Part 5

=Daps=. (1) 'He's the daps on his feyther,' the very image of him (S.).--S.W. (2) 'He got the daps o' he's feyther,' he has the same tricks as his father.--N.W.

'~Dap~, a hop, a turn. The daps of any one would therefore be his habits, peculiarities, &c.'--JENNINGS, _Somerset Gloss_.

=Dapster=. *(1) A nimble boy.--S.W. (Deverill). (2) A proficient (S.). See ~Dab~.--S.W.

*=Dar=. _n._ 'To be struck in a dar, to be astonished or confounded.'--_Cunnington MS._ Apparently from O.E. _dare_, to frighten birds.--N.W., obsolete.

'Never hobby so dared a lark.'--BURTON, _Anatomy of Melancholy_.

*=Daver=. To fade, fall down, droop, as flowers or leaves on a hot day.--N.W. (Malmesbury.)

=Dawk=, =Dack=, =Daak=, =Dauk=. To incise with a jerk, or insert a pointed weapon with rapidity (H.Wr.). To stab and tear together as a cat's claw does. To puncture.--N.W.

'Should a savage cat tear out a piece of flesh from the hand, she is said to "dawk" it out. Dawk expresses a ferocious stab and tear combined.'--_Village Miners._

Also used of a baker marking loaves:--

'Prick it and dack it and mark it with T, And put it in the oven for baby and me.'--_Nursery Rhyme._

This seems to be identical with A.S. _dalc_, _dolc_, Dutch and Danish _dolk_, Icel. _dálkr_, Germ. _dolch_, all meaning a sharp piercing instrument, a skewer, a dagger, &c. (Smythe-Palmer).

=Dead hedge=. A wattled fence (_Agric. of Wilts_, ch. x).--N.W.

=Dead pen=. A sheep pen is occasionally so called in S. Wilts.

=Dead-roof=. A skilling roof made of bavins and thatched over.--N.W.

=Dead year=. Often used with possessive pronoun, as 'his dead year,' the year immediately following his death (_Wilts Arch. Mag._ vol. xxii. p. 111). A widow should not marry again 'afore the dead year's up.'--N.W.

=Deaf-nettle=. _Lamium album_, L., the Dead nettle. Cf. ~Dunch-nettle~.--S.W.

=Deaf-nut=. A rotten or empty nut. _Deaf_=useless, inactive.--S.W.

=Deedy=. (1) Industrious, busy, as 'He's a deedy man.'--N.W. (2) Intent, as 'What bist looking so deedy at?'--N.W.

*=Dee-gee=. Mr. William Cunnington writes us as follows:--

'"Twas a Dee-gee" was the name of a kind of dance, which our old nurse taught us as children, mostly performed by moving sideways and knocking the feet together.'

This would seem to be a survival of the Elizabethan _heydeguies_. See Spenser, _Shepherd's Calendar_, June.--N.W., obsolete.

*=Densher=. To prepare down-land for cultivation by paring and burning the turf (Aubrey's _Wilts Nat. Hist._, p. 103, ed. Brit.). See ~Bake~ and ~Burn-bake~.

=Desight=, =Dissight=. An unsightly object (H.Wr.).--N.W.

=Devil-daisy=. _Matricaria Parthenium_, L., Common Feverfew, and _Anthemis Cotula_, L., Stinking Camomile, from their daisy-like flowers and unpleasant odour.--S.W.

=Devil-in-a-hedge=. _Nigella damascena_, Love in a mist.--N.W.

=Devil-screecher=. _Cypselus apus_, the Common Swift.--N. & S.W.

=Devil's-ring=. A kind of hairy caterpillar which curls up on being touched (_Wild Life_, ch. xvii).--N.W.

'Devyls-gold-rynge, the colewort worme.'--_Huloet._

'Oak-egger and fox moths, which children call "Devil's Gold Rings."'--KINGSLEY, _Chalk-stream Studies_.

=Dew-beater=. A man who has large feet, or who turns out his toes, so that he brushes the dew off the grass in walking (A.S.).--N. & S.W. Compare:--

'The dew-beaters [early walkers, pioneers] have trod their way for those that come after them.'--HACKET'S _Life of Williams_, i. 57.

=Dew-bi=. A very early breakfast (A.).--N. & S.W.

=Dew-pond=. A pond on the downs, not fed by any spring, but kept up by mist, dew, and rain. Such ponds rarely fail, even in the longest drought. Also ~Mist-pond~.--N.W.

*=Dewsiers=. The valves of a pig's heart (A.B.G.); a corruption of O.F. _jusier_.

=Deyhus=, =Da'us=, =Day'us=. A dairy, a cheese-room (A.B.). From _deye_, a dairymaid; Icel. _deigja_ (Skeat). In this and similar words, as Brewhouse, Woodhouse, &c., _house_ is always pronounced as A.S. _hús_ (Akerman), the _h_, however, not being invariably sounded.--N.W.

=Dibs=. A game played by boys with sheep's dibs or knuckle-bones (S.).--N. & S.W.

*=Dick-and-his-team=. The Great Bear.--N.W. Compare Jack-and-his-team.

'I know the north star; there it is.... And the Great Bear; the men call it Dick and his Team.'--_Greene Ferne Farm_, ch. vi.

=Dicker=. (1) To bedeck. 'Gels be allus a dickerin' therselves up now-a-days.'--N.W. (Huish.) (2) 'As thick as they can dicker,' very intimate.--S.W. (Amesbury.) 'All in a dicker (or 'digger'),' very close together.--S.W.

=Dicky=. (1) Of vegetables, decayed. (2) Of persons or plants, weakly or in ill-health (_Wilts Arch. Mag._ vol. xxii. p. 110). Cf. ~Daddicky~.--N.W.

=Dicky-birds=. _Fumaria officinalis_, L., Common Fumitory.--S.W.

=Diedapper=. _Podiceps minor_, the Dabchick; _Divedapper_ in Shakespeare. In common use at Salisbury until quite recently. Before the streams running through the city were covered over, it was an every-day occurrence to see a dripping urchin making for home, with an escort of friends at his heels yelling 'Diedapper, Diedapper, Diedapper, die!'--S.W.

*=Diggle=. _v._ To grow thickly together. 'They weeds be a coming up agen as thick as ever they can diggle.' See ~Dicker~.--N.W. (Potterne.).

=Diggled=, =Daggled=. Covered over or hung thickly with anything. Compare ~Daglet~. 'Thick may-bush be aal diggled wi' berries.'--S.W. (Salisbury.)

=Diggles=. _n._ Abundance, plenty (S.). 'Let's go a blackberryin'; there's diggles up Grovely.' See ~Diggle~.--S.W.

=Dill=, =Dill Duck=. A young duck.--N. & S.W.

=Dillcup=. _Ranunculus Ficaria_, L., Lesser Celandine (S.).--S.W.

=Diller=. The shaft-horse (H.Wr.). See ~Thiller~.--N.W.

=Dills=. See ~Thills~.

=Dimmets=. Dusk, twilight.--S.W.

=Ding=. To strike violently (_Dark_, ch. xv).--N.W.

=Dishabille=. A labourer's working clothes. The word is not used in Wilts in its ordinary sense of undress or negligent costume, but a common excuse for not appearing at church is that a man has nothing but his _dishabille_ to wear. Fr. _déshabillé_.--N.W.

=Dishwasher=. (1) _Motacilla flava_, the Yellow Wagtail (A.S.).--N. & S.W. (2) _M. Yarrellii_, the Pied Wagtail (A.S.).--N. & S.W.

=Do=. 'To do for any one,' to manage or keep house for him.--N. & S.W.

*=Dock=. _Malva sylvestris_, L., Common Mallow (A.). Now restricted to _Rumex_.

=Dodder=, =Dudder=, =Duther=, &c. (1) _v._ To bewilder, to deafen with noise (A.B.H.S.Wr.). 'I be vinny doddered, they childern do yop so.'--N. & S.W. (2) _n._ 'All in a dudder,' quite bewildered (H.).--N. & S.W. (3) _v._ To deaden anything, as pain. 'It sort o' dudders the pain.'--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

*=Doddle-grass=. _Briza media_, L., Quaking Grass (_English Plant Names_).

=Doddler=. 'A bit of a doddler,' a small boy.--N. & S.W.

=Dog, how beest=? This phrase seems worth noting. At Clyffe Pypard a person complaining of loneliness, or the want of sociability or kindness amongst the neighbours, will say, 'There isn't one as 'll so much as look in and say, "Dog, how beest?"'

=Dog-Cocks=. _Arum maculatum_, L., Cuckoo-pint. Compare _Dogs-dibble_ in N. Devon.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

=Dog-daisy=. Any large daisy-like white flower, such as _Chrysanthemum leucanthemum_, L., Ox-eye Daisy.--N. & S.W.

=Dogged=. (2 syl.) Very, excessively; as _dogged cute_ (A.).--N. & S.W.

'Maester was dogged deep, but I was deeper!'--_Wilts Tales_, p. 110.

*=Dog out=. To drive out anything, as a sheep out of a quagmire, by setting the dog furiously at it (_Great Estate_, ch. viii).

=Dog's-mouth=. _Linaria vulgari_s, Mill., Yellow Toadflax.--N.W.

*=Dom=. A door case (H.Wr.): probably a mistake for _Dorn_ or _Doorn_.

=Domel=. See ~Dumble~.

=Doner=. A man, animal, &c., 'done for' and past hope (S.). 'Thuck old sow be a dunner; her 'll be dead afore night.'--N. & S.W.

*=Donnings=. Clothes (A.B.).

*=Dooke=. (2 syl.) Do ye, will ye. 'Be quiet, dooke' (H.M.Wr.).

'Obsolete, having been superseded by _do 'ee_. It was pronounced as a dissyllable.'--SKEAT.

=Door-Drapper= (i.e. Dropper or Dripper). The piece of wood fastened to the bottom of cottage doors to shoot the water off the 'Dreshol' (threshold).--N.W.

*=Doorn=. A door frame (H.Wr.). Also ~Durn~ (S.). At Warminster applied only to the sides of a door-frame.--S.W.

=Double=. 'He is a double man,' i.e. bent double with age or infirmity.--S.W.

*=Double-Dumb-Nettle=. _Ballota nigra_, L., Black Horehound.--S.W. (Charlton.)

*=Double-ladies'-fingers-and-thumbs=. _Anthyllis vulneraria_, L., Kidney Vetch.--N.W. (Enford.)

=Double-mound=. A double hedge (_Amateur Poacher_, ch. xi; _Wild Life_, ch. ix. p. 152). See ~Mound~.--N.W.

*=Double Pincushion=. _Anthyllis vulneraria_, L., Kidney Vetch.--S.W. (Barford.)

=Doublets=. Twin lambs (_Annals of Agric._).--N.W.

=Dough-fig=. The same as ~Lem-feg~. A Turkey Fig.--N.W.

=Dout=. To put out, as 'Dout the candle' (A.B.S.): to smother or extinguish fire by beating.--N. & S.W.

'An extinguisher "douts" a candle; the heel of a boot "douts" a match thrown down. But the exact definition of "dout" is to smother, or extinguish by beating.'--_Village Miners._

=Dowl=. The fine down of a bird.--N.W.

'Coots and moor-hens must be skinned, they could not be plucked because of the "dowl." Dowl is the fluff, the tiny featherets no fingers can remove.'--_Bevis_, ch. vii.

=Down=. To tire out, to exhaust. 'That there 'oss's downed.'--N.W. (Wroughton.)

=Down-along=. 'He lives down-along,' a little way down the street (S.), as opposed to 'up-along.'--S.W.

=Down-arg=. To contradict in an overbearing manner (A.B.S.), to browbeat.--N. & S.W.

=Down-dacious=. Audacious (S.). 'Her's a right downdacious young vaggot, that her is!'--S.W.

*=Down-haggard=. Disconsolate (S.).--S.W.

=Down-hearten=. To feel disheartened. 'A be vurry bad, but I don't down-hearten about un.'--N.W.

=Dowse=. A blow (A.B.C.S.), as 'a dowse in the chops.'--N. & S.W.

=Dowst=. (1) Chaff or cave. ~Dust~ (D.). (2) 'To go to dowst,' go to bed, perhaps from _dowst_ (chaff) being used to fill mattresses. Heard at Huish occasionally, but not traced elsewhere.

=Dowst-coob=. The chaff cupboard in a stable.--N. & S.W.

=Drag=. A harrow (D.).--N. & S.W.

=Drail=. (1) In a plough, the iron bow from which the traces draw, and by which the furrow is set (D.).--N.W. (2) _Crex pratensis_, the Landrail.--N.W.

*=Drainted=. Of dirt, ingrained (H.Wr.).

=Drang=, =Drangway=, =Drung=. (1) A narrow lane. ~Drun~ (H.Wr.).--S.W. (2) A narrow passage between walls or houses. Drun (H.Wr.).--S.W.

=Drangway=. See ~Drang~ (S.).

=Drashel=, =Dreshol=, &c. A flail (D.). The correct term for a flail is a _drashel_, but '_a pair o' drashells_' (or 'dreshols') is more commonly used, as two men generally work together.--N. & S.W.

*=Drattle=. Much talk (S.).--S.W.

=Draught=. A cart-shaft. ~Draats~ (S.).--S.W.

=Draughts=. Hazel-rods selected for hurdle-making (D.). A 'draught' is not a rod, but a bundle of long wood suitable for hurdles or pea-sticks, bound with a single withe.--N.W.

=Drave=. 'I be slaving an' draving (i.e. working myself to death) for he, night and day.'--N. & S.W.

=Draw=. (1) A squirrel's dray or nest.--N.W. (Marlborough.) (2) Rarely applied to a large nest, as a hawk's. Compare:--'_Draw_, to build a nest (_Berners_),' an old hawking term.--N.W. (Marlborough.)

=Drawing=. See ~Drawn~.

=Drawn=. In a water-meadow, the large open main drain which carries the water back to the river, after it has passed through the various carriages and trenches.--S.W. In every-day use about Salisbury, and along the Avon and Wiley from Downton to Codford, but rarely heard elsewhere.

'Many of the meadows on either length [near Salisbury] abound in ditches and "drawns."'--_Fishing Gazette_, July 18, 1891, p. 40, col. 2.

'I ... descried three birds, standing quite still [at Britford] by the margin of a flooded "drawing."'--_Wilts Arch. Mag._ xxi. 229.

=Dredge=, =Drodge=. Barley and oats grown together.--S.W.

=Dribs-and-Drabs=. Odds and ends. 'All in dribs and drabs,' all in tatters.--N. & S.W.

=Drieth=. See ~Dryth~.

=Drift=. A row of felled underwood (D.).--N.W.

=Dripple= See ~Waggon~.

=Drive=. Of manure, to stimulate growth. 'Thur, that'll drive th' rhubub, _I_ knaws!'--N. & S.W.

=Drock=. (1) A short drain under a roadway, often made with a hollow tree.--N. & S.W. (2) A broad flat stone laid as a bridge across a ditch (_Amaryllis at the Fair_).--N.W. (Castle Eaton, &c.)

'Drock, a water-way, or sometimes the stone slab over a narrow ditch.'--_Leisure Hour_, Aug. 1893.

'1674. Item Paid Richard Serrell for a Stone to make a Drocke.--_Records of Chippenham_, p. 230.

*(3) A water-course (H.Wr.). A water-way (_Leisure Hour_, Aug. 1893).--N.W. (Castle Eaton, &c.)

'Where meaning a water way, it is usually spoken of as a Drockway, "drock" alone being the passage over the ditch.'--MISS E. BOYER-BROWN.

*(4) Used in compounds such as ~Well-drock~, windlass.

=Drockway=. See ~Drock~ (3).

=Drodge=. See ~Dredge~ .

*=Dromedary=. (1) _Centaurea nigra_, L., Black Knapweed.--S.W. (Barford St. Martin.) (2) _Centaurea Scabiosa_, L., Hardheads.--S.W. (Barford St. Martin.)

=Dropping=. 'A dropping summer,' one when there is a shower every two or three days (_Wild Life_, ch. ii).--N.W.

=Drove=. A green roadway on a farm.--N. & S.W.

=Drown=. To turn the water over the meadows.--S.W.

=Drowner=. The man who attends to the hatches, managing the supply of water, and turning it on and off the meadows at the proper times.--S.W.

*=Drowning-bridge=. A water-meadow sluice-gate (A.B.G.H. Wr.).

=Drowning-carriage=. A large water-course for drowning a meadow. See ~Carriage~.--S.W.

*=Droy=. A thunderbolt (Aubrey's _Wilts MS._, H.Wr.).--Obsolete.

*=Drucked=. Filled to overflowing (S.).--S.W.

=Drug=. (1) 'To drug timber,' to draw it out of the woods under a pair of wheels (D.).--N.W. (2) 'To drug a wheel,' to put on some kind of drag or chain.--N.W.

*=Druid's-hair=. Long moss (H.Wr.).

=Drun=. See ~Drang~ (H.Wr.).

=Drunge=. (1) _n._ A crowd or crush of people (H.Wr.)--N.W. (2) _v._ To squeeze (S.).--S.W.

=Drunkards=. Flowers of _Caltha palustris_, L., Marsh Marigold; probably from the way in which they suck up water when placed in a vase. The reason assigned by children for the name is that if you look long at them you will be sure to take to drink.--S.W. (Som. bord.)

=Dry Cuckoo=, or =Dryland Cuckoo=. _Saxifraga granulata_, L., White Meadow Saxifrage. See ~Cuckoo~.--S.W.

=Dryth=, or =Drieth=. Dryness, drought.--N.W.

'1633. The cryer ... to give warninge to the inhabitants to sett payles of water at their doores in the late tyme of drieth and heate.'--_Records of Chippenham_, p. 206.

=Dub=. To pelt with stones. 'Just dub that apple down out of the tree, will 'ee?' See ~Frog-dubbing~.--S.W.

=Dubbed=. Blunt, pointless (A.B.).

*=Dubbing=. 'A dubbin' o' drenk,' a pint or mug of beer (A.B.H.Wr.).

=Dubby=. Oily.--N.W.

=Duck's-frost=. A very slight white frost.--N.W.

'That kind of frost which comes on in the early morning, and is accompanied with some rime on the grass--a duck's frost, just sufficient to check fox-hunting.'--_Gamekeeper at Home_, ch. vii.

=Duckstone=. A game played by boys with stones (S.).--S.W.

=Dudder=. See ~Dodder~.

=Dudge=. (1) A bundle of anything used to stop a hole.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) *(2) 'Peg the dudge,' tap the barrel (A.B.G.H.Wr.).

=Dudman=. A scarecrow.--N.W. (Malmesbury.)

=Dumb-Ague=. A kind of ague which is not accompanied by the usual shaking fits. ''Tis what 'ee do caal the dumb-agey.'--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

=Dumble=. Stupid, dull (A.B.H.Wr.); also ~Domel, Dummel, &c.~--N.W.

'Severe weather ... makes all wild animals "dummel" in provincial phrase,--i.e. stupid, slow to move.'--_Gamekeeper at Home_, ch. vii.

=Dumbledore=, or =Dumble=. The Humble-bee (A.B.S.).--N. & S.W.

'Th' mak'st a noise like a dumbledore in a pitcher.'--_Wilts Tales_, p. 68.

=Dumb Nettle=. _Lamium album_, L., White Dead-nettle.--S.W. (Charlton.)

=Dump=. (1) _n._ 'A treacle dump,' a kind of coarse sweetmeat.--S.W. (2) _v._ To blunt, as 'I've dumped my scythe against a stone.'--N.W. (3) A pollard tree, as 'Ash-dump,' or 'Willow-dump.'--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

=Dum-put=. See ~Dung-pot~.

=Dunch=. (1) Deaf (A.B.C.); now rarely so used. In _Cunnington MS._ said to be at that time the usual N. Wilts term for _deaf_.--N & S.W.

'Ah! Molly, ye purtends to be as dunch as a bittle, but I kneows 'e hears ev'ry word I zays.'--_Wilts Tales_, p. 81.

(2) Stupid, heavy; now the common use. 'The wapses gets dunch' in late autumn. A labourer who can't be made to understand orders is 'dunch.'--N. & S.W. (3) Of bread, heavy (_Wild Life_, ch. vii). Cf. ~Dunch-dumpling.~--N. & S.W. ~Dunchy~ is frequently used in S. Wilts instead of ~Dunch~, but usually means deaf.

=Dunch-dumpling=. A hard-boiled flour-and-water dumpling (A.B.C.) See ~Dunch~ (3).--N.W.

=Dunch-nettle=, =Dunse-nettle=. (1) _Lamium purpureum_, L., Red Dead-nettle. ~Dunch~=stupid, inactive. Cf. ~Deaf-nettle~.--S.W. (2) _Lamium album_, L., White Dead-nettle.--S.W. (Barford.)

=Dung-pot=. A dung-cart (D.); rarely ~Dum-put~. See ~Pot~.--N. & S.W.

*=Dup=. 'To dup the door,' to open or unfasten it (_Lansd. MS._ 1033).--Obsolete. Cf. :--

'Then up he rose, and donn'd his clothes, And dupp'd the chamber-door.'--_Hamlet_, iv. 5.

The word now means the very reverse.

=Dutch Elder=. _Aegopodium Podagraria_, L., Goutweed.--S.W. (Farley, &c.)

=Duther=, =Dutter=. See ~Dodder~.

=Ea-grass=. After-grass (D.); Lammas grass as well as aftermath.--S.W.

=Eass= (sometimes =Yees=). An earthworm.--S.W.

*=Edge-growed=. Of barley, both growing and ripening irregularly; the result of a want of rain after it is first sown (D.).

=Eel-scrade=. A kind of eel-trap.--S.W.

'A trap used to catch eels, placed near a weir. The water is turned into the scrade when high, and the fish washed up to a stage through which the water finds an outlet, the fish, however, being retained on the platform by a piece of sloping iron.'--F. M. WILLIS.

=Eel-sticher=. An eel-spear.--S.W.

'Wishing to secure [a Little Grebe] in summer plumage, I asked the old "drowner" in our meadows to look out for one for me--and this he very soon did, fishing one out from under the water between the spikes of his eel-sticher, as it was diving under the water.'--_Wilts Arch. Mag._ xxii. 193.

=Effet=, =Evet=. _Lissotriton punctatus_, the Newt (A.S.)--N. & S.W.

'She ... sometimes peered under the sage-bush to look at the "effets" that hid there.'--_Great Estate_, ii.

=Eggs-and-Bacon=. _Linaria vulgaris_, Mill., Yellow Toadflax. Cf. ~Bacon-and-Eggs~.--N. & S.W.

*=Eggs-eggs=. Fruit of the hawthorn.--S.W. (Farley.)

*=Elet=. Fuel (H.Wr.). *~Ollit~ (Aubrey's _Wilts MS._).--N.W., obsolete.

=Elm=, =Helm=, or =Yelm=. (1) _v._ To make up 'elms.'--N. & S.W.

'Two or three women are busy "yelming," i.e. separating the straw, selecting the longest and laying it level and parallel, damping it with water, and preparing it for the yokes.'--_Wild Life_, ch. vi.

(2) _n._ (Almost invariably pl.,'elms' being the usual form). Small bundles or handfuls of fresh straw, damped and laid out straight for the thatcher's use (_Wild Life_, ch. vi). See _Wilts Arch. Mag._ vol. xxii. p. 111. According to Prof. Skeat _yelm_, seldom now used in Wilts, is the correct form, from A.S. _gilm_, a handful. About Marlborough it is usually pronounced as _Yelms_, but at Clyffe Pypard there is not the slightest sound of _y_ in it. Elsewhere it is frequently pronounced as _Ellums_.--N. & S.W.

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

=Emmet=. The Ant (S.). 'Ant' is never used in Wilts.--N. & S.W.

=Emmet-heap=. An anthill.--N. & S.W.

=En=. (1) _pl. termination_, as ~Housen~, houses; ~Hipsen~, rose-berries; ~Keyn~, keys; ~Facen~, faces; ~Wenchen~, girls; ~Bluen~, blossoms; ~Naas'n~, nests (rarely heard, _Nestises_ being the usual form); ~Pigs'-sousen~, pigs'-ears.--N. & S.W.

'In North Wilts ... the formation of the Plural by affixing _en_ to the Noun is almost universal, as house housen, &c.'--_Cunnington MS._

(2) _adj. term._, as ~Harnen~, made of horn; ~Stwonen~, of stone; ~Elmin~, of elm wood, &c. '~Boughten~ bread,' baker's bread, as opposed to home-made. 'A ~dirten~ floor,' a floor made of earth, beaten hard. 'A ~tinnin~ pot.' 'A ~glassen~ cup.' ~Boarden~, made of boards; ~Treen-dishes~, wooden platters, &c. 'There's some volk as thinks to go droo life in glassen slippers.'--N. & S.W.

'Almost as universal too is the transformation of the Substantive into an adjective by the same termination as ... a Leatheren Shoe, an elmen Board, &c.'--_Cunnington MS._

(3) See ~Pronouns~.

'The pronoun Possessive too is formed in the same way, as hisn hern Ourn theirn.'--_Cunnington MS._

=English Parrot=. _Picus viridis_, the Green Woodpecker (_Birds of Wilts_, p. 251).--S.W. (Salisbury.)

=Ether=, =Edder=. The top-band of a fence, the wands of hazel, &c., woven in along the top of a 'dead hedge,' or wattled fence, to keep it compact (A.B.). A 'stake and ether' fence. A.S. _edor_.--N.W.

'Mughall [Midghall] had nothing to doe withought [without] the Eyther [hedge] between Bradene Lane and Shropshire Marsh.'--1602, MS., _Perambulation of the Great Park of Fasterne, N.W._, in Devizes Museum.

'An eldern stake and blackthorn ether Will make a hedge to last for ever.'--_Wilts Saying_ (A.).

=Eve=. See ~Heave~.

=Even-ash=. Ash-leaves with an equal number of leaflets, carried by children in the afternoon of the 29th May (_Wild Life_, ch. v). See ~Shitsac~.--N.W.

=Evet=. See ~Effet~.

=Ex=, pl. =Exes=. An axle (S.).--N. & S.W.

=Eyles=. See ~Ailes~.

=F=. (1) _F_ for _th_. Examples :.--_Fust_, thirst; _afust_, athirst. An old characteristic of the Western and South-Western groups of dialect. (2) F, at the beginning of a word, is frequently sounded as _v_, as fall, _vall_; flick, _vlick_; font, _vant_.

=Fadge=. See ~Fodge~.

=Fag=. See ~Vag~.

=Faggot=, =Fakket=. (1) A woman of bad character is 'a nasty stinking faggot (or vaggot).' Often used in a milder sense, as 'You young vaggot! [you bad girl] what be slapping the baby vor?'--N. & S.W.

'Damn you vor a gay wench, vor that's what you be, an' no mistake about it; a vaggot as I wun't hae in _my_ house no longer.'--_Dark_, ch. xii.

(2) A rissole of chopped pig's-liver and seasoning, covered with 'flare': also known as ~Bake-faggot~.--N. & S.W.

'Tripe an mince meat, Vaggots an pigs veet, An blackpuddins stale, on which to regale.'--SLOW'S _Poems_, p. 26.

=Falarie=. Disturbance, excitement, commotion.--N. & S.W.

'"Look'ee here, there 've bin a fine falarie about you, Zur." He meant that there had been much excitement when it was found that Bevis was not in the garden, and was nowhere to be found.'--_Wood Magic_, ch. ii.

'Used about Wilton, but not so extensively as its synonym _rumpus_.'--_Letter from Mr. Slow._

=Fall about=. _v._ Of a woman: to be confined. 'His wife bin an' fell about laas' night.'--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

=Fall down=. Of arable land: to be allowed to relapse of itself into poor rough pasture.--N.W.

'Some of the land is getting "turnip-sick," the roots come stringy and small and useless, so that many let it "vall down."'--_Great Estate_, ch. i. p. 6.

=Falling=. _n._ A downfall of snow. 'I thenks we shall have some vallen soon.' Only used of snow.--N. & S.W.

=Falling-post=. The front upright timber of a gate. Occasionally heard at Huish; ~Head~, however, being the more usual term there.--N.W.

=Falsify=. Of seeds, young trees, &c.: to fail, to come to nought.--N.W.

=Fancy man=. A married woman's lover. 'He be Bill's wife's fancy man, that's what _he_ do be.'--N.W.