Ixiv PROCEEDINGS. 



This use of the word still appears in various provincial dialects of 

 England. The word fair is also used in much the same way. 



Marsh often pronounced mesh or mish is the usual name for a bog, 

 of which there are many, and some of them very extensive through the 

 island. So pond is the name for a lake. Even the largest on the 

 island (fifty-six miles long) is known as Grand Pond. This usage 

 prevails to some extent in New England, where however both terms are 

 used without any clear distinction between them, but in Newfoundland 

 " pond " alone is used. In this connexion, it may be also noted that a 

 rapid in a river is usually known as a rattle, a term which I have not 

 found elsewhere, but which I regard as very expressive. 



Model, sometimes pronounced morel, is used in general for a pattern. 

 Thus a person entering a shop asked for " cloth of that model," exhibit- 

 ing a small piece. 



Nippers, half mitts or half gloves used to protect the fingers. in 

 hauling the cod-lines. , 



The word ordain is in common use, and is applied to matters in 

 ordinary business of life. Thus a man will say, " I ordained that piece 

 of wood for an axe helve." This seems to be the retention of its 

 original use, before it came to be set apart for the more solemn objects 

 to which it is now applied. Similar to this is its use in Devonshire, 

 according to Wright and Halliwell, as meaning to order or to intend. 



The word proper is in very common use to describe a handsome 

 well-built man. This is old English usage, as in Heb. xi. 23 : " He was 

 a proper child." So in Scotch 



Still my delight is with proper young men. Burns, Jolly Beyyars. 



Resolute is used in the sense of resolved. " I am resolute to go up 

 the bay next week," meaning simply that I have made up my rnind to 

 that step. This was the original meaning of the word, but the transition 

 was easy to its expressing a spirit of determination, boldness, or firmness, 

 But it has come to have another meaning at least in some places, that of 

 determined wickedness. 



The word ridiculous is used to describe unfair or shameful treatment 

 without any idea of the ludicrous. " I have been served most ridiculous 

 by the poor commissioner," was the statement of a man who wished to 

 express in strong terms his sense of the usage he had received. Halli- 

 well says that in some counties in England it is used to denote some- 



