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Tie. Of wood, to pinch the saw while working. N.W. 
Tiller out. To sprout out with several shoots, as wheat after being eaten off 
young. N. & S.W. 
 imersome. Timid. (A.) N.W. 
: Tine, Tind. *(1) ». To light a fire or candle. (A.B.) 
* (2) ‘To finish off a laid hedge or stake-fence by weaving in the top-band 
_ of boughs. (A.B.) 
* (3) v. To divide a field with a hedge. (A.B.) 
(4) m. A drag or harrow tooth. (D.) N.W. 
* (5) ‘‘ They drag it two, three, or four times, and harrow it four, five, or 
six times, viz. (provincially speaking), they give it ‘so many tine with the 
drag, and so many with the harrow.’” (Agric. of Wilts, ch. 7.) 
*Tinin g. A new enclosure made with a dead hedge, (D.H.) 
Tippy, Tippity. Easily upset. N. &S.W. 
Tistie-tostie, Tostie. A child’s name for both cowslip and cowslip- 
ball. N&S.W. 
Tithing, Tething. A shock of ten sheaves, for convenience in tithe-taking. 
_ (D.) The same as Hyle. N.W. 
Titty-wren. The wren. N.W. 
*Toad’s-cheese. Toadstool, fungus. (A.) 
~ *Toads’-heads. Fritillaria Meleagris, L., Snake’s-head. (English Plant 
Names.) N.W. (Minety.) 
Todge. Any thick spoon-meat, as gruel. (A.B.) 
Token. *(1) A fool. (H.). Probably a mistake. 
(2) A “young token” is a young rascal. N.W. 
(3) Formerly used also as a term of endearment. LRN AW 
Toll. To entice or decoy. ‘‘Hev’ a bit 0’ cheese, to toll the bread down wi’, 
7 will ee?” Still in common use. N. & 5.W. 
 oll-bird. (1) 2. A trained decoy-bird; also a stuffed bird used as a 
decoy. N. & 8.W. 
(2) ‘To give anything just as a toll-bird,” to throw a sprat to catch a 
mackerel. Tradesmen will sell some article far below cost-price, as a toll- 
: bird to attract custom. S.W. 
~ Tom-bird, The male of any bird is generally so called in N. Wilts. 
~ Tom Cull. The Bullhead, Cottus gobio. (A.) 
5 *Tom Thumbs. Lotus corniculatus, L., Bird’s-foot Trefoil, S.W. (Mere.) 
; > *Tom Thumb’s Honeysuckle. Lotus corniculatus, L., Bird’s-foot 
Trefoil. (Sarum Dioc. Gazette.) 8.W. (Zeals.) 
