1840.) 
Dringing, crowding. D. c. 
Drive, co, to agree. Did you drive 
a bargain with him?” that is, “ did you 
agree with hun,” c. 
Drow, to, to dry. Drowd, dried. c. p. 
Drowy, to, to dry ; drying. “ Drowy 
weather.” c. dD. Lyttelton. 
Drumbledrane, a drone. Nw. D. 
Dry, thirsty. c. 9. ‘ Siccus inanis 
sperne cibum vilem.” Tor. 
Dubbed, blunt. Exm. 
Dugged, "drageletailed. Fxm. 
Dull, hard of hearing. oe 
Dumble-dory, the humble bee. ce 
Dump, thump. vd. 
Dumplin, @ Devonshire dumplin. 
Gay calls his third pastoral “the Dumps ;” 
and ‘* dumps,” (says he) ‘* which is a 
grievous heaviness of spirits, comes, in 
the opinion of our English antiquaries, 
from the word dumplin, the heaviest 
kind of pudding that is eaten in this 
country.” Gay’s Poems, I. 89. 
Dumps, dimpse, dampse, dimmet, 
twilight. vd. 
Dung-pots, vessels slung across a horse 
to carry manure, &c. c. 
Durnes, the side-posts of a door. c. 
Fis often used for I, as chemes, chimes; 
ehield, child ; wield, wild. 
Earn ) Lo, to give eurnests 
Eart, sometimes. 
to’ther.” Exm, 
Farthridge, a few feet of earth Wind 
a field, whick is ploughed up close to the 
hedges, and (sometimes after having pro- 
duced a crop of potatues) is carried out 
into the field for manure, and there mixed 
with dung, sand, §c. §c. c. See Fore- 
head. 
Ee¢gy, to, omove. c. See Croom. 
Felthing, ill-thing ; St. Anthony’s fire. 
Ww. D. 
Fet a voreoll, notwithstanding. N. D. 
Eevés, thaws. “Tt eeves ;” that is, at 
thaws, D. “It is uneeving ;” that is, 2 
thaws. Cc. 
Elicompanie, a tomtit ; screecher. C. 
There is a vulgar tradition that the eli- 
 companie is a bird by day, and a toad by 
night, 
‘Ellem, elm-tree. D.C. 
Ellet- hole, oylrt-hole. 
Elong, slanting. Exm. 
Elsh, new. “An elsh-maid;’’ that is, 
| an uncouth one.” D. Lyttelton. © 
_ Emmut, stroke; as spoken of the 
wind. “ Right in the emmut of et ;” that 
16, “zight in the slroke of it.” c. 
“Enpt, to, to emply. D, To ent, to 
enipty. c, 
dD. 
“Tart one, eart 
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¥in, (a pronoun) used both for Jain and 
“T told en;” “YT bought en.” b. 
Es, ise, ish, used forl. ob. 
“ute, to pour out. Exm. 
Eutrir, to, to pour from one vessel to 
ha 
another. vp. Lyttelton, 
Evil, a three- -pronged fork. Ce 
KF, 
F, is generally pronounced like V. 
_ <*Fadge,” to, to fare...“ How. .a’ye 
Sadge ef” © How awe yare 2D, 
Falky, long: stemmed, luxuriant; as 
applied to barley grown so high, that it 
requires the reaping-hook. c. [From 
falv.| 
Fang, to, to take possession of ; to re- 
ceive; to earn. ‘I fang’d to that estate 
last Christmas ;” that is, ‘¢ I took posses- 
sion of that estate iust Christmas.” “1 
Jung'd a child;” that is, “ I received @ 
Childe.) iL fung’ da shilling ; Cab ic. 
“ T earned a shilling.” | 
Farm, firm. “ Make it furm;” that 
is, “‘ make tt firm or strong.” Cc. 
Fast. The fast is the understrafum, 
supposed never to have been moved or 
broken up since the creation. ¢. 
Feather-bog, a quagmire, a bog. 
Fend to, to find. N. vd. 
Fescue, (pronounced also vester) @ 
pin or point with which to teach children 
to read. Possibly a corruption of vere 
secue ; verse being vulgarly pronounced 
wes. C.D. 
Few, litile. “ Give me a few broth;” 
that is, “ give me a litile broth.” ©.D. 
Fig, to, ‘to fig a horse; thats, te 
ging oer him.” D. 
Figs, raisins. 6¢ A bone pudding ;” 
pudding with raisins inié; a plumb dened 
ins) iGo, Die 
lineney, to, fo mince; to be ceremda 
nious. ‘Zit down to table, good nowy 
draw in your chair, dontye fineney zo.” De 
Fire-pan, a jfire-shovel. c. 
Fitcher, the fitchet, or polecat. 
Fitchole, id. N.D 
Fitpence, five pence. D. 
Fitty, clever. ‘“ A very fitty fellow ;’ 
that is, a very good looking man. c. D. 
Fittily, cleverly, well- done. (6 That 
coat is filtily made 5” that is, ‘that 
cout 7s cell gnade.!70G. Day Rittay. (Oe 
fiitily, is, I think, a contraction of Jea- 
Cc. 
go 
teously. See Jahnson, 
Flam, flame. c. 
Elam-new, guile new. C. 
Flaw, A flaw is a sudden gust of wind 
which, comes overland, betwcen the hills 
unto. the sea. c.dD,. The word, I believe, 
is in general use, but common in the 
western counties. Lt is here @ word of 
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