424 CORRESPONDENCE OF RAY. 



To Reive a cart, whelm on one side. 



A Keiver, a bumper, or brimmer of liquor. 



A Kitt, a milking or water-pail with one or two ears, with or without a 



cover. 



A Kiting, a term of reproach. 

 It stands Kittle, i. e. ticklishly, ready to fall. 

 Knoffg, nine-pins. 



A Konny thing, a little, as well as a fine thing. 

 A Kivver, or Kimlin, a powdering tub. 



To Lag, to come last behind, as if tired, flag. 



Laird, (Scotice) lord, S. plapoji'fc. 



To Lake, play. 



Lang, long. var. dial. S. lang. 



La-ngholds, spaniels upon horses' feet, fastened with a horse-lock to keep 



them from leaping wrong. 

 To Lane nothing, to conceal nothing. 

 To Lant ale, to put urine into it. 

 Laughter, laying as a hen lays her laughter, that is, all the eggs she will lay 



that time. 



To Lawk, i. e. weed corn. 

 Lass-a-day, (alas !) an expression of condolence. 

 I'd as Leive do so, as willingly, it is equal to me. 

 Leathwake, limber, pliable. 

 leasing, lying, a S. leapunj, mendacium. 

 Leath, ease or rest. 

 Leer, laugh deridiugly, Hear. 

 Leet you, pretend. 

 Ley, fallow ground. 



To Leyse, to pick the slain and trucks out of wheat. 

 A Libhorn, a sow-gelder. 



To Litt, to colour or dye, whence the name Lister or Litster. 

 Listring, thickening, (Yorkshire as well as Ches.) 

 To Loup, or Lauf, to leap. 

 To Lug, to pull one by the hair, or ears, lugs. 

 A huge Lunshin of bread, a large piece. 



Maine, as by might and main, S. msesen. 



To Maine, to lame. 



A Malkin, a cloth at the end of a pole, wherewith, whetting it, they cleanse 



the bottom of the oven ; applied to a slut. 

 Mare, more, var. dial., S. majie. 

 Mate, match. 



My Maugh, my brother-in-law. 

 A Mawkin, a dirty frow. 

 Mawm, tender, friable, short, mellow. 



A Mazed Goose, applied to a person astonished, amazed per aphseresin. 

 Heedless, without measure. 

 Just Meet, exact. 



Meeterly, indifferently, meeterly, as Megge Rylay danced. 

 Mensfull, neat and clean. 



Menya, a family, a house menya, S. CDemo, Matt. viii. 1. 

 A Midge, no gnat, but the smallest of all flies. 



