A Glossary of Words used in the Country of Wiltshire

by George Edward Dartnell; E. H. Goddard

Nurly. Of soil: lying in lumps.—S.W. (Bratton.)

Nut. The nave of a wheel (S.).—S.W.

Nyst, Niest. Often used in Mid Wilts in same way as neust, as 'I be nyst done up,' i.e. over tired.

Nythe. A brood, as 'a nythe o' pheasants'; always used by gamekeepers.—N.W. Apparently a form of Fr. nid, a nest. In the New Forest they say 'an eye of pheasants.' See Cope's Hampshire Glossary (s.v. Nye).

Oak-tree loam or clay. The Kimmeridge Clay (Britton's Beauties, 1825, vol. iii., also Davis's Agric. of Wilts, p. 113, &c.).

Oat-hulls (pronounced Wut-hulls). Oat chaff and refuse.—S.W.

Oaves. (1) Oat chaff.—N. & S.W. (Huish, &c.) (2) The eaves of a house (S.).—S.W.

'A good old form. Mid. Eng. ovese (Old Eng. Miscell., E. E. T. S. p. 15, l. 465),=O. H. Germ, opasa (Vocab. of S. Gall).'—Smythe-Palmer.

Odds. (1) v. To alter, change, set right. 'I'll soon odds that' (Wilts Arch. Mag. vol. xxii. p. 112).—N.W. (2) n. Difference. 'That don't make no odds to I.' 'What's the odds to thee?' what does it matter to you?—N.W.