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their answers to my enquiries I here beg to tender my very sincere 

 thanks. 



Adry, adj.=dry, thirsty. This form appears to be common 

 throughout the South of England, though I have not been able to 

 trace it at all in the North. It occurs in Burton's " Anatomy of 

 Melancholy/" and some other authors of the same period ; and is 

 akin to such words as acold, for cold, abackward, for backward, 

 amad, for mad, &c, &c. 



Brow, $.= fragment. Akerman gives this word as an adjective 

 meaning brittle, and seems to think that it is connected with the 

 Saxon Briw, a fragment. But he is evidently unaware of the con- 

 tinued existence of the latter word itself, with probably almost, if 

 not altogether, its original pronunciation. 



Bruckling, p ar.=crumbling. I have heard this word used of a 

 wall or other building which had been constructed of " very 

 bruckling stone," and so was " bruckling away " with the action of 

 the weather. It would seem to be an exactly analogous formation 

 from break, that the Norfolk word cruckle is from creak. 



Callus, v. w.=to harden. This is given in a Yorkshire glossary 

 with the signification of " to harden or coagulate into a mass/'' It 

 is, of course, from the Latin callosus. 



Calltjs-Stone, s.=a sort of gritty earth sometimes used in the 

 construction of a rough whetstone by spreading it over a piece of 

 board to sharpen knives upon, Cf. Riffle, infra. 



Casalty, «<7/.=broken. This is, no doubt, the common noun 

 casualty, shortened by the elision of the former of the two vowels 

 (in much the same way as Daniel is always pronounced Banel, 

 curiosity curosity, &C.), 1 and used adjectively. It is in Wiltshire, 

 so far as I am aware, only spoken of the weather; but in Warwick- 

 shire it appears to bear the sense of broken by age. " He J s getting 

 very old and casualty." Halliwell gives the substantive as used in 



1 It is a singular instance of the law of compensation that i o u s is invariably 

 pronounced as o u s in the word curious, whereas o u s on the other hand becomes 

 i o u s in the word grievous. Similarly, if a man wants to reach " vurder " up the 

 surface of a wall than he can do when standing upon the ground, he gets a 

 " lather " to help him. 



