A Glossary of the Dorset Dialect with a Grammar of Its Word Shapening and Wording |
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a-been a-loved a-meäde a-meäkèn A.-Saxon Anglo-Saxon Aorist apple Askerswell bird Blackmore blow book English breath Brushwood called cheese child cider clipses corn crip DORSET DIALECT Dorset sheep Dorset words DROW faggot fastened folk-speech Friesian Friesic Gi'e girt Glossary grass Grimm's Law ground hard head hedge heeltaps hine horse hwome hythe kind knog Latin legs Lewth loose Lucien Bonaparte Lwoth meäd meäke means milk moulded noun one's penning pieces Piers Plowman pigs plant plural pole Portland pronouns rick ridge ring rollers roof root Saxon Saxon-English SCRAM shafts shape sheep shoot soggy sometimes sound speech spoken sprack stems stick stone straw Swanage Teäke Teutonic theäse thee Thence thick thik thing thou tree Tyneham VALL verb vinny VLEE vrom waggon WELM Welsh wheat wheel wood wool wride wrix wull Zome
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Page 38 - As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion on the right side; and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.
Page 18 - Salt is good : but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.
Page 106 - MS. ibid. STREECH. The space taken in at one striking of the rake. Streech measure is that in which a straight stick is struck over the top of the vessel. Barnes, p. 354. STREEK. (1) To iron clothes. East. (2) To measure corn by passing a flat piece of wood over the top of the measure.
Page 46 - A-PISTY-POLL. A mode of carrying a child with his legs on one's shoulders, and his arms round one's neck or forehead.
Page vi - Here are samples of a few clauses "My Lords and Gentlemen. - The satisfaction with which I ordinarily release you from discharging the duties of the Session is on the present occasion qualified by a sincere regret that an important part of your labours should have failed to result in a legislative enactment.
Page 109 - While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milk-maid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And ev'ry shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Page 94 - To cover walls, particularly mud-walls. •with roughcast; a composition of sand, mortar, grit, &c. Roughleaf. A true leaf of a plant, in distinction from its seedleaves or cotyledons. When its first true leaves are out, it is said to be "out in rough leaf." Rounders. A boys
Page 48 - Beasts ; applied only to neat cattle. BEAVER of a hedge. The bushes or underwood growing out on the ditchless side of a single hedge ; or the greensward beside the beaten road in a lane.
Page 103 - Spars. [XS. spere; Ger. speer; a spear, or long sharp body.] Sharp sticks, usually of withy or hazel, twisted in the middle and bent, for fastening down thatch under ledgers.
Page 34 - This will be understood by a case of which I was told in a parish in Dorset, where the lady of the house had taken a little boy into dayservice, though he went home to sleep . . . the lady had begun to correct his bad English, as she thought his Dorset was; and, at last, he said to her, weeping, 'There now. If you do meake me talk so fine as that, they'll laef at me at hwome zoo, that I can't bide there'.