A glossary of north country words, in use. From an original manuscript, with additions |
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Æsop ancient Antiq applied Aw'l bairns Barrister at Law beat Beaum bird BIZON BLASH Brand's Pop bread cake called Canny Newcassel castle cattle Chaucer common copies corn corruption Crav creils dialect dirty Durham fellow female fire Flet Gael Gateshead Germ Gloss Glossary grass Grose Hence Henry hinny horse iron Jamieson JOHN GEORGE LAMBTON Johnson keel keelmen kind lads language London Lord manner means milk Mirror for Magistrates Mo.-Got Moor Nares Newcastle noise North country North Shields Northern Northumberland Northumbrian obsolete Old Eng old word originally Peirs Ploughman perhaps person piece Pure Saxon RIGHT HONOURABLE Saxon says Scotch sense Shak Shakspeare sheep Song sort Spenser stone Su.-Got Suff term Teut thing Thomas Todd Todd's John Tyne vulgar Welsh Wilb Willan William writers young
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Page 60 - Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck, And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats, Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades, Of healths five fathom deep ; and then anon Drums in his ear, at which he starts, and wakes ; And, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again. This is that very Mab, That plats the manes of horses in the night ; And bakes the elf-locks in foul sluttish hairs, Which, once untangled, much misfortune bodes...
Page 154 - Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Page 239 - Come, bring with a noise, My merry, merry boys, The Christmas log to the firing ; While my good dame, she Bids ye all be free, And drink to your hearts
Page 148 - Wi' him that night. The auld guidwife's weel-hoordet nits Are round an' round divided, An' monie lads' an' lasses' fates Are there that night decided : Some kindle, couthie, side by side, An' burn thegither trimly; Some start awa, wi' saucy pride, An' jump out-owre the chimlie Fu
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Page 13 - Through they were lin'd with many a piece Of ammunition bread and cheese, And fat black-puddings, proper food For warriors that delight in blood : For, as we said, he always chose To carry vittle in his hose, That often tempted rats and mice The ammunition to surprise : And when he put a hand but in The one or t...
Page 106 - KELD, the still part of a river, which has an oily smoothness, while the rest of the water is ruffled. I have only heard this word on the Tyne, and confined to the meaning here given ; but a friend, who lately visited...
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Page 186 - ... it is supposed that a shrew-mouse is of so baneful and deleterious a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb.
Page 184 - His cloister'd flight; ere to black Hecate's summons The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done A deed of dreadful note.