_Pont_, to hit a fish or fruit, so as to bring on a rotting.

_Pooks._ _See_ Haymeaeken.

_Popple_, a pebble.

_Praise_ (5, 1), prize, to put forth or tell to others a pain or ailing.
"I had a risen on my eaerm, but I didden praise it," say anything
about it.

_Pummy_, pomice.

_ps_ for _sp_ in clasp, claps; hasp, haps; wasp, waps.

Q.

_Quaer_, queer.

_Quag_, a quaking bog.

_Quar_, a quarry.

_Quarrel_, a square window pane.

_Quid_, a cud.

_Quirk_, to grunt with the breath without the voice.

R.

_R_, at the head of a word, is strongly breathed, as _Hr_ in Anglo-Saxon,
as _Hhrong_, the rong of a ladder.

_R_ is given in Dorset by a rolling of the tongue back under the roof.

For _or_, as an ending sometimes given before a free breathing, or _h_,
try _ow_,--_hollor_, hollow.

_R_ before _s_, _st_, and _th_ often goes out, as bu'st, burst;
ve'ss, verse; be'th, birth; cu'st, curst; fwo'ce, force; me'th, mirth.

_Raft_, to rouse, excite.

_Rake_, to reek.

_Ram_, _Rammish_, rank of smell.

_Rammil_, raw milk (cheese), of unskimmed milk.

_Ramsclaws_, the creeping crowfoot. _Ranunculus repens._

_Randy_, a merry uproar or meeting.

_Rangle_, to range or reach about.

_Rathe_, early; whence rather.

_Ratch_, to stretch.

_Readship_, criterion, counsel.

_Reaemes_, (1, 3), skeleton, frame.

_Reaen_ (1, 4), to reach in greedily in eating.

_Reaeves_, a frame of little rongs on the side of a waggon.

_Reed_ (2), wheat hulm drawn for thatching.

_Reely_, to dance a reel.

_Reem_, to stretch, broaden.

_Rick_, a stack.

_Rig_, to climb about.

_Rivel_, shrivel; to wrinkle up.

_Robin Hood_, The Red campion.

_Roller_ (6, 4). _See_ Haymeaeken.
A Roller was also a little roll of wool from the card of a woolcomber.

_Rottlepenny_, the yellow rattle. _Rhinanthus Crista-galli._

_Rouet_, a rough tuft of grass.

S.

_Sammy_, soft, a soft head; simpleton.

_Sar_, to serve or give food to (cattle).

_Sarch_, to search.

_Scote_, to shoot along fast in running.

_Scrag_, a crooked branch of a tree.

_Scraggle_, to screw scramly about (of a man), to screw the limbs
scramly as from rheumatism.

_Scram_, distorted, awry.

_Scroff_, bits of small wood or chips, as from windfalls or hedge plushing.

_Scroop_, to skreak lowly as new shoes or a gate hinge.

_Scud_, a sudden or short down-shooting of rain, a shower.

_Scw