420 CORRESPONDENCE OF RAY. 



Boons or Booyns, fowl, and sometimes labour, to be given to the landlord, over 



and above the rent, from the French boon. 

 The Boyl of a tree. 



A Booyse, or Buyse, same as boose or stall. 

 Brakons, fern, brakes. 

 A Brandred or Rid, a trivet, or iron. 

 You Braid of the miller's dog. 

 Sown, as whither art thou bown, i. e. going or bound. 

 A Breid, a shelf, or board, var. dial. 

 To Breiden, to spread or make broad. 

 A Brock, a badger. 



A Bridle-sty, a way for horse only, not cart or carriages in common. 

 A Broych, a small spike of iron or wood to put coppins on. 

 To Broych, or broach, as masons an atchler, when, with the small point of their 



axe, they make it full of little pits, or small holes. 

 To Bruzzle, to make a great ado, or stir. 

 A Bumper, a glass or mug brimful. 

 A Bur-tree, an elder or dog-tree. 

 A Burk-tree, or rods, birch, var. dial. 

 Bytte (Warwickshire) a bottle or flagon, ab S. byrte, uter, dolium. 



To Cadge, a term, in making bone-lace. 



A Cankerd cart, or froward fellow. 



To Cape a wall, to crown it. 



A Carding of wool. 



A Caw, cow, var. dial. 



A Cawl, or Cowl, a lump rising in the head through a knock. 



To Caure down, to ruck down. 



To Cast or Kest, to vomit. 



A Caup, as a muck caup. 



A Chare, or Char-woman, one hired by day (not a fixed servant) to wash. 



Chaffer, to chaffer, exchange. 



To Chase a laughter. 



Chid, rebuked, S. cibl>e. 



Chizzel, wheat-bran. 



To Clutter, make a noise, talk fast and loud. 



A Clawt, a tattered cloth, or rag. 



Gleam' d, daubed on as with a trowel. 



Clem'd, or Clam'd, pined, hungered. 



Clinch, or clunch-fisted, covetous. 



I'th' Clout, drunk. 



A Clughe, a valley between two steep hills. 



Clumps, bungling. 



Clukes, clutches. 



Clots, clods, var. dial. 



A Clumpst fellow, i. e. plain-dealing, that speaks at the mouth, Prov. 



A Clunter, an unnimble stumbler. 



Coup, fight. 



Cobby, saucy. 



Coits, Coats, var. dial. Thou'rt a lad i' coits, spoken to men ludicrously. 



Coddy, joined with little, to diminish, as a little coddy lamb, bird, fly is 



exceeding little, perhaps but a var. dial, for conny. 

 Cokend, choked. 



