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Contributions totards x Ciltshire Glossary. 
By G. E. Dartnett and the Rev. E. H. Gopparp. 
(Continued from vol. xxvii., p. 159.) 
(Cro HE Word-lists which we have had the pleasure of contributing 
¢ to this Magazine on three previous occasions were in 1893 
kindly adopted by the English Dialect Society, and issued, with 
considerable additions, from the Oxford University Press, as the 
Wiltshire volume of their invaluable series of County Glossaries. 
It was then intended that at some future time it should be followed 
up by other similar volumes, comprising :—(1) a Wiltshire Grammar, 
(2) aselection of Prose Tales and Specimens illustrating the Dialect, 
_ with transliterations into Glossic indicating the precise pronunciation, 
_ and (8) as comprehensive an additional Word-list as could be com- 
piled,—thus covering the ground as completely as possible. 
But the Society has since found it absolutely necessary to devote 
its energies and resources entirely to the preparation and publication 
of the great Dialect Dictionary, towards which it has for so many 
years past been accumulating materials, and consequently it will 
be unable to undertake the issue of any more Wiltshire matter in 
a separate form. 
We have thought it better, therefore, to treat the following 
pages as forming a Supplement to the Glossary, rather than a 
continuation of our previous papers in this Magasine, and so have 
not included here any of the three hundred or more additional 
words or senses of words which will be found in the Appendix to 
the Glossary, or in the body of that work. The references here 
ill also be to the Glossary itself in all cases where additional uses 
r localities, etc., are given for words previously recorded. 
The English Dialect Dictionary, with which we trust many of 
ur readers are by this time acquainted, will no doubt be found as 
