By G. E. Darinell and the Rev. E. H. Goddard. 153 



Up-sides. Add:—^.\J. 



Vamp. To walk about. " I zeed she a-vamping half round the town." Much 

 more used in Dorset. S.W. 



* Volleys. {Valley^) The drain where the eaves of a cottage meet. 

 Vinney. Add -. — it was said at Hill Deverill of a woman feigning to be 



bed-ridden, that "she would lie there abed till she were vinney." 



Waggon. Add:— See Draughts, Limbers, Shutleck, Shut- 

 lock, Strouter, Ridge-tie, Blades. 

 Wag. (2) Add-.-^yf. 



Want. Add :—" 1620. Itm. to William Gosse for killing of wants, xijd."— 

 JRecords of Chippenham, p. 202. 



•Want-rear. A moie-hiii. S.W. 



Watch. If a hay-rick is so badly made that it heats, the owner is often so 

 ashamed of it that he attempts to set the matter right before his neighbours 

 find it out. If a passer-by notices him poking about the hay as if searching 

 for something in it, the ironical question is asked — " Have 'ee lost yer 

 watch thur P " N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) 



Watchet. Add :—" You'd best come along o' me to the lower lands .... 

 for it be mighty wet there these marnins, and ye'll get watshed for certin." 

 — The Story of Dick, ch. sii., p. 142. 



Weather-glass. AnagalUs arvensis, L., Scarlet Pimpernel. See Shep- 

 herd's- Wcather-glaSS. N. & S.W. 



Weigh-jolt. Add :— Formerly in common use at Clyffe Pypard, N.W. 



West. {Waast). A stye in the eye. See Wish. S.W. 



Whip whiles. Meanwhile. A Somerset word. S.W. 



Whissgig. (1) V. To lark about. N. & S.W. 



(2) n. A lark, a bit of fun or tomfoolery. " Now, none o' your whissgigs 



here ! " N.W. 



Whissgiggy. adj. Frisky, larky. N.W. 



* White. " Cow white "=cow in milk. " Calf white "=sucking calf. " All 



the small tithes such as wool and lamb, cow white and calf etc. throughout 

 all parts of the parish unexpressed in the several foregoing particulars. The 

 usual rates at present being fourpence a cow white— six pence a calf . . 

 , . the sheep, lambs and calves are due at St. Mark's tide— the cow white, 

 and fatting cattle at Lammas."— ifi/war^ow Parish Terrier, 1704. See 

 Wilts Arch. Mag., xxiv., 126. Usually defined as above, but more 

 correctly written as cow-wite and calf-wite, i.e., the mulct or payment for 

 a cow or calf. " Tythes of Wool and Lambs and Calves, and three half- 



