376 PROVINCIALISMS, 



A. 



A -LADY. Lady-day (in common ufe). 

 ANBURY. A difeafe incident to turneps. 

 See vol. ii. p. 33. 



B. 



BARNED. Houfed in the barn (a firnple properterm). 

 BATTONS. Strong broad fencing rails. See vol. i.p. 85, 

 BARN-YARD. Straw-yard ; fold-yard (a good term). 

 BECK. A rivulet (invariable). 

 BEGGARY. Land let down, through a want of proper 



manure and tillage, is faid to be "run to beggary." 

 To BESTOW. To flow away. 

 BINS. Applied, provincially, to the receptacles of 



ftraw in a farm-yard j cow-cribs. 

 BLUNK OF WEATHER. A fit of fquaily tern- 



pefluous weather. 



BOKE LOAD. A large top-heavy, bulky load. 

 BRAND. Smut (in common ufe). 

 BRANDY. Smutty (alfo common). 

 BRANK. Buck (ufed only in the fouthern hundreds), 

 BRECK. A large new-made inclofure (a Break). 

 BROADS. Frefh-water lakes (that is, broad waters ; 



in diftin&ion to narrow watery or rivers). 

 BUCK. Polygonumfagopyrum. See vol. i. p. 126. 

 BUCKSTALLING. ^Cutting hedge-thorns fence-, 



height. See vol. i. p. 101. 



BUDDLE. Chryjanibeinumfegetu'mi corn-marigold. 

 BUDS. Yearling cattle. 



STJLLOCKS. See vo i. i. P . 337. 



BULLS, 



