ery, pimply
An _prep._ If
An-dog, Handog _s._ andiron
Angle-dog, or Angle-twitch _s._ a large earth-worm (A S _Angel-twicce_),
_Angle_ a fish-hook
Anpassey, Anpussey, the sign of &, _i.e. and per se_
Anty, empty
Appropo, (Fr. _Apropos_) but used as one of a small group of Norman
French words which have got into popular use
Apse, Apsen-tree, (A S _aeps_) the aspen tree
Ar-a-one, ever-a-one. Nar-a-one, never-a-one
Arry, any. N'urry, none
Asew, drained of her milk: applied to a cow at the season of calving.
From _sew_ to drain, hence _sewer_
Aslun, Aslue, Aslope, _adv._ indicate oblique movements in different
directions and levels
Asplew _adv._ extended awkwardly
Astroddle _adj._ astride
Auverlook _v._ to bewitch
Ax _v._ to waddle
Axe, (A S _ascan_) _v._ to ask, always used in Wiclif's Bible
Axen, (A S _ahse. aexse_) _s._ ashes, ex. Here maaid, teeak showl and
d'up axen
Axpeddlar _s._ dealer in ashes
Backlet _s._ the back part of the premises
Back-stick, Backsword _s._ single-stick, a favourite game in Wedmore
Backsunded _adj._ with a northern aspect
Bal-rib _s._ spare-rib
Bally-rag _v._ to use abusive language
Ban _v._ to shut out, stop, ex. I ban he from gwain there
Bane _s._ liver disease in sheep, east of the Parret; west of the river
the term Coed or Coathed is used, ex. I count they be beund
Bannin _s._ That which is used for shutting out, or stopping
Bannut _s._ Walnut
A woman, a spaunel, and a bannut tree,
The mooar you bate 'em the better they be
Barrener _s._ a cow not in calf
Barrow _s._ a child's pilch or flannel clout
Barrow-pig _s._ a gelt-pig
Barton _s._ a farm-yard, the Barn-town
Bastick _s._ basket
Bat, But, the root end of a tree after it has been thrown, also spade of
cards, the stump of a post
Batch, a sand bank, or patch of ground, or hillock, "a hill," as
Churchill-batch, Chelvey-batch, (lying within, or contiguous to, a
river); emmet-batches, ant-hills. Duck-batches, land trodden by cattle
in wet weather
Bats _s._ corners of ploughed fields: low-laced boots
Bawker: Bawker-stone _s._ a stone for whetting scythes
Be, indic. ex. I be, thou bist, he be
Bear-hond _v._ to help
Bear-nan, Bear-in-hond, Bean-hond _v._ to intend, purpose, think,
suspect, conjecture, ex. I do beanhond et'l rain zoon
Beat the streets, to run about idly
Beeastle, Beezle _v._ to make nasty
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