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Our thanks are due to those who have again kindly assisted us, 
either in collecting or verifying words, amongst whom special 
‘mention must be accorded to Mr. J. U. Powell, Mr. E. Slow, and 
the Rev. C. V. Goddard. 
The last few years, apart from the Dictionary itself, have been 
far from prolific in Wiltshire dialect publications, rich as they have 
been in books and articles relating in other ways to the County. 
Mr. Slow’s pen has by no means lain idle, as will be seen by our 
list of Bibliographical Addenda, but when we have mentioned Mrs. 
Kennard’s novel and a few articles in the first two volumes of 
Wiltshire Notes and Queries, there is little more to say as regards 
recent work. Several interesting additions to the Glossary have, 
however, been furnished from older sources which we had previously 
overlooked, such as Birds of Marlborough, and a word-list in the 
1881 vol. of Notes and Queries. 
 Aaron’s Beard. Heads of Allinm vineale, ri with the stiff young leaves 
growing out of the bulblets. N.W. (Clyffe Pypard). 
1 A-drag. Add :—The late Mr. James Rawlence, of Bulbridge, informed us 
_ that this word must not be considered as by any means obsolete. The A-dragq, 
originally a very heavy, clumsy machine, is still in-use in Wilts. Two of 
the improvements on it used to be known as “nine-share” and “eleven-share” 
ploughs, according to the number of their tines. 
_ Afeard. Add :—Sometimes Afearst in N. Wilts. 
, *Alder. A boil or carbuncle. Cp. “ Aller” and “ Allernbatch,’ Devon. 
“She has the mark of an alder on her throat.” —Salisbury Journal, advt., 
Dec., 1801. “TI believe I have heard [alder] used (when speaking of a boil) 
in Wiltshire of late years.” —T. H. Baker, in Notes and Queries, 28th March, 
p), 1896. 
-*A)l-to-hame. Quite broken to pieces. S.W. 
a “There is a curious phrase, ‘all to hame,’ signifying broken to pieces, used 
both here [Hants] and in Wiltshire. Thus the glass, when broken, is said 
to be ‘all to hame,’ that is, ‘all to bits.’ The metaphor has been taken 
from ‘spindly’ wheat on bad ground running to halm, from the Old-English 
healm, now the West-Saxon peasant’s ‘hame.’ ‘All-to’ . . . is used 
adverbially, in its old sense of entirely, quite.”—Wise, New Forest, glossary. 
A .nbye. Add : -—Present-an-bye i is the form used at Yatesbury. N.W. 
