LAP-TEA: where the guests are too many to sit at table. Massachusetts.
LAST OF PEA-TIME: day after fair.
LOSE-LAID (loose-laid): weaver's term, and probably English; means weak-willed. Massachusetts.
MOONGLADE: a beautiful word for the track of moonlight on the water.
Massachusetts.
OFF-OX: an unmanageable fellow. New England.
OLD DRIVER: } euphemistic for the
OLD SPLIT-FOOT: } Devil.
ONHITCH (unhitch): to pull trigger.
ROTE: sound of the surf before a storm. Used also in England. New
England.
SEEM: I can't seem to see, for I can't see. She couldn't seem to be suited, for couldn't be suited.
STATE-HOUSE. This seems an Americanism. Did we invent it, or borrow it from the Stad-huys (town-hall) of New Amsterdam? As an instance of the tendency to uniformity in American usage, we notice that in Massachusetts what has always been the State-House is beginning to be called the Capitol. We are sorry for it.