APPENDICES 



APPENDIX I. 



A GLOSSARY OF SOME OF THE PROVINCIALISMS USED IN 



THE NEW FOREST. 



I COULD easily have expanded the following glossary to three times its 

 size, but my object is to give only some specimens of those words which 

 have not yet found their way into, or have not been fully explained 

 in Mr. Halliwell's or Mr. Wright's dictionaries of provincialisms. The 

 following collection is, I believe, the first ever made of the New Forest, 

 or even, with the exception of the scanty list in Warner,- of Hamp- 

 shire provincialisms, which of course to a certain extent it represents, — 

 more especially those of the western part of the county. A separate 

 work, however, would be needed to give the whole collection, and the 

 following examples must here suffice. 



Of course I do not say that all these words are to be found only 

 in the New Forest. Many of them will doubtless be elsewhere dis- 

 covered, though they hitherto, as here, have escaped notice. Tlio 

 time, however, for assigning the limits of our various provincialisms 

 and provincial dialects has not yet arrived. 



* Collections for the History of Hampshire, by Ricliurd Warner, vol. ili., 

 pp. 37, 38. A brief li.st of llani|i.shirc wonls will also be found in Notes and 

 Qi/em's, First Scries, vol. x.. No. 2.00, \). 120. Mr. lialliwcll, in lii.s aeeoiiiit of 

 the ICnglisii Provincial Dialects, ji. xx., ])rcfixed to his Dictionary uf Arvlidir and 

 Provincial W(jnls, mentions a MS. <:lossary of the |iroviiicialisins of tiie Isle of 

 Wight, by Captain Henry Smith, of which hu has muile u:.e. 



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