82.

'If Willum come whoam and zees two [candles] a burnin', he'll make a vi-vi-vine caddle.'--_Wilts Tales_, p. 42.

(2) _n._ Confusion, disorder, trouble (A.B.C.S.).--N. & S.W.

'Lawk, zur, but I be main scrow to be ael in zich a caddle, alang o' they childern.'--_Wilts Tales_, p. 137.

(3) _v._ To tease, to annoy, to bother (A.B.C.). See ~Caddling~. 'Now dwoan't 'e caddle I zo, or I'll tell thee vather o' thee!' 'I be main caddled up wi' ael they dishes to weish.'--N. & S.W.

''Tain't no use caddlin I--I can't tell 'ee no more.'--_Greene Ferne Farm_, ch. viii.

(4) _v._ To hurry. 'To caddle a horse,' to drive him over-fast.--N.W. (5) _v._ To loaf about, only doing odd jobs. 'He be allus a caddlin' about, and won't never do nothin' reg'lar.'--N. & S.W. (6) _v._ To mess about, to throw into disorder. 'I don't hold wi' they binders [the binding machines], they do caddle the wheat about so.'--N. & S.W.

=Caddlesome=. Of weather, stormy, uncertain. ''T 'ull be a main caddlesome time for the barley.'--S.W.

=Caddling=. (1) _adj._ Of weather, stormy, uncertain.--N. & S.W. (2) _adj._ Quarrelsome, wrangling (C.).--N. & S.W.

'His bill was zharp, his stomack lear, Zo up a snapped the caddlin pair.'--_Wilts Tales_, p. 97.

'A cadling fellow, a wrangler, a shifting, and sometimes an unmeaning character.'--_Cunnington MS._

(3) _adj._ Meddlesome (S.), teasing (_Monthly Mag._, 1814); troublesome, worrying, impertinent (A.B.).--N. & S.W.

'Little Nancy was as naisy and as caddlin' as a wren, that a was'.--_Wilts Tales_, p. 177.

*(4) Chattering (_Monthly Mag._, 1814): probably a mistake.

=Caffing rudder=. See ~Caving rudder~.

*=Cag-handed=. See ~Cack-handed~.

=Cag-mag=. Bad or very inferior meat (S.).--N. & S.W.

=Cains-and-Abels=. _Aquilegia vulgaris_, L., Columbine.--S.W. (Farley.)

*=Calf-white=. See ~White~.

=Call=. Cause, occasion. 'You've no call to be so 'buseful' [abusive].--N. & S.W.

=Call home=. To publish the banns of marriage (S.).--S.W.

'They tells I as 'ow Bet Stingymir is gwain to be caal'd _whoam_ to Jim Spritely on Zundy.'--SLOW.

*=Callow-wablin=. An unfledged bird (A.).--S.W.

=Callus-stone=. A sort of gritty earth, spread on a board for knife-sharpening (Wilts Arch. Mag. vol. xxii. p. 109).--N. & S.W. (Cherhill, &c.)

=Calves'-trins=. Calves' stomachs, used in cheese-making. A.S. _trendel_. See ~Trins~. Halliwell and Wright give _'Calf-trundle_, the small entrails of a calf.'--N.W.

*=Cam=. Perverse, cross. Welsh _cam_, crooked, wry.--N.W.

'A 's as cam and as obstinate as a mule.'--_Wilts Tales_, p. 138.

'They there wosbirds [of bees] zimd rayther cam and mischievul.'--_Springtide_, p. 47.

=Cam-handed=. Awkward.--N.W.

*=Cammock=. _Ononis arvensis_, L., Restharrow (D.).

=Cammocky=. Tainted, ill-flavoured, as cheese or milk when the cows have been feeding on cammock. See ~Gammotty~ (2).--S.W.

=Canary-seed=. Seed-heads of Plantain.--N. & S.W.

=Candle=. 'To strike a candle,' to slide, as school-boys do, on the heel, so as to leave a white mark along the ice.--S.W.

=Cank=. To overcome (H.Wr.): perhaps a perversion of _conquer_. The winner 'canks' his competitors in a race, and you 'cank' a child when you give it more than it can eat.--N.W.

=Canker=. Fungus, toadstool (A.B.).--N. & S.W.

=Canker-berries=. Wild Rose hips. ~Conker-berries~ (S.).--S.W. (Salisbury, &c.).

=Canker-rose=. The mossy gall on the Dog-rose, formed by _Cynips rosae_; often carried in the pocket as a charm against rheumatism (_Great Estate_, ch. iv).--N.W.

*=Cappence=. The swivel-joint of the old-fashioned flail, _Capel_ in Devon.--N. & S.W.

=Carpet=. To blow up, to scold; perhaps from the scene of the fault-finding being the parlour, not the bare-floored kitchen. 'Measter carpeted I sheamvul s'marning.' 'I had my man John on the carpet just now and gave it him finely.'--N.W.

=Carriage=. A water-course, a meadow-drain (A. B. G. H. Wr.). In S. Wilts the _carriages_ bring the water into and through the meadow, while the _drawn_ takes it back to the river after its work is done.--N. & S.W.

=Carrier=, =Water-carrier=. A large water-course (_Wild Life_, ch. xx).--N. & S.W.

=Carry along=. To prove the death of, to bring to the grave. 'I be afeard whe'er that 'ere spittin' o' blood won't car'n along.'--N.W.

=Cart=. 'At cart,' carrying or hauling, as 'We be at wheat cart [coal-cart, dung-cart, &c.] to-day.--N.W.

=Casalty=. See ~Casulty~.

=Cass'n=. Canst not (A.S.).--N. & S.W.

=Cassocks=. Couch-grass.--S.W. (Som. bord.).

=Casulty=. (1) _adj._ Of weather, unsettled, broken (_Green Ferne Farm_, ch. i). ~Casalty~ (_Wilts Arch. Mag._ vol. xxii. p. 109).--N. & S.W. (2) Of crops, uncertain, not to be depended on. Plums, for instance, are a 'casalty crop,' some years bearing nothing.--N.W.

*=Cat-gut=. The ribs of the Plantain leaf; so called by children when drawn out so as to look like fiddle-strings (_Great Estate_, ch. ii).

=Cat-Kidney=. A game somewhat resembling cricket, played with a wooden 'cat' instead of a ball.--N.W. (Brinkworth.)

=Cat's-ice=. White ice, ice from which the water has receded.--N. & S.W. (Steeple Ashton, &c.).

'They stood at the edge, cracking the cat's-ice, where the water had shrunk back from the wheel marks, and left the frozen water white and brittle.'--_The Story of Dick_, ch. xii. p. 153.

=Cats'-love=. Garden Valerian, on which cats like to roll.--S.W.

*=Cats'-paws=. Catkins of willow while still young and downy.--S.W. (Deverill.)

=Cats'-tails=. (1) _Equisetum_, Horse-tail (_Great Estate_, ch. ii).--N.W. (2) The catkin of the willow.--N.W. (Lyneham.) (3) The catkin of the hazel.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

=Catch=. (1) Of water, to film over, to begin to freeze. ~Keach~, ~Keatch~, ~Kitch~, or ~Ketch~ (A.B.C.H.Wr.).--N. & S.W.

'A bright clear moon is credited with causing the water to "catch"--that is, the slender, thread-like spicules form on the surface, and, joining together, finally cover it.'--_Wild Life_, ch. xx.

Also see _Bevis_, ch. xl. (2) To grow thick, as melted fat when setting again.--N. & S.W. *(3) 'To catch and rouse,' to collect water, &c.

'In the catch-meadows ... it is necessary to make the most of the water by catching and rousing it as often as possible.'--_Agric. of Wilts_, ch. xi.

*(4) _n._ The same as Catch-meadow (_Ibid._ ch. xii).

*=Catch-land=. The arable portion of a common field, divided into equal parts, whoever ploughed first having the right to first choice of his share (D.).--Obsolete.

*=Catch-meadow=, =Catch-work meadow=, or =Catch=. A meadow on the slope of a hill, irrigated by a stream or spring, which has been turned so as to fall from one level to another through the carriages (_Agric. of Wilts_, ch. xii).

=Catching=, =Catchy=. Of weather, unsettled, showery (_Agric. of Wilts_, ch. iii. p. 11).--N. & S.W.

=Caterpillar=. A cockchafer.--N.W.

=Cattikeyns=. Fruit of the ash.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

=Cave=. (1) _n._ The chaff of wheat and oats (D.): in threshing, the broken bits of straw, &c. ~Cavin~, ~Cavings~, or ~Keavin~ in N. Wilts.--N. & S.W. (2) _v._ To separate the short broken straw from the grain.--N. & S.W.

=Cavin, Cavings=. See ~Cave~ (1).

*=Caving-rake=. The rake used for separating cavings and grain on the threshing-floor.

=Caving= (or =Caffing=) =rudder=, or =rudderer=. *(1) The winnowing fan and tackle (D.).--S.W. (2) A coarse sieve used by carters to get the straw out of the horses' chaff.--N. & S.W.

=Cawk=, =Cawket=. To squawk out, to make a noise like a hen when disturbed on her nest, &c. 'Ther's our John, s'naw [dost know?]--allus a messin' a'ter the wenchin, s'naw--cawin' an' cawkettin' like a young rook, s'naw,--'vore a can vly, s'naw,--boun' to coom down vlop _he_ war!' ~Caa-kinn~ (S.).--N. & S.W. (Clyffe Pypard; Seagry, &c.)

*=Centry=. _Anagallis tenella_, L., Bog Pimpernel.--S.W. (Barford.)

=Cham=. To chew (A.B.C.S.). 'Now cham thee vittles up well.' An older form of _Champ_.--N. & S.W.

=Champ=. To scold in a savage snarling fashion. 'Now dwoan't 'ee gwo an' champ zo at I!' Used formerly at Clyffe Pypard.--N.W.

=Chan-Chider=. See ~Johnny Chider~.--S.W.

=Chap=. (1) _v._ Of ground, to crack apart with heat.--N & S.W. (2) _n._ A crack in the soil, caused by heat.--N. & S.W.

=Charm=. (1) _n._ 'All in a charm,' all talking loud together. A.S. _cyrm_, clamour (A.H.S.), especially used of the singing of birds. See Kingsley's _Prose Idylls_, i. Also used of hounds in full cry.--N. & S.W.

'Thousands of starlings, the noise of whose calling to each other is indescribable--the country folk call it a "charm," meaning a noise made up of innumerable lesser sounds, each interfering with the other.'--_Wild Life_, ch. xii.

Cp, Milton,

'Charm of earliest birds.'--_P. L._, ii. 642.

(2) _v._ To make a loud confused noise, as a number of birds, &c., together.--N. & S.W. (3) _v._ 'To charm bees,' to follow a swarm of bees, beating a tea-tray, &c.--N.W. (Marlborough).

=Chatter-mag=, =Chatter-pie=. A chattering woman.--N. & S.W.

=Chawm=, =Chawn=. A crack in the ground (A.).--N.W.

=Cheese-flower=. _Malva sylvestris_, L., Common Mallow.--S.W.

=Cheeses=. Fruit of _Malva sylvestris_, L., Common Mallow.--N. & S.W.

*=Chemise=. _Convolvulus sepium_, L., Great Bindweed.--S.W. (Little Langford.) This name was given us as ~Chemise~, but would probably be pronounced as ~Shimmy~.

=Cherky=. Having a peculiar dry taste, as beans (_Village Miners_).--N. & S.W.

=Cherry-pie=. _Valeriana officinalis_, L., All-heal, from its smell.--S.W.

=Cheure=. See ~Choor~.

=Chevil= (or =Chevril=) =Goldfinch=. A large variety of goldfinch, with a white throat. See _Birds of Wilts_, p. 203, for a full description of the bird.--N. & S.W.

=Chewree=. See ~Choor~.

=Chib=. 'Potato-chibs,' the grown-out shoots in spring. See ~Chimp~.--S.W.

=Chiddlens=, =Chiddlins=. Pigs' chitterlings (H.S.Wr.).--N. & S.W.

=Children of Israel=. *(1) A small garden variety of _Campanula_, from the profusion of its blossoms (_English Plant Names_). (2) _Malcolmia maritima_, Br., Virginian Stock, occasionally.

=Chilver=, =Chilver-lamb=. A ewe lamb (A.).--N.W.

=Chilver-hog=. A ewe under two years old (D.). The word hog is now applied to any animal of a year old, such as a hog bull, a chilver hog sheep. 'Chilver' is a good Anglo-Saxon word, 'cilfer,' and is related to the word 'calf.' A chilver hog sheep simply means in the dialect of the Vale of Warminster, a female lamb a year old. See _Wilts Arch. Mag._ xvii. 303.--N. & S.W.

=Chimney-sweeps=. Flowering-heads of some grasses.--N.W. (Lyneham.)

=Chimney-sweepers=. _Luzula campestris_, Willd., Field Wood-rush.--N.W.

=Chimp=. (1) _n._ The grown-out shoot of a stored potato (S.); also Chib.--S.W. (2) _v._ To strip off the 'chimps' before planting.--S.W.