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expressions as, " His clothes are smooched with soot," or " The paper is 

 smooched with ink." But it is also used to express the application of 

 any substance as by smearing, without any reference to blackening. 

 Thus one might say, " Her hair was all smooched with oil." 



Spurt, a short time. " Excuse me for a spurt." " How long did you 

 stay 1 ? Only a short spurt." 



The term trader is limited to a person visiting a place to trade, in 

 contrast with the resident merchants. 



The mistress of a household disturbed in the midst of her house- 

 cleaning will describe herself as all in an uproar. The word now 

 denotes noisy tumult. But it originally meant simply confusion or 



excitement. 



His eye 

 Unto a greater uproar tempts his veins." 



Shakspeare, Rape, of Lucrece, 4, 27. 



Halliwell gives it as in Westmoreland meaning confusion or disorder, 

 and so a Newfoundland lady uses it. But she has quite a vocabulary to 

 express the same thing. She has her choice among such phrases as all 

 in a reeraiv, all in a floption, or all of a rookery. The last word, how- 

 ever, is given by Wright arid Halliwell, as in the south of England, 

 denoting a disturbance or scolding. 



The word weather, besides the usual nautical uses to signify to sail 

 to windward of, or to bear up under and come through, as a storm, is 

 used to signify foul weather, or storm and tempest, according to an old 

 meaning, now marked as obsolete, or only used in poetry. Thus 

 Dryden 



" What gusts of iveather from that darkening cloud 

 My thoughts portend." 



I have observed also that some words are used in the same sense as 

 in Scotch. This is seen in the use of the preposition into for in. 

 " There is nothing into the man," or as the Scotch would say " intill 

 him." So aneist, meaning near or nearest. Then the word vex is used 

 to denote sorrow or grief rather than worry. " I am vexed for that poor 

 man," a Newfoundlander or a Scotchman would say, though I judge 

 that it expresses grief arising to such a degree as deeply to disturb the 

 mind. It is used in the same sense by Shakspeare. 



"A sight to vex the fathers soul withal." Titus Andronicus, V. 1. 

 In one passage of the authorized version of the Bible (Isa. Ixiii. 10) it 

 is used to translate a Hebrew word everywhere else rendered grieve. So 



