Chapter I: Know Who (5)

_Goodnow_, goodn'er, good neighbour; my good friend; "No, no; not I,
goodnow;" "No, no; not I, my good friend."

_Goolden chain_, the laburnum.

_Gout_, an underground gutter.

_Grægle_, _Greygle_, the wild hyacinth, _Hyacinthus nonscriptus_.

_Gramfer_, grandfather.

_Ground-ash_, an ash stick that springs from the ground, and so is tough;
"Ground the pick," to put the stem of it on the ground, to raise
a pitch of hay.

_Gwoad_ (8, 4), a goad.

H.

_Hacker_, a hoe.

_Hagrod_, hagridden in sleep, if not under the nightmare.

_Haïn_ (5, 1), to fence in ground or shut up a field for mowing.

_Ha'me_, see _Hau'm_.

_Hangèn_, sloping ground.

_Hansel_, _Handsel_, a hand gift.

_Hansel_, _Handsel_, to use a new thing for the first time.

_Happer_, to hop up as hailstones or rain-drops from ground or pavement
in a hard storm, or as down-shaken apples; to fall so hard as to
hop up at falling.

_Haps_, a hasp.

_Ha'skim_, halfskim cheese of milk skimmed only once.

_Hassen_, hast not.

_Haum_, _Haulm_, _Hulm_, the hollow stalks of plants. _Teätie haum_
potatoe stalks.

_Hatch_, a low wicket or half door.

_Haÿmeäkèn_, haymaking.

The steps of haymaking by hand, in the rich meadow lands of Blackmore, ere machines were brought into the field, were these:--The grass being mown, and laying in _swath_ it was (1) _tedded_, spread evenly over the ground; (2) it was _turned_ to dry the under side; (3) it was in the evening raked up into _rollers_, each roller of the grass of the stretch of one rake, and the rollers were sometimes put up into hay cocks; (4) in the morning the rollers were cast abroad into _pa'sels_ (parcels) or broad lists, with clear ground between each two; (5) the parcels were turned, and when dry they were pushed up into _weäles_ (weales) or long ridges, and, with a fear of rain, the weäles were put up into _pooks_, or big peaked heaps; the waggon (often called the _plow_) came along between two weäles or rows of pooks, with two loaders, and a pitcher on each side pitched up to them the hay of his side, while two women raked after plow, or raked up the leavings of the pitchers, who stepped back from time to time to take it from them.

_Hazen_, to forebode.

_Hazzle_, hazel.

_Heal_ (2), hide, to cover.

_Heal pease_, to hoe up the earth on them.

_Heän_ (1, 4), a haft, handle.

_Heft_, weight.

_Herence_, hence.

_Here right_, here on the spot, etc.

_Het_, heat, also a heat in running.

_Het_, to hit.

_Heth_, a hearth, a heath.

_Hick_, to hop on one leg.

_Hidelock_, _Hidlock_, a hiding place. "He is in hidelock." He is
absconded.

_Hidybuck_, hide-and-seek, the game.

_Hile of Sheaves_, ten, 4 against 4 in a ridge, and 1 at each end.

_Ho_, to feel misgiving care.

_Hodmadod_, a little dod or dump; in some parts of England a snail.

_Holm_, ho'me, holly.

_Hook_, to gore as a cow.

_Honeyzuck_, honeysuckle.

_Ho'se-tinger_, the dragon-fly, _Libellula_. _Horse_ does not mean a horse,
but is an adjective meaning coarse or big of its kind, as in
horse-radish, or horse-chesnut; most likely the old form of the
word gave name to the horse as the big beast where there was not
an elephant or other greater one. The dragon-fly is, in some parts
called the "tanging ether" or tanging adder, from _tang_,
a long thin body, and a sting. Very few Dorset folk believe that
the dragon-fly stings horses any more than that the horse eats
horse-brambles or horse-mushrooms.

_Hud_, a pod, a hood-like thing.

_Ho'se_, hoss, a board on which a ditcher may stand in a wet ditch.

_Huddick_ (hoodock), a fingerstall.

_Hull_, a pod, a hollow thing.

_Humbuz_, a notched strip of lath, swung round on a string, and humming
or buzzing.

_Humstrum_, a rude, home made musical instrument, now given up.

J.

_Jack-o'-lent_, a man-like scarecrow.
The true Jack-o'-lent was, as we learn from Taylor, the water poet,
a ragged, lean-like figure which went as a token of Lent, in olden
times, in Lent processions.

_Jist_, just.

_Jut_, to nudge or jog quickly.

K.

_Kag_, a keg.

_Kapple cow_, a cow with a white muzzle.

_Kern_, to grow into fruit.

_Ketch_, _Katch_, to thicken or harden from thinness, as melted fat.

_Kecks_, _Kex_, a stem of the hemlock or cowparsley.

_Keys_, (2), the seed vessels of the sycamore.

_Kid_, a pod, as of the pea.

_Kittyboots_, low uplaced boots, a little more than ancle high.

_Knap_, a hillock, a head, or knob, (2.) a knob-like bud, as of the
potatoe. "The teäties be out in knap."

L.

_Läiter_ (5, 1), one run of laying of a hen.

_Leän_ (1, 4), to lean.

_Leäne_ (1, 3), a lane.

_Leäse_ (1, 4), to glean.

_Leäse_ (1, 4), _Leäze_, an unmown field, stocked through the Spring
and Summer.

_Leer_, _Leery_, empty.

_Lence_, a loan, a lending.

_Levers_, _Livers_, the corn flag.

_Lew_, sheltered from cold wind.

_Lewth_, lewness.

_Libbets_, loose-hanging rags.

_Limber_, limp.

_Linch_, _Linchet_, a ledge on a hill-side.

_Litsome_, lightsome, gay.

_Litty_, light and brisk of body.

_Lo't_ (7), loft, an upper floor.

_Lowl_, to loll loosely.

_Lumper_, a loose step.

M.

_Maesh_ (2), _Mesh_, (Blackmore) moss, also a hole or run of a hare,
fox, or other wild animal.

_Mammet_, an image, scarecrow.

_Marrels_, _Merrels_, The game of nine men's morris.

_Mawn_, m[=a]n, (5) a kind of basket.

_Meäden_ (1, 4), stinking chamomile.

_Ment_ (2), to imitate, be like.

_M[=e]sh_, (2) moss.

_Mid_, might.

_Miff_, a slight feud, a tiff.

_Min_ (2), observe. You must know.

_Mither ho_, come hither. A call to a horse on the road.

_Moot_, the bottom and roots of a felled tree.

_More_, a root, taproot.

_Muggy_, misty, damp (weather).

N.

_Na'r a_, never a (man).

_Nar'n_, never a one.

_N'eet_, not yet.

_N[=e]sh_ (2), soft.

_Nesthooden_, a hooding over a bird's nest, as a wren's.

_Netlèns_, a food of a pig's inwards tied in knots.

_Never'stide_, never at all.

_Nicky_, a very small fagot of sticks.

_Nïppy_, hungry, catchy.

_Nitch_, a big fagot of wood; a load; a fagot of wood which custom allows a hedger to carry home at night.

_Not_ (hnot or knot), hornless.

_Nother_, neither (adverb).

_Nunch_, a nog or knob of food.

_Nut_ (of a wheel), the stock or nave.

O.

_O'_, of.

_O'm_ (2), of em, them.

_O'n_ (2), of him.

_O's_ (2), of us.

_Orts_, leavings of hay put out in little heaps in the fields for the cows.

_Over-right_, opposite.

_Oves_, eaves.

P.

_Paladore_, a traditional name of Shaftesbury, the British _Caer Paladr_,
said by British history to have been founded by _Rhun Paladr-bras_,
'Rhun of the stout spear.'

_Pank_, pant.

_Par_, to shut up close; confine.

_Parrick_, a small enclosed field; a paddock--but paddock was an old
word for a toad or frog.

_Pa'sels_, parcels. _See_ Haÿmeäkèn.

_Peärt_ (1, 4), pert; lively.

_Peaze_, _Peeze_ (2), to ooze.

_Peewit_, the lapwing.

_Pitch._ _See_ Haÿmeäkèn.

_Plesh_, (2) _Plush_ (a hedge), to lay it.
To cut the stems half off and peg them down on the bank where they
sprout upward.
To plush, shear, and trim a hedge are sundry handlings of it.

_Plim_, to swell up.

_Plock_, a hard block of wood.

_Plow_, a waggon, often so called.
The plough or plow for ploughing is the Zull.

_Plounce_, a strong plunge.

_Pluffy_, plump.

_Pont_, to hit a fish or fruit, so as to bring on a rotting.

_Pooks._ _See_ Haÿmeäkèn.

_Popple_, a pebble.

_Praïse_ (5, 1), prize, to put forth or tell to others a pain or ailing.
"I had a risèn on my eärm, but I didden praïse it," say anything
about it.

_Pummy_, pomice.

_ps_ for _sp_ in clasp, claps; hasp, haps; wasp, waps.

Q.

_Quaer_, queer.

_Quag_, a quaking bog.

_Quar_, a quarry.

_Quarrel_, a square window pane.

_Quid_, a cud.

_Quirk_, to grunt with the breath without the voice.

R.

_R_, at the head of a word, is strongly breathed, as _Hr_ in Anglo-Saxon,
as _Hhrong_, the rong of a ladder.

_R_ is given in Dorset by a rolling of the tongue back under the roof.

For _or_, as an ending sometimes given before a free breathing, or _h_,
try _ow_,--_hollor_, hollow.

_R_ before _s_, _st_, and _th_ often goes out, as bu'st, burst;
ve'ss, verse; be'th, birth; cu'st, curst; fwo'ce, force; me'th, mirth.

_Raft_, to rouse, excite.

_Rake_, to reek.

_Ram_, _Rammish_, rank of smell.

_Rammil_, raw milk (cheese), of unskimmed milk.

_Ramsclaws_, the creeping crowfoot. _Ranunculus repens._

_Randy_, a merry uproar or meeting.

_Rangle_, to range or reach about.

_Rathe_, early; whence rather.

_Ratch_, to stretch.

_Readship_, criterion, counsel.

_Reämes_, (1, 3), skeleton, frame.

_Reän_ (1, 4), to reach in greedily in eating.

_Reäves_, a frame of little rongs on the side of a waggon.

_Reed_ (2), wheat hulm drawn for thatching.

_Reely_, to dance a reel.

_Reem_, to stretch, broaden.

_Rick_, a stack.

_Rig_, to climb about.

_Rivel_, shrivel; to wrinkle up.

_Robin Hood_, The Red campion.

_Roller_ (6, 4). _See_ Haÿmeäkèn.
A Roller was also a little roll of wool from the card of a woolcomber.

_Rottlepenny_, the yellow rattle. _Rhinanthus Crista-galli._

_Rouet_, a rough tuft of grass.

S.

_Sammy_, soft, a soft head; simpleton.

_Sar_, to serve or give food to (cattle).

_Sarch_, to search.

_Scote_, to shoot along fast in running.

_Scrag_, a crooked branch of a tree.

_Scraggle_, to screw scramly about (of a man), to screw the limbs
scramly as from rheumatism.

_Scram_, distorted, awry.

_Scroff_, bits of small wood or chips, as from windfalls or hedge plushing.

_Scroop_, to skreak lowly as new shoes or a gate hinge.

_Scud_, a sudden or short down-shooting of rain, a shower.

_Scwo'ce_, chop or exchange.

_Settle_, a long bench with a high planken back.

_Shard_, a small gap in a hedge.

_Sharps_, shafts of a waggon.

_Shatten_, shalt not.

_Shroud_ (trees), to cut off branches.

_Sheeted cow_, with a broad white band round her body.

_Shoulden (Shoodn)_, should not.

_Shrow_, _Sh'ow_, _Sh'ow-crop_, the shrew mouse.

_Skim_, _Skimmy_, grass; to cut off rank tuffs, or rouets.

_Slaït_, (5, 1) _Slite_, a slade, or sheep run.

_Slent_, a tear in clothes.

_Slidder_, to slide about.

_Slim_, sly.

_Sloo_, sloe.

_Slooworm_, the slow-worm.

_Smame_, to smear.

_Smeech_, a cloud of dust.

_Smert_, to smart; pain.

_Snabble_, to snap up quickly.

_Snags_, small pea-big sloes, also stumps.

_Sneäd_ (1, 4), a scythe stem.

_Snoatch_, to breathe loudly through the nose.

_Snoff_, a snuff of a candle.

_Sock_, a short loud sigh.

_Spur (dung)_, to cast it abroad.

_Squaïl_ (5, 1), to fling something at a bird or ought else.

_Squot_, to flatten by a blow.

_Sowel_, _Zowel_, a hurdle stake.

_Sparbill_, _Sparrabill_, a kind of shoe nail.

_Spars_, forked sticks used in thatching.

_Speäker_ (1 4), a long spike of wood to bear the hedger's nitch on
his shoulder.

_Spears_, _Speers_, the stalks of reed grass.

_Spik_, spike, lavender.

_Sprack_, active.

_Sprethe_ (2), to chap as of the skin, from cold.

_Spry_, springy in leaping, or limb work.

_Staddle_, a bed or frame for ricks.

_Staïd_ (5, 1), steady, oldish.

_Stannèns_, stalls in a fair or market.

_Steän_ (1, 4) (a road), to lay it in stone.

_Steärt_ (1, 4), a tail or outsticking thing.

_Stout_, the cowfly, _Tabanus_.

_Stitch_ (of corn), a conical pile of sheaves.

_Strawèn_, a strewing. All the potatoes of one mother potatoe.

_Strawmote_, a straw or stalk.

_Strent_, a long slent or tear.

_Streech_, an outstretching (as of a rake in raking); a-strout stretched
out stiffly like frozen linen.

_Stubbard_, a kind of apple.

_Stunpoll_ (7), stone head, blockhead; also an old tree almost dead.

T.

_th_ is soft (as _th_ in thee), as a heading of these words:--
thatch, thief, thik, thimble, thin, think, thumb.

_Tack_, a shelf on a wall.

_Taffle_, to tangle, as grass or corn beaten down by storms.

_Taït_, to play at see-saw.

_Tamy_ (3, 1), _tammy_ (5, 1), tough, that may be drawn out in strings,
as rich toasted cheese.

_Teäve_, (1, 3), to reach about strongly as in work or a struggle.

_Teery_, _Tewly_, weak of growth.

_Tewly_, weakly.

_Theäse_, this or these.

_Theasum_ (1, 4), these.

_Tidden (tidn)_, it is not.

_Tilty_, touchy, irritable.

_Timmersome_, restless.

_Tine_, to kindle, also to fence in ground.

_Tistytosty_, a toss ball of cowslip blooms.

_To-year_, this year (as to-day.)

_Tranter_, a common carrier.

_Trendel_, a shallow tub.

_Tump_, a little mound.

_Tun_, the top of the chimney above the roof ridge.

_Tut_ (work), piecework.

_Tutty_, a nosegay.

_Tweil_, (4, 1) toil.

_Twite_, to twit reproach.

U.

_Unheal_, uncover, unroof.

V.

_v_ is taken for _f_ as the heading of some purely English words,
as vall, fall, vind, find.

_Veag_, _V[=e]g_ (2), a strong fit of anger.

_Vern_, fern.

_Ve'se_, vess, a verse.

_Vinny cheese_, cheese with fen or blue-mould.

_Vitty_, nice in appearance.

_Vlanker_, a flake of fire.

_Vlee_, fly.

_Vo'k_, folk.

_Vooty_, unhandily little.

_Vuz_, _Vuzzen_, furze, gorse.

W.

_wo_ (8, 4), for the long o, 7, as bwold, bold; cwold, cold.

_Wag_, to stir.

_Wagwanton_, quaking grass.

_Weäse_, (1, 4) a pad or wreath for the head under a milkpail.

_Weäle_ (1, 3), a ridge of dried hay; see _Haÿmeäkèn_.

_Welshnut_, a walnut.

_Werden_, were not or was not.

_Wevet_, a spider's web.

_Whindlèn_, weakly, small of growth.

_Whicker_, to neigh.

_Whiver_, to hover, quiver.

_Whog_, go off; to a horse.

_Whur_, to fling overhanded.

_Wi'_, with.

_Widdicks_, withes or small brushwood.

_Wink_, a winch; crank of a well.

_Withwind_, the bindweed,

_Wont_, a mole.

_Wops_, wasp.
_ps_, not _sp_, in Anglo-Saxon, and now in Holstein.

_Wotshed_, _Wetshod_, wet-footed.

_Wride_, to spread out in growth.

_Wride_, the set of stems or stalks from one root or grain of corn.

_Writh_, a small wreath of tough wands, to link hurdles to the sowels
(stakes).

_Wrix_, wreathed or wattle work, as a fence.

Y.

_Yop_, yelp.

Z.

_z_ for _s_ as a heading of some, not all, pure Saxon words, nor [or?]
for _s_ of inbrought foreign words.

_Zand_, sand.

_Zennit_, _Zennight_, seven night; "This day zennit."

_Zew, azew_, milkless.

_Zoo_, so.

_Zive_, a scythe.

_Zull_ a plough to plough ground.

_Zwath_, a swath.

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