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Glossary of Provincialisms. 



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in dry weather are said " to lance " over 

 the turf. 



Lark's Lees, or Lease, A. A piece 

 of poor land fit only for larks, or, as the 

 peasantiy of the Midland Counties 

 would say, only " fit to bear peewits." 

 Mr. Halliwell gives the farm " lark 

 leers," as a Somersetshire phrase; but 

 the above expression may be daily heard 

 in the New Forest. 



LousTER. Noise, disturbance. " What 

 a louster you are making," signifies, 

 what a confusion you arc causing. 



Lug-stick. See Rug-stick. 



IMallace, The The common mal- 

 low (Mahus si/lvestris). Formed like 

 bullace, and other similar words. 



Margon'. Corn chamomile (^Anthemis 

 arvensis). Called " mathan," through- 

 out the Anglian districts. 



Ma_rk-oak, See Oak. 



Mokin, or more generally in the 

 plural, Mokins. Coarse gaiters for de- 

 fending the legs from the furze. -See 

 chap. XV. p. 162. 



Muddle, To. To fondle, caress, to 

 rear by the hand. Hence we obtain the 

 expression " a mud lamb," that is, a 

 lamb whose mother is dead, which has 

 been brought up by hand, equivalent to 

 the " tiddlin lamb " of the Wiltshire 

 shepherds. See Wosset. 



Oak, Mark-, A. The same as a 

 "bouud-oak," or boundary oak or ash, 

 as the case may be, so called from the 

 ancient cross, or mark, cut on the rind. 

 As Kemble notices (T/(e Saxona in 

 England, vol. i., appendix A. p. 480), 

 we find in Cod. Dipl. No. 393, " on <5an 

 merkeden ok," to the marked oak, show- 

 ing how old is the name. I have never 

 met in the New Forest with an instance 

 of a " crouch oak " (from crois), such as 

 occurs at Addlestone in Sin-rcy, and 

 which is said to have been the " bound- 

 oak of Windsor Forest (See The Sarons 

 in England, as before, vol i. chap. ii. 

 ]). .53, foot-note). The " bound-oak," 

 marked in the Ordnance Map near Dib- 

 den, has fallen, but we find the name 

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preserved in the fine old wood of Mark 

 Ash, near Lyndhurst. In the perambu- 

 lation of the Forest in the 29th year of 

 Edward I. we read of the Merkingstak 

 of Scanperisgh. The various eagle-oaks 

 in the Forest are comparatively modern, 

 and must not be confounded with the 

 eagle-oak mentioned by Kemble (as 

 above, vol. i. p. 480). 



Omary Cheese. An inferior sort of 

 cheese, made of skim-milk, called in most 

 parts of England " skim Dick." See, 

 further on, the word Rammel, and also 

 Vinney, chap. xvi. p. 190. 



Once. Sometime. " I will pay you 

 once this week," does not mean in con- 

 tradistinction to twice, but I will pay 

 you sometime during the week. 



Overrunner, An. A shrew mouse, 

 which is supposed to portend ill-luck it 

 it runs over a person's foot. In Dorset- 

 shire it is called a " shrocop," where the 

 same superstition is believed. See 

 Barnes' Glossary of the Dorset Dialect, 

 p. 382. 



Panshard, or Ponshard, A. Rage, 

 anger. " You have no need to get in a 

 panshard," is a most conmion saying. 

 See "peel," further on. 



Patchy. Testy. Said of people 

 who proverbially " blow hot and cold." 



Peel, A. A disturbance, noise. " To 

 be in a peel," means, to be in a passion. 

 Used in much the same sense as the word 

 " pelt," which is rightly explained in 

 the glossaries as anger, noise, rage, 

 though it is, perhaps, more spoken ol 

 animals than "peel." "What a pelt 

 the dog is making," that is, barking, 

 would be said rather than " peel." 



Picked. Sharp, pointed. "A picked 

 piece," means a field with one or more 

 sharp angular corners. 



Pity. Love. " Pity is akin to love," 

 says Shakspearc, but in the West of Eng- 

 land it IS often the same. 



Plash, A. A mill-head. Winkton is 

 locally called Winkton Plash, thisexactly 

 corresponding to the Weringetone of 

 Domesday, with its two mills " adaulam." 



