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Filātry. s. Filth; nastiness; rubbish.
Firnd. v. To find.
Firnd. s. Friend.
Fitch, Fitchet. s. A pole-cat. As cross as a fitchet.
Fitāten, Vitāten. s. A feint; a pretence.
Flap-jack. s. A fried cake made of batter, apples, &c.; a fritter.
To Flick. v.a. To pull out suddenly with some pointed instrument.
Flick-tooth-comb. s. A comb with coarse teeth for combing the hair.
Flick. s. The membrane loaded with fat, in the bellies of animals: a term used by butchers.
Flook. s. An animal found in the liver of sheep, similar in shape to a flook or flounder.
Flush. adj. Fledged; able to fly: (applied to young birds.)
FooƤse. s. Force. See VooƤse.
To FooƤse. v.a. To force.
Fooāter. s. [Fr. foutre] A scurvy fellow; a term of contempt.
Fooāty. adj. Insignificant; paltry; of no account.
Forārel. s. the cover of a book.
Forweendā. adj. Humoursome; difficult to please: (applied to children).
Fout. preterite. of to fight.
French-nut. s. A walnut.
To Frump. v.a. To trump up.
To Frunt. v.a. To affront.
To Fur. v.a. To throw.
Furācum. s. The bottom: the whole.
Furānis. s. A large vessel or boiler, used for brewing, and other purposes; fixed with bricks and mortar, and surrounded with flues, for the circulation of heat, and exit of smoke.
G.
Gaern. s. A garden.
Gale. s. An old bull castrated.
Galālibagger. s. [From gally and beggar] A bug-bear.
Galālise. s. The gallows.
Gallid. adj. Frightened.
To Galāly. v. a. To frighten.
Gallantāing, Galligantāing. part. Wandering about in gaiety and enjoyment: applied chiefly to associations of the sexes.
Gamābril. s. A crooked piece of wood used by butchers to spread, and by which to suspend the carcase.
Ganāny-cock. s. A turkey-cock.
Ganny-cockās Snob. s. The long membranous appendage at the beak, by which the cock-turkey is distinguished.
Gare. s. The iron work for wheels, waggons, &c., is called ire-gare; accoutrements.
Gate-shord. s. A gate-way; a place for a gate.
Gatāfer. s. An old man.
Gawācum. s. A simpleton; a gawkey.
Gawl-cup. s. Gold cup.
To Gee. v.n. [g soft] To agree; to go on well together.
To Gee. v.n. [g hard; part, and past tense, gid.] To give. Gee often includes the pronoun, thus, āIāll geeā means Iāll give you; the gee, and ye for you, combining into gee.
To Gāauf. v.n. To go off.
To Gāauver. v.n. To go over.
To Gāin. v.n. To go in.
To Gāon. v.n. To go on.
To Gāout. v.n. To go out.
To Gāunder. v.n. To go under,
To Gāup. v.n. To go up.
Gibābol. s. [g soft] The sprout of an onion of the second year.
Gid. pret. v. Gave.
Gifts. s.pl. The white spots frequently seen on the finger nails.
Gigāletin. adj. Wanton; trifling; applied to the female sex.
Gilāawfer. s. A term applied to all the kinds of flowers termed stocks; and also to a few others: as a Whitsuntide gilawfer, a species of Lychnidea.
Gimāmace. s. A hinge.
Gimāmaces. s. pl. When a criminal is gibbeted, or hung in irons or chains, he is said to be hung in Gimmaces, most probably because the apparatus swings about as if on hinges.
Ginnin. s. Beginning.
Girnin. part. Grinning.
Girt. adj. Great.
Girdāl. Contracted from great deal; as, girdāl oā work; great deal of work.
To Glare. v. a. To glaze earthenware.
Glare. s. The glaze of earthenware.
Gālore. adv. In plenty.
This word, without the apostrophe, Glore, is to be found in Toddās Johnson, and there defined fat. The true meaning is, I doubt not, as above; fat gālore, is fat in plenty.
Gold. s. The shrub called sweet-willow or wild myrtle; Myrica gale.
This plant grows only in peat soils; it is abundant in the boggy moors of Somersetshire; it has a powerful and fragrant smell.
Gold-cup. s. A species of crow-foot, or ranunculus, growing plentifully in pastures; ranunculus pratensis.
To Goo. v. n. [_Gwain_, going; gwon, gone.] To go.
Gookoo. s. Cookoo.
Gooāner. interj. Goodnow!
Goodā-Hussey. s. A thread-case.
Goose-cap. s. A silly person.
Graintāed. adj. Fixed in the grain; difficult to be removed; dirty.
Gramāfer. s. Grandfather.
Gramāmer. s. Grandmother.
To Gree. v. n. To agree.
Gribble. s. A young apple-tree raised from seed.
To Gripe, v. a. To cut into gripes. See GRIPE.
Gripe. s. [from Dutch, groep.] A small drain, or ditch, about a foot deep, and six or eight inches wide.
In English Dictionaries spelled grip.
Griping-line. s. A line to direct the spade in cutting gripes.
Groanāin. s. Parturition; the time at which a woman is in labour.
Ground, s. A field.
Groāzens. s. pl. The green minute round-leaved plants growing upon the surface of water in ditches; duckās-meat; the Lens palustris of Ray.
Gruff. s. A mine.
Grufāfer. Grufāfier. s. A miner.
To Gudādle. v. n. To drink much and greedily.
Gudādler. s. A greedy drinker; one who is fond of liquor.
To Gulch, v. n. To swallow greedily.
Gulch. s. A sudden swallowing.
Gumpātion. s. Contrivance; common sense.
Gumāpy. adj. Abounding in protuberances.
Gurds. s. pl. Eructations. [By Fits and gurds.]
Guss. s. A girth.
To Guss. v. a. To girth.
Gwain. part. Going.
Gwon. part. Gone.
H.
Hack. s. The place whereon bricks newly made are arranged to dry.
To Hain. v. a. To exclude cattle from a field in order that the grass may grow, so that it may be mowed.
Halālantide. s. All Saintsā day.
Ham. s. A pasture generally rich, and also unsheltered, applied only to level land.
Hame. sing., Hames. pl. s. Two moveable pieces of wood or iron fastened upon the collar, with suitable appendages for attaching a horse to the shafts. Called sometimes a pair of hames.
Hanādy. adv. Near, adjoining.
Hang-gallise. adj. Deserving the gallows, felonious, vile; as, a hang-gallise fellow.
Hange. s. The heart, liver, lungs, &c., of a pig, calf, or sheep.
Hangākicher. s. Handkerchief.
Hangles. s. pl. A pair of hangles is the iron crook, &c., composed of teeth, and hung over the fire, to be moved up and down at pleasure for the purpose of cookery, &c.
To Happer. v. n. To crackle; to make repeated smart noises.
To Haps. v. a. To Hasp.
Haps. s. A hasp.
Hard. adj. Full grown. Hard people, adults.
Harm. s. Any contagious or epidemic disease not distinguished by a specific name.
Harāras. s. Harvest.
Hart. s. A haft; a handle.
Applied to such instruments as knives, awls, etc.
Hathe. s. To be in a hathe, is to be set thick and close like the pustules of the small-pox or other eruptive disease; to be matted closely together.
To Have. v. n. To behave.
Haw. See ho.
Hay-maidens. s. pl. Ground ivy.
Hayāty-tayāty, Highty-tity. interj. Whatās here! s. [height and tite, weight]. A board or pole, balanced in the middle on some prop, so that two persons, one sitting at each end, may move up and down in turn by striking the ground with the feet. Sometimes called Tayty [See-saw].
In Hayādigees. [g soft] adv. To be in high spirits; to be frolicsome.
HeƤt s. Pronounced He-at, dissyllable, heat.
Heaāram-skearam. adj. Wild; romantic.
To Heel, v. a. To hide; to cover. Chaucer, āhele.ā Hence, no doubt, the origin of to heal, to cure, as applied to wounds; to cover over.
Heeler, s. One who hides or covers. Hence the very common expression, The healer is as bad as the stealer; that is, the receiver is as bad as the thief.
Heft. s. Weight.
To Hell. v. a. To pour.
Helālier. s. A person who lays on the tiles of a roof; a tiler. A Devonshire word.
Helm. s. Wheat straw prepared for thatching.
To Hen. v. a. To throw.
To Hent. v. n. To wither; to become slightly dry.
Herd s. A keeper of cattle.
Hereawa, Hereaway. adv. Hereabout.
Herence. adv. From this place; hence.
Hereright. adv. Directly; in this place.
Het. pron. It. Het oānt, it will not.
To Het. v. a. To hit, to strike; part. het and hut.
To Hick. v.n. To hop on one leg.
Hick. s. A hop on one leg.
Hick-step and jump. Hop-step and jump. A well known exercise.
To Hike of. v. n. To go away; to go off. Used generally in a bad sense.
Hine. adj. (Hind) Posterior; relating to the back part. Used only in composition, as, a hine quarter.
To Hire tell. v. n. To hear tell; to learn by report; to be told.
Hipāpety-hoppety. adv. In a limping and hobbling manner.
Hirches. s. riches.
Hirād. v. [i long] heard.
To Him. v. n. [_hirnd_, pret, and part.] To run.
To Hitch, v. n. To become entangled or hooked together; to hitch up, to hang up or be suspended. See the next word.
To Hitch up. v. a. To suspend or attach slightly or temporarily.
The following will exemplify the active meaning of this verb:
Sir Strut, for so the witling throng Oft called him when at school, And hitchād him up in many a song To sport and ridicule.
Hizāen. Used for his when not followed by a substantive, as, whose house is that? Hizāen. [His own].
Hiāzy Piāzy. A corruption of Nisi Prius, a well known law assize.
To Ho for, To Haw vor. v. a. To provide for; to take care of; to desire; to wish for.
Hobāblers. s. pl. Men employed in towing vessels by a rope on the land.
Hod. s. A sheath or covering; perhaps from hood.
Hog. s. A sheep one year old.
To Hoke. v. a. To wound with horns; to gore.
Hodāmedod. adj. Short; squat.
Hollar. adj. Hollow.
To Hollar. v. a. To halloo.
Hollar. s. A halloo.
Holālardy. s. A holiday.
Hollardy-day. s. Holy-rood day; the third of May.
Hollabelooā. s. A noise; confusion; riot.
Holāmen. adj. Made of holm.
Holt. interj. Hold; stop. Holt-a-blow, give over fighting.
Hoāmescreech. s. A bird which builds chiefly in apple-trees; I believe it is the Turdus viscivorus, or missel.
Hon. s. hand.
Honey-suck, Honey-suckle. s. The wodbine.
Honey-suckle. s. Red Clover.
Hooāsay. See WHOSAY.
Hoop. s. A bullfinch.
Horānen. adj. Made of horn.
Hornen-book. s. Hornbook.
Horse-stinger. s The dragon-fly.
Hoss. s. horse.
Hoss-plĆ¢s s. pl. Horse-plays; rough sports.
Houzen. s. pl. Houses.
Howsomiver. adv. However; howsoever.
Huckāmuck. s. A strainer placed before the faucet in the mashing-tub.
Hud. s. A hull, or husk.
Huf. s A hoof.
Huf-cap s. A plant, or rather weed, found in fields, and with difficulty eradicated.
I regret that I cannot identify this plant with any known
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