120 Wiltshire Words. 
of grove.” Popular songs have preserved old words; in the — 
nursery-song, “‘ Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker’s man,” we say 
still, “Prick it and dack it and mark it with T’”’ (the word — 
given just above), and it is lamentable that Mr. Stead, in one 
of the Bairns’ Books, gives “ Prick it and pat it.” 
Another local nursery-song, quoted in the Glossary, gives 
us ‘* Hush-a-bye, baby, the raven shan’t have ’ee, No more 
shall the mayotty-pie.” 
Shrowd. To pollard a tree. ‘The Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon, — 
with fair branches, and with a shadowing s/rovd, and of a high 
stature.” Exekiel, xxxi., 3. 
Charm (noise). ‘* With charm of earliest birds: Milton, Paradise 
Lost, iv. 
Deut (extinguish). ‘ Doth all the noble substance often dout.” 
Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1., 4. 
Frore (frosty). “The parching air burns frore.”’ Milton, Paradise 
Lost, ii. 
Knitch (bundle). ‘ Bynde hem togidre in knytchis to be brent.” 
Wyclif, Matthew, xi., 30. 
Learn (teach). “Lead me forth in thy truth and learn me.” 
Psalm xxv., 4. , 
Mazzard (head). “ I'll knock you o’er the mazzard.” Shakespeare, 
Othello, ii., 3. 
Malkin (a term of abuse). ‘ Blurted at, and held a malkin.” 
Shakespeare, Pericles, iv., 4. 
Ruddock (robin). ‘‘ The ruddock, with charitable bill.” Shakespeare, 
Cymbeline, iv. 2. 
Stour (confusion).. ‘ But he was wary of that deadly stoure.” 
Spenser, Faerie Queene, i., 7. 
Pelt (passion). ‘‘ Which put you into such a pelt.” Wrangling 
Lovers, 1677. 
We may notice, too, how some of these old words, which are los 
to the polite language, have been retained, crystallised into sur- 
“names :—Dredge (barley and oats grown together), Lear (hungry), — 
‘Maslin (a mixture of wheat and rye; bread used to be madi 
