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ANIGHST or ANIGH.—Near to.

"Best not come anighst that ther hose, med be he'll kick 'e."

A STICKS.—Mischievous

APE-US O'WORK.—Something causing trouble, or making damage; a fuss.

A PICKY BACK.—A way of carrying one on the back, with his arms around the neck, and legs under and supported by the carrier's arms.

APPLE-PIE BED.—A bed made up by removing one of the two sheets and turning up the other from the bottom, so that when a person gets into bed his feet can go no farther down than the middle of the sheet thus turned up.

APPLE-PIE ORDER.—Arranged with great regularity; it corresponds with the naval term "ship shape."

APPLE SCOOP.—A scoop made by cutting away part from the knuckle bone of a leg of mutton. The flavour of apples is best brought out when eating them with such a scoop.

A-PURPOSE.—Intentionally.

"A drowed I down a-purpose" (he threw me down intentionally).

ARCHUT, or ERCHUT.—An orchard.

AREADY.—Already.

ARGY, also ARGIVY.—To argue.

To "argivy nothun'" means "to have no weight," "not to tend to convince."

"What a chap like that ther zes dwoant argivy nothun'."

ARLY—Early.

ARLY BWONE.—The hip bone of a pig.

ARN, also ARRUN or ARRA-ONE.—One at all, either of them.

ARNEST.—Earnest.

The "arnest" or "arnest money" is a shilling given on hiring a servant; it completes the contract

AS.—Is used in place of relative pronouns thus, "It was he as tawld I" (it was he who told me).

AS ZO, and AS HOW, are also very similarly used.

"A telled muh as zo his ship was aheared las' Tuesday."