(2) adj. term., as Harnen, made of horn; Stwonen, of stone; Elmin, of elm wood, &c. 'Boughten bread,' baker's bread, as opposed to home-made. 'A dirten floor,' a floor made of earth, beaten hard. 'A tinnin pot.' 'A glassen cup.' Boarden, made of boards; Treen-dishes, wooden platters, &c. 'There's some volk as thinks to go droo life in glassen slippers.'—N. & S.W.
'Almost as universal too is the transformation of the Substantive into an adjective by the same termination as ... a Leatheren Shoe, an elmen Board, &c.'—Cunnington MS.
(3) See Pronouns.
'The pronoun Possessive too is formed in the same way, as hisn hern Ourn theirn.'—Cunnington MS.
English Parrot. Picus viridis, the Green Woodpecker (Birds of Wilts, p. 251).—S.W. (Salisbury.)
Ether, Edder. The top-band of a fence, the wands of hazel, &c., woven in along the top of a 'dead hedge,' or wattled fence, to keep it compact (A.B.). A 'stake and ether' fence. A.S. edor.—N.W.
'Mughall [Midghall] had nothing to doe withought [without] the Eyther [hedge] between Bradene Lane and Shropshire Marsh.'—1602, MS., Perambulation of the Great Park of Fasterne, N.W., in Devizes Museum.
'An eldern stake and blackthorn ether
Will make a hedge to last for ever.'—Wilts Saying (A.).
Eve. See Heave.
Even-ash. Ash-leaves with an equal number of leaflets, carried by children in the afternoon of the 29th May (Wild Life, ch. v). See Shitsac.—N.W.