milkless.

B.

_Backbran' (brand)_, _Backbron' (brond)_, A big brand or block of wood
put on the back of the fire.

_Ballywrag_, scold.

_Bandy_, a long stick with a bent end to beat abroad cow-dung.

_Barken_, _Barton_, a stack-yard or cow yard.

_Baven_, a faggot of long brushwood.

_Beae'nhan'_ (1, 3, 5), bear in hand, uphold or maintain, as an opinion
or otherwise.

_Beaet_ (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.

_Bleaere_ (1, 3), to low as a cow.

_Blind-buck o' Davy_, blindman's buff.

_Bloodywarrior_, the ruddy Stock gilliflower.

_Blooens_, blossoms.

_Blooth_, blossom in the main.

_Bluevinny_, blue mouldy.

_Brack_, a breach. "Neither brack nor crack in it."

_Bran'_, a brand.

_Branten_, brazen-faced.

_Bring-gwain_ (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.

_Car_, to carry.

_Cassen_, _casn_, canst not.

_Chanker_, a wide chink.

_Charlick_, _charlock_, field-mustard; _Sinapis arvensis_.

_Charm_, a noise as of many voices.

_Choor_, _a chare_, a (weekly) job as of house work.

_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.

_Cleden_, 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