This bolt com never out of your bag. 75 Mae, the Merrier; fewer, better faire. Give Losers leave to tauk. Youth and Age will never agree. Ye braide of the Millers Dogg; ye lick your mouth or the poke be open. Scarbrough warning. 80 As true Steel as Ripon Rowels. Pendle, Inglebrough, and Peny-gent Are the three highest hills between Scotland & Trent. If Brayton Bargh and Hamelton Hough, and Burton bream Warr all in thy Belly, it wad neer be team. Cleaveland in the Clay, Bring tway shun, carry yane away. There's great deauings in the North when they barr their Deaurs with Taylors. 85 Three great Ills come out o' the North, A cawd wind, a cunning Knave, and a shrinking Cloth. A Scottish-man and a Newcastle grundstane Travell all the World ower. Credle-streays are scarce out of his Breech. He is a feaul that is not Mallancholly yance a day. As nimble as a Cow in a Cage. 90 Sett a Cow to git a Hare. Neither good Egg nor good Bird. You come with your five Eggs a penny, and four of them be Rotten. I'le not put of my Dublet before I gang to bed. 95 Like a Chip in the Porridge-Pot. He carrys Coale to New-Castle. Bush Natural, mare hair than wit. Neay Butter will stick on his bread. You seek breech[e]s of a bare-ars'd man. 100 His bread is butterd on beath Sides. 105 His Breech macks buttons (said of a man in Fear). They agree like bells that want neathing but Hanging. [A line omitted.] Wishers & woulders are never good Householders. Beggars wad ride. [A line omitted.] They had need of a Beesome that sweeps house with a Turf. 110 Best is best Cheap. Beware of 'had-I-wist.' Birds of a Feather Flock together. Every Bird mun hetch her own Eggs. AN ALPHABETICAL CLAVIS, Unfolding the meaning of all the York-shire Words made use of in the aforegoing DIALOGUE. [The CLAVIS is not in strict alphabetical order; it gives no references, and is incomplete. It is here reduced to the true order; sufficient references are inserted; and some additions are made. The additions are marked by being included within square brackets. Some words are spelt differently in the text and glossary. The references to 'Prov. 1,' and the like, are to the Proverbs printed at pp. 177–181.] Aboon, above, 252. Ackwards, [used] when a beast lies backwards and cannot rise. [This probably refers to 1. 139; where, however, the text has Backwards.] A-dawds, in pieces; To rive all a dawds, to tear all in pieces, 104. Agog; To set one Agog, to make one long or desire, 315. Agye; To look Agye, to look aside, 438. Ail; What ails this deaur, what is the matter with this door? 144. A-lantom, [at a] pritty distance, or [at a pritty] Way off, 487. Amell, between, 90. Anters [misprinted Auters], strange work, or strange things, 14. Arf, afraid; Ise arf[e], I am afraid, 11. [Arrans, spiders, 438.] Arvill, a Funeral, 419, 433. Atchison, a Scot'ch Coyne worth fower Bodles, 400. See Bodles. Aumry [B. Aumery], a Cupboard to put bread or meat in, 172; [Awmry-soal, bottom of the cupboard, 172]. [Aw'd, owed, 551.] Awd, old, 193. Awdfarrand, grave and sober, 242, [Awmry-soal; see Aumry.] Awne, [Awn], own, 98. Backon, Bacon, 152, 165. Back-stone [B. Back-stane], a stone or iron to bake cakes on, 199, 204; Prov. 34. [Bairns, children, Prov. 8.] Bakin, Corn put up to send to the Mill for bread, 191, 194. [Banes, bones, Prov. 32.] Bannocks, Cakes baked before the fire, 194. [Note by a corrector-'or in the ashes.'] Barne, a child, 3. [Bat, blow, knock, 220.] Batten, the straw of two sheaves foulded together, 5. Batten, to feed or like well [i. e. thrive], 27. Batting-stock, a beating-stock, 612. Baurgwhans, horse-Collars, 93. Beclarted, Besmeared or Bedaubed, 158. Beestlings, the first milk after Calving, 28. Behawfe, behalf. [Rather, by half, if it refers to 1. 18.] Belive, in the Evening, 40, 266. [A mistake; it means 'shortly,' or 'ere long.' Accordingly, a corrector has written by and by' against the word. Hence Ray's error, in his Glossary, as to this word.] Bend-Kitt, a kind of a great Can with a Cover, 163. Bide billinge at, to abide working at, 106. Bigg is of the nature of Barley, and makes good Malt, 120. [Billinge. See Bide.] Birlady, by our Lady, 611. [Bissome, broom, Prov. 16.] [Blake, yellow, Prov. 1.] Bleacher, a whitester of Cloath, 189. Bleare, to roare and cry, 405. [Eng. blare.] Blend, to mix, or put together, 80. Blendings, Beans and Pease mixed together, 117. Blithe, glad, 265. Bodles; Twelve Bodles signifies two pence, 470. Booke and bane, signifies lusty and strong, 379; cf. 579. [Rather, to have booke and bane, is to be lusty and strong. Lit. 'bulk and bone.'] [Bowes, yoke for oxen, 100.] [Braids of, art like, 54. See Prov. 78.] Brawne, a Boar, 356. Breau, supping-meat, or Gravy and Browden; To be browden on a thing, to be fond on a thing, 539. Bull-segg, a gelded bull, 131, 139. [Burden-rape, a rope used as a hay-band, 5. See Burden-band in Halliwell.] Burne, water, 76. Caell, Potage, 48. Caffe, Chaffe, 84. Caingell, a toothy crabbed fellow, 393. Carle-Cat, a Dog-Cat, or a Hee-Cat, 166. Cassons, dryed Cow-[droppings], 75. [Cat-whins; see Whins.] Cawd, Cold, 26, 243; as adj. 48. Cawven, Calved, 1. Ceauke, to cook. [Spelt Keauk, 44. Cf. Ceauk, a cook, 56.] Ceaul, to cool. [Charrs, jobs, 364; see Odd.] Chaumber, a Chamber, 252. |