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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 264. 



them, and are very useful in epilepsy and hseraor- 

 rhage. The notion soldiers have, that drinking out 

 of a skull renders them invulnerable in battle, is 

 a mere superstition ; though respectable writers 

 do maintain, that such a practice is a proved pre- 

 ventive against scrofula ! 



These, and many other no less absurdities, may 

 no doubt be met with in writers more known to 

 fame than poor Cammillo Brunori. But it is 

 curious to find science at this point in Italy, at 

 the time when Mead and Freind were writing in 

 England, and Boerhaave in Holland. T. A. T. 



Florence. 



[Our correspondent does not seem to be aware of a 

 work on this very subject, and under this very title, which 

 was published in 1844 by Mr. Pettigrew. It is now, we 

 believe, extremely scarce.] 



PEOVINCIAL WORDS. 

 (Vol. X., p. 120.) 



I fully agree with your correspondent^ that the 

 dialect of each county should be registered in 

 " N. & Q." A few years will extinguish provincial 

 words, &c., if the sons of intellect march as they 

 are doing at present. 



The following glossary, the words of which are 

 commonly used in this neighbourhood, and which 

 I have collected from time to time, will, I hope, 

 be deemed worthy of insertion in " N. & Q." : 



Aboon, above. 

 Addle, to earn by labour. 

 Agate, doing work. 

 Agatewards, to accompany. 

 Anent, opposite to. 

 Asker, a newt. 

 Aught, anything. 

 Backwards way, backwards. 

 Baist, to beat. 

 Barns, children. 

 Bat, a blow. 

 Beck, a rivulet. 

 Bensel, to beat soundly. 

 Binder, a bandage. 

 Boggle, to take fright. 

 Boken, to vomit. 

 Brackens, ferns. 

 Brat, a pinafore. 

 Bray, to hammer. 

 Brig, a bridge. 

 Brust, to burst. 

 Bunking, fat. 

 Call, to scold. 

 Capper, a puzzler. 

 Capt, puzzled. 

 Carkass, the body. 

 Chameson, a bastard. 

 Childers, children. 

 Clammed, parched. 

 Clearance, a discharge. 

 Click, to snatch at. 

 Close, a common. 

 Clout, to pelt, or beat. 



Ciuther, to collect together. 



Crack, to boast. 



Cuddle, to embrace ardently. 



Cute, smart, neat, clever. 



Daft, frightened. 



Deef, a quarry. 



Din, a noise. 



Disgest, to digest. 



Doff, to pull off one's clothes. 



Dole, a donation. 



Don, to put on one's clothes. 



Down it mouth, dejected. 



Doy, dear. 



Drinkings, tea-time. 



Ke, eye. 



Enif, enough. 



Fetch, to bring. 



Fettle, to clean ; also to beat. 



Flacker, to flutter. 



Flay, to frighten. 



Flit, to remove. 



Fold, a clump of houses. 



Fond, silly, foolish. 



Fore-end, earh' part of day. 



Forenoon, morning. 



Foul, ugly. 



Frame, to set about doing a 



piece of work. 

 Fratch, to quarrel. 

 Gain/, a simpleton. 

 Gain, near, ready. 

 Gallows, braces. 

 Gate, a road. 



Gavelock, an iron crow or 

 lever. (Is this a Saxon 

 word?) 



Ginnel, a passage. 



Haggle, to cut awkwardly. 



Hankled, entangled. 



Hansell, the first of any- 

 thing. 



Haver, oaten ; hence haver- 

 cake, called by those who 

 do not know how good it 

 is, "horse-bread." 



Hee, high ; Sax. " heah." 



Hide, to beat soundly. 



Hooind, starved? 



Hug, to carrj'. 



Huggans, the hips ; from 

 hogan (Sax.), a bearer of 

 the body. 



Kittle, to tickle. 



Knapel, to gnaw. 



Lace, to beat. 



Laikins, pla}'things. 



Lake, to play. 



Leet, to happen or fall out ; 

 also, to alight : to leet on 

 is to meet with. 



Lig, to lie with or upon. 



Lug, to pull one's hair. 



Macks, sorts ; all macks, all 

 sorts. 



Maddle, to stupify. 



Matter, to disapprove of; as, 

 " I don't matter him." 



Menee, decent. 



Middin, a dunghill. 

 Mouldewarp, a mole. 

 Micck, dirt. 

 Munna^ must I. 

 Nesh, fragile. 

 Nought, nothing. 

 Parken, cake made with oat- 

 meal and treacle. 

 Pause, to kick. 

 Pick, to vomit. 

 Porrage, pottage. 

 Beckon, suppose. 

 Peek, smoke ; from rec 



(Sax.), I believe. 

 Roar, to cry. 



Scrat, the hitch. 



Shackle, the ankle-joint. 



Shu, she. 



Sin, since. 



Skep, a coal-box. 



Slack, slow ; also a common. 



Slatter, to spill. 



Slavver, Saliva. 



Sleek, small coal. 



Sludge, mud. 



Smatch, a touch. 



Smittle, contagion. 



Snod, smooth. 



Spane, to wean. 



Spunt, to give way. 



Staller, wearied. 



Stang, a long pole. 



Sue, sow. 



Sup, a drink. 



Swothered, stifled. 



Charles Williams. 



Bradford. 



{To he continued.') 



Will you add the following list of words to those 

 which I have already sent ? 



Bit and crumb, entirely ; as, " He is a good dog, every 



bit and crumb of him." 

 Certicate, certificate. 

 Clever ; as, " I went clever to Brighton." (What may be 



the meaning of the word?) 

 Coaching, drinking beer in the harvest-fields. Bavering 



is used in the same sense in some other county (Essex, 



I think). 

 Cocker, a light horse, occasionally used in the plough. 

 Device, advice ; as, " Doctor's device." 

 Drail, a land -rail. 

 Fag, to reap oats. 

 Fined, confined. 

 Fleice, fleece. 

 Gleibe, glebe. 



Howard, hay-ward or cattle-keeper. 

 Induce, produce ; as, " Good grass in course induces good 



milk in cows." 

 Litten, churchyard ; no doubt connected with the German 



word leiche, a corpse : hence Lichfield. 

 "Peck of trouble," much trouble. 

 "A rough night," used of a bad night in sickness. 

 Scugholt, a stick with a leaden head, used for knocking 



down birds and squirrels (scugs). 

 Sheening, working by task-work at a machine. 

 Skimmington, " rough music." 

 Spavins, spasms. 

 Spink, a chafl[inch. 



