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That's-what, That is very probable.

Theaker, Thatcher.

Theigh, Thigh.

Thible, A wooden spatula, to stir potage. Twi-bill, having two sharp edges, vid. NARES.

Thick, Intimate.

Thick-hots, Water porridge, made of oatmeal; sometimes mixed Stir-about, with fat and baked in a pan.

Pandewaff,

Thingembobs. Nameless trifles.

Thirl, Orifice of the nose, nose-thirl alias nostril. A. S. thirlian, to bore.

Thoal, To endure, to afford. A. S. tholian. OLD ENG. tholie. Thof, Although.

Thought, "Within a thought," is inconceivably near.

2. In a moment.

"Upon his bow he lean'd his milk white hand,
A bonny boy, a thoughty aff did stand."

Thoum, Thumb.

Ross's HELENORE, p. 68. DR. JAMIESON.

Thrang, To be busy. A. S. thrang,

Thrast, Pushed,

Threave, A thrave, 24 sheaves. A. S. threaf.
Threap-down, To argue with pertinacity.

Threapin, Answering again with impertinence. A. S. threapian.

Threede, Thread.

Thresh, To beat. TEUT. threschen.

Throddy,

Throdden, Thriving. ISL. throa.

Thropple, Throat.

Throttle, 2. Verb, to seize or pinch the throat or wind-pipe. Thrum, Blunt or sour.

Thrutch, To thrust.

Thunner-packs, Large white clouds, indicative of thunder.

Thus-and-seea, So so.

Thwaite, A pasture cleared of wood. A. S. thwitan.

Thyrl, vid. Thirl.

Tice, An abbreviation of entice.

Tifled, Sprained in the back.

Tift, Anger. ISL. ti-fa, præceps

Tike, Fellow, a species of dog.

ire.

SHAKSP. tike or trundle-tail,

hence applied to a person of indifferent character. IsL.

tyk, a little dog.

Tilt'os, Till thou hast.

Timmer, Timber. BELG. timmer.

Timorous, Difficult to please, fretful.

Tine, The prong of a fork. ISL. tinne, dens.

Tines, Shuts. A. S. tynan claudere. SPENSER seems to use it

in closing the eyes in death.

"And Eden, tho' but small,

Yet stained oft with blood of many a band,

Of Scots and English both that's tined on his strand."

Tinkler, A tinker.
Tip-the-bucket, To die.

Tip-top, Excellent.

Tirlins, Small pebbles or coals. Sv. G. trill-a rotari.
Tit, A small horse. IsL. titt, ready or convenient to mount.
Tite, Soon, easily, well.

Titter, Sooner. BELG. tit.

2. To laugh.

Titter-gait-in, To have the start, or to have the first word.
Titterin, Laughing.

Tit-up, A canter, by Onomatopœia.

Titty-puss, A cat. WELSH, titw, a cat.

To-a-three, A few.

2. "A gay to-a-three," many.

Tom-noddy, A Tom fool. NORM. FR. naudin, stultus.
Tone, The one.

Toomed, Emptied. DAN. tommer, to draw out. ISL. tomur.
Toot, To it, to apply.

Top-ner-tail, Neither head nor foot.

Top-ower-tail, Topsy turvy.
Topper, Clever, excellent.

Topper, An extraordinary person, often used ironically, “he's a topper."

Topsman, Principal hind or bailiffe.

Torfill'd, Died. A. S. torfian, to shoot the dart, struck by the dart of death.

Tossicated, Tossed, perplexed.

Tote, The whole,

the haal tote on 'em," from LAT. totus.

Totttle, To walk gently. Su. G. tulta.

Toddle,

T'ouden, The old one.

Tout, Taught.

Trail, To loiter. Qu. LAT. traho.

Trailin, Dragging the feet with difficulty.

Tramps, Travels. BELG. trant or trampen. WELSH, tramp.
Transmogrified, Metamorphosed.

Trapes, An idle, lounging, person.
Trash, To tramp about with fatigue.
Trash, Unripe fruit.

Tressel, A frame to support a scaffold, &c. WELSH, trestyl.—
Qu, three stele, or three feet.

Tridlins, Excrements of sheep. Sc. driddlins. GERM. treidel. Trig, To fill, "he's trigged his hamper," or filled his belly.A. S. trig, alveus. TODD.

Trim, To beat, to drub. Dr. JAMIESON.

Trollops, A nasty woman.

Trull,

IT. trulla.

Trones, A steel yard. Trona or trutina, Dr. JAMIESON says, is originally equivalent to crane. ISL. triona, a beak or

crane. FR. troyne, a beak.

Trot, An old trot, a contemptuous appellation of an infirm old

woman. GERM. trot, mulier, anus. TODD'S JOHNSON.

Trunnel, A wheel. A. S. trendle, a barrow trunnle."

Tubber, A cooper.

Tully, A little wretch. Sc. tulye, a quarrel.

Tull, To.

Tult, To it.

Tum, To separate or card wool.

Tumme, Tome.

Tunnel, A drain or arch.

Tup, A ram.

BELG. tulpe, to strike or push.

Turmat, Turnip.

Turmoil, Noise, passion.

Tusdoon, Thou hast done.

Tussel, Contest. GERM. tussel-en, to beat.

Tussey, A low, drunken person.

Twaa, Two.

Twattle, To prate. GERM. schwatzen.

Twill, A quill.

Twilt, A quilt.

Twiny, Fretful, uneasy.

2. Twisting.

Twinter, A beast aged two winters. A. S. twy-winter. TODD. Twit, An acute angle.

2. Any thing entangled, from twist, "t' garn's twitter'd." Twitter, Uneasy, "hee's aw at twitter.'

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Twitter-bone, An excrescence of a horse's hoof, in consequence of a contraction.

Type, A lever, used as a mouse-trap.
Type-our, To fall over, to die.

Tyce, To entice.

U

Unbane, Inconvenient, distant. UN. and BELG. bane, way, i. e. out of the way.

Uncome, Not come.

Uncoth, Strange, unknown. Sc. unca. A. S. uncuth.

2. To take uncoth, is, to feel strange and uncomfortable. Uncoths, News, "what uncoths ?"

Under-breet, A bright light appearing under the clouds in the horizon.

Undercumestand, to understand.

Underdrawing, Cieling.
Undermind, To undermine.

Ungain, Round about, indirect. BELG. om-gaen, to go about, see Unbane.

Ungeared, Unharnessed.

Ungone, Not gone.

Unheppen, Unbecoming, uncomfortable, indecent, untidy.
Unkemmed, Uncombed."

Unlicked-cub, An unpolished youth.

Unrid, Untidy, disorderly, filthy. BELG. onraedt. TEUT. on

ried, sordes.

Unsnecked, Unlatched.

"Tip-tae she tript o'er the floor,

She drew the bar, unsneck'd the door."

JAMIESON'S POP. BAL. DR. JAMIESON.

Upbrade, To rise on the stomach.
Updaals, Up the valley or dale.
Uphodto, To assure you.

Upmet and down throsten, Entirely, good measure.
Upper-story, The brain.

Uptack, Unparalleled, not to be equalled.

Upwaxen, Grown up to manhood.

Urchin, Hedge-hog.

Uvver, Upper.

Vails, Money given to servants on strangers taking their leave or vale, from which DR. JOHNSON says it is derived; but

MR. TODD derives it from avails.

Validum, Value, size, "nut validum o'th' black under my nail." Vamper, To vapour.

Vara-weel, Very well.

Vardite, Verdict.

Vast, A deal, “itle do the a vast o' good, man."

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Vew, Yew.

Viewly, Handsome, agreeable to the eye.

Virgin's garland, Many of the churches in the Deanery of Craven are adorned with these garlands, which were made of flowers, or of variegated colored paper, representing flowers, fastened to small sticks, crossing each other at the top, and fixed at the bottom by a circular hoop, which was also pasted over with paper. From the top are suspended two papers, cut in the form of gloves, on which the age and name of the deceased virgin are written. When a young woman died, unmarried, one of these votive garlands was borne before the corpse, by two girls, who placed it on the coffin during the funeral service. From thence it was conveyed, in the same manner, to the grave; and afterwards was carefully deposited on the skreen dividing the choir from the nave, either as an emblem of virgin purity, or of the frailty and uncertainty of human life," whose beauty shall be a fading flower." ISAIAH.

W

Wa, Yes.

Waa, Oppressed with woe, sorry, A. S. wa. MAS. G. wai, Waa-worth-ye, Woe betide you,

Waast-heart, Alas! or woe is my heart!

Wabble, To move awkwardly and weakly. Sc. drabble,

G. dubble.

Wad, Would.

Wadha, Would have.

Wad at wadhe, He would, that would he.

Wadn't, Would not,

Su.

Wadto, Wouldst thou.

Waff, To puff up in the act of boiling, "lutho bud, howt' thickhots waff." To bark gently.

Waggle,}

To shake. A. S. wagian. BELG. wagghele.

Waily, Oppressed with woe.

Wais,

A wreath of straw or cloth on the head, to relieve the Wase, S pressure of burthens. TEUT. wasen, cespes, instar cespitis. SKINNER, COOPER, and AINSWORTH.

Wake, Weak. A. S. wak.
Wall-een, White or grey eyes. BELG. walcken, to blanch.-
The etymology of this word is not very satisfactory either
in NARES or TODD. SKINNER supposes that they resem-
ble the eyes of a whale. A. S. hwale. WELSH, gwawl,
light, probably gwawl-een, light eyes.
Walloping, Bending in their gait. TEUT. wal-oppe.
Wallow, Flat, insipid. TEUT. walghe, nausea.
Walsh, S abbreviation of wallowish.
Wambling, Moving or twisting the body.
Wandy, Long and flexible, like a wand.
Wankle, Weak, loose. BELG. wanckel.
Wanteau, Surcingle, wain-tie.

War, Was.

War, Worse, used by SPENSER.

Walsh is an

Du. wemmelen.

War, Stand aside, "war horse," or beware of the horse.
War and war,

Warse and warse, Worse and worse.

Warbles, Maggots in the backs of cattle. A. S. wear. Teut.

weer, a knot.

Ward, World.

Warished, Recovered from sickness. IT. guarire.

Wark, Ache. A. S. wark.

Wark-folk, I.aborers.

Warm, To beat, "I'll warm thy jerkin for the."

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IsL. veria. to sell, to purchase. WELSH,

gwariad.

Warridge, Withers of a horse.

Wart-day, Work-day.

Warth, A ford. LAT. vadum.
Wath, S

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A. S. wad, from wadan, to

pass over, hence to wade. ISL. vad.

Wassel, A person very weak, probably one who has partaken too freely of the wassel bowl, "as wake as a wassel." Water-icles, Stalactites.

Watter-shakken, Land soaked or shaking with water.
Wau, To caterwaul, to cry as a cat. ISL. vaele, plango,
Wau, Wall.

2. Worthless liquor.

Wawl, To wail, to weep.

Waxen, Grown. BELG. wassende. MES. G. waig.

Wax-kernel, A swelling near the ear, &c.

Weaky, Moist. GERM. weicken, To soak.

Wearing, Consumption.

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