Tack. s. A shelf.

Tac'ker. s. The waxed thread used by shoemaker_s._

Ta'Ëty. s. A potato.

Taf'fety. adj. Dainty, nice: used chiefly in regard to food.

Tal'let. s. The upper room next the roof; used chiefly of out-houses, as a hay-tallet.

Tan. adv. Then, now an Tan; now and then.

To Tang. v. a. To tie.

Tap and Cannel. s. A spigot and faucet.

Tay'ty. s. See A hayty-tayty.

Tees'ty-totsy. s. The blossoms of cowslips, tied into a ball and tossed to and fro for an amusement called teesty- tosty. It is sometimes called simply a tosty.

Tee'ry. adj. Faint weak. [proofer's note: missing comma?]

Tem'tious. adj. Tempting; inviting. [Used also in
Wiltshire].

ThÂ. pron. They.

Than. adv. Then.

Thauf. conj. Though, although.

TheÄze. pron. This.

TheeÄzam,TheeÄzamy. pron. These.

Them, Them'my. pron. Those.

The'rence. adv. From that place.

ThereawÂ, Thereaway. adv. Thereabout.

Therevor-i-sayt! interj. Therefore I say it!

Thic. pron. That. (Thilk, Chaucer.) [West of the
Parret, thecky.]

Tho. adv. Then.

Thornen. adj. Made of thorn; having the quality or nature of thorn.

Thorough. prep. Through.

Thread the Needle, Dird the Needle. s. A play.

"Throwing batches," cutting up and destroying ant-hills.

Tiff. s. A small draught of liquor.

To tile. v. a. To set a thing in such a situation that it may easily fall.

Til'ty. adj. Testy, soon offended.

Tim'mer. s. Timber; wood.

Tim'mern. adj. Wooden; as a timmern bowl; a wooden bowl.

Tim'mersom. adj. Fearful; needlessly uneasy.

To Tine. v. a. To shut, to close; as, tine the door; shut the door. To inclose; to tine in the moor, is to divide it into several allotments. To light, to kindle; as, to tine the candle, is to light the candle.

QUARLES uses this verb:

"What is my soul the better to be tin'd
With holy fire?"

Emblem XII.

To Tip. v. a. To turn or raise on one side.

Tip. s. A draught of liquor. Hence the word tipple, because the cup must be tipped when you drink.

To Tite. v. a. To weigh.

Tite. s. Weight. The tite of a pin, the weight of a pin.

Todo'. s. A bustle; a confusion.

To Toll. v. a. To entice; to allure.

Toor. s. The toe.

Tosty. s. See TEESTY-TOSTY.

Tote. s. The whole. This word is commonly used for intensity, as the whol tote, from totus, Latin.

To Tot'tle. v. n. To walk in a tottering manner, like a child.

Touse. s. A blow on some part of the head.

Towards. prep., is, in Somersetshire, invariably pronounced as a dissyllable, with the accent on the last: to-ward's. Our polite pronunciation, tordz, is clearly a corruption.

Tramp. s. A walk; a journey. To Tramp. v. n. and Tramper. s. will be found in Johnson, where also this word ought to be.

To Trapes, v. n. To go to and fro in the dirt.

Trapes, s. A slattern.

Trim. v. a. To beat.

Trub'agully. s. A short dirty, ragged fellow, accustomed to perform the most menial offices.

To Truckle, v. a. and v. n. To roll.

Truckle. s. A globular or circular piece of wood or iron, placed under another body, in order to move it readily from place. A Truckle-bed, is a small bed placed upon truckles, so that it may be readily moved about.

These are the primary and the common meanings in the West, of To truckle, v. Truckle, s. and Truckle-bed.

Tun. s. A chimney.

Tun'negar. s. A Funnel.

Turf. s. pl. Turves. Peat cut into pieces and dried for fuel.

Tur'mit. s. A turnip.

Tur'ney. s. An attorney. Turn-string, s. A string made of twisted gut, much used in spinning. See WORRA.

To Tus'sle. v. n. To straggle with; to contend.

Tut. s. A hassock.

Tut-work. s. Work done by the piece or contract; not work by the clay.

Tuth'er. pron. The other.

Tuth'eram. \ } pron. The others Tuth ermy. /

Tut'ty. s. A flower; a nosegay.

'Tword'n. It was not.

To Twick. v. a. To twist or jerk suddenly.

Twick. s. A sudden twist or jerk.

Twi'ly. adj. Restless; wearisome.

Twi'ripe. adj. Imperfectly ripe.