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SwiNKET Mease. 



The Wei. ynaes, or open field, ot 7nea=:lea, A.^S.muRd, meadow, 

 what is mown, and stvmca?i, to toil, to labour; the laboured 

 field. See Mea. 



" What time the labour'd ox 

 In his loos'd traces from the furrow came, 

 And the swink't hedger at his supper sat." 



Milton, Comus and the Lady. 



Taw. 



Icel. tjorn, plur. tjarnir, a little inland sea, water place, carr, 

 pool, large sump, tarn. 



'■'■ KcBrr, palus, locus palustris. Isl. Mar, Marmyra. Occurs 

 in Icelandic writings as tior, palus et in plur. tiarnir. The 

 northern English call a bog, carre.'''' Torn, stagnum, lacus; Isl. 

 Horn ; Ang. Bor. tarn ; a word now obsolete, but occurring in 

 the names of places in Sweden. Ihre. 



Sw. tjdrn, tarn ; hdrr, a pool, standing water. Dan. liden so, 

 sump, morads, little lake, bog, fen; Ger. sumpf, morast, see, hleine 

 see, lache, lakelet, tarn. Dut. m,eer, lake ; poel. Fl. meer, lake. 



Ta/rn is not in Bos well or in Lye. 



Wei. Uyn, lake ; cors, mignen, bog, fen, quagmire. Gael. 

 loch-uisge, lake. Manx logJi-usMey . Bret, lagen, lenn ib. 



lidii. palus, lacus. J.t.lago,laguna. S'p. lago. 'Sort, lagoa, paul. 

 Fr. lac, etang, lake, pool, tarn. 



'■'■Tarn, si. A largish sheet of water, a lake; properly an 

 upland lake or large pond." Atkinson, Clev. Gloss. 



"A Tarn, a lake or meer-pool, a usual word in the ITorth." 

 Eay, No. and So. Country Words. 



" Tarn, a mountain lake." Edmunds and Jamieson. 



"Tarn, a lake. North." Halliwell, ''Tarn, a pool." Dr. 

 Johnson. 



" Tarn, a large pool or small lake; a very old northern word.' 

 Brockett. 



Tarn is a pure Norwegian term, not Dan, Kcerr and carr are 



