3 i6 PROVINCIALISMS. 



AVERAGE ; the pafturage of common fields and 

 other ilubbles after harveft. 

 ; elm. 



B. 



BACKSTON j (that is, bakingjtone}- a flate, hung 

 in an iron frame over the fire, to bake cakes upon, 



BADGER j ahuckfter. 



BAIRN; child. 



BAIRN WQRTS; lellh }?rennis j daifey. 



BALKS (pronounced bauks} ; a rough chamber in 



an out-building. 

 BARFAN ; a horfe-cojlar. 



BARGUEST ; a hobgoblin of the higheft order ; 

 terrible in afpet, an4 loadec) with chains of tre- 

 mendous rattle. 

 BASS ; a matt of any kind. 

 BAT j a blow : hence 

 BATS j a beating : " aa'll gi' tha' thi 1 bats:" I'll 



give thee a beating. 

 BEACE ; cattle; the plural of beaft. 

 EACEj a cattle-ftall. 

 ToBEAL; to bellow as an ox. 

 BECK ; brook (the common term). 

 EELD; fhelter ; alfo the caufe of flicker: a 

 clump or fkreen o.f trees planted for the protection 

 of ftock, is called a beeld. 

 RELIVE ; (the i long} in the evening. 

 JBENP ; a fpecies of ru,fh which grows on the 

 Moreland h-UJs. 



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