CORRESPONDENCE OP RAY. 425 



Millums, watery places about a mill-dam. 



A Minstre, cathedral, S. GDynrrjie, Chri. 



Miscryed, discovered. 



It Mizzles, rains small, like the falling of a mist. 



To Mobb, to dress awkwardly. 



A Moqfin, a wheat cake, baked upon a bake-stone over the fire, as oat-cakes. 



Moolter, toll of a mill. 



A Miln and Milner, for a mill and miller. 



Welnee Moyder'd, almost distracted. 



To Mooysen, i. e. wonder, from musing. 



Mucky, dirty, as the streets in rainy weather; muck, towngate mire, as well 



as dung. 



It Mugyles, rains small, mist-like. 

 Munsworn, foresworn. 



Munt, hint, as I know your meaning by your munting. 

 Mystall, mewstall for cattle, oxen, and cows. 



Nar, 



A Nawt-heard, neat-herd. 



Nawt-foot-same, the oil or grease that is boiled out of a neat's foot. 



A Neave, a fist. 



I did not Neigh it, came not nigh it. 



My Neame, or Neme, my uncle. 



To Net, to wash clothes, give them a net. 



A Nether, or Nedder, an adder a S. ne^na, Matt. iii. 7. 



Nifles, are glandules, kernels, which being hid and covered with fat, perhaps 



might either be denominated from, or denominate covert and secret filch- 



ing of things, Nifling, Nifle. 

 Nise, strange, nice work, strang. 



Nise, applied to a person, is precise, opposite to free and hearty. 

 He Nim'd it, took it, S. mm, Matt. ii. '20. 

 Noffs, shank-bones, hence playing at nogs, or nine-pins, because the bones of 



the shanks of cattle are used therein. 



Onters, many enters, pretences, allegements, scruples. 



An Oskin of land, an oxgang contains ten acres in some places, in others 



sixteen, eighteen, twenty-four, and fifty in some part of Bradford parish. 

 Ossell, perhaps. 

 Oumel, a title of reproach, sometimes applied (as by Mr. Gafbut, in his 



'Demonstration of the ^Resurrection of Christ') to the devil. 

 Ournder, afternoon drinkings. 

 An Ores, an ox. 

 An Ox-Boyse, an ox-stall, a S. bonh, prsesepe, a boose. 



A Paddock, or Parrock, a small narrow close, that is an appendix to a greater, 

 for the most part. 



Pan, that descnbed as the pan in a building, is properly the wall-plate ; the 

 pan is that piece of timber in wooden houses that lies upon the top of the 

 posts, and upon which the balks rest, and the spar-foot also. 



Parrisht, starved with cold, qu. perished. 



Push, I'll pash thy harns out. 



Pat, fit, proper, pat to the purpose. 



