tle into one herd in a moor, which is done
twice a year (_i.e._, at Lady-day and at Michaelmas), with a view to
ascertain whether any person has put stock there without a right to do it

Proud-tailor _s._ gold-finch

Pulk, or Pulker _s._ a small pool of water

Pumple, or Pumple-foot _s._ club-foot

Pur, or Pur-hog _s._ a one-year-old male sheep

Purt _v._ to pout, to be sullen

Puskey _adj._ short-breathed, wheezing

Putt _s._ a manure cart with two or three broad wheels

Puxy _s._ a slough, a muddy place

Pyer _s._ a hand-rail across a wooden bridge (Fr. _s'apuyer_)

Quar _v._ to coagulate--applied to milk in the breast

Quarrel, Quarrey _s._ a pane of glass

Quat _adj._ full, satisfied

Queane _s._ a little girl, a term of endearment

Queest, Quisty _s._ a wood-pigeon or blue-rock. A quarish queest _s._
a queer fellow

Quilled, or Queeled _adj._ withered, as grass

Quine _s._ a corner (Fr. _coin_)

Quirk, Quirky _v._ to complain, to groan, grunt

Quat, or Aquat _adj._ sitting flat, like a bird on its eggs to quat
_v.n._ to squat (It. _quatto_)

Qwerk _s._ the clock of a stocking

Rade, or Rede _s._ part of the tripe or stomach of a bullock, the maw

Raening _adj._ thin, applied to cloth

Raft-up _v._ to disturb from sleep

Rain-pie _s._ woodpecker, yuckle

Rake _v.n._ to rouse up

Rally _v._ to scold

Ram _v._ to lose, by throwing a thing beyond reach

Rammel _adj._ (raw milk), applied to cheese made of unskimmed milk

Rams-claws _s. p._ crow's foot

Rampsing _adj._ tall

Range _s._ a sieve

Rangle _v._ to twine, move in a sinuous manner

Rangling Plants _s._ such as entwine round other plants, as hops,
woodbine

Rap _v._ to exchange

Rape _v._ to scratch

Rare _adj._ raw, or red, as meat

Rasty, Rusty _adj._ rancid, gross, obscene

Ratch _v._ to stretch

Rathe, Rather early, soon Milton: "the rathe primrose"

Rathe-ripe _s._ an early kind of apple; also a male or female that
arrives at full maturity before the usual age

Raught _part._ and _past tense_ reached, ex. E' raught down his gun

Rawn _v.a._ to devour greedily

Rawning-knife _s._ the large knife with which butchers clear their meat;
cleaver

Rawny _adj._ thin, meagre

'Ray _v.a._ to dress. Unray to undress

Read, Reed _v._ to strip the fat from the intestines

Readship, or Retchup, Rechip, Rightship _s._ truth, dependence,
trustworthiness

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