Hi PROCEEDINGS. 



Helve is the term universally used for an axe handle, and as a verb 

 it denotes putting a handle to that implement. 



Heft as a verb, to raise up, but especially to prove or try the weight 

 of a thing by raising it, is marked in dictionaries as Provincial English 

 and Colloquial United States, 'but it is still used in the same sense in 

 Newfoundland. Thus one returning home with a good basket of fish 

 may say to a friend " heft that," feel the weight of it. And so as a 

 noun it is used with the relative meaning of weight. 



Houseplace, the kitchen. In old English, according to Wright, it 

 meant the hall, the first laige room after entering the house. Halliwell 

 explains it as denoting in a farm house, the kitchen or ordinary sitting 

 room. It is still in ordinary use in Scotland. 



Jonnick, in Newfoundland, means honest, but according to Wright, 

 in the Northamptonshire dialect it means kind or hospitable. 



Killock, an old English word used to denote a small anchor, partly 

 of stone and partly of wood, still used by fishermen, but going out of 

 use in favor of iron grapnels. 



Kilter, regular order or condition, " out of kilter," disordered or dis- 

 arranged. It is common in old English, but generally spelled 'kelter, 

 Thus Barrow says, " If the organs of prayer be out of helter, or out of 

 tune, how can we pray T Under the spelling " kilter," it is common in 

 New England. 



Knap, a knoll or protuberance above surrounding land. It appears 

 in Anglo-Saxo n as knappe, and in kindred languages as denoting a knob 

 or button, but in old English it denotes " the top of a hill or a rising 

 ground " (Wright). 



Leary, hungry, faint. This is the old English word lear or leer, in 

 German leer, signifying empty or hollow, having its kindred noun 

 lerenvss. 



'* "But at the first encounter downe he lay, 

 The horse runs leere without the man." 



Harrington's Ariosto, XXXV. 64. 



Linney, a small building erected against a bank or another building. 

 In New England it is generally pronounced linter, or lenter. This is 

 commonly regerded as a corruption of lean to. But Wright gives linliay 

 as in the Westmoreland dialect denoting an open shed. In this form, 

 also it appears in " Lorna Doone," a novel written in the Devonshire 

 dialect. 



