Afterclaps. Consequences, results. Atterclaps (S.).—N. & S.W.

All-amang. Add:—

E. Slow, Smilin Jack.

All as is. All there is to be said, the final word in the matter. Used when giving a very peremptory order to a labourer to carry out your instructions without any further question. 'Aal as is as you've a-got to do be to volly on hoein' they turmuts till I tells 'ee to stop!'—N.W.

Along of. (1) On account of. ''Twer aal along o' she's bwoy's bad ways as her tuk to drenk.'—N. & S.W. (2) In company with. 'Here, you just coom whoam along o' I, an I'll gie 'ee summut to arg about!'—N. & S.W.

Aloud. Add:—S.W. (Deverill.)

*Altrot. Heracleum Sphondylium, L., Cow-parsnip. See Eltrot.—S.W. (Zeals.)

Apple-scoop. A kind of scoop or spoon, made from the knuckle-bone of a leg of mutton, and used for eating apples, the flavour of which it is supposed to improve.—N.W.

At. (1) Add:—S.W. (2) Add:—S.W.

Away with. Add:—N. & S.W.

*Babes-in-the-Cradle. Scrophularia aquatica, L., Water Figwort.—S.W. (Little Langford.)

Bachelor's Buttons. Add:—*(3) Aquilegia vulgaris, L., Garden Columbine.—S.W. (Deverill.)

Back-friends. Add:—S.W.

Bag. (2) Add:—S.W.

Bake-faggot. Add:—S.W.

Bannix. To drive away poultry, or to hunt them about. 'Go an' bannix they vowls out.' 'Dwon't bannix about they poor thengs like that!'—S.W.

Barley-buck. A boy's game, played by guessing at the number of fingers held up.—S.W. (Deverill.)

Bash, Bashet. At Harnham, Salisbury, a small raised footpath is known as the Bashet, while at Road certain houses built on the upper side of a similar footpath, close to the boundary line dividing Wilts and Somerset, are spoken of as being 'on the Bash.'

Bay. (1) Add:—S.W. (2) Add:—S.W.

*Bayle. Some plant which we cannot identify.—Obsolete.

'In this ground [near Kington St. Michael, grows] bayle.'—Aubrey's Nat. Hist. Wilts, p. 49, ed. Brit.

Bee-hackle. The straw covering of a hive. See Hackle (2)—S.W.

*Belly-vengeance. Add:—Also used of very inferior cider.

Bennets. (1) Add:—S.W.

Bird's-eye. Add:—(4) Veronica Buxbaumii, Ten., Buxbaum's Speedwell.—S.W. (Charlton.)

Bivery. Add:—S.W.

Bleat. Add:—S.W.

*Blicker. To shine intermittently, to glimmer. 'I zeen a light a blickerin' droo th' tallot dwoor.'—S.W.

Blind-house. Add:—N. & S.W., obsolete.

Blooms. Flushes in the face. 'Ther you knaws as I do allus get the hot blooms ter'ble bad.'—S.W.

Bolster-pudding. A roly-poly pudding.—N.W.

*Bookin'. See Buck.

Bossy. Add:—S.W.

Boys. Add:—S.W. (Deverill.)

Brash, Braish. Of weather, cold and bracing.—N.W.

Brashy. Full of small stones and grit. 'Th' vier wer ter'ble braishy 'smarnin',' the coal was bad and stony.—N.W.

Bread-and-Cheese. (3) Add:—S.W. (Deverill.)

Break. (1) Add:—Still used in this sense at Deverill, S.W. (2) Of a spring, to rise.—N. & S.W.

'When the springs doe breake in Morecombe-bottom, in the north side of the parish of Broade Chalke, which is seldome, 'tis observed that it foretells a deer yeare for corne.'—Aubrey's Nat. Hist. Wilts, p. 34, ed. Brit.

Breeding-bag. The ovary of a sow.—N.W.

Brevet. (1) Add:—'Brevettin' into other folks' business.'—S.W. (Deverill.)

*Brimmer. A broad-brimmed hat.—S.W. (Deverill.)

Brit, Brittle out. (1) Add:—S.W. (2) Add:—S.W.

Broken-mouthed. Children are said to be 'broken-mouthed,' when they are losing their teeth.—N.W.

Broom. 'I bain't a-gwain to hang out the broom,' I intend to be very particular as to character, &c., before engaging any servants or labourers.—N.W. (Wedhampton.) In Berks, 'to hang th' brum out o' winder,' means that the wife is away, and so the husband is at liberty to entertain any bachelor friends of his who like to drop in.

Buck. Add:—At Deverill 'Bookin'' is used instead, a 'good bookin' o' clothes' being a large wash.—S.W.

Buck-hearted. Of cabbages, the same as Crow-hearted.—S.W. (Deverill.)

*Budget. The leather pouch in which a mower carries his whetstone.—S.W. (Deverill.)

*Bunt-lark. The Common Bunting.—S.W. (Deverill.)

Buttercup. Add:—N.W. (Huish); S.W. (Charlton.)

*Butter-flower. Caltha palustris, L., Marsh Marigold.

'The watered meadows all along from Marleborough to Hungerford, Ramesbury, and Littlecot, at the later end of April, are yellow with butter flowers.'—Aubrey's Nat. Hist. Wilts, p. 51, ed. Brit.

Buzzel-hearted. A cabbage or broccoli plant that has lost its eye is said to be 'buzzel-hearted.' Compare Crow-hearted.—S.W.

Caddling. Under (3) add:—'A caddlin' place' is one where as soon as a servant begins one piece of work he or she is called off to another, and can never get a chance of finishing anything off satisfactorily.—N. & S.W.

Call over. To publish the banns.—S.W. (Deverill.)

Callus or Callis. v. To become hard, as soil in frosty weather: to cake together (Wilts Arch. Mag. vol. xxii. p. 109).—N. & S.W.

Cank. Add:—*(2) n. Idle gossip.

Canker. (1) Add:—Also Cankie.

Cankers. 'The baby hev a-got the cankers,' viz. white-mouth or thrush.—N.W.

Carpet. Add:—S.W.

Cart. Add:—S.W.

Chap. Add as example:—'Hev 'ee zeed how thuck ther ground is aal chapped wi' th' dry weather? They chaps be so gashly big, the young pa'tridges 'ull purty nigh vall in.'

Chin-cough. The whooping cough.—N.W.

Chip. Add:—See Davis's Agric. of Wilts, p. 262.

Clacker. Add:—(2) A couple of pieces of wood, rattled together to scare birds off the crops.—N. & S.W.

Clam. (1) To over-fill and choke up anything, as a water-pipe. The throat sometimes gets quite 'clammed up' with phlegm.—N.W. (2) To surfeit any one with food.—N.W. (Clyffe Pypard, &c.)

Clamp about. To stump about noisily.—N.W.

Clean-and-wholly. Entirely. ''Tes aal gone clean-an'-wholly out o' she's yead!'—N.W.

Cleaty. Add:—S.W.

Clinkerballs. Balls of dried dung or dirt in a sheep's wool.—S.W. (Wilton, &c.)

Cloddy. Add as example:—'He's a cloddy sart o' a chap.'

Clogweed. Add:—(2) Arctium Lappa, L., Burdock.—S.W.

Cludgy. Clingy, sticky; used especially of bad bread.—N. & S.W.

Collets. Young cabbage plants. A man will say in spring, 'I got a good lot o' collets, but they bean't cabbages.'—N.W.

Come away. To spring up.—N.W.

'Owing to the long drought [barley] came away from the ground at different periods, which will, without doubt, materially injure the sample for malting purposes.'—Devizes Gazette, June 22, 1893.

Comical. Add:—Round Warminster everything but a tom-cat is he.

Conigre. Add:—Other localities which may be noted are Blacklands, Winterbourne Bassett, and Mildenhall. See Smith's Antiq. N. Wilts.

Conks, Conkers. (1) Add:—S.W. (Deverill.) (2) Add:—S.W. (Deverill.)

Count. Add:—S.W. (Deverill.)

Coward. Dele *, and add:—Clyffe Pypard.

*Cow-down. Add:—On the Ordnance Map there are 'Cow-downs' marked at Deverill, Wylye, Steeple Langford, and Westbury.

*Creeping Jane. Lysimachia Nummularia, L., Moneywort.—N.W. (Heddington.)

Creep-mouse. To play 'creep-mouse,' to tickle babies and make them laugh.—N.W.

Criddlin Pudden. A kind of pudding, made of the nubbly bits left over when pigs' fleck has been boiled and pounded and strained. Crittens in Berks.—N.W.

Crutch. (1) A large earthen jar, such as butter is potted in. Cf. Critch.—N. & S.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) (2) A cheese-pan.—N.W.

*Cuckoo-pint. Cardamine pratensis, L., Lady's smock.—S.W. (Charlton.)

Daffy. Add:—S.W.

Devil's-ring. Add:—S.W. (Deverill.)

*Devourous. Ravenous.—N.W. (Berks bord.)

Dicky-birds. After S.W. add:—(Deverill.)

Dillcup. Add:—*(2) Ranunculus acris, L., Meadow Crowfoot.—S.W. (Charlton, Little Langford.)

Do. To thrive (used reflexively). 'He does (o pronounced as in the infinitive) hissel well, dwon't he?' said of an animal that does credit to its owner by the way in which it thrives.—N. & S.W.

Doer. A pig that thrives well, even on poor food, is a 'good doer,' while a 'bad doer' refuses to fatten, give it what you will.—N. & S.W.

Dog, how beest? Add:—Also used at Deverill, S.W.

Dog-in-a-blanket. A roly-poly pudding—N.W.

Dough-fig. Add:—S.W. (Deverill.)

*Down-lanterns. Heaps of chalk, marking the tracks from village to village over the downs, to prevent people going astray at night.—S.W.

Drashel. Dele:—As two men generally work together.

*Draw-sheave. (Pronounced Draa-sheave.) A wheelwright's draw-knife.—S.W.

*Druck. n. 'A druck of people,' a great crowd.—S.W. (Wilton.)

Drug. (1) Add:—S.W. (Deverill.) (2) Add:—Drugshoe at Deverill, S.W.

Duck's-frost. Add:—Ironically used at Deverill, as, 'Ther'll be a frost to-night.' 'Ah, a duck's-frost,' viz. none at all.—S.W.

Dumble. Add:—Dummil (C.).

Dunch-dumpling. Add:—S.W.

*Elm-stock (Yelm-stock). A forked stick for carrying straw for thatching.—S.W.

Enemy. Anemone nemorosa, L., Wood Anemone. So generally used in Wilts that it seems advisable to note it, in spite of its being a mere corruption.—N. & S.W.

Ent. See Ploughing terms.

Faggot. Add:—Used as a general term of abuse.—S.W.

Falling. Add:—This requires some slight modification. 'We'm a-gwain to ha' a vallen' seems to be restricted to snow; but when there is some doubt as to what sort of weather is coming, the phrase would be 'A vallen o' zum zart,' or 'zum vallen,' thus covering snow, rain, or hail.

*Feggy. Fair.—N.W., obsolete.

'Their persons [in North Wilts] are generally plump and feggy.'—Aubrey's Nat. Hist. Wilts, p. 11, ed. Brit.

Fiddler's-money. Small change (threepenny and fourpenny bits).—N. & S.W.

*Fiddle-sticks. Scrophularia aquatica, L., Water Figwort.—S.W. (Little Langford.)

Fighting-cocks. Add:—Plantago lanceolata, L., Ribwort Plantain.—S.W. (Charlton.)

Firk. (2) Add:—S.W. (Deverill.)

Flashy heats. Hot flushes, that come and go when one is feverish and weak, as a woman after her confinement.—N.W.

Flask. A limp straw-basket used to carry food and tools. Used in Glouc.—S.W., occasionally.

Flip, Flip-tongued. Smooth-spoken, glib.—N.W.

Folly. Add:—In Berks the word is frequently applied to a round clump of fir-trees on a hill.

For. Add:—S.W.

Friggle. Add:—S.W. (Deverill.) *Furze-tacker (Vuzz-tacker). Saxicola rubetra, the Whinchat.—S.W.

Fussicky. Fussy, fidgetty.—N.W. (Clyffe Pypard, &c.)

Gallows-gate. Add:—S.W. (Deverill.)

Gawley. adj. Patchy: used especially of root-crops that grow unequally.—S.W., in common use.

Gay. Add:—(2) In good health. 'I do veel main gay agean 'smarnin', but I wur gashly bad aal laas' wick wi' th' rheumatiz.'—N. & S.W.

Get out. To 'get out' a drawn or carriage in the water meadows is to clean it well out and make up the banks. To 'get out' a set of posts and rails is to cut them out and prepare them for putting up.—N. & S.W.

Gibbles. Add:—Underground Onions.

*Gilliflower-grass. Carex glauca, L., and Carex panicea, L.—N.W., obsolete.

'In Bradon Forest growes ... a blew grasse they call July-flower grasse, which cutts the sheepes mouthes, except in the spring.'—Aubrey's Nat. Hist. Wilts, p. 49, ed. Brit.

*Gipsy-nuts. Hips and haws.—S.W. (near Trowbridge.)

Girls. Add:—S.W. (Deverill.)

Good liver. A person who lives an exceptionally good and pious life.—N.W.

Good-living. Leading a very pious life. 'Her wur allus a good-living sart o' a 'ooman.'—N.W.

Grained. Add:—Grinted in Berks.

Gramfer (or Granfer) Grig. A woodlouse. At Deverill, S.W., children try to charm it into curling up, when held in the hand, by singing:—

Granny (or Granny's) Nightcap. Add:—*(5) Geum rivale, L., Water Avens.—S.W. (Little Langford.)

Grigger cake. Fine paste spread thin like a pancake, and baked on a gridiron over a mass of glowing wood-coals.—S.W.

Ground. Add:—S.W.

*Gubbarn. Dele 'Should not this be adj. instead of n.?' and add:—Also used in Glouc. as a noun.

Guss. (2) Add:—S.W.

Hack. (1) Add:—To hoe; frequently used in S. Wilts.

Hackle. (2) Add:—Hackle, and sometimes Shackle, are used at Deverill, while elsewhere in S. Wilts Bee-hackle is the word employed.

Hames. Dele 'in drawing,' and add 'with staples to take the traces.'

Hand. (3) Add:—S.W. (Deverill.)

Hand-staff. Add:—S.W. (Deverill.)

Hanging-post. Add:—S.W. (Deverill), where Har is seldom used.

Hanglers. Add:—In Deverill, a hook used for this purpose is known as 'a hangles.'—S.W.

Har. Add:—S.W. (Deverill, occasionally.)

Harl. Add:—Hardle is also used in S. Wilts.

*Harvest-man. A kind of Spider with long legs.—S.W. (Deverill.)

Heal. Add:—A house is said to be 'unhealed,' or uncovered, when the thatch has been stripped off by a storm.—S.W. (Deverill.)

Hearken-back. To recall.—N. & S.W.

Heartless. Add:—S.W. (Deverill.)

Heaver. Add:—'Van, heavier, caffin or caving rudder, the winnowing fan and tackle' (D.).

Hill-trot. Add:—*(3) Anthriscus sylvestris, Hoffm., Wild Beaked-Parsley.—S.W. (Charlton.)

*Hitch off. To release horses from work.—S.W.

*Honey-pot. A children's game, in which one child lifts another.—S.W.

Hop-about. Add:—S.W.

*Hopped. Cracked, as a boiler, by heat.—S.W. (Deverill.)

Huck down. To beat down in bargaining. 'I hucked un down vrom vive shillin' to vower an' zix.' Formerly used at Clyffe Pypard, but not known there now.—N.W.

Huckmuck. (3) Add:—S.W. (Deverill). Add:—(4) v. To mess about.—S.W.

*Hun-barrow (or -barrer). A tumulus.—S.W.

*Hunger-bane. To starve to death. See Bane.—Obsolete.

'At Bradfield and Dracot Cerne is such vitriolate earth ... [which] makes the land so soure, it bears sowre and austere plants ... At summer it hunger-banes the sheep: and in winter it rotts them.'—Aubrey's Nat. Hist. Wilts, p. 35, ed. Brit.

*Idle. Full of fun.—S.W.

It. Sometimes used in a peculiar way, as 'We'm best be gwain, hadn't it?' or, 'We can aal on us ha' a holiday to-day, can't it?'—S.W.

Jack-and-his-team. Add:—S.W. (Deverill); also Jack-and-his-team-goin'-to-pit, the constellation's motion seeming to be from Deverill towards Radstock collieries, as if it were a farmer's team going by night to fetch coal thence.—S.W. (Deverill.)

Jag. Add:—(2) 'Wull, to be shower, they chrysantums is beautiful! They be aal in a jag!' i.e. all out in large heads of flowers.—N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

Jerry-shop. A 'Tommy-shop,' conducted on the truck system, now illegal. Much used about Swindon at the time the railway was being made there.—Obsolete.

*Jiffle. Add:—Mr. F. M. Willis writes us that he once heard this word used in connexion with a horse, when a bad rider who was pulling its head about was told not to jiffle it.

Job, or Jobble about. To do little jobs. 'I cain't do moor'n jobble about now.'—N.W.

*July-flower grass. See *Gillyflower-grass.

Kiss-me-quick. Add:—S.W. (Deverill.)

Lady-cow. Add:—S.W.

Lily, or Lilies. Add:—*(3) Ranunculus aquatilis, L., Water Crowfoot.—S.W. (Charlton.)

Linnard. A linnet, as 'a brown linnard,' 'a green linnard.' Formerly used at Clyffe Pypard, where, however, it is obsolete, the pronunciation there now being distinctly Linnut. Conversely, orchard becomes archet.—N.W. (Clyffe Pypard, &c.)

Long-winded. Add:—S.W. (Deverill.)

Lords-and-Ladies. Add:—The purple spadices are the 'Lords,' and the yellow or very light-coloured ones the 'Ladies.'

Maggotty-pie. Add:—At Deverill, thirty years ago, there was a nursery rhyme as follows:—

Mandrake. Bryonia dioica, L., White Bryony. The root is popularly supposed to be Mandrake.—N.W. (Clyffe Pypard, Heddington.)

Mask. To collect acorns. A variant of mast.—N.W. (Potterne.)

Melt. The spleen of a pig, which forms a favourite dish when stuffed.—N. & S.W.

*Milkmaid's-Way. The Milky Way.—S.W. (Deverill.)

Mimp. To make believe, to sham. 'Look at she a-settin' up ther, mimpin'!' idling, playing the fine lady.—N. & S.W.

*Min. An exclamation, used like 'snaw, as 'I'll ketch thee, min!'=Note that well. See Barnes, Glossary to Poems.—S.W. (Deverill.)

*Monkey Must. Melampyrum arvense, L., Cow-wheat.—N.W. (Heddington.)

Mump. To sulk. 'How ter'ble mumping she do look!'—N.W.

Nammet-bag. A luncheon-bag.—S.W.

Neck-headland. Add:—Common at Deverill.—S.W.

Noddy. Weakly, ailing.—N.W.

Nog. Add:—Also used of a lump of cheese, &c.—S.W.

Not-cow. Add:—S.W.

Nuncheon. Add:—About Salisbury Nuncheon is between 10 and 10.30 a.m., and again at 4 p.m., and is a very small meal, merely a piece of bread and glass of beer, while Nammet is at 12, and is equivalent to dinner.

Off. 'A can't be off puttin' up a covey o' pa'tridges, if so be as a goes whoam athert Four-Acre,' i.e. he cannot possibly help doing it.—N.W.

Out. n. The outcome or result of an attempt to do a thing. 'A offered vor to do some draishin', but a made a ter'ble poor out on't,' i.e. he had little to show for his labour.—N.W.

Parson's nose. A goose's tail, when served up at table.—N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

Peter Grievous. Add:—Children who look as if they thought themselves sadly 'put upon' by their elders are said to be 'Peter-grievous.'

Pigs. (2) Add:—In Berks woodlice are called Church-pigs.

*Pimple, Pumple. The head. Used by children.—S.W. (Deverill).

*Pisty-poll. A child riding with his legs on your shoulders is said to be carried 'a pisty-poll.'—S.W. (Deverill.)

Ploughing terms. The first furrows ploughed are those 'veered out' to mark the 'lands.' On each side of this 'veering out' furrow a fresh furrow is ploughed, turning the earth into it. This is 'topping up,' or 'shutting the top up,' and becomes the centre and highest point of the 'land.' When the 'lands' have been all but ploughed, there remains between them a strip, two furrows wide, still unploughed. This is 'the Ent,' and is halved by the plough, one half being turned up one way, and the other half the other way. There remains then a furrow just twice the ordinary width. The plough is taken down this, and half of it is turned up again on one side, the result being a narrow furrow some inches deeper than any other, called the 'Zid-furrer' or Seed-furrow.—N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

Plumb. 'A plumb man,' an upright man, one who always keeps his word.—N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

*Polly Dishwasher. Motacilla, The Wagtail.—S.W. (Deverill.)

*Pot-hangel. The same as Hanglers, q.v.—S.W. (Deverill.)

Prick-timber. Euonymus Europaeus, L., Spindle-tree.—N. & S.W., obsolete.

'Prick-timber ... is common, especially in North Wilts. The butchers doe make skewers of it,—because it doth not taint the meate as other wood will doe: from whence it hath the name of prick-timber.'—Aubrey's Nat. Hist. Wilts, p. 56, ed. Brit.

Purry. Turnips sometimes get quite 'purry,' i.e. become spongy and bad and full of holes. Perhaps a contraction of purrished (perished).—N.W.

*Quag. n. A shake, a state of trembling. 'He's all of a quag with fear.'—S.W.

*Quean. Add:—S.W. (Deverill.)

Quob. (2) Add:—S.W. (Deverill.)

Quobble. n. and v. After being a long while at the wash-tub a woman's hands are apt to get 'all in a quobble,' or 'ter'ble quobbled,' that is, shrivelled and drawn and wrinkled up. See Sob.—N.W.

Ramblers. Potatoes left by chance in the ground, which come up again the next year.—N.W.

*Rammil-cheese. Cheese made of raw unskimmed milk.—S.W.

Ramp. Add:—(2) v. To rage, as 'My bad tooth just about ramped aal laas' night.'—N.W.

Ramping. Add:—(2) Of pain, violent, raging. 'I wur in that rampin' pain, I didn't know whur to get to.'—N.W.

*Rook-worm. A cockchafer grub.—Obsolete.

'I have heard knowing countreymen affirme that rooke-wormes, which the crows and rookes doe devour at sowing time, doe turn to chafers.'—Aubrey's Nat. Hist. Wilts, p. 67, ed. Brit.

*Round market. See quotation.

'Warminster is exceeding much frequented for a round corn-market on Saturday.'—Aubrey's Nat. Hist. Wilts, p. 114, ed. Brit.

Ruck. (1) n. A crease in a stocking, &c.—N.W. (2) v. To crease or wrinkle up. 'My shirt wur aal rucked up under my arms, an' I cudden' kip un down nohow.'—N.W. (3) Hence, to rub and gall. 'Thuck ther new boot hev a-rucked she's heel ter'ble bad.'—N.W.

*Ruddock. Sylvia rubecula, Robin Redbreast. In common use at Warminster, though unknown a few miles away.—S.W.

*Rumpled-skein. Add:—Used of a tradesman's books, when badly kept and hard to balance.—N.W. (Glouc. bord.)

Sankers, Shankers, or Sinkers. Stockings without feet.—N.W. See The Scouring of the White Horse, ch. vi. p. 128.

Sar. Add:—*(3) To earn. See note on Akerman, in Ellis's English Dialects, p. 29.

Scrinchet. A scrap of food, a shred of stuff, &c.—N.W. (Huish.)

Scroop. (1) n. A saving or miserly person.—N.W. (2) v. To save up, to screw and scrape.—N.W.

Seed-furrow. See Ploughing terms.

Serve. See Sar.

Shacketty. Ricketty, shaky.—N.W.

*Shackle. The straw covering of a hive. A sibilated form of Hackle, q.v.—S.W. (Deverill.)

Shail. To walk crookedly or awkwardly, to shamble along.—N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

*Shame-faced Maiden. Add:—*(2) Ornithogalum umbellatum, L., Spiked Star of Bethlehem.—S.W. (Little Langford.)

Shankers. See Sankers.

Shatter. To scatter, to sprinkle. 'Shatter th' pepper well auver'n, do 'ee!'—N.W.

Shattering. A sprinkling. 'Put just a shatterin' on't.'—N.W.

*Shirpings. The rough grass and weeds by the river banks, which cannot be mown with the scythe, and have to be cut afterwards with a sickle.—S.W. (Salisbury.)

Short. Tender. Roast mutton ought to 'eat short.'—N.W.

*Shreeving. Picking up windfalls, &c., in an orchard.—S.W.

Shrimpy. Shrivelled, poor.—N. & S.W.

*Shrovy. Puny, as 'What a shrovy child!' Cp. Shrievy, applied in Hants to stuff with some of the threads pulled out.—S.W. (Deverill.)

Shucky. Rough, jolty: used of roads when the surface is frozen and rutty.—N.W.

Shuffle. To hurry along. 'I wur shufflin' to get whoam avore dree.' Cf. Shuffet.—N.W.

Sinkers. See Sankers.

Slink. Bad diseased meat.

*Sloot. To defraud.—N.W. (Berks bord.)

Slox, Slocks. (2) To wear out clothes by careless use of them. Compare Hock about.—N.W.

*Slut's-farthings. Small hard lumps in badly kneaded bread.

Snake-stones. Fossil Ammonites.—N.W., occasionally still used.

'About two or three miles from the Devises are found in a pitt snake-stones (Cornua ammonis) no bigger than a sixpence, of a black colour.'—Aubrey's Nat. Hist. Wilts, p. 45, ed. Brit.

'In this parish [Wootton Bassett] are found delicate snake-stones of a reddish gray.'—Jackson's Aubrey, p. 204.

Snug. Well, in health, comfortable. 'I be main glad to hire as your missus be so snug [is doing so well] a'ter her confinement.'—N.W.

Sob. To sodden with wet. Cf. Sobbled.—N.W.

*Split-house. A joint tenancy?

'Whereas we ... being inhabitants of the town of Marlborough ... have ... for many years past, fed and depastured our mares and geldings, two to each inhabitant not being certificate men nor split houses, in the said earl's Forest of Savernak, &c.'—1790, Agistment Deed as to Savernake Forest, quoted in Waylen's History of Marlborough, p. 421.

Spray. To splay a sow, when set aside for fattening.—N.W.

*Squailings, Squailens. Ungathered apples.—S.W.

Staid. Add:—Sometimes applied to an old horse or other animal.

*Stars-and-garters. Ornithogalum umbellatum, L., Star of Bethlehem.—N.W. (Heddington.)

Starvation cold. Extremely cold. See Starve.—S.W.

Steart. (1) Add:—Used at Salisbury by a gas-fitter of the small projection turned by the gas-key.

*Stipe, Steip. Add:—Steep.—S.W., still in use about Salisbury.

*Strikes. Segments of iron for wheel-binding.—S.W.

Stubs. (4) Add:—S.W.

Studdly. Add:—also Stoodly.

*Sucker (Zucker). A spout from the roof.—S.W.

Summer-folds. Freckles which come in summer time.—N.W.

Tear. Add:—Mr. Powell writes us that at Deverill this is still used of breaking crockery, &c.—S.W.

Teart. (3) Add:—Acrimonious. Tort in Aubrey.

'The North Wilts horses, and other stranger horses, when they come to drinke of the water of Chalke-river, they will sniff and snort, it is so cold and tort.'—Aubrey's Nat. Hist. Wilts, pp. 23-24, ed. Brit.

'This riverwater [Chalke stream] is so acrimonious, that strange horses when they are watered here will snuff and snort, and cannot well drinke of it till they have been for some time used to it.'—Ibid. p. 28.

Terrify. *(3) Add:—This is a Gloucestershire use of the word.

*Thee and Thou. (1) 'He thee'd and thou'd us,' said of a clergyman who was very familiar with his flock.—S.W. (2) v. To abuse violently, to insult a person by addressing him in the second person singular. A man complained of the way in which his neighbours had been abusing him, the climax of it all being reached when they began to 'thee and thou' him.—N. & S.W.

Thetches. Add:—Thatch. Vicia sativa, L.—S.W. (Charlton.) All vetches are known as 'Thetches' or 'Thatches' in Wilts, being 'Blue,' 'Yellow,' or 'Red' Thetches according to the colour of the flower.

Thread-the-needle. A very complicated form of this children's game is played at Deverill, under the name of Dred-th'-wold-'ooman's-needle.—S.W.

*Thunder-stones. Nodules of iron pyrites. *Hunder-stones, q.v., may be merely a misreading of the MS.

'Thunder-stones, as the vulgar call them, are a pyrites; their fibres do all tend to the centre. They are found at Broad Chalke frequently.'—Aubrey's Nat. Hist. Wilts, p. 40, ed. Brit.

Tine. Add:—(6) To collect and burn couch and weeds in the fields.—N.W.

'What 'ould thy husband do ... if thee was too vine to turn hay, or go tinin' or leazin'?'—Dark, ch. XV.

*Tippertant. A young upstart.—S.W.

*Trip. A brood or flock, as 'A vine trip o' vowels (fowls).' In a MS. in the Bodleian a herd of tame swine is defined as a trip, while one of wild swine is a sounder.—S.W. (Deverill.)

*Tucky. Sticky.—S.W.

*Turning-the-barrel. A game in which two children stand back to back, locking their arms behind them, and lifting each other by turns from the ground.—S.W. (Deverill.)

Under-creep. v. To get the upper hand of by deceit, to overreach any one.—S.W. (Britford and Harnham.)

*Underground Shepherd. Orchis mascula, L., Early Purple Orchis.—S.W. (Charlton.)

Unhealed. See Heal.

Vitty. Close, closely. Cp. fitly, Eph. iv. 16.—N.W.

*Warning-stone. Add:—

'The bakers take a certain pebble, which they put in the vaulture of their oven, which they call the warning-stone: for when that is white the oven is hot.'—Aubrey's Nat. Hist. Wilts, p. 43, ed. Brit.

*Water-sparrow. Salicaria phragmitis, the Sedge Warbler. Cp. Brook-sparrow.—S.W. (Deverill.)

Whinnock. To whimper.—N.W.

Whinnocky. A whinnocky child is one that is always ailing and whimpering.—N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

White-livered. Add:—S.W. (Deverill.)

Winter-stuff. Winter-greens.—N.W.

*Witch-hazel. Ulmus montana, Sm.

'In Yorkshire is plenty of trees, which they call elmes; but they are wich-hazells, as we call them in Wilts.'—Aubrey's Nat. Hist. Wilts, p. 54, ed. Brit.

Wrastle. Add:—Measles, for instance, 'wrastles' all over the face very quickly.

*Zwail. To shake about: to swing the arms.—S.W. (Deverill, &c.)

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