30 DORSETSHIRE FOLK-SPEECH AND SUPERSTITIONS. 



Dun-piddle : The kite or moor-buzzard. 



Ea'cor : An acorn (lamium). 



Ea#s : An earthworm. 



Eygs-and- bacon : The flowers of the bird's-foot trefoil ; the 

 field snap-dragon or toad-flax (linaria vulgaris), also called Tom^ 

 Thumb's fingers and thumbs. See butter-and-eggs. 



Eltrot : (Eltroof) : The stalk and umbel of the wild parsley 

 (anthriscus sylvestris). . 



Ever-gross : (Every-grass) : A species of grass or rye-grass (lolium 

 jierenne). 



Evet : An eft ; an ewt, or a newt. [Xote in 1886 Glossary , 

 p. 62. The Saxon is efete, nearest to which is the Dorset evet ; but 

 newt seems to be a blunder of taking an-ewt for a-neict and putting 

 the n of the article on to the name. The sister Teutonic tongues 

 show no such shape. Ewt may be a shortening of ewet.~\ 



Fareioell-Summer: The dwarf Michaelmas daisy (aster trijwliiim). 



Fire-tail : The redstart. 



Flesh-flij : The blow-fly (miisca vomitoria). 



For the superstition obtaining as to the killing of flies or black- 

 beetles, see note to Biddle. 



Flook (Fluke) : A worm (distoma liepaticd) found in the livers 

 of " coafched" sheep ; the plaice. 



Foresters (Forest-flies) : Horse-flies. 



Freemarten : The female calf of a twin, of which the other is a 

 bull. It is always said to be barren. [Xote in Glossary, p. 56. 

 " When twin calves are born they may be both perfect bull or 

 perfect cow calves. When one is a bull calf and the other is a 

 cow calf the latter in general will not breed from malformation of 

 the genital organs. Mayo's Physiology, 4th ed., p. 390."] 



Frith : Brushwood. 



Frog-hopper ; The whole of the genus cicada or tettigonia of 

 Linnaeus is often so-called. 



Frog's-meat : The leaves of the wake-robin (arum maculatum). 



Gapnwuth : The goat-sucker or night-jar. 



Gawky : The cuckoo : pronounced gookoo in Dorset. 



