HAMPSHIRE GLOSSARY. 25 Dock [dok], ah, Rumex sanguineus, to which great medicinal virtues are attributed by the country people. A decoction of dock-root, called
- dock-root tea/ is considered an excellent purifier of the blood ; and
the leaf is supposed to be good for the sting of a nettle. When a child is stung, he plucks a dock-leaf, and, laying it on the part affected, sings — ' Out 'ettle, in dock. Dock shall ha* a new smock ; 'Ettle zhant ha* narrun [ne*er a one] ! ' See the expression * Nettle in, doke out ' in Chaucer's TroiL and Cress, ed. Bell, vol v. p. 196. ♦Ak. Book, V, to dock a book, to tear out the leaves. — Winch, Sch. OL Book-yard mead [dok*yaad-meed], sb. as recently as thirty or forty years a^ every labourer was either a poacher or smuggler, very often a combmation of the two ; and to this day various fields far inland, are stiU called the dockyard-mead, — Wise, New Forest, p. 170 (▲.D. 1863). Boa [doa], sh, the female of the buck, i. e. of the stag-beetle. — Wise, Neto Forest, See Buck. Boff [dauf], r. to do off ; to doff the coat or hat. *Ak. Bogberries [dog'beriz], eb, pi, the hips of the wild rose (Rosa Canina), the dogrose. — Wise. Bogged [dog'ed], adj, (a disy liable), very, excessive ; as * dogged cute,' very acute. - *Ak. Bog's grass [dogz'graas], sb, Cynosurua eristatus, Holloway's Dictionary. — J. B. Bogwood [dog-wuod], sb. Rhammis Frangula, R. Turner, Botan- oloyia, 1664.--J. B. But note that dog is often pronounced daug in North Hants. Bole [doal], sb. food given in charity, at Christmas-tide. — N. H. Bole [doal], sb, a stratagem, clever trick. — Winch, Sch, GL From dolus, a taick. — ^Adams' Wykehamica, p. 422. Bolifier [doal'ifeiur], sh. one who contrives a trick. — Adams' Wyk&- hamica, ibid, BoU [dol], sb, the smallest pig in a litter. — ^Wise, New Forest, BoUop [dol'up], sb. (1) Cooper has dalJop, a packet or lump of tea, weighmg from 6 to 18 pounds, so packed for the convenience of smuggling. On which Wise notes — a dollop of tea was a certuiu weight, equal to 28 pounds in Hante. ^) sb, A lump of anything. Ex. * Them 'taters are dollops of flour. ' J. Bon [don], to do on, to put on. *Ak. Bonnarg fdon'arg], v, to argue in an overbearing manner ; to con- tradict (lit. to down-argue). Ex. * He'd donnarg oon out of ooii's Christian name.' See Harg. — Wise.
