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Com, came, S. com, Matt. ii. 21. 



To Co/i, i. e. ply a lesson as schoolboys. 



A Coppiu of yam. 



A Cottrel, a piece of iron with a hole in to fasten. 



A Cragg, a stony, rocky bank, &c. 



A Bish Cratch, same with the cradle. 



Crawse, jolly, brisk. 



To Creak as a door. 



Cree'd Wheat, hulled and boiled. 



To Crinkle, to crouch, to yield sneakingly. 



Cowks, or cinders, coals burnt in conunon fire, not charred. 



To Baker, to work for hire after the common day's work is over, at id. 



an hour. 

 To Barm, i. e. sow up holes, so as not to pucker, but fill them up. 

 A great Beat or dele, S. Sselap parts. Matt. ii. 22. 

 To Beeght ing, spread mole-hills. 

 To Bither, to quiver with cold. 

 A Bingthrift, a spendall, prodigal. 



To Bizen, to be curious and look big, to sit in state, as if great. 

 Bodges on, keeps poorly doing. 

 Bog-tree, elder. 

 A Bole, Bool, or Boat, a share or part in a towufield ; also money or bread 



distributed at a funeral to the poor. 

 To Bree, to be able to go through to the end of the journey. 

 A Bribble, an iron pin that carpenters use to drive out wooden pins. 

 Brigh, long, tedious. 

 A Biibler, a platter. 

 A Bub, a puddle, or plash of water. 

 TheD^fe, devil, var. dial. 

 He Bung, or Bang it down, threw it down. 

 To Burse\s,io dress; to durse the house, horses. 

 To Burse the ing, to spread the molehills and dung that is in fields. 



Mine Earn, my uncle, S. eame, avunculus. 



Tor Eance (once) and use it not. 



An Eapis, hands full. 



Earnder, forenoon drinking. 



Edge you brethren, make room, give way. 



Eeen for eyes. 



iQEek, enlarge, S. ican augmentare. 



Eeen for even, var. dial. 



To Elt, to beat in the dough with more meal and yeast. 



Murk i'th' Eemin, dark in the evening. 



Eeen, eyeimig,per Apharesin. 



The Fag end, the hinder or latter end. 



r Fake, Faith (an oath). 



Far, for farther, as the far bank. 



Fastne's een, the Tuesday before the Bies Cmeruni, or Ash Wednesday. 



Fat (in composition), vessel, as in guile Fat ab S. pat, vas. 



Faugh, fallow ground. 



To Faugh, to plough, and let it lie fallow a summer or winter. 



