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* So netnefangd ben they of hir mete,
And louen nouelries of propre kynde.'
Chauceb, F, 618 (Six-text ed.), Skeai
' At Christmas I no more desire a rose
Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth.'
Love's Labour Lost, L L 106.
Mr. Oliphant says that Chaucer was the first to use ' Newfangd* Mr. Nares and the editors of * The Bible
Word-Book* alike remark of New-fangled
that it is 'not yet quite obsolete.' See Fangle, in Wedo. Cf. Fangled {ante).
VEW-TISUDE, sb., oh&oh. the Kew-year's-tide ; the beginning of the year. — Pulyerbatch. A couplet which
sets forth that the days attam a
slightly increased length at this season runs as follows : —
* New^vU-tide A cock-stride.'
KEX'-TO-lTEX'y adv, in order of succession ; consecutiyely, — ' three nights ncac'-to-nttB'.' — Shrewsbury; Clun.
Qy.com.
HICE, adj, oyer-particular ; fastidious — in regard of food. Com. ' 'E shall shift 'is fit from under my
table, 'e*8 got'n so despert fitce,
theer's nuthin' good enough fur 'im.'
* Portia, In terms of choice I am not solely led By nice direction of a maiden's eyes.'
Merchant of Venice, H. L 14.
* More nice than wise.' — Kay's Proverbs^ p. 203.
HIGH, adv. and prep, near — ^regularly compared, as, ^ 'E never come nigh, fur all 'e promised.' ' Draw up
nigher the fire.' ^ 'E st6od at the
top nighest the Maister.' Com.
* — was nei^e atte de^e.' — William ofPaleme, 1. 1511.
' And neigh the castel swiche ther dwelten three.'
Chaucer, B. 550 (Six-text ed.), Skeai
* Prospero, Why, that's my spirit !
But was not this nigh shore P
Arid, Close by, my master. '
Tempest, I. ii. 15.
A note in the Bible Word-Book says that nigh is * a common pro- vincialism in Su£Polk.' See Dr. Morris's
Historical English Accidence^ p. 108.
A.S. nedh, nSh; sp. nfhst, nigh, nighest, of which the oomp. is nearfa. Cf. Keflt, also Aiiigh.
HIOHT-HAWK, sb, the European Goat-sucker. — Clun, Clungun- ford Hill and Shelderton Bocks; Oswestry.
See Nyghte Crowe in Prompt, Parv, with
Way's Note. C£ Chum-owl, also liich-fowl.
nOHT-JAB, same as above. — Bridgnorth.
niiD [nil'd], (1) 8b.f var, pr, a neeld-~old form for needle. Com. * Come an' look my knittin'-ntW — theer's a
good child.' * Wy yo'n stuck it i'
yore cap, Gran ! ' Slight stitching tiiat won't hold is said to have been ' sewed 5oth a wut [hot] nild
an a bumin* thrid.'
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* We, Hermia, like two artificial gods,
Have with our neeld» created boui one flower,
Both on one sampler, '
Midsummer Ntghfi Dream, III. ii. 204.
' Acua, nelde,' occurs in a SemiSaxan VocabtUari/f in Wr. yooabs., Tol. i. p. 94. A.S. ndcU, a needle.
(2) sh, a needle used in stemming holes for blasting. — ^Pulyeb- BATCH, Arscott, Qy. com. M T. C£. Pricker.
HILE, same as Caplin, q. v. — Corve Dale ; Ludlow.
VIMBLE-TAILOS, eb. the Long-tailed Titmouse. — Bridgnorth. See Bottle-tit.
HDfB-COBirSy sKy at the last after-supper pipe. — Clee Hilus. Qy. com. ' m g66 an' a my nine'Coms, an' then I'll
be off to bed.'
VnrBTED, adj, addicted to evil ways. Com. ^'E's a nineted pippin * : said of a yicious youth.
VnrTE [nei-ntl, (1) t?. a. to beat. Qy. com. * Billy, if yo' dunna come back an get on wuth that leasin' I'll
ninte yore 'ide far yo* ' : so said *
Jack-the-Bot*s ' daughter to her boy.
(2) V. n. to ^ along.— Clee Hills; Ludlow; Bridonorth, ' xiiey wun comin' alung as fast as the
pony could ninte,'
HIFPIT [lup'it], v. w. to go quickly ; to hurry. — Craven Arms. * Wen I^eard the w'istle, didnad I nippit
.« '
VISOAL [niz'gul], (l) sb, the smallest and weakliest of a brood of any kind of domestic fowls. — Pulverbatch.
* I've nussed this poor lickle nisgcU
in o61 this two days an' nights, an' see 'ow peart 'e's gotten.'
(2) »b, the smallest of a litter of pigs. — Olun ; Ludlow.
KTTY [niti*], adj\ bright ; sparkling : said of ale. Com. ' I wuz . firittened Ven I tapped the ale, it
looked jest like barm i' the jug ; but
Ven I poured it i' tne glass it wuz nitty, an' as clier as sack.*
* Nitid {nitidus), dean, . . . fair, bright.'— BLOUirr's OloMographia, p. 435.
'Lat. ntfldoy to make bright or clear.' — Did. Etym. Lat,
HO, adv., pee. not. Com. * Well, I carna w'ether yo' dun it or wo, it's all the same to me.'
VOBBLETT, same as Hoggety, below.— Wem.
VOBBT, sb, a sucking foal. — Shrewsbury ; Pulverbatch ; Craven Arms.
VOSi adv. not. Com. See T (1 ) in Grammar Outlines {consonants).
HOD 'AFE BAD, phr. very good. Com. 'Well, Joe, did they ^ve you what you liked ? ' asked a
clergyman of an old man who had just
nad a capital dinner in the rector^r utchen. * W'y, iss, Sir,' said Joe, doggedly, ' they p&t me a bit o*
bif, an' it wunnaa *a/e bad.' To
express approval or opinion in this negative, doubtful fashion is
a characteristic of Shropshire folk,
and. until it is understood, is often a
source of vexation to strangers who dwell in their midst, as when a
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clergyman recently come to bia benefice heard himself thus appraised ^ Our paas*n inna 80 bad as some, that's
all I *aye to sav fur 'im ; ' — ^he
was much disturbed, till a friend assured him that tne remark was meant to convey the speakei^s decided
approbation of his rector.
SO DAVGEB, iutefj. Not at aU likely ! Nothing of the kind !^ a deprecatory exclcumation constantly in
use, apropos, or maldproa, to the
occasion. Com. ' So I 'ear yo' bin gwelin to be married. Turn. ' No daingeVf Missis—axin' i' church inna
marryin', an' I amma oome to that
yit.' See A (13) in Qrammar Outlines {voweU, &c.). G£ Banger.
HOOOEV [nogn], (1) adj., obsols, made of no^^,— coarse refuse of flax or hemp. — Fxtlyebbatch ; Glee Hills.
* In the trunk at the end of the Fresse, Imprimis eyghtenne payre of hempten sheets and six paire of noggen
sheets vij".'— intwiUory . . .
Owlbury Manor-House, Bishop's CasUe, 1625. C£ Herden.
(2) a di, y ohsols, dull ; stupid ; rough. — ^Pulvebbatgh ; Glee Hills ; Much WEifLOCK ; Wellington. ' A noggen
mother's better than a c^owden faither
: ' so said old MoUy Johnson of Wrockwardine, then [1857] in her ninety- fourth year ; she was
speaking of a young £Eimily left
motherless, and she gave it as the * experience of ufe ' that the homely old proverb was a true saying.
HOOOEN-TEDDBD, same as Vof gle-yedded^ below. — ^Wem.
I'OOOETT [nog'utr], ctdj, big ; clumsy, as of the head of a walking- stick. — PuLVERBATCH, Arscott, * Han yo*
sid my stick ? ' * No ; whad sort wuz
it — a 'ooked un P ' ' No ; a noggety-yedded un.' Ct Kobblety.
HOOOLEB, sb., obsols^ a stupid person ; a blockhead. — Pulverbatch. See Koggling, below.
VOOOLE-TEDDBD, adj,y obsols. thick-headed; stupid. — Pulver- batch. "E's a noggle^yedded auf—
nuthin' better.' Gfl Vog^gen- yedded,
above.
VOOOLDf 0, adj., obsols. bungling ; blundering. — Pulverbatch.
* Well, yo' han maden a nogglin* job o' that, any ways.' ' Whad did'n'ee Bpect different, w'en yo' knowed as I wuz
authin' but a noggler afore I started
on it' See Noggler, above.
NOO-M&N [nog'mun], sb., obs, a country weaver. — Pulverbatch.
* Poor owd Spake [Speake] the nog^^man called to beg a spot o' drink ; if s 'ard times ^th 'im now nobody spins —
'e teUs me 'e gets a bit o' yom from
the factory, an' waives it 'imself, an' it shoots mem folks as bin too lazy to spin fur tharselves.*
Sometimes a rope-maker was called a
no^-man.
SO GBEAT SHAKES, phr. not good for much ; ' below par.' Com. "* *0w bin'ee, Matty P — ^I hanna sid
yo' this lung wilde.' * Well, indeed,
Pm no great shakes ; IVe bin tossicated 66ih. one thing or other,
the bwoy breakin' is leg an' that — 'e
met as well a bin lulled.'
XOOS, obsols. same as Herdes, q. v. — Pulverbatch ; Clee Hills. Der, * noggen ' (1).
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VOKKf adv., pec. a yerj short time ; next to no time, as of going or coming. Com. ' Now, Ted, I want yo' to run a
narrand for me, an' yo' mun be none
away, else the Maistor 561 be 'ere afore yo.'
HOH-PLTTSH, ftb., var. pr., pec. a position of difficulty or disad- vantage. — ^PuLVBRBATCH. Qy, com. *Poor owd
Mr. Ambler! 'e wuz Qie best mon i' the
parish odth 'is chem — 'e d5dna see a poor
neighbour at a non^ush far a bit o' ooal, or anythin' else as men
or 'orses coulden do.'
VOVSICAL, adj.y var. pr. nonsensical — ^in a disagreeable way. — PuiiVERBATCH ; Wem. * Nevor 'eed whad that
feUow says, 'e's al'a3rs on o5th 'is
nannecU talk.'
HOOK-SHOTXiSJN , (1) adj. having many sharp turns and angles. — Whitchttrch, Whixall. An old farmer
cautioned a certain person against
taking a short cut across some fields because the way was very * nettk-shotten,'
' — that nook-aJujiten isle of Albion.'
K. Henry F., IV. v. 14.
'Ijayamon [a.d. 1205, circa] has the word nook (ang^us). . . .
The poet, speaking of a mere, says, '*Feower
noked he is." . . . There are some other common words, which he is the first English writer to use.' —
Sources of Standard English, pp. 114,
115.
(2) pari. adj. stationed — as a matter of idle habit — in the chimney- corner : — * Sich a neuk-ehoUen thing inna
wuth 'er saut' — ^WmxcHUBCH, TiUtock.
* Kate sits i' the neuk, Suppin' lien
broo ; Deil tak' Eate, An' she be a noddin' too.'
Robert Burns, FoemSy p. 276, 1. 1, c. 2.
See Oo (12) in Qrammar Outlines (vowdSf &c.),
VOO'S'SF'ELLyab, the labouring-man's luncheon-time. — ^Wellington. Pegge has * Noon-scape, the time when
labourers rest after dinner. Lane' Cf.
Bait.
HOPE, BITD-irOPE [noa-p], sh. PyrrMla ruhicilla, the Bullfinch. — Bridgnorth. Nope ^ ope = aupe, and avpe ^
aipe, the word used for bullfinch in
the following : —
« nightingales.
And alpes, and fincmes, and wode-wales.'
Bom. of the Rose^ 1. 658.
' To philomell the next, the linet we prefer ; And by tbat warbling bird, the wood-larke
place we then. The red-sparrow, the
nope, the red-breast, and the wren.'
Drayton's Pdyolhion, Song xiii, in Wr.
Bandle Holme gives ' Nope ' in a category of birds, ' Canorous, or of a Singine kind ; ' but as he includes *
Bvlfinch ' also in the same list, he
probably did not identify them as being one and the same biri — Academy of Armory , Bk. IL ch. xiii.
p. 309.
* Nope, a bullfinch. Suf!.'— Pegge. See -4 (pc in Hal. Cf. Plum- bndder.
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I'OPES, sb,pl,y ohsA children,^— a term employed amongst the mining population. — Colliery.
Compare E.E. *knape; A.S. cnapa; O.Fiifl. knapa; O.Sax. cnafo; O.IceL knapi, a boy,' m Steat.
I'OB, eonj\, pec. than, — * better n&r that/ — Cleb Hills ; Ludlow ; Newport.
' " & more nor this, he dyes for yonr Lone, Therfore, Lady, show some pittye.'' '
Will Stewart and John, 1. 83. Percy Folio MS.^ Tol. iii. p. 219, ed. Hales and FumiyalL
* For some few bags of cash, that, I wat weel, I nae mair need nor carts do a third
wheel.'
Allan Eamsay, The Gentle ShepJierd, IV. ii. p. 66.
Grose giyes * nor ' for than as ' North.'
SOBATIOir [noar'ai'shun], eb. a fussy, discussional talk about a matter, — 'much ado about nothing.^ Clearly
an oration is meant Com. * Poor owd
Nelly ! 'er went off verra soodden MSond'y wuz- a-wik. Ah went in theer o* the Soond'y
evenin', an' as soon as iyer Ah looked
at 'er Ah seed as 'er were tuk for dyeath, an' Ah 962 to 'er daater, ** Merier," Ah sez, " yer
MSother looks verra baad." " Eh ! " 'er sez, ** Ah dunna think as 'er s no wus till
wot 'er 'as bin. " •* Merier,"
Ah sez, ** tae moi woord fur it, 'er's strook fur dyeath, an' vo' 'ad
ought to sen' fur the doctor — oither
the doctor or the paarson," Ah sez, " far theer'll be sich a noraition all o'er the
pleaoe if we letten 'er doi wi'out
annyim ; " an' Ah went across baack agen to our 'ouse an' axed
moi Maester, wud 'e goo fur the
paarson to owd Nelly ? — an' 'e'd taen 'is
boots off, an' were i5ost goom' $op the steers, an' 'e sed, '* No,
they med ^00 thersens,' — an' Ah sez
to 'im, *' My laad," Ah sez, '^ Ah'U
do moi dooty by owd Nelly as Ah expec' to 'i&ye someim to do it
by may," an' wi' thaat Ah set off
fui the Rector mysen, j5o8t as An
were, an' dark at noight, an' twelve o'clock afore e raught baadL
to owd Nelly's, an' the fas' thing as
'e did — soon^s iver ^e got in — 'e brot
out a spot o' braandy out'n 'is pockit, an' 'e axed me, '* 'Ad Ah
iver-a ^sh egg i' the 'ouseP" an'
Ah sed, ''Eh dear! yes, Sir," Ah sez,
** plenty o' eggs ; " an' 'e toud me to breek won an' part the
yolk fro' the woite, an' blend it 5op
wi' the braandy ; so Ah blent it <Sop as 'e toud me, an' 'e gi'ed it owd Nelly 'issen,
an' it sim'd to n6onsh 'er loike, an'
'er continnied on tiU momin', an' went off verra quoite jdost after we'd 'adden our brekfasses— Ah knowed
'er were 8tr5ok fur dyeath soon as
iver Ah seed ''er o'the Soond'y noight' [Edgmond, 1872].
S'OSE rnoa*z], v, a., pec, to take the blossoms off black currants and gooseberries preparatory to preserying
them. Qy. com. * We noied about eight
quai-ts o' black currants after milkin' time, an' then theer WU2 a great side-basket o' gooseb'ries to
nose,^
VOTTAMT [not'u'mi'], sb., var, jyr. a thin, meagre person, — one worn to 'skin and bone' by illness or worry; an
anatomy. It was remarked of a certain
' faddy * mistress, concerning her maid-servant, that * 'er'd werrited the poor girld till
'er wuz a rael nattamy ! '
HOW JUST, adv. a point of time immediately preceding the present.
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Com. *Wy, Maister, w'eer'n'ee bin? The Squire wuz 'ere now jestf an' vanted to see you.* Of. Juat now.
VOWT [nou't], sb, nothing ; naught : a term employed by the rougher class of speakers. — Wellinoton ;
Collibby ; Newport.
' )7an was )>e godwif glad * and gan it £aire kepe, i7at it want^ nouit * )7at it wold haue.'
William of PdUme, I 72.
A.S. ndwiht, naught.
HTTCHID, part, adj,^ ohs, ) stunted in growth in consequence of haying been ill-fed and neglected : said of
animals. — PxTLVEBBATon ; WoBTHEN. '
That pig o' Molly Bobe'ts's is rmchid; if 11 never come . to nuthin'.'
Bay gives ' NusKd, Starved in the bringing up,' in South and East Country Words.
See Gh (3) in Grammar Outlines {consonants, &c). C£ Stoken.
BUVCLE [nungk'l], sb. an uncle. 'Dun yo' call yore Nuncle a noud mon ? W'y my Nunde Ben lived to be a
'undred an' two, an' yore's
inna-d-above four-score ! '
Mr. Nares says that Nuncle was 'originally a familiar contraction of mine uncle, and was the customary
apj)ellation of the licensed fool to
his superiors.' So Shakespeare has it in K. Lear, L iv.,v.y where
the Fool repeatedly addresses Lear as
Nuncle.
Mr. Nares also says that in Beaumont and Fletcher's Pilgrim, lY. i., 'when Alinda assumes the character of a
fool, she meets Alphonso and caUs him
nuncle; to which he replies by calling her naunt, by a similar change of au7it* Of. Naint. See N
(1) m Orammar Out- lines (consonants,
&c.).
HUHTT [nunti'], adj. handy; convenient. — Cleb Hills. *Ah! they 'adna sich nunty things to get on ooth
the work forty 'ear ago.'
NX7BKER [uuf 'kur'], sb. something that is more than good — of superlative worth or excellence. — Lttdlow.
* Whad sort'n a milker's that cow,
Maister?' *Whad sort'n a milker? Wy 'er's a reg'lar nurker.^
VX7BSEBT [noi'sT'i'], sb,, pec. a nursling.— Wbm.
HITSS-BOW, sb. the Shrewmouse. Qy. com. See Artishrow.
VUTCSACKEB, sb. Sitta Europcm, the Nuthatch.— Bridgnorth.
HTTVITUOUS [nuvi'chus], (1) sb., obs.'i a rarity; a dainty; a * bonne-bouche.' — Pttlverbatch ; Worthen,
Minsterley. * I went to see poor owd Mrs.
Farley o' Wren'all [Wrentnall], an* 'er gid me a piece o' Marigold-cheese — it wuz a
nuvituous ; I hanna sid one fur
'ears.'
(2) adj., ohsoh. ? nourishing.—CHURCH Stretton.
OAF. See
OAK-BALL, sb. an oak-apple. — Shrewsbury. Cf. Oall (4). See Bk. II., Folklore, Ac, * Customs connected
with Days and Seasons' (Twenty-ninth
of May).
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OAHEDi part» adj. made hard by congestion of the milk-dncte : said of a cow's udder. — ^Wblukoton ; Wbm. *
That brind'ed cow's elder' 8 badly
oaned: See Cans, below. Of. Pounded (2).
OAHS, OOHS [65-h'nzl, Pulvbrbatoh. [oo-nz], Church Strbtton, eb, pi. lumps m the uader of a cow,
consequent upon the milk-ducts haying
been overcharffed. 'Betty, yo' mun rub that cow's elder, theer's odns in it as 'ard as a stwun.'
OASIITS [oa'zinz], sh. chaff mixed with light grain. — 1 ' Jack, yo' hanna 'afe winnud that com ; I
got a blii
-PULVBRBATCH.
blind-sieTe f till o' ocuins out on a
strike.' See below.
•OAZEZy sb. pi. light grains that are winnowed out, coyered with the husk or chaff. — Glee Hnj.8. Cfl Tail-ends.
OB [ob*], sh. a third swarm of bees in one season from the same hiye.— Gi.EE Hills. Of. Bunt (2). See Play
(2), also Oast (7).
OBITCH'S OOWT. See Forty sa' one, &c
ODDLDTOS, sb. pL things of diverse sorts or sizes. — ^PuLyERBATCH. * Them 'tatoes i' that wieket's oddlin'a,*
' A thread-bare shark ; one that never was a soldier yet lives upon lending. His profession is skeldering and
odling; his bank Paul's, and his
warehouse Pict-hatch.' — ^Ben Joksox, Every Man out of his Humour, in Nares. See Mr. Nares' Note upon
it.
ODD-MARK', sb.f obsols. that portion of the arable land of a farm set apart for a particular crop as it comes
in order of rotation under the
customary cultivation of the farm. Thus, a farm on the ' four- course ' system, having 200 acres arable
land, apportioned into equal parts for
grain and green crops — as wheat followed by turnips, barley or oats by clover or vetches — ^would have
50 acres odd-mark. — ^Glee Hills.
ODDHEFTS, sb. pi. odds and ends. Com. ' The Maister bought a lot o' oddments at the sale at Betchoot;
some on 'em wun useful enough, but the
most part wun rubbitch.'
ODDS, (1) V. a. to alter; to set to rights. — Pulverbatob; Crayks Arms. * We mun odds this, it d6nna do to
lave it athatn.'
(2) ab. difference. Gom. *Yo'n find the odd$ w'en yo' gwun to another plack.'
adj. different. Gom. ' Yo' bin odds to me if yo' can drink sich Ly- vengeance as this.'
O'EB-ABfUVST, pi-ep. over -against — Wem; Ellbsmerb. See Anunst.
O'ER-OET, (1) V. a. to escape, as by trick or strategy. — Pulver- BATCH ; Glee Hills ; Newport. * They wun
jagm 'im off to jail, but 'e managed
to o'er-get 'em.' Gf. O'er-run (1), below.
(2) V. a. to recover from ; to get over. — Pulverbatoh. * That child's never farly oW-got the maisles ;
theer's bin summat lankerin' about it
ever sence.'
O'EE-LOOKED, part. adj. bewitched; spell-bound; fascinated, as
(3) i belly-"'
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by an *evil eye.' — ^Pulvbbbatch. *I ahonld think we wun oV- looked to lave the Green an' come 'ere —
^we'n 'ad nuthin' but ill-luck erer
senoa'
' Beshrew jour eyes,
They have o^tr^lool^d me and divided me.'
Merchant of Venice^ TTT. ii 15.
Of. Merry Wives of Windior, V. v. 87. See Bk. II., Folklore, &c., * Witchcraft.'
O'XS-Bini, (1) V. a. to escape by flight. Com. "E o'er-run me, else 'e'd a 'ad a good strappin'.' Cf.
O'er-get (1), above.
(2) V. a, to leave, as of work, or some unfinished task. Qy. com. 'I'v' bin despert onlucky 66th. my
pou'trv this 'ear; theer's three 'ens
oV-rttn thar nists after the eggs wun cnipped.'
O^SB^SESH, part. adj. hlmded; deluded; deceived. — Pulvebbatgh; Clttn; Ellesmebe. 'Fur my part, I never thought
'er any great shc^es, but the Missis
wuz despertly o'er^seen in 'er.
' Thou, Collating, eOialt oversee this will;
How was I oveneen that thou shalt see it ! '
Shasesfeabb, Lucreee, L 1206.
0SBT8 [oaur'ts], prep, in comparison to. — ^Pulviebbatch. 'The corn's fiimmier i' the yed o9rk as last
'ear.' G£ Toftrts.
OFF, prep,, pec. from, — ' took it of 'im.' Com.
0T7IL [of'il], sb., var, pr,, pec. every part of a carcase that does not come under the recognized category of the
larger pieces and joints,— as of a
pig, all but the flitches and hams. — ^Pulvebbatoh ; Elles- mebe. Qy. com. ' I dunna like to see the
flitchen cut afore Maf - Daj, an' it
nee'na be, if the offil is used carfuL' See GOiine of Pork.
OILS [ei'lz], eb, pi,, pec, lotions and liniments of all kinds. Com.
OLB-OIBL, eb. an ' old maid.' Com. See OirL
OLD-MAV, eb. Southernwood. Com. See Lad's-love. Cf. Old- Woman.
OLD-HAV^B-PLATTHIHO, same as Bennet, q. y.^Ibid.
OLD-BTFPPLEB, eb,, d. the ace of spades. — Clee Hills. Cf. Devil's Bedstead.
OLD-WOMAV, eb. Artemisia argentea. Silvery Wormwood. — Clux ; Whitchttboh, TiUtock. Ct Old-man.
OLLEBH, eb. Alnus glutinoeus, the Alder. — ^Cobvb Dale.
*Alnue,' gloesed *alr,* occurs in an ^.<S. Vocabulary, zi. cent., in Wr. vocabs., vol. i. p. 79. C£ Orl, also
Owler.
OMXESL See Eomber.
OH [on-], (1) a prefix = un. See On-meroifol, On-tidy, &c., below. Qy. com. in Mid. and 8. 8hr, It is
an old form.
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' pe wordes scliolle be ised
Wifye-onte wane and eclie ;
And onderstandy hi mo^e bi sed
In alle manere speche
Ine lede ; )>at euerich man hi
sigge mo^e And cristny for nede.
mujAM OF Shokeham (a.d. 1307—1327). De
Baptismo, Specim, Early Eng., yi, 1. 66.
(2) prep, of. Com. 'They tooken out on 'im» or else Vd a o'er-got *em.'
' Were such things here as we do speak about ? Or have we eaten on the insane root That takes the reason prisoner ? '
Macbeth, I. iii. 82.
(a) prep, in combination with lay : — To lay on, to beat. * They laiden on the poor chap.'
* . . . Lay on, Macduff.* — Macbeth, V. viii. 33.
(3) adv, in combination with a verb. Com.
(a) To be on, (I) to work or bustle about. * They wun on all day lung.' * Now yo* bin on, bin 'ee ? '
(2) to talk about, usually in the way of complaint. ' 'E's bin on o5th me agen about that cowt gettin'
i' the fild.'
{b) To come on, to thrive ; to grow. * Yore lombs hanna comen on much.'
(c) To go on, to scold. * Dunna gdd on to the child, 'er'couldna 'elp it.' * They wenten on to the young 66man
shamefuL'
(d) To hold on, to pause. * 'Owd on, Surrey, till I come up.'
(e) To Jeeep on, to continue ; persist. ' They keppen on, an' oodna let it drop.'
(/) To take on, (1) to feign. * 'Er took on as 'er wuz mighty bad.' ' ^E took on 'im soft.' To take on soft is
to assume an air of hopeless
stupidity, as country people often do in a witness- box when caUed upon to give eyidenoe upon
some point which they wish to ignore.
(2) to erieye; to lament. * 'Er took on sadly w'en a toud*n 'er as Yedut wuz djed.'
{g) To think on, to remember. * Fll buy some more yam o' Saturd'y, if I can think on.^ Cf. Bemember.
OlfBEAB [onbaer'*], v, a, to remove the stratum of earth lying over the stone: a quarrying term. — Clttn;
Betdgnobth. C£ ^ — ^~'
OlfBEABniO [onbaer''in], sh, a superincumbent weight. — Pulvbr- BATCH ; Clun ; Bbedqnobth. * That beam's
despert wek for sich a onb€arin\*
dfCOMMOB', adv., pec. very. — Shbewsbuby ; Pulverbatch ; WoRTHEN. Qy. com. * Fll tak* a bit more, if
yo' phdsen, — yore ptiddin's oncommon
good.'
* Wi' that I pulled my yittles out, and zat a horse-barck, atin
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of 'em, and ancommon good they was.' — B,. D. Blaokmobe, Lorna Doone, A Bomance of Exmoor, p. 243, ed.
1878.
OVDEHIABLE, adv. very; extremely, — ''er^s ondenlahU spicy.' — Shrewsbubt; Pitlvbbbatoh ; Wobthen. Qy.com.
OHDEK [oa'ndur'], (I) «&., obsoU, the afternoon. In places where this term obtains the day is divided into
morning, middle of the day, onder, and
night. 'I thought to a finished the fCit o' my stockin* this ander, an* now it's aumust six o'clock
at ni^ht, an' it inna done. I've been
despert linty.' The word onder [sb,"^ is used more or less throughout the eastern half of Shropshire.
A line drawn from Elles- MEBE to
Middle, thence to Pulyebbatgh, and on to Lttdlow would roughly determine its range on that side.
Mr. (Harnett says, * This word [pnder] appears in our glossaries in nine or ten different shapes^ all equally
corrupt. The &ue form is undom^ or
undem; Goth, undaum, JlQ, undem^ G. untem. The word is sagaciously referred by Schmeller
to the prep, unter, anciently denoting
between [cf . Sansk. aniary Lat. inter, the true cognates of our underj^ q. d. the intervening period ;
which accounts for its sometimes
denotmg a part of the forenoon, or a meal taken at that time, and sometimes a period between noon and sunset.
It occurs in the former sense in
Ulphilas, undaumi-mat [lit. undemmeat], Luc. xiy. 12 ; in the latter in the Edda [Yoluspa], where the
gods are said to- have divided the day
into four parts — myrgin, morning ; mitheandag, noon ; undem, afternoon; a/tan, evening.' —
Gabxett's Philological Essays, p. 59.
Cf. Evening.
(2) V, n., obsols, to continue to work well in the after part of the day. — Craven Abms, Norton; Cobve Dale,
Stanton Lacey. * 'E's a rar chap for
work i' the momin', but 'e dunna onder well.'
^3) V, n., obsols, to go down: said of the sun. — Pulvebbatch. * Tne sun's beginnin' to onder,'
OSSEK'S-BAT TK See Onder, above, and Bait. Cf. Four-o'olook.
OHE DOff, OUE BXTLL, phr. signifies ' fair play.' — Colliery. This saying had its rise in the practice of
bull-baiting — a brutal custom which
lingered on in Shropshire till about the year 1841. The- BuUring is still the name of a small space
in Ludlow, at tiie top of Corve
Street. See Bk. 11., Folklore,
&c., ' Wakes, Fairs,' &o.
OHE-WAY-DBm'K, sh, beer of medium quality which contains the full strength of the malt and hops
apportioned to it — no ale having been
first drawn, nor weaker beer afterwards made, from the brew. — PuLVEBBATOH ; WoBTHEN. Qy. com. * Tak' a
jug an* draw some one-way 'drink for
the wilrit.*
OHOAIH, n) adj, awkward ; inconvenient. — Pulvebbatch ; Cleb HiiJjB. * Yo'n find that ampot mighty
ongain I doubt ; for whad yo' wanten
it's too big a power.' See Gain (2). Cf. TXngain.
(2) adj. intractable. — Ibid. 'This pony's so ongain I canna get it nigh the 'orse-block.' See Gain (3).
OHHUHAV, TJVHITHAN [oneu'munl Pulvebbatch. Funeu'mun], Ellesmbbe, adv. extraordinarily. * Poor
fellow ! 'e*s o^ihuman thin ; 'ie's
gwun to nuthin' but skin an' bwun.'
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OHIiESS, eonj, unless. — Pulverbatch; Worthen. Qy. com. in 8, 8hr, * I waz f55lLst to g55 along 58ih
'er ; 'er said onlesB I went 'er naint
SSdua loose 'er out.*
' At this court, for avoiding a oontrouersye betwext John ivigiey and John Chepp oonoeming the right yse of a
way at a place called the water-b^de,
Bichard Ghdnins and Gheorse fiaulkoner, produced in court as witnesses for and on the behaSf of
John Wigley, beLog sworn before the
stuard and homage, depose and say as followeth. L Bichard G^nins sayth that Margery Dayies,
sometime dwelling on Chep Street, wold
not remove her habitacion anlea she inifi:ht haue away conreniently and quietly to passe £rom
the kings hi^ way to and from a
pasture called Hadwell, &c. — ' The Boll of the Uourt Leet of the Manor of Bromfield, Shropshire, for
the 2nd October in the 4th year of
James I. (1607).* English Gilds, TMr Statutes and Customs, E. B. T. S.
OSLTJCKY, WLTTCET [onluki*], Pulverbatch ; Worthbn. [un- luk'i'], LtTDLOW; Ellbshbbe, adj. In one or
other of these forms the term is
general, meaning misdiievouB, as applied to bad boys, or to cows, &o. brealdng fence.
(1) *Theei^s that onlucky bwoy bin chuckin' stwuns agen at them gis, an's broke one o' thar wings.' Of.
Ontidy.
(2) ' The cow's so onltccky 'er's f56ast to '&ve a yok on.'
Sometimes they say, * 'Er^s got 'er
wducky baids on ' — referring to the yoke.
OnDBECIFXFLLT, adv,, pec. excessively; extraordinarily. — Pulver- batch. *I should think yo' han got a rig
out this May — yo' bin cnmercifully
fine.'
OVKIO, V, a. and v, n., obaoUA to undress. — Pulverbatch ; Wem.
* Now, Missis, dinner's waytin'.' * Well, gie me time to <mrig ; yo'
bin in a deepert 'uiry ; yo'd'n better
'&ve the dinner to meet one 'afe way
to church.'
OVSEOOTT, adj. uneven ; irregular. — ^Pulverbatch. Qy. com. in 8. 8hr, * Ow bin yore turmits this time ? '
* Well, they bin mighty <mshooty ;
they'n missed five or six buts together.'
OVSHUT [onsbaet' and onshut*], r. a. to unyoke the horses from the implements. — Pulverbatch. Qy. com. *
Yo'd'n better onshet an' g5o wham ; it
inna fit for mon or 'orse to stond out i' this ram.'^
Oomjpare ' otmcAc^ '—explained as *un-shut, i. e. opened* — ^in the foUowmg : —
* Qymp gerraflouris thar royn levys onschet,
Fresch prymross, and the purpour violet.' Gawin Douglas (a.1). 1613), Prol. of the
XIL Buk of Eneadw,
8pecim. Eng, Lit, xiii. L 121. See
Shut (1) and (5).
.OHTIDT, inrriDY [ontel-di*], Pulverbatch; Worthen. [un- tei'di'], Ludlow; Ellesmerb; adj, loose or
depraved in habits. As with *
Onlucky,' so with this term — ^whether the prefix take the form of *on' or *un'— it is current throughout
the county. * Oallus,*
• Onlucky,* • Ontidy ' are the three degrees of comparison as regards ill conduct, ontich/ being the
superlatively bad. * Them three voung
youths bin bad uns — Jack's as gcUlus a dog as ever lived, Sam s that
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onluehf Vs al'a3r8 in some lumber, but Turn's right oniidy ; I doubt
'e'll stretch a auter some day.'
'On-tydy Intemptatus (itUemptua, durisipua, intemperattu.),* — Prompt, Parv.
OVWEEDY, adj. soon done or got through. — Church Strbtton. ' Missis, that fiour*s bin mighty onweedy ;
it's done a'ready. ' Cf. Weedy.
0dL, sh., var. pr. wool Com. in Mid. and S. Shr, * Al'ays strokes *er the light way o* the ddl, Miss,' said an
old farmer, who wished to point out to
a young lady how it was he got on so well with his wife. See W (2) in Grammar Outlines {consonants,
&c.).
OOLB&T, ah. an owl, — ^the term is applied generically. Qy. com.
One night in the early part of the present century a certain Alick Young lost his way in the Eastridge Ooppy.
He cried out, 'Lost, lost ! ' in the
hope of being heard, and of gaining heln. A voice replied, ' Who-o-o.' ' Alick Young, the
saddler^ Sir, of Minsterley,' said he.
' Who-o-o,' repeated the voice. Again the man answeied as before, and again came the 'Who-o-o/
AHck Young in some way recovered the
lost path, and himself told the story of how he had answered an ' 9dlerfs who $ ' in
Eastridge Coppy.
There is a Shropshire saying — ' I live too nigh the o5d to be afeard of a mert:
A.S. ide; IceL ugla; Germ, eule; Lat. ultUa; an owl.
* Uulida, An owle or howlet,' — Diet. Etym, Lot,
See BiIly.hooter. Cf. Owlerd.
OOLEET-MOTH; eh. one of the order Lepidoptera NoetuideBy believed to be Plusia gamma, Oamma Moth. —
Pulverbatch. The local name of *
ddlert ' is ])robably given to this moth from its nocturnal habits. Flying about in the dusk of autumn
evenings, it often at such timee finds
its way into dwelling-houses.
SOLLEHLY, adj., ohsoh. simple-minded ; credulous. — Pulverbatch. 'I al'ays liked Tummas as a neighbour; 'e
wuz a good-natured, ddUenly mon — if
'e couldna do no good, 'e'do no 'arm.'
Sow A BE SAIB, phr. won't be advised. Qy. com. * I've toud 'er an' toud 'er whad that fellow wuz, but
'er Sdnna be said, an' now 'er's got
to sup sorrow by spd6ntles.'
SOES, (1) See My Sons. (2) See Oftns.
SdET, «6. a mole. — Pulvbrbatch; Worthbw; Much Wbnlock; CoRVB Dale. Qy. com. in 8. Shr. * If yo'
wanten a tftfniy-skin pus, yo'
khoulden g66 to owd Wilkes, the rot-ketcher ; 'e ketches dihiis an' stoats an* po'-cats an' aU sorts o'
varmint.'
< Talpa,^ glomied. ' wont,* occurs in a Metrical Vocabulary, perhaps adv. cent., in Wr. vocabe., vol. i. p. 177.
•A.S. wand; want (wont), ialpa.* — Strat.
Of. Kouldiwort. Qee sub voceVlen. See Bk. II., Folklore, &c., * Superstitions concerning Animals'
(molee),
66ETY-TU1IP, «6. a wanty-tump, — a mole-hiU. — Ibid. See Tump (1).
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OOSTEDy ah. a term used to denote quickness. — Pulverbatch; Chxtboh Stbetton ; Oleb Hills. ' They
wenten like the ddited,* * They
ffrowen like the ddsted.* The notion of a ball of worsted (pro- nounced ddsted) net free in rapid motion as
it falls and rolls a*way srom a
knitter is said to be implied in this curious expression.
OOT, wilt: used elliptically for 'wilt thou.' See Grammar Out- lines, vtrh Will, p. Ixy.
' Ketch out, SS< f ' The speaker was one of two boys, who, toiling up the Wyle Cop (Shrewsbury) under the
weight of a heavy basket of clothes,
had set down their load, and, after resting for a few seconds, were about to resume it Just as
the boy spoke, two clerg]^- men
passed. * Did you hear that. Sir P ' said the younger one to ms companion, the Bey. William GK)r8uch
Rowland. ' No ; what was it P ' * The
boy said, Sir, '^KeUh out, m f "—take hold, wilt thou ? ' This incident occurred in 1846.
Odt » M.E. wolt. See Dr. Morris's Historical English Accidence^ p. 187.
OOTEB [oo-tur'], same as Eastener, q. v. — Clbe Hills; Weil Hotter = hecUer is meant. See Hot. A.S.
hdt.
OOZY [oo'zi'], adj.f pec. dull; sluggish. — Wem; Whitchurch; Ellesmere. ' That wench dunna seem to oss
very well, 'er's that oozy 'er hanna
won bit o' stir in 'er — 'er^s as lazy as Ludlam*8 dog that laid 'im down to bark.'
Bay gives this quoted proverb * with a difference ' — ' that lean'd his head against a wall to bark.' — p. 219.
OPPLE, sh., var. pr. an apple. Qy. com.
OPPLE-OOB, ah. a dumpling made by enclosing an apple in a lump of dough, and boiling it. — Shrewsbury;
Craven Arms; Clun; Wem. Cf. Ck)b(l).
OPPLE-SCOPPLE, V. n. to scramble for sweetmeats, as children do. —Clun.
OBL, same as OUern, q. v. — ^Ludlow, Herefd. Border. There is a village called Orleton a few miles to the
S. W. of Ludlow, but in Here-
fordsnire.
OBNABY, (1) adj.y var. jpr. inferior; ordinary. Com. ' Whad ! Jack's a-wnam agen — ^I thought 'e went to
the Bonk.' * Aye, but the livin' theer
wuz so omary^ the bwoy couldna stop.'
(2) sh., var. pr. a public dinner for farmers attending the markets; an * ordinary ' — a * tabJe-d^Jiote.' Com.
* A poor far, I doubt — theer wus a
despert fi'eow at the Unicom omaryj
* Ladies' Ordinary. — At the Talbot on Tuesday , the Baven on Wednesday, the Talbot on Thursday, and the
Baven on Friday.*
* Gentlemen* s Ordinary. — ^At the Baven on Tuesday, the Talbot on Wednesday, the Baven on Thursday, and
the Talbot on Friday* — From a *
Correct List' of Shrewsbury Baces in 1774, reprinted in Salopian Shreds and Patches, vol. i. p. 68.
* Ordinaire, maison o^ Ton donne i manger. An ordinary; an eating-house. Jusqu'4 quand mangerai-je a
Vordinaire f How long shall! eat at
the ordinary V — Chamb.
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OBT [aur't*], v, a. to pick out tlie best part of a mess of food and leave the rest — * the pig orts 'is mate/ —
Clee Hills.
Jamieson gives * To Ori, v. a. To throw aside provender.' Of. ICaxninock (1). See below.
OBTS, sh, pi, broken meat ; scraps ; fragments that are left — not, like ' mammocks,' in a worthless state^but
fit to be eaten. Com. ' To* bin too
nice, a power ; if yo' canna ate good orts from the Maister's table, yo' mun clem tell yo'
binna so bally-proad.'
* Let him have time a beggar's orU to crave.
And time to see one that by alms doth live Disdain to him disdained scraps to give.'
Shakespeabe, Lucrece, 1. 985.
See TroiluB and Creaaida, V. ii. 158.
' Evening orts are good morning fodder.' ' To make orts of good hay.' — Bay's Proverbs, pp. 103, 205.
• Ortus, releef of beestys mete. Bamentum,^^ Prompt, Parv, See Orts in Wedg.
OSS [os*], (1) r. a, to offer ; to attempt. Com. ' 'Er'll never 088 to pdt any thin' in its place as lung as 'er
can get through 'em.'
Bay gives * Ossing comes to bossing ' as a * Cheshire ' proverb : he explains ' ossing* as 'offering or aiming
to do.* — p. 48.
(2) V. n. to show promise ; to ' shape.' Com. * I think the chap knows his work, 'e osses pretty well.' Cf.
Auae. See below.
OSSHEHT, sh, attempt, as indicative of skilL — Shrewsdubt ; Pul- VERBATCH ; OswESTRY. * I doubt 'e'll never
do no good — ^I dunna like 'is
ossment.*
OVKIT. See Awkward.
OUT, adv.f pec, away from home, as upon an excursion or a visit. ' I shall be out for three weeks.' Com.
OUT AT TACK. See Taok (3).
OUTCAST, sb, the surplus weight or measure gained by millers and maltsters in converting wheat and barley
into flour and malt. Qy. com. See
Weights and Measures, pp. Ixxxvi, Izxxviii.
OUTBACK, sb,f obnols, a tract of land, formerly waste. — Pulver- BATcn. The name still lingers on, but the
outrode, as such, is a thing of the
past. There were three outracks in thepahsh of Church Pul- rerbatch, viz., Pulverbatch, Wilderley, and
WrentnaU. They were tminclosed lands
leading from the cultivated groimd to open common. The Pulverbatch otUrcuJc abutted at one end
on ' Waken ' [Oaken}— a
dieep-walk-^and at the other upon Cothercot Hill ; the Wilderley one led up to the hills which stretch
towards the Loncimynd ; and the
WrentnaU one opened out on Longden Common. The fiirmers held the privilege of turning their animals —
sheep, cattle, or ponies — into these
outracksy and from thence to the hills or common. When the flocks and herds were taken off the common,
they were driven into the outradcSy
which were then closed at the opposite end by a gate or barrier of some kind, in order to keep the
animals withm bounds, while the work
of separating them was earned on by their respective owners.
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The outr€u^ are now enclosed : the Fulyerbatch one has moie tiian one small freehold within its boundaries.
Comfortable homesteads at this date
(1874) occupy the place of the ' wattle and dab ' tenements erected by the early settlers on the waste
: one of these primitiTe
dwelling-places was standing in the year 1858 or thereabouts^ It
had been occupied by the same family of
Boberts from feither to son through
many generations.
llie first acknowledgment of * manorial rights ' made by the dwellers on the outrack was late in the eighteenth
century, when J ohn Fletcher was
required to pay to the Manor of Condoyer eighteen pence per ftTnrnTTi for his house and the ground then
attached to it.
Jamieson has ' Out-ral^, An extensiye walk for sheep or cattle.' See Outrake in E. D. S., B. yii Of. Back.
See Chimley-jawm.
OTJTBIPEB, sb.y pec, a commercial trayeller. Com. ' Weei's yoiuig Blakeway now ? ' * 'E*s gwun to be outrider
to some Lunnon 'ouae.'
OVAL, OVlL [oa-vull, Whitchurch, [oa-yil], Pulvkebatch ; Wobthen; Wem, aaj. conceited;
self-complacent; supercilioiis. *
Did'n'ee see Bill Jones, 'ow ovil *e wu2 in 'is new shoot ? — 'e thinks 'isself somebody now Vs a bwun-poUsher.'
OVEH-PEEL, same as Peel, q. y. Com.
* Strong fire-shoyel and poker, and oven-pedJ — Audioneer^s Catalogue (Church btretton), 1877.
OVEN-PIKEL, 8h, same as Fire-fork, q. y. Com. See Pikel.
OVEH-SWEEP, OVEH-SWOOP, eh, same as Malkm (1).— Pulver- BATOH. * If yo' putten the oven-sweep o'
the dairy-pegs, yo'n a tiie Missis
after yo'.' A.S. o/en, oyen; and swdpan, to sweep, brush.
OVEEOVE foyuYoav], part, past, oyer-hove = oyer-risen : said of bread which has fermented too much when in
the dough, and, as a consequence, runs
flat in the oyen instead of rising. — ETj«ERifRRK
OYEBrBIlI'D [oyWeind], PuLyERBATCH. [oyur'ind], Ellesmrbe, pari, adj, a loaf which has so risen in the
oyen as to leaye a hollow space
between the top crust and the body of the loaf is said to be over-rind ; and is caused by an excess of
yeast, or by unsound flour.
macerate, soak.
OVIL. See Oval, aboye.
OWD LAD, OWB HICK, OWB SCEAT, sh, lespectiye soubriquets for the Deyil, of which the first two are
most in requisition. Com. * Jack, 56n
yo' g56 a narrand fur me to-night P--yo' o5nna be afeard o' the Owd Lad ketchin' yo'.' * Oh no !
Missis, 1 amma-d-afeard o' 'im, 'e's
lookin' after somebody as 'e inna so sure on.'
* Thou I whateyer title suit thee,
Auld Homie, Satan, Nick, or Clootie.'
Egbert Burns, Poems, p. 31, 1. 2.
OWD LAD'S COBN, same as Devil's com, q. y. — SHRBwasuET,
Uffington.
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OWLEB, sh. the Alder. — ^Wellington; Wem. There is a place near Wem called ' The Owlen,* and a road called
the * Owlery Lane.' Bee OrL Of. WoUer.
OWLEBB, sh., var. pr. an owl not quite fully grown ; an owlet. — CoBVE Dale, 'lliem owls an' owlerds, they
liven in a bam, an' theer they sitten
on a beam : by-w'iles they sin a mouze an' they droppen on 'im, an' ketchen 'im, an' getten
'im i' their baik, an' chawen 'im, an'
squaigen 'im, an' cmuien 'im, an' B5oken 'im tiU theer inna nuthin' left on 'im, an' then
they droppen the quid.' Cf. Odlert.
OWVER [oa-nu/], sK, ohsoUA a proprietor of barges. — Shrews- BITBT; Bkidonobth. This term is often used
as a prefix of title, much as one
would say, ' Captain So and So.' * I see them three barges of Owner Lowe's bin lyin' alung side
Frankwell Varf yet, I s'pose a bin
waitin fur a rise i' the river.'
* Ou^Tijere of a schyp, or schyp-lord. Navarchtu* — Ptcmpi, Farv,
See Trowman.
OX-ETE, sh. the Great Titmouse. — ^Bbibgnorth. See Black-headed Tomtit.
0Z8L0P [ok'slopl, sb., var, pr. Primula eidtiar, Oxlip Primrose. — Sh&ewsbuby; Ellesmebe.
' I know a bank where the wild thyme blows.
Where oodips and the uodding violet grows.'
Midsummer NighVs Dream, XL i 250.
See Skeat's Eiym, Diet. Cf. Oowslop.
PACK, (1) ah,, ohsols. twenty stones of flour, — ^a survival probably of the old custom of conveyance by
pack-horses.— Ma bket Dbayton,
Cheshire Border, See Weights and Measures, p. Ixxxv.
(2) $b. a pedler's bundle, as of dress-pieces, tea, fto.«^HBEWBBUBT ; Pitlvebbatoh; Ellesuxbe. Qy. com.
' A small pack becomes a small pedler.'
Ka.y's Proverhs, p. 167. Du. Germ,
pack, a bundle.
PACK-GOODS, sb. the dress-pieces or such like, carried in the pack. — Ibid. * I dunna think it's wuth w'ile
makin' up sich poor slaizv stuff, yo'
met'n potch straws through it — ^it's al*ays the case o6th pack^goods,'
PACKKAK, sb. a pedler who carries a pack. — Ibid. * Some folks thinken they get great bargains off the
packmen, but I dunna like thar flaunty
trash, so I never 'arbour 'em nor taymen — g$5 to a good shop, I say, an' then yo'n be used welL'
PACK-STAFF, sb, a pedler's staff, serving the two-fold purpose of supporting his pack, and of a cloth- yard
for measuring his pack^ goods. —
^Ellesmebb. ' As plain as a pack'Staff' is an old proverbial simile almost superseded at the present day
by the equally appro- priate, * as
plain as a pike-staff.'
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' Not riddle-like, obscuring their intent,
But pack-ataffe plaine, uttering what thing they mean.'
Hall's SatireSy Prol. to Bk. iii., in Nares.
PADDLE [pad'l], (1) sh., obs, a small spude-like implement which was attached to the plough for the purpose of
clearing the soil fix)m the ' breast *
when it became clogged. Com. Called plough-jpaddle more freouently.
' The Plow Staff and Paddle, by which the Man cleaneth the Plow from clogged Earth or Mould.' — Academy of
Armory ^ Bk. III. ch. viii. p. 333.
(2) eh, a smaU crescent-shaped spade used by mole-catchers. — Wellington.
PANAKIH [panii'kin], ab.y ohsolsA a very small pan, beforetime called a * pimpert,' q. v. — Pulvebbatch.
PAHNEL, sh,, ohs, a pillion. — Bishop's Castle. Some old people in this locality at the present day [1875]
remember the pannel bemg in use.
* The tow Stables one pannel . . .' — Inventory . . . Owlbury Manor- House, Bishop's Castle, 1625.
* ** & on our Mill horsses full swift wee wyl ryd, with pillowes & pannells as wee shall
proyyde." ^
Kifige and Miller, 1. 174. Percy Folio M8.,
vol. ii. p. 155, ed. Hales and FumiyaU.
* Pannell to ryde on, hatz, panneau.' — Palsgrave, in Hal.
PABLOXJB-LEASEB [lai-zur'], sb,, obsols. a person who — ' having a Mend at court ' — has permission to glean
before the field is clearM. —
PuLVERBATCH. * By-gum I I shanna trouble to g<S5 after that leasow — the parlour^laisers han bin o'er
it.' Cf. Tauers' -leasers. See Lease.
PATCH, $b. a small grass-field, generally lying contiguous to the house. — Shrewsbury; Pulverbatch ; Clun;
Clee Hills; Wel- lington. * Tell
Yedart to f atch the mar* up out o' the patch— i^e Maister wants 'er to go5 to the far.' C£
Piece (2), also Clos'.
PATHEB [padh-ur*], (1) v. a. to tread down = patter, — ^pathered the snow down i' the foud.' — ^Ellesmere.
Of. Bather.
(2) v. »i. to move lightly over a surface, scarcely touching it, as an insect does, — * a fly paiherin* about the
child's face.' — Pulverbatch. Cf.
Pither-pather.
(3) V, n. to fidget ; to shuffle about on the feet uneasily. — ^Wek.
PAUME [pau*m], sb, the palm of the hand. — Shrewsbury ; Pulver- batch. < Tummas is one as 56nna do much
athout summat i' the paume,'
* And as \>e hande halt harde * and el \>ynge faste porw foure fyngres and a thombe • forth
with J>e paumeJ
Piers PL, Text B. pass. xvii. L 157.
* O.Fr. paume, plat de la main.' — Bur.
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PATTME-SinrDAT, sb. Palm- Sunday.— iWrf. 'We bin drawin' mighW nigh Aister, nex' Siindys Pavme'Sunday.* ' O.Fr. paume; palme, brancne en femlle de
palmier.' — ^Bttb.
PAYL [pai'l and paayl*], v. a. to beat ; to thrasb ; to punish as ■with
niste. — ^Pulvekbatch ; Wellington ; Wem. * If I could ndch 'im rd payl 'im black an' blue.* This is
perhaps a varied form of
Shakeei)eare's pay : —
' Fahtaff but I followed me close, came in foot and hand ;
and with a thought seven of the eleven I pay^dj—l K, Henry IV,, 11. iv. 242.
Pegge has ' Feyl, to strike, or beat. Lane*
PEAKIHO [pee-h'kin], Pulverbatch. [pee -kin], Wem, adj. sickly ; drooping : said of young poultry for the
most part. ' A wet May 's bad for
turkies; I've lo^ severed, an' theer^s more looks Yerjpeakin*.'
' And as poore sillie hen
Soone droopes and shortly then beginnes to peake*
TussEB, p. 158, ed. E. D. S.
PEAET, same as above. — Atcham ; Wellington,
PEA OF THE ETE, same as Candle of the Eye, q. v. — Ellesmerb.
PEA-SISEBS, PEA-EISES [r'ei-zur'z], Newport, [rei-siz], Elles- hebe, bK pi, pea-rods, or sticks.
* A peso rys ' occurs in The Treatise of Walter de Bthleswortk, xiii. cent., m Wr. vocabs., vol. i. p. 134. See
Rise (1) and (2).
PEAET [pee*ur't aiid pi'ur'-t], adj. brisk ; lively, — well in health and bright in spirits. Com. 'Pm glad to see
yo* so pedrt agon, John.' * Thank yo',
Maister, I'm a ^*el better, but Mr. Glover says I shall never be my own mon agen.'
* There was a tricksie girle, I wot, albeit clad in grey. As peart as bird, as straite as boult, as
freshe as flowers in May.'
Warner's Albiona England, 1692, in Wr.
* Quick she had always been, and **peart^* (as we say on Exmoor), and gifted with a leap of thought too swift
for me to follow.' — R. D. Blackmore,
Lorna Doone, A Romance of Exmoor, p. 283, ed. 1878.
Cf. Market-peart.
PEAETEN, PEAETLE [pi'ur'*tn], Shrewsbury; Pulverbatch. Qy. com. [pyur't'l], Wem, Hopton, v. a. and
v. n. to revive; to enliven; to cheer.
(1) *0h! yon soon pearten up, yo' beginnen to
look better a'ready.' (2) * 'Er quoite pyurUed 'im oop Ven 'er
come w5am.'
PEAETISEy adj. diminutive of Peiirt.— Ludlow. Qy. com. * 'Ow bin yo' ? ' ' Oh, peartUhA^e:
PEASEN [pai-zun], sb. pi. peas ; pease (collective). — Corvb Dale.
' Al ))e pore peple * pese-coddes fetten,
Bake Irenes in Bred * t^ei brouhten in heor lappes.
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Honger eet ^is in haste * and asked aftur more pen ne ^s folk for fere * fetten him
monye Poretes, and Peo^en * for ]fei
him plese wolden.*
Piers PI, Text A. pass. vii. 1. 285.
Ghrose giyes ' Peasen, Pease. Berks.'
O.E. pese (sinff. sb.)* pi* peaen. The modem pea is a ftdse form. See Db. Mobbis^b HistoriccU English
Acddenoe, p. 97. A.S. pisty pL piean;
Lat. pimm.
PECK, PICK [pek-], Shrewsbubt; Pulvebbatch; Worthen. [pik*], Wem ; Ellesmere, v. n. to pitch
forward ; to go head first ; to
over-balance. ' Mind the child donna peck out on 'is cheer.'
' Porter. You i' the camlet, get up o' the rail ; rU peck you o'er the pales else.'
K. Henry VIIL, V. iv. 9o.
PECKLED, adj. speckled, — ^ speckled 'en.' Com.
'Peckled* occurs in Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy [a.d. 1621], p. 94, in Nabes.
PECKLED-DICK, sb. the Goldfinch.— Bbibgnobth. Cf. Seven- coloured-Linnet. See Jack-NicoL
PECKLEDY-PIED, adj\ speckled with black and white. Com.
PEDLAB'S-BASKET, sb, Saxifraga sarmentosa, — Pulvebbatgh. To the gay appearance of this plant — ^its
leaves lined with red, its
flower-stalks streaming like ribands — ^the appellation of
Pedlar's- basket is doubtless due. Of
Creeping-sailor (1).
PEEL, sb, a kind of flat shovel of wood or iron, fastened to a long handle, used for ]^utting bread, &c,
into the oven, and also for taking the
same out again. Com. ' Bring the oven-swoop an' the peel, we sha'n be ready for 'em in a minute.'
' Two wodden pedes ' are enumerated amongst other effects in ' The Kytchynge,' in an Inventory, dated at
Owlbury Manor-House, Bishop's Castle,
1625.
' He beareth Sable, a Baker, with a Peel in his both hands Bend- ways, with a Loaf of Bread upon it, Or.
Others who ^ve a fuller description of
it, Blasson it thus, a Baker with his Peel in his hands bendwise, with a Loaf thereon. Or, a Cap on
his head, his Waistcoat stripped above
his Elbows, Argent, Breeches and Hose, Grey, Shooes, Sable; having an Oven fixed to the dexter
side, Chiles. This was the ancient
Crest of the Bread Bakers of Chester, which now they have relinquished.' — Academy of Armory,
Bk. IH. ch. iii. p. 85.
* Pele of owen, K. peel for |»e ovyn. Palmula, peUica {pata. P.).' — Prompt, Parv,
• O.Fr. peU; It. pala, a shovel, spade. See BuB.
PEEP-O'-DAY, same as Betty-go-to-bed-at-noon, q. v. — Wem.
PEFEEL [pef'i'l and pef'l], (1) v, a. to peck at in a worrying manner. — Atcham; Pulvebbatch; Oltjn; Wem;
Ellesmebb. ' Them birds bin peffelin*
out that turmit sid sadly.'
(2) V. a. to beat; to knock about; to abuse with violence. — ^Wem. ' 'E peffeled 'im reet well about the yed
wuth 'is fisses.'
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PEOGT, (1) same as Dolly-peg, q. v.— Shrbwsbuby j Ellesmerb. (2) same as Dolly {2),— Ibid.
PEGOT-VINE-EOLES, same as Hanny-iiine-lioles, q. y.— Whit-
CHUBCH.
PEGOT, PEOOT-WHITETHBDAT, sb. Sylvia troekilus, the "Willow Warbler; Sylvia ru/a, the
Chiff-cliaff ; and Sylvia sibiUtrix,
the Wood Warbler, are respectively and alike oedled Peggy and
Peggy- Whiteihroat, Qy. com. See
Billy- Whitethroat. Cf. Jack-straw.
PELCH, sb. a fat, corpulent person. — Ellbsmbbs. ''E's gettin' a despert pdchJ
PELL [pel'], (1) t7. a. to make bare, as of sheep or cattle eating down a pasture, &c. — Pulvebbatch ;
Wellinoton; Newpobt; Wem; EiXESMEBE. *
Them ship han peUed that fild as bar* as yore *ond.* Fr. peler, to make bare ; to peel. Cf .
Pill.
(2) V, a, and v. n. to pick ; to take in small bits : said of food chiefly, as when children help themselves
surreptitioufily. — ^Wobthen ; Chtjboh
Stbetton. * The lad pdled an' pdled at the dumplin' till 'e pdled it aU away.'
PELL-HECEED, adj, having the neck bare of wool : said of sheep, — * a. peU-necked jeoyr.' — ^Pulvbbbatch ;
Wobthen; Ellesmebb.
• Hee adaaia. A" pylled hew,' occurs in a Pictorial Vocabulary, xv. cent, inWr. vocabs., voL i. p. 250.
' Pylled as one that wantetn heare, "jpeUu.'^' Palsgrave, in Hal.
See Cotgrave, 8ub voce Pill.
PELEOLLOCK, eb. a faded, ill-dressed, worn-down looking woman. — PxTLVEBBATCH ; MiJOH Wbnlook. 'Jim France
'as jined the 'totallers.' * A good
thing an' aU fur 'is fSamily — 'is wife looks a poor pdrollock, an' 'is childem 'afe clemmed.'
PELT, sb. a sheep-skin of which the wool has fallen away from the living animal, in consequence of 'skin
disease' of some kind. — Shbbwsbttby;
Wellinoton.
PEE, (1) V. a. and v. n. to shut up; to confine. Com. 'I think if s a shame to pen the poor childem i' the
'ouse all day ; a bit o' fresh ar ddd
do 'em a sight more good.'
* To be a mirrour to all mighty men,
In whose right hands great power is contayned, That none of them the feeble over-ren. But alwaies do their powre within just
compasse pen,'
Sfenseb, F. Q., Bk. V. c. ii. St. xix.
A.S. pyndan, to shut in ; restrain.
(2) $b, a shoot for erafting. — Atcham ; Pulvebbatch ; Welling- ton. ' The owd gardener's put five
different pens i' the big par tree, so
we sha'n 'five a sortment if they growen.'
(3) V. a. to pick the sofb quills out of poultry when preparing them for the table.— ^HBEWSBUBT ; Pulvebbatch;
Newpobt; Wem. See below.
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PEH-FEATHESED [fidli'ur'd], part, adj. having an undergrowth of youn^ feather& Qy. com. ' I want to
send some o' them ducks to markit, but
I see they bin despert jpen-fithered^iVVL tak' more time to pen 'em than a bin wuth.' See below.
PEN-FEATHEBS [fidh-ur'z], sh, pi. the young, newly-developed quill-feathers as they appear at moulting
time. Qy. com. Gf . Pens.
PEirBT, adj. very full of 'pens:' said of fowls, &c. Qy. com. See Pens, below.
PENH Y-&YAL, «&., var. pr. Mentha paJegium, Penny-royaL — PuLVERBATCH. Qy. com. * Eobin-run-i'
-the-'edge, an' Dragon's- blood, an'
Penny-ryalf bin mighty good yarbs to tak' i' the Spring-o'- the 'ear fur clansin' the blood.'
Tusser enumerates * PeneriaU ' amongst ' Seedes and Herbes for the Kitchen.' See E. D. 8. ed., p. 94.
PEmnr STOH E, sb. an iron-stone measure.— Colliery ; M. T.
* The Penny Stone is the most remarkable and productive iron-stone in Shropshire. It is composed of a series
of nodules, producing from 2,000 to
2,600 tons to the acre, and — as proved by smelting — contains about 35 per cent, of iron. The cavities of
these nodules are filled up with
sulphate of baryta, silicate of alumina, carbonate of lime, and crystals of zinc-blende. A curious feature
in connexion with this seam is the
presence of petroleum. In certain parts the work appears Bs though it had undergone a washing of
tar. It is said that at one time
petroleum abounded in the coal measures, producing as much as 1,000 gallons per week.
' The Penny Stone is interesting with its appearance and evidence of the piercing by burrowing worms, which have
left, as a writer says, ** heaps of
excretions at the doors of their dwellings." This iron- stone contcdns numerous marine organic
remains, the characteristic marine
fossil being the Leptoena Scah'cula, occurring also in the moimtain limestone. Several species of
Nautilus, Bellerophon, Orbicula,
TJnio, Terebratula, Lingula, &c., associated with the oones and scales of the MegcUtchthya Hibbertiy
and the Oyracanthus Fornioaus,
* Another characteristic fossil is the Orbicula Reflexa,* — If^otes on
the Shropshire CoaUfield, by T.
Parton, F.G.S. 1868.
See Black Stone, also Chance Penny Stone.
PEITS, at. pi. the rudimentary quills of feathers, as of fowls, ducks, &c. — ^Shrewsbury ; Pulverbatch ;
Newport. Qy. com.
* His flaggy winges, when forth he did display, Were like two sayles, in which the hollow
wynd Is gathered full, and worketh
speedy way : And eke the pennes, that
did his ]^ineons oynd, Were like
ma3me-yardes with flying canvas lynd ;
Spenser, F. Q., Bk. I c xi, st x.
* Penne»^ quills.' — Maundeville, p. 269, in TTat.
* Hec pluma, a fedyre ; Hec pennay a penne ; Hoc »7um, the pyf of the penne,^ occur seriatim under the head
of ' Partes AnimcUium,' in a Nominale,
xv. cent., in Wr. vocabs., vol. i. p. 221.
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* O.Fr. pennSf plume ; de [Lat.] penna,^ — Bitr. Of. Pen-feathers. See Pugs (2).
PEHTICE [pen'tis], sh, the shed attached to a smithy, in which horses are shod. — Pulyerbatoh ; Worthen ;
Ellesmere.
An ancient building called the Pentice, attached to S. Peter's Church, Chester, was taken down, a.d. 1801-6.
Hanshall — the county his- torian —
gives the following copy of a record haying relation to it : —
' 1616. Aug. 23. King James came here. He went to the Cathedral, and passed from thence along
Shoemaker's-row to the Penticey where
he was banqueted, and had presented to him a gilt bowl, with lOOgs. in it.'
Pmttce is a shortened form of appeniice, that which is appended; and farther, the last syllable of this
JPrench word was before Shake-
speare's time — according to Mr. Earle — anglicized into 'house,* making a sort of compound, pent^house. See
Philology of the English T(mgue, p.
292.
Bailey— ed. 1782 — gives * Pentice^ a Penthouse ; also a Shed.*
*Pentyce, of an howse ende. Appendicium, ** A pentis, appendix, appendiciumy apheduOy (sic) ut dicit Brito;
et didtur pro/ectumy si de ligno,
menianuniy si de lapidebus" — Cath. Ang.' Prompt, Parv, and
Notes.
*Appewtis^ b^timent bas & petit, qui est appuy^ contre un plus haut. A shed, an out-house.' — Chamb.
PERK See Land Measurements {Perch), p. xcii.
PEBE-ITP, V. n. to look up in a bright, cheerful way after a state of depression from whatever cause
proceeding. Com. ' Well, John. Fm
mighty glad to see as yo' bin beginnin' to perk-up a bit, yo'n 'ad a bad bDut, but now yo'n made a start, I
'ope yo'n soon be yore own mon agen.'
' . . when suddenly up the face Of the
Piper perked in the market place.'
Robert BROWNixa, TJie Pied Piper of Hamelin, st. viii.
PESSTTM [pes'um], sb, pease-haulm — a contracted form. Com. * Theer wuz a noud rot-ketcher as wuz
called ** Dicky Pessum ; w'en a wuz a
youne mon, a wuz sen' to stop a glat the pigs maden i' the stack -yord, q rommed some pessum i' the
'ole, ah' wuz called ** Dicky Pessum
" ever atter.'
The term pessum is sometimes, oddly enough, applied to bean- straw, as in the neighbourhood of Wem,
where they speak of hean- pessum, Cf.
Bean-haulm.
PESTLE, sh, the fore-leg of a slaughtered pig, between the knee and the flitch. — Pulyerbatoh ; Ellesmere. * We'n
'ftve a pair of pestles an' a fowl
boiled on Friday, then theei^ll be broth for the men's breakfasts.' Grose gives * PestU-of-porky a leg of pork.
Exmoor.'
* *• PeaUis of venison."— Warner's Antiq, Culiny p. 98. ** Pestell
of flesshe, jamhonJ* — ^Palsgrave,' in
Hal.
Cf. Shaokle-hone.
PEWIT [pee'wi't and pai'wi't], sh, Vermllus ciistdtus, the Lap- wing.— Shrewsbuby ; Pttlverbatch. Qy. com.
Bandle Holme says, *The Lapwing cries Teewit,'— Academy of Armoryy Bk. IL ch. xiii. p. 810.
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PIAVET [peian'iti, (1) $k. Pceonia officinalis^ common Peonj. — PuLYEBBATCH. Qy. oom. ' 'Er'd got a posy as
big as a besom, ^th three piands, an'
a armful o' gilliflowers.
(2) Bh.f obBoh. the Magpie. — Wobthen; Oswestbt. See Chatter- pie, also ICagpy.
PICK [pik-], (1) t7. a. to bring forth a calf prematurely, — Atgham ; Wosthen; Ellesmebb. Cf. Cast (3).
(2) V, a, to bring forth a foal prematurely. — ^Pulyebbatch ; Wem.
(3) See Peck.
PICKLE, t;. a. to steep seed-corn in lye, &c.y preparatory to
sowing. — Pulvebbatch. Qy. oom. See
Clog (1).
PIDBLDfO, part, adj, picking; dainty: used with reference to taking food. — ^Pulyebbatoh. 'I doubt ifll
tak' a despert w*ile to feed this pig,
*e's sich a piddling ater.*
* We tooik up our kniyes and forks, laid them down, and took them up again; .... piddled^ sipped; but were
more busy with our elbows than with
our teeth.' — Sir Charles Orandiwn, yol. ii. p. 165, ed. 1766.
PIE-BALD. See Skew-bald.
PIECE [pee*s], (1) ab, an intermediate meal giyen to children, usually consisting of a piece of bread and
butter. Com. * To' shan' a no more
pieces afore dinner, yo'n bin piece, piece, piecin\ all momin', an' then when the garden stuff's done [cooked],
yo'n ate nuthin'.' The 'garden 8tu£f '
is the cottage dinner of yeffetables.
' I nnd the word [piece'] in a little book of children's yerses, '
Stories for Alice ' (Philadeh)hia,
1857), by a lady of English descent Hying
in Chester, cotmty iFennsylyania.
'* And on the dresser you will find At
twelye o'clock your jpiccc.
The piece was two nice corn-meal cakes." ' — N. and Q., 4th Seriee, yoL yi p. 249.
(2) «5. afield. — Chubch STBETToif ; Cobve Dale; Cleb Hills.
* I remoyed the house to another peice, called the Old Feild . . . Thepeice from whence the house was remoyed
is to this day called Oreus pcicc.'—
GK)UGH'8 History of MyddU, p. 83.
Cf Patch.
(3) sh, a somewhat contemptuous term for a woman. Com. * "Er's a poor piece; w'y 'er dunna know 'ow to
wesh 'er 'usban's shirt ftir all 'er
brags 'erself for eyerythin'.'
PIED-FIHCH, j?6. Frlngilla coelehs, the Cbaffincb. Qy. com. So called from its parti-coloured plumage. Cf.
Pine-finch,
PIE-FINCH, same as aboye. — Shbewsbubt ; Chubch Stbetton ; Bbidonobth; Newpobt.
PIC-COTE, sh.f ohsohA a pig-sty. — Pulvbrbatch.
* Hec porcaria, A' swyn-cote,' occurs in an English VoctibtUary, 3cv. cent., in Wr, yocabs., yol. i. p. 204.
PIGK^IV [pig'in], (1) sb.f ohsols, a wooden bowl. Com. Thepiggin was formerly used for eatiag porridge or
other 'supping' out of; it
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gaye place to the ' pollinger/ wHch in its turn was supplanted by the ordinary earthenware oasin, or tin oan.
Piggins were in common use duiinff the
era of pewter platters. As the wooden viggin gave place to ouier eating yessels, so there was
a progressive refinement in food and
language, as the following Shropshire doggerel sets forth : —
' Dame an' porridge, Missis an'
oroth, Madam an' tay.'
* 2 Piggins ' are comprised in an Inventory, dated at Aston Botterell about 1758.
' Heigh, diddle, diddle, The oat an'
the fiddle ; The cow jumped o'er the
moon, The. little dog laughed to see
sich sport ; And the piggin ran after
the spoon.'
Shropshire version of the * Old Nursery Rhyme,''
Cf. aoaigh (1). See^Treen.
(2) sb, a wooden pail, one of the staves of which being left much longer than the rest, forms an upright
handle. — ^Wem. A piggin- calf is a
calf reared by hand, and is so called from the piggin being used to hold its * supping.'
Bay has ' A Piggin, a little Pail or Tub, with an erect Handle," amongst * North uountry Words.' Cf. Osun
(2).
PIO-^RASS, PIO-BUSH, ah. Polygonum avictdare, common Knot- grass. — ^Wellingtok. The pest of light
soils in some parts of Salop.
PICKVUT, fb, Buniumflexuosumj common Earth-nut. — PuLVERBATcn.
* And I with my long nails will dig thee pig-nuts/
Tempest, IL ii. 172.
PI0S-PAS8VIP, sh. HerarJeum sphondi/lium, common Cow- Parsnip. — ^Wellington.
PIKE, (1) sb. a toll-bar; a turnpike-gate. Com.
(2) V. a. to pick. — Pulvebbatch. Qy. com. ' We mef n as well pike a bit i' the owd stubble as sit under
the 'edge waitin' fur the tother —
they hanna finished luggin' the barley yet.'
* « he calles them knaues your hignes keepe,
with-aU hee calls them somewhatt worsse, he dare not come in without a lonse staffe,
hees ffeard lest some bankrout shold pike his pursse." '
The pore man <fe the Kinge, 1. 108. Percy Folio MS.^ yoL iii p. 201, ed. Hales and FumiyaU.
* O.Du. pecken {mantictdari) ; pike (pick).' — Strat.
(3) sb. a pick. — ^Newpoet. O.Du. picks, — Idem,
(4) sb. a hay-fork ; a pitch-fork. — Glee Htlls ; Ludlow.
' Pikes and rakes.' — Auctioneer's CatcUogiie (Stoddesden), 1870.
* A rake for to hale yp the fitchis that lie,
a pike for to pike them yp handsom to drie.'
TUSBEB, Husbandfie furniture, p, 37, ed. E. D. H,
* A.S. pic, a pike; aculeus, cuspis,' — Strat.
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PIEEL [pei'ki'l], 8K a bay-fork ; a pitch-fork. Cora.
* One dozen fikeU in lots/ — Auctioneer's Catalogue (Lonffville), 1877.
* For the Pitchfork (or Pihd, which we rol^rly call it) it is an Instrument much used m Husbandry for their
Loading and Stacking of Hay and Com.*
— Academy of Armory y Bk. HI. ch, yiii. p. 331.
Gough, in his History of MyddUy makes Tepeated mention of a * pike-evilly' apparently the same thing as
a pikel — 'pikeeavell grains ' — ' a
long pikeevillf^ &c. At this day evil is similarly used in
composition by Shropshire folk for the
names of other kinds of fork* See Dong-
evil, also Sharevil. Of. Evil.
PIKELET [peiklet], sh, a tea-crumpet. — Shrbwsbubt; Ludlow; Beibgnorth; Newport.
* However, Mrs Jerome herself could not deny that Janet was a very pretty-spoken woman : ** She al'ys
says she niver gets sich pike- lets as
mine nowhere ; I know that very weU^-other folks buy ^em at shops — thick, unwholesome things, you
might as well eat a sponga"' —
GrEORGE Eliot, Scenes from Clerical Life (Janet's Bepentance).
Bailey — ed. 1782 — ogives * Bara-piddet \WeUh] Cakes made of fine Flower kneaded with Teast.'
Cotgrave has French *popelins^ soft cakes of fine flour, &a,
fashioned like our Welsh barrapydids.*
W. hara, bread. See Flap, also Li^lit-
c€tke.
PIKES, sh, pH. short ' buts ' ploughed in pointed furrows of gradu- ated lengths ; filling up spaces — ^leffc
by the long ' buts ' lying at right
angles — ^in fields of irreg^ar form. — Pulverbatgh. Qy. com. A.S. piCy a point.
PILES [pei'lz], ah, pi the awns of barley. — ^Pulverbatgh ; Craves Arms; Clee Hills; Wem. Qy. com.
PILnrO-IEOVS, sb. an implement for removing the awns. — P>id. ' . » riddles, sieves, and barley piling-irons
in lots." — Auctioneer's
Catalogue (Longville), 1877.
PILIVQS, sb. pi, trusses of threshed-out straw. — Newport. * Rots bin nippers for pilings*
PILL, V, a. to strip ; to deprive of the outer skin or covering ; to peel.^^HREWSBURY ; Pulverbatgh ; Church
Stretton. Qy. com. *Lads mak'n poor
laisers generally — they'n al'ays got a stick to pill, or anythin' but bend thar backs to
the stubble.
* The skilful shepherd pilled me certain wands.'
Merchant of Venice^ I. iii. 85.
* Pyllyn, or pyUe bark, or o>er lyke. Decortico,' — Prompt. Parv,
* Fr. pelery to bauld or pull the haire oflf ; also to pill, pare,
barke, imrinde, unskin.'— Cotg. Cf.
Pell (1).
PILLOW-COAT, sb, a pillow-case, or cover. — Shrewsbury ; Pulver- batgh. Qy. com. See Bere (2).
PILPITy sK a pulpit. — Shrewsbury; Pulverbatgh. Qy. com. The form is an old one.
* Thus ge prechyn the pepul and in the pylpit opynl6 The vij wortys of rnero^ mekel^ to fulfyl.*
John Audblay's PoemSy p. 41.
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PIMJLUf [pim'kui], ab,, var. pr. a small earthen pan used for boiling infant's ibod in, &c„ — a pipkin. —
Pxtlvebbatgh ; Graten Abms. ' Mind as
that pimkin 's dane afore yo' ptit the child's pap in.'
PIMmSOSE, 8b., var. pr. Primula mdgaris, common Primrose,— 'ptmmiroses an' cowerslops.'—
Shbewsbu&t ; Pulyebbatgh.
PIXPEBT, sb., obs.1 a very small pan — an * egg-saucepan.' — Pulvbr- BATCH. See Panakin.
PUPIH'O, sb. a small, delicate creature. — ^Pulyerbatch. 'The baby's but a little pimptn* for a
twel'month owd.'
PIMPLE, 8b., pec. a pebble. — Shrewsbury ; Pulybrbatch. * Whad bin 'ee trimplin' at ? ' * Theer's a pimple
i' my boot, an' it's blistered my fdV
Ci. Puxnple-stones.
Pnf, 8b. the middle place for a horse, — between the shafter and the leader in a team of three.— Wellinoton ;
Wem. * To'd'n better ptlt that oowt i'
the pin a bit.' A«S. pyndan, to shut up ; to restrain. See Pin-horse.
Pnf-BOHE, 8b., obsols.l the great protuberance at the top of the thigh bone or femur — the Trochanter major.
— Pulyerbatch. * The rheumatic 's bad
enough anyw'eer, but it's wust T the pin-bumn
o' the 'ip, fur yo' can carry a bad arm, but a bad leg 56nna carry yo*.^
PnrS-FnfCH, same as Pied-finch, q. y. — Wem; Ellbsmbrb. So called from its querulous note. Of.
Chink-chink.
PUBfJfOU), 8b. an enclosure for stray animals ; a pound. — ^Pulybr- batch ; Newport ; Wem. ' Han'ee ptit them
strafes i' the pin/oud f '
' And if thy horse breake his tedure, and go at large in euery man's come and graase, then commeth the pynder,
and taketh hym, and puttoth hym in the
pifnfolde, and there shall he stande in prison, without any meate, Ynto the tyms thou hast
payde his raunsome to the pynder, and
also make amendes to thy neyghbours for distroy- enge of theyr come.' — Fitzherbert^s
Huabandrie [a.d. 1523], ed. 1767, p.
95.
See Tvfo Gentlemen of Verona^ Li. 114.
*ffoc indusorium, a pyn-fold^ occurs in a NomincUe, xy. cent., in Wr. Yocabe., yoL i p. 239.
A.S. pyndan, to shut in ; and fold, a fold.
PIV-HOBSE, 8b. the middle horse in a team. — Wellington ; Wem ; Ellesmerb. See Pin. CI Pinner (1).
PJJNJL [ping'k], 8b. Leiici8CU8 pJiox(nu8, the Minnow. — Shrbwsburt ; PuLYERBATOH ; WoRTHBN; CoRYE Dale; Ludlow.
Qy. com.
^ * Pinchbrooke is now cald Peynesbrooke, and perhaps mi&ht take his name from those small ana litle fishes
called Pinks, which are common in
great multitudes in such brookes.' — Gouoh's History of Myddle, p. 39.
* For tne Minnow or Penke, he is easily found and caught in April, for then he appears in the BiYers.' — The
Compleat Angler, ch« iY. p. 96, ed.
1653.
Pegge has * Pink, the fish called the minnow. North.*
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PIHXEBH [ping'kur'n and ping'knur'nl sh,, var. pr., ohsoU, a very narrow boat used on the Severn —
?LpinlesUm, This is a river term,
which still lingers on amongst the Severn bargemen, though rarely used. It was heard in December, 1875, at
Shrewsbury, and about the same time in
the S.E. of Salop — at Cleobury Mortimer, or Neen Sellers. * Whad a pinJcern that is o*
yore's ! ' * Aye, but it's an onoommon
'andy boat.*
Compare Fr. ^ Pinque^ petit batiment de charge qui est rond a Tarri^re,' in Chamb. IceL espingr ; a long
boat. See Pink (4) in Skeat's Etym,
Diet,
PUTHEB, (1) sh, same as Pin-horse, q. v. — Pulvbrbatch ; Newport.
(2) sK a pinafore. Com.
PIK-KOWED [pinVoad], adj. a term applied to batter which, having been imperfectly worked after the
salt has been added to it, is, as a
consequence, full of white streaks. — ^Pulverbatch ; Well- ington. Qy. com. * Butter wuz chepper o'
Saturday, I 'ear.' * Ajje, some
pin-rowed stufp as wimna fit to ate ; but good butter kep^ its price.*
PDrS-AVD-lTEEDLES, sh. Hypnutn setpens, Creeping Feather-moss. — Shrewsbury. The little stalks or *«eto,'
of this pretty moss, bear upon their
summits the spore-cases or capsules — these are the pin^a heads.
PnrSONS [pin*su*nzl, {I) ah. pincers. Com. 'Gie me the omber an' pinsons 'ere, an' I'll soon latch the
nail out.'
* Pynsone, Tenella.* — Prompt. Parv.'
(2) 8b, a dentist's forceps, — *the tuth broke i' the pinsons,' — Shrewsbury.
* Pynsone, to drawe owt tethe. Dentaria.^ — Prompt. Parv.
Mr. Way says, 'The term seems to be a diminutive of the Fr, pincej* See his Note.
' PtVice, petites tenailles, qui servent a differens usages.' Pincers, nippers. — Chamb. Cf. Brawts.
PIP, (1) sb, a single blossom terminating a pedicel, as the cowslip, or a peduncle, as the primrose,
&c.-^hrew8BTJRY ; Pttlyerbatch.
Qy. com.
(2) V. a. to pick off the blossoms or ' pips ' of cowslips, &c. —
Ibid, ' I promised tne Missis as the
childem shoulden get 'er a basket o'
cowerslops, an' now 'er wants 'em pipped ; an' it's a despert lat job picking Uie pips fur winde.'
(3) sb. a pippin, as of an apple, orange, &c. Com.
(4) sb. a spot of any of the suits on playing cards, — generally used in the plursd form, as * counting the pips/
when computing a hand. Com.
PIPE-DBINK, sb., sl.l light ale esteemed by smokers, — ^nice little pipe-drink.* — Wbm. Qy. com.
PISSAmrAT, Idem.—WEU.
PISSANT, sb. an insect of the genus Forinicay — the common Ant. —Shrewsbury; Pulverbatch; Ellesmere.
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PITCH [pich*], (I) v. a. to throw the hay, sheaves, &c., on to the waggon in the harvest-field. Com. * Tore
new waggoner 's despert short an'
stiff, I dunna know 'ow e's to pitch at 'arroost — 'e'll want a good lung pitckirC-pikeV
' ** Canstow seruen," he seide * .
" other to the cart |>iccA«.
Mowe other mowen * other make hond to sheues."'
Piers PI, Text 0, pass. vi. L 13.
(2) $h, the quantity taken at one time for ' pitching.' Com. ' Jack 5dnna 'urt 'imself — 'e dunna tak' more at
a pitch than yo' ooulden piit on d6th
a toastin'-fork.'
PITCHEK, (1) 9b. the man who 'pitches' the hay, &c., when loading the harvest- waggon. Com.
(2) adj, ill-tempered; cross-grained. — Atohak; Wem. 'The Maister 's mighty pitchery yo*d^n better
mind whad yo' bin doin'.'
PITCHSES, PITCHBTS, PICHOCKB [pich-ui^z], Shbbwsburt;
ElXESMEBE. fpich'uts], PXTLVERBATGH. [pich'uksl, CORVE DALE,
»b. pi. bits of broken crockery used as playthings oy children. A little ffirl admiring her motner's new
tea-china, exclaimed, 'Eh I 55dna they
maken pretty pitchets f *
PITCHERS, ah. pi. earthenware vessels of the finer kinds, common china included.— Shbewsbuby. See Crooks.
PITCHES-SHOP, same as Crock-shop. — Shbewsburt.
PITCHIHO-PIKEL, df. a pitch-fork. Com. See Pitch (1), also PikeL
PIT-OEATE, sb. the grating-covered ash-pit in front of a kitchen fire-place.--SHBBW8BX7BT; Wobthen;
WELLnreTON ; Ellesmebb. Cf.
Furgy-hole.
PITHEBDrO [pei*dhur*inl |xir^. adj. trifling ; dawdling.— Atohah ; Pulvebbatch; Wek. *l canna think whad yo'n
hin pHtherin* at all momin' — I could
a done twize as much in 'afe the time.'
PITHER-PATHEB [pidh-ui' padh'ui^], same as Father (2), Pulver- BATOH; Wellington'. *I felt summat
pither^pcUherin^ about my neck an'
flirted it off, an* it wuz a great yerriwig. Cf. E. pit-a-pat.
PIT-BOT, ab, a contemptuous term for a miner or collier. — ^Well- nroTOK.
PIT-WOOI), ab. timber-wood for the common purposes of mining operations. For these Larch is the best
adapted, firom its greater pliancy.
Com. — "hL T.
PIZE [pei'z], expl. a strong form of expression ; a mild kind of anathema. — Whitchxtkoh. (1) * "What
^epize han yo' got to do wi' it P '
(2) ' Pize on them naughty lads, conna they let that poor cat alone P
*
* My Uncle was petmant . . . He ran into all those peculiarities of words, for which you have so often
raillied Imn — His €M»?ueart, . . .
his What a pize, his hatred of $hiUy-»haUy.*—8ir Charles
Orandiean, voL vL p. 63, ed. 1776.
See J. 0. Halliwell's Nursery Rhymea of England^ DLXL
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PIZT [pei-ri], adj, peevish; irritable, — *a pizy owd maid.* — Wellinoton ;• Nbwpobt.
PLACK [plak], (1) ah. a plot of ground. — ^Pulybrbatch ; Cobvb Dale ; fSu^siCEBK ' To'n got a sood plack for
tatoes i' the £b11ov, Tiunmas/ *Perty
well; o*iiy th'eers aich a morf o' ohicken-weed.' See Plaoket (1 ), below.
(2) tib. an aUotment of work ; a job.— Wem ; Ellbsmebs ; OswES- TBY. ' Tedut wmina want for work this good
bit, the Squire's gid 'im tiplack
as'll las' Hm. o'er Miamas.'
(3) $b. a situation ; a berth. — Pttlvebbatch ; Ooryb Dai.b. Qy. com. * John's a rar plack at the paas'n's,
'e looks as if 'e didna crack many
c^ef nuts.'
PLACKET [plakitl (1) sh. the diminutive of ^ plack/ a plot of ground — Cosye Dale. A little hamlet built
on some old common allotment is caUed,
' The Qolden FlacketsJ See Plack (1), above.
(2) ah,, obsols. the slit in the skirt of a woman's dress which admits of its being passed over the head —
^Pxtlveabatoh. Qy. com. * Mind as yo'
maken the placket lung enough i' my gownd, or else it'll tar every time it gwuz on.'
Pegge has ' Plctckd-hole, a pocket-hole. York. From the Scots.'
PLACKET-BOABD [buo'h'r'dj, sb. the back-board of a waggon. It slips inside the * cratch,' and is used
when the load being of a loose nature,
such as lime, is liable to shed through the open ' cratch.' — WHiroHTBOH; Ellesmebb.
PLAB, pret. pleaded. — Pulvbbbatoh. ' The Missis 55d a tamed 'er ofif, but the Maister, *f^plad for 'er.'
*And long for hir forsothe he pladde,* — Chron, Vilodun,, p. 108, in Hal. See Pled.
PLADE [plai'dl, v. n. to argue. — Pulvebbatgh. To cross-plade is to contradict. ' Tummas an' me han bin pladtn'
an' crasa-plidin' about them apples ;
*e says as they wun got afore Miamas, an' I say as they wunna.'
PLADE PAEDOIT. See Plead-pardon.
PLAHK, V. a,, pec, to chaige ^point-blank' so as to inculpate; to convict. — ^Pulvebbatgh. • If s no use yo*
sayin' yo' didna, fur 'ere the eggs
bin to spake fur tharselves, so yo'n plaiM the lie on yoreselfL'
PLAY, (1) V, n. to swarm : said of bees. — Pulvbbbatoh ; BBiDCh NOBTH. ' Two 'ives played in one day, Sir.'
The bees are said to play high, or
play low, as the case may be.
(2) sb. the first swarm of bees in the season from one hive. — Clbs Hills.
* A play of bees in May's wuth a noble the same day ; A play in June's perty soon ; A play in July 's nod wuth a
butterfly.' See Bunt (2). ^^'^^^^
Doggerel Eime^
(3) V. n. to fly high and sweep through the air, as rooks do. — PuLYEBBATOH. * 'Ow the rooks playen about
to-day ! — ^it's a sign we sha'n
&ve a stann afore lung.'
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(4) V. n., pec. to do no work ; to spend the time in idleness. — Shbews- buby; Pulvbrbatch; Newpobt. 'Theer's mighty
little doin' at the mines now ; the
men wnn plavin' one 'afe thar time las' wik, an' theer wnz a lot sacked [discharged] las'
reck*nin'.'
A.S. plegian, to amuse one's self.
PULZEK [plai'zn], sb, pL places, t. e. situations, as for domestic serrants. — ^Newport. ' Flazen 's none so
plentiful as what they wuz : ' said
the mother of an aspiring maid-of-all-work [1880].
PLEACH [plai'ch], v, a. to remake a hedge by intertwining, &c. — same asliay, q.v. — Shrbwsbtjey;
Pulveebatch ; Woethen ; Glee Huxs ;
OswESTBY. Q,Y. com. * 111 back John to plaich a 'edge 6dth any mon, 'e does it like basket-work.'
* And all her husbandry doth lie in heaps.
her hedges eyea-pUacKd^
Like prisoners wildly overgrown with nair.
Put forth disordered twigs '
K. Henry F, V. ii 42.
BLEACHERS, same as Layers, q. y. — Pulverbatch ; Glee Hills ; Wellington.
PLEAD PABDOIT [plai'd], phr, to ask pardon. Qy. com. ' Well, I tell yo' whad, if yo' dunna plade pardon,
yo'n lose yore plack, fur I 'eard the
Maister say so.'
PLED, pret pleaded. — Worthek. * *E pled ooth me to gie the poor chap another chance.'
'The well-known story of the presbyter deposed from his office for forging the Acts of Paul and Thecla,
although he pltd that he had done so
from the loye of Paul.' — Contemporary Review^ p. 602. April, 1869.
Fled is an established Scotticism. Cf . Plad.
PLIM, (1) adj.y var. pr, perpendicular; plumb. Com. 'The oven inna set plim to the grate.'
(2) v. a. to adjust by plmnb-line. Com.
PLIM-BOB, 8b. the line and plummet. — Whitchurch.
PLOUGH [plou*]. The parts of a plough here presented in a tabulated form, will be found explained as
they occur in the order of their
respective initial letters in tne body of the Glossary : —
Buck(l),£LL£SMEBE. (The Kay (2).
locality was omitted in its Kaster-tail
proper place.) Mould-board.
*y-*»*^ Paddle.
-*^*?r . , , BluOl-boaxd.
Oop.a (1) (2) (3). sk,ip (2j,
Cop-wedge. g^^^
Poot (2). ^^j^
Hay (2).
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PLOUOH-MOHDAT, sK, ohs. the Monday next after Twelfth-Day. — ^Pulvsrbatgh; FiT.T.RamgML See Bk. II. ,
FoUdore^ &c, * Customs.'
PLVCK, sb. the heart, liver, and lights of a sheep, — 'ship's yed an' pluck.' Com. See Pluck in Wedg. Ct Pommice.
PLTTCKER-DOWH. See Crofls^slofh.
PLTTCKIHO [plak'in], (I) pari. adj. twitching. — ^Pulyerbatch.
(2) sh. a nervous twitching; S. Vitus's Dance. — ^Pulveebatch ; Wobthen; Wem. 'Mother, theer's summat the
matter doth my eye — ^it^s pluckin*,'
* I wish yo'd'n a pluekin* i' yore 'eels to get out o' my road.*
PLTTQ, V. a. to pull ; to pluck, — * 'Er's pluggin' my yar.' — Shbews-
BUET; PTILVEiCBATGH; ClEE HXLLS. Cf. Pug^.
PLITK-BIBI), sb, the Bullfinch. — ^Pulvbrbatch.
PLITK-BUSDEE, same as above.— Worthsn. to the Bullfinch's well-known habit of feeding on the buds of
fruit-trees is this local name
doubtless due. See Kope.
PLTTTS, sh. pL temporary pools of water. — Bridgnorth. Connected with E. plod = to walk through puddles. See
Skeat's Eiym Diet. Cf. FlaiBh.
PODOEL [pojil], V, n. to do anything in a clumsy way. — ^Whit-
CHURCH.
POBOELLIITO, pa}^, adj\ clumsy; awkward. — Ibid. 'Whad bin 'ee podgellirC at P — I never seed sioh a
podgdlirC fellow.'
POKB-PTTDDnrO, sb. the Long-tailed Titmouse. — Bridgnorth. See Bottle-Tit.
POLLIHQEK, «&., var. pr., obs. ? a one-handed cup of coarse pottery, used for broth, milk, &c., for
fium-servants, — a poninger. Sometimes
called a pollinger-cup, — ^PuLVBBBATCH ; Worthen. * Al'ays br«id the men's pollingera, an' ptit the bread
an' cheese o' the table o*er night.'
See Piggin (1).
POMICE [pum'i's], sb. the apple-pulp after the juice has been expressed through the * cider-hairs. — Clee
Hills.
' Pomace (from poma), the dross of Cyder pressings ; Fugs, some call it Muste.' — Blount's Oloasograpkia,
p. 501.
Cf. Must, also Pouse (3).
POMMELLEB, sb. a pavior's mallet — Newport. Cf. Pnnner.
POMPEBS, POHPETS [pom-pur'z], Worthen. [pom-pets], Pulvbr- batch, sb. pl.y obsola. shallow vessels of
coarse earthenware for settiag milk in
for skimming.
POITSHOTEL, sb. a shovel slightly turned up at the sides, used for spreading lime. — ^Whitchurch.
POOCH rp8och'], ^1) sb.y var. pr. a wicker strainer placed over the spigot -hole withm the mash -tub to prevent
the grains passing through into the
wort. — Pulverbatch ; worthen ; Craven Arms ;
Clun.
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' Pouches and racking taps.' — Aitfiioneev^B (7a toZo;7U« (Church
Stretton), 1877. A.S. ^pocctty a
pouch. Cf. Maahing-basket.
(2) V. n., var, pr, to thrust out the lips in a sullen, discontented manner ; to pouch, or pout. — Wem,
PdOCHDf [p65chiii], sb. a wicker eel-trap. — Much Wbnlock; Welmnqton. Cf. P66ch (1), above.
POOL [pool*], (1) sb, a large natural sheet of water, — a lake, as ' Martbn-Pool,' with which several streams
are connected. ' Llyn- clys Pool,'
&c. The Fools lie for the most part in N. Shr. It may be noted here that the term Lake is never
employed in Shropshire folk- speech to
denote a large sheet of water ; when used, it means a small, temporary puddle, — * the ro&d*8 all in
lakes after the rain.'
Compare * Fool, or ponde of watyr. Stagnum^ in Frompt, Farv.
* A.S. p6l; O.Du. poel ; M.H.Ger. pfud, a pool.* — SxEAT.
Cf. Here (2). See Bk. 11., Folklore, &c., * Legends.'
(2) [poo'l], V, a, and v. n., var. pr. to pulL Com. 'Well, Jane, yo'n got married, I 'ear.' 'Aye, an' I amma
afeard but whad we aha'n do well, an'
one pool each way.' Both pull together is what Jane Binsley meant to express.
' 1565 It. for Wm Boe the ^ongers table and his mans about pooling downe the window ij wykes ix' iiy*.' —
Churchwarden^^ Accounts of the Abbey,
Shrewsbury.
POOLnrO-BONE, same as Braw-bone, q. ▼.
— Shrewsbury ; Elles-
MEBE.
POBE [poa-ar'], (1) v, a, and v, n. to intrude. — ^Pulverbatch ; Clbb Hills. ' 'Er hanna invited me, so I shanna
pore myself.'
' In every hous he gan to pore and prie.
And begged mele and chese, or elles oom.'
Chaucer, C. T,, 1. 7320.
[2) V. a. to thrust. — ^Worthbn. * I pored a sight o' thums i' the but a lot o' greet jowts [big, rough ladsj
comea an' maden another glat.'
POKKBT, sb. a young pig fatted for killing — a porkling. — Shrews- bury ; Pulyerbatoh ; Weh. Qy. com. ' I
shall feed up a couple o' them little
pigs fur porkets, they'n do^fiir present use an' save the big bacon.'
POBKT, adj. stout; corpulent. — Pulvbrbatch; Wem. "Ow the young Maister 's bamished ! — ^'e's gettin'
quite porky, ^
POSH [posh*], (1) sb. a sudden gush, as of water, &c Com. 'Whad'n'ee think that child's done? —
^pool'd the spigot out o' the
mashin'-tub, an' the drink come out sich a poshy 'e met as well a
bin scauded to 4jeth.'
(2) sb. a heavy rain-fall, as of a thunder shower. Com. ' Yo'd'n better fotch them tuthree rakin's, fur
be'appen we sha'n 'ftve a posh o' wet
toert middle day w'en the sun an' winde gef n together.' Com- pare M.E. posh = dash. See Fiers FL, Text
A. pass. v. L 16.
POSS, V. a. to plash up and down iu the water, as washerwonieu do
(2) edge.
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when rinsing their clothes. Com. 'These things bin ready fur swillin', get plenty o' waiter an' poas 'em
well to clier 'em.'
* And therm thay keste hir, and possede hir up and downe, and sayd, take the this bathe for thi slewthe
and thi glotonye.' — MS, Lincoln^ A.
1. 17, f. 253, in Hal.
Jamieson gives * To Pou88, to drive clothes hastQy backwards and forwards in the water in the act of
washing.' See Piers PL, ProL, L 151.
E. push = M.E. posse = 0. Fr. pousser = Lat ptUsare.
POSSEL, eh a state of soft, wet, swampy saturation. — Whitchurch. * To' conna g5o o' the lease w now, the
ground's all of a poseel.'
POSTS [poas *i'z], Shrewsbury ; Ellesmere. [piio 'u'sl Puly erbatch. [puos'n], Ohttroh Stretton. [puos'ts],
Clun, sb, pL posts.
POSY [poa'zi'], sb, a bunch of flowers ; a nosegay. Com.
* A pretie Posie gathered is of Flowers, Hearbes, and Weedes
This Posie is so pickt, and choysely sorted throw There is no Flower, Herbe, nor Weede, but
serves some purpose now.* George
Gascoigne's Posies (a.b. 1573), ed. Hazlitt, voL L p. 20.
* O Luve will venture in, where it daur na weel be seen, O luve will venture in, whei*e wisdom ance
has been ; But I will down yon river
rove, amang the wood sae green. And a'
to pu a Posie to my ain dear May.
The primrose I will pu', the firstling o' the year, And I will pu' the pmk, the emblem o' my
dear. For she's the pink o' womankind,
and blooms without a peer : And a' to
be a Posie to my ain dear May.'
Robert Burns, Poems, p. 205.
The plural form posies is used for growing flowers. See below.
POST-KNOT, 8b. a flower-bed. Com. * Mother, they bin makin* the paas'n's garden so nice — sich pretty
posy-knots, diamenta, an' rounds, an'
some like a fir-bob ; Dick the gardener says theer'll be sich -DTetty posies, pollyantuses, an'
riccaluses, qulips, an* all sorts, —
the blue segs bin to go by the pool, an' the pianets mto the
s'rubbery.'
* When our • . garden
Is full of weeds, her fairest flowers chok'd up. Her fruit trees all unprun'd, her hedges
ruin'd, Her knots disordered, and her
wholesome herbs Swarming with
caterpillars.'
K. Richard IL, HL iv. 46.
POT. See Weights and Measures, p. Ixxzv.
POTATOES [tai'tu'z], Shrewsbury ; Pulverbatch. Qy. com. [ti'ae'tu'z], Olun. [chaat'u'z],
Bridonorth. [tit'uz], Ellbsmerb, sb,
pL potatoes.
POT-BALL, sb, a dumpling made of dough; a piece of dough.
about the size of an Q^f; is thrown into a pot of boiling water, and
boiled till it rises to the surface, when it is taken out and served with
hot treacle, — it is * nod 'afe bad.' Com.
Bandle Holme enumerates 'A Pot Bail or Dumpling . . of Bread,'
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amongst the dislies for the ' Fir^ Course ' in a ' Bill of Fare.' — Academy of Armory, Bk. HI. ch. iii. p. 79.
POT-CAKE, sh. a cake of dough baked in an iron pot over the fire. — PuLVEEBATCH. Qy. com. *That Jazey Owen's
a poor needless piece, 'er's messed
all the bit o' laisin' away i' pot-cakes, instid o* yeatin' the oven.' Of. Coal-cakes.
POTCH, V. a. and v. n. to poke; to thrust. A weak form of poke. Qy. com. A little school-child was
complained of to his teacher for
^potehing pins' into his neighbour.
* True sword to sword, I'll potch at him some way.' — CoriolanuSf I. X. 15.
POTE [poa't], V, a, to pusb or kick with the feet. Com. * Them lads han poted these sheets through
a'ready.'
Ash gives * Pole (a local word), to push.'
Mr. Skeat says tnat ^pote is nothing but our common verb, to put, in the original sense o^ to push. To put
out, when used of a snail putting out
its horns, means, to push out ; another variety is " pout," which means, to push out the lips . . . .'
* Fote is closely allied to ** but," to push with the horns.' — *
Local Notes and Queries ' in
Manchester Guardian, Jan. 26th, 1874.
See Put (1).
POTECABY [pot'i'kaer'i], «6., ohsoU. an apothecary. — Shrewsbury ; Ptjlverbatch. * 'fir's oin t&kin* stuff
from Pugh the potecary, an' 'e's as
^pod as a doctor, on'y 'e hanna walked the ospitals.'
' He IS agreid to pay Hhe potycarye aftyr that he have the inventory fro vow.* — Paston Letters, A.D. 1472, voL
iii. p. 48.
Mr. Pegge says, * I incline to believe that it IPotecary'] is radically the Spanish word hoticario, as hotica in
that language more emphatic- ally
Bij^fies the shop of an apothecary, as opposed to the itmerant empinck : and the permutation of b andj) is
very common. .....'
•In the Comedy of the Pour P's by J. Hevwood, published 1569, one of them is the Poticary .... They are
the Poticary, the Pedlar, the Palmer,
and the Pardoner. Heywood, who was a man of learn- ing, would hardly have made a Poticary one
of his characters, had he not been conscious
that he was riffht, wnen there were so many others with the same initial that would have
answered the purpose. . . • .' —
Anecdotes of the English Language, p. 72.
In M.E. no other form was used, — Chaucer has * potecarie,^ C. T., 1. 12786.
POTHERY [pudh'ur'i'], adj. hot; close. — Shrewsbury; Pcjlver- batch; Wem. Qy.com. * It wuz mighty pofAcry
about three o'clock this onder — I
thought we shoulden a 'ad thunder, but it cliered off.'
POUHDED [pou-ndidl, (1) part. adj\ pent up, as of a stream which has been dammed.— Pulvbebatch ; Wem. *
They'n bin gropin' fur trout I spect,
I see the bruck's pounded.^ A mill-pound is the back- water which is held in reserve for the
supply of the milL
* )>at pound ys byclypped aboute vn\> six score rooches . . . . •
and ]>Te score ryuers eome^ m-to
l^at pound, and non of ham alle eome)7
in-to f>e se bot on.'— John of Trevisa [a.d. 1387], Description of Britain. Specim. Early Eng., xviiL a. 11.
94 — 97.
* Punden^ AS. pyndan, to shut up, indudere.^ — Strat.
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(2) part adj, pent up and OYercharged: said of mUk and the mammsB. — Ibid. (1) * That child may well
look bad, gettin' nuthin' but pounded
milk eyery night ; its mother 's bin i' the filds this wik or mne days, toppin' an* buttin' turmits,
an' 'er couldna mind it same as if 'er
wuz a- wham.' (2^ * Tak' car* an' drip them cows clane, or we sha'n be '&Tin cans i' tnar elders —
see 'ow a bin pounded.* Cf. Oaned.
POUHDS-OF-STTOAS, ab. pi. the seed-vessels of the Foxglove. —
PXTLVBRBATCH.
POTJVDSTOVE [pounsi'n], eb. dirt lying next under the coal,— the coal-floor. Com. — ^M. T.
POTTK [pou-k], (1) sb. a sty on the eye. — Pulverbatch ; Ludlow ; Newpokt.
(2) 8h. a small spot or pustule of any kind,— Shkewsbuby ; Elles-
HERE. Pouk = pock,
* Scab is a dry sore, proceeding from a Fouk, or waterish BKster.' — Academy of Armory ^ Bk. II. en. xviL p.
428,
* Hec porigoy a poke,' occurs in a Nominale, xv. cent., in Wr. vocabs., vol. i. p. 224.
O.Du« po^, idem. Of. Puckle.
«
POUSE [pou's], (1) sb. a mixed and varied crop of grain and pulse, as oats, pease, and vetches ; oats and vetches
; oats, barley, and pease — frequently
used as green fodder for horses. — CuAVEif Aescs; Glee Hills; Bredonorth.
* Pousse ' — explained in the * Glosse ' as p^dse [= pulse] — occurs in The Shepheards Calender [August] : —
' Per. That shall yonder heardgrome, and none other, "Which over the pousse hetheward doth
post' — ^1. 46.
(2) sh. refuse, as of the frs^^ents of pods after threshing pulse, or of clover when the seed has been milled
out, &c. — ^Worthen ; Glee Hills ;
Wellington. Pouse^ in a similar sense of refuse, is used in Lancashira Many years ag;o a ve ry o ld
lady, a native of that county, on
being asked by lir. Jackson, * whether during her long life she had not witnessed great changes ? ' —
apropos to society— ^replied :
* Well, the chief changes I have seen are, that the **pmt3e is become quality, and the quality **pouse'^ I*
(3) sh. the refuse of the apple pulp when all the cider has been expressed — the 'caput mortuum. — ^Worthen;
Glee Hills. G£ Pomice.
POWEBi sb, a great deal; a great quantity or number. Com.
* By-gum, Master, if Fd a knowed as I'd a bin so thirsty to-day, I'd a drank a power more isterd'y.' So said a
butcher— who had been
* in his cups ' the preceding day — to a country gentleman, as riding together across the Hills to a fair at
Ghurch Stretton, they stopped at a
orook-side to water their horses, and the speaker dismounting, made a cup of his palm, and drank copiously
from the stream.
* Bull. But if the coniuror be but well paid, hell take pains upon the ghost and lay him, look ye, in the Red
Sea — and then he's laid for ever.
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' Oardn, Why, John, there must be a power of spirits in that same Bed 8ea, I warrant ye they are as plenty as
fish.' — Addison's Drummer, in Wr. Of.
Bight.
POWERATIOIT, ab. a great quantity, — * a poweration o' lain.' Com. 0£Mort.
PBAISEH [pr'ai'znl v. a., p, t, pi. praise. Com. ' Han'ee tried this newfangled coffee as they sen's made
thrum dandelions ? — I wuz thinkin' o'
gettin' some, fur mey praisen it oncommon.'
* . • william ^at bold bam ' I'at alle bumes praisenJ
William of PcUeme, 1. 617.
PSAB [praa'i^], sb,, var. pr. pec. an implied imprecation, a prayer,— ' I gid 'im a prar.' — Shbewsbitbt ;
Ptilvebbatch. Qy. com.
PBABS, sb, pl.f var. ^w. prayers. Com. ' Good night, Missis, an* God bless yo* : ' said William Chidley to a
friendly neighbour, — * Good-night,
young Missis ' — ^to her daughter. ' Good-nieht, Chidley,' responded the old * Missis,' ' an' Ghxl
bless yo' ; I 'ope ya thinken on God,
an' dunna furget to say yore »rar«.' * Say my prars I ' replied Chidley, * no, I dunna ftirget 'em, I say
'em every night— tiie lord's prar, an'
the Belif, an' the Ten Commandments, an' a power on it.'
PSATJHCE [pr'au'ns], v. n. to deport one's self in a high and mighty kind of way. — Shrewsbury; Pulvebbatch.
*Yo' shoulden jest see hxm praunce
about as if 'e wuz Lord o' the Manor ; 'e'U do it a bit too much, an' then be'appen 'e'U gdd down
faster than 'e got up.'
* So growen great, through arrogant delight
Of th' high descent whereof he was ybome,
That, when the kniffht he spyde, he gan adyaunce With huge force and insupportable
mayne. And towardes him with dreadfull
fury praunce.*
Sfeitseb, F. Q., Bk. I. a vii. sts. x. xL
Ipr'au'ntin], part. adj. prancing ; curvetting : said of Lorse. — Shrewsbury; Pulverbatch. Qy. com.
Cf. Aunty-prannty.
PKIAL [pr'einil], sb. three cards of one kind, — ^a term employed in the games of Costly, Commerce, &c., and
which is known to be corrupted from
pair-royal. Qy. com.
' A pair is a pair of any two, as two kings, two queens, &c. A pair-royal is of tiiree, as three kings,
three queens, &c.' — The Com-
plete Oametter, p. 106, in Nares. See Ck>8tl7.
PBICKEB, same as ITild (2). — Oswestry, St. Martins ; M. T. * Punctorium, a prykker.' — Nominale MS.,
in Hal. A.S. prica, a pnck ; a point.
PRTTiTi, sb. a streamlet of clear water, a rill ; a runnel from a spring.
— Pulverbatch; Church Stretton; Clun;
MuchWendock; Well- IKGTON ; Wem. ' I
wuz mighty glad to see the poor owd place agen after so many 'ears — I could aumust a
cried w'en I sid the little prill
runnin' an' ripnlin' alung the very same as w'en gran'mother wuz alive, an' I fatcned waiter from the well
fur her tay, — ^it seemed the on'y
thing lef as wunna changed.' Cf. Bindel.
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P&INK-TJPy V. n. to revive, as plants do when recovering from transplantation.— Pulvebbatch; Wbm;
Eixesmere. 'The sun's laid tnem
cabbidge-plants flat o* the groun', but ttieffn prink-up Ven the je'ow comes on 'em.'
* Do you not see howe these newe fangled pratling elfes, Frinke up so pretty late in every place ? *
Old Play, in Nabss. Of. Perk-up.
PEITCH [pr'ich], (1) sb, a stafiF of wood about three feet in length, steel-pointed at one end, and attached at
the other, by two iron * eyes ' to the
axle-tree of a cart Its purpose is to * scotch' the cart, when {ipoing up-hill| which it does by meai^s of
the steel-pointed end sticking into
the ground, at a given distance ^m the axle-tree. On level
f round, tkepritch either drags after the cart, or otherwise is held up eneath it, oy a short chain and a hook.
Com. Pritch is a weak form of prick.
A.S. pricay a prick ; a point.
(2) ah. a long pole famished with an iron fork at one end, used by Severn boatmen for propelling their boats,
— a river term.
PBIVT [pr'ivi'], sb. Ligtistrum vulgare, common Privet, — *the Privy- odige is in blow.' — Wem ;
Ellesmebb.
* Set priuie or prim Set boxe like
nim.' TusSEB [Septembers abstract], p.
33, ed. E. D. S.
PBIZE [pr'ei'z], v.ra. to force up, or open; to compel to let go, as by wrestling with, or by any other means.
Com.
Compare Shakespeare's * bony priser * — the strong wrestler who could lift and throw over his antagonist —
in. As You Like It, H. iii. 8.
See Proz.
PKODIOAL, adj., pec. proud ; upstart. — Pulvebbatch ; Wobthbk ; Wem. * 'E's a poor prodigal auf — dunna
know whose legs 'e stands on, but
be'appen *e'll find it out w'en *e buys 'is own shoes.'
PBOFFEB [pr'of'ur'], v. a. to offer ; to tender a service. Com. * One o' yo' chaps mun goo an' 'elp Jones
to-day, they proffereden us a mon w'en
we wun throshin', an*
" Giff-gaflfs a good fellow. One
good turn desarves another." '
'And the kny3tis nei^eden, and scomeden hym, and pro/reden vynegre to hjm,— Luke xxiii. 36, Wicliffite
version [a.d. 1388].
PBOFLIQATE, adj., pec. proliac. Qy. com. '1 like them w'ite 'tatoes as they callen ** Farmers' Glories"
— ^they bin the most profli- gate.^
PBOKE [pr'oak], (1) v. a. to poke, as of the fire, &c., — 'danna proke the fire.' Qy. com. W. procio, to
thrust; to stab.
(2) V. a, and v. n. to jwke into or about; to obtrude — * prMn' in every 'ole an' comeL' 'Al'ays prokes 'er
nose into other folks's business.' Qy.
com.
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PBOKEB, 8b. a poker. Qy. com.
'Basnett stept out at the back doore and Kinton with him, and comeinff to the oven on the backside,
Basnett tooke a peele with which they
put bread into the oven, and Kinton tooke a pole which they call an oven proa/:er.' — GouoH*s
History o/Myddle, p. 189.
PBOHO, 8b. f pec, a silver or plated fork ; in contradistinction to the common steel fork of two or three ' fangs.'
Com.
* Six superior quality electro>plated dinner prongs.* — Atictioneer's Catalogue, 1877.
Pegge has ' Prong ^ a fork ; as a hay-prong, a muck-prong. North.' See Fang (2).
PBOSPERATIOir, 8b,, var, pr, prosperity.— Much Wexlock,
• Prosperation to the Corporation.'
See Bk. II., Folklore, &c., * Customs ' [Bailiff's Feast, Wenlotk),
PBOVD-TAHOB, sb. the Goldfinch.— Much Wbnlook. See Mr. Nares on this name — which he says is a
Warwickshire one— for the Goldfinch.
Cf. SheriiTa-Kan. See Jaok-Nicol.
PBOVOKE, V, a., pee, to revoke, — 'to provoke a bargain,' is an expression often heard. — ^Wem.
PBOZ [pr'oz*], pret, prized ; forced by any means, not necessarily by leverage, — * We proz 'im off : ' said of
making a dog let go his hold. —
Whitchxtbch. See Prize.
PirCK [puk*], prei, picked, — ' bin them pars shuk or 'and puck ? * — Cjluic ; CoBVE Dale ; Clee Hills ; Much
Wenlock ; Wellinotox.
PirCKLE, sb. a pimple; a pustule: diminutive of pock, — Pulver- BATCfH; Wbm. Du. puckle—idem. Cf. Pouk (2).
PUFF-BALL, 8b. same as Fuzzy-ball, q. v. — ^Shrewsbury ; Ludlow.
PUO, V. a. to pull, as of entangled hair. — Glee Hills. Jamieson has * To Pug, to pull. Perths.'
Cf. Plug.
PnOS, (1) 8b. pi. tangled locks or ends of hair. — Clee Hills. Cf . liitdi (2).
(2) same as Pens, q. v. — Shrewsbury.
PUKE, 8b, an emetic. — Pulverbatch ; Worthen. ' That child inna welly 'er'd better '&ve a puke i' the
momin'.'
PUMMICE [pum'is], sb. the heart, liver, and lights of a lamb. — Clun.
* Sheep Pummices is the Head, Heart, Lights, Liver, and Wind- pipe of a Sheep all hanging together. Lambs
Pum^myces, is the same of a Lamb.' —
Academy of Armory ^ Bk. III. ch. iii. p. 88.
See Jerks, also Baoe (2).
PUKPLE-STOHES, sb, pi, pebble-stones. — Atcham.
Pegge has ' PunipJe, a pimple. Pumplenose. North.' Cf. Pimple.
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PUH [piion'], v. a. to knock ; to beat ; to pound. Com.
(1) ' Please, Ma'am, it wuz only Betsey punning Sally down to lay the cloth.' Such was the explanation given
to a lady who enquired of her
maid-serrant the meaning of a repeated knocking she had heard at a backstairs door. Sally was not
knocked down, but was reminded of her
duty by Betsey * punning at the door ! '
(2) * The Maister says I mun pun the bif-steak, but nuthin' $$1 ever mak' it tender.' * Tell 'im to sen' it
to our *ouBe, I can p&t seven set
o' tith about it, as 5on soon mak' it tender.'
* TkerBttes. He would pun thee into shivers with his fist, as a sailor breaks a biscuit.' — Troilua and Cressida,
U. L 42.
' To stampe or punne in a morter.' — FloriOy p. 6, in Hal.
PUHDy 8b. pi. pounds, — * *e gid six pund odd fur it.' Com.
* A gold ring drew he forth anon An
hundred pund was worth )>e ston.'
Havelok the Dane, L 1633.
A.S. pundy sing, and pL alike.
PTTNOLED, part, adj, embarrassed in money matters. ^ If Mr.
^
had a large income he would not be so pungled as he is.' — ^Whit- OHXTBOH. Compare * Pung, a purse,' in Hal.
PUBISHMEHT, ah., pec. pain. — ^Ellbsmbrb, Wehhampton. 'I maun get this tuth drawed, fur I conna bar
the punishment no lunger.
PTJVK, sh, Polyporous sqiiamosus, the Scaly Polyporoiis. A white fungus growing on decayed ash-trees, which
in its dry state is possessed of great
elasticity, and will reboimd like an Indian-rubber balL— Bishop's Castle ; Clun.
PTTHNEBy sb. a pavior's mallet. — Newport. See Pun. Of. Pom- mailer.
PTTHSE, V. a. to kick. — Newport. ' The red moggy punsed Daddy i' the iojGe : ' said a little Edgmond
child.
PTTROT [pur^-gi*], adj. conceited; consequential. — Shrewsbury; Atoham ; Pulverbatoh ; Wem. * Well, yo'
nee'na be so purgy, yo' bin none so
'onsome, an' if yo' han a bit o money, I dar'say a Uttle 'orse can carry it.'
PTTSOT-HOLE, sb. the grated ash-pit in front of a kitchen fire- place. — ^Newport. Cf. Pit-grate.
PUHLED, part. adj. become lean, by reason of injury or overwork : said of beasts, — * that beast looks
purled.* — Wellington.
PITRPLE DEA-HETTLE, sb. the red Dead-nettle.— Pulverbatch. See French-nettle. Cf. Dea-nettle.
PUT [put-], (1) sb. an attack, as by a cow. — Clbe Hills. * *Er made a pdt at me, but I got out on 'er
road.' Jamieson gives * To Puty to
push with the head or horns.' *
Puttyli or schowyn. Impelloy trudo. To put, or push, as with the head or horns, a verb still in use in
Yorkshire, has been derived from
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boiUer, to butt Bobert Bninne uses it in this sense, App.. to Pref . cxciv. " To putte, pellere." —
Cath. Ano.' Prompt. Parv. and Notes.
Mr. Skeat says that put is of Celtic origin — GaeL pttt ; Com. poot
; W. pwtioy to push; hence the Danish
putte. And if Fr. hauter be related,
which is doubtful, it is from a Celtic source. See Pete. Of. Bunt (1).
(2) V. n. to attack; to fly upon, as a dog would, — < l^ow pHt at
'im, lad.'— iWd
(3^ »h. an attempt ; an endeavour. — Wobthen ; Qlee HiLLa. ' Yon do it some time, fur yo' hanna maden
a bad piit at it.'
PUT-ABOVTy part. adj. distressed; annoyed. A woman would be ptU-about by the loss of her ''husband,
or by the breaking of her best
tea-cups — though perhaps not equally so. Com.
PYEL, sb. an outcry ; a clamour. — Shbewsburt ; Church Strbtton ; Wbm. ' Owd Sammy Griffi's wunna so sharp as
a should be : they wun oncommon ^^d to
'im at Onslow *all, an' one day a wuz 'ftyin'
some toast an' swig theer, Ven a mon oomen in an' says, ** Sammy, yore wife 's djed.' " No danger !
" says Sammy. " 'Br is, thouj^n,
indeed," says the mon. *' Weu," answered Sammy, "jest
yo' wait'n till Vre done this drink,
an' then yo'n 'ear me mak* a pretty j^yeZ." ' [^PecU is meant]
QJIACK [kwak-], adj. silent; close. — Pulverbatch; Worthen. • Yo' met'n trust Jem, 'e's al'ays quack
w'en it*s wanted — if anybody gi*es
'im sixpince 'ell never tell ; but if s a prisoner.'
QUAIOHy (1) sb., ohsoh. a cup, of — what is known to coopers, as — 'bend- ware;' a turned round cup with a
short, upright handle. — OoBYE Dale.
Quaigks^ though now (1875) scarcely to be met with, were, fifty years ago, almost as common on
kitchen and farm-house tables as
euthenware drinking- vessels. Quaigha of a large size were used as pails.
Jamieson has ' Quaich, Quegh, a small and shallow drinking cup with two ears^ Ir. OaeL cuach^ a cup or
bowL'
Of. Piggin (1) and (2), also Bouk (1). See Treen.
(2) V. a., ohaoh. to bend; to turn, — 'quaigh the branch round the end o' the wall : ' said of training a
fruit-tree. — CoRVB Dale, Stanton
Lacey. See Gh. (5) in Grammar Outlines (coTUonantSf &c).
QJJAILf V, n., ohsols. to languish ; to fail ; to fall sick. —
Bridgnorth. Spenser employs this word
in the sense of to wither or perish : —
'The braunch once dead, the budde eke needes must quaile.* — Shephearda Calendar y November, 1. 91.
Pegge has ' Quail, to fail ; to fall sick ; to faint. North.'
Compare Du. hwelen, to languish.
QITAKEBS, sb. common Quaking-grass. — Shrewsbury; Pulver- batch; Worthen; Wem. See Oow-quakers.
QUASK, adj. still ; quiet, — ' as quarik as a mouze.' — Curve Dale ; Olbb Hnxs. Pegge gives this word for '
Cheshire.'
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QITASKIES [kwor^'iz], sb. pi, square flooring-tiles. — Shbewbbubt ; PuLVERBATCH. Qy. com. * The kitchen flnr
wuz sicli nice quarrie^^ as red as a
cherry.'
O.Fr. quareauSf L e. quadreUus^ de Lat. quadrum ; Fr. earreau, a square. See Bttb.
QXTABTEB [kwaar^'tur'], v, n. to drive a cart in a lane with deep ruts, in such a way as to keep each wheel
clear of them. — ^Ludlow ;
BRIDaXOETH.
QITARTEBS, sb. pi. to 'make quarters good/ means to keep in with the publicans by dividing custom.
Thus, if a farmer going to market were
to ' put up * at one house, and go to another ' for a glass/ in order to main&in just relations with
both — he would * make his quarters
good.* — Bbidgnoiith. *Now, then, Bob, come wham.' *I conna yet, I got to gd5 to the Swan to mak*
my quarters good* Compare the * keep
fair quarter,* of Shakespeare, Comedy of Errors, n. i 108.
QITAT, adv, close ; still, as a hare on her form : used metaphorically also, — * to keep quat,' so as not to
attract notice. — ^Corve Dale. Mr.
Nares says * Quat is used for the sitting of a hare.' Of. Squat (2).
(XUAWK [kwauk], v. n, to caw, as crows. — Shrewsbury ; Pulvbr- batch; Wem.
* E'en roused by quawking of the flopping crows,' Clare, in Wedo. Cf. Group.
QXTEAK [kwee'k], v, a, to press, or squeeze. — Clun. * I shall be f5oast to get another box, I conna queak
all these things i' this.' See auoke.
Cf. Tweak (2).
QTJEAST ps:waiz'i], adv, affected with nausea ; squeamish ; sick at the stomach, — Shrewsbxtry; Pulverbatoh. *I
dunna know how folks can ate fat bacon
fur thar breakfast, it makes me feel quaizy to look at it.'
• . . letyng yow weet that the worlde semyth qweysye heer.'— PasUm LetterSy A.D. 1473, vol. iii. p. 98.
*I, with your two helps, will so practise on Benedick that, in despite of his quick wit and his queasy
stomach, he shall fall in love with
Beatrice.' — Much Ado About Nothing, II. i. 399.
QTJEECE [kwee's], sb. Columba palumbtis, the King-Dove, or Wood- Pigeon. — Church Stretton ; Newport. Called
* Queese ' by Handle Holme. Cf. Quice,
below.
QXJEENIirO [kwin'inl sb. a flne-flavoured sweet apple, common in ' the cider-orchards. — IjTTDLOW.
'The Queening, is a fair and striped Apple, and beautiful in its Season being a kind of Winter Fruit.' —
Academy of Armory, Bk. 11. ch. iiL p.
48.
QXJEET [kwee't], adv.^ var. pr. quite. — Clun, Herefd. Border. Cf. duite.
QTTEBB, OVEBDOOD. See Cord, Cordwood.
CkXJEBEY [kwaeVi*], «5., var. pr. a stone-quarry. — Church Stbettok.
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QTTEBT [kwur't*], sh., var, pr. a quart, — 'a iwo-quert costreL' — Bisuop*s Castle ; Clun.
QUICE, QinSTE [kwei's], Shrewsbury ; Pulvbrbatch ; Worthen ; Clun; Ludlow ; Wem ; Ellesmere ; Oswestry,
[kweiet], Craten Arms, sb. the
Bing-Dove, or Wood-Pigeon. Grose gives
' Quice, a wood-pidgeon. Glonc* See dueece, above.
QUiUJL, sb. young hawthorn for planting hedges. Com. ' Theer's bin too much tinin', an* now it's all djed
stuff an' staggers a 'undred 'ear owd
— the 'edge wants riddin', an* some good quick set, like Mr. Jackson's done the Quaker's meadow.'
Compare ' Vivtu, Quicke, or lively greene.' — Did. Etym, Lai. A.S. ctm'c, alive, Cf. Sate (1).
QUID, ab. a cud = that which is chewed. — Corve Dale. See example sub voce Owlerd.
QUILE, QirOIL, ab, a heap of hay from which the cart is loaded for carrying. — ^Wellington; Newport.
aunmr. see aueemng.
QUlkK [kwur'-k], sb.yobsoh. the clock of a stocking, — an ornamental device knitted at the ancle. — Pulverbatch.
*I al'ays think Ven Fm knittin' a
stockin' as the waidiest part 's o'er Ven I get to the quirky an' Ven the 'eel's bond down, it's
aumust as good as done.'
* Then have they neyther stockes to these gay hosen, not of cloth (though never so fine) for that is thought
too base, but of jarsey, worsted,
crewell, silke, thred, and such hke, or els, at the least of the finest yawn that can be got, and so
curiously knit with open seame down
the legge, with quirkes and clockes about the anckles, and sometime (haplie) interlaced with golde or
silver threds, as is wonder- full to
beholde.' — Stubbes' Anatomy 0/ Abuses [a.d. 1595], p. 31.
QUITE, adv. quiet. — Newport.
* That every cristen wight shal ban penance
But if that he his Cristendome withseye, And gon al quite, if he wol it reneye P '
Chaucer, C. T., I 15916.
See I (5) in Qramxnar Outlines {votvehy &c.).
ftUIWT [kwivi'l, sb. a knack, — ' theer's a bit of a quivvy in plantin* these s'ruDs.' — ^Wellington.
QULIPS [keu-lips], sb. pL, var. pr. tulips. — Pulverbatch.
QUOB [kwob*], sb. a marshy spot in a field ; a quagmire. — Pulver- batch; Church Stretton; Wellington; Wem.
See All of a Ctuob.
QUOBBY, adj. flabby; wanting solidity. — Pulverbatch; Wem. * I dunna think it's solid fat, 'e's quobby
— ^more inclined to be dropsical.'
QUOKE [kwoa-k], prei. squeezed; pressed. — Clun. **E qnoke me so 'ard : ' said a girl of her lover. See
dueak.
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BABBITS'-MEAT, sh, the red Dead-nettle.— Whitohuboh, Tihtock. See Dun-nettle.
BACE, (1) ah, the heart, liver, and lights of a pig. — Shbbwsburt; Welunoton; Ooluebt. See Haslet.
(2) sh. the same of a lamb. — Wellington; Collibry. See Putaimice.
(3) «6. the same of a calf.— Shbbwsbtjby; Pulverbatch; Well- ington; Oollieby.
BACK, (1) «&. a rude, narrow pathway, such as sheep would make in their walk; a path or track through a
wood. — Pulyebbatch ; WoBTHBN ;
Wellington. * I wuz ketcht i' the snow-storm gweia o'er the 'ill, an' missed the rack an' got
maskered, but wu2 pretty glad Ven I
sid Cothercot.'
Mr. Walter White, when speaking of his walk from Cherbury towards the Stiperstones, says : ' Stamng
anew I came presently to the ^^rack^^
— ^that is — a dim track leading up the wild lull which
then rose in my way The '* rack " ascends to a lonesome
table-land patched with gorse, bracken, and rushes.' — All Bound the Wrehin, p. 65. ed. 1860.
See Outrack.
(2) V, a, to refine ale by drawing it off, clearing the cask of the drees, and then putting it back, sometimes
with the addition of a little
isinglass and loaf sugar, if not deemed sufficiently dear, after which process it is closely bunged up. Qy.
com. 'The Maister likes to rack the
ale, but fur my part, I think it feeds better on tiie crap, an' if 11 be cHer enough an' gie it
time.' See Back in Wedg.
BACKLE [r'ak'l], (1) v. w. to make a clattering noise, — to rattle. — Pulyebbatch. Qy. com. 'I think a bin
luggin' barley at the Bonk, I 'ear the
waggins rackle,^ See Tl in Oranunar Outlines
{consonantSy &c.).
{2) sh, noisy, chattering talk. — Ihid, 'Owd yore racklfj wench, theers no sich a thing as piittin' a word
in edgeways.'
(3) ah, a very talkative person. — Ihid. ' 'Er's a despert rackle — 'er is.'
BACK OP EYE, phr. to work by rack of eye, is to be guided by the eye without line or rule. —
Pitlvebbatch ; Wem. * John, yo* binna
gweTn mighty straight 6dth yore job theer.' * Well, Maister, I canna do it no oettor by rack of eye, an'
theer's sich a tellif o' scutch to
root up.'
BADDLIHO, ah. bribery ; the act of bribing. — Shrewsbury. This term is said to have originated in a rough
custom of marking with raddle [=
ruddle] the houses of persons suspected of taking bribes for political purposes at election times. * I
spect the Bads han bin doin' a lot o'
raddliri this time, I sid two or three 'ousen raddled above a bit.' * Aye, an' theer'd be a sight more
if they wun all raddled as took
bribes.' Said apropos to the usages wmch obtained at the General Election, 1880.
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SAKE, (1) V, a, to cover : said of fires, which, when recj^niied to be kept alive throughout the nieht, are
smothered with mferior coal that will
merely smoulder if left undisturbed. Com. 'I dunna think it tak's a bit more coal to rakt the
fire than light it, fur Ven it's coked
it tinds direcly.' Compare the following citotions : —
' And whan he sey noon other remedye,
In bote coles he hath him-seluen raked ; For with no venim de3rned him to dye.'
Chauoeb, B. 3323 (Six-text ed.), Skeat.
' . . . Here in the sands Thee ni rake
up.'— ^tny Lear, IV. vi. 281.
Palsgrave— A.D. 1530— explains rake thus, *to cover anything in the fire with ashes.* See Hal.
f 2) V, a, to dear the ^rate of ashes. Com. ' Bessy, yo' hanna raked out this grate — it's 'afe f&ll
o' ess — I canna do 55th sich
muckerin' work, an' it inna likely as the fire 651 tind.'
* Pielol. Elves,
Where fires thou find'st unraked and hearths unswept, There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry
; Our radiant queen hates sluts and
sluttery.*
Merry Wives of Windsor, V. v. 4a
AAKDIOS, sK scattered grain raked off the stubble after the main crop has been carried. Com. ' We hanna much
to do now, on'y a bit o' spring Veat
an' a jag or two o' rakin^s to carry.' A.8. randan, to rake together.
BAOOSD-BOBIH, {i) sh. Lychnis Flos-Cuculiy Meadow Lychnis.—
PULVEBBATCH.
(2) sh, a rolled jam-dumpling of which the paste is flaky, or ragged, in appearance.— FULVE&BATCH. ' 'Ere's a
rar' raggit^robin, lads, to blow out
all the crivices * [in the stomach].
SAOOEB-BOBIHS, sb, a vein of iron-stone lying on the west side of Lightmoor Fault, so called from its
ragged appearance. — Oollieiit,
LiUeshall; M. T.
SAGOLIVO, adj, said of anything working roughly or unevenly, — * ragglirC 'arrows.' — ^Atoham.
RAISTT. See Beasty.
RALLY [r'ali'], (1) sb.ypec. a violent, clamorous ringing of a belL — WoBTHSN. ' Tney gidden the bell a pretty
rally, as if they wun gweln to
'&ve the 'ouse down.' Of. Fr. rallier, to call together.
2} sb., pec. an angry scolding; a sound rating. — Pulvebbatoh. ^ I could see 'er, rd gie *er a redly as
55d pay 'er fur the new an' the owd.'
BAinKEL IVamil], sb, reddish earth, neither clay nor sand — not fertile, a foe to vegetation.— Wellinoton.
*I wunna tak' that garden, if s aU
rammelJ
&AMMELLT, adj, of the nature of ' rammel.' — Shrewsbury. ' It 55nna do in 'ere, Maistor, the grounds too
rammdly,^
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BAMSOlTSy sb. Allium Ursinum, broad-leaved Garlic. — Clee Hills.
' The leaues of Banuons be stamped and eaten of diners in the Low- countries, with fish for a sauce, enen as
we do eate green-sauce made with
sorrell.* — Gerabde's HerhaJl, Bk. I. p. 180.
See Devil's Posy.
BANDAlf [ran'dan*'], (1) sb, a string of words conveying no par- ticular inrormation, — ' a pack of
nonsense; ' foolish taUL — Pijlv£R-
batch; Worthen. Qy. com. *I never 'eard sich a fellow, Vs al'ays talking some randan as yo' bin none
the wiser fur.' To talk randan is to
talk at random, — ^tne words are cognate.
* Randone^ or longe renge of wurdys, or other thynges. Haringga. , . Haringga seems here to be given for
harenga, or arenga^ a public
declamation. See Ducange.' — Prompt, Parv. and Notes,
Connected with O.Fr. randon, force ; violence ; impetuosity. — BuR. See Bandom-shot, below.
(2) adj. continuous, purposeless, senseless, as applied to talk. — Pulverbatch ; Whitchurch ; Ellesmere. Uy.
com. * Sich ran- dan talk, I conna
mak' neither tops nur tails on it — ^it far mithers me.*
BANDOM-SHOT, sb. a wild young fellow. — Pulverbatch ; Wem.
* 'Ow's Tum ossin' — 'oVs 'e gwein on P ' * I dunna know, I doubt *e*8 but a rayidom-shot* Compare random ^ in a
lavish way, in the following : —
' When my son grew to man's estate, hee' had leave to live more at random {liherius vivendi fuit potestas)J
— Terence in Engliih, 1641, in Wr.
Oonnected with O. Fr. randon, same as above.
BANDY [r'an'di'l, (1) sb,, sLI a frolic; a 'sprte.* — Shrewsbury; Wellinoton. Qy. com. 'Inna that chap come
to 'is work this mornin' ? — Pll be
bound 'e's on the randy agen.'
Cf. * O.Fr. randir, s*avancer aveo impetuosity, presser vivementJ — Bur.
(2) adj. self-willed ; hard to manage. — Atcrau. ' A despert randy chap.'
BANDY-BOW [rou-], eb., sLI a noisy merry-making. — ^Welungton ; "Wem. * They bin &vin' a perty
randy-row,*
BANTIPOLE [Van'ti'poal], sb. a rude, romping, boisterous child, of either sex — ^I^ulverbatch. *Whad a great
rompin', rip-stitch rantipole that
girld is ! '
* . . No ! they have had their whimsey out . . . and quiet good souls as they are by that time become, they
go on without Banti^ poling y in the
ordinary course of reasonable creatures.* — Sir Charles Orandison, vol. vii. p. 214, ed. 1776.
There is [1877] a cottage near Longden (Salop) which bears the name of Rantipole Hall, but why or
wherefore is not known.
BAP [r'apj, v, a, to exchange ; to swap. — Pulverbatch ; Cleb Hills. Qy. com. 'Ben Jones wanted to rap
his owd mar' fur Preece's pony, but
Tummy wunna to be done athatn ; 'e said — '* Aye, ketch a noud 'orse 56th cnaff I " '
BAPS, {I) sb. pi. merry-makings; sports; fun of any kind. Com.
* Well, Bill, 'ow bin 'ee P — I hanna sid yo' sence Stretton far ; whad
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sort o' rapa 'adVee ? * * Oh ! we'd'n rar' raps — ^nover gofn wham till break-o'-day.* Perhaps connected with Da.
rap ; Sw. rapp, brisk.
(2) $h. pi. news. Com. ' Come in 'ere, Ben, into this cornel an' warm yore fit — now, whad bin the best rape
toert 'Abberley?'
* Nod much, Missis, on'y Everall's stacks bin burnt.' * 'Eart alive ! yo' dunna say so.'
KAT ASB SCAT, phr,, obsols. a contemptuous expression applied to a company or set, — * they bin a bad
lot, rat an' scat,* — Pulvekbatch.
BATHES, AAYE8 [r'ai-dhz], Whitchurch, Tihtock, [r'ai'vz], CoBVE Dale ; Glee Hills, sb, pi, the
morable side-rails of a cart or
waggon, put on for can'ying a greater load, as of hay or com at harvest-time. Palsgrave mis ' Ravea of a
carte,' but gives no French
equivalent. In The Treatise of Waiter de Biblesworth, ziiL cent.,
it is said that —
* Checune charette ke meyne bUs, Deyt
aver redeles au coust^s ; ' —
* redeles ' being glossed * rayes ' {ranges). See Wr. vocabs., voL i. p.
168. Of. Kipplds.
KATLIHO, sh, the smallest pig of a litter. — Shrewsburt ; Pulvbr- BATCH ; WoBTHEN ; OswESTBY. * William
aumust al'ays buys the ratltn% 'cause
'is wife is sich a good 'and at tiddlin' 'em on — 'er never fails to make a good bacon on em.' C£
Beckling.
AATOIT, sb. a young rat. — Newpobt.
* Wi)> l^at ran )>ere a route * of ratones at ones, And smale mys with hem * mo {'an a
I'ousande, And comen to a conseille '
for here comune profit.
A raton of renom * most renable of tonge
Seide »
Piers PL, Text B., Pr(d,, IL 146-68.
* An' heard the restless rattans squeak
About the riggin.
RoBEBT BuBNS, Poems, p. 38, L 17.
* Ratun, or raton. Bate, sorex.' — Prompt, Parv,
KATTLE-BOX, sb, same as Cockscomb, q. v. — Ellesmebb.
RATTOCKS, 8b, pi, the very small potatoes, used for feeding pigs. — Ellesmebe. 'Now, Jenny, yo' g5o an' pick up
them rattodes o' tittoes, an' wesh 'em
to bile fur the pig, an then w'en we killen 'im yo' sha'n a the brains.* The brains of a
pig thoroughly cleansed, and then
boiled, and seasoned with butter, pepper, and salt, are esteemed as a delicacy of cottage fare.
KAITOHT [r'au't], (1 ) pret, and part, past, reached. — Pulvebbatch. ' I went to church athout my book, but Mr.
Smith raught me one out o' thar pew.'
* )«re \>e pres was perelouste * he priked in formest, & blessed so wi\> his bri^t bront *
a-boute in echo side, l^at what rink
so he rauit * he ros neuer after.'
William of Palemt, 1. 1193.
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' He smiled me in the fSiuM, raught me his hand.
And, with a feeble gripe, says '
K. Henry 7., IV. Ti. 21.
' The anld guidman ratight down the pock,
An' ont a handfa' gied him.'
BoBEKT Btirks, PoetM, p. 46, 1. 1, c 2.
(2^ prd, and pari. p€uiy arriyed, and, as one would say, * got to,'
& destination, — * 'E started
afore 'is Faither an' may, but e hanna
raught yet ; ' ' The poor lad were welly gone afore the Doctor
raught to 'im.'— Wellinotok ;
Oollieey; Newpobt; Wem; Whitchukch.
Eaught as a transitiye form does not obtain in these districts*
' & wont for^ on here way * wi3tly and fast, til l^ei redli hade rami • to grete rome
euene.'
WiUiam of Palerne, L 4823.
A.S. rdcan id, to reach to ; pt. t. rdhte t6. See auh voce Noration.
BATJVCH [r'au'nsh and r'aunsl, v, a, to tear up ; to bite at eagerly, as of erass : said of cattle, — * They'n be
glad to raunch that feg up Ven i£ey
can get nuthin' else.' — Pulvbrbatch. Baunch an' scrauneh is to snatch greedily ; to grasp at, — *
Look at that 6oman raunchin* an'
scraunchin*; er'll be all o'er the fild afore the others bin in at the
gate : ' said apropos of a gleaner.
Compare Spenser's —
' Hasting to raunch the arrow out.'
The 8hepheard» Calender, August, L 100.
BAVES. See Bathes.
BAWL [r'au'l], v, a. to pull roughly about. Com. ' They rawlened the poor chap about an' abused 'im
shameful.' Of. Tawl.
BAWM [r'au'm], t?. a. to eat greedily. — ^Pulverbatch. * The young beas don rawm up aU that feg w'en theer's a
snow o' the ground.' Of. Baunch.
BAWVEBS, BAWVIE8 [r'aun-ur'z], Wem. [r'au-niz], Wellington, sb. pi. rotten, worthless branches of
trees. See Bawny-bougha, below.
BAWVnfO, adj. a term applied to the movements of a big, awkward man. — Whitghuroh, WhixalL See Bawny,
below.
BAWV-PEOS, same as Bawners, above. — ^Wellington.
BAWNY fr^au'ni'], adj. a term applied to the appearance of a large- built and awkward man, — *a great rawny
fellow.' — ^Whitchurch, WhixalL
Perhaps brawny is meant, but see Bawning, above.
BAWNY- BOirOHS, same as Bawners, above.
BAW-TEDS, a corrupted form, apparently, of Boits, q. v.
BATE, sh.f ohs. a rail. — Shrewsbury.
' 1634. Itm for nayles & setting up the dore of the rayc that com* passeth the Communion table Id.' —
Churchwardent^ AcoounU of the Abbey,
Shrewsbury.
* Reflelee,' the side-raiU of a cart, is explained by * rayu ' in WalUr de Biblesworth. See sub voce Bathes.
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BBAH [Vi''b'n], Polybrbatoh; Cobyb Dalb. fr^ee'ii], Cbavbn Arms. [r'ai-nj, Wbm ; Whitohuroh, »h. the farrow
oetween the * buts ' of ploughed
landjs for carrying off the water.
' Cayme, husbantes crafte thou must goe towe,
And Abell a sheapharde be.
Therefore of comes fiEtyer and cleane
That growes one rigges out of the reianf Cayme, thou shalt oner, as I meane. To God in xnagistie.'
The Death of AM, Chester Plays, voL L p. 36.
' A Ree-an is the distance between two buts.' — Academy of Armory, Bk. ni. ch. iii. p. 73.
BEAP [r'ee'p and r'ai'p], v, a,, pec. in combination with up, — to reyiye the memory of painful bygones, in a
sense antagonistic to that of letting
* the dead past bury its dead.' Com. * Yo* nee'na reap up about the poor owd mon bein i* jail — thaf
s forty 'ear agd6.'
BEAB [r'aeV], (1) v. a. to raise : especially applied to making pork- piee. Com. ' We'n 'ad a busy momin' ; the
btitcher wuz 'ere the first thing
cuttin' up the pig, an' sence then I've rendered the best lard an' the midgen-lard, an' reared four
an' twenty pies, beside a batch of
apple-fil^an' got i' the oyen.* * My 'eart I but yo' han bin busy.'
(2) adj, under-done : said of cooked |meat. Com. ' I can do with beef or mutton a bit rear, but yeal an'
pork should be done welL'
' There we complaine of one reare-roasted chick Here meat worse cookt nere makes us sick.'
Habrintow'b Epigrama, iy. 6 [A.D. 1616], in Wr.
Mr. Nares remarks of rear in this sense that it is ' not yet quite disused.' A.S. hredw, raw.
BEASIHO OF POBK [r'aeVin], sb, the loin of a porklbg pig. — Shrewsbury; Pulvbrbatch. Qy. com. *We'n
&ve some curly greens 5dth the
rearin* o' pork, an' score it fine to mak' the cracklin' crisp.'
BEASTT [r'ai'sti' and r'ee'sti'], adj. rancid : said of bacon. Com. 'Ifs a bad kitchen fur keepin' bacon — ^it
al'ays gwuz raisiy — ^the sailiu's
[ceiling] low, an' nod much ar in it'
' lay flitches a salting Through
follie too beastlie Much bacon is
reasty,*
TUSSER, Fiue Hundred Potntes of Good
Huabaiidrie [Noy embers Abstract].
' Besty flees ' is giyen as the gloss of ' chars restex ' in The
Treatise of Walter de Biblesworth,
xiii. cent., in Wr. yocabs., yol. i. p. 155.
* Beest, as flesche (resty, P.)« Bancidus,* — Prompt. Par v.
* Bestie, or rustie bacon.' — Nomendator, 1585, p. 86, in Hal. See Beasty, in Wbdg. Cf. Beechy (2).
BEBBLIHO [r'eb'lin], part, pres., var. pr. revelling, — * drinkin' an' reJ6/in'.'— Pulvbrbatch ; Craven Arms.
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BECKLIHO [r'ek'lin], sb, the smallest and usually the last bom of a litter, as of pigs, puppies, &c. —
Wellikotox. The term is not a very
common one. Of. iticklin^.
BECKON [r'ek'n], v, n,, pec. to imagine ; to suppose ; to apprehend. Com.
' which to shake oft
Becomes a warlike people, whom we reckon
Ourselves to be.* — Uymbeline, III. i, 63.
BED, V, a, to comb out the hair. — Pulverbatch.
Jamieson gives ' To Bed. To disentangle ... To red the head, or hair, to comb out the hair.' See
Bedding-comb, below. Of. Bid (5), also
Beeve (2).
BED-CAFy sb. the Goldfinch. — Newport. Of. Seyen-ooloiired- liinnet. Bee Jack-Nicol.
BEDDIHO-COMB [kuom*], sb, a dressing-comb. — Pulverbatch. * Wy dunna yo' red yore yar, Bessy P — ^it
looks as if it 'adua 'ad a
reddirC-cdom through it fur a month.' See Red, above. Of.
Ridding^- oomb, also
Beeving-tooth-oomb.
BEDBnrS [r'edinz], «6., var. pr, the simame Meredith. — Glee Hills, Aston BolterelL * Who bin them two
P' * Wy, owd Bedding o' Didlick an'
Bidey [Bytheway] o' Stotherton.'
BED-BOW [r'oa*], sb. the stage of reddish tinge which barley assumes just before ripening. —
Pulverbatch; Olee Htt.ta Qy. com. *
Allen o' Steppiton 's cut barley afore ours is i' the red-rew* '
BEECHT [r'ee'chi'], (1) adj. dirty; smoky; unwashed, — in appear- ance. — Pulverbatch. ' 'Er's a grimy,
reechy lookin' thing, I shouldna like
to ate after 'er.'
* the kitchen malkin pins
Her richest lockram 'bout her reechy neck.'
Cariolanus, H. i. 225.
A.S. ric, smoke.
(2) adj. rancid, as of butter, or baoon.~WEM ; Ellesmere. * That butter 's nasty reechy stuff — I conna ate
it.' Of. Beasty.
BEED-SPABBOW, (1) sb. Sylvia phragmitisy the Sedge-Warbler. Oom.
r2) sb. Sylvia arundituicea, Beed Warbler. Oommon in the vicinity of large sheets of water, where the Beed,
Arundo Phragmitee, abounds.
* Hie paluatrus,* glossed * a rede'Sparowe^* occurs in a Nominaie^ xv. cent., in Wr. vocabs., vol. i. p. 221. Of.
Water-Sparrow.
BEEPLE [r'ee'pl], sb. a beam placed horizontally against the ' face ' of the coal to prop it, being itself
supported by * sprags.' — Oolliert,
Old Park; M. T.
BEEVE [r'ee'v], (1) sb. the underground overlooker of the pits. —
OOLLIERY ; M. T.
• RevCy lordys serwawnte. Prepoaitus,*— Prompt, Parv, A.S. gerS/a, a steward, bailiff, agent. Of.
Doggie.
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(2) v. a. to comb out the hair. — Oltjn. * Mind, Ruth, as yo* reeve yore yar welL' See Beeving-tooth-coxnb. C£
Bed.
(3) V. a, to contract into -wrinkles, as of the nose or forehead, — * Donna reeve yore nose/ ♦.
e, don't pull up your nose, as at anything
displeasing. Com, Du. ruyffelen, to wrinkle. Cf. Bivelled.
(4) V. a. to draw, or gather up — a term of sempstressy. Qy. com. •We sha*n get the throck done afore night —
^if yo'n reeve the skirt, m sew it
on.* See Keeving-string, below.
BEEVnrOS, sb. pi. gathers. — ^Pulvkrbatoh. Qy. com. 'Mary, see *ow yore gownd*s tore out o* the
reevin*a,*
BEEVHrO-STEDTO, sh, a string put in for the purpose of drawing or gathering up. Qy. com. * The
reevin'^string *s comen out o' the
neck o' the child's pinner—jest len' me yore bodkin 'afe a minute
to run it in agen.'
Bailey — ed. 1782 — ^has *To Beeve ... a Term used by Sailors, for to put in or pull through.'
BEHEABSEi v, n., pec, to rise on the stomach, as of food which disagrees. — Shbewsbtjry. * That pie wuz
too good fur me, it rehearsed all day
after.* Compare Fr. rehercer, to go over again, like a harrow (Fr. hirce) over a ploughed field. Cf.
Kepeat.
REITS [r'ei'ts], ah. Ranuncidtts fluitans (Lam.), Water Crowfoot. — Shrewsbubt. The water- weed to which old
Severn fishermen give the name of
ReiUy and which abounds in the shallows of the Severn, is the *■ tresses fair ' of Sabrina, in Milton's Comus.
'Seaweeds were formerly called Beets. Bishop Kennett has the following note, — **Reit8, seeweed of some
called reits, of others wrack, and of
the Thanet men wore," &c. ** Leppe, sea-grasse, sea- weed, reets." — CoTO.' See Mr. Way's
Note in PrompU Parv,, p. 431.
See Bolts.
BEJOICE [r'i'jei's], v. n., pec. same as Rehearse, above. — Pulver-
BATCH.
BEMEMBEB, v. a., pec, to remind. Com. ^Remember me to sen' down to Littlehales's fur some vinegar,
w'en Dick calls fur 'is baskit — 'e
gwuz by the shop, an' 'e'U do a narrand fur me, I know.'
* I'll speak of her no more, nor of your children ; I'll not remember you of my own lord, Who is lost too:— Winter's Tale, III. ii.
231.
* Bemember^ to put in mind of: If you will remember me of it. North.' — Feoge.
BEMLET [r*em-lu*t], sh., obsoU. — Pulverbatch. * I bought it chep, it wuz jest a bit on a remJet.'
* Bemelawnt (remenaunt, residuum^ F.). liesiduusy reliquus. The use of the obsolete form of the word
remnant appears in the Craven
Glossary, v. Remlin, and in Palmer's Devonshire Words, v. Bemlet. It occurs in the inventory of efPects of a
merchant at Newcastle, in 1 57 1, in
whose shop were certain * ' yeardes of worssett in Remlauntes." Durliam Wills and In v., Surtees Soc, vol.
i. 362.' — Prompt. Parv. and Notes.
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BEVDEBy V, a.f pec. to melt down out of the natural state : said chiefly of lard and suet Com. * Be sure be
earful Ven yo* render the lard, the
pof s got thin i' the middle, an' if 11 ketch direcly.' Gbose gives ' Bender ... to melt down. To
render suet N.'
BEP [I'ep], sb., obs, a reaping by gift-work. — Pulverbatch. A.S. rip, a reaping. See Bk. IL, Folklore, Ac.,
* Customs' {harvest),
BEPEAT, same as Beheane, q. v. — Shrewsbury ; Ludlow.
BESTIAL, sb,, obs, a fee for burial within the Church, including the charge for tolling the bell.— Shrewsbury.
' 1634. Itm paid to the Lord Bishop's secretary and other officers to p5ure a mitigation of BestdUs within our
Church, and two letters from the Lord
Biuiop, 10*/.* — Churchwardens* Accounts of the Abbey. Called * Lestial * in the Churchwardens*
Accounts of 8, Julian's.
BICKLIHOy same as Batling, q. v. — Newport.
BID [r'id'l (1) prei. rode. — ^Pulvbrbatch. * We wenten to the far to buy snip — ^tiie Maister druv, an' I rid
the grey mar' : ' so said John
Griffitii of Exford Green [1871].
' Brazen. ... I have Beason to remember the time, for I had two- and-twenty Horses killed under me that day.
* Wor. Then, Sir, you must have rid mighty hard.
* Bal. Or perhaps, Sir, . . . you rid upon half a dozen Horses at once.'— Fabquhar's Becruiting Officer, Act
III. Scene— The Market- place
[Shrewsbury],
* I remember two young fellows who rid in the same squadron of a troop of horse, who were eyer together.' —
Spectator, Aug. 24, 1711.
(2) V. a. to dispatch ; to get work out of hand. — ^PuLyERBATCH. ' Tummas is a good workman, 'e*ll rid as
much i' one day as some folks dun i*
two.*
' We, haying now the best at Bamet field,
Will thither straight, for willinmess rids way.' 3 King Henry 7/., V.
iii. 21.
(3) V. a. to clear, as of land by stubbing up the furze, &c Com. '1621. Laid out in stocking up of the gorst
in Kingsland, making
the same into feiggottee, and ridding and making deane the growndes, V iiy' yj*.' — BaUiJfa* Accounts, in OwBN
and Blajeewat's History of Shrewsbury
f yol. i. p. 674. Dan. * rydde, to
grub up, to clear.' — Wedo. Der. 'ridding.'
(4) r. n. to expectorate. — ^Worthbn ; Church Strettok ; Wel- lington. * I wuz coughin' an' riddin' all
night.'
(5) same as Bed, q. y. — Ellesmere.
BIBBIHO, sb. the act of clearing, as of land from furze, &c. Com. 'The Maister »d me a plack o' 'tato ground
fur the riddin*, an' a &mou8 crop
it brought*
BIDDIHO-COMB [kuom*], same as Bedding-oomb, q.y. — Elles- mere. ' Fatch the riddin^-cdom, an' let me
rid the child's yar.'
BIDOE, BITDOE, sb. a space of ploughed land,— same as But (1), q. y.---CRAyEN Arms ; Bridonorth. At
Chelmarsh when a man
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aowB a ' ridge ' wholly at once it is called a ' ridge at a wiff; ' but when he goes once up and once down it is a
' ridge at a h<mt.'
* . . . of comes fayer and cleane That
growes one riggea out of the reian.'
Chester Plays, vol. i. p. 36.
* Bygge, of a lend. Porca,* — Prompt. Paw, See Kean.
Xn>0£-BAlfD [r'izh* mid r'ich* band], sb. the strong leathern band which goes orer the saddle of cart-harness,
and holds up the shafts. — LxjDLOW. In
The Treatise of Walter de Biblenuorth, close of xiii. cent., it IB said that —
' ly limounere,
Ke porte i dos une dossere.'
' Limounere ' is glossed ' thiUo-hors,' t. e, shaft-horse ; and '
dossere has ' rige-leytJier^ given as
its synonym. See Wr. yocabs., yol. L
p. 168. A.S. hrycg, the back, and bend, a band.
BISLESS [r'id'lis], (1) sb. a riddle; a conundrum. Qy. com. *Well, whad dian 'ee do, if theer wuz no
daincin'?' *Wy we played'n at turn the
trancher an' blind-man's-buff till we wun tired, an' then begun to tell ridlesses, an' whad
twix puzzlin' to fine 'em out, and
then cryin' the weds, we gotten to three o'clock T the momin'.' A riddle given in The Treatise of Walter de
Biblesworth is supple- mented by —
' Bed that redeles, red qwat it may beo.'
See Wr. vocabs., voL i. p. 161.
A. 8. rddels, a riddle, from rddan, jx> interpret, read.
(2) sb. a doggerel rime; an improbable story, — any 'rigmarole.' Qy. com. A servant-s^l, who was a
Dissenter, objected to going to Church
on the plea uiat, whereas in Chapel they had new prayers every Sunday, in Church they had ' on'y the
same owd ridless o'er an' o'er aeen !
' ^
' And there was Christe, but fygured and described in cerimonies / in redles j in parables and in darke
prophesies.' — William Tyndale (a.D.
1528X Obedience of a Christian Man. Specim, Eng. Lit., xvi. 1. 12,
BIE [r^ei*], v. a.y obs, to sift grain by shaking it round a sieve in such a manner as to bring the chaff and
light grains to the surface, from
whence they can be removed. — ^Pulye&batch ; Worthex.
' I can riddle an' I can rie. Toss a
pancake an' rear a pie.'
The ' branches of useful knowledge ' set forth in the above couplet, represented generically all those arts of
housewifery which, in the 'good old
times,' young country-women esteemed it honourable to practise.
BIEnrO-SIETE, same as Blind-siere, q. v. — Ibid.
ETPP, (I) sb. the itch. — Polvbrbatch ; Wem. Qy. com.
(2) sb, the mange. — Ibid,
SIFLE [r'ei-fll, v. a. to rufflp, as of the temper. Com. * If 'e'd gwun on much lunger 'e'd a rifted my
temper, an' I should a toud 'im what I
thought.'
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BIFTEE, same as Lifter, q. v. — Glee Hills.
BIO, (1) sh, a sprain, as of the back. — Clbb Hills.
(2) V. o. to sprain.— iWd. 'The mar* 's rigged 'er back, an' Tve gid my arm a kench a-tryin' to oud 'er/ See
Kench (1).
(3) sh, to ' nin a rig ' on a person is to banter l^im unsparingly. Qy. com.
BIOOIL [r'ig'il], sb, a male animal partially gelt. Com.
BIOHT-FOEEFCTNOST, prep, over-against. — Oswestry. See. Anunst, also O'er-anunst.
BIGK)L [r'ig'h'l], (1) sb. a small gutter or channel in land, made to lead water off. — Fulverbatch. * I've made
a bit of a rigol to carry the waiter
off the posy-knot' Compare Shakespeare's * Watery rigol' — Lucreccy 1. 1745.
' O.Fr. rigole, canal, conduit pour r§coulement des caux . . . . du celtique : kymri rhig, entaille, coupure ;
rhigol, sillon, foss^.' — Bub. Of.
Grip.
(2) sh. a groove.— PuLVEEBATon ; Oswestey. * Yo'n portended to dust this room, an' jest look at the dirt
i' the rigol round the table.'
BIGK)T, same as Bigol, above. — ^We3(.
Amount the 'Terms used in the Gentle Craft' [shoe-making], Bandle Holme has, * Ohanndling the Sole ;
is making a riggett in we outer Sole
for the Wax Thread to lie in.' — Academy of Armory, Bk. m. ch. iii p. 99.
Pegge gives * iJt^^rof. A gutter. Lane.'
BILE, V, n. to move about uneasily ; to fidget, — ^generally used in combination with 'wriggle.* — Pxjlverbatch.
*I couldna 'ear the one 'afe Mr.
Gilpin said — ^them childem wun rilin* an' wrigglin' about i' the Chancel all the wilde.' See
Roil.
BIMING [r'ei'min], adj. falling, as of mist ; same as Mizzling, q. v. — * rimin* weather.' — ^Woethen.
BDfDEL [r'in-dl], sb. a small stream. — Whitchurch, Frees. A.S. ryneHey a stream, runnel. Of. Prill.
BDfDLESS [r'indlis and r'in'dles], sb. the stomach of a calf prepared for rennet. — ^Pulverbatch. * This rindlis
dunna come well ; I mus' remember to
tell Bowson to send us the maw from our own cauf, then we sha'n be sura on it comin'.' It is
believed that the rindUss obtained
from a calf whose ' nursing mother ' grazes the psisture common to the dairy-stock will have a special effect on
the milk of the dairy, causing it to
coagulate— or ^ comey* as it is termed— with almost absolute certainty.
* Benlys, or rendlys, for mylke. Coagulum.* — Prompt, Parv.
Of. Mawskin.
BIFPEB, sb. a crescent-shaped implement used for trimming the edges of gutters. — ^Whitchxteoh.
BIPPLE8 [r'ip'lz], sb. pi. the movable rails put on the sides of a cart or waggon when it is required to carry
a more than ordinary
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load, as, for instance, at haryest-time. — ^PuLVSitBATGH ; Wobthen; CoBYB Dale ; Wem. They say about Oherbnry
that a man has ' got the rippUa on '
when, though not absolutely drunk, he has yet taken a greater quantity of drink than he can
well carry. Thus a wife extenuated her
husband's insobriety : * Well, 'e 'ad the ripples on,' — drunk he was not, though he had exceeded
his rightful allowance. Cf. Thripples.
See Bathes.
BISE [i^ei's], (1) sh, a long, slender stick ; a branch. — Pulverbatch ; Ohubch Stbbtton; Glee Hills. 'To' mun get a
good lung rise as'U ndch them
swallows' nists, an' proke 'em down, else we sha n a dirty windows.'
' >anne [buskede] a bold kniht * & to a bow stirte, )»e sote-sauerede frut * sone to
pulle. But al so ra)>e as >e
rink * gan >e rU touche, Doun fel
he wi)* dul * ded in )>e place.'
Alexander and Dindimus, L 129.
' Then ynto London I dyd me hye, Of
all the land it beareth the pryse : '*
Hot pescodes,'' one began to crye, **
Stnibery ryi)e," and " cherries in the ry««." '
JTohn Lydgate (a.d. 1420, ctVcg ). Lo ndon
Lyckpeny. Specim. Eng, Lit,, III. a. 9.
Du. rijB ; G^erm. reiiB, a twig.
(2) V. a. to rod peas.~PuLyEBBATOH ; Newpobt ; Ellesmebe. * I wanted to rise tne tother row o' pass,
but I fell diort o' sticks.' See
Pea-risers.
(3) V. a. to beat, — • rise 'is back.' — ^Wem.
BISnrO [r'ei*8inl^6. a beating with a light stick, — ' *£ gid the lad a good rtsifi^* — Fultebbatoh.
BIVELLED [r^iv'ld], part, adj. wrinkled. — Shbewsbubt ; Pulvbb- BATCH. Qy. com. ' Martha begins to shewn
age— *er neck an' 'ands bin all
rivelled an' s'runk.'
' A riudd skynne, a stinkyng breath ; what than P A tothelesse mouth shall do thy Hppes no
harms.'
Sib Thomas Wiat (a.d. 1640, drca), Satire, JH. 1. 61.
In Ephes. y. 27 the Widiffite version — ^A.D. 1388 — ^has 'ryuding,^ where iiie A. Y. has < wrinkle.' G£
Beeve (3).
BIYEL-BAVEL [r'ivi r'avl], (1) sb. nonsense, — *sich rivel-ravd* — Clun, Herefd. Border.
* And a great deal more of such riifd^ravel, of which they knew no more than the man in the moon.' — The High
German Looking-Olass, 1709, in Wb.
(2) adj. nonsensical, — * sich rivd-ravtl stuff.' — Ibid.
BOAD, «&., pec. way, manner,— of doing a thing. Com. 'To' oome by [stand aside], an' I'll shewn yo'
the rodd [way to do it].'
BOB [r'ob*], (1) sh. a very sti£f preserve, — the term seems to be restricted to black-currant jam. —
Folvebbatoh. ' I think Missis biles
'er jam too lung, it's as 'ard as black-currant roW
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Peg^ has * Eohh, a stiff jelly made from frnit, and denommated aoooi^dmgly, as Elder-Rohh ; called in the
South Jam,'*
Fr. rob; It. robbo; Sp. rob; Arab, robb; the thickened juice of fruits.
(2) 8b» a tangle, as of thread, twine, &c. — * all on a rob,* Com.
BOBBLE, sh. an entanglement, — same as Scrobble (l)y q. v. — ^Wem ; Oswestry.
BOBIH-BUH-I'-THE-'EDOE, ab. Ohehdma hederdcea, Groand-Ivy. Com.
BOBIK'S-PISrCTrSHIOir, sK the gall of the Wild Eose.— Clux. See Briar-boss. Of. Mop (2).
BOBS, sb. pi. quantities. — Atcham; Wem. 'Han yo' fund anyT * Aye, robs on it.'
BOCHE [r'och*], sb, loose, crumbling rock ; earth much mixed with stone; a sub-soil of earth and gravel. —
Pulvebbatch ; Wellington, ' It 56nna
bring much aside o' the 'ill, theer inna much sile, an' whad is is rocheJ
* Roche, ston. Bupa, rupes,'* — Prompt, Parv,
'O.Fr. roche; rocher, §cueil.' — ^Bur.
Fr. ' Roche, rock. II y a quelque anguille sous roche (il y a quelque chose de cach6 dans Taffaire). There's a
snake in the grass.' — Cuamb, Cf.
Bammel.
BOCHT [r'och'i'], adj, of the nature of rochs, — ^hard : said of soil that turns up in lumps. — Pulyerbatoh ;
Wem. Cf . BammeUy.
BODEIT'S-COWT. See Porty-8a*-one, &c.~-Pulvebbatch ; Cleb Hills.
BODHEY, same as Battling, q. v. — Ellbsmerb, WeUhampton.
BOOEB, sb, the paunch of a pig, — same as Hodge, q. v. Com. See Nancy.
BOIL [r'oi'l corr, r'ahyl], same as Bile, q. v. — Atoham; Wem.
BOITS [r'oi'ts], same as Beits, q. v., — a broader pronunciation of the term. See Raw-yeds.
BOMANCE [r^oa-mans], (1) ab, that ' silly jesting which is not con- yenient ' — haying a show of truth. Com. '
I should neyer 'eed whad that fellow
says, 'e's so full on 'is rdmance,''
* G.Fr. romans ; histoire fabuleuse.' — Bur.
(2) V, n. to exaggerate in narration ; to relate a drcumstance in such a jesting kmd of way as to throw doubt
upon its yerit)^. Com. ' Now,^en,
dunna romdnce, but tell me straight forrat *ow it 'appened, — ^yo' bin too fond o' ro7ndncin\
theer's no Imowin' Ven yo* spake the
truth.' O.Fr. romancier. See Bur.
BOHBLIHO, adj, f pec, restless. Com. 'The child's bin romblin* all night — I couldna sleep for it.'
BOMMELLY, adj, fat ; greasy. — PuLyERBATCH ; Church Stretton. 'Ow's yore pig gettm' on, Tummas P ' <
Oh ! right well — 'e'U mak'
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duuna like 'em so big, the bacon atee
so rommdly,^
B0MP8TAL [r*omp*8tul], sh. a romping girL — Pulvbrbatch. * 'Er's a great rompstaJ — ^more for play than
work.'
BOHOE [Vonj*], v. n, to reach; to try to attain, as by stretching or effort.— l^ULVBRBATOH. * Jones's cattle bin
al'ays rongin^ o'er the 'edge after
nettles— it's a sign the pastur' 's bar.' * Well, let 'em ronge, irs thar own fence.'
BONOIHO-HOOK, sb, a hooked stick, or a stick furnished with a hook, for pulling dead branches out of
trees. — Ibid. * Jim made me a capital
rongm-*89k odth a stail of a pitchin'-pikel, an' ptit a iron '55k at it — ^it's a sight better than a
'55kit-8tiok.
BOHK [r'ong'k], (1) adj, strong; vigorous; luxuriant — in growth, as of wheat or potatoes. Qy. com. * Them
'tatoes bin ronh V the top, I dunna
know 'ow the bottoms bin.' Cf. Oen, xli 5.
(2) adj. cunning; bad; mischievous, — *a ronk owd file;' — *a ronkish lad.' Qy. com.
* pat wat^ \fe rauen so rank ' )>at rebel watz euer.'
Alliterative PoemSy The Deluge fiLD. 1360, ctrcr*), Specim. Early Eng.f xiii. 1. 465.
A.S. ranc, proud ; haughty ; rebellious.
BOOK, (1) t?. n. to huddle ; to lie close, as fowls do. — Shrewsbury ; Pulvbrbatch. (1) ' They wun thick enough o'
the groun' afore, an' now Jack's comen
an' brought 'is wife an' two childem, so they bin forly rooked up.' (2) * The rowls bin
inclined to rook under the stack-
frames an' wam-'us—- it's a sure sign of a snow.'
' What is mankynde more unto vow holde
Than is the scheep, that rouketh in the folde ? '
Chaucer, The Knightes Tale, L 460, ed. Morris.
* The raven rooJ^d her on the chimney's top.' 3 K Hmry F/., V. vi. 47. Low Gherm. hvrken, to squat down.
(2) sh, the iron key used for winding up a kitchen-grate when it is too wide. — ^Wem.
BOOT-WOUTED [wou-tid], Pulvbrbatch. [wau-tid], Wbm, part, past, np-rooted. ' The winde 's broke a lot
a trees i' the park, an' root'Woitted
some o' them big elms.' See Wout, also Wawt.
BOP [rop'], sb.y var. pr, a rope. Com. See mh voce Frommet (2).
BOFE [r'oa'p], (1) pret and part, past, reaped. — Pulvbrbatch; Glee Kills. * Yo' remember'n John Pugh.' *
I should think I do, I've rope 56th
'im many a day — we use't to tak' 'arr5ost all round Cantlop an' Cunder an' theer wen I wuz a
young fellow.'
(2) ab. the * trail ' of a woodcock. — Pulvbrbatch. See below.
BOPES, eb, pi the entrails of a sheep, — *the ship's ropes.* — Pulvbr- batch. Qrose gives * Ropes. Guts. N.' A.S. roppas, bowels; entrails.
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SOPY [i^oa'pi*], adj, viscous ; stringy : said of bread, also of beer. Com. ' Look at this bread, Dick, it'll pool
into nez' wik, it's that ropy.^ Hot,
damp weather will cause both bread and beer to become ropy, and it is curious that the former, when in
this state, will infect sound bread, —
a loaf laid upon a shelf where rqpv bread had stood would speedily become unsound in like
manner. * xo* munna pfit the new bread
o' that shilf Veer the las' batch wuz, or we sha^n be '&Tin' it ropy afore if s cowd.' Beer will become
rowf when insufficiently boiled or
bittered. ' Now see, an' bwile that drmk well, or we sha'n '4ve it ropy this muckery weatiier.'
' Bopynge, ale or o}>er lycowre (ropy as ale, K. H.). VUco9ua*— Prompt. Farv,
BOUGH [r^uf •], sb. a wooded slope, — steeply inclined. Com. * Ah, Joe, I fund out w'y yo' couldna tell w'eer
the text wuz o* Sunday — ^yo* wun
nuttin' i' Wildm's roiigh (Sheptonfields), an' 'e's gwetn to get a summons for yo'.'
BOTTOHED [r'uf 't], part, past, made rough, as with firost-nails : said of horses' shoes. Ck>m. Bsuidle Holme
has * Frosted* in the same sense. See
Frost-nails.
BOTTKCIHO [r'ou'nsin], adj\, ohaols. roaring ; boisterous, — ' a rauncM fire ; * — * a roundri' winde.' —
Pulvbrbatch ; Woethen.
BOUNDS, sb. a turn once up and down a ploughed field. — ^Whit- OHUBCH. See Bout (2).
BOUND -SHAVIHO, sb.f si A a sharp reprimand. — Pulybbbatch. * If yo' dun that agen, yo'n get sich a
roun'-ahavtn* yo' never 'ad*n afore.'
BOUSE [r'ous*], sb. rubbish, as of garden refuse — bean-tops, immature fruit, &c.,— 'rucks o' rouse,* —
^Ptovebb ATCH ; Cobvb Dalb; Wbm;
OSWBSTEY.
BOUSTT, adj, rusty. Com.
^Scaber, rough, rowstie,* — Duncan's Appendix Etymohaice, A.D. 1595, E. D. S., B. xiii.
BOUTE [r'ou-t], (1) sb. a party ; an assembled company. — Pulvbr- BATCH. ' They bin '&yin' a big route at
the Squire'a'
' but for [to] telle )>e a-tiryng ' of l^at child >at time, )»at al >at real route * were araied
fore.'
WHltam ofPaleme, I 1942.
* O.Fr. route; compagnie, bande.'— Bub. Of. Bout (4).
(2) sb. a disturbance; a commotion.— /Wd. 'Theyd'n a pretty rotife at Powtherbitch Wakes.' * 'Adna ?
whad wun a doin' ? ' * W'y fightin'
like mad.'
* To make rowHe into Home with ryotous knyghtes. Within a seyenyghte daye with sex score
hehnes.'
Morte Arthure, M8, Zinco2n, f. 57, in Hal.
* O.Fr. rotUe , . . confusion, d6sordre ; de ruplus, rupta,* — ^BuB.
(3) V. n. to low; to cry, or make a noise, as animals do when restless. — Pulvbbbatoh. 'Did'n yo' fother
them beas well las'
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lught P they wun rotttin^ till I ooxddna get a -wink o' Bleep,~nOy I Gouldna.'
' and made hem rowie
AIb he weren kradelbames :
So dog ]fe child \>Ai moder i^aines.'
Havdok the Dane, 1. 1911.
*Mugio, to rowt like a nowt/ occiirs in Duncan's Appendix EtvmologuEf A«D. 1595, £. D. S,, B. xiii
Grose gives * * Rowt, To rowt or rawt, to lowe like an ox or cow, N.'
*A.S. hrutan; O.Pris. hnUa; O.IceL ^rioto, route, mu^tre.' — Strat.
(4) ah, the cry, or noise, made by restless animals. — Ibid, ' The ship bin makin' a pretty route.'
(5) V, a, to turn up out of the earth, as pigs do with the snout, — * routed the 'tatoes up.' Com.
EOUTT, acy, rutty; full of wheel tracks, — ' a routy road.* Com.
BOW^DED [i^oa'did], adj, having alternate rows of fat and lean : said of bacon chiefly. Com. ' Axq Molly
Dovas'on to cut me a nice roto^ded bit
o* bacon, I canna do d6th it so very fat.'
SOWilY, same as above. Com.
BOWSOFS COWT. See Porty-sa'-one, &c.— Wobthen.
BOZzEN-DT, V. n. to set to work in a determined, vigorous manner. — Weic. * 'E ketcht out o' the pikel an'
roszened^in than I thought Vd a
dropt.'
BUBBEB, sb. a mower's whet^atone. — ^Ludlow, Bur/ord,
'The rub or buckle stone which husbandmen doe occupie in the whetting of their sithes.'— Habrison's
Description of England, Pt. ii. p.
64. Of. Bur (2).
BXTCK, (!) V, a, to crease; to rumple. Com. 'Jest see 'ow yo*n rucked yore appam — ^whadever han 'ee bin
doin' ? ' ' 0.N, hrucka, to wrinkle.'—
Wedg.
(2) sb. a rough crease; an aggregation of creases. Oom. 'The poor child's do'es bin all in a rwk from
maulin' it about — ^no 5dnder at it
cryin'.'
* N. Urukka, a wrinkle.'— Wedg.
(3) sb. a heap, — ' a ruck o' stwuns.' Com.
* O.Swed nika, ruck; heap.' — Strat.
(4) V. a. to gather into heaps. Com. ' Jack, I want yo' i' the fallow to ruck scutch ready for biumin'.'
BXTCKS AH' YEPS, phr. analogous to 'dticks and drakes,* as applied to squandering property. —
^Pitlvebbatch. Qy. com. * Yo'n got a
pretty place 'ere, Maister.' ' Aye, lad, if s took me many a 'ear's ^ard work to get it together, but I
doubt if 11 soon be made rucks an*
yeps on Ven I'm gwun.' Yep = heap.
BXJBOE. See Bidge.
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BJTPF, ah. a roof. Com. ' Duima shift that lather, we wanten it 'ere — the men hin gwein o* the ruff to
fettle it, it looses the wet in.'
' 1581. September. Pd. for trussynge up the ruffe of the churche end, yjd.' — Churchward-ens^ Accounts^ S.
Mary's, Shrewsbury.
* Ruffe of an hows.' — Prompt, Parv,
BTTVBEL [r'an'dl], (1) sh,^ ohsols, a pollard oak. — ^Pulverbatch. These pollards are usnally spoken of as *
old rundels,' because for many years
oaks have not been polled, consequently what there are must be of old CTOwth, but it does not of neoessi^
follow that a rundel must be 'nollow,'
as sometimes explained. Farmers were formerly
allowed to top trees for the wood they required, as for repairs
of implements, &o. ; the
priyilege, however, became abused, and a stop
was put to it. ' We dama cut a bough now-a-days, else theer's a capital three-f anged bough 'angs o'er the
bean leasow o6d mak' a rar' nave ; but
the Squire oonna 'ave a wuk cut fur the world — 'e canna bar the sight of a rundeV Of. funnel.
(2) sh. by metaphor, — an aged person who has outlived the friends and companions of early years. — ihid, '
All the owd neighbours bin gwun, an'
lef a poor rundel like me.' * Oh ! yo'n las' a good wilde yet, Molly — rwndeU bin mostly 'ard.'
(3) eh, a dwarfed, stimted person or animal. — Ihid. 'Tore new waggoner's a despert rundel, it'll be more
than 'e can do to raidi the 'orse^s
yed.' Of. Bunt, below.
BUHLET, sh.f ohs.'i a shallow, round tub, used for brewing purposjBS. — Pulveebatoh; Bishop's Oastle. Tm a bit
doubtful o' the barm, piit some wort
i* the runlet, an' try if it'll come [work].*
* Tow small Runletts ' are enumerated amongst other things in ' The Seller/ in an Inventory, dated at Owlbury
Manor-House, Bishop's Oastle, 1625.
BTTHHABLE, adv. by rote ; fluently, as of a repetition lesson well prepared or well said. — Pulverbatch. *
Billy, han yo' gotten yore spellin'
runnahle, an' yore catechis' an' yore coUic' ? ' * Iss, Mother.' 'That's a good child — yo'n soon be a
scholard.' See Mr. Skeat on
* renahle* in Notes on Piers PL, 0. 1 176, p. 23.
BTTKNEL, sh. an old stunted tree, usually a pollard, and hollow. — Atcham; Wbllinoton; Wem. 0£ Bundel (1).
BITNT, same as Bundel (3). — Pulvbrbatoh ; Wellington ; Oswestey. Qy. com.
BUITTED, adj\ stunted in growth.— /Wd * The 'eifer dunna change 'er cooat kindly — I think 'er's runted
throm bad winterin'.'
BUTTLIHG [r'ut'lin], sh. and part, pres. rattling ; gurgling — ^that peculiar noise in the throat often observed
in dying persons. Qy. com.
* It's nigh all o'er ooth 'im, poor owd mon, 'e's ruttlin' V the throat.'
* O.Du. rotelen, to rottle, rattle.' — Steat.
BTAL [r'ei'ul], (1) adj. royal, — 'the ryal family.* Qy. com.
' And cround our quene in rycd aray.'
John Aubelat's Poems, p. ix.
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(2) adj. ' high and mighty ; ' independGnt, — ^in a bad sense. — ^Wem. < '£ wuz mighty ryal, I can tell yo',
w'en I toad 'im whad the Maister
said.'
SAD, adj. close; heavy : said of bread which, owing to bad yeast or from being ill made« has not risen
properly, or, being well made and
baked, has been shaken before beoonung * set ' or cold. Com. ' O, Missis, yo'n mak* the loaf Bad if yo' bin
so rough 5dth it/ said a aeiTant-|;irl
to a lad^ who had taken up a loaf hot out of l^e oyen, and hastily dropped it.
' 8od^ heayy, close Bread.' — Academy of Armory, Bk. m. ch. Tii. p.* 317.
Sad, in the sense of firm, heavy, clayey, occurs in Alexander and Dindimui : —
' For to sowe ft to sette * in |>e 9ad erthe." — L 912.
* /Sorf, or hard. Solidua,* — Prompt, Parv,
Of. Sammy.
8ADB [sai'd], to cloy ; to satiate. — Pulverbatoh ; Wem. Qy. com. ' Dick savs 'e can ate as much poncake as
'e could stick a pikel through, out
'e'U find as they'n soon sade 'im.'
* To aade, cloy, mtio.^ — CoW Lat. Diet, in Hal.
* •* Of worldes winne Bad,''— Walter Mapes [a-D. 1162, circa'], 341. A.S. Bced; O.Sax. Bad; O.IceL BaiSr; Gotn.
Ba\>B; O.H.Gbrm. Bater {Boiur),
satiate,' in Stbat.
BASffJSQf part, adj. cloying; satisfying. — Ibid, *ThiB ahooity dumplin* *s despert Badin\ I canna ate no
more on it.'
SAGE-CHEESE, sb. an ordinary cheese with a sprinkling of sage in the curd. Qy. com. When Boge-cheese is made
it is usually at the end of the dairv
season ; the cheese then being difficult to dry, sage is rubbed into the curd to act as a *
drier.' ' We'n rub a bit o' Boge i'
this crud, itll 'elp to dry it, an* we bin all fond on a bit o*
Boge-cheeBc' In some dairies an imitation
of Cheddar cheese is sometimes made,
by pounding sage leaves and adding the juice expressed from them
to the customary curd.
Bandle Holme has, ' Sage, or Mint, or Marigold Cheese.' — Academy of Armory, Bk. IIL ch. viiL p. 335.
SAKE [sai'k], sb, a land-spring ; a place where the water oozes out on the sui£ice soil — Wem; Whitohueoh;
Ellesmebe. C£ Seek (2).
SAKT, adj, having wet patches : said of fields. — Wellington ; Wem; Ellesmeke.
BALLET, sb. a salad. — Shrewsbubt ; Pulverbatoh ; Clee Hills ; Ellesmebe. Qy. com.
' . . . . Wherefore, on a brick wall have I cHmbed into this garden, to see if I can eat grass, or pick a
Boilet, .... which is not amiss to
cool a man's stomach this hot weather.* — 2 K, Henri/ VI., TV, x. 9.
* SaUet, is either Swoet Herbs, or Pickled Fruit, as Cucumbers^ Samphire, Elder Buds, Broom Buds, &a,
eaten with Boasted Meats.' — Academy
of Armory, Bk. III. ch. iii. p. 84.
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O.Lat. < Salata. Sallets.'— 2>»cf. Etym. Lot. ' ImaUta, salad
(£(X)d of raw herbs).'— Meadows* /toi.
Did.
SALLT, sb. the name applied generically to every species of Osier, and to other Salices of semi-arboreal
habit. Com.
* Near to the shady bank where slender aaUiea grow.*
Dbaytok, The Muses* Elysium, Nymphdl YL
* . . . . the cherries on the wall must be turning red, the yellow Bally must be on the brook, wheat must be
callow wil^ quiyeiing bloom, and the
early meadows swathed with hay.' — ^E. D. Bulck- MOBB, Lcma Doone, A Bomanoe of Exmoor, p.
did, ed. 1878.
' Amera seal' occurs in LcUin and Anglo-Saxon Glosses, xL cent., in Wr. Tocabs., yol. u, p. 8, and Mr. Wright
gives the explanation : — ' The
willow, stiU called the sally on the bolder of Wales and in the West of England.*
Dr. Stratmann gives the plural form of the word, ' salyheSf* as occuning in an ' Anglo-Saxon and Early
English Psalter.'
Wydif has salewis, Ps. cxxxvi. (or cxxxviL) 2.
A.». sealh; O.H.Germ. sal{d)ha; Lat aalix. Ct Withy.
SALLY-BED, sb, a plantation of Sallies, — ^an Osier-holt. — Wem. Of. Withy-bed,
SAMCLOTH [sam'klu'th], sb., obsols. a sampler. — Pulvbrbatch ; Wem.
Bandle Holme enumerates amongst * The School Mistris Termd of Art,' * A Samdoihy vulgarly a Sampler.' —
Academy of Armory, Bk. HL oh. iii p.
98.
SAMHTi adj\ close ; clammy ; heavy : said of bread. — ^Wem. Ct
BAHCTUAET [sang-kteuhYi'], sb,, var. pr. common Centaury. — PuLVEBBATOH ; Olun ; CoLLiBRY. See
Bloodwort.
SAPY [sai^pi'l, adj. moist; slimy, — the first stage of putrescence: said of meat. Qy. com. * This close, muggy
weather the mate gets •opy.direc'ly.*
Ot Low Du. sapp, juice ; wet
SABCH, SEABCH, (1) sb. a sieve — about two feet in diameter — made of sheep-skin drilled with holes, used
in granaries for sifting the dust from
grain.— Bishop's Castle ; Oluk ; Bridonorth. C£ Blind-sieve.
(2) sh.f ohs. a sieve similar to the above, formerly in general use in small flour-mills throughout Shropshire,
for sifting flour of very fine
quality. It obtained as late as 1835, if not later.
' The Scarce or Searcer, it is a &ie Sieve with a Leather cover on the top and bottom of the Sieve Bim, to
keep the Dant or Flower of any Pulverized
Substance, that nothing be lost of it in the Searoeing.' — Academy of Armory, Bk. III. ch. yiu. p.
337. Ash has ' Searce. A fine kind of
sieve or bolter.' Bailey— ed. 1782 —
gives ' A Sarae, a Sort of Sieve.' *
O.Fr. saas ; sas ; tamis, sas. Bas Lat. eedatium . . . . de seta (== setaceum) crin. ; . . . parce qu'ils [les
tamis] sent faits de crins, signi-
fication qu' a seta.* — Bub.
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'Ft. 8€u, tissa de crin attach^ k un oerde de bois, ft qui sert i passer de la farine, du plditre, &c.
Sieve, searce,' — Chamb.
(3) «&., ohi, a strainer (P). — Gleb Hnxa
* 1 Brass Kettell & SarcA_0-l-6/— < 1 brass Kettle ft Search^ 0-1-6/ are items of an Inventory dated at
Aston Botterell about a.d. 1758.
There are [1873] aged persons in the neighbourhood of Abdon who remember brass kettles fitted up with
strainers after the manner of a
fish-kettle, but the term sarch, or search, appears to be obsolete.
'j. aara of brasse/ — 'j. sarehe of tre,' are enumerated amongst things pertaining to the * Coquena^ in the
'Inventory of Sir John Fastolf 8
Goods,' A.D. 1459. — Faston Letters, voL i. p. 490.
Pegge has ' 8erce, a strainer for gravy, ftc. Yonc'
8AA-CL0TH, sb,, ohs, a plaister. — Pulverbatch ; Worthbn. ' 'la back keeps despert bad, an' 'e's wore a
ear-cloth all winter.'
' Ligatura,^ glossed ' aar^dat,^ occurs in Archhp. JElfri<!a Vocabu^ lory, X. cent., in Wr. vocabs., vol. i. p.
20.
Ash gives * Beardoth. A kind of plaister ; a large plaister.'
' Cerat, A Plaister made of Waze, Gommes, ftc, and certain Oyles ; Wee also call it, a cerot or aeare-doth.^ —
Cotobaye's French Dictionary,
A.S. adr-cM, a sore-doth. Gf. Shar-cloth.
8ASV [saai^n], (1) expL ' Sam it * is a forcible form of expression not amounting to an oatL Com. * Sam it
wunst ! I've talked to 'im solid an'
sairious, an' I've plagued 'im, but if s no use— 'e wull 'ave 'er; an' this is whad I look at, 'er
conna work, an' whad good'll 'er be to
Hm ! ' So reasoned a girl (from the neighbourhood of Mies- mere) upon her brother's choice of a wifa
Cf. Oonaam-yo'.
(2) ah, a culvert. — Glttn; Gobvs Dale. W. aam, a causeway; a paving. Gf. Sough (1).
8ABVE [saai^v], (1) v, a. to serve. Com«
' Mans wisdome scatereth / divideth, and maketh sectes / while the wisdome of one is that a white Goto is best
to aarve God in / and a-nother saith,
a blacke / a-nother, a grey / [a]nother, a blew.' — William Tyndale [a.d. 1528], Obedience of a
Christian Man, Specim, Eng, Lit,, zvi.
L 353.
(2) V, a. to give pigs their food. Com. ' Jack, yo' can aarve the pigs awilde I pt^t the gis an' ducks up.'
See Fother (2).
SABVE&, ah, a round, shallow basket holding a single ' feed ' of com. — ^PuLVEBBATOH. Qv. com. * *As the
mar' 'ad 'er 'ay ? Then yo' can gie
'er a aarver fiill o' ddats.' Gf. Server.
SABVnrOy sh, the quantity of food given at one time : said of pigs chiefly. Gom. ' Gie the fiat pigs a good
aarvin^ the las' thing — the nights
bin lung.'
SATE [sai't], (1) ab, young thorn set for hedges ; usually protected by posts and rails.— Pulvebbatoh ; Wobthen. ' The
cowts han broke down the pwus an'
rails — ^gwun through the aate-^edge, an' trod it down fur two or three yards.' Gf. Seat.
(2) ah, a kind of wedge-shaped chisel, used by blacksmiths for cuttmg bars of iron in lengths, — a * set.'
Gom.
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SATE-BOD, ah, a tough hazel rod twisted loiind the neck of the ' set/ and forming a handle, which is preferred to
an iron one, as it causes less jar to
the hand when the ' set ' is struck for the purpose of cutting off a length of iron. Com. * Sate-roda
binna so much used now* [1874] — said
a Hanwood blacksmith — ' sence they'n made it a tres- pass to go6 i' the coppies to get the *azel
twigs.'
Bandle Holme has the foUowmg amongst * Terms used by Smiths:' — ' 8ecU Bod or Punch Eod ; is "V^th
or W reathen stick turned about the
Head of a fire punch to hold it on the hot Iron, while it is striking through or making a hole in it.' — Academy
of Armory, Bk. lU. ch. iii. p. 89.
SAUCE [saa's], sb. vegetables, or any other additions to the dinner- table, which are eaten with meal — Cobve
Dale, Stanton Looey,
SAVATIOIT [saivai'shun], (1) sK saving, as of a person or thing. — PuLVERBATCH. Qy. com. ' I like a good wide
appam to come round yo' — if 8 a great
aavation to yore gownd.'
' And for the eavacion of my maisters horse, I made my fellowe to rvde a wey with the ij. horses ; and I was
brought forth with befor the capteyn
of Sent' — Paston Letters, a.d. 1465, voL i. p. 132.
(2) ah. saving, — in the sense of economy. — Ibid. * I dunna think theer^s much aavation in bumin' odd ; if
yo' mun pay a mon to cleave it, yo'
met'n as well buy coal.'
SAVE-ALL, sb, a money-box with an aperture in the top for dropping * pennies saved ' into. — ^Newpoet.
SAVEBH-TBEE [saviir'n], sb, Juniperus eabina. — ^Pulvbrbatch, Hanwood,
• Hec aamina, An'* & saveryn,' occurs in a Pictorial Vocabulary ,
xv. cent., in Wr. vocabs., vol. i p.
265. Mr. Wright supposes it to be
Juniperua aabina. ' 5avem-^0a ' is supposed to procure abortion.
See Savin-tree, below.
SATIH-TBEE, same as Savern-tree, above. — Pulvebbatoh ; Wem. The properties imputed to a ' tea ' made
from this shrub (see above) are
alluded to in tne following lines : —
' . . . And when I look To gather
fruit, find nothing but the aavin-tree,
Too frequent in nunnes' orchards, and there planted. By all conjecture, to destroy fruit
rather.'
MiDDi^TON, Game of Cheaa, C. L 6, in Wr.
* SaveynCy tree. Savina,* — Prompt, Parv,
SAWEK fsavnir'], sb, a small quantity ; a morsel ; a taste : said of food, — * tneer inna-d-a aavver on it lef
.' — Pttlverbatch ; Ellebmsbe; Wem.
Pegge has this word for Derbyshire.
Compare * Savowre or tast. Sapor,* — Prompt. Parv, *O.Fr. Savor f Savour; godt, savour; de
aapor.* — Btjr,
SAWTH [sau'th], sb, saw-dust. — Corvb Dale.
SAYLT [sai'li*], adj.^ohsols, thin; flimsy. — Worthbn. 'This new flannin's sad aayly stuff, they dxmna make nuthin'
as good as it used to be.' Cf.
Slazy(l).
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363 SCALDED-APPLE, sh. Lychnis diuma,
Ked Campion. — ^Pulveb-
BATCH.
SCALLIOIT, sh. Allium Asccdonicum, a kind of small onion, — ^the Ascalonian garlic. — Ludlow.
* Hec hinnula, a scalyone,' occurs in a NomincUe, xv. cent., in Wr. Yocabs., Tol. i. p. 225.
* Hinnula, oepula [a smaU onion].' — DucAiraE. C£ Sheelot.
8CAS-CE0W [skaaV kr'oa], sb. a figure made of straw and dressed in man's clothes, set up in fields and
gardens to affright birds. Com. * It
wuz rar' raps to 'ear the 'unters shoutin' to the acar-crow to know which way the fox went.' This form of the
common word acare-crow is an old one
apparently : —
' Lik'st a strawne acar'Crow in the new sowne field. Bear'd on some sticke, the tender come to
shield.
Hall's Satires, iii 7, in Nares.
Minshew — ed. 1617 — has, ' a Scar-crowy any deTioe to fright birds, compositum i Scar, i. terrere & Crow i.
Comix . . .'
"hlLr. Nares says that * other old dictionary-writers have it in
this form.' See Malkin (2).
SCATTEBrCOEirEE, adv. diagonally. — Corvb Dale. Some mem- bers of ' The Severn Valley Field-Club '
were directed by an old man at
Wilderhope to go * acaUer^conier' through a field. Cf. Cater- oomered.
SCATJD [skau'd], v, a, and v. n. to scald. Com. * The poor child wuz acauded dreadful — the skin wuz all
rivelled up.'
* I'm sure sma' pleasure it can gie,
EVn to a deil, To skelp an' acaud poor
dogs like me,
An hear us squeel ! '
BoBEKT Burns, PoevMy p. 31, 1. 11.
'O.Du. achaudeny to scald.' — Strat.
SCHOLAED [skol'ur'd], «&., var, pr, a scholar. Com. "As Jack lef school yet ? ' ' No, I want 'im to goo
another quarter, 'e's but a poor
acholard*
^ Kite, 01 Carolus! Why Carolus is Latin for Queen Ann; that's all.
' 2d. Mob, Tis a fine thing to be a acollard — Sergeant, will you part with this P '— Fabquhak's Recruiting
Officer, Act EL. Scene — The Street
[Shrewsbury].
SCLEHCH [sklen'sh], v. a. to check water at boiling point, by dash- ing oold water into it. — Pulverbatch. *
Yo'd'n better aclench that waiter
afore it all bwiles away.'
8C0HCE [skon's], (1) sb. a, tin candlestick with a reflector at the back, made to hang flat against a wall. Qy.
com.
* Hie abaconaua, A' sconse ' — under the head of Nomina Pertinencia Ecdeaie^occuis in an English Vocabulary,
xv. cent., in Wr. yocabs., voL i p.
193. Mr. Wright has the following note upon it : — * A sort of candlestick made to be attached to the
wall. The word is still in use for
such candlesticks in the North of England.' See Sconce (2), in Weoo.
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(2) sh., sL? a oontemptaoiis term for a person^s head. — ^Ludlow. Qy. com. ' That felloVs sconce inna wuth we
carryin'.'
Jxtlta Ki. • • • 4 • • •
If you will jest with me, know my aspect,
And fashion your demeanour to my looks, Or I will beat this method in your sconce,
* Dro, 8, Sconce^ call you it r so you would leave battering, I had rather* have it a head : an you use these
blows long, I must get a econce for my
head, and insconce it too ; or else I shall seek my wit in my shoulders.' — Comedy o/ErrorB, II. ii.
32 — 38.
See Sconce (1), in Wedg.
SCOOT [skoo't], 8b. a small irregular plot of ground ; an odd piece, as of cloth, &c. Com. (1) * I'll put a
fyeow cabbitch o' that ecooi down by
the brack.' (2) < The Missis gid me a good scoot o' linsey as'll mak' Joe a good wascut/
*A.S.sceca; O.Fna,skat; 0,I>}1, schot ; OJlceLskaut; Qoiih.skauts; O.H.(}erm. scox, a corner. . . .* — Stbat.
SCO&CH [skaur''ch], v, a, to rub with stones, as a hearth or door- step.— Shbbwsbttbt ; Woethen; Wem. *Whad's
the good o' me scorchin' the 'earth if
yo' keep'n prokin' the ess o'er it all the wilde ? '
SCOECHnrO-STOlTES [stwunz], eh. pi. rubbiog-etones.— /6m2.
SCOBE [skoa'ur'J, (1) t;. a. to make circles, zigzags, or other deyices, with the rubbing-stones on doorsteps,
&c. Com. *N. skura; to rub,
scrape, scour.' — ^Wbdg.
(2) V. a. to scratch; to cut superficiall;^. Com. (1) 'The spSons bin scored all o'er.' (2J * Yo'n gwun too
(up i' scoriiC tnis leg o' pork, yo'n
cut i' the flesh— tne Maistor 'U say swar Ven if s saryed.' A.8. scyrian; O.N. skera^ to cut.
(3) sh, 20 lbs. in weight : used generally in the si ngu lar form, — < the pig 11 mak' 30 score by
Ohrii^mas.' Com. See w eights and
Measures, p. Ixxziy.
SCORINO-STOITES, same as ScorchingHitoneB, aboye. Com. See Score (1), aboye.
SCORE [skauVk], sh. the core of an apple, — Hhe acork stuck in Adam's throat.' Com. In the TrecUise of
Walter de Bihleevoorth, ziii. cent,
amongst the parts of an apple and what to do with them, the following occurs : —
' La pipinette engettez, Les pepynes
dehors plaimtez.'
La pipinette is glossed * the scoree.^ — ^Wr. yocabs. , yol. i, p. 150. The core of an apple is called the score in
Gloucestershire. See Eve's-soork.
SCOT, sh. an ale-house reckoning. — CoRyE Dale. Qy. com.
' O.Fr. escot . . . de I'allemand : ancien frison skot, su^dois skottt anglais scot, all. mod. schossj impdf —
^BuR. Of. Shot.
SCOTCH, (1) V. a. and v. n. to stop, or retard, a wheel, as of a waggon, &o., — in going up-hill this is
done by placing a stone on the
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road, and backing the * shafter' tQl the wheel rests apon it, by which means it is kept from going back, and the
horses are relieved from the sixain of
the load while they are breathed ; in going down-hill a dragis put on the wheeL Com. ' Yo' mind to
icotch gwe'in down the Baich bonk,
else ifll tak' the shafter off 'is fit'
' Scotch a whedy to stop it from going backward. Lane' — PsaaE.
(2) V. a. to make a barrel steady by placing a wedse on each side of it. — PuLTEBBATGH. Qy. com. * Dunna yo'
put them wedffes out o' the way, I
shall want 'em Ven I tun the drinx to scotch the oarrels 66th.'
'Fr. aecoter; to underprop, shore, bear up, stay from shaking or slipping. Cotgr.,' in Wedg.
SCOTCH- OOTHEBTTM [godhnu'um], sb. a term applied to any material of coarse, loose texture. —
^PtjIjVBRBATCH ; Woethbw. * Wy didna
yo' get summat as 66d war, an' nod sich ecotch-gotherum as this?'
Compare * caurimauri' — explained as the name of some coarse, rough material — in Pt«ra PL, Text A., pasa
y. L 62.
SCOTJT, V, a., pec, to chase ; to diiye away, — same as Keonse, q. y. — ^Wem. aIs. BceSian, to send forth. See
9vh voce Xeout.
SCOWTHEB [skou'dhui^], same as aboye. — ^PuLyERBATCH. 'Well done, little Spot ! — ^it's a jGsunous dog
to %cowther the 'ens out o' the
garden.' G£ Gowther.
8CBAMMEL, STKAMHEL [skr'am*el], Wkm. [str'am-il], PuLysR- BATCH, Bb, a lean, gaunt, ill-fayoured
person or animal. (1) 'That theer
piece as Jones 'as married, 'er's a reg'lar p|Oor MratMnd to look at' (2) ' Whad a great strammel of a pig
that is as John bought at the far.^ Gf
. Gangrel.
SCSAT, (1) V. a. and v. n, to scratch; scratched, — 'donna serai athatn,' — ' the cat »crat the child.' Com.
' On the sege then sate y, And he
icrattud me ftdle yylensly.'
MS, Cantab. Ff. ii. 38, f. 162, in Hal.
' And ylkane akratte othyr in the &ce,
And thaire awen flesche of ryye and race.'
Hampde, MS, Bowes, p. 215, in Hal.
Mr. Oliphant says that the word ' scraich arose in Salop.' See Sowrces of Standard English, p. 124.
(2) sb, the itch. Oom.
(3) V, n. to work hard for a poor liying. Com. ' Aye, poor 66man, 'er knows whad it is to serai atore 'er
pecks.'
(4) V, n. to hurry ; to make haste. Com. ' I mun scraJt alung 66th my work, else I shanna get to the raps
afore dark.'
(6) sb, an ayaricious person. Com. 'Jest yo' look at Molly Andras--an owd serai 'er is — 'er wants the
laisin' all to 'erself'
(6) See eub voce Owd Lad.
SCKATCHnr, 8b. a term applied to meat that is dried up and ahriyeUed from being oyer-roasted, — ' done
to a seTaieh%n\* Qy. com.
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SCRATOHIH'-CAKE, sh, a cake made witli the scratchin'a of lard (see below) mixed with flour, rolled out
about an inch thick, and baked. Qy.
com.
SCRATCHnr'S, sb. pi the small crisp bits left from the 'leaf' after the lard has been all melted out. Com.
ScratchirCB are considered a
honne-houche^ either made into cakes (as above) or sunply eaten with bread. The revise of them pressed down and
caked together is used for dog-meat.
SCKATJP fskr'au'p], (1) v. a., var, pr. to scrape ; to make a scraping noise. Com. * Jack, yo' should'n mak'
better *aste o'er yore diimer, an' nod
be ^raupin^ yore plate for more Ven Pve shut my knife.' In fEirm-houses where the old customs are
still observed, the men, employed on
the farm, dine at a long table set apart for them, while the master and his family take their dinner
at the same time from a square lable
in the middle of the kitchen. The master carves for all. At ' the men's table ' neither knives nor
forks are provided, but each man uses
his own clasp-knife, which serves the twofold purpoee of cutting his food and conveying it to his
mouth. If he wants a second helping,
he scrapes his plate with his knife to call the master's attention te the fact The head wagsoner is ' master
of the ceremonies ' at * the men's
teble,' and when he nas finished his dinner, he closes his knife with a snap, as a signal for all to rise
and leave the table. This custom has
given rise to a saying current among fEirm-servante—' It's time for me to a shttt my knife,^ that is,
to have finished any matter in hand.
* O.Du. schrapefty to scrape.' — Stbat.
(2) sb, a greedy, avaricious person. Com. * Poor owd feUow ! — Vs bin a reg'lar scraup all 'is life, an'
now 'e's gwun an' left alL' Qt Scrat
(5).
SCRAWL [skr'au'l], (1) t\ n. to crawl ; to creep, as a child does about a fioor. Com. ' I shouldna lay 'im
down so much now, 'e ought to be
takin' 'is fit, fur if 'e begins to scrawl 'e'll mak' some work.'
(2^ V. n. to move slowly and laboriously about, as a very weak or tired person does. Com. ' I got out i' the
sun a bit isterd'y, but fel' so wek I
could 'wrdly scrawV
* To scrally stir ; motito»* — Coles' Lat Diet,
(3) sh, a tengle, as of thread, &c. Com^ 'Wen yo' turn them slippin's [skeins] o' the 'edge, see as yo'
dunna get 'em in a scrawl— it mak's
'em so taidious to wind.' Cf. Scrawly, below.
(4) sh, a hobble ; a difficulty. Com. ' I never sid sich a doman as that Betsy Davies — 'er's al'ays gettin' i'
some scrawV 'Well, an' sarve 'er
right, 'er's al'ays prokin' 'er nose w'eer 'er inna wanted.'
(5) V, n, to wrangle ; to quarrel. — Wkm. Qy. com. * Them folks bin al*ays scrawlin* among tneirselves.'
SCBAWLIHO, adj. mean ; worthless, — ' a scrawUri fellow.' Com.
SCBAWLY, adj. twisted ; entengled : said of growing com, of which the ears have been turned in
different directions by the wind. —
Cleb Hills. C£ Tather (2).
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8CSIKE, V. n, and nb. to shriek ; a shriek, — ' scriked till yo' met'n a 'eard 'er a mile off,* — ' gid sich a
acrike,' Com,
' The little habe did loudly acrike and squall, And all the woods with piteous plaints did
fill.'
Spensee, F. 0., Bk. VI. c. v. si xviii.
* with that a greiuous ecrike
among them there was made, & euery
one did seeke on* something to be
stayd.'
The Drowning of Emery the I. ffis childreny
1. 81. Percy Folio MS,, vol. iii. p. 159, ed. Hales and FumiyaU. N. skrika, to shriek, scream.
SCBIMMEB, sh. a niggardly person. — Pulverbatoh. 'It's little use axin' 'er fur anytlun* — ^the poor
acrimmer, 'er grudges 'er own needs,
let alone anyliody else's.'
SCBTMMTTY, adj. mean ; stingy. — Pulvbrbatch. * 'fir's as jubous as *er's acrimmity — weighs the flour out,
an' then the bread after if s baked ;
be'appen 'er thmks as I should ate the duff.'
8CBINCH [skr'in'sh], sb. a morsel ; a ' wee bittie,' — ' gie me jest a aerinch.^ Dom.
SCBIPf V. a. and v. n, to snatch ; to snatch at — ^hastily or greedily. Com.
8CB0BBLE [scr^ob-l], (1) sK a state of difficulty or trouble- generally brought about by folly or ill
conduct ; a scrape. — Pulver- BATOH.
'E's got 'isself into a pretty acrohhU ooth 'is gammocks.' See Bobble. Cf . Scrawl (4).
(2) ah, a tangle,—* a acrobhU o' thrid.'— /5tJ. Of. Scrawl (3).
(3) V. a, to entangle ; to rayel. — Ihid, * Yo'n acrohble that yom if yo' binna more earful o'er windin' it.'
(4) r. n. to scramble. — Shbewbburt; Pulverbatoh. Qy. com. *I remember the poor owd free-owder
Jondrell, 'e use't to chuck apples
o'er the 'edge fur us childem to aerobhle for [1817].'
8CB00DGE» SCBXJDGE [skr'oo-j, skr'uj], v. n, to squeeze; to press or thrust in, as between two persons. Com.
' Plaze, Sir, Tum Jones is acrudgin*
on to our form.' Compare Spenser's ' acruze ' = squeeze : —
' Tho up he caught him twixt his puissant hands, And haying acruzd out of his camon corse
The lothfuU life '
F, Q., Bk. n. c. zi. st. zlyi.
SCBOTJT [skr'ou-t|, v, n. to scratch vigorously, — 'scroutin* at the flen all mght.'— C£.ee Hills.
8CBTJ7 [skr'af •], sb, scurf. Qy. com. ' That pig dunna grow a bit, 'e's reg^r 'ide-bond, an' a acruf on 'is
back as thick as a twopenny piece.'
See R (3) in Grammar Outlines (conaonanta, &c).
SCETTF-O'-THE-NECK, ab, the nape of the neck.— Newport.
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SCUFF, SCUFT, &c, same as above. Com. See Scuff, in Wbdo.
SCUFFLE [skuf'l], (1) sb. a garden implement used for cutting off weeds at the roots, — generally known as a
Dutch hoe. Oom. Du. tchofftl : — idem,
(2) V. a. to cut up weeds with the scuffle. Oom. Du. sehoffelen : — idem. See Wedo.
SCUPPEEED [skup'ur'd]^ part, adj., ohsoU. crumpled; turned black, as by bhght or frost : said of
leaves. — ^Pulvebbatch. ' Theer must a
bin a ketch o' fros' las' night, see 'ow the tatoe-tops bin scuppered.'
Mr. Halliwell says that scuppered is 'A Herefordshire word, according to Urry's MS. additions to Bay. '
SCUT jskut*], sb. the tail of a hare or a rabbit. — Pulvbbbatch; Glee Hills.
Bandle Holme gives amongst * Terms for the Tails of several sorts of Beast,' — ' An Hare & Cony, the
SkuU, or Scutte.* — Academy of Armory^
Bk. 11. ch. vii. p. 133. The Prompt
Parv, gives * 8cui, hare/
SCUTCH [skuch*], sb. TrUicum ripens^ Couch-grass. Com. Cf. Squltoh (1).
SCUTCH -YUP, sb, a heap of sciUch; a rubbish heap. — ^Ludlow, Bur/ord, See Heap.
8EAECH. See SarcL
SEAT [sect], sb. a ' quick * thorn, or other growing hedgerow shrub, — < a thorn seat,'^* a crab «ea«.'— Wem.
Cf. Sate (1). See auick.
SEEDHESS, sb. seed-time.— Weh. Qy. com. in N. Shr.
* as blossoming time
That from the seedness the bare fSedlow brings
To teemiug foison '
Measure for Measure, I. iv. 42. Of.
SidneM.
SEEK, (1) t7. n. to percolate : said of water finding its way, it seeks out of a hill, seeks into a pit. —
^Newport.
(2^ sh. a place which water seeks into, or out of. A pit that is sup- plied by surfeuse-drainage— that has no
spring — and becomes dry m dry
weather, is a seek .< — there is a seek in the draining-pipe if the drain lets out the water. — Ibid. Of. Sake.
SEG, sb. a term applied generically to all Irises, whether wild or cultivated, and to other plants also having
* flag '-like leaves, — ^the larse
aquatic species of Carex, &a Com. About Wem it is pro- verbially said of a person giving way to
noisy expressions of impotent rage,
tliat *he roars like a bittern at a se^-root.' The bittern has long been an extinct bird in that
neighbourhood, but years ago his cry —
^the 'hollow, booming noise,' as Bewick designates it---niay have been heard across the swampy flats of
the district.
' Imeind mid spire and grene segge.*
Owl and NighiingaU, 1. 18.
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* Carex, segg.' * Gladiolum^ secgg,' occur in Anglo-Saxon Vocnhu" lary^ xi cent., in Wr. yocabs., vol. i p.
67.
' Segge^ of fenne, or wyld gladon. AceorM^ * Segge^ star of the fenne, Carix,* — Prompt Parv. A.S. secg, a sedge.
SEO-BOTTOM, sb. a rush-bottom for a chair. — Shkbwsburt ; Pulybr- BATCH. Qy. com. ' Fur my own part I like
55den cheers best fur tiie kitchen —
the Beg^boUoms las' none.'
SEO-BOTTOMED, adj\ rush-bottomed,— < a seg-bottomed cheer.'— Ibid,
SEGH3EK. See Sogger (1).
8EV, V. a,, pr. t, pi. a contracted form of sayen^ — ' folks sen so.' Com.
' Sum men 9ayn these sel^ frerys thai han no oonsyans.'
John Audelay's Poema, p. 29.
* ; . . . • I'iB matter is asked,
Bol^e to lered and to lowed * \>&.t aeyn ^at (yey leueden HoUich on |>e grete god.'— P. PI, Or.,
1. 25.
8EHCE [sens], adv, and prep, a contracted form of O.E. sithens^ — ' it' s a lungful wilde aence 'er wuz
'ere.' Com.
' I hearde once a tale of a thinge yat was done at Ozforde xx yeres a go, and the lyke hath bene sence in th^s
realme as I was enformed of credible
persons.' — Latimer, Sermon iv. p. 119.
8EBD, V. oL^pec. to accompany on the road. Com. 'Yo' nee'na g6o yet — stop an' 'Jive a bit o' supper,
an' we'n send yo' [go with you] a tidy
bit o' the way at-after.'
SEHHOW [sen'oe], sb. a sinew. — Pulverbatch.
' Yf his clothe be xviiL yerdes longe, he wyl set h3rm on a racke, and streach hym out wyth ropes, and racke
hym tyll the aenewea shrinke a gayne,
whyles he hath brought hym to xxyii yardes.' — Latimer, Sermon iii. p. 87.
Dr. Stratmann eiyes * eenuwen* as occurring in Layamon's Brut, and also several ol£er early examples of
the form. See Sinnow.
SEHHOW-GBOWED, part. adj. contracted : said of the ligaments of a joint. — Ihid. * I think if s a bad
thing fur Dick to carry 'is arm in a
sling so lung ; itll be gettin' eennow-growed^ an' 'e'll 'iiye a stiff jint as lung as *e lives.'
8EB0P r«aer**up], sb. synip. — Shrewsbury ; Pulverbatch. Qy. com. 'We mun a some Elder aerop made, it's
sich a useful thing i' the 'ouse fur
cowds an' that, but I doubt the berries 5onna ild well this 'ear.'
' Tryakill, droggLs, or electuary,
Seroppysy sewane, sugur, & Synnamome.'
GAwnr Douglas (a.d. 1613), Prol. of the KIT. Buk of Eneados. Specim. Eng. Lit., xiii. L 145.
* Ital. eiroppo ; Sp. xarope, xarabe, axarabe^ firom Arab, charab, a frequent word among the Arab doctors.' —
Wedo.
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SEBPCLOTH, SIBPCLOTH, sb., oha. This word occnrs in the dhurchwardens* Accounts^ Hopton Ccistle
(ScLLop), as follows : —
* 1753. For a quarter of Cloth for y* Serjpehth - - 8^
For washing the Serp Cloth t[w]ye8 - 3-0
For washing the Serpdoth - 1-6
* 1766. for a Sirp Cloth 14 yards 2-11-4
for making the Sirpd^ah - 10 - 6.'
* Surplice — iirpMh in the North of En^nd, zrii cent.,' ocoors in Mr. Mackenzie Walcotf s Popular Diet, of
Sacred ArchoBcilogyf p. 567| ed. 1868.
See Oloth.
SEBTE, same as Sanre (2), q. y.
SEBTE, SEEVEB, sb. a sieve like a Blind-sieTe, q. y., used for a horse's feed. — Bbidonorth. See Sarver.
SEBTDTG, same as Sarving, q. y.
SET, V. a., pec. to let. Cohl ' I 'ear they'n set the 'ill Farm at last.' * Aye, hut they'n tolled it o'
tuthree filds o' land far the nex'
neighhour.'
' . . . therefore, when my father and Bichard Jukes had lost one halfe yeare's rent, they sett it [Haremeare
Warren] at six pomids per ann. to Mr.
Hall of Balderton.' — Qoitoh's Hviory of Myddle, p. 32.
SETLESS, (1) sb, a bench built into a recess by the fireplace, form- ing a permanent seat in the * ingle-neuk.'
— ^Pulyerbatch. 'The owd 5oman wuz
sittin' o' the seUeaa anunst the chimley-jawm the las' time I sid 'er, an' *er toud me then 'er
feP mi^htY bad.'
* On )>e $etle of unhele,' t. e. in the seat of ill-health, occurs in
Old English Homilies^ ii. 69, ed.
Morris.
' Opon the setil of his mageste/ i. e, on the throne of his majesty. — Hampole's Pricke of Conscience^ 1. 6122.
' A common settle drew for either guesi'
Dbyden, Baucis and Philemon, L 44.
A.S. sell; Goth, sitls; Germ, sessel; Lat. seUa [:= sed-la"], a seat
(2) sb. a raised platform, or shelf, of bricks or tiles, built round a dairy for the milk-pans to stand upon. —
^Newport ; Ellesmers.
Compare the settle mentioned m Ezek. zliiL 14, 17, which Mr. Nares conjectures to haYO been * a kind of
ledge or flat portion of the altar,*
and of which he says, * the clearest account seems to be in the Assembly's annotations ' [Assembly of
Divines, 1643 ?] : —
' . . . . From thence two cubits to the round ledge, or bench, or settle, of a cubit broad, that went round
about it [the altar]. — ^This ledge or
bendi seems to be for them that served at the altar to stand upon, and to go upon, round about the
altar.' See further in Nares.
SETTIlfOS, sh. two props and a horizontal beam used to support the sides and roof of the waggon-road of a
mine. Com. — M. T.
SEVEV-COLOUBED-LUnrET, 8b. the Goldanch.— Church Stret- ton; Olun; Bridonorth; Wellington; Newport.
Of. Peckled- Diok. See Jaok-Nicol.
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SEVEBH [sivor'n arid sivh'n]. An idiomatic usage commonly obtains in speaking of the Severn ; it is
simply designated Severn^ without a
preceding the as is usual for river-names. ' Theer must a bin 'eavy rain upperts— iS»wrn wuz risin'
fast, it ruz above two ftit awilde I
wuz in town.'
* 1583-4. This yeare and the xxjfA day of Septembe* being S* Mathews daye and also the fayre daye in
Shreusberie the horsse fstyre was kept
in the backesyde of Edward Myntoons in Franckvill in a teynter orofte there becawse Syvem
wat' ooverid over all the usuall place
of the horsefayre there at that tyme.' — Early Chronicles of Shrewsbury {Taylor M8,\ in Transactions
of the Shropshire Archceological ana
Natural History Society,
William Langland speaks of l^e Thames in the same way : —
' Take two stronge men * and in themese cast hem.'
Piers PI, Text B., pass. xiL L 161.
Beferrins to this, Mr. Skeat remarks that ' this use of the name of a river (without the definite uiicle
preceding it) is stiU common in many
]>arts of Englan^ and sounds well ; it seems to add to the dignity of the river. I tase the opportunity
of recording here that I heard a good
instance of it at Gleobuiy Mortimer. One bov said to another — *' If yo' dunna take care^ yo'U
fall into Severn" 1 did not
overhear the rest of the conversation, which must have referred
to some adventure at^a distance, since
the Severn does not come at all near
to Cleobury.* The interesting point was the use of William's idiom at the supposed place of his birth.'
— Notes, p. 290.
See example sub voce Mighty.
8ETST-TBEE [sain-i'], sb. the Laburnum, — ^the leaves are thought to resemble «ennck>leaves, whence the
name, seyny-trte, — ^Wem ; Elles-
MEBE. See French Broom.
SHAB-BAO, sb. a term of contempt applied to persons of dirty, depraved appearance. — Ludlow. ' Yo' great
idle shdb^rag, get out o' my sight, or
111 shift yo'.'
8HACKET [shak'it], sb. a child's night-gown. — Wem ; Ellesmbre. ' See as yo' ar'n the child's sliacket, fia
if 'e gets a cooth it'll be the djeth
on 'im/
SHACKLB-BOHE [shak-l bwun], sb, the hind leg of a pig's carcase, between the foot and the joint at which the
ham is cut off. — Pulyer* BATCH. C£
Pestle.
SHAOKLIHG, (1) mJJ. unstable, — not to be relied upon. — Pulver- BATCH. Qy. com. * I can never bargain 56th
'im, 'e's sich a sJuicklin* fellow.'
(2) adj. idling ; dawdling ; shiftless : chiefly applied to men,—' a «Aacfc/iV fellow.' — ^Newport; Wem;
Whitchtjbch. Qy.com.
SHAD [shad'], sb., var. pr. a shed, — * piit them turmits i' the shad/ — Pulverbatch; Glee Hills.
' the other Lyes att home like summers cattle sJiadding.* *
HoR&we me Fancye, 1. 39. Percy Folio MS., vol ii. p. 31, • ed. Hales and Pumivall.
* * Oetting into a shed or the shade.' Note by Mr. Furiovall.
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SHAD-BIBD, sh.^ ohaolsA TringSides hypoleuca, the Common Sand- piper. — Shrewsbtiby. Before the erection
of weirs at Worcester and other places
on the Seyem, shad used to ascend the riTer ; they came up ahout the middle of April, the time of
the arrival of the Common Sandpiper,
and it is probable that the Seyem fishermen, connecting the appearance of the bird with the advent
of the shad-fishing season, gave to it
the local appellation of SJictd-hird.
SHAD-SALMOlf, eb.y obs, small salmon of from five pounds' to eight pounds' weight--6o called by the old Severn
fishermen because they arrived with
the Shad, — Ibid,
SHAKE [shai'k and shae'k], v, n,, pee, to be about — a term of con- jecture, — * shekin a mile ' =■ about a mile : — * the pig 11 shake twenty
score.' — Clun ; Ludlow. Shake is a metaphorical expression, evidently borrowed from the act of wei^hin^
in scales or on a balance, in which
movement is necessarily unphed.
SHAKED [shak't], part, adj, split or cleft, as by sun or wind : said of green wood. — Clttn. Cf. Spauled.
SHALLIGOVAKEO [shal-i'goonaikit], sb, and adj, a term applied to a jacket, or such like, for out-door wear ;
made of light, thin, flimsy material.
— Shrbwsbuby ; Pulvbrbatch ; Bishop's Castle. * Whad good 561 that fine shalligonakit thing be,P
— ^ifll cut a poor figger on a wet
day.*
SHAHK [shang'k], sb,, obsols, a rope by which a horse is tied up in the stall.— EllesjiCEBe. See Head-collar.
SHAITHA. See Orammar Oatlmes, verb Shall
* Go on, my lord ! I lang to meet you,
An' in my house at hame to greet you ;
Wi' common lords ye shanna mingle.
The benmost neuk beside the ingle
At my right han' assigned your seat.'
BoBEBT BuENS, Poenu, p. 161, L 20, c. 2.
SHAR-CLOTH, same as Sar-cloth, q. v. — Shrewsbury ; Oswbbtrt.
SHAREVIL [shaar'-u'vl], sb. a garden-fork. — Shrewsbury ; Atcham; Pulverbatch; Ellesmere; Oswestry. Qy. com.
*Tak' the sharevil an' the kipe, an'
g5d an' get up some o' them £rum tatoes out
o' the slaDg.' See SherevU, also Evil. Cf. Dungevil.
SHASN. See Cow-sham.
SHARP [shaaVp], (1) a^ quick; active. Com. *!N"ow then, be $harp o'er that job—theer's a power to do
afore miUdn' time.'
' Hast thow be acharpe and bysy To serve
thy mayster trewely P *
MS. Cott, Claud,, A. ii..f. 141.
* Scharpneue, or swyftenesse. Velocitae.'^-Prompi, Parv,
(2) adj, well ; in health. Com. * 'Ow bin 'ee this momin' ? ' 'Oh, right sharp ; ' ow bin yo' ? '
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(3) adj. cold; frosty; nipping. Com. 'It's a sharp mornin', Tummas.' 'Aye, theers bin a ketch o' fros*
las* night.'
8HABPS, sh, pi, coarse sif tings of floor. Com. Sharps^ as explained by a miller, are the small kernel which has
not been ground fine enough to pass
with the flour through the 'dressing* machinery. Sharps are of various degrees of goodness:
some are ground over a^;ain into a
coarse quality of flour, others are sold off for purposes of pig-feeding, &c., without undergoing
any further process. These differences
are due to the diverse methods of grinding and * dressing ' adopted in cUfferent mills. See Gurgeons.
SHAVES [shai'vz], (1) sb, pi. fragments of hemp-stalk adhering to the tow. — PxJLYEBBATOH. Called ' Shoves *
by Bandle Holme.
* Low Du. scheve, the shives or broken fragments of stalk that fall off in dressing flax or hemp.* — ^Wedo.
(2) «6. pi, shafts. — PuLVERBATOH. * The *orse run away, knocked the gate pwust down, an' broke the shaves
o* the cart right short off.*
SHAYIHO-BBTJSH, (1) Centaurm nigra, black Knapweed.— Craven Abms, Stokesay, Ct Hard-yeds.
SHEAS [shee'h'r*], v, a,, obs, to reap. — Clee Hills. ' Scheryn\ or repe come.' — Prompt,
Parv, A.S. sceran^ to shear, shave,
cut off. Cf. Swive.
SHEABEBS, sh, pL, obs, reapers who used a sickle — called a ' saw- sickle' — having a serrated edge. — Ibid,
The shearers grasped a handful of com
and cut it off, placing it on a band — for the after convenience of binding — and so on, handful
by handfril, until the sheaf was
completed. They left a high stubble, but as level as H it had been shaved off. The shearers were
Irishmen or nailers from the * Black
Country,' who, before the introduction of reaping machines, presented themselves in gan^ at the
different farm-houses at harvest time
for the purpose of cutting the wheat. The sickle they used is a thing of the past, the scythe now taking
its place when the corn is too much '
laid ' for the machines to cut it.
* 1793 August 12 — ^I let the wheat to reap to Roger Furbow, &c., for six shilHngs per acre, with an
allowance of beer, which they
accomplished in a very neat manner, being done with sickles^
which does it much better tnan in the
common way with hooks' — Bailiff's
Diary, Aston, Oswestry. Byegones, 1877, p. 297.
* Hie messor An*' a scherer. — Hec faXs An*' ^ sekylle,' occur in a Pictorial Vocabulary, xv. cent, in Wr.
vocabs., vol. i. p. 277.
CI Swivers. See Swiving-hook.
8HEE0, (1) V, n, to let fall ; to scatter, — ^grain when over-ripe sJieeds, Com. A.S. seeddan, to separate.
(2) V. a, to spill; to slop, — 'see, as yo' dunna sheed that milk.' Com.
' /\ Molly read these letters, \J
Which I have written here, And if you
will but read them. You will sheed
many a tear.
The Gallant Hero, A Ballad, printed by J. Waidson, Doglane, Shrewsbury, a.d. 1812, circa.
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< the litle boy liad a home
of red golde that ronge ; he said, *'
there was noe Cuckolde
shall diinke of my home, but he shold
itt aheede Either behind or
befome." *
Boy and Mantle, 1. 181. Percy Foiio MS.,
yoL ii. p. 311, ed. Hales and FomiyalL
lEEL [shee*l], t^. a. and v. n., var. pr. to sheU, as of nuts, peas,
&c. — PuLYEBBATQ^. * The lads bin
al'ays rongin' after the nuto ; by the
time they'n $keel^ theer'll be none left.* Cfl Shull, also Broim- sheelers.
8HEEL0T [shee'Iot], sb., var. pr. the shallot^ — same as Soallion, q. y. — ^Ludlow. Pr. ichalote^ — idem.
SHELL-BOABD, ah. the ' breast ' of a plough — the part which tonis the furrows. Qy. oom.
Shell-board is a yariation of ehield-hoard, — ' Ve9chtiehoun,* glossed ' the cTield-bredey^ occurs in the
description of a plough and ite several
parts, in The Treatise of Walter de BibUstvorth, xiiL cent, in
Wr. yocabs., vol. i p. 169.
Bandle Holme has, the * SMI-Board,^ amongst the * Terms of aU the parts of a Plow.' 01 Mould-board.
SHEM-BIPPED, adj. opened at the seam : said of boots or shoes of which the upper leather has separated from
the sole. Qy. oom. ' These bought
boots dunna stand war like wham made uns, mey bin $hem-rippeda£oTQ yo'n wore 'em a month.'
SHEPHESB'S-HEEDLE, same as Beg^gar's-needle, q. y.— Wbl-
UNGTON.
SHEBES. See Shires.
SHEBE7IL [shaeVu'yl], same as Sharevil, q. y. — ^Wbllington.
SHEBIFF'S-MAN, sb. the Goldfinch.— PuLysRBATCH ; Clun ; Glbk Hills ; Much WexOiOOK. Of. Proud-tailor.
See Jack-nicoL
SHEBBY [shae*r^i'], sb. a short piece of wood used to shore up a gate-post when the lower part is worn away.
— GoRyB Dale; Lud- low; Bbidonobth.
* Hit had ehoriere to shoue hit yp * (re abides of o len^)>e.'
Piere PL, Text 0. pass. xix. L 20.
SHET [shaet*], t;. a. to shut, — an old form. — Shrewsbury ; PuLysR- BATCH. Qy. com.
* & ^epli ^omen \>a,n dede * l^ejates ecTiette.*
mlliam of Palemey L 3649.
' He knokked faste, and ay. the more he cryed. The faster ahette they the dores alle.'
Ghauoeb, B. 3722 (Six-text ed.), Skeat
A.S. Bcyttan, to lock up ; pt. t. ic $cytte. See Shut, also Onahut.
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8HBTH [shaeth*], 9b., var. pr. a sheaih, as for scissors, &c. — Wem
; FiTj,TOMEBK, G£ Shuth.
SHEWV [shoan], v. a, to shew [= old infinitive shetcen], — * let me shewn you 'ow to do that' Com.
' ' ' For that belongeth to thoffice
Of prest, whose ordre that I here,
So that I wol nothing forbere
That I the vices one oy one Ne
shall the shewen eYerichone."'
John Goweb (a.d. 1393), Confessio AmautU,
YoL L p. 50, ed. Pauli.
SHIFT^ (1) V, a. to change, as of clothes. Com. ' I al'aya shift my gownd as soon as I come in throm Church, —
it's best be earful.' ' I run off jest
as I wuz, — never stopt to shift myself nor nuthinV is a frequent apology for presenting an untidy
appearance.
* First Lord, Sir, i would aavise you to shift a shirt ; the violence of action hath made you reek as a
sacrifice.' — Cymbeline, L ii. 1. '
Schyftynge or chaungynge. Mutacio.* — Prornpt Parv» 'A.S. sciftan; O.Du. schiften; O.IoeL
skipta, to shift; mutare.' — Strat.
(2) sb. a substitute ; a chan^. Com. ' Be'appen yo' could pick a throck out o' this owd gownd, it 6$d do far
a shift a tune or two.'
(3) V, a, to remove ; to move away. Com. ' Now, look sharp, an' shift them milk-things, or I'll shift yo'.*
' And elde hent good hope * and hastilich he shifts hym,
And wayued awey wanhope.
Piers PI, Text B., pass. xx. 1. 166.
* First Serv, Where's Potpan, that he helps not to take away ? He shift a trencher P He scrape a trencher ! '
— Borneo and Juliet, L v. 2.
* Schyftynge or removynge. Amodo,* — Prompt, Parv.
(4) v» n. to move from one house to another. Com. ' Oon'ee be so sood to gie us a 'elpin' 'ond ? — ^we bin
gwein to shift to-morrow ; the
Maistor, 'e's promised to sen' the chem for the tutliree goods : — I
'ope yo'n do bettor, John, than we han
; they sen three shifts bin as bad as
a fire, an' I know a bin.' C£ FUt.
(5) sb,, obscls, a woman's or girl's undermost garment. Com. * Our 'L^'s a mighty nice little sewer, 'er's
made a pinner an' a shimmy 'er own
self.' * My good woman, say a pinafore and a shift, then I shall understand you.' The torm shift,
which in the march of refine- ment ousted
the old word smock, has in its turn been almost super- seded ; that modem affectation, shimmy — a
corrupt form of chemise — being now
considered more poHto. See Smock (1).
(6) V. n. to manage. Com. *Yo' mun shift fur yoreself now, I canna 'elp yo' no lunger.'
' Steph, Every man shift for all the rest, and let no man take cara for himself.' — 2'empest, V. i- 256. Cf. Kake-Bhift.
SHIKMT. See Shift (5), above.
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SHIH-WHITEy adj. a clear, bright white. — ^Eulesmsrs. A.S. «cima, brightness.
SHIHED, pret, did shine : said of bright, glittering objects^ — ' the spar ahined like diamants.' Qy. com.
' . . and the earth »hined with his glory.* — Ezek, xliiL 2. Dr. Morris says *Bhinde occurs in the
fourteenth century.* See nistoriccU
Eiiglish Accidence, p. 166. A.S. ednatiy to shine, ghtter.
SHIP, sb, a sheep ; sheep. Com.
SHIF-BXTSBOWS, sb. pi. excavations on hill-sides or ditch-banks made by sheep boring into them in rubbing
their backs. — Pulvsr- BATCH. See
jiurrow (1).
SHIPPEII' [ship'un], sb, a cow-house. — Whitchurch ; I^llbsmerb, North Boraer. An imported Cheshire word
apparently.
' Whi is not thi table sett in thi cow-stalle, And whi etist thou not in thi shipun as
wele as in thin halle.'
MS. Digby 41, f. 8, in Hal.
' Bostarf vd hoviaXt, scipen/ occurs in Supplement to ^Ifride Voeahu^ lary, x. or xi. cent., in Wr. yocabs., vol.
i. p. 58. A.S. icyperiy a stall,
stable. Of. Best-hus.
SHIP-SHEABIirO, sb. the rentday,— ' the dives' ahip-ehearin' :— CoRYB Dale^ Figurative expressions of this
kind are common in Shropshire.
SHIBE [sheinir^], adj. thin ; scanty : said of crops. — Pulverbatch. ' Theers a despert shire crop o' barley
this time—on the bonks the straw
inna-d-as lung as a wik's beard.'
*■ Shyrenesse, thynnesse, ddievre,' * Shyre, nat
thycke, ddie,* — ^Pals- grave, in Hal.
8HIBES [sheeVz]. * Down i' the Skerea * is a phrase noted by Mr. Skeat as obtaining at Ludlow, where it is
used with reference to other counties,
more especially the manufacturing ones, in a depreciatory kind of way. The expression is quite a
common one in Kent, Surrey, or Sussex,
but it is singular to find it employed in a County which is itself a Shire. The form Shere occurs in
Beaumont and JFletcher'a The Burning
of the Pestle, IV. V. —
' Bejoice, oh English hearts, rejoice, rejoice, oh lovers dear, Bejoice, oh city, town, and country, rejoice
eke, every sJtere.^
SJULLYJS Fshei'v], (I) sb, a thin slice, as of bread, bacon, &c. : said
of bread chiefly. Com. ' The poor owd
Missis is very bad off, they sen.* •
Whad a pity ! — 'er wuz too good-natured ; 'er gid the loaf an' as to beg the shive,* * Well, as the owd sayin*
is — ** yo' shouldna ondrass yo afore
yo* gwun to bed." '
<. . . and easy it is Of a cut loaf
to steal a shive, we know.'
IStus Andronicus, LL i 87.
'Qive a loaf and beg a shive.' 'To cut large shives of another man's loaf.'— Bay's Proverbs, pp. 192, 175.
*Hec lesca, a schyfe,' occurs, under the head of 'De Panihu et
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Partihus Eorum^* in a Nominale, xv. cent, in Wr. vocabs., vol. i. p. 241. Mr. Wright explains schyfe as a $hive
or slice.
* Schyvere, of brede or o\>eT lyke (schyve, E. S. P.). Luca, scinda.' — Prompt, Parv.
'O.Du. achive; M.H.Germ. ahibey shire, round, slice.* — Strat.
(2) $h., var, pr. ScJuxnoprasum tenui/olium, Chiyes. — Pulveebatch. Qy. com. * These broth u5d be all the
better fur tuthree shivea in em.
* Fr. cive, civette, a chive, scallion or unset leek. Cotgr.,' in Wedg. ' Civette, petite herbe potagdre, qu'on
mange aussi en salade. Chives
or cives, a species of small onion.' — Chamb.
Of. ScaUion.
8HIVEB [shei-vur*], same as Shive (1), above.— Wbm. Cf. Sliver.
8H0F [shof], ab. a sheaf. — Pulverbatoh; Craven Arms; Wbm. Qy. com.
'Scheffe, or scheef (sohefe or schofe, S. sehoff E.). QarhUj gdima,^ — Prompt, Parv, A. 8. seed/; Du. ihoof ; a sheaf. See
Shoves.
SHOO, interj. a word used to drive poultry. Com.
' Shoughy ikough ! up to your coop, peahen ! '
BEAUMOirr and Fletoheb, Maid in the Mill, Y. i.
* He cannot say shook to a goose.' — Bay's Proverbs, p. 193.
* To cry sJiooe, shooe, as women do to their hens.' — Florio, p. 477, in HaLw
0£ Qerm, sclieuchen, to scare, Mghten, drive away. See Oall- words to Poultry {Fowls),
SHOOOS [shood-z], sb, pi. husks of oats,— 'this wutmil's ftlU o' «Aooda.'— -Pulveebatch. ' Shoods, Oat-hulls. N.' — Grose.
SHOOK, pret, for part, paat, shaken. Com.
' K, John. Hadst thou but shook thy head or made a pause When I spake darkly what I purposed.' — K.
John, IV. li. 231.
<. . . . all heaven Besounded, and
had earth been then, aU earth Had to
her centre shook.* — Paradise Lost, Book YI. 1. 219.
SHOOK, SHOOET, familiar forms of Susan. Com.
SHOOK [shoo'n], sb, pi, shoes. — Newport. An old woman at Edgmond, relating how her son-in-law wanted
to get all her goods ' off' her, and
how she would not let him, said, — * I amna gooin to doff my shoon afore I gooes to bed — no !
'e mun work same as we didden^ [1874].
' clou3tand kyndely his schon * as to here craft falles.*
William of Palerne, 1. 14.
' His shoon of Cordewane.'
Chauceb, B. 1922 (Six-text ed.), Skeat.
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' Ye'ye cost me twenty pair o' Bkoon
Just gatin to see joa ; And eVry ither
pair thafs done,
Mair taen I'm wi* you.*
BoBEBT BxTBNS, Faems, p. 34, L 9.
A.S. scdf 8ce6y a shoe; pi. Bcedty seedn.
SHOOT [shoot], V. a, and sb., var, pr. to suit ; a suit, — ' this cap wunna ahoot 'er ; * — * 'e'e got a new shod
on.' Com.
SHOOTER, SHOOTEK-BOABD, sh a board placed between cheeses under the press. Oom. ' Yo* munna clane
them ahooter-btaurda 6oth the milk
things, else we sha'n a sour milk.*
* eleyen cheats [cheese-yats], five ahoGtera* are enumerated amongst other dairy vessels in an Inventory dated
at Owlbury Manor-House, Bishop's
Castle, 1625.
BHOOTY, adj, even ; regular. — Pulvbrbatch. Qy. com. (1) * This yom inna nigh so ahooiy as the tother — I
doubt itll mak' gobbety sort o'
knittiir.* (2) * The tatoes bin peepin' 'ere an' theer, but nod at all ahooty: Qt Suity.
SHOSE [shoa'ur'], pret sheared, — 'who slwre the ship?' — Clbb Hills.
' His scarlet mantell than aTwre he.'— 5yr laenbraa, 127,. in
Hal. See Canterbury Tal^, 1. 13958.
SHOT, 6b, an ale-house reckoning. Qy. com. ' Now, chaps, whad'n'ee a to drink — ale or short [spirits] P— an'
I'll stand ahot.*
* Launce. ... I reckon this always, that a man is ... . never welcome to a place till some certain ahot
be paid, and the hostess say
, "Welcome!"
'Speed, Come on, . . . FU to the ale-house with you presently; where for one ahot of five pence, thou
shalt have five thousand welcomes.' —
Two Gentlemen of Verona, 11. v. 7 — 10.
' . . . when good-fellows meet at the Tavern or Alehouse, they at parting call for a Shot, Scot, or Beckoning
: and he is said to go Scoi free Ihat
pays not his part or share towards it' — Blount's Ghsao- gryphia, p. 575.
Cf. Scot, iJso Ale-score.
SHOTIL [shou'l], (1) V, a. to shed the first teeth. — Pulverbatch. ' The poor licklo wench looks despert foul
now er's akoulin' *er tith.*
(2) V, n. to shuffle in gait.— Worthbn ; Oswestey. SHOULDNA. See Orammar Outlines, verb Shall
* You ahotUdna paint at angels mair.'
EoBEBT Burns, Poema, p. 117, L 11.
SHOITTBEEB, (1) eh, a shoulder. — Shrewsbury; Pulvbrbatch.
' Their gun's a burden on their ahouther ;
They downa bide tiie stink o' powther.'
BoBERT Burns, Poema, p. 13, L 13.
See Ou (14) in Grammar Outlines {vowela, &c.).
(2) V. a, to shoulder; to carry on the shoulder. — Ibid, 'Look shai^ an' ahSother that off.'
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8H0TJTHEB HIOH, phr. a metaphorical expression = on a bier. — Ibid, *Yo*n be right Ven yo' ein me aMother
*%gh* was the not infrequent remark of
a certun man to his wife when quarrelling
with ner.
SHOVES fshoa-vz], sb, pi. sheaves. — Pulvbrbatch ; Craven Arms ; Wem. Qy. com. ' I see 'em throwin* down the
mows an* feelin' the $?ioveSy I Bpect
they bin thinkin' o' luggin'.'
* Schokkyn' schovyi, or o^^er lyke. Tasso, oongdimo* — Prompt Parv, SeeShof.
SHBAO, V. a. to snap; to bite. — Clbb Hills. 'Hie, shrug 'im, Towzer, lad I '
SHBEDCOCK, sb, the Fieldfare.— Ellesmerb. See Fiide£are, also Stormoock.
SHBEWD [sr'oa-d], Pulvbrbatch; Wem. [shr'oa'd], Worthbn, Cherbury, adi. badly-disposed; wicked;
vicious. ' E*s gwun a despert 9rdde
lad, an' no 56nder, fur 'e's never chid, do whad e 66V
* & sone as a schrewe schuld * )>e 9chretoedeai he \>gxu[L'
William o/Falerne, L 4643.
' . . . she is intolerable curst And
shrewd and froward.'
Taming of the Shrew, I. ii. 90.
See Shrewd in Abohbp. Trench's Select Glossary, pp. 198, 199. ^Schrewydj Pravattu, depravatru* — Prompt,
Parv, Of, Curst.
SHSOPSHIBE [sr'op'sheir^], sb. a dish of fried eggs and bacon.— Whitohuroh. Waggoners and such-like folk,
stopping for refresh- ment at a
public-house, will say, ' Can yo' gie us any o^ropeMre 9 '
SHBOPSHIBB-FAA' [sr'op-shur'], same as above. Qy. com. * We'n nuthin' but eggs an' bacon — owd
SWopahire-fat^ — to offer yo*.'
SHULLy V. a,y var, pr, to shell, as of pease^ — 'shtUl them paze.' — Shrewsburt ; Newport ; Whitohxtboh.
PechehulU are pea-shells. Of. Hull (1)
and (2), also Sheel.
SHUT [shaet- and shut*], (1). See Shet.
(2) ib.fObeoU, a narrow alley, — sometimes a 'cul-de-sac,' but usually — in Shrewsbury it is always — a
thoroughfare. — Shbews- BTTRY ;
Weixinoton ; Ellesmere ; Oswestry. The term Shut, in this sense, is fast dying out in Shrewsbury
; the ' Gullet Shut ' is now [1874]
called the ' Ghullet Passage,' and so with other sometime ShtUe, they are * Passages ' at the present day.
*From the StaUs or Mardol-head the street itself of Mardol branches off to the right) but the straight-forward
course which we are now pursuing
brings us into the narrow street called Shoplatch : at tiie entrance to which is the passage of
Gullet-Shut. A shut in Shrewsbury
language denotes, not, as might be imagined, a cul-de-sac, or alloy shut at one end, but, on the contrary, one
open at both extremities, enabling the
pedestrian, for it is pervious only to such, to shoot or move rapidly from one street into another.*
— Blakeway Salop M8S. (A.D. 1817,
ctVca), in Bodleian Library.
'Th( the^
(3)
to $h
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' Don't you know the muffin-man,
Don*t you know his name — Don't you
know the muffin-man
That lives in our lane ? All round the
Butter-Gross,
Up by Saint Giles's, Up and down the
Outlet Shut, And call at Molly
Miles's/
Old Shrewsbury DiUy.
Molly Miles is beHeyed to have kept a noted Tavern called *• The (hdlety of which some account is given in
the Blakeway Salop MSS. Of. Gullet
(3).
(3) V. a. to throw off — ^to shoot, as of water from a roof. Qy. com, ' Tak' car' as yo' maken that ruff steep
enough, else it d^nna shut the waiter
off.' »ee Water-shutten.
[4) eb. the increase of a river fix)m rain. — Clun, Here/cL Border, Leer's a tremenjus shut o' waiter i' the
river :' said of the rising of
the Teme. Of. Flush (3).
(o) V, a. to yoke horses to the implements. Qy. com. ' Tell Jack et a couple o' 'orses to that par o* twins,
an' god o'er Eogef's- Brum 56th 'em —
^theer's a power o' scutch i' that fiM as mun be fat up afore the 'arrows gwun on.' See Onahut,
also Shutting, below.
(6) V. a. to empty, as of a sack, &c. : used in the past participial
form chiefly. Qy. com. ' Them bags
hanna bin shut yit, Maister, so we
sha'n be f5oast to get some more afore we can send in the rest o'
the barley.'
(7) adj. quit ; firee,— * I wuz mighty glad to get shet on *er.' Com.
(8) sb, the act of getting quit of; deliverance, — ' good shut o' bad rubbitch.'— WoBTHEN. See Shuttance, below.
(9) V, a. and sb. to join two pieces of iron by over-lapping them, and then hammering them together at
red-heat till they become firmly
compacted. Com. When two pieces of iron have been badly united they call it a ' cold shut ; ' — '
it oonna las' lun^, 'e's made a cold
shut on it.' Blacksmiths understand a difference between shut^ ting and welding iron, — ^to shut is to
unite two separate pieces — ^to weld
is to turn part of a piece back up<)n itself, and hammer, it until the whole becomes a solid body again, and
assumes the required form.
SuutH [shuth'], sb.y var. pr. a sheath, — * han'ee sid the shUk o' my scithors ? * — Pulverbatch. A knittin*
-shuth is a cylindrical sheati^
attached to the waist of the knitter for holding the end of the needle off which she is knitting. Cf. Bheth.
SHTTTTAirCE, sh. riddance,—' good shuttance on 'er.' Com. See Shut, (8) above.
Shutting, sh. a yoking — ^the length of time the horses are yoked for field work ; this varies with the
season ; early in November, after
. the com seed-time, the farmers make ' one shutting^ i. e. the horses go to the field about 8 A.M., and are not
brought back until three or
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four o'clock in tlie afternoon ; but in the spring-time, at the ' Lent- sidness,' they make a ' double shutting,*
the norses being at work from 6 A.M.
to 12, and from 2 to 6 p.m. — Pulverbatch. Qy. com. See Shut (5).
8ICH [sich-], pron. such. Com. Spenser employs the form : —
' But rather joyd to bee then seemen nch.*
F, Q,y Bk. m. c. vii. st. xxix.
It is found in other early writers also.
SICK, cuij., pee. eager; desirous. — Worthen; Wbm. ''E wuz oncommon »ick to g56, but I 66dna let 'im.'
SIDE-BASKET, sb., ohsoh. a shallow basket without a handle, straight on one side and curved on the
other, — adapted for carry- ing
butter, eggs, &c. to market on horseback. It was formerly a general custom for farmers' wives and
daughters to ride to market, carrying
their dairy and poultry-yard produce with them in side'- haskets on this wise, — & wallet
stuffed with hay or straw was thrown
across the saddle, to form a support or pad for the baskets —
^the curved sides of which fitted upon
it — they were then secured by means
of a strap passing over the saddle, one on each side of the horse, the market-woman sitting between
them, often with a third basket on her
knee. At Church Stretton, at the present date [1880], there may be seen on most market-days a few
women on horseback, with their
nde-basketa, coming down the Bur way road from the villages on the other side of the Longmynd,
into the town; but crossing the hills
in this fashion is dying out, an ordinary market- cart can now be used, thanks to the great
improvements that have been made in
the mountain-road.
SIDELANT-LEASOW [seidlunt], sb. a steep, sloping field.— Pulver- batch. Farms having manv such fields are
said to be ' despert 'ard to work,
theyn so much sidelant ground in 'em.' Sidelant = side- land, ». e. land lying on the side of a
declivity. Of. Bonky-pieces. See
Leasow.
SIDE-SAZOB [r'az'ur'], ab. a beam in the roof to which the rafters are fastened, — the * purlin.* — Clun.
SIDHESS, same as Seedness, q. v. Qy. com. in Mid, and S, Shr.
SIDTH [sidth'], sb. the measurement of the side of an object, — * lenth, width, and sidth.* — Corvb Dale.
SIE [sei-1, (!) V. a. to strain milk. Qy. com. ' Now, look sharp, an* sie the milk, an' ptlt the men's
suppers, an' then yo' can goo an' see
whad*s gwein on at the Wakes.'
* Cyyd (cyued, P.), or cjrthyd and clensyd, as mylke, or oJ>er lyke (licoure. P.). ColattM,' * Syynge or
densynge (syftynge, S.). Colacio,
colaturaJ — Prompt. Parv.
* A.S. sihan; O.H.Germ. aihan; O.Du. sigsn; O.IceL aia, to sigh {sie), coJarc'—STRAT.
<2) $b. a milk-sieve. Qy. com. * I like a tin sie best, they bin a power sweeter than the doden uns.'
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* ... a kind of Wooden Dish with a large Tonnd hole in the bottom of it with a Him about it, which is by Muk
Women called a Seigh ; and having a
Cloth tied about the hole, Milk runs through it, which takes away all hairs from the Milk ; this
in our Counta^ is termed Seighing of
Milk.' — Academy of Armory, Bk. III. ch. ym, p. 335.
< My doake itt was a yerry good cloake,
I have had itt this 44 yeere ;
sometime itt was of the cloth in graine,
itt is now but a sigh clout, as you may see ;
It will neither hold out winde nor raine ; & He haue a new cloake about mee.*
BeU my Wife, 1. 30. Percy Folio M8„ voL iL p. 323, ed. Hides and FumiyalL
' Colum, a mylke syhe, or a dansynge syfe.' — Med., in Wat. *O.H.Gferm. siha; O.Du. nge {eijghe);
O.IoeL «ta, a sie, colum,^ — Strat.
SIGHT, sb.f pec. a great number; a great quantity, — 'a sight o* folks ; ' — ' that cow gies a sight o'
milk.' Com.
< . . . the greate manne broughte on hys syde a greate tyghU of Lawyers for liys counsayle, the gentilwoman
had but one man of lawe.' — Latimer,
Sermon iL p. 73.
' Where is so great a strength of money, i. where is so huge a syght of mony.' — Fahgrave^a Acolcutua, 1540, in
Hal.
Ct Power.
SECE [sei'kl, (1) t;. n. to sigh; to fetch a deep, long-drawn breath. Com. • Sally,—
** Dunna sikey but send; If 'e's alive
'ell come, An' if Vs bad VU
mend."'
' & loked after |»at ladi * for lelli he wende }7at sche here had bed in sum hume * in
l^at ilk time, to greue him in hire
game * as l^ei^h he gyled were, but
whan he wist it was wast * al ptkt he soujt,
he gan to tike & sorwe * & seide in Ks wise : — '
WiUiam of Fcdeme, L 691.
' on his bed side he sette him downe,
he siked sore & fell in swoone.'
Eger and Qrine, 1. 60. Percy Folio MS., vol. i. p. 356, ed. Hales and Furnivall. A.S. iican, to sigh.
(2) sh. a sigh ; a sobbing breath, — * 'er aived sich a Hke.^ Com.
' And, with a ayk, ryght thus she seyde hir wille.'
Chaucer, F. 498 (Six-text ed.), Skeat
A.S. 9iccetf a sigh, sob.
SILLS, 8b, pi, the bottom and side pieces which form the skeleton- frame of the body of a cart or waggon— the
foundation of its super- structure. —
Shrbwsbttry; Pulverbatch. Qy. com.
' BaaiSf syl,' occurs in Latin and Anglo-Saocon QlosHtf xL cent., in Wr. vocabs., vol. ii. p. 10. See Slotes
(1).
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383 SILVER-LAVENDEBy sb. Santoh'na
ineana, Lavender cotton. —
PULVERBATCH.
SIHETTY [sei'miti*], adj\ silly ; half-witted. — Pulverbatch ; Cleb HuJiS. ' 'E'U never do no good fur the Squire
nor no one else — poor aimetty thing.'
SIMHEL [sim'nul], sb. a' species of rich plum-cake enclosed in a very hard crust, coloured with safFron, and
shaped like a flattish raised pie. —
Shbewsbubt. The early writers speak of aimneh which were a fine kind of hread ; thus in Havelok
the Dane we have : —
* Wastels, iimenels • . .* — L 779.
Simnels seem to mean a sort of cake in the Orieriea de Paris, v. 163, ' Chaudes tartes et nminiauaJ*
Bandle Holme says, ' A Simnell, is a thick copped Cake or Loaf made of white bread knodden up with Saffron and
Currans.' — Academy of Armory, Bk.
TTT. oh. ii. p. 293.
* Hie artocopus, Ait* a syinnelle^' is found in a Pidorial Vocabulary, XV. cent., with an illustration which bears
a strong family likeness to the
Shrewsbury gimnel of the present day, both in form and feature — the upp er rim nas just the same kind of
ornamental scal lop round it. See Wr.
vocabs., voL i. p. 266. See * Symnd,^ with Mr. Way's Note, in Prompt. Parv., p. 456.
SIKPLE, adj\ weakly ; feeble : said of old folk. Qy. com. * Poor owd John's gettin' mighty simple, 'e can
'ardly ^t alung, — ^'e's broke
oncommon the las* two or three 'ears.' Simple, m the sense of
feeble, occurs in one of the Paston
Letters, written by Dame Elizabeth Brews ;
she says, * For, cosyn,
It is but a sympill oke^
That [is] cut down at the first stroke.'
In a subsequent letter of the same date [a.d. 1477], by a different writer, there is another rendering of the
couplet, — '1 harde my lady sey,
That it was ei/ehill oke.
That was kit down at the first stroke.' — ^voL iii. pp. 169, 172.
Gf. Ps, cxiii. 6.
8IHOLE-H0BSE, sb,, obsols. a saddle-horse. — Pulverbatch. This term has doubtless been retained from the
time when horses were ridden either *
single/ i. e. by one person only, on a saddle ; or else * double/ i. e, by two persons, one of whom
was seated on a pillion at the crupper
end of the saddle.
* Bote, And I shall be a Lady, a Captain's Lady, and ride single, upon a White horse with a Velvet
Side-saddle.' — Farqtthar's Becruit-
ing Officer, Act m. Scene — The Market-place [Shrewsbury].
* 8ir Peter Teazle. And now you must have your coach — vis-d-vt's — and three powdered footmen before ^our
chair, ... no recollection, I suppose,
wnen you were content to ride double, behind the butler on a doCKcd coach- horse !
Lady Teazle. No ! I swear I never did that. I deny the butler and the coach-horse.' — School for Scandal, Act
IL So. i ea. 1772.
Early in the present century — about 1810— there was a high-dass
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Ladies' Bchool at Ormskirk (Lancasbire), where a nngle-horse and a douhU'horse were kept for the use of the
pupils, with whom the single^ horse
was the ' fayourite,' as its rider could out-distanoe her com- panions on the douhle-horsey and enjoy a
gallop at her own sweet will. It is a
true story that one of these young gentlewomen, being on the iingle-horBe, made the most of her
opportunities by riding a race with a
butcher's boy I
SnrOLET, 8b. an under vest. — Whitchurch ; Ellbsmere. * Wbad- eyer did'n'ee lave off yore flannin singlet
fur P yo'n be sure to ketch a cooth.'
See Singlet^ in Hal.
SnTNA-OBEEF, sh. Semperdvum tectdrum, common Houseleek. — PuLVERBATCH. * 'Ow lung's yore arm bin bad?
— ifs despert red; get a good 'antle
o' sinna-green an' pun it well, an' piit a spot o' crame to it or a bit o* lard, an' it'll
cool it.'
* Howsleke, herbe, or sengreneJ — Prompt, Parv,
SINlfOW [sin-u'], sb, a sinew. — Shrewsbury.
* Hie nervuSy a synow.* — NomincUe, xv. cent., in Wr. yocabs., voL i. p. 208.
*Ner/, m, a Synnow.'— CoTORAVB {Fr, Diet.).
*A.S. sinuy seonu; O.Fris. sine; O.H.Germ. sen{e)iva, sinew.' — Strat. See Sennow.
SIEPCLOTH. See SerpdotL
SIST [sist], (1). See Orammar Outlines^ p. IxxxL
* in the gospel thou sist, That God be
law byndus y-fyre.*
John Axtdelay's Poems, p. 6.
' For al dai thou sist with thin eien
Hou this world wend, and ou men deien.'
MS. Dighy, in Hal.
A.S. }m ^hsty thou seest, from se^, to see.
(2) sh. full pay-day for miners. — ^Fulverbatoh, Snailbeaeh; M. T, See Sub-sist.
SITCH [aich-], sb. a swamp ; a boggy place. — Wbm ; Whitchurch.
' . . . a garden and lands, a messuage & backside, half a land in the Barley field near Stafford's siche,* —
Itent Roll of the Abbey Churchy
Shrewsbury, A.D. 1637.
A few years ago there was a pool on the Sandford Estate, near to Frees, called the Sitch, it came nearly up
to the turnpike road, but is now
[1875] filled up.
Bailev — ed. 1782 — has * Siche'tum, a small Current of Water that uses to be dry in the Summer ; also a
Water-furrow or Gutter. O. li.'
Obyiously a Latinized form of the English word.
Sitch = syke, the North Eng. form — a word of Scandinavian origin. Icel. sik, a ditch, a trench.
SIXT, sixth. Qy. com.
* The iSiac* Peiw on the South side of the North Me.' — ^Gouoh's History of Myddle^ p. 82.
' I haue gathered, writ, and brought into lyght the famous fryday
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m
sermons of Mayster Hugh Latimer, whioli lie preached in Lente last ^tst, before oure most noble "King
Edward the syxt.* — ^Latimsb's Sennons
(Thomas Some's Dedication]^ p. 19.
' TrinepoSt sixte sane ; Trineptu, sixte dohter,' occnr in Supplement to Archbp. JElfr\<ie VocahulaTyy x. or
zL cent, in Wr. yooabs., yol. L p. 51.
See Grammar Outlines {pdjedtivez of numeration), p. xlvi.
SIZES, ah, pi. the assizes. Com. * Theer waz a sharp market to- day, the sizei bin on, an* the town's f iUl
o' folks— theer^s nobody to be 'ong
they sen, but theer's some mighty big trial gwe'i'n on i' the nizey-prizey c5ouri'
' Thei follow Sises and Sessions, Letes, Lawdays and Hundredes, they shold serue the kyng, but thei serue
them selues.' — ^Latimeb's Bermont (To
the Reader), p. 53.
SKELLET, SKILLET [skelit], Com. [skil-it], I^ewpobt. Qy. com. sb. a brass pan without a lid —
^usually with a swivel-handle across
the top — and of any size, though the term is more generally applied to a preserving-kettle.
* Let housewives make a skUlet of my helm.'
Othello, L iii. 273.
' SkeUet (su|>po8ed to be from the French, ScueUe, a porringer), A small vessel with feet for boilin^^.' —
Ash. Ootmtve has ' Eecuellette, a
little dish.'
* O.Fr. e9cuele, Scuelle; de [Lai] saUeUa,^ — ^BuB. See 3kaiet, in Wedo. Of. Kaslin-kettle.
SKELLDfOTOlf, ah., var. pr. a skeleton. — Shbewsbubt; Ellbshebb.
SEELP [skel'p], (1) same as Flay (1), q. v. — Pulvebbatch. (2) same as Play (2), q. v.— Whitohtjboh.
SKEMBLnrO, part, working in a light, easy kind of way. — Clun.
8 JUS A, V, n. to glance furtively ; to peer. — ^Wobthen ; Oswestbt. < 'Er kep' $hennM around the room all
the w'ile we wun talkin\' Of. E. Scan,
8KEP, ah. a strong, coarse basket, — same as Kipe, q. v. — ^Wobthen, Cherhwry,
* Sumwhat lene us bi thi $kep ; I shal
30U lene seide Josep. Curaor Mundi,
MS, Cell, Trin, Cantab, , 1 30, 1. 4741.
Sh^ is a very common East Anglian word.
A tihep is mentioned by Tusser amongst sundrv articles of ' hus- bandUe furniture ' for the stable, p. 35,
ed. £. D. S.
• Skeppey Sporta, eorbea,* — Prompt, Parv, Of. Skip.
8KEB [sku^], ah, the ridge of a hill, — ' right a-top o* the akerJ — WoBTHSN, Cherhury.
* He loked abowte ; thanne was he warre
Of an ermytage undir a $kerre,*
MS. Lincoln, A. L 17, f. 123.
See Sear, in Hal. * O.Ioel. $ker, scar, diff.'— Stbat.
CC
"ErV
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SKEW [fikeu*], v. n. to slant off ; to go diagonally. — Bbidgnorth. * Yo' mtin tkew up w*en yo' oomen to
Willey.* ' Skew your eie towards the
margeiiV'- Stanihttrst, p. 17, in Hal.
See Skewt, below.
SKEW-BALD, sb. a motley or parti-<»)loured horse, as brown (or bay) and white ; but not black and white,
which is pie-bald* Com.
' Unrip, fta and you shall finde Og
the great commissarie, and which is worse,
Th' apparatouT upon his skew-bald horse.'
Cleaveland^B Character, Ac, 1647, in WlL
See Bk. TL, Folklore, &c., * Sjiperstitious Cures' {Whooptng-caughy
8KEWT [skeui;], v. n. to cross slantwise ; to make a short cat by cutting off an angle. Oom. ' Yo' mun g66
shewHrC across the leasow nigh to a
noud wuk tree, Veer the cows bin, an* yo'n droppen into a lane as 11 tak' yo' to Stretf n : ' —
^these directions were given to a way-
farer in the Lawley neighbourhood [1880].
SKEWWAYS, adv, obliquely ; aslant. — I^bwpobt ; Weh. Qy. com.
8KEW-WIFF, (1) adv, awry; irr^ular; zigzag. — Shbewsbubt. Qy. com. Of. Oater-wiff.
^) [ski'ou* or skyou*], eb, the state of being awry. — Worthed. 's got 'er bonnet on all of a ekySw-wiff,^
SKILLET. See Skellet.
SKIK, t7. a. to mow. Qy. com. The term 8kim is used with reference to fields which are hardly worth
mowing, having no under- growth of
grass, but merely a thin sur£Btce crop of coarse blades.
SKIK-DICK, 8b, a cheese made of skim-milk. Com. 'This is r&^l cheeee, it hanna-d*a bit o' butter
in it,' observed a fann-labourar,
apropos of a ekim-diek,
8XIMHETY, adj. scanty : said of clothes that are too spare for the person, — ' whad a ekimmety gownd I ' Qy.
com.
SKIMPIHO, same as above. Qy. com.
SKZHVY, adj. f pec, mean; miserly. Com.
SKIP, sb, a small waggon in which coal is brought to the surface from the * workings.' Oom. M. T. 01 Skep.
SKIPPBT [skip'i't], ab. a long-handled, spoon-shaped implement used by drainers. — Olbb Hiuub. Tusser has
* skuppat' for tne same kind of thing
: —
' with skuppat and skauel^ that marsh men alow.'
ffusbandlie/umtture, ed. E. D. S., p. 38.
SKIRT, y. a. to take off the outside hay from the cocks without otherwise disturbing them. — WBLLiHroTON.
'Mun we open the cocks, Maester P '
*No, they bin only wet o' the outside, fu send the women to skirt 'em.'
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KKIT, sh. a hoax; a practical joke. — ^Pulvbbbatoh. Qy. com. •They played' n off a fine $kU o' Cleeton's
cowman at Stretton far — persuaaen 'im
as the paas'n 'ad fEmded 'im for a coachman, an' 'ired W!' * Whad rar raps r
SKITTEB, V, a. to scatter sparsely, as of seed, or a few grains of sand, and thus differs from scatter ^ as
applied to a larger quantity. —
Whitchtjhoh.
8XITEB [skivur^], «&., ohsdU, a skewer. — Pulverbatoh. *The butchers gi'en yo' plenty o' '^6d i' the
thiverz^ now the mate's sellin' at
tenpince an'^a shillin* a pound.' ' Aye, if s a good price for timber.'
SKIVKR-WOOB p8d*], «5., ohsoU. wood employed for making skewers — ^usually Elder- wood. — Ihid,
'Wha'n'ee done 56th that skiver- li6d
f—jo* young dog, yo'n bin makin' w'istles stid o* akiveri, they bin all too short — 55nna raich
through the fowL'
SKULIrCAP. See Cross-cloth.
SLAS, (1) sb. the shoe or drag of a waggon wheel — ^Ellbsmerb. Cf. Slade (2), below.
(2) sh. a long strip of ground. — Pulvbrbatch ; Bbidonorth. Bailey— ed. 1782— gives, as an ' Old Word,'
' Slade, a long flat Piece or Slip of
Qroimd.' A«S. Bl<kd, a Blade,
plain. Cf. Slade (1), below. See Slang.
8LADDED, adj. a term applied to fields when the surface soil has been wadied away by yery heavy rains, or
when heavy rain has fallen and Ihe
land is crusted over.— Olbs Hills. Cf. Slerried o'er.
8LADB [slai'd], (1) sb. a patch of ground in a ploughed field too wet for grain, and therefore left as
greensward. — Ellesmbbe, WeUh- ampton.
See Sladcy in Hal. QL Slad (2), above; also Gall (3). See Slade-grass, below.
[2) ib. a sledge for carrying implements from one field to another.
Dlee Hills.
* Hec iralia, a sled.' — NomindUy xv. cent., in Wr. vocabs., vol. i. p. 232.
' O.N. ihx^, to trail ; «2o%t, what is tladed or dragged along, a brush harrow.'— Wedq.
SLABE-0BAS8, sb, grass grown on the tfZaie«,— coarse, and of inferior quality ; it is, when mown,
usually reserved for putting on the
tops of haystacks. — Ibid. See Slade (1), above.
SLAKE [slai'k and sleek], v. a. to put out the tongue in derision. — Whitchttroh.
SLAM [slam*], v. a. to close a door violently. Com. * The girld inna saucy, but 'er shewns off 'er temper
i' slammin^ the doors an' bangin' the
tubs.*
SLAVS, sb. a lon^, narrow piece of land. Com. ' We bin despert short o' meadowm', theer's on'y two, an' a
bit of a slang as yo' met'n stride
across, aumust.' Cf. Slad (2). See Sling (1).
CO 2
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SLAHHT [skn-n, «&. a slatterD. — Pulvbrbatch; Worthbn. * Fd mak' that girld keep 'erself a bit tidier,
— whad a alanny 'er looks ! •
SLAT [slat*], (1^ a slip of wood- — ^Pulvbrbatch. ' Jiner, jest nail a slat under this box-lid, to strenthen
it.' Of. Slob (2).
(2) V, a. to plaster. — Clee Hills.
SLAT [slai*], V, a, and v. n,, pec. to dry or wither, as of grass,
&&, by direct exposure to the
sun. — ^Pulverbatch. * Pftt these yarbs to
slay V the sun, they bin ever so much better than dried i' the
'ouse.' A.S. sledn, to kill Of .
KiUow.
SLAZT [slai'zi'], (1) poor; thin; flimsy, — in texture badly woven. — PuLVERBATOH. * I dunna like yore
Dowlas-cloth, if s too «?azy, an'
lasses none ; I made our John four shirts on it, an' they wun
done directly — ^theer^s nuthin' like
a bit o* wham made.'
* I cannot well away with such akezy stufl, with such cobweb com- positions.' — Howell, in Todd.
* Sleezy^ weak, wanting substance.' — J., in Wedg. See Sleezy, in Hal. Of. Sayly.
(2) adj, slightly constructed ; badly put together. — Ibid, ' Tham new 'ousen by the bruck bin run up despert
slSzy,*
SLEEPEBS, sh, pi. grains of barley which do not germinate in the process of malting. — Ptjlyerbatoh.
SLEEPnrO'BEAirrT, sK OxaHs Moba, two-lobed Wood-sorreL — Pulyerbatch. Harriet Humphreys described
this plant as having ' the most
innicentest little bloom in the world.'
SLENCH [slensh], (1) sb. a hind-leg of beef from the first joint, including the upper round and part of the
flank. — Shrewsbury; Welltkgton. Of.
liift-of-beef; See Chuck (1).
(2) sh, same as Kench (2), q. v. — Wem. Slenchin^ is employed like kench%n\ as an alternative form.
SLEP, pret, slept, — * 'E elep well all night.* Com.
* Makyng her wymmen ek to taken kep,
And wayt on hym anyghtes whan he «/€p.'
John Lydgate (a.d. 1420, circa). The Storie of Thebei, Specim, Eng, Lit, III. b, 1. 1360.
' A.S« Bldpan, pret. ^Up, now corrupted into $UptJ
SLEBRIED O'ER [slae-r'id], same as Sladded, q. v.— Wem. Compare * Slorryd. . . . Lutulentus,^ in
Prompt. Parv,
SLIFTEB [slif -tur'], sb. a long, narrow opening. — Whitchurch. * Pool the window to, but just lave a
sli/ter.* Pogge gives ' Sli/ter, a
crevice or crack. Lane'
8LIKE [slei-k], adj. smooth ; sleek. — Pulvbrbatch. ' 'E gets on 55th the Squire better than a 'onester mon,
'cause e's so dike- toDgued.'
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*■ po sonde lie after hire sone^ pe fayrest WYnunan under mone; And seyde til hire, [ialse] and $like, pat wicke i^ral, |>at lonle swike.'
Havdoh the Dane, 1. 1157.
* Slykey or smothe. Lents,' — Prompt Parv.
' * O.lceL sUkja, alike (slick) ; polire, levigare, hlandiri,* — Strat. See below.
8LI K kW [slikTi], adj. smooth and bright, — ^polished. — Collisrt; M. T. See Bplauders.
SUKEVSIDES, 8b. smooth, bright sides of ' faults.' Com. M. T. Of. Slips, also SlkkenHdea, in Hjll.
SLUE [slim*!, v. a. to do any kind of work in a careless, superficial manner. Qy. com. ' Glane that cubbert out^ Betsey,
an' mind an' nod slim them top shilyes
o'er.'
Jamieeon has ' To Slim o'er, to do anything carelessly and insuffi- ciently.'
Compare ' O.N. skemr, yilis, inyalidus : at sUxma tU, to set slackly to work,' in Wedg.
SLIVO r^ing*], (I) sb. & long, narrow field, — same as Slang, q. y.
— Clbe Hn.TiS ; Bbidonobth. The term
is sometimes employed a^jectiyally : *
Yo' mun g5o alung the sling meadow, but the path inna yery well bathered.'
(2) same as Oarriage, q. y. — Sheewsbury.
8LIVK [aling'k], (1) v. n. to draw back, as a horse does when going to kicky or as a dog when about to bite. —
Cokye Dale ; Wem.
(2) adj. moist; sUmy; slippery. — GosyE Dale. See Slink, in Wedg.
SLDTK-VSAL, sb. immature yeal, being the flesh of a three-day old calf. — PuLYEEBATCH ; Ellesmebe. * That
cauye neyer 'eard the Sabbath-bell —
it wuz bom i* the middle o' the wik an' killed fiir Sun- day : ' said apropos of some poor meat
supposed to be slink-veal !
Jamieson has ' Slink, iU-fed yeal in general'
Pegge giyes < Slink, a calf produced oef ore its time. Yar. Dial'
See Stf^gge^ixlg-bob.
SLIPES [slei'ps], sb. pi. iron plates under the ' dans ' to make them drawable. Com. M. T.
* 0.fl.Germ. slifan, slipe; slide.' — Steat. See Dans.
SLIPPEB, «&., pec. a skidpan for a waggon-wheel. Qy. com. Cf. Slad (1).
SLIPPIirO [slip'in], sb,, obs. a large skein of yarn, as taken off the reel. — Pulye&batoh. Qy. com. * Wen yo*
gwun up i' the cheese- room, count 'ow
many slippin' s bin 'angin' up— I like to know whad sort of a wik*s work we can shewiL'
* A Slipping, is as much as is wond upon the Reel at a time, which is generally about a pound of Yam. An Hank
ifl a slipping made up into a knot.' —
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SLIPS, sb.pl, smooth partdngs in coal and strata. — Colliert ; M. T. ' Besides these * [* principal faults '], '
innumerable minor fiiults or "
Blips ** and '* $l%linstde$, aa they term them, are met with.* — Notes <m the Shropshire Coal-Fidd, by T.
Parton, F.G.S., 1868. See
SlikeziBides.
SLIP-SIDE, prep, lying off on either hand at some little distance from a place. — ^Pulvbbbatch. * Weer bin
Joneses gwern to live ? '
* To^rt someVeer slip-side Welli'tfn, I blieye.'
Mr. Wright gives < 8lip^9idey the l^t-hand side. Leic*
SLITHEB [slidh-arH, (1) v, n. to slide; to slip. Com. 'Come alnng, an' we'n slither across the pooL' '
I dama, Mother toad me nod to go5 o'
the ice.'
^A heavi^ lurch and crash sent me slUherina right across the saloon. '--/Sfoi^A Sea Bubbles, by <The
Earl and the JDoctor/ p. 235, ed 1872.
* Du. slidderen, to slip, slide.' — ^Wbdg.
(2) sb, a sUde. Com. ' 'Ow bin'ee gettin' on 5$th the fl5d, Jim P ' ' Oh I rarly, lad—Mother an' the babby bin
up-stars, an' Bob an' me han got a
stunnin' slither V the 'ouse.' — ^This dialogae had referenoe to a flool caused by the Severn overflowing
its bi^cs, and inundating the houses
in Coleham (Shrewsbury), compelling the inhabitants to take refuee in the upper rooms, when,
before the waters receded, the
memorably severe m>st of 1878-9 set in, thus making it possible
for ' Bob an' me to get a stunnin^ slither
i' the 'ouse ! '
SLlYJSE Fslei'vur'], sb. a long thin piece; a slice. — Cleb Hills.
* The owa 5dman took a fine sliver off the loa£'
' That he all hole, or of him some slivere?
Chaucer, Ttfnltks and OresMe, Bk. m. L 1015.
* There, on the pendant boughs her coronet weeds Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke
; When down her w^y trophies and
herself Fell in the weeping brook.^
Hamlet, IV. vii. 174.
Tusser has ^ sliuersy pieces of split wood; diips. — Ed. £. D. S., p. 61. See below. Cf. Shiver.
SLivUHO, sK a branch cleft off; a splinter of wood. — Ibid,
The term sliving is more e£pecially applied to a branch — ^usually of hedge-row trees — sliced off with the
natchet in ' pleaching ' the hedge;
but carpenters sometimes use the word thus, — 'We mun tak' a
slivin* off o' this side, an' then the
lid 551 fit.'
• Slyvynge, of a tre, or oJ»er lyke. FissulaJ' — Prompt, Parv. A.S. «2i/an, to cleave ; to spLt
SLOB [slob'l, (1) sb, the outside cut of a tree when sawn up for planks. — Shebwsburt; Pulveebatoh ; Wbm.
'Wilrit, han 'ee ever-a slob as yo'
coulden spar' ? — ^theer wants a bottom to the bee- bench.'
Tusser has * slab ' with the same meaning : —
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' Sawne slah let lie for stable and
stie.'—- ed. E. D. 8., p. 33.
(2) Same as Slat (1), q. v.— Oluit.
SLOBBER, sb. thin, cold rain, mixed with, snow ; a sloppy sleet. — Shbewsbxjby; PirLysKB atoh ; Weh.
8L0BBEBT, a^\ cold, and wet, and sloppy, — ' a dohhery day.' — Ibid.
* Bourbon, . . . . Mort de ma Tie ! if
they march along Unfought withal, but
I will sell my aukedom, To bny a
slobbery and a dirty fann In that
nook-shotten isle of Albion.*
K. Henry F., HL v. 13.
8L0FF [slofj, V. n. to eat in a slovenly, greedy manner. — Pulyxbt BATCH. * 'Ow that fellow does shjf! — ^I
canna bar to see 'im o'er *is mate, Vs
for all the world like a noud sow atin' grains.'
* Sloffynge, or on-gentyll etynge. Voracio, devwucio, -IwrcaciktB,' — Prompt, Parv.
SLOKKACKDI', adj, slovenly and clumsy in appearance : said of folk, — 'a great dommackin* wench, or
chap.'— Pin«TEBBATOH. Qy. com.
8L0H lesion* and slaun-], sb. Prunua epinosa, the Sloe. Com. The fruit IS usually spoken of in the double
plural form, — $loti$, * 8ions bin
capitfld in Damson wine — yo' canna tell it from Fort' 8lon ^ sloes
is fotmd in TJte Treatise of Walter de
BibUsworthy xiii. cent. : —
* Le fourder que la fourdine porte.'
* JVwrder' is glossed ^do-thomey and */ourdine,* * slon.^ See Wr. yocaba, vol. i. p. 163.
A.Su dd, a sloe ; pi. ddn, Dan. eUtaen ; Sw. elan, — Idem,
8L0P-FB0CK, sb, a strong linen over-garment, worn by waggoners, form-labourers, and other like
folk.---SHitEWSBUBY ; Ellesmeke. Qy.
com.
Frock is here redundant, dop being an old word meaning the same thing, as in the following : —
' His overdoppe nis nat worth a myte.*
Ohauoeb, G. 633 (Six-text ed.), Skeat.
* 8loppe, mrment. Mutatoriwn.' — Prompt, Parv, Compare loeL yfiraloppr, an upper or over
garment. Cf. Smock-frock.
8L0TE8 [sloa'ts], (1) sb. pi. flat bars of wood mortised into the * oUb ' of a cart or waggon for the boards
of the body to be nailed to. Qy. com.
' The StoteSy are the vnder peeces which keepe the bottom of the Cart together.' — Academy of Armory^ Bk.*
m. di. viii p. 339.
See £114.
(2) $b, pi, the wooden oross-bars'of harrows. Qy. com.
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* The Slates, the oroas pieoee [of HarrowB].*— -Academy of Artnonf, Bk. m. ch. yiii, p. 336.
(3) See Sole.
* O.FriB. Blot; O.H.Qena. $hz; vedw.'— Strat.
* Vectis, a barre, or sparre of wood.' — Diet. Etym, Lai, Cf. Blat.
SLXTD [dud-], sh, wet mud. — Shrbwbbubt. Qy. com.
SLXTDOE [slig*], same as above. Com.
SLUBET [sluT^i'], eh, thin, washy mud, — ^more liquefied than dud, &C., as of half-melted snow on roads. *
I remember whad a journey I *ad the
las' time I wuz down 'ere ; the snow wuz gwe'in &way; an* the roads wim ancler dip i' slurry,^ —
^Atcham ; Pulyebbatgh ; Wbm ;
Ellesmebe. Qy. com.
* Sloor, {dory ... or dey). Cenumy Limus. " To slorry, or make foul, Mordido/* — Gk)ULDM. *' SouiUSy
soiled, slurried, smutched, &c ;
Souiller, to soyle, slurrie; Ordiy fouled, slurried, slubbered."
— Goto.' —Prompt, Parv, and Notes,
' O.N. slor^ undeanness; slorugr, dirty.' — ^Wedo.
SLXrSH, same as Slurry. Com.
SLUT [slut'], (1) sb, an oven-mop made of rags. — ^Pulverbatch. ' Bessey, bring the slut an' dane IJie oven
out.' Dick, hearing this, dryly
observed, * Missis, yo'd*n better pikt 'er in,' — meaning that Bessey was slyt enough for anything I See
Miilkin (1), also Oven- sweep.
(2) sh,, ohs, a home-made candle. — Pulvebbatgh. The wick of such candles was often nothing more than
the cut-off hem of an under-garment;
they were ruculv made, and were called sluts, to evade the penalties which attached to
making candles without a license, at a
time when they were subject to duty.
SKAT [smai*], (1) v. n, to falter; to flinch. — ^Wem. It is often said of a horse after a journey, * 'e never
stumbled nor smayed,*
(2) V, n. to fail in the appetite. — Pulvebbatgh; Bbidqnobth. * Does 'er smay in 'er yettin' P ' was
invariably asked by an old * beast-
leech ' at Bridgnorth when called in professionally to a cow.
(8) V. n. to wear a guilty look. — Pttlvebbatoh. * I know right well that bwoy sucks the eggs, far Ven I
axed 'im 'ow many theer wuz, 'e smayed
i' the £ace.'
SMEO [smeg-], sh. a bit.— Whitchubch, TiUtock. *We'n etten every smeg o* that best cheese.'
SMELLEBS, sh, pi, cats' whiskers. — Pulvebbatgh ; Wbm ; Elleb- MEB& Qy. com.
SMITE [smei-tl, sh, a small bit ; a mite. — Pulvebbatgh. * Han yo* gotten a bit o'^'bacco P ' * No, nod a
smite.'
SlUTJLH, same as above. — ^Wem.
SIutjlhO, a^\, pec, captivating. — Pulvebbatgh. *PoUy wuz prinked fur the far, an' 'er looked right
«mW»n'.'
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SMOCK fsmok*], sb., ohs, a woman's chemise. Com. * My Motlier- law saia '* Turn's wife 'ad too many fine
gownds fur 'er," but I toud 'er
I'd as many good smocks as ** fine gownds," an' more than that, they wun all my own spinnin'.'
' 1547. Au^. 4. Here was wedded early in the morning Thomas Munslow Smith and Alice Nycols, which
wedded to him in ner nnock and
bareheaded.' — Register of Sir Thcmcu Boieler, Yicar of Much Wenlock.
' " The mok,^* quod he» '* that thou hast on thy bak, Lat it be stiUe, and ber it forth with
thee."
Biforn the folk hir-seluen strepeth she,
And in hir tmohf with heed and foot al bare, Toward hir feuler hous forth is she fare.'
Chaucer, E. 890—895 (Six-text ed.), Skeat.
' Alencon, Doubtless he shriyes this woman to her amock,*
1 K, Henry VI., L ii. 119.
' Colohium, smoc, veil syrc,' occurs in Archhp, uSl/ric*i Vocabulary y X. cent., and ^Interula,^ glossed *amokke*
in a Metrical VocabtUary, (perhaps)
xiv. cent, in Wr. yocabs., vol. i. pp. 25, 182.
* Interula, a shirt, the linnen next the skin.' — Diet, Etym, Lai, 'O.Icel. tmokkr ; O.H.(3brm. $7noccho; smock,
intertUa,* — Stbat. See Shift (5).
BKOCK, SKOCK-FBOCK, sb., obsoU, 1 an oyer-dress of strong linen deecendinff below the knees, worn by
farm-labourers, waggoners, &c.
Com. *Whad says our daary-girldP — ^**rd sooner '&ve a chap in
a rnnock-frock than one o' them
magpy-tailed bwtm-polishers." '
* 1798. Sept^ 10*^. Making two rmock Frocks. 16*.'— ParwA Ac- counts, Much Wenlock.
Fegge has ' Smock-frock^ a coarse linen shirt worn oyer the ooat by waggoners, &c., called in the South a
Oaberdine.^ Qt Slop-frock.
SKTTSE. See Kiue.
SlfAO [snag*], (1) v, a, to trim or cut off in a rough, slovenly manner. — ^Cleb Hills ; Bbidoitobth. ' W'y
yo' shear a ship ! — see 'ow yo'n
snagged 'er ; yo'n fat the skin off i' places an' lef the 551 on an inch lung.^ Of. Kag (3).
(2) V, n. to snap, as a little cur would. Qy. com. ' Dimna let that dog snag at me, keep 'im off.' Jamieson has * To Snack, to bite as a dog.'
See Sneig in Wedo.
SHAIL-HOXrSEN, sb, pi snail-shells. — Shrewsburt; Pulvbrr/ltch. Qy. com.
* Tetf^tuio, gehused snsBgl,' occurs in Archbp, JElfrvis Vocabulary, X. cent, in Wr. vocabs., vol. i. p. 24.
SHAKE-WEED, sb. Mereuridlis perinnis, Dog's Mercury. — ^Pulver-
BATCH.
SHAP [snap*], &. a. to make hot, hasty remarks ; to take a person up shortly. Com. * Well, yo' nee'na snap my
yed off, I on'y toud yo
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vhad the Missis said.' ' Snap ! if s enough, to make anybody mop, Ven they bin doin' thar best---I canna do
no more.'
SNAPS [snai^p], (1) v, a. to check or rebuke hastily. Com. < Dunna 9nape the poor child like that,
'e's doin' no 'arm.* ' 'E inna so soon
maped as yo' thinken, 'e's a furbidden young rascaL'
Compare Shakespeare's ' sneaping frost,' — Love's Labour Lott, L i. 100.
' Snaipm, O.Icel. sneypa ? to snape, rebuke.' — Strat. Cf. E. Snub.
(2) sb. a hasty rebuke. Oom. ' I never sid sich a child as Johnny, il yo' gin 'im a bit of a 9nape 'eH cry fur
a nour.'
< My lord, I vill not undergo this meap -without re^.'
2 K. Henry IV., JL I 1S3.
8HEACH [snee'ch], v. a., ohsoU, to scorch ; to nip. — ^Pulyerbatch. The action of both extreme heat and biting
cold is expressed by tneach and its
deriratiyes sneaching and Meaehy, ' Mind yore appam, the fire 'U sneach it direo'ly.'
Compare '"As hit wiarcJite ant barst." — Seinte MarhareU^ IS,
14. O.IceL merJ^'a ? shriyel P ' in
Stra.t.
Cf. Snirp.
SVEACHIHO, part, adj\, obgoU, scorching ; nipping. — Ibid. (1) ' Better laye the oyen-door down aVile, for
if s aneaehin' wut.* (2) ' The sters
bin twinklin' pretty bright, theer'U be a sneachin* mKr to-nightb'
SHEACHT^ adj., obsols. same as aboye. ^The oyen's despert Bneachy ; ' — * a enwu^y fros*.' — Ibid,
SVEAD [sned*], sb. the long handle of a scythe. Com.
* Scythes and meads.' — Auctioneer's Cataloaue (Stoddesden), 1870.
' These hedges are tensile— they are to be cut and kept in order with a sythe of four foot long, and yery
little falcated ; this is fixed on a
long sneed. or streight handle, and does wonderfully expedite the trimming of these and the like hedges.* —
EyELYir's Sylva [a.d. 1664], xiii. §
2, inNares.
See Oogs (1).
SITEAP. See Snape.
8BIDDLE, 8SIDDLE-0SASS [snidl], sb. a kind of coarse, broad- leayed grass, growing in marshy places. —
Wem.
Mr. Wilbraham ^yes ' Sniddte, or Hassocks, that kind of long grass which grows m marshy places. Lana The
Aira ccespOdsa of liinnseus.'
Cf. Sniggle (2) and Sniggle-grass.
SinO [snig], (1) V. a. to drag timber from the place of felling to one more conyenient for loading. —
^PxjLyEKBATCH. Qy. oom. * I shall 'a
but a poor chem to-morrow, they wanten three o' the best 'orses
to snig timber out o' the coppy.'
(2) sb. a filmy substance formed by beer or yinegar in bottles or taps. — PuLyEEBATCH. Qy. com. * That's fine
elanin'I — ^w'en I went to fill the
bottle, theer was a snig in it as big as my finger.' Cf . Mother.
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(3) aft. a litHe sing. — Oleb Helus.
(4) ah. an eeL— WELLnrGTON. Qy. oom. See Sniggle (1), below.
8B100EB [smg'ii/], v. a. and ah, to langh in a sneering way ; a sneering laugh. — Shrewsbuby ; Fulybbbatgh.
Qy. com.
SmOOE&IHO, part. adj. meenag.— Ibid. ^'Fs a mak'-game, aniggerin' fop — iJ'ays o' the aniggerj'
SnOOLEy (1) 4r&. an eeL — ^Wellinoton. Qy. com.
' Wen wollers ban layes as large as a mouse's ear. Then aniggles they'n run, they dunna car
Veer.'
Local Doggerel (Preston on the Weald-Moors).
See WoUer.
(2) th. the caBspitose rooi-leayes of Eridphorum vagincUum, Hare-tail Ootton-grass. — Whitohuiioh, WhixaU Mom.
Qt. Sniggle-grass, below.
SHIOOLE-BOOS, eh. pi. large tuffcs of miggle-grass. — ^Ellbsmerb. See below.
8HIOOLE-OSAS8, Aira cceapUosa^ turfy Hair-grass. — ^Ellesmerb. 01 Sniddle-grass, also Sniszle-grass.
SnPPBT, ih. a small bit, — ^ jest a snippet.^ — Pulvebbatoh.
8HIBP [snur'p'], v. a. to shrivel ; to wither, as by great heat or extreme cold. — Atoham ; Pxjlverbatch ;
Wobthen ; Cltjw ; Wem, Snirp in the
simple form of the verb appears to be near^ obsolete
[1875], but "
mighfy whot, tatoe tops bin
' BnuTpe, V. n, become shriyelled. — ^Bel. Ant, ii. 211. Sw. anSrpa.* — OoL. Gf. Sneaoh.
SVIBPBD-UP, part. adj. cross-gndned ; sulky. — ^Wbm. * Snirped-up^ like a swinged pig's eye,' is a proyerbiid
expression commonly applied to persons
of peryerse, sulky temper : it is also, but less frequently, used apropos to things shrivelled up.
SHIBPT, adj. same as above. — Ibid.
SH1Y1JI& [snei'yin], part. adj. swarming ; abounding : said chiefly of insect-life, or vermin, as rats,
&c., but sometimes of people. —
Shrewsbury ; Pulverbatoh ; Worthen. ' The cabbitch bm %niv%n* 55th green grubs ; they'n ete the layes to
the very stalk.' And see example under
Sodger. Compare Chaucer's ' snewede :
' —
* Withonte bake mete was nevere his hous,
Cf flessch and fissch, and (hat so plentevous. Hit inewede in his hous of mete and
drvnke.'
The Prologue, 1. 346, ed. Moms.
SHIZZLE-OBASS, eb. turfv Hair-grass.— Welunoton.
* *' Why it brings nowt but mfiizzU-grau an' 'ardyeds," said afE^mer
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vho was particularly careful to point out tlie bad qualities of a
certain field, when appealing against
the valuation of nis fium.' — Science
Gossip, p. 227, Oct 1870. See
Sniggle-grass.
SlfOFFLE [snof'llt?. n, to speak through the nose. — ^Pulyerbatch ; Clitk; Wem. ' xo' met'n as good send a pig
on a naxrand as a fellow that snoffles
athatn«' Such a person is sometinieB spoken of as being ' snoffle-snouted,*
' DxL snuffdeuy to breathe through the nose.' — Wkdg.
SlfOODOB J[8nooj*], v, n. to lie snug and close ; to press down; to nestle: chiefly applied to the pose of the
head, — '*Er'd got 'er 'ead snoodged
on *ia breast'— Sheewsbttby ; Worthen. Qy. com. See Snudge in Wedg.
SHOODChlHO, part. adj. sitting close : said of head-gear, — ' 'Er'd got some little snoodgin' bonnet on.' —
^Wobthen.
SlfOW-BALLS, 8b. ph the flowers of Viburnum Opulus, common Guelder Rose. Com.
SVOW-BIBDS, 8b. pi Fieldfares.— Clun. These birds are observed to come in large flocks on the approach of
snow or wintry weather, whence their
local name of Snow-birds. Of. Storm-cock (1). See Fildefare.
SlfOWL [snou*!], v. n. to say peevish, disagreeable things.. — Wokthen. ' The Missis is al'ays snowlin*
an' grumpin' about'
SOBBEB [sob'urH, v. n. to simmer ; to boil slowly. — Pulvbrbatch.
* Them tatoes 6^n be spiled, they'n bin 9obberin' this 'afe 'our.' Of. Wallop (1).
BOBBIN -WET, adj. soaking-wet — Shrewsbury; Pulvbrbatch.
* Theer's sich a je'ow o' the grass an' tillin', my fit an' legs bin
sobbin- wet.' [I have only heard it as
soppin-toet.—^. W. S.] Cfl Sogrgen-
wet.
SOCK [sok*], sh. liquid manure ; the drainage of a dung-hill. Com.
* It's a downright shame that meadow inna ptit to thar farm, fnr all the sock o' the foud gwuz into it, an' the
paas'n gets the benefit.' Of. W. socky
a drain.
SOCK-HOLE, 8b. a pit for the sock to drain into ; a cess-pooL — New- port, Qy. com.
SODDEnH-WET [sod-nin], same as Sobbin-wet» above.— Elleb-
SODDEB [sod'ur' and sau'dur'], sb. and v. a. solder; to solder. Com. ' i mils' tak' the coffee-pot to be
soddered, but they maken the sodder so
soft now, it lasses none.'
* The decoction of Veronica dronken, doth soder and heale all firesh and old wounds. '—Lyte's Herbal [a.d.
1596], p. 31, in Bible Word- Book.
* Fr. Souder, joindre des pieces de mital ensemble. To solder or soder.* — Ohahb.
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SODOEB [soj-urH, sh, a soldier. Com. * Sosebry wuz snivin' 68th wdgera o' SaturaiEiy — ^the Cayaltry bin
up, an' theer wuz a ridgment o'
regulars gwein through.'
' My humble knapsack a' my wealth, A
poor and honest sodger,*
BoBEBT BiTBirs, Poe/M, p. 237, 1. 6, c. 2.
SOFT-MELCHED, same as Easy-melohed, q. v. — Pulyebbatoh. See Melch-cow.
SOO, (1) sb, a blow. Qy. com. ' 'E gid 'im sich a sog i' the guts, 'e didna want another.' Gt Sogger, below.
(2) V. n. to deal one blow. — Gollieby. 8oggxrC is striking repeatedly.
SOG-OEV [sog'i'n and sog'n], «(., obsoh. a soaking. — ^Pulybbbatgh. ' Wun yo' ketoht i' the thunder-starm o'
Saturd'y P — ^I got a pretty 9oggen,^
* Soggon. Aquosm.^ — Prompt. Parv. * O.N. aXiggr, wet,* in Wkdg.
SOOOSV-WET, adj., ohsols. soaking-wet. — Ibid. Cf. Sobbin-wet
SOOOEB [sog-nr' and seg-ur*!, (1) sb. a heavy blow. — ^Pulyebbatoh. Qy. com. * 'E ffid the poor lad sioh a
Begger i' the stomach tell it took 'is
breath away. Of. Sog (1), above.
(2) Bb, a thimip. — Ibid, < 'E loost the bag oS 'is shdother sich a Bogger.^
SOLE [soai], Pulyebbatoh. [soui], Clee Hills, ab., obs, a wooden collar, shaped like a bent bow, which went
round the neck of a stalled beast, the
ends fitted into a movable ' slote ' or cross-bar at the top, and by this means the sole was fiEMtened:
it was employed for tethering
purposes.
Tusser mentions * boUb* amongst ' ffiUbandlie fumihtre.* See p. 38, ed. R D. S.
' SooUf beestys te3rynge. Trimembrdle. " Sole, a bowe about a beestes necka" — ^PALsa. *' Bestia, a
sole to tie beasts." — Qotjldu* —
Prompt. Parv, and Nates,
A«». Bolu^ a rope to moor a boat. See Slote (3).
SOLID, adj, grave; serious; sedate. Com. 'Whad's the matter, Maister ? — yo' looken as solid as owd
times.' * No, most the pity, if s
nuthin' like owd times sence these Badicals bin carryin' all afore
'em, an' pertendin' to be the farmers'
Mends — but gie me poor owd
l^consfild.' This was said in reference to the eventful (General Election of 1880.
SOLLAB [solni/l, (1) «&., obs. % a ceiling ; an upper-flooring. —
^Pul- yebbatoh. * Tne/n got a bit on a
]ut o* the side o' the Wimb'ry-'iU,
but theer's no soUar to it,' %. s. no ceiling, — open to the roof.
Mr. Wedffwood explains scittar to be ' properly, sunply a flooring, then applied to floors or stages in
different parts of tne house. It.
solarOy sdlatOy a floor or ceiling ; solars, a story of any building,
from sfdarsy to sole, to floor, or
ceil. — ^Flobio (a.d. 1680).' See below.
(2) «6., ohs. ? a ffarret; a loft. — Ibid, ' Tak' them apples an' pars an' sprade 'em o' me sdlar flur.'
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* Maid68; mustard seede gather, for being too ripe, • •■•••••••
Then dresse it and laie it in roller rjp BweeAe.'
TirsSEB, Fiue Hundred Fointes of Good
HxAtibandrie [August].
In Ad$ L 13 ; ix. 37, where the A, V. has an * upper room or chamber/ the Wicliffite yersion— ed. 1388—
has ' BciUrJ
Ghrose gives ' Seller, or Solar, An upper chamber or lofL From the Latin, wlarium, 8.'
< Solariufn, up-flor,' occurs in a Semi-Saxon Vocahdary, ziL cent., in Wr. Yocabs., voL i. p. 93.
' Sdere, or lofte. Solarium^ hedhwa, fMnianum, '^Sollar a chambre, solier. SoUer a lofte, gamier,^' — Palso.
" Hedeca, didtur solarium
dependens de parietibus cenaculi. Menianum^ solarium, dictum a menibus, i. muris, quia muiis solent
addi." — Obtus.* — Prompt, Parv,
and Notes.
* Solarium . . . the solar in the house.' — Did, Etym. Lai.
'O.Fr. solier; charpente, plancher, plateforme, ^tage, chambre haute, grenier.' — ^Bub.
BOLLAB HIGH, pkr., obs. 1 as high as the ceiling.— /Mti. * Is ^rore pi^ aumust fat, John P ' ' No, *e
dunna get on mighty &st, 'e*s sich
a piddlin' ater, — if s time 'e wuz eoUar Hgh [slaughtmd and hung up by the heels], for it*s bhu^-quarter at
our 'ouse.' See Sollar (1), aooTO.
son), ih. sand. Com. * Tbeer's no sond to be 'ad no nigher than Exford's Qreen, an' it's more than it's
wuth to fiitch it'
' Fer in Northumberlond the wawe hir caste,
And in the eond hir ship stiked so faste. That thennes wolde it noght of al a tyde.'
OsAUOBR, B. 509 (Six-text ed.), Skeat
A.S. eondy sand.
SOVOOW [song'oe], v. a. and v. n. to glean. — ^Whitohubch ; Ellbb" MEBE. A 'Border' word — apparently imported
— ^which, though it obtains, is not in
much usa iu:. Wilbraham giyes it as a CSieshire word.
Bandle Holme has * Gleaning or Leesing or Songoing,* ' Dan. sanke, to gather, cuU, glean, pick.'
— ^Wedo. See Lease, also Swingle (3).
SOnrOCKDra, part, loitering ; idling.— Chubch Strbttoit.
SOOFLE [soop-l], (1) adj., var. pr. supple. CJom.
(2) V. a. to reduce inflammation by fomenting ; to render pliant by external apnlications. — Pulyesbatoh;
WoBTHEir. 'Ifs a deepert bad sprain,
out if yo'n get some o' owd Lewis's iles, they bin capital to $o<^le the jint an' swage the
swellin'.'
'The soTeraine weede betwixt two marbles plains Shoe nownded small, and did in peeces bruze
; And then atweene her lilly handes
twaine Into his wound the juice
thereof did soruze ;
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And round about, as ehe oould well it uze,
The flesh therewith shee suppled and did steepe, T'abate all spasme, and soke the swelling
bruze.*
Sfenseb, F, Q.y Bk. ILL c. y. st. Txiriii.
'To make a thing which is hard and rough, soft; to soften, to 9ujM}le.* — ^Hollyband's Dictionaries
1593. Mr. Halliwell says ' Supple is
now used only as an a^jectiye.' *
O.Fr. Boplier, aouploier; . . . plier.' — Bub.
BOOB [sooV], adj. bad (in execution) ; poor (in quality); difficult ; incorrigible. — Shbewbbtjby ; Pulyeiibatch.
* 'E's maden a soor job on it.' * They
bin a ioor lot o' ship.' * IVe got a soor job 'ere.' * 'E's Ajioor chap, I doubt 'e'U neyer be no
good:' — are instances of the diyerse
senses in which this term is lued: it has a wide range of application. A story is told of the
newly-appointed Rector of a certain
parish, who interrogated his derk as to what his congregation
thought of his preaching. The clerk
was reticent — he did not ' like to say/
The Rector was urgent * Well, Sir,' said the derk, < if I mun tell
yo', they sen as yo' bin a mighty »oor
'ond at it.'
'But curssed be he that doeth the worcke of Gk)d negligentli or ^efullie. A Boore word for them that are
neglygent in dyscharge- inge theyr
office, or haue done it fraudidentlye, mr that is the thynge that maketh thepeople yll.' — ^Latiheb, The
PloughmrBy p. 21.
See Sorey in "Wedg.
SOBBOWFTTL-MOHDAT, sK the first Monday following the dose of the haryest weeks. — ^Pulyerbatgh. On
this day the farm-labourers, resuming
the usual order of work, are put upon the wonted allowanoe of * drinli:,' of which during the haryest
tiiey haye had no stint^ — hence they
giye to it the name of Sorrowfut-Monday.
BOSS, V, n. to plump down ; to sit down d Vahandon, — ^Whitohuboh. ' 'Er 909aed down i' the cheer all at
wunst.' The term is sometimes applied
to a person who has a bad seat in the saddle, — ' Theer 'e gdda «OM»n on 'is 'oss.' The word 9os$ — neyer
used of hard substanoefl — would seem
to be of onomatopoetic origin.
Jamieson has * 8o89y the flat sound caused by a heai^ but soft body, when it comes hastily to the ground, or
squats down.
SOUGH [suf], (1) ah, a coyered drain, as from a sink; also such a one as goes through a hedge-bank from one
fidd to another. Oom. W. wchy a sink,
a drain. Of. Sock.
(2) [soo*], V. n. to wail, as the wind before rain. — Olttk ; Wem.
* In which ther ran a BW3nnbel in a swough^
As though a storm schulde bersten eyery bough.'
Ohattgeb, The KnighUB Tale, L 1121, ed. MorriB.
' I saw the battle, sair and teugh,
And reeking-red ran monie a sheugh,
My heart, for fear, gae sough for eoughJ
BoBEBT BuBNS, Foems, p. 230, 1. 27.
Jamieson giyes 'To Souchy Soogh, Swouchy to emit a rushing or whistling sound, with the corresponding
substantiye forms for a rushing,
whistling soimd, and also a deep sigh.'
A.S. &w6gany to sound, to howl as the wind.
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