86 Contributions towards a Wiltshire Glossary. 
somewhat general use being retained side by side with those of 
more local limitation. 
We regret that it has been found impossible to carry out Prof. 
Skeat’s suggestion that the true pronunciation should in all doubtful 
cases be clearly indicated by its Glossic equivalent. To make such 
indications of any practical value they should spring from a more 
intimate knowledge of that system than either of us can be said to 
possess. 
Our best thanks are due to the Rev. W. C. Plenderleath and 
others, for their assistance in collecting and verifying words; to the 
Rev. A. Smythe Palmer, for the loan of Davis’s work ; and to Prof, 
Skeat, for his kind permission (of which, however, we have availed 
ourselves as sparingly as possible) to make use of his reprints. 
Those who are really interested in the subject cannot do better than 
obtain his Five reprinted Glossaries, 1879, published for the English 
Dialect Society by Triibner & Co., the notes and introduction to 
which contain much valuable matter. 
The chief abbreviations used are as follows :—(A) Akerman, (B) 
Britton, (D) Davis, (H) Halliwell; whilst the asterisk (*) denotes 
that the word against which it is placed, though given by these or 
other authorities as used in Wiltshire, is unknown to ourselves. 
A, pl. As or Ais. A harrow or drag (D); probably from A.S. egethe, 
M.E. eythe, a harrow (Skeat). 8.W., obsolete. 
Adder’s-tongue. Listera ovata, Br., Twayblade. S.W. 
Afeard, Aveard. Afraid: (A.B.) N.W. 
*Avalds. Hawthorn berries. (Huglish Plant Names.) 
Age. To hack or cut clumsily (A.B.H.) ; also Aggle and Hagele. N.W. 
Ahmoo. A cow; used by mothers to children, as “Look at they pretty 
ahmoos a-coming !”” S.W. (Som. bord.) 
Aisles of wheat. | See Hyle. 
All-a-hoh. All awry (A.B.) : also All-a-huh. N. & S.W. 
*All-amang, Allemang, All-o-mong. Mingled together (A.H.) 
All one as, Just like. “I be ’tirely blowed up all one as a drum.” N.W. 
All one for that. For all that, notwithstanding, in spite of, as “It mayn’t 
be true all one for that.” N.W. 
