ntle_, a staggering motion, to stagger, to reel.
_Wiss_, to wish.
_Withouten_, without.
_Wizened_, hide-bound, dried, shrunk.
_Winze_, a curse or imprecation.
_Wonner_, a wonder, a contemptuous appellation.
_Woo_', wool.
_Woo_, to court, to make love to.
_Widdie_, a rope, more properly one of withs or willows.
_Woer-bobs_, the garter knitted below the knee with a couple of loops.
_Wordy_, worthy.
_Worset_, worsted.
_Wrack_, to tease, to vex.
_Wud_, wild, mad; _wud-mad_, distracted.
_Wumble_, a wimble.
_Wraith_, a spirit, a ghost, an apparition exactly like a living person,
whose appearance is said to forbode the person's approaching
death; also wrath.
_Wrang_, wrong, to wrong.
_Wreeth_, a drifted heap of snow.
_Wyliecoat_, a flannel vest.
_Wyte_, blame, to blame.
Y.
_Ye_, this pronoun is frequently used for thou.
_Yearns_, longs much.
_Yealings_, born in the same year, coevals.
_Year_, is used both for singular and plural, years.
_Yell_, barren, that gives no milk.
_Yerk_, to lash, to jerk.
_Yerket_, jerked, lashed.
_Yestreen_, yesternight.
_Yett_, a gate.
_Yeuk's_, itches.
_Yill_, ale.
_Yird, yirded_, earth, earthed, buried.
_Yokin_', yoking.
_Yont_, ayont, beyond.
_Yirr_, lively.
_Yowe_, an ewe.
_Yowie_, diminutive of _yowe._
_Yule_, Christmas.
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