a in father, and au in daughter are, in "Blackmore," often a = 3.
So king Alfred gives a legacy to his yldsta dehter—oldest daehter.
a is a fore-eking to participles of a fore time, as a-vound;
also for the Anglo-Saxon an, in or on, as a-huntèn for
an huntunge.
aï, aÿ (5, 1), Maïd, Maÿ. (Note—The numbers (as 5, 1) refer to the
foregiven table.)
ag, often for eg, as bag, agg, beg, egg.
Anewst, Anighst, very near, or nearly.
A'r a, ever a, as.
A'r a dog, ever a dog.
Amper, pus.
A'r'n, e'er a one.
A-stooded (as a waggon), with wheels sunk fast into rotten ground.
A-stogged, A-stocked, with feet stuck fast in clay.
A-strout, stiff stretched.
A-thirt, athwart (th soft).
A-vore, afore, before.
Ax, ask.
Axan, ashes (of fire).
A-zew, dry, milkless.
B.
Backbran' (brand), Backbron' (brond), A big brand or block of wood put on the back of the fire.
Ballywrag, scold.[page 460]
Bandy, a long stick with a bent end to beat abroad cow-dung.
Barken, Barton, a stack-yard or cow yard.
Bavèn, a faggot of long brushwood.
Beä'nhan' (1, 3, 5), bear in hand, uphold or maintain, as an opinion or otherwise.
Beät (1, 4), up, to beat one's way up.
Bennets, flower-stalks of grass.
Be'th, birth.
Bibber, to shake with cold.
[This is a Friesic and not an Anglo-Saxon form of the word, and Halbertsma,
in his "Lexicon Frisicum," gives it, among others, as a token that Frisians came into Wessex with the Saxons.
See Eltrot.]
Bissen, thou bist not.
Bittle, a beetle.
Blatch, black stuff; smut.
Blather, a bladder.
Bleäre (1, 3), to low as a cow.
Blind-buck o' Davy, blindman's buff.
Bloodywarrior, the ruddy Stock gilliflower.
Blooèns, blossoms.
Blooth, blossom in the main.
Bluevinny, blue mouldy.
Brack, a breach. "Neither brack nor crack in it."
Bran', a brand.
Brantèn, brazen-faced.
Bring-gwaïn (Bring-going), to bring one on his way.
Brocks, broken pieces (as of food).
Bron', a brand.
Bruckly, Bruckle, brittle.
Bundle, to bound off; go away quickly.
Bu'st, burst.
C.
Caddle, a muddle; a puzzling plight amid untoward things, such that a man knows not what to do first.
Chuck, to throw underhanded to a point, or for a catch.
Clack, Clacker, a bird-clacker; a bird-boy's clacking tool, to fray away birds; also the tongue.
Clavy, Clavy-bwoard, the mantel-shelf.
Clèden, cleavers, goosegrass; Galium aparine.
Clips, to clasp.
Clitty, clingy.
Clocks, ornaments on the ankles of stockings.
Clom', clomb, climbed.
Clote, the yellow water-lily; Nuphar lutea.
Clout, a blow with the flat hand.
Clum, to handle clumsily.
Cluster o' vive (cluster of five), the fist or hand with its five fingers; wording taken from a cluster of nuts.
Cockle, Cuckle, the bur of the burdock.
Cockleshell, snail shell.
Colepexy, to glean the few apples left on the tree after intaking.
Coll (7), to embrace the neck.
Conker, the hip, or hep; the fruit of the briar.
Cothe, coath (th soft), a disease of sheep, the plaice or flook, a flat worm Distoma nepaticum in the stomach.
Cou'den, could not.
Coussen, Coossen, coosn, couldest not.
Craze, to crack a little.
Critch, a big pitcher.
Crock, an iron cooking-pot.
Croodle, to crow softly.
Croop, Croopy-down, to bend down the body; to stoop very low.
Crope, crept.
Crowshell, shell of the fresh-water mussel, as taken out of the river for food by crows.
Cubby-hole, Cubby-house, between the father's knees.[page 461]
Culver, the wood pigeon.
Cutty, Cut, the kittywren.
Cweïn, Cwoïn, (4, 1) coin.
Cwoffer (8, 4, 4), a coffer.
D.
Dadder, dather, dudder, to maze or bewilder.
Dag, childag, a chilblain.
Dake, to ding or push forth.
Daps, the very likeness, as that of a cast from the same mould.
Dather, see Dadder.
Dent, a dint.
Dewberry, a big kind of blackberry.
Dibs, coins; but truly, the small knee bones of a sheep used in the game of Dibs.
Didden (didn), did not.
Do, the o, when not under a strain of voice, is (4) as e in 'the man' or as e in the French le.
Dod, a dump.
Dogs, andirons.
Don, to put on.
Doust, dust.
dr for thr in some words, as Drash, thresh.
Drashel, threshold.
Dreaten, threaten.
Dree, three.
Dringe, Drunge, to throng; push as in a throng.
Droat, throat.
Drong, throng; also a narrow way.
Drough, through.
Drow, throw.
Drub, throb.
Drush, thrush.
Drust, thrust.
Drean, Drène (2), to drawl.
Drève (2), drive.
Duck, a darkening, dusk.
Dumbledore, the humble bee.
Dummet, dusk.
Dunch, dull of hearing, or mind.
Dunch-nettle, the dead nettle, Lamium.
Dunch-pudden, pudding of bare dough.
Dungpot, a dungcart.
Dunt, to blunten as an edge or pain.
Durns, the side posts of a door.
E.
long itself alone has mostly the Dorset sound (2.)
eä (1, 4) for ea, with the a unsounded as lead, mead, leäd, meäd.
eä (1, 3) for the long a, 3, as in lade, made, leäde, meäde.
ea of one sound (2) as meat.
e is put in before s after st, as nestes, nests, vistes, fists.
The two sundry soundings of ea 2 and 3 do not go by our spelling ea for both,
but have come from earlier forms of the words.
After a roof letter it may stay as it is, a roof letter, as madden, madd'n; rotten, rott'n.
So with en for him, tell en, tell'n.
The en sometimes at the end of words means not, as bisse'n, bist not; coust'en, cous'n,
could'st not; I didd'n, I did not; diss'n, didst not; hadd'n, had not; muss'n, must not; midd'n,
mid not; should'n, should not; 'tis'n, 'tis not; would'n, would not.
en—not èn—in Dorset, as well as in book English, as an ending of some kinds of
words often, in running talk, loses the e, and in some cases shifts into a sound of the kind
of the one close before it. After a lip-letter it becomes a lip-letter m, as Rub en, Rub-him;
rub'n, rub'm; oven, ov'm; open, op'n op'm, in Dorset mostly oben, ob'n, ob'm. So after f',
deafen, deaf'n, deaf m, heaven, heav'n, heav'm, in Dorset sometimes heab'm. zeven, zeb'n, zeb'm.
After a throat-letter it becomes a throat one, ng, as token, tok'n, tok'ng.
ē (2).
Eegrass, aftermath.
Eltrot, Eltroot, cowparsley (Myrrhis). [Elt is Freisic, robustus,[page 462]
vegetus, as cowparsley is among other kinds.] See Bibber.
Emmet, an ant.
Emmetbut, an anthill.
En, him; A.-Saxon, hine.
Èn, for ing, zingèn, singing.
Eve, to become wet as a cold stone floor from thickened steam in some weather.