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GLOSSARY.
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, mān, (5) a kind of basket.
Meäden (1, 4), stinking chamomile.
Ment (2), to imitate, be like.
Mēsh, (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.
Nēsh (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.
Nippy, 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.
ps for sp in clasp, claps; hasp, haps; wasp, waps.
Q.
Quaer, queer.
