Saucepan
Lave _v._ to throw water from one place to another; to gutter, as a
candle
Lay-field _s._ a piece laid down to grass
Lea, Leaze, Leers _s._ an open pasture field
Leapy, Lippary _s._ wet, rainy weather
Learn, Larn _v._ to teach, ex. Who larned 'e thay tricks
Leathern-bird, Leather-wing _s._ the bat
Ledge _v._ lay hands on; to lay eggs
Lent-lilies _s._ daffodils
Lescious ex. She is lescious of a place, _i,e._, knows of it and thinks
it may suit
Levers _s._ a species of rush or sedge
Levvy _s._ a level (Fr. _levee_)
Lew, Lewth, Lewthy shelter, sheltered, lee-side
Libbets _s._ tatters; _little-bits_
Lidden _s._ a story, a song (Ger. _lied_)
Lief, Leaf _v._ leave; ex. I would as lief
Ligget _s._ a rag
Lijon _s._ the main beam of a ceiling
Lip, or Lippen _s._ applied to certain vessels, as Ley-lip, Seed-lip,
Bee-lippen bee-hive (Wiclif's Test.: Leten hym doun in a _lepe_ be the
wall Acts ix. 25)
Limmers, Limbers _s._ the shafts of a waggon or cart
Linch _v._ a ledge, hence "linch-pin" (A S _hlinc_)
Linney, Linhay _s._ an open shed
Lirp _v._ to limp
Lirripy _adj._ slouching
Lissom _a._ lithesome, active, supple
Lissum, or Lism _s._ a narrow slip of anything
Locking-bone _s._ the hip joint
Long-tailed Capon _s._ the long-tailed titmouse
Lug _s._ a pole; a measure of land, perch or rod
Lug-lain _s._ full measure
Lumper-scrump _s._ cow-parsnip _Heracleum sphondylium_
Lurdin _s._ a sluggard (Fr. _lourd_)
Lizzom _s._ a shade of colour in heavy bread, or in a mow
Mace _s._ pl. acorns, mast
Macky-moon _s._ a man who plays the fool
Maethe (th soft) sweet as meathe (Welsh _Medd_, mead)
Maggems, Maay-geams _s._ May games, larking
Magne _adj._ great
Make-wise _v._ to pretend
Manchet _s._ a kind of cake eaten hot
Mandy _adj._ and _v._ haughty, domineering Commandy
Mang _v._ to mix
Mang-hangle _adj._ and _s._ mixed-up in a confused mass
Math _s._ a litter of pigs
Maules _s._ measles
May-bug _s._ cockchafer
Mawkin (maaking) an oven swab; scare-crow; a bundle of rags
Mawn _s._ a basket (A S _mand_)
Maze-house _s._ madhouse
Mazy _adj._ mad, ex. I be mooast maazed; a mazy ould vool
Mear, Mear-stone boundary (A S _meare_)
Meat-weer _adj._ applied to land capable of producing food that is good,
fit to eat; applied to peas, beans, &c.
Meg _s._ the mark at which boys play pitch and toss
Meg's, or Maggotts Diversions _s._ rattling or wanton fun
Meg-with-the-wad _s._ will o' the wisp
Melander _s._ a row (Fr. _melee_)
Me'll _v.a._ to meddle, touch; ex. I'll neither mell nor make; I ont
mell o't, _i.e._, I will not touch it
Mesh _s._ moss; lichen on apple-trees
Mesh _s._ a hare's creep or run _v._ to run through the same
Mess, Messy _v._ to serve cattle with hay _s._ Messin
Mid, Med _v._ might, ex. Nor zed a mid; midst, medst, ex. Thou medst if
wouldst
Midgerim _s._ mesentery
Mid'n might not, ex. I mid or I mid'n
Mig in the same sense
Milemas _s._ Michaelmas
Mind _v._ to remember
Misky form of misty
Miz-maze _s._ confusion
Mog _v._ to decamp, march off
Mooch _v._ to stroke down gently
Mood _s._ the mother of vinegar
Mole _s._ higher part of the back of the neck
Mommacks _s._ pl. fragments, scraps
Mommick, Mommet _s._ a scarecrow (Wiclif's N. Test.: "a sacrifice to
the _mawmet_" Act vii. 41)
Moocher, Mooching, Meecher _s._ one who skulks; absents himself from
school
Moor-coot _s._ a moor-hen
More _s._ a root
Moot _v._ to root up _s._ Mooting-axe
Moot _s._ that portion of a tree left in the ground after it has been
felled
Mop _s._ tuft of grass
More, Morey _v.n._ to take root; applied to trees
Mother, Mothering _s._ white mould in beer or cider
Mothering-Sunday _s._ midlent Sunday, probably from the custom of
visiting the mother-churches during that season
Mought for might _aux. verb_
Mouse-snap _s._ a mouse-trap
Mouster _v._ to stir, to be moving
Mow-staddle _s._ a conical stone with a flat circular cap, used for the
support of a mow or stack of corn
Muddy-want _s._ a mole
Mullin _s._ metheglin
Mumper, Mump, Mumping a beggar, to beg
Nacker _s._ a nag
Nagging _adj._ applied to continued aching pain, as toothache; also,
teasing with reproaches
Nammet, or Nummet _s._ luncheon; a short meal between breakfast and
dinner. Noon-meat
Nan, Anan _interj._ Eh! what? (Shakes.)
Nap _s._ a small rising, a hillock
Na-poast _s._ gnaw-post, a fool.
Narn, or Norn _pron._ neither, ex. Narn on's
Nasten _v.a._ to render nasty
Nathely _adv._ nearly, as a baby is nathely pining away
Naunt _s._ aunt
Nawl _s._ navel; Nawl-cut a term used by butchers
Neel, Neeld _s._ a needle (Shaks. Mid. N. Dr. iii. 2)
Nesh, Naish _adj._ tender, delicate (A S _hnesc_)
Nestle-tripe _s._ the poorest bird in the nest; weakest pig in the
litter; puny child
Never-the-near to no purpose
Newelty _s._ novelty
Nickle _v.n._ to move hastily along in an awkward manner _adj._ beaten
down, applied to corn
Nicky, Nicky-wad _s._ a small fagot of thorns
Niddick _s._ the nape of the neck
Nif _conj._ if and if
'Nighst, Noist _prep._ nigh, near
Ninny-watch _s._ a longing desire
Nippigang, Nimpingang _s._ a whitlow
Nitch _s._ a burden, a fagot of wood
Nix _v._ to impose on, to nick
Northern, Northering _adj._ incoherent, foolish
Nosset _s._ a dainty dish such as is fit for a sick person
'Nottamy _s._ applied to a man become very thin (anatomy)
Nug _s._ unshapen piece of timber, a block
Nug-head _s._ a blockhead
Nuncle _s._ uncle _v.a._ to cheat
Nurt, or Nort nothing (w. of Parret)
Nuthen _s._ a great stupid fellow
Oak-web (wuck-ub) _s._ cock-chafer, may-bug
Oak-wuck _s._ the club at cards
Oaves _s._ the eaves of a house
Odments _s. pl._ odd things, offals
Oh _v._ to long greatly
Old-man's-Beard _s._ clematis
Old-rot _s._ cow-parsnip (_heracleum_)
Onlight _v.n._ to alight from on horse-back
Ool will; o'ot wilt o'ot'n't wilt not
Ope _s._ an opening
Open-erse _s._ a medler (A S _open-oers_), a fruit used medicinally
Ordain _v._ to purpose
Orloge _s._ a clock (horologe)
Or'n _pron._ either, ex. O'rm o'm, either of them
Ort _pron._ aught, anything
Orts _s._ scraps, leavings
Oseny, or Osening _v._ to forbode, predict (A S _wisian_)
Ourn ours
Out-ax'd _part._ to have the bands fully published
Out-faring _s._ lying outside the borough
Over-get _v.a._ to overtake
Over-look _v.a._ to bewitch
Over-right (auver-right) _adv._ opposite
Ovvers _s. pl._ over-hanging bank of rivers, edge of rivers (A S _ofer_)
Pair-of-Stairs _s._ a staircase with two landings
Pallee _adj._ broad, as pallee-foot, pallee-paw
Palme _s._ catkins of the willow (_salix caprea_)
Pame _s._ the mantle thrown over an infant who is going to be Christened
Panchard-night _s._ Shrove-Tuesday night
Pank _v._ to pant
Papern _adj._ made of paper
Parget _v.a._ to plaster the inside of a chimney with mortar made of
cow-dung and lime
Parrick _s._ a paddock
Paumish _adj._ handling awkwardly
Pautch, Pontch _v._ to tread in mire
Payze, 'Pryze _v._ to upraise with a lever (Fr. _peser_)
Peart _adj._ brisk
Pease _v._ to run out in globules
Peasen _s. pl._ of pea _adj._ made of peas, ex. Peasen-pudding
Peazer _s._ a lever
Peek, Peeky, Peekid _adj._ pinched in face by indisposition
Peel _s._ a pillow
Pen, Penning, Pine, Cow-pine _s._ an enclosed place in which cattle are
fed
Pen _s._ a spigot
Pick, Peckis _s._ pick-axe
Pick, Peek _s._ hay-fork
Pigs _s._ pixies, fairies, as in the common saying, "Please God and the
pigs"
Pig's-hales _s._ hawes
Pig's-looze _s._ pig's-sty
Pilch, Pilcher _s._ a baby's woollen clout
Pill _s._ a pool in a river
Pill-coal _s._ peat from a great depth
Pillow-tie, Pillow-beer _s._ pillow-case
Pilm, Pillum _s._ dust
Pin, Pin-bone _s._ the hip
Pind, Pindy _adj._ fusty, as corn or flour
Pin'd _adj._ applied to a saw which has lost its pliancy
Pine, Pwine, Pwining-end, and Pwointing-end _s._ the gable-end of a
house
Pinions _s. p._ the refuse wool after combing (Fr. _peigner_)
Pink-twink _s._ chaffinch
Pinswheal, Pinswil, Pensil _s._ a boil with a black head
Pirl, Pirdle _v._ to spin as a top
Pix, Pex, or Pixy _v._ to pick up fruit, as apples or walnuts, after the
main crop is taken in
Pixy _s._ a fairy Pixy-stool _s._ toad-stool
Planch _s._ Planchant _adj._ a wood floor (Fr. _planche_)
Plazen _s. pl._ places
Plim, Plum _v.n._ to swell, to increase in bulk, as soaked peas or rice
Plough _s._ a team of horses; also a waggon and horses, or a waggon and
oxen
Plough-path _s._ bridle-path
Plud _s._ the swamp surface of a wet ploughed field
Pock-fretten, Pock-fredden _adj._ marked with small-pox
Pog _v._ to push, to thrust with a fist
Pomice, Pummice, Pummy, or Pumy-Squat _s._ apples pounded for making
cider (Fr. _pomme_)
Pomple _adj._ responsible, trustworthy
Pompster, or Pounster _v._ to tamper with a wound, or disease, without
knowledge or skill in medicine
Ponted _adj._ bruised, particularly applied to fruit, as a ponted apple
Pooch _v._ to pout
Pook _s._ the stomach, a vell
Pook _s._ a cock of hay
Popple _s._ a pebble
Porr _v._ to stuff or cram with food
Pot-waller _s._ one whose right to vote for a member of Parliament is
based on his having a fire-place whereon to boil his own pot, as at
Taunton
Pound-house _s._ house for cider-making
Prey _v._ to drive the cattle into one herd in a moor, which is done
twice a year (_i.e._, at Lady-day and at Michaelmas), with a view to
ascertain whether any person has put stock there without a right to do it
Proud-tailor _s._ gold-finch
Pulk, or Pulker _s._ a small pool of water
Pumple, or Pumple-foot _s._ club-foot
Pur, or Pur-hog _s._ a one-year-old male sheep
Purt _v._ to pout, to be sullen
Puskey _adj._ short-breathed, wheezing
Putt _s._ a manure cart with two or three broad wheels
Puxy _s._ a slough, a muddy place
Pyer _s._ a hand-rail across a wooden bridge (Fr. _s'apuyer_)
Quar _v._ to coagulate--applied to milk in the breast
Quarrel, Quarrey _s._ a pane of glass
Quat _adj._ full, satisfied
Queane _s._ a little girl, a term of endearment
Queest, Quisty _s._ a wood-pigeon or blue-rock. A quarish queest _s._
a queer fellow
Quilled, or Queeled _adj._ withered, as grass
Quine _s._ a corner (Fr. _coin_)
Quirk, Quirky _v._ to complain, to groan, grunt
Quat, or Aquat _adj._ sitting flat, like a bird on its eggs to quat
_v.n._ to squat (It. _quatto_)
Qwerk _s._ the clock of a stocking
Rade, or Rede _s._ part of the tripe or stomach of a bullock, the maw
Raening _adj._ thin, applied to cloth
Raft-up _v._ to disturb from sleep
Rain-pie _s._ woodpecker, yuckle
Rake _v.n._ to rouse up
Rally _v._ to scold
Ram _v._ to lose, by throwing a thing beyond reach
Rammel _adj._ (raw milk), applied to cheese made of unskimmed milk
Rams-claws _s. p._ crow's foot
Rampsing _adj._ tall
Range _s._ a sieve
Rangle _v._ to twine, move in a sinuous manner
Rangling Plants _s._ such as entwine round other plants, as hops,
woodbine
Rap _v._ to exchange
Rape _v._ to scratch
Rare _adj._ raw, or red, as meat
Rasty, Rusty _adj._ rancid, gross, obscene
Ratch _v._ to stretch
Rathe, Rather early, soon Milton: "the rathe primrose"
Rathe-ripe _s._ an early kind of apple; also a male or female that
arrives at full maturity before the usual age
Raught _part._ and _past tense_ reached, ex. E' raught down his gun
Rawn _v.a._ to devour greedily
Rawning-knife _s._ the large knife with which butchers clear their meat;
cleaver
Rawny _adj._ thin, meagre
'Ray _v.a._ to dress. Unray to undress
Read, Reed _v._ to strip the fat from the intestines
Readship, or Retchup, Rechip, Rightship _s._ truth, dependence,
trustworthiness
Ream _v.a._ to widen, to open, to stretch _s._ an instrument or tool
for widening a hole (generally used for metals) _v.n._ to bear
stretching. Reamy _adj._
Reams, Rames _s. pl._ the dead stalks of potatoes, &c.; skeleton (Query
Remains)
Re-balling _s._ the catching of ells with earthworms (yeasses) attached
to a ball of lead
Reed _s._ wheat-straw prepared for thatching (w. of Parret)
Reen, or Rhine _s._ watercourse, or dyke; an open drain
Reeve _v.n._ to shrivel up, to contract into wrinkles
Remlet _s._ a remnant
Reneeg _v._ to withdraw from an engagement (Lat. _renegare_) (Shaksp.
Ant. and Cleop. i. 5)
Rere-Mouse _s._ a bat (A S _hrere-mus_)
Revel-twine _s._ same as Hevel-twine
Revesse _s._ the burden of a song, from _vessey_, _v._ to make verses
Rew _s._ row _v._ to put grass in rows
Rexen _s. p._ rushes (A S _rixe_)
Rip _v._ to rate or chide
Riscous applied to bread imperfectly baked
Robin-riddick, or Ruddock _s._ redbreast
Roddicks, Roddocks _s._ ex. Off the roddocks, as a cart off the grooves
of the axle
Rode _v.n._ to go out to shoot wild fowl which pass over head on the
wing early at night or in the morning; also applied to the passage of the
birds themselves, ex. The woodcocks' rode
Roe-briar _s._ the large dog-rose briar
Roller, Rawler, Brawler _s._ a bundle of reed, ex. As weak as a rawler
Rompstal _s._ a rude girl
Ronge _v._ to gnaw, to devour (Fr. _ronger_)
Room, Rhume _s._ scurf of the scalp
Root-chains _s._ main plough chains
Roozement _s._ a slip or falling-in of earth
Ropy _adj._ wine or other liquor is ropy when it becomes thick and
coagulated; also bread when a kind of second fermentation takes place in
warm weather
Rose _v.n._ to drop out from the pod or other seed-vessel when the seeds
are over ripe
Rose, Rooze-in _v._ to fall in, as the upper part of a quarry, or well
Round-dock _s._ the common mallow
Rouse-about _adj._ big, unwieldly
Rout _v._ to snore
Rowless _adj._ roofless. A Rowless Tenement an estate without a house
Rowsse _v._ to rush out with a great noise
Rozzim, Rozzums _s._ quaint sayings, low proverb
Ruck _v._ to couch down
"What is mankind more unto you yhold
Than is the shepe that rouketh in the fold."
(Chaucer, Knight's Tale)
Rudderish _adj._ rude, hasty
Ruge _v.n._ to hang in folds, to wrinkle (Lat. _rugae_)
Rungs, Rongs _s. pl._ the rounds of a ladder, also of a chair
Rushen _adj._ made of rushes
Sand-tot _s._ sand-hill
Sape _s._ sap of trees, juice of fruit. Sapey _adj._ as fruit-tart
Sar, Sarve _v._ to earn wages
Scad _s._ a sudden and brief shower
Scamblin _s._ irregular meal
Scarry-whiff _adv._ askew
Scorse, Squoace, Squiss _v._ to exchange, barter
"And there another, that would needsly scorse
A costly jewel for a hobby-horse"
(Drayton's Moon Calf)
Scottle _v._ to cut into pieces wastefully
Scourge-mettle _s._ the instrument with which a boy whips his top
Scovin, Scubbin _s._ the neck and breast of lamb
Scrambed, Shrambed _adj._ deprived of the use of some limb by a nervous
contraction of the muscles; benumbed with cold
Scrint _v._ to scorch, singe; also to shrink a good deal in burning, as
leather, silk, &c.
Scun _v._ to reproach with the view of exposing to contempt or shame (A
S _scunian_, to shun, avoid)
Scurrick, Scurrig _s._ any small coin, a mere atom; ex. I havn't a
scurrick left
Scute _s._ a sum of money, a gratuity, the impress on ancient money,
from _scutem_, a shield. So _ecu_, Fr., a crown; shilling, from A S
_scild_, a shield. Chaucer uses _shildes_ for ecus, _i.e._, crowns
Seam _s._ a horse-load (A S _seam_)
Seed-lip _s._ a sower's seed basket
Seem, Zim _v._ to think, to be of opinion; ex. I do zim, or zim t' I
Seltimes _adv._ seldom
Sense _v._ to understand
Seven-sleeper _s._ dormouse
Shab _s._ itch or mange in brutes _adj._ Shabby
Shaff-Tuesday _s._ Shrove-Tuesday
Shalder _s._ rush, sedge growing in ditches
Sham _s._ a horse-hoe
Share, Sheare _s._ the quantity of grass cut at one harvest, a crop
Sharps _s._ shafts of a cart
Shaul _v._ to shell, to shed the first teeth
Shaw _v._ to scold sharply
Sheen _adj._ bright, shining
Sheer _s._ a sheath, ex. Scissis-sheer
Shelving-stone _s._ a blue tile or slate for covering the roofs of
houses
Shod _part. of v. to shed_ ex. No use crying for shod milk
Showl _s._ for shovel
Shrig _v.a._ to shroud or trim a tree
Shrowd, Shride _s._ loppings of trees
Shuckning _adj._ shuffling
Shut _v._ to weld iron
Shuttles, Shittles _s._ floodgates
Sife, Sithe _v._ and _s._ to sigh
Sig _s._ urine (Dutch _v. zeycken_)
Silch, Sulch _v._ to soil, daub
Silker _s._ a court card
'Sim t' I it seems to me
Simlin _s._ a kind of fine cake intended for toasts
Sin, Sine _conj._ since, because
Sinegar _s._ the plant stocks
Singlegus _s._ the orchis
Skag _s._ a rent, tear, wound
Skenter, Skinter _adj._ relaxed, as applied to oxen
Skiff-handed _adj._ awkward
Skiffle _s._ as to make a skiffle, to make a mess of any business
Skiffling _s._ the act of whittling a stick
Skilly _s._ oatmeal porridge
Skimps _s._ the scales and refuse of flax
Skimmerton-riding _s._ the effigy of a man or woman unfaithful to
marriage vows carried about on a pole accompanied by rough music from
cows'-horns and frying-pans. Formerly it consisted of two persons riding
on a horse back to back, with _ladles_ and _marrow-bones_ in hand, and
was intended to ridicule a hen-pecked husband
Skir _v._ skim, mow lightly, as thistles
Skir-devil _s._ a black martin, swift
Skirrings _s._ hay made in pasture lands from the long grass left by the
cattle
Skitty _s._ a water-rail
Skitty-vamps _s._ laced half boots
Skred, Skride _v._ to stride
Slat, Slate _v._ to split, crack, crumble
Slate _s._ a sheep-run. Slated _adj._ accustomed to, contented
Slerib _s._ a spare rib of pork
Sley for "as lief," ex. I would sley do it as not
Sliden, Slidder, Slither _v._ to slide
Sliver _s._ a thin slice
Slock _v._ to encourage the servants of other people to pilfer
Slooen _adj._ of sloe, ex. A slooen tree
Slop _adj._ loose (Dutch _slap_)
Slope _v.n._ to decay, rot, as pears and potatoes
Srnitch, Smit, Smeech _s._ smut, or fine dust
Snag _s._ a tooth standing alone; a small sloe
Snag-blowth _s._ the blossom of the black-thorn
Snake-leaves _s._ ferns
Snap-jack _s._ stitch-wort (stellaria holostea)
Snare _s._ the gut or string stretched tightly across the lower head of
a drum
Snell, or Snull _s._ a short thick stick about 4 inches long, called a
"cat," used in the game called cat and dog
Sneyd _s._ the crooked handle of a scythe
Snicker, Snigger _v._ to laugh in an insulting way
Snoach _v._ to snuffle, to speak through the nose
Snoffer _s._ a sweetheart (Dutch _snoffen_, to sigh)
Snool _v._ to smear anything by rubbing the nose and mouth over it
(Dutch _snavel_, a snout)
Snop _s._ a sharp blow
Soce, Zuez _s. pl. voc._ friends (Query _socii_)
Sog, or Sug _s._ a morass. Soggy _adj._ boggy; also as a verb, to be
sugged-out by the wet
Sowle _v._ to handle rudely, to hale or pull
"He'll go, he says, and sowle the porter of Rome gates by the ears"
(Shaks. Coriol. iv. 5)
Spane _s._ the prong of a fork
Sparcled, Sparked, Spicotty _adj._ speckled
Spar-gad _s._ sticks split to be used for thatching
Sparrables, Spurbles _s._ shoemaker's nails, ex. Sparrable boots
Spars _s._ twisted hazel or willow for thatching
Spawl _v._ to scale away _s._ a scale broken off from the surface of a
stone
Speard _s._ spade
Spine _s._ the sward or surface of the ground; the fat on the surface of
a joint of meat
Spinnick _s._ Spinnicking _adj._ a person every way diminutive
Spittle _v._ to dig lightly between crops
Splat _s._ a row of pins as sold in paper
Sprack, Spree, Spry _adj._ nimble, alert, active
Sprackles _s. pl._ spectacles
Sprank _v._ to sprinkle with water. Spranker, Sprenker _s._ a
watering-pot
Spreathed _adj._ said of skin harsh and dry with cold, but not chapped
Spried, Spreed _adj._ chapped with cold
Spounce _v._ to spatter with water
Spuddle _v._ to be uselessly or triflingly busy
Spur _v._ to spread abroad or scatter, as manure over a field (Lat.
_spargere_)
Squail _v._ to throw a short stick at anything. Squailer _s._ the
stick used in squirrel hunting
Squails _s._ nine-pins
Squap _v._ to sit down without any employment
Squatch _s._ a chink or narrow clift
Squelstring _adj._ sultry
Squinny _v._ to squint "Dost thou squinny at me?" (Shak. King Lear)
Squittee _v._ to squirt
Squoace, or Squss _v._ to truck or exchange
Staddle _s._ foundation of a rick of hay or corn, a mark left by a
haycock, or anything allowed to remain too long in one place
Stag _s._ a castrated bull
Stagnated _adj._ astonished
Stang _s._ a long pole
Stap _v._ for to stop
Stare-basin, Glow-basin _s._ glow-worm
Stean _v._ to stone a road. Steaned _part. s._ a large stone pitcher
(Dutch _steen_)
"Upon an huge great earthpot stean he stood"
(Spenser, Faery Queene)
Steanin _s._ a stone-pitched ford
Steeve _v._ to dry, to stiffen (Dutch _styven_)
Stickle _s._ shallow rapids in a stream. Steep _adj._ steep as a hill
Stitch _s._ a shock of corn, ten sheaves
Stive _v._ to keep close and warm
Stiver _s._ a bristling of the hair
Stocky _adj._ short, stumpy
Stodge _s._ thick slimy mud _adj._ miry; ex. "Pendummer, where the
Devil was stodged in the midst of zummer"
Stodged _adj._ stuffed with eating
Stool _s._ the stock of a tree cut for underwood
Stoor, Storr _v._ to stir, move actively (Dutch _stooren_)
Stomachy _adj._ proud, haughty
Stout _s._ a gnat-fly
Strablet _s._ a long, narrow strip
Strame _s._ a streak, mark, trace _v._ to trace (Dutch _stram_)
Straw-mote _s._ a bit of straw
Strickle _adj._ steep as the roof of a house
Strod _s._ a leathern buskin worn by peasants
Strout _v._ to strut, stand out stiff
"Crowk was his hair, and as gold it shon
And strouted as a fan large and brode"
(Chaucer, Miller's Tale)
Stub-shot _s._ the portion of the trunk of a tree which remains when the
tree is not sawn through
Stun-pole _s._ a stupid fellow
Stwon _s._ stone Stwonen _adj._
Suant _adj._ even, regular, applied to rows of beans or corn; grave as
applied to the countenance (Fr. _suivant_)
Sull _s._ plough-share (A S _sul_)
Suma _s._ a small cup made of blue and white stoneware
Surge _v._ and _s._ to bear heavily on, impetuous force
Swallow-pears _s._ service-pears, sorb-apples
Swather, or Swother _v._ to faint (A S _sweothrian_)
Sweem _v._ to swoon. Sweemy, Sweemish _adj._ faint (Dutch _swiim_)
Sweet-harty _v._ to court. Sweet-harting _s._ courtship
Swile _s._ soil, also Swoil-heap
Swill, Swell, Zwell _v._ to swallow
Tack _s._ a shelf, bacon-rack. Clavy-tack chimney-piece
Taffety _adj._ nice in eating
Tallet _s._ the space next the roof in out-houses (Welsh _tavlod_)
Tame _v._ to cut, to have the first cut (Fr. _entamer_)
Tanbase _s._ unruly behaviour
Tan-day _s._ the second day of a fair
Tang _s._ to tie; that part of a knife which passes into the haft
Tave _v._ to throw the hands about wildly
Tavering _adj._ restless in illness
Tawl-down _v._ to strike or smooth down a cat's back
Teak _s._ a whitlow
Teap _s._ a point, peak
Teart _adj._ sharp, sour, painful
Ted _v._ to turn hay or flax to dry. Ted-pole the pole used for the
purpose
Teg _s._ a last year's lamb not sheared
Teem _v._ to pour out
Terrible _adv._ intensitive, ex. Terrible good
Thic, Thicky, Thicky-there, Thickumy, Thickumy-there _pron._ that
(Chaucer _thilk_)
Thiller _s._ the shaft horse
Thill-harness opposed to trace harness
Tho _adv._ then, ex. I couldn't go tho, but I went afterwards
Thong _v._ to stretch out into viscous threads or filaments
Thongy _adj._ viscid, ropy
Thornen _adj._ made of thorns
Thurt _v._ to thwart, to plough crossways
Thurt-handled _adj._ thwart-handled
Thurt-saw _s._ a thwart-saw, a cross-cut saw
Tilty _adj._ irritable, _i.e._, easily tilt or lifted up
Timmern _adj._ wooden
Timmersom _adj._ timorous
Tine _v._ to light, ex. Tine the candle (root of tinder) _v._ a tooth
as of rake or spear (A S _tine_)
Tine-in _v._ to shut, to enclose. Tinings _s._ enclosures (A S
_tynan_)
Tip-and-tail heels over head
Titty-todger _s._ a wren
To appended to adverbs, as where-to, to-home, to-year, to-week, as
to-day
Toak _v._ to soak
Toggers _s._ the handle-pieces of the scythe
Toke _v._ to glean apples
Toll _v._ to decoy, entice, ex. A bit o' cheese to toll down the bread
wi'
Toll-bird _s._ a decoy bird
Tongue, or Tonguey _v._ to talk immoderately
Tossity _adj._ drunken ('tossicated)
Tranter _s._ a carrier. Coal-tranter a beggar
Trapes _s.v._ a slattern, to walk in the dirt
Trendle _s._ a brewer's cooler of an oval form
Trig _v._ to prop up _adj._ sound, firm, well in health, neat, tidy
Trig-to _v._ to open, set open, as a door
Trill _v._ to twirl
Trop intj. used by riders to excite a dull horse
Tuck _v._ to touch
Tucker _s._ a fuller, also Tucking-mill
Tun _s._ upper part of the chimney
Tunnegar _s._ a wooden funnel