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_, a ledge on a hill-side. _Litsome_, lightsome, gay. _Litty_, light and brisk of body. _Lo't_ (7), loft, an upper floor. _Lowl_, to loll loosely. _Lumper_, a loose step. M. _Maesh_ (2), _Mesh_, (Blackmore) moss, also a hole or run of a hare, fox, or other wild animal. _Mammet_, an image, scarecrow. _Marrels_, _Merrels_, The game of nine men's morris. _Mawn_, m[=a]n, (5) a kind of basket. _Meaeden_ (1, 4), stinking chamomile. _Ment_ (2), to imitate, be like. _M[=e]sh_, (2) moss. _Mid_, might. _Miff_, a slight feud, a tiff. _Min_ (2), observe. You must know. _Mither ho_, come hither. A call to a horse on the road. _Moot_, the bottom and roots of a felled tree. _More_, a root, taproot. _Muggy_, misty, damp (weather). N. _Na'r a_, never a (man). _Nar'n_, never a one. _N'eet_, not yet. _N[=e]sh_ (2), soft. _Nesthooden_, a hooding over a bird's nest, as a wren's. _Netlens_, a food of a pig's inwards tied in knots. _Never'stide_, never at all. _Nicky_, a very small fagot of sticks. _Nippy_, hungry, catchy. _Nitch_, a big fagot of wood; a load; a fagot of wood which custom allows a hedger to carry home at night. _Not_ (hnot or knot), hornless. _Nother_, neither (adverb). _Nunch_, a nog or knob of food. _Nut_ (of a wheel), the stock or nave. O. _O'_, of. _O'm_ (2), of em, them. _O'n_ (2), of him. _O's_ (2), of us. _Orts_, leavings of hay put out in little heaps in the fields for the cows. _Over-right_, opposite. _Oves_, eaves. P. _Paladore_, a traditional name of Shaftesbury, the British _Caer Paladr_, said by British history to have been founded by _Rhun Paladr-bras_, 'Rhun of the stout spear.' _Pank_, pant. _Par_, to shut up close; confine. _Parrick_, a small enclosed field; a paddock--but paddock was an old word for a toad or frog. _Pa'sels_, parcels. _See_ Haymeaeken. _Peaert_ (1, 4), pert; lively. _Peaze_, _Peeze_ (2), to ooze. _Peewit_, the lapwing. _Pitch._ _See_ Haymeaeken. _Plesh_, (2) _Plush_ (a hedge), to lay it. To cut the stems half off and peg them down on the bank where they sprout upward. To plush, shear, and trim a hedge are sundry handlings of it. _Plim_, to swell up. _Plock_, a hard block of wood. _Plow_, a waggon, often so called. The plough or plow for ploughing is the Zull. _Plounce_, a strong plunge. _Pluffy_, plump.
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