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expressions as, ‘‘ His clothes are smooched with soot,” or “ The paper is 
smooched with ink.” But it is also used to express the application of 
any substance as by smearing, without any reference to blackening. 
Thus one might say, ‘‘ Her hair was all smooched with oil.” 
Spurt, a short time. ‘ Excuse me for a spurt.” ‘‘ How long did you 
stay? Only a short spurt.” 
The term trader is limited to a person visiting a place to trade, in 
contrast with the resident merchants. 
The mistress of a household disturbed in the midst of her house- 
cleaning will describe herself as all in an uproar. The word now 
denotes novsy tumult. But it originally meant simply confusion or 
excitement. 
His eye 
Unto a greater wproar tempts his veins.” 
—Shakspeare, Rape of Lucrece, 4, 27. 
Halliwell gives it as in Westmoreland meaning confusion or disorder, 
and so a Newfoundland lady uses it. But she has quite a vocabulary to 
express the same thing. She has her choice among such phrases as all 
an a reeraw, all in a floption, or all of a vookery. The last word, how- 
ever, is given by Wright and Halliwell, as in the south of England, 
denoting a disturbance or scolding. 
The word weather, besides the usual nautical uses to signify to sail 
to windward of, or to bear up under and come through, as a storm, is 
used to signify foul weather, or storm and tempest, according to an old 
meaning, now marked as obsolete, or only used in poetry. Thus 
Dryden 
“What gusts of weather from that darkening cloud 
My thoughts portend.” 
I have observed also that some words are used in the same sense as 
in Scotch. This is seen in the use of the preposition znfo for zn. 
‘There is nothing zxfo the man,” or as the Scotch would say ‘ dinti// 
him.” So aneist, meaning near or nearest. Then the word vex is used 
to denote sorrow or grief rather than worry. ‘ I am vexed for that poor 
man,” a Newfoundlander or a Scotchman would say, though I judge 
that it expresses grief arising to such a degree as deeply to disturb the 
mind. It is used in the same sense by Shakspeare. 
**A sight to vex the fathers soul withal.”—T%tus Andronicus, V. 1. 
In one passage of the authorized version of the Bible (Isa. Ixiii. 10) it 
is used to translate a Hebrew word everywhere else rendered grieve. So 
