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GLOSSARY

OF

THE CRAVEN DIALECT.

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A, Has generally the sound of ah, and has various

2.

Have, "

3.

you mud as weel a dunt as nut."

On, "I'll gang wi the a Tuesday."

“Towten Field is a three miles from Sherburne yn Yorkshire, and thereby renneth Cockbeck and goeth into Warfe River a this side Tadcaster."

AAD, Old.

Leland.

AAK, Oak. A. S. ac, ac, pronounced also yak. BELG.

"Ane meikle aik that mony zeris that grew.

"He set his back unto an aik,
He set his feet against a stane.”

D. Virg. 2 b. 59 p.

Mins. S. B.

"Nane of your sharney peats but good aik timber."

AAKIN, Oaken.

"Over held with akin trees and bewes rank."

B

Pirate,

D. Virg. p. 394.

"For fere they stert abak, and forth cam swak,
"The Duke Nipheus wyde apoun his bak."

Doug. Virg. 59. p.

"Bot thay wyth all thare complices in feocht
War dung aback."

Idem. 9 p. 302.

ABOONE, Above. BELG. boven.

"Our Scots nobles were richt laith

To weet their cork-heel'd shoone,
But lang owre a' the play wer play'd
Their hats they swam aboone."

2.

Abroad.

Spread abroad, "t'hay's abreed." BELG. breed.

"Admyt thou shouldst abyde abrode a yere or twayne." Romeus and Jul. 1587.

ACKER, A ripple on the surface of the water, a-curl. ACKER, Fine mould. WELSH, achar, kind, good. ACKERY, Abounding with fine mould. May not this word be derived from BELG. aeckerigh, belonging to an oak, or earth, congenial to its growth?

ACROOK'D, Crooked, awry. G. Krok. Hence crook

timber.

ADAM'S ALE, Water.

ADAM'S-FLANNEL, White mullein, Verbascum

Thapsus. Lin. It may have obtained this name from the soft white hairs, with which the leaves are thickly clothed on both sides.

ADAM AND EVE, The bulbs of orchis maculata, which have a fancied resemblance of the human figure. One of these floats in the water, which nourishes the stem, the other sinks and bears the bud for the next year. ADDLE, To earn.

for labour.

A. S. edlean, a reward or recompence

"Where ivy embraceth the tree very sore,
Kill ivy, else tree will addle no more."

ADDLE,

ADDLINS,

Tusser.

Labourer's wages, "He's i good addle." "His addlins er naa girt matters."

"Saving's good addlin."

ADGE, Addice.

ADMIRABLIST, Most admirable, accented on the ante

penult; also, admirable.

AFEARD, Afraid.

"I am a fear'd there are few die well that die in battle."

It also occurs in the Version of the Psalms by Stern

hold and Hopkins, 1609.

"Then all the earth full sore afeard."

AFORE, Before.

"Now afore God, God forbid, I say tis true."

Sh. Rich. II. iv. 1.

AFORE-LONG, E'er long.

AFORE'TUZ, Before thou hast.

AFTERLINS, The last milk of a cow. See Strippings.

AGAH, Ague.

AGAAN, Against, "he ran agaan him."

2. Again.

AGAIT, "To get agait," to begin.

AGAITARDS, "To gang agaitards," to accompany. AGAIT ON'T, At work upon it. On generally attends the verb, as "what's 'to agait on?"

AGE, 1. To advance in years, "my daam ages fast." 2. To affect with concern and amazement; because

these passions, when violent and long indulged, are supposed to bring on grey hairs and premature old age. "Ah, Tibby! what wilt ward come tul! Ise fit to be maddl'd in't. Au barn! anto nobbut saa thur young flirts, aye an wed wives too, gangin to'th kirk, donn'd up, pren'kt and dizen'd i ther vales and ther ferly farlies, it wod varily age the!"

AGUE, Awry, obliquely, askew.

"And warily tent when ye come to court me
And come-nae unless the black yett be agee,

Syne up the back style and let nae body see
And come as ye were na comin to me."

Burns.

"Heaven kens that the best laid schemes will gang agee."
St. Ronan's Well, 1 vol. p. 257.

AGREEABLE, Assenting to any proposal, "I's par

fitly agreeable tul't."

AGGY, Agnes.

AGAYNE,

AGEEAN, Against.

"And wha som evyr cum agayne yis ordinance and brek itt agayn, ye will o' yr' forseyde Chapitre have Goddes malyson & St. Peters."

AGIN, As if.

Contract for building York Minster, 1371.