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- Quaer, queer.[page 465]
- Quag, a quaking bog.
- Quar, a quarry.
- Quarrel, a square window pane.
- Quid, a cud.
- Quirk, to grunt with the breath without the voice.
- R.
- R, at the head of a word, is strongly breathed, as Hr in Anglo-Saxon, as Hhrong, the rong of a ladder.
- R is given in Dorset by a rolling of the tongue back under the roof.
- For or, as an ending sometimes given before a free breathing, or h, try ow,—hollor, hollow.
- R before s, st, and th often goes out, as bu'st, burst; ve'ss, verse; be'th, birth; cu'st, curst;
fwo'ce, force; me'th, mirth.
- Raft, to rouse, excite.
- Rake, to reek.
- Ram, Rammish, rank of smell.
- Rammil, raw milk (cheese), of unskimmed milk.
- Ramsclaws, the creeping crowfoot. Ranunculus repens.
- Randy, a merry uproar or meeting.
- Rangle, to range or reach about.
- Rathe, early; whence rather.
- Ratch, to stretch.
- Readship, criterion, counsel.
- Reämes, (1, 3), skeleton, frame.
- Reän (1, 4), to reach in greedily in eating.
- Reäves, a frame of little rongs on the side of a waggon.
- Reed (2), wheat hulm drawn for thatching.
- Reely, to dance a reel.
- Reem, to stretch, broaden.
- Rick, a stack.
- Rig, to climb about.
- Rivel, shrivel; to wrinkle up.
- Robin Hood, The Red campion.
- Roller (6, 4). See Haÿmeäkèn.
- A Roller was also a little roll of wool from the card of a woolcomber.
- Rottlepenny, the yellow rattle. Rhinanthus Crista-galli.
- Rouet, a rough tuft of grass.
- S.
- Sammy, soft, a soft head; simpleton.
- Sar, to serve or give food to (cattle).
- Sarch, to search.
- Scote, to shoot along fast in running.
- Scrag, a crooked branch of a tree.
- Scraggle, to screw scramly about (of a man), to screw the limbs scramly as from rheumatism.
- Scram, distorted, awry.
- Scroff, bits of small wood or chips, as from windfalls or hedge plushing.
- Scroop, to skreak lowly as new shoes or a gate hinge.
- Scud, a sudden or short down-shooting of rain, a shower.
- Scwo'ce, chop or exchange.
- Settle, a long bench with a high planken back.
- Shard, a small gap in a hedge.
- Sharps, shafts of a waggon.
- Shatten, shalt not.
- Shroud (trees), to cut off branches.
- Sheeted cow, with a broad white band round her body.
- Shoulden (Shoodn), should not.
- Shrow, Sh'ow, Sh'ow-crop, the shrew mouse.
- Skim, Skimmy, grass; to cut off rank tuffs, or rouets.
- Slaït, (5, 1) Slite, a slade, or sheep run.
- Slent, a tear in clothes.
- Slidder, to slide about.
- Slim, sly.
- Sloo, sloe.
- Slooworm, the slow-worm.
- Smame, to smear.
- Smeech, a cloud of dust.
- Smert, to smart; pain.
- Snabble, to snap up quickly.
- Snags, small pea-big sloes, also stumps.
- Sneäd (1, 4), a scythe stem.
- Snoatch, to breathe loudly through the nose.
- Snoff, a snuff of a candle.
- Sock, a short loud sigh.
- Spur (dung), to cast it abroad.[page 466]
- Squaïl (5, 1), to fling something at a bird or ought else.
- Squot, to flatten by a blow.
- Sowel, Zowel, a hurdle stake.
- Sparbill, Sparrabill, a kind of shoe nail.
- Spars, forked sticks used in thatching.
- Speäker (1 4), a long spike of wood to bear the hedger's nitch on his shoulder.
- Spears, Speers, the stalks of reed grass.
- Spik, spike, lavender.
- Sprack, active.
- Sprethe (2), to chap as of the skin, from cold.
- Spry, springy in leaping, or limb work.
- Staddle, a bed or frame for ricks.
- Staïd (5, 1), steady, oldish.
- Stannèns, stalls in a fair or market.
- Steän (1, 4) (a road), to lay it in stone.
- Steärt (1, 4), a tail or outsticking thing.
- Stout, the cowfly, Tabanus.
- Stitch (of corn), a conical pile of sheaves.
- Strawèn, a strewing. All the potatoes of one mother potatoe.
- Strawmote, a straw or stalk.
- Strent, a long slent or tear.
- Streech, an outstretching (as of a rake in raking); a-strout stretched out stiffly like frozen linen.
- Stubbard, a kind of apple.
- Stunpoll (7), stone head, blockhead; also an old tree almost dead.
- T.
- th is soft (as th in thee), as a heading of these words:—thatch, thief, thik, thimble, thin, think, thumb.
- Tack, a shelf on a wall.
- Taffle, to tangle, as grass or corn beaten down by storms.
- Taït, to play at see-saw.
- Tamy (3, 1), tammy (5, 1), tough, that may be drawn out in strings, as rich toasted cheese.
- Teäve, (1, 3), to reach about strongly as in work or a struggle.
- Teery, Tewly, weak of growth.
- Tewly, weakly.
- Theäse, this or these.
- Theasum (1, 4), these.
- Tidden (tidn), it is not.
- Tilty, touchy, irritable.
- Timmersome, restless.
- Tine, to kindle, also to fence in ground.
- Tistytosty, a toss ball of cowslip blooms.
- To-year, this year (as to-day.)
- Tranter, a common carrier.
- Trendel, a shallow tub.
- Tump, a little mound.
- Tun, the top of the chimney above the roof ridge.
- Tut (work), piecework.
- Tutty, a nosegay.
- Tweil, (4, 1) toil.
- Twite, to twit reproach.
- U.
- Unheal, uncover, unroof.