_, 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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