430 CORRESPONDENCE OF RAY. 



Whart, quart ; meit m' a whart o' ooyl, i. e. measure me a quart of oil. 



Whilk, which, S. philc. 



Whilkin, whether. 



White, for quit ; it will not white eost. 



To White, to cut sticks with a knife, and make them white. 



Whiskin or Whisking, adjectively is great, applied to almost auytliiug, as floods, 

 fire, winds. 



Whiskingis also switching; there will be whisking for't, also beating, swing- 

 ing, whipping. . 



Whreak, to speak ingutture, and whining ly. 



A Why, an heifer. 



Wight, swift. 



Wind-raw, grass or hay raked into long rows for drying. 



Wine-berries, not grapes, but gooseberries, pin-bejiian. Matt. vii. 16. 



A Wither, strong fellow. 



A Wogh, any partition, whether of boards or mud-walls, or laths and lime ; 

 as a boardshed-wogh, studded wogh. 



A Woggin, a uan-ow passage between two houses. 



To Walter (as welter). 



Wormstall, shelter for cattle in hot weather. 



Wote, know. 



To Tall, and to Yawl, or Yowl ; the latter appropriated to dogs, the former 

 to bawlers. In yall the a souuds as in that, in yawl as in tlie rustic caw 

 for cow. 



A Yawd, a horse. 



Yeast, barm. 



To Yeather, to beat with a long hazel, thorn, &c. 



Yeeke, itch. 



Yield, I. e. reward. 



The Yeender, or Earnder, the forenoon, Halifax, in Yorkshire. 



Yew, you, var. dial. S. gep. 



Yews, for ewes. 



Yooyle, yule, de Yule, vide Mareschalii Observ. in Version. Anglo-Sax. 

 Evang.' p. 520. 



Mr. Ray to Dr. Hans Sloane. 



Black Notley, July 27, 1703. 



Sir, — It is now a good while since that I acquainted 

 you that some friends advised me, in order to the compihng 

 a History of Insects, to describe such exotic species as were 

 to be found in the cabinets of the curious in and about 

 London or elsewhere, if I could procure the sight and use 

 of them; whereupon you very freely and generously 

 offered me the use of your collection, which far transcends 



