A collection of English vvords not generally used, with their significations and original in two alphabetical catalogues, the one of such as are proper to the northern, the other to the southern counties : with catalogues of English birds and fishes : and an account of the preparing and refining such metals and minerals as are gotten in England / by John Ray ... Ray, John, 1627-1705. 1674 Approx. 181 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 101 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2006-06 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A58162 Wing R388 ESTC R5328 13206235 ocm 13206235 98487 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . 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Metallurgy -- Early works to 1800. Metallurgy -- Terminology. 2005-07 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2005-08 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2006-01 Emma (Leeson) Huber Sampled and proofread 2006-01 Emma (Leeson) Huber Text and markup reviewed and edited 2006-04 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A COLLECTION OF English VVORDS . Not Generally used , with their Significations and Original , in two Alphabetical Catalogues , The one of such as are proper to the Northern , the other to the Southern Counties . With Catalogues of English Birds and Fishes : And an Account of the preparing and refining such Metals and Minerals as are gotten in England . By JOHN RAY Fellow of the ROYAL SOCIETY . LONDON , Printed by H. Bruges for Tho. Burrell at the Golden-Ball under St. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet , 1674. TO HIS Honoured Friend PETER COURTHOPE OF Danny in Sussex Esquire . SIR , THough I need no other Motive to induce me to present you with this Collection of English Words , but that I might take occasion publickly to own my Obligations to you , as well for your long continued Friendship , as for the Assistance you have sometime afforded me in those Studies to which I am I think naturally inclined , yet one Circumstance did more especially lead me to make choice of you for its Patron ; and that is , that you were the first that Contributed to it , and indeed the Person that put me upon it ; and so it being in good measure your own , I have reason to hope that you will Favourably accept it . I confess the Work is so inconsiderable , that I am somewhat ashamed to prefix your name before it , but having nothing else left of my own , which I design to trouble the World with , as not knowing whether I may live so long as to perfect my intended Method and History of Plants ; I chuse rather to present you with this , then lose the Honour of being known to have such a Friend , or neglect the duty of making acknowledgments where they are due , especially having already made Presents of this Nature to others of my Friends , which is enough to excuse this Dedication intended to no other purposes by Sir , Your very humble Servant , JO. RAY . TO THE READER . IN my travels through several parts of England , besides other things , which I principally minded and pursued , I could not but take notice of the difference of Dialect , and variety of Local words ( for so I will take leave to call such as are not of general use ) in divers Counties , by Reason whereof in many places , especially of the North , the Language of the common people , is to a stranger very difficult to be understood . Whereupon I thought it might be worth the while to make a Collection of such words for my own use , and began first to set down those that occurred to me in common discourse . But making short stayes in particular places , and conversing but with few persons , I found that what I could take notice of my self would be but an inconsiderable part of what were in use among the vulgar . Therefore I desired my friends and acquaintance living in several Countreys to communicate to me what they had observed each of their own Countrey words , or should afterwards gather up out of the mouths of the people ; which divers of them accordingly did . To whose contributions I must acknowledge my self to owe the greatest part of the words , I now present the Reader with , in these Catalogues . The considerations which induced me to make them publick were . First , because I knew not of anything that hath been already done in this kind . 2. Because I conceive , they may be of some use to them who shall have occasion to travel the Northern Counties , in helping them to understand the common language there . 3. Because they may also afford some diversion to the curious , and give them occasion of making many considerable remarks . As for the sence and import of these words , I am confident I am not therein mistaken , having received it from persons that well understand the force and meaning of them in the places where they are used . But of their original or Etymology , for want of sufficient skill in the Saxon , Dutch and Danish Languages , I have not been able to give so good an account as I desired , and by those helps might have done . For what I have performed in this kind , I acknowledge my self to have been for the most part beholden to Dr. Skinner's Etymologicon Linguae Anglicanae , and Mr. Somners Saxon Dictionary , by turning over which last work I find a great part of these words to be pure Saxon , or manifestly derived thence ; and I doubt not but many of the rest , which occur not in that Dictionary ( which being collected out of but a few Books and fragments that remain of that Language , cannot be conceived to comprehend near all the words in common use ) are of like Original . I am sensible that this Collection is far from Perfect , not conteining perchance more then one moiety of the Local words used in all the several Counties of England . But it is as full as I can at present easily make it , and may give occasion to the curious in each Countrey to supply what are wanting , and so make the work compleat . I have added hereto , 1. a Catalogue of English Birds , as well such as continually abide and breed with us ; as those they call Birds of passage , that come and go at certain seasons , admitting also some which frequent our coasts only upon occasion of hard Winte●s or other accidents , all which either my Self or Mr. Francis Willughby have both seen and described . Since this Catalogue was sent away to the Press , among some Pictures of Birds which I have received from the Learned and deservedly Famous Sr. Thomas Brown of Norwich , I find two or three English Birds by me omitted , as whereof I was not then certain , 1. Oedicnemus Bellonii , by him also first observed in England . Upon the Picture of it sent me by Sr. Tho. I find inscribed , A stone Curlew , from about Thetford , whereabout they breed . It hath a Remarkeable eye and note somewhat like a green plover , 2. A shear-water inscribed , Larus niger , pectore albido , rostro adunco , 3. The Barker , a marsh Bird with a long bill , to which there was no Latine name added , 4. Mergulos melanoleucos rostro acuto brevi , 5. A little Bird of a tawney colour on the back , and a blew head , yellow bill , black legs , shot in an Osiar yard , called by Sir Tho. for distinction sake Silerella . 2. Two Catalogues of fishes , one of all our English fresh water fishes ; the other of such sea-fish as are taken about Pensans in Carnwal . 3. Several relations of the manner of smelting , refining and preparing such metals and minerals as are found in England , according to the best information I could get in the places where they are wrought . A Collection OF LOCAL VVORDS PROPER To the North and South COUNTREYS . North Countrey Words . A TO Adle or Addle ; to Earn , from the ancient Saxon word Ed-lean , a reward , recompence or requital . Agate ; Ches . Just going , as I am Agate . Gate in the Northern Dialect signifies a way , so that a Agate is at or upon the way . A mell ; Among , betwixt , contracted from a midle ; Some pronounce it ameld . Anauntrins ; If so be . I know not what the Original of this should be , unless it be from An , for if , and Auntrins contracted from Peradventure . Anent ; Over against , concerning , A word of frequent use among the Scots . Some deduce it from the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Oppositum . Nec male sane ( inquit Skinnerus in Etymologico Linguae Anglicanae ) si vel soni vel sensus convementiam respicias . Sed quo commercio Graeci Scotis totius Europae longitudine dissi●is vocabula impertiri potuerurit ? Mallem igitur deducere ab AS Nean Propé , additâ particulâ initiali otiosa AS . An Arain : a Spider a Lat. Aranea , it is used only for the larger kind of Spiders . Nottinghamshire . An Ark ; A large Chest to put corn or fruit in like the Bing of a Buttery ; from the Latin word Arca. Arles or Earles ; Earnest , An Arles-penny , An Earnest penny , from the Latin word archa . An Asker ; a Newt , or Eft , Salamandra aquatica . 2. Astite ; Anon , shortly , or As soon . i. e. As Tide , Tide in the North signifies soon , and tider or titter sooner . The tider ( that is the sooner ) you come the tider you 'll goe ; from the Saxon Tid signifying time , which is still in use , as in Shrove-tide , Whitsun-tide , &c. 1. As Asly ; As willingly . An Attercob ; A Spiders Web. Cumberl . Average ; The breaking of corn fields ; Eddish , Roughings . Average in Law signifies either the beasts which tenants and vassals were to provide their Lords for certain services , or that money that was laid out by Merchants to repair the losses suffered by Shipwrack ; and so it is deduced from the old word Aver [ Averium ] signifying a labouring beast : or Averia signifying Goods or Chattels , from the French Avoir to have or possess . But in the sence we have used it , it may possibly come from Haver signifying Oates ; or from Averia , beasts , being as much as feeding for cattal , pasturage . An Aumbry or Ambry or Aumery . A Pantry or Cupboard to set victuals in : Skinner makes it to Signify a Cupboards head , or side-table : super quam vasa mensaria & tota argentea supellex ad usum conviviorum exponitur : à Fr. G. Aumoire , Armaire & Armoire , It. Armaro idem signantibus , q. d. Latine Armarium . Prov. No sooner up , but the head in the Aumbry , and nose in the cup ; in which sentence it must needs signifie a Cup-board for Victuals . Aunters : Peradventure , or , in case , if it chance . I guess it to be contracted from Adventure , which was first mollified into Auventure , and then easily contracted into Aunter . The Aunder , or as they pronounce it in Cheshire Oneder ; The afternoon . B. BAin ; Willing , Forward : opposed to Lither . The Balk or Bawk : The Summer-beam . Balks , Bawks : Poles laid over a stable or other building for the roof , à Belgico & Teuton . Balk , Trabs , tignum . A Balk staffe : A Quarter-staffe , A great staffe like a Pole or Beam. A Bannock , An Oat-cake kneaded with water only and baked in the Embers . In Lancashire , and other parts of the North , they make several sorts of Oaten bread , which they call by several names : as 1. Tharcakes , the same with Bannocks , viz. Cakes made of Oat-meal as it comes from the mill and fair water , without Yeast or leaven , and so baked . 2. Clap-bread : Thin hard Oat-cakes . 3. Kitchiness-bread : Thin soft Oat-cakes made of thin batter . 4. Riddle-cakes : thick Sour-cakes , from which differs little that which they call Hand-hoven Bread , having but little leaven , and being kneaded stiffer . 5. Jannock , Oaten bread made up in loaves . A Bargh , A Horseway up a steep hill . York-shire . A Barn or Bearn : A Child : it is an ancient Saxon word . In the ancient Teutonick Barn signifies a son , derived perchance from the Syriack Bar , I'ilius . Bearn-teams , Broods of Children , as they expounded it to me . I find that Bearn-team in the Saxon , signifies Issue , offspring , Children , from team , soboles , and Bearn . Beating with Child : Breeding , gravid . York-shire . A Beck : a small brook : a word common to the ancient Saxon , High and low Dutch and Danish . Beer or Birre q. Beare : Force , might . With aw my beer . Chesh . i. e. with all my force . Beight of the Elbow : Bending of the Elbow . Chesh . Asubstantive from the preterperfect tense of Bend , as Bought of the like signification , from Bow. Belive : Anon , by and by , or towards night . By the Eve. To Bensel : To bang or beat . Vox rustica Ebor. To Berry : to Thresh . Biggening : I wish you a good biggening : i. e. A good getting up again after lying in . Votum pro puerpera . Bizen'd : Skinner writes it Beesen or Beezen or Bison : Blinded . From by signifying besides , and the Dutch word Sin signifying Sence . q. d. Sensu omnium nobilissimo orbatus : saith he . Cow-blakes : Casings , Cow-dung dried , used for Fewel . Bleit or Blate : Bashful . A toom purse makes a bleit Merchant . Scot. Prov. That is , an empty purse makes a shamefac't Merchant . Fortass q. bleak or blank . Bloten : Fond , as Children are of their nurses . Chesh . To Bluffe : To blindfold . A Bondy : A Simpleton . York-sh . To Boke at one : to Point at one . Chesh . i. e. to Poke at one . To Boke , to Nauseate , to be ready to vomit , also to Belch . Vox agro Lincolniensi familiaris ( inquit Skinnerus ) Alludit saltem Hispan . Bessar vomere , Boquear oscitare seu Pandiculari ; vel possit deflecti à Latino evocare , vel melius à Belg. Boocken , Boken pulsare , vel Fuycken Trudere , protrudere . Vomitus enim est rerum vomitu rejectarum quaedam protrusio seu extrusio . The Boor : The Parlour , Bed-chamber or inner room . Cumb. A Boose : an Oxe , or Cow-stall . ab AS . Bosih . v. Ox-boose . To Boun and unboun ; to dress and undress . Forte ● Belgico Bouwen , to build or manure . which word also substantively signifies a womans garment . To Bourd ; to Jest , used most in Scotland . Bourd [ Jest ] neither with me nor with my honour , Prov. Scot. Bout : Without . Chesh . To be bout as Barrow was , i. e. to be without as , &c. Prov. Braken : Brakes , Fern. [ var. Dial. ] Brakes is a word of General use all England over . Bragget , A sort of compound drink made up with honey , Spices , &c. in Cheshire , Lancashire , &c. Minshew derives it from the Welsh Bragod signifying the same . forte q. d. Potus Galliae braccatae . The Author of the English Dictionary set forth in the Year , 1658. Deduces it from the Welsh word Brag signifying Malt , and Gots a Honey Comb. A Brandrith ; a Trevet or other iron to set any vessel on , over the fire , from the Saxon Brandred , a Brand iron , Bratt ; Vox agro Lincolniensi usitata , sic autem appellatur Semicinctium ex panno vilissimo ab AS Bratt panniculus ; hoc a verbo Brittan . Gebritian , frangere , q. d. Panni fragmenta . Skinner . Braughwham ; A dish made of Cheese , Egges , Clap-bread and Butter boyled together , Lancash . To Breade ; i. e. to make broad , to spread . ab AS . Braedan . To Bree ; to Frighten . To Breid or brade of ; to be like in conditions , from breeding , because those that are bred of others are for the most part like them . Ye breid of the Millers dog , ye lick your mouth or the poke be ope . Prov. Scot. Brichoe ; Brittle . Var. Dial. Chesh . Broach ; a Spit , it is a French word : From its similitude whereto a Spire-steeple is called a Broach-steeple , as an Obelisk is denominated from , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a spit . It signifies also a Butchers-prick . Hat Bruarts ; Hat brims . Cheshire , Var. Dial. A Buer ; a Gnat. Bulle● ; Hempstalks pilled . Bulkar ; Vox agro Lincoln . usitatissima , proculdubio à Dan. Bielcker , n. pl. trabes , Bielck , Tignum , Trabs . Skinner . C. CAnt ; strong , lusty , very cant , God yield you , i. e. Very strong and lu●●y , God reward you , Chesh . To Cant ; to Recover or Mend. A health to the good wives canting , i. e. her recovering after lying in , Canting ; Auctio . A Capo ; a working horse . Chesh . A Carl-cat ; a Bore or He-cat , from the old Saxon Carle a male , and Cat. A Carre ; a hollow place where water stands . The Carr-sick ; The Kennel ; a word used in Sheffield , York-sh . To Carve or Kerve ; to grow sowre , spoken of cream , Chesh . Casings : Dryed cowes dung used for fewel , from the Dutch Koth , fimus , caenum , q. d. Cothings , Skinner . A Char : a particular business or taske , from the word charge . That Char is chard , &c. That business is dispatcht . I have a little Char for you , &c. A Char is also the name of a Fish of the trout-kind found in Winander-mere in Westmerland , and in a lake in Carnarvanshire by the back of Snowdon . To Chare : to stop : as char the cow , i. e. Stop or turn her . A Chaundler : A Candlestick , Sheffield . To Chieve : to succeed : as , It chieves nought with him : So , Fair chieve you , I wish you good luck , good speed or success , from Atchieve per Aphaeresin : or perchance from the French word Chevir , to obtain . To Cleam : a word of frequent use in Lincolnshire , signifying to glue together , to fasten with glue . Ab AS . Claemian , beclaemian . Oblinere , unde nostrum clammy . AS . clam , Plasma , emplastrum : Danic . Kliiner , Glutino . Nescio autem an verbum claemian & Nom. Clam orta sint à Lat. Limus , Limus enim propter lentorem admotis corporibus adhaeret , Skinner . Clem'd or clam'd : Starved , because by famine the guts and bowels are as it were clammed or stuck together . Sometimes it signifies thirsty , and we know in thirst the mouth is very often clammy . Clough : a valley between two steep hills . it is an ancient Saxon word , derived ( as Skinner saith ) from the verb to cleave . Clumps : Jdle , lazy , unhandy , ineptus , a word of common use in Lincolnshire , à vet . Fr. G. Cloppe , claudus , vel à Belg. Klonte , Klonter , vel potius Klompe , Teut. Klamp , Massa , q. d. Carnis massa , spiritus & ingenij expers , vel à Belg. Lompsch , Stupidus , piger , hoc fort . à Lompe , Clompe massa ob rationem jam dictam : vel forte clumps contr . & corr . a nostro clownish , Skinner . A Clussum'd hand , a clumsy hand , Chesh . per metathesin literarum . Cobby : Stout , Hearty , Brisk . Cocket : Brisk , malapert . Dicimus autem ( verba sunt Skinneri ) He is very cocket , de homine valetudinario qui jam melius●ule se habet & convalescere incipit . q. d. Est instar Galli alacer , non ut prius languidus . vel à Fr. G. Coqueter , Glocitare instar Galli galgallinas suas vocantis , vel superbe incedere iustar galli in suo sterquilinio . A Cod ; a Pillow : a Pin-cod , a Pin-cushion . Coke : Pit-coal or Sea-cole charred : it is now become a word of general use , à Lat. coquere , q. d. Carbo coctus . Cole or Keal : Potage : Colewort : Potage-herb , Potage was so denominated from the herb Colewort , because it was usually thereof made , and Colewort from the Latine word Caulis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , signifying Brasica . A Collock : A great piggin . To Cope a wall : to cover it , the Coping : the top or roof of the wall . Ab AS . Coppe , Apex , Culmen , fastigium hoc , a Cop , Caput . This is a word of general use , and not proper to the North Countrey only . Counterfeits and trinkets : Porringers and Sausers , Chesh . A Cranny lad : Chesh . A jovial , brisk , lusty Lad. A Crassantly lad : a coward . Chesh . in Lancashire they say Craddanly . To Cream : to mantle , spoken of drink : it is a metaphor taken from milk . Creem it into my hand : Put it in slily or secretly , Chesh . Crowse : Brisk , budge , lively , jolly . As crowse as a new washen louse , Prov. D. To DAcker : to waver , stagger or totter , a word used in Lincolnshire , parum deflexo sensu à Belg. Dacckeren , motare , motitare , volitare , hoc à nomine Daeck , Nebula : Vapores enim nebulosi huc illuc vel minimo venti flatu impelluntur . Skinner . To Daffe : to Daunt . A Daffock : a Dawkin . Daft : Stupid , blockish , daunted , a verbo Daffe . Dare : Harm or pain . Dare in the Ancient Saxon signifies Hurt , harm , loss . It does me no dare : i. e. no harm . So in Essex we say , It dares me , i. e. it pains me . To Daw or Dow : to thrive . He neither dees nor daws , i. e. He neither dies nor mends . He 'll never dow , i. e. He will never be good . a Teut. Dauwen , Verdauwen , concoquere , vel potius a Deyen , Gedeyen , Augescere , increscere , proficere , AS . Dean , Proficere , vigere , Skinner . A Dawgos or Dawkin : a dirty , slattering woman . A Dayes man : An Arbitrator . Dazed bread : Dough-baked . I's dazed : I am very cold . Deafely : Lonely , solitary , far from neighbours . Dearn : signifies the same . To Deg : v. Leck . To Didder : to quiver with cold , à Belg. Sitteren , Teut. Zittern : omnia a stridulo sono , quem frigore horrentes & trementes dentibus edimus , Skinner . Dight : Dressed : ill dight , ill dressed , from the Saxon Dihtan , parare , instruere . To Dight : Cheshire , to foule or dirty one . To Ding : to Beat : forte à Teut. Dringen , urgere premere , elisa literâ r. A Dingle : A small clough or valley between two steep hills . To Dize : to put tow on a distaffe . Dizen'd : Drest . A Donnaught or Donnat : [ i. e. Doenaught : ] Naught , good for nothing : idle Persons being commonly such , Yorkshire . A Dole or Dool : A long narrow green in a plowed field left unplowed . 2. Doundrins : Derb : Afternoons drinkings : Aunder there signifying the Afternoon . 1. A Dosome beast : Chesh . That will be content with nothing , also thriving , that comes on well . A Drape : a farrow cow , or cow whose milk is dried up . Drape-Sheep , Oves reijculae , credo ab AS . Drefe , Expulsio , Skinner . Dree : Long , seeming tedious beyond expectation , spoken of a way . A hard bargainer , spoken of a person . I suppose it is Originally no more then dry , though there be hardly any word of more frequent use in the North Countrey , in the sence mentioned . Drozen : Fond , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . A Dub : a Pool of water . E. EAm , mine Eam : My Unkle , also generally my Gossip , my Compere , my friend . Ab AS . Eam , Teut , Ohm , Belg. Oom , Avunculus . Omnia a Latino Amita , fort . & ant . Amitus , Hin Dan. & Teut. Amme , Nutrix : Materterae enim seu Amitae nepotes suos nutrire solent & fovere , Skinner . To Earn : to run as cheese doth . Earning , cheese-rennet or rening . Var. Dialect . The Easter : The back of the chimney , or chimney-stock . To Eckle or Ettle : to Aim , intend , design . Eddish : Roughings , ab . AS 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gramen serotinum & hoc à Praep. loquelari AS . Ed. rursus , denuo . q. d. Gramen quod denuo crescit . To Eem , Chesh . as I cannot Eem , I have no leisure , I cannot spare time . Eever : Chesh . Corner or quarter . The wind is in a cold eever . i. e. a cold corner or quarter . An El mother , Cumb. A step mother . The Elder : the Udder : it signifies the same thing in the Low Dutch. Elden : Fewel for fire ab AS . Aeled , ignis , Aelan , accendere . An Eshin : a Pail or Kit. Skeer the Esse : Chesh . Separate the dead ashes from the Embers . F. FAin ; Glad . Fair words make fools fain Prov. From the Saxon Faegan , Laetus hilaris , Faegnian , gaudere . Fantome corn ; Lank or light corn : Fantome flesh : when it hangs loose on the bones . The French call a spirit appearing by night or a Ghost , a Fantosme , from Phantasma , spectrum . So then Phantosme corn is corn that hath as little bulk or solidity in it as a Spirit or Spectre . Farantly : handsome . Fair and farantly : Fair and handsome . To Feal : to Hide . He that feales can find . Prov. i. e. He that hides , &c. Feg : Fair , handsome , clean , from the Saxon Faeger by Apocope : to Feg , to flag or tire . To Fend : to Shift for , from defend , per aphaeresin . To Fettle : to set or goe about any thing , to dress , or prepare . To Few , to change . To Fey or Feigh it : to doe any thing notably : to Fey meadowes is to cleanse them : to Fey a pond , to empty it . A Flacket ; a Bottle made in fashion of a barrel . A Fleack : a Gate to set up in a gap . Fluish : q. Fluid , washy , tender , weak , perchance from the Low Dutch Flaun , faint , feeble . To Flizze : to Fly off , from the Low Dutch Flitsen to Fly and Flitse an Arrow or Shaft . A Flizzing : a Splinter , of the same original , they seem to be made from the sound per 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . To Flite : to Scold or brawle , from the Saxon Flitan , to contend , strive or brawle . Fogge : Long Grass remaining in pastures till winter . To Format or Formel : to bespeak any thing : from Fore and mal ( as I suppose ) signifying in the ancient Danish a word , sermo Formael or Formal in the Saxon signifies a Bargain , a Treaty , an Agreement , a covenant . Forthen and Forthy : therefore . Fow : Chesh . Foul. var. Dial. Freelege : Sheffield . Privilege , Immunitas . Frem'd or Fremt ; Far off , not related to , or strange , at enmity . From the Saxon and Dutch Fremb'd , advena , exterus , alienigena , a stranger or alien from the Preposition Fram Fra From. Frim : Handsome , rank , well liking , in good case , as a Frim tree or beast , i. e. a thriving tree or beast : a Wallico Frum : vel fort . ab AS . Fremian : valere prodesse . To Frist : to trust for a time . Fristen in Dutch is to give respit , to make a truce . ab AS . Fyrstan : ejusdem significationis . A Fudder : a Load . It relates properly to Lead , and signifies a certain weight , viz. 8 pigs or 1600 l. from the high Dutch Fuder signifying a Cart-Load . Hoc fortè ( inquit Skinner ) à Teut. Fuehren , vehere , ducere , & tandem omnia credo à Lat. vehere . Fukes : Chesh . Locks of hair . Where Fured you ? Cumb. Whither went you ? Fuzzen or Fuzen : Nourishment , the same with Fizon or Foifon used in Suffolk , signifying there the natural juice or moisture of any thing , the heart and strength of it . Elsewhere it signifies plenty , abundance , and is a pure French word . v. Skinner . G. The GAil or Guile-dish ; The Tun-dish . Gail-clear ; a Tub sor wort . Gain : Not. applied to things is convenient , to persons active , expert , to a way near short . The word is used in many parts of England . To Gang ; to goe or walk , from the Low Dutch Gangen , both originally from the Saxon Gan , signifying to goe . To Garre ; to make , cause or force : from the Danish word Gior , to make . A Garth : a Yard or Backside , a croft : from the Saxon Geard a Yard . A Gate : a way or path : in Low Dutch Gat. In Danish Gade , from the Saxon Gan , to goe . A Gaule : Lanc. a Leaver , ab AS Geafle , Palanga , Vectis . A Gawn or Goan , Chesh . a Gallon , by contraction of the word . To Ghybe or Gibe : to Scold . A Gibbon : a Nut-hook . A Gib-staffe : a Quarter-staffe . Giddy : mad with anger . The word Giddy is common all England over , to signifie Dizzy or by a metaphor unconstant , Giddy-headed : but not to signify furious or intoxicated with anger , in which sence the word Mad is elsewhere used . A Gimmer-lamb : an Ew-lamb : fort . q. a Gammer-lamb : Gammer is a contraction of Godmother , and is the usual compellation of the common sort of Women . Gin , gif : In the old Saxon is Gif , from whence the word If is made per aphaeresin literae G. Gif from the verb Gifan dare , and is as much as Dato . To Glaffer or Glaver ; Chesh . To Flatter . Glatton : Welsh-flannel . Glob'd : Chesh . Wedded to , fond of . Glotten'd : Chesher . Surprised , startled . To be Glum : to look sadly or sowrly , to frown , contracted from Gloomy . A word common to the Vulgar both in the North and South . To Gly : Lincoln . to look a-squint . Limis seu distortis oculis instar Strabonis contueri , fortè ab AS . Gleyan , Belg. Gloeyen , Teut. Gluen , ignescere , candescere , q. d. incensis & prae ira flammantibus oculis conspicere . Skinner . To Goam : to Grasp or clasp : in Yorksh . to mind or look at . A Gool : a Ditch , Lincolns : lacuna , fort . à Belg. Gouw , Agger , Aquagium , vel a Fr. G. Jaule , Gaiole , Latinè Caveola , quoniam ubi in fossam , scrobem seu lacunam hujusmodi incidimus , eâ tanquam cavea aut carcere detinemur , &c. Skin . Greathly : Handsomely , towardly . In Greath : Well . Grees or Griece : Stairs : From the French Grez and both from the Latine Gradus . in Norfolk they call them Grissens . To Greit or Greet : to weep or cry : it seems to come from the Italian Gridare , to cry or weep . Vox Scotis usitatissima . To Greet and Yowl , Cumberland , to weep and cry . A Grip , or Gripe : a little ditch or trench , fossula , ab AS . Graep , fossula , Cuniculus , This word is of general use all over England . A Grove , Lincolns : à Belg. Groeve Fossa . to Grove : to Grave à Belg. Graven , Fodere . Grout : Wort of the last running . Skinner makes it to signify Condimentum cerevisiae , mustum cerevisiae , ab AS . Grut. Ale before it be fully brewed or sod , new Ale. It signifies also millet . I Grow : I am troubled . To Growze : to be chill before the beginning of an ague-fit . To Guill , to Dazle : spoken of the eyes ▪ Chesh . A Gun : a great Flagon of Ale sold for 3d. or 4d . H. A HAck , Lincolns , forte . ab AS . Hegge , Haeg , Sepes , Septum , vel Haeca , Belg. Heck . Pessulus , repagulum , vel Locus repagulis seu cancellis clausus : nobis autem parum deflexo senfu Faeni conditorium , seu Praesepe cancellatum fignat ; a Rack Skinner . It Haggles : It hails , Var. Dial. ab AS . Haegale , haegle , Grando . Haghes , Haws : Var. Dial. ab AS . Hagan , Haws . Hanty : Wanton , unruly : spoken of a Horse or the like when provender pricks him . To Happe : to cover for warmth , from Heap as I suppose , to heap cloathes on one . Happa : Hap ye : Think you ? To Harden : as , the Market Hardens , i. e. Things grow dear . Harns , Cumb. Brains . A Sea Harr : Lincoln . Tempestas à mari ingruens . fort . ab AS . Haern , Flustrum , aestus . Skin . A Haspat or Haspenald lad : Between a Man and a Boy . Hattle : Chesh . Wild , skittish , harmful . Tye the hattle Ky by the horn . i. the skittish Cow. A Hattock : a shock containing 12 sheaves of corn . Haver : Cumb. Oats , it is a Low Dutch word . The Hause or Hose : the throat : ab AS . Hals , collum . An Haust or Hoste : a Dry cough , to Hoste : to cough from the Low Dutch word Hoesten to cough , and Hoest a cough : ab AS . Hwostan , tussire , to cough . To Hose : to Hug or carry in the arms . To Heald : as when you powr out of a pot . A Bed - Healing : Derb. a coverlet : it is also called absolutely a Hylling in many places , to Heale signifies to cover in the South v. Suss : from the Saxon word Helan , to hide , cover or heale . An Heck : a Rack for cattel to feed at . v. Hack. Heldar : Rather , before . Heloe or Helaw : Bashful , a word of common use . Helo in the old Saxon signifies Health , safety . Heppen or Heply : Neat , handsome . Yorkshire , Skinner expounds it dexter , agilis , and saith it is used in Lincolnshire , fort . ab AS . Haeplic , compar : vel potius Belg. Hebbelick , habilis , decens , aptus : vel q. d. Helply i. e. helpful . Hetter : Eager , earnest , keen . Hight ; called ; ab AS . Haten , gehaten , Vocatus a verbo Hatan dicere , jubere , Teut ▪ Heissen , nominari , cluere . To Hight ; Cumb. To Promise , or vow ; as also the Saxon verb Hatan sometimes signifies , teste Somnero in Dictionario Saxonico-Latino-Anglico , so it seems to be used in the English Meeter of the 14th . Verse of Psalm 116. I to the Lord will pay my vows , which I to him behight . Hind-berries ; Raspberries : ab AS . Hind berian . Forte sic dicta , quia inter hinnulos & cervos , i. e. in Sylvis & altibus crescunt . Hine , Hence Cumb. Var. Dial. The Hob ; . The back of the Chimney . Hoo , he ; in the Northwest parts of England most frequently used for she : ab AS . Heo , Hio , à Lat. Ea fortasse . A Hoop ; A measure containing a Peck or quarter of a Strike , York-sh . A Horpet ; A little Handbasket . Nescio an a Corbet , saith Skinner , addita term . dim . & asperam caninam literam r propter euphoniam elidendo , & quod satis frequens est C initiali in Spiritum & B in P murando . The House : the Room called the Hall. A Gill-houter : Chesh . an Owl . Hure : Hair : Var. Dial. To Hylpe at one : to pull the mouth awry , to do one a mischief or displeasure . I. JAnnock : Oaten bread made into great loaves . An Ing : A Common pasture , a Meadow , a word borrowed frome the Danes , Ing in that language signifying a Meadow . Ingie : Cumb. Fire , a blaze or flame , a Lat. Ignis . To Incense ; to inform , a pretty word used about Sheffieild in York-sh . K. KAle or Cale : turn , vicem , Cheshire . Kazzardly : Cattel subject to die , hazardous , subject to casualties . A Keale : Lincoln , a Cold , tussis à frigore contracta , ab AS , Celan , Frigescere . To Keeve a cart , Chesh . to overthrow it , or to turn out the dung . Kenspecked : marked , or branded , notâ insignitus ; q. d. maculatus seu maculis distinctus ut cognoscatur : ab AS . Kennam scire , & Specce macula , Skinner . To Keppen : to Hoodwinck . A Kid : A small faggot of underwood or brushwood : forte a caedendo , q. d. safciculus ligni caedui , Skinner . A Kidcrow : A place for a sucking Calf to lie in , Chesh . A Kimmel or Kemlin : a Poudring Tub. A Kit : a milking pail like a Churn with two ears and a cover , à Belg. Kitte . A Kite : a Belly : Cumb. To Klick up ; Lincoln , to catch up , celeriter corripere : nescio an à Belg. Klacken , Klutsen , Quatere , vel à Latino clepere , hoc à Graeco 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , Skinner . A Knightle man : an an active or skilful man. A Knoll : a little round hill , ab AS . Cnolle . The top or cop of a hill or mountain . Kye : Kine , Var. Dial. L. TO LAke : to Play , a word common to all the North Country , vel ( inquit Skinnerus ) ab AS , Plaegan , ludere , rejecto P. ae Dipthong . in simpl a & g in c vel k mutatis , vel à Teuton . & Belg. Lachen ridere vel quod caeteris longe verisimilius est à Dan. Leeger Ludo. Ideo autem haec vox in Septentrionali Angliae regione , non in aliis invaluit , quia Dani illam partem primam invaserunt & penitus occuparunt , uno vel altero seculo priusquam reliquam Angliam subjugrrunt . The Langot of the Shooe ; The latchet of the shooe from Languet Lingula , a little tongue or slip . Land ; Urine , Piss , it is an ancient Saxon word , used to this day in Lancashire , Somner . Lat : q. late , slow , tedious , Lat weather ; wet or otherwise unseasonable weather . Latching : catching , infecting . To Late , Cumb. to seek . A Lathe : a Barn , fort , à verbo Lade , quia frugibus oneratur , Skinner , fort . Lathe : Ease or rest , ab AS Latian , differre , tardare , cunctari . Lathing : Entreaty or invitation . You need no Latching : You need no invitation or urging : ab AS . Gelahdian , to bid , invite , desire to come . The Lave : all the rest , Cumb. A Lawn : a place in the midst of a wood free from wood , a Laund in a Park , a Fr. G. Lande , Hisp . Landa : inculta planities . Lazy : Naught , bad . A Leaden or Lidden ; a noise or din : ab AS . Hyldan , clamare , garrire , tumultuari , to make a noise or outcry , to babble , to chatter , to be tumultuous ; Hyld , tumult , noise . To Lean nothing : to conceal nothing q. leave nothing , or from the old Saxon word Leanne , to shun , avoid , decline . To Lear : to Learn , Var. Dial. Leatn : ceasing , intermission : as no Leath of pain , from the word leave , no leaving of pain . Leck on ; powr on more , Liquor , v. g. Leeten you : Chesh . Make your self , pretend to be . You are not so mad as you leeten you . Leethwake : Limber , pliable . Lestal : saleable that weighs well in the hand , that is heavy in lifting , from the verb lift , as I suppose . To Lig : to lye , Var. Dial. it is near the Saxon Licgan to lye . To Lippen : to Rely on or trust to , Scot. Lither : Lazy , idle , slothful . A word of general use , ab AS . Lidh , Liedh , Lenis . Alludit Gr 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Laevis , glaber , & 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , simplex , tenuis , Skinner . Lithing : Chesh . Thickening , spoken of a pot of broth , as Lithe the pot , i. e. put Oatmeal into it . A Lite : a few , a little per Apocopen . To Lite on : to Rely on . Liten : a Garden . A Loe : a little round hill , a great heap of stones : ab AS Haewe , Agger , acervus , cumulus , tumulus , a Law , Low , Loo or high ground , not suddenly rising as an hill , but by little and little tillable also , and without wood . Hence that name given to many hillocks and heaps of earth , to be found in all parts of England , being no other but so much congested Earth , brought in a way of burial used of the Ancients , thrown upon the bodies of the dead . Somner in Distinction . Saxon. A Loom : an Instrument or tool in general , Chesh . Loert : q. Lord , Gaffer , Lady , Gammer , used in the Peak of Derbysh . To Lope , Lincoln , to leap , Var. Dial. A Lop : a Flea , ab AS , Loppe , from leaping . Lowe : Flame , and to Lowe ; to flame from the high Dutch Lo●e . To Lowk : i. e. to weed corn , to look out weeds : so in other Countrys , to look ones head , i. e. to look out fleas or lice there . The Luf● : the open hand . M. MAke : match , makeless , matchless , ab AS . Maca , a Peer , an equal , a companion , consort , mate . A Marrow : a Companion or fellow . A pair of gloves or shooes are not marrows , i. e. fellows . Vox generalis . A Maund : a handbasket with two lids , ab AS . Mand. Er. G. Mande . Ital. Madia , corbis ansatus , utrumque à Lat. Manus quia propter ansas manucommodè circumferri potest , Skinner . Meath ; Vox agro Lincoln . usitatissima , ut ubi dicimus , I give thee the meath of the buying , i. e. tibi optionem & plenariam potestatem pretii seu emptionis facio , ab AS . Maedh , Maeht , Maedgh , Maegen , Potentia , potestas ; hoc a verbo Magan posse , Skinner . My Muaugh : My Wives brother or Sisters husband . Meedless : Unruly . Meet or Mete : Measure ▪ Vox general . Meet now , just now . Meeterly , Meetherly , Meederly : handsomely , modestly ; As bow meeterly , from meet , fit . Meny ; a Family : As we be six or seven a meny , i. e. six or seven in Family , from the ancient French Mesnie signifying a Family , v. Skinner . Menseful : comely , graceful , crediting a man , York-sh . Merry banks : a cold Posset , Derb. A Met : a strike or four pecks , ab AS Midi modius . A Midding : a Dunghil , it is an ancient Saxon word ; a nomine mud forté . A Midge : . a Gnat , ab As. Mycg , Mycge , Belg. Mugge , Teut. Muck , Dan. Myg , Omnia a Lat. Musca . Mill-holms : Watery places about a Mill damme . Milwyn : Lancash . Greenfish , fort . à Mllvo q. piscis milvinus . To Mint at a thing : to aim at it , to have a mind to it . To Ming at one , to mention , ab As. Mynegung an admonition , warning or minding ; so it is usually said I had a minging , suppose of an Ague or the like disease , that is not a perfect fit , but so much as to put me in mind of it . Minginater : One that makes Fretwork ; it is a rustick word used in some prat of Yorkshire , corrupted perchance from engine . Miscreed : descryed , This I suppose is also only a rustick word , and nothing else but the word descried corrupted . A Mizzy : a Quagmire . Molter : the toll of a mill , à Latino Mola . Mores : i. e. Hills : hence the hilly part of Staffordshire is called the Morelands : Hence also the County of Westmorland had its name , q. The land or Countrey of the Western mores or hills : and many hills in the North are called mores , as Stanemores &c. from the old Saxon word Mor a hill or Mountain . Welly moyder'd : almost distracted . Cheshire . Muck : Lincolns . moist , wet , à Belg. Muyck , Mollis , lenis , mitis . Mollities enim humiditatem sequitur . Mullock : Dirt or rubbish . Murk : Dark , Murklins : in the dark , à Dan. Morck , Fuscus , Morcker : infusco : item tenebrae . Occurrit & Ant. Lat. Murcidus , Murcus , quae Festo idem sonant quod ignavus , iners . This word is also used in the South but more rarely . A Murth of corn : abundance of corn . forte . a More . N. A NApkin ; a Pocket Hand-Kerchief , so called about Sheffield in Yorkshire . Nash or Nesh : Washy , tender , weak , puling . Skinner makes it proper to Worcestershire , and to be the same in sence and original with Nice . But I am sure it is used in many other Counties , I believe all over the North-West part of England , and also in the midland , as in Warwick-shire . As for the Etymology of it , it is doubtless no other then the Ancient Saxon word Nesc , signifying soft , tender , delicate , effeminate , tame , gentle , mild . Hence our Nescook in the same sence , i. e. a tenderling , Sommer . Nearre , Lincoln . in use for neather . ab AS . Nerran , posterior . A Neive or Neiffe : a Fist . A Neckabout : any womans neck linnen . Sheffield . To Nigh a thing : to touch it . I did not nigh it : i. e. I came not nigh it . Nitle : Handy , neat , handsome . fort . ab AS . Nytlic , profitable , commodious . Nything : much valuing , sparing of , as Nithing of his pains : i. e. Sparing of his pains . A Noggin : a little Piggin holding about a pint , à Teut : Nossel . Nor : Then more Nor I , i. e. more then I. To Note : to push , strike or goar with the horn as a Bull or Ram. ab AS . Hnitan ejusdam signification . Lancash , Somner . O. O My ; mellow , spoken of Land. Oneder , v. Aunder . Orndorn : Cumberland . Afternoons drinking . To Osse : to Offer to doe , to aim at or intend to doe , ossing comes to bossing . Prov. Chesh . I did not osse to meddle with it . i. e. I did not dare , &c. fortè ab Audeo , Ausus . An Ox-boose : an Ox-stall , or Cow-stall where they stand all night in the Winter , ab AS . Bosih , Praesepe , a stall . An Oxter : an Armpit , Axilla . P. PArtlets ; Ruffes or Bands for women . Chesh . Vetus vox ( inquit Skinnerus ) pro Sudario , praesertim quod cirea collum gestatur . Minshew dictum putat quasi Portelet , quod circumfertur , vel , ut melius divinat Cowel , à verbo to part , quia facile separatur à corpore , Skinner . A Mad Pash ; a mad-brain . Chesh . Peale the pot ; cool the pot . Peed : Blind of one eye : He pees : He looks with one eye . Peevish : Witty , subtill . A Penbauk : a Beggers can . A Piggin ; a little pail or tub with an erect handle . It 's Pine q. pein to tell ; it is difficult to tell , ab AS . Pin. A Pingle ; a small croft or Picle . A Pleck ; a Place York-sh . Lanc. ab AS . Plaece , a street , a Place . Poops ; Gulps in drinking . To Pote the clothes off ; to kick all off ; to push or put out , from the French Pousser or Poser , pulsare , or ponere , to put . Prattily ; sof●ly . Prich : Thin drink . A Princock : a pert , forward fellow . Minshew deflectit a Praecox , q. d. Adolescens praecocis ingenij : quod licet non absurdum sit , tamen quia sono minus discrepat , puto potius dictum quasi jam primum Gallus , quia sci , non ita pridem pubertatem attigit , & recens Veneris stimulos percepit , Skinner . R. To RAck or Reck : to care , never Rack you ; i. e. Take you no thought or care . From the Ancient Saxon word Recc , care , and Reccan to care for . Chaucer hath recketh , for careth . Hence Retchless and Retchlessness , for Careless and Carelessness ; as in the Saxon. Radlings ; Windings of the wall . To Rame ; to Reach ; perchance from Rome . To Reem ; to Cry : Lancashire , ab AS . Hraeman , Plorare , clamare , ejulare , to weep with crying and bewayling , Hream , ejulatus . To Rejumble : Lincoln . as it rejumbles upon my stomack Fr. G. I l regimbe sur mon estomac , i. e. calcitrat . Sic autem dicimus ubi cibus in ventriculo fluctuat & nauseam parit . Verb , aut Fr. G. à Praep. Re , & Fr. G. Jambe , It. Gamba ortum ducit . Skinner . To Remble : Lincoln . to move or remove , q. d. Remobiliare , a Reward or good Reward ; a good colour or ruddiness in the face , used about Sheffield in Yorksh . To Rine : to touch : ab AS . Hrinan , to touch or feel . To Ripple flax : to wipe off the seed-vessels . A Roop : a Hoarsness . To Rowt or Rawt : to lowe like an Ox or Cow. The old Saxon word Hrutan , signifies to snort , snore or rout in sleeping . A Runge : a Flasket . Runnel : Pollard wood , from running up apace . He Rutes it : Chesh . spoken of a Child , he cries fiercely , i. e. He rowts it , he bellows . Rynt ye : By your leave , stand handsomly . As Rynt you witch , quoth Besse Locket to her Mother , Proverb , Chesh . S. SAckless : innocent , faultless , without crime or accusation ; a pure Saxon word , from the noun Sac , Saca , a Cause , strife , suit , quarrel , &c. and the Praeposition l●as , without . Saur-pool : a stinking puddle . Scarre : the cliff of a Rock , or a naked Rock on the dry land , from the Saxon Carre , cautes . This word gave denomination to the Town of Scarborough . Sean : Lincoln . A kind of net , Proculdubio contract . a Latine & Gr. Sagena , Skinner . Sell : self . Selt : Chesh . Chance it 's but a selt whether , it is but a chance whether . Senfy : Not. sign , likyhood , appearance . Sensine : Cumb. since then , Var. Dial. A Shafman , Shafmet , or Shaftment , the measure of the fist with the thumb set up , ab As. Scaeft mund , Semipes . Shan : Lincoln . Shamefacedness , ab As. Scande , confusio , verecundia ; item abominatio , ignominia . To Shear corn : to reap corn . No Shed : No difference between things , to shead Lanc. to distinguish , ab As. Sceadan to distinguish , disjoyn , divide or sever . Belgis Scheyden , Scheeden . Shed : Riners with a Whaver : Chesh . Winning any cast that was very good , i. e. strike off one that touches , &c. v. Ryne . A Shippen : a Cow-house ab As. Scypeme , Stabulum , Bovile , stable , an Ox-stall . A Shirt-band : Yorksh . a Band. Sib'd : a kin , no sole sib'd , nothing akin : No more sib'd then sieve and riddle , that grew both in a wood together . Prov. Chesh . Syb or Sybbe is an ancient Saxon word signifying Kindred , alliance , affinity . Sickerly : surely , à Lat. Secure . Side : Long. My Coat is very side , i. e. very long : item Proud , steep , from the Saxon Side , sid , or the Danish side signifying long . A Sike : a little Rivulet , ab As. Sich , Sulcus , a furrow , vel potius sulcus , aquarius , Lacuna , lira , stria , elix , a Waterfurrow , a Gutter , Somner . To Sile down : Lincoln . to fall to the bottom , or subside : fort , ab As. Syl , Basis , limen , q. d. ad fundum delabi , Skinner . Skathe : Loss harm , wrong , prejudice , one doth the skath , and another hath the scorn . Prov , ab As. Scaedan , Sceadhian , Belg. Schaeden , Teut. Schaden , Dan. Skader , nocere . A Skeel : a Collock . Slape-ale : Lincoln . Plain ale as opposed to Ale medicated with Wormwood or Scurvy-grass , or mixed with any other liquor : forte an licet sensus non parum variet ab alt . Slape quod agro Lincoln . lubricum & mollem significat , i. e. smooth ale , hoc à verbo to slip , Skinner . To Slat on , to Leck on , to cast on , or dash against . Vox 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . To Sleak out the tongue , to put it out by way of scorn , Chesh . Sleck : Small Pit-coal . To Sleck , i. e. slack , to quench or put out the fire , v. g. or ones thirst . To Sleech : to dip or take up water . To Slete a dog , is to set him at any thing , as swine , sheep , &c. Slim : Lincoln . à Belg. slim , Teut. Schlim , vilis , perversus , pravus , dolosus , obliquus , distortus , Skinner . To Slive , Lincoln . à Dan. Slaever . Serpo , Teut. Schleiffen , humi trahere : hinc & Lincoln . a sliverly fellow , Vir subdolus , vafer , dissimulator , veterator . The Slote of a ladder or gate ; the flat step or bar . To Slot a door , Lincoln . i. e , to shut it , a Belg. sluyten . Teut. schiiessen , claudere , occludere , obserare , Belg. slot , vera , claustrum , ferreum To Smartle away , to wast away . To Smittle : to infect , from the old Saxon smittan and Dutch smetten , to spot or infect , whence our word smut . Smopple : Pie-crust , i. e. short and fat . A Snever-spawt : a slender stripling . Snock the door , latch the door . The sneck or snecket of a door ( according to Skinner ) is the string which draws up the latch to open the door : nescio an à Belg. snappen , Corripere , quia sci . cum janua aperienda est , semper arripiter . To Snee or snie , to abound or swarm . He snies with Lice , he swarms with them . To Snite , to wipe . Snite your nose , i. e. wipe your nose , à schneutzen , Belg. snutten , snotten , Nares emungere , Dan. snyder emungo , à Snot . A Snithe wind : Vox elegantissima , agro Lincoln . usitatissima , significat autem ventum valdè frigidum & penetrabilem , ab As. snidan , Belg. sneiden ; Teut. schneiden , scindere , ut nos dicimus , a cutting wind , Skinner . To Soil milk , to cleanse it , potius to sile it , to cause it to subside , to strain it , v. sile . Sool or sowle , any thing eaten with bread . To Sowl one by the ears , Lincoln . i. e. Aures summa vi vellere ; credo a sow , i. e. Aures arripere & vellere , ut suibus canes solent , Skinner . Soon : the Evening ; A soon , at Even . A Spackt : lad or wench : Apt to learn , ingenious , A Spancel : a rope to tie a Cows hinder legs . To Spane a Child , to wean it . To Sparre or speir or spurre ; to ask , enquire , cry at the Market , ab As. spyrian , to search out by the track or trace , to enquire or make diligent search . To Spar the door , to bolt , bar , pin or shut it , ab AS . Sparran , Obdere , claudere . This word is also used in Norfolk , where they say spar the door an emis he come , i. e. shut the door lest he come in . The Speer : Chesh . the Chimney post . Rear'd against the speer . A Spell or speal , a Splinter . Spice : Raisins , plums , figs and such like fruit . York-sh . Spice a species . A Stang : a wooden bar ; ab As. staeng , sudes , vectis Teut. stang , pertica , contus , sparus , vectis . Datur & Camb. Br. Ystang Pertica , sed nostro fonte haustum . This word is still used in some Colleges in the University of Cambridge ; to stang Scholars in Christmas , being to cause them to ride on a colt-staff or pole , for missing of Chappel . A Start : a long handle of any thing , a tail , as it signifies in low Dutch , so a Redstart is a Bird with a red tail . Stark : stiff , weary , ab As. sterc , strace , Rigidus , durus , Belg. & Dan. sterck , Teut. starck , validus , robustus , firmus , v. Skinner . Staw'd : set , from the Saxon Stow , a place , originally from statio and statuo . A Stee : a ladder , in the Saxon stegher is a stair , gradus scalae , perchance from stee . To Steak or steke the dure ; to shut the door , à Teut & Belg. stecken , steken , to thrust , or put , to stake . To Steem : to bespeak a thing . To Stein or steven ; idem . A Stife quean ; a lusty quean ; stife in the old Saxon is obstinate , stiff , inflexible . Stithe : strong , stiff , ab As. stidh , stiff , hard , severe , violent , great , strong , stithe Cheese , i. e. strong cheese . A Stithy : an Anvil , à praedict . As stidh , rigidus , durus . Quid enim in cude durius ? A Stot : a young bullock or steer , a young horse in Chaucer : ab As. stod or steda , a stallion , also a War horse , a steed . A Stound q. Stand ; an Wooden Vessel to put small beer in . A Stowk q. stalk ; the handle of a pail , also a shock of twelve sheaves . A Stowre : a round of a ladder : a hedgestake . A Strike of Corn , a bushel , four pecks , à Teut. Kornstreiche , Hostorium , vel radius ; slreichen , Hostorio mensuram radere , coaequare , complanare . Strunt : the tail or rump , ab As , steort , stert , Belg. stert , steert , Teut , stertz , cauda : vel a Belg. stront , Fr. G. Estron , It. stronzo stercus , per Metonym . adjuncti , Skinner . 3. Stunt : Lincoln . stubborn , fierce , angry ; ab As stunta stunt , stultus , fatuus , fortè quia stulti praeferoces sunt ; vel à verbo to stand ; ut Resty a restando , Metaphorâ ab equâs contumacibus sumpta , Skinner . 1. A Strom : the instrument to keep the malt in the Fat. 2. Strushins : Orts , from destruction I suppose . Sturk : a young bullock or heaifer , ab As. styrk , Buculus — a. Swale ; windy , cold , bleak . To Swale or sweal : to singe or burn , to waste or blaze away , ab As. swaelan , to kindle , to set on fire , to burn . A Swarth : Cumb : the Ghost of a dying man , fort . ab As , sweart . Black , dark , pale , wan . Swathe ; Calm : Sweamish ; i. e. squeamish , used for modest . To Sweb : to swoon . A Swill : a keeler to wash in , standing on three feet . To Swilker ore : to dash over . Vox 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . A Swinhull or swine-crue : a Hogs-stye . Swipper : nimble , quick , ab As. swippre , crafty , subtle , cunning , sly , wily . T. The TAb of a shooe ; the Latchet of a shooe . A Tabern : a Cellar , à Lat. Taberna . A Tarn ; a lake or Meer-pool , a usual word in the North. To Tast : i. e. to smell in the North : indeed there is a very great affinity between these two senses . To Tave : Lincoln . to Rage , à Belg. Tobben , Toppen , Daven , Teut. Toven , Furere . To Tawm : to swoon . To Teem or team : to poure out , to lade out of one vessel into another . Credo à Danico Tommer , Haurio , exhaurio , vacuo , tommer a ▪ oritur à Tom vacuus , v. Skinner . Teamful : Brim-ful , having as much as can be teemed in , in the ancient Saxon it signifies fruitful , abundant , plentiful , from Toam , Soboles , faetus and full . Teen ; Angry , ab As. Tynan , to provoke , stir , anger or enrage . Good or fow teen , Chesh . Good or foul taking . A Temse : a fine sierce , a small sieve , Belg. Teems , Tems , Fr. G. Tamis , It. Tamisio , Tamiso , cribrum ; whence comes our Temse bread . To Tent ; to tend or look to . Var Dial. Chesh . I 'll tent the , quoth Wood. If I cannot rule my daughter I 'll rule my good . Prov. Chesh . Tharm ; Lincoln . Guts prepared , cleansed and blown up for to receive puddings : ab AS . Dearm . Belg. Darm , Derm , Teut. Darm , Dearm , simpl . intestinum . Thew'd ; Towardly . To Thirl ; to bore a hole , Lincoln . ab AS . Dhyrl , Dhyrel , foramen . Dhirlian , Belg. Drille● , Perforare . Skinner . A Thible or Thivel ; a Stick to stirre a Pot. To Thole ; D●rb . to brook or endure ; Thole a while , i. e. stay a while . Chaucer hath Tholed , for suffered , ab As. Tholian , ejusdem signification . Thone , thong ; meâ sententiâ q. thawn ; Damp , moist . Skinner à Teut. Tuncken , macerare , intingere , deducit . A Thrave ; a shock of corn containing 24. sheaves . ab As. Threaf , manipulus , a Handful , a bundle , a Bottle . To Thrave ; Lincoln . to Vrge , ab As. Thravian , Urgere . To Threap , Threapen ; to blame , rebuke , reprove , chide : ab As. Threapan , Threapian ejusdem signification . to Threap kindness upon one is used in another sence . I 'll Thrippa thee ; Chesh . I 'll beat or cudgel thee . Thrutch for thrust , Chesh . Maxfield measure . Heap and thrutch . Prov. To Throw ; to Turn as Turners doe ; ab As. Thrawan , quae inter alia to wheel , turn or wind , significat . To Thropple : to Throttle or strangle , Var Dial. York-sh . The Thropple ; the Wind-pipe , York-sh . Dial. To Thwite , to whittle , cut , make white by cutting . He hath thwitten a mill-post into a pudding-prick , Prov. Tider or Tidder or Titter , soon , quickly , sooner . To Tine , to shut , fence . Tine the door ! shut the door . ab As. Tynan , to enclose , fence , hedge or teen . Too too Used absolutely for very well or good . Toom or Tume , Empty , a toom purse makes a bleit , [ i. e. bashfull ] Merchant . Prov. manifeste à Danico Tom , vacuus , inanis . To Toorcan ; to wonder or muse what one means to doe . A Towgher ; a Dower or Dowry , Dial. Cumb. Treenware ; Earthen vessels . To Twitter ; to tremble , à Teut. Tittern , Tremere , utrumque à sono fictum . This is a word of General use . My heart Twitters . A Tye-top , a Garland . U. U - Bach , U-block , &c. v. Yu-bach , &c. Vmstrid ; astride , astridlands . Vinerous ; Hard to please . VV. A VVAlker ; a Fuller ; a Walk-mill ; a Fulling-mill ; à Belg. Walcker Fullo ; hoc à verb. Belg. Walcken , It. Gualcare , Pannos premere , calcare . Teut. Walcken , pannum polire , Omnia credo à Lat Calcare , Skinner . To Walt ; to totter or lean one way , to overthrow , from the old Saxon Waeltan , to tumble or rowl , or rather from the Saxon Wealtian , to Reel or stagger . The Wang-tooth ; the Jaw-tooth , ab As. Wang , Wong , mandibula . Wone todh seu potius Wong-todh , Dens caninus . Wankle ; Limber , flaccid , ticklish , fickle , wavering . A Want ; a mole , ab As. Wand . Talpa . War ; Worse ; war and war : worse and worse , Var Dial. To Warch or wark ; to ake , to work ; ab As. Wark , Dolor . Vtrumque à work . To Wary ; Lancash . to curse , ab As. Warian , Werigan , Execrari , Diris devovere . To wary , i. e. Lay an Egge . To Ware ones Money ; to bestow it well , to lay it out in ware . Warisht ; That hath conquered any disease or difficulty and is secure against the future ; also well stored or furnished . A Warth ; a Water-ford , I find that Warth in the old Saxon signifies the shore . Way-bread ; Plantain ; ab As. Waegbraede , so called because growing every where in streets and wayes . 2 To Weat the head ; to look it . v. g. for lice . 1 To Wear the pot ; to cool it . Wea-worth you , Woe betide you . Wee l , Lanca . a whirlpool , ab As. Wael , vortex aquarum . Weet or Wite ; Nimble , swift . Weir or Waar ; Northumb. Sea-wrack , Alga marina , from the old Saxon Waar , alga marina , Fucus marinus . The Thanet me● ( saith Somner ) call it wore or woore . Wellaneer ; alas . To Wend ; to goe . Westy ; Dizzy , giddy . Wharre ▪ Crabs , as sowre as wharre , Chesh Wheam or Wheem : near , close , so as n● wind can enter it : also very handsome an● convenient for one : as , It lies wheem for me Chesh . ab As. Gecweme , grateful , acceptable pleasant , fit . Wheamow : Nimble , I am very wheamow quoth the old woman when she stept into the milk-bowl , Prov. A Wheen-Cat : a Queen-Cat : Catus faemina . That Queen was used by the Saxons to signifie the Female sex appears in that QVEEN Fugol was used for a Henfowle . A Wheint lad q. queint : a fine lad : ironice dictum . Chesh . Var. Dial. Whirkened : Choaked , strangled . A Whisket : a Basket a skuttle or shallow Ped. To White : to Requite : as God white you : God requite you , Chesh . Var. Dial. white pro. quite , quite per aphaeresin pro requite . To White : to Blame : You lean all the white off your sell , i. e. You remove all the blame from your self . v. Wite . To Wite ; to blame , ab As. Paena , mulcta , supplicium . Chaucer useth the word for blame . To Whoave ; Chesh . to cover or whelm over . We will not kill but whoave . Prov. Chesh . ab As. Hwolf , Hwalf , a covering or canopy ; Verb. Hwalfian camerare , fornicare . A Who Whiskin ; a whole great drinking pot . Who being the Cheshire Dialect for whole , and a Whiskin signifying a Black-Pot . Whook't every joynt ; Shook every joynt , Chesh . A Wiegh , or Waagh ; a Leaver , a wedge , ab As. Waege , Pondus , massa , libra . Willern Peevish , willful , à Saxon , Willer , willing . A Wilk or Whilk ; a Periwinkle or Sea-snail , ab As. Wealk , cochlea marina , Limax marinus : Higgin . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , Turbo , cochlea marina , quâ olim ad buccinandum utebantur . Hoc à verbo Wealcan volvere , revolvere , quia sci . ejus testa in orbem , spirae in modum contorquetur , Skinner . A Wind-berry ; a Bill-berry , or Whortle-berry . A Wisket , v. Whisket . Winly , Quietly . Woat . — A Wogh ; a Wall Lanc. ab As. Wag , Paries , elsewhere in the North Wogh is used for wooll , by a change of the Dialect . To Wonne or Wun : to Dwell : as where won you ? where dwell you ? ab As. Wunian , Gewunian , Habitare , manere , Belg. Woonen , Teut. Wonen , Wohnen : habitare , morari . Haec ab As. Wunian , Gewunian . Assuescere , q. d. Ubi soles aut frequentas . Wood-wants : Holes in a post or piece of timber , q. d. Places wanting wood . Worch-bracco , Chesh . i. e. Work-brittle , very diligent , earnes● or intent upon ones work . Var. Dial. To be Worried : to be choak't . Worran in the ancient Saxon signifies to destroy . To Wyte , i. e. blame , v. Wite . Y. Y Are : Coveteous , Desirous , à Teut. Geaher , Geah , Fervidus , promptus , praeceps , impatiens . Geahe Praecipitia , Jearen , Fervere , effervescere : vel parum deflexo sensu ab As. Gearo , Gearre , Chaucero etiam Yare , Paratus , promptus , &c. v. Skinner cui prae reliquis omnibus arridet Etymon , ab As. Georn , studiosus . sedulus , diligens , intentus . The Yeender or Eender : the Forenoon , Derbysh . A Yate : a Gate . Yeander : Yonder , Var. Dial. Yewd or Yod : Went , Yewing : Going , ab As. Eode ; ivit , iter fecit , concessit , he went. Chaucero Yed , Yeden , Yode eodem sensu . Spencer also in his Fairie Queen , lib. 1. c. 10. He that the blood-red billowes like a wall , On either side Disparted with his rod. Till all his Army dry-foot through them Yod , Speaking of Moses . Yu-batch : Christmas batch . Yu-block or Yule-block : Christmas block . Yu-gams or Yule-gams ; Christmas games : ab As. G●hul : Dan. Jule-dag natalis Christi : Hoc forte à Latino . Hebraeo Jubilum , Skinner . Yuck : Linc. à Belg. Jeucken , Joocken , Teut. Jeucken , prurire : Jucken , Fricare , Scabere . SOUTH and EAST Countrey WORDS . A. A ALp or Nope : a Bulfinch . I first took notice of this word in Suffolk , but find since that it is used in other Countries , almost generally all over England . An Amper : a fault or flaw in linnen or woollen cloath , Suss . Skinner makes it to be a word much used by the common or Countrey-people in Essex to signifie a tumor , rising or pustule , vel ab As. Ampre , Ompre , varix : vel à Teut. Empor , sursum , empor heben , emporen , elevare , q. d. cutis elevatio . Anewst : nigh , almost , near hand , about , circiter . Suss . and other places of the West , ab As. On-neaweste , propé , juxta , secus , near high : à Praep. On , and neaweste vicinia . Arders : Fallowings or plowings of ground . Atter : matter , Pus , sanies : à Teut. & Belg. Eyter ejusdem significati , vel ab ejus parente , As. Ater , virus . Auk and aukward , untoward , unhandy , ineptus , ab As. Aewerd , perversus , aversus ; hoc ab Ae Praep. loquelari negativa privativa & Weard versus , quasi dicas , qui ad nullam rem vel artem a natura comparatus est ; i● atâ Minerva natus . Huic autem Aukward omnino tum sensu tum Etymo opponitur Toward . B. A BArth : a warm place or pasture for calves or lambs . A Barken or ( as they use it in Sussex ) Barton : a yard of a house , a backside , vel a verbo , to Barre , vel à Germ. Bergen , Abscondere , As. Beorgan munire q. d. Locus clausus , respectu sci . agrorum . Baven : Brush faggots , with the brush-wood at length , or in general brush-wood . Nes●io an q. d. Feuine Gallicè à Feu , focus . Vir Rev. deflectii a Belg. Bauwen , Teut. Bawen , Aedificare , cum fiat ex reliquiis arborum pro aedificiis succisarum , Skinner . Utrumque Etymon me judice ineptum . Bain : Lithe , limber-joynted , that can bend easily , Suffolk . Behither : On this side , it answers to beyound , Suss . A Bishop : The little spotted beetle commonly called the Lady cow , or Lady-bird . I have heard this insect in other places called a Golden-Knop ; and doubtless in other Countreys it hath other names . A Bigge ; a Pappe or teat , Ess . A Billard : a Bastard capon , Suss . The Bird of the eye , the sight or Pupill , Suff. Blighted corn , blasted corn , Suss . Blight eidem quod milldew , i. e. mel roscidum , vel roscida quaedam melligo quae fruges corrumpit : nescio an à Teut Bleych , pallidus , à colore scilicet , Skinner . A Bostal : a way up a hill , Suss . Bouds : i. e. Weevils , an insect breeding in malt , Norf. Suff. Bown : i. e. swelled , Norf. Brank : Buck-wheat : Ess . Suff. in some Countries of England they call it crap . A Break : i. e. Land plowed the first year after it hath lain fallow in the sheep-walks , Norf. To Bricken : to bridle up the head . A Rustick word corrupted from bridle . A Sow goes to Brimme : i. e. to Boar. Brime it hither , i , e. bring it hither , Suff. Var. dial . To Brite : spoken of hops when they be over-ripe , and shatter . To Brutte : to Browse Suss . Dial. The Buck : the breast Suss . it is used for the body or the trunck of the body ; in Dutch and old Saxon it signifies the belly , the buck of a cart , i. e. the body of a cart . Buck some : Blithe , jolly , frolick , chearly , some write it Buxome ; ab As. Bocsum , Obediens , tractabilis , hoc à verbo Bugan flectere , q. d. flexibilis : quod eo confirmatur , quod apud Chaucerum Buxumness exponitur lowliness , Skinner . A Bud : a weaned calf of the first year , Suss . because the horns are then in the bud . Bullimong : Oates , Pease , and Vetches mixed , Ess . C. A CAddow : a Jack-daw , Norf. in Cornwal they call the Guilliam a Kiddaw . Carpet-way : i. e. Green-way . A Carre : a wood of alder or other trees in a moist boggy place . Catch-land : Land which is not certainly known to what Parish it belongeth ; and the Minister that first gets the tithes of it enjoys it for that year ; Norf. A Chavish : a chatting or pratling noise among a great many , Suss . A Chizzell : bran ; à Teut. Kiesell , Siliqua , Gluma . Suss . Kent . The Church-litten : the Church-yard . Suss . Wilt. fort . ab As. Laedan , Teut. Leyten , ducere , q. d. via ducens ad templum , Skinner . A Chuck : a great Chip , Suss . in other Countrys they call it a chunk . Cledgy : i. e. stiff . Kent . Clever : Neat , smooth , cleanly wrought , dextrous , à Fr. G. Leger , cleaverly , q. d. Legerly , Skinner . A Cobweb morning : i. e. a Misty morning , Norf. A Combe : Devon. Corn. ab As. Comb , Comp. a C. Br. eoque antiquo Gallico Kum , Cwmm , unde defluxit Gallicum recens Combe , Vallis utrinque collibus obsita , Skinner . A Coomb or Coumb of Corn : Half a Quarter , à Fr. G. Comble utr . à Lat. Cumulus . A Cob-iron : an Andiron , Ess . To Cope : i. e. To chop or exchange , used by the Coasters of Norfol. Suffol . &c. A Cosset lambe or colt , &c. i. e. a cade lamb , a lamb or colt brought up by the hand , Norf. Suff. A Cottrel ; Cornw. Devonsh . a trammel to hang the Pot on over the fire . A Cove : a little harbour for boats , West Countrey . To Coure : to ruck down , ut mulieres solen● ad mingendum , ab . It Covare : Fr. G. Couver , incubare , hoc à Lat. cubare . A Cowl : a Tub , Ess . Crank : Brisk , merry , jocund , Ess . Sanus , integer : Sunt qui derivant à Belg. & Teut. Kranck , quod prorsus contrarium scraegrum significat . Ab istis autem antiphrasibus totus abhorreo . Mallem igitur deducere ab Vn vel Onkranck , non aeger , omissa per injuriam temporis initiali syllabâ , Skinner . Crap : Darnel , Suss . in Worcestershire and other Countreys they call Buck-wheat Crap . A Crock : a Earthen pot to put butter or the like in , ab As. Crocca , Teut. Krug , Belg. Krogh , Kroegh , C. Br. Crochan , Dan. Kruck , Olla fictilis , vas fictile , Urceus , Skinner . To Crock : Ess . to black one with soot or black of a pot or kettle or chimney-stock , this black or soot is also substantively called , Crock Crones : old Ewes . A Cratch or Critch : a Rack . ni fallor à Lat. Cratica , Craticula , Crates . Crawly mawly : indifferently well , Norfolk . A Culver : a Pigeon or Dove , ab As. Culfer , Columba . D. It DAres me : it pains or grieves me . Ess . ab As. Dare , signifying hurt , harm , loss . A Dilling : a Darling or best-beloved child . A Dibble : an instrument to make holes in the ground with for setting beans , pease or the like . Dish-meat : Spoon-meat . Kent . To Ding : to sling , Ess . in the North it signifies to beate . A Dodman : a shell-snail or Hodmandod , Norf. A Doke : a deep Dint or furrow , Ess . Suff. A Dool : a long narrow green in a plowed field with plowed Land on each side it : a broad balk . forte à Dale , a valley because when the standing corn growes on both side it , it appears like a valley . E. ELlinge : Solitary , lonely , melancholy , farre from neighbours : q. elongatus . Suss . a Gallico Esloigner . Ellende in the Ancient Saxon signifies procul , farre off , farre from . Ernful : i. e. Lamentable . Ersh : The same that Edish , the stubble after the corn is cut , Suss . Edisc is an old Saxon word signifying sometimes Roughings , Aftermathes . F. FAiry-sparks or Shel-fire : Kent . often seen on clothes in the night . Feabes or Feaberries : Goose-berries Suff. Thebes in Norf. Fenny : i. e. Mouldy : Fenny cheese mouldy cheese , Kent . ab As. Fennig , mucidus . Fimble Hemp : Early ripe Hemp. Flags : The Surface of the earth which they pare off to burn : the upper turfe , Norf. Foison : or Fizon : The natural juice or moisture of the Grass or other herbs . The heart and strength of it , Suff. a Gallico Foissonner : abundare , vel forte , à Teut. Feist , pinguis . Footing time , Norf. is the same with up-setting time in Yorksh . when the Puerpera gets up . A Fostal : forte . Forestal : A way leading from the high way to a great House , Suss . A Frower : an Edge-tool used in cleaving lath . To Trase : to break , Norf. it is likely from the Latine word frangere . Frobly mobly : indifferently well . G. To GAster : to scare or affright suddenly . Gastred , Perterre factus : ab As. Gast , Spiritus , Umbra , Spectrum , q. d. Spectri alicujus visu territus , vel q. d. Gastrid vel ridden , i. e. à spectro aliquo vel Ephialte invasus & quasi inequitatus , Skinner . It is a word of common use in Essex . A Gattle head : Cambr. a forgetful person : ab As. Ofer-geotol obliviousus , immemor . Geazon : Scarce , hard to come by , Ess . A Gill : a Rivulet , a beck , Suss . A Goffe : a Mow of Hay or Corn. Essex . Gods good : Yeast , Barm . Kent , Norf. Suff. To Goyster : to be frolick and ramp , to laugh aloud , Suss . Gowts , Somersets . Canales , cloacae , seu sentinae subterraneae , procu●dubio à Fr. G. Gouttes , gutae , & inde verb. Esgouter , guttatim transfluere . Omnia manifestè a Lat. Gutta , Skinner . A Gratton : an Ersh or Eddish . Suss . stubble , Kent . H. A HAgester : a Magpie , Kent . A Hale : Suff. i. e. a trammel in the Essex dialect , v. Tramel . A Haw : Kent . a close : ab As. Haga seu Haeg , Agellulus seu Cors juxta domum , thoc ab As. Hegian sepire . To Heal : to Cover , Suss . as to heal the fire , to heal a house : to heal a person in bed , i. e. to cover them , ab As. Helan , to hide , cover or heal , hence in the West he that covers a House with slates is called a Healer or Hellier . Haulm or Helm : stubble gathered after the corn is inned : ab As. Healm , Hielm , Stipula , Culmus . Omnia à Lat. Calamus ve● culmus . Hogs ; Young sheep , Northamptonshire . Hoddy : Well pleasant , in good tune or humour . A How : pronounced as mow and throw : a narrow iron rake without teeth , to cleanse Gardens from weeds , Rastrum Gallicum . A Hornicle : a Hornet , Suss . Dial. To Hotagoe : to move nimbly , spoken of the tongue , Suss . You hotagoe your tongue . A Holt : a Wood , an Ancient Saxon word . Hover ground : i. e. light ground . I. THe Door stands a Jarre : i. e. The Door stands half open , Norf. A Jugglemear : a Quagmire , Devonshire . An Ice-bone : i. e. a Rump of Beef , Norf. K. KEdge ; Brisk , Budge , Lively . Suffolk . A Keeve : Devon. a Fat wherein they work their beer up before they tun it . Kelter or Kilter ; Frame , order , Proculdubio ( inquit Skinnerus ) à Dan. Opkilter succingo , Kilter , cingo ; vel forte à voce cultura . Non absurde etiam deflecti posset à Teut. Kelter , torcular , Skinnerus quem adisis . The Kerfe ; the furrow made by the saw , Suss . A Kerle of veal , mutton , &c. a Loin of those meats . Devon. Knolles ; Turneps , Kent . L. A LAwn in a Park : Plain untilled ground . A Leap or Lib ; Suss . Half a bushel : in Essex a Seed-Leap or Lib is a vessel or basket to carry corn in , on the arm to sow . ab As. Saed-leap , a Seed-basket . To Lease and Leasing ; to glean and gleaning , spoken of corn Suss . Kent . Lee or Lew : Calm , under the wind . Suss . A Lift : i. e. a Stile that may be opened like a gate , Norf. Litten : v. Church-litten . Lie-tune Saxonicè coemiterium . Lizen'd corn q. Lessened , i. e. lank or shrank corn , Suss . 2. Lourdy , Sluggish , Suss . From the French Lourd , focors , ignavus , Lourdant , Lourdin Bardus . 1. Long it hither : Reach it hither , Suffolk . A Lynchett : a green balk to divide lands . M. A MAd ; an Earth worm , Ess . from the High Dutch Maden . Mazzards : Black Cherries . West Countrey . A Meag or Meak ; a Pease-hook , Ess . Mere : i. e. Lynchet . Misagaft : Mistaken , misgiven , Suss . Mittens : Gloves made of linnen or woollen , whether knit or stitched : sometimes also they call so gloves made of leather without fingers . A Mixon ; Dung laid on a heap or bed to rot and ripen , Suss . Kent . I find that this word is of general use all over England . ab As. Mixen , Sterquilinium : utr . à Meox , fimus : hoc forte a misceo & miscela : quia est miscela omnium alimentorum . A Modher or Modder , Mothther ; a girle or young wench : used all over the Eastern part of England , v. g. Essex , Suff. Norf. Cambr. From the ancient Danish word More , quomodo ( saith Sir. H. Spelman in Glossario ) a Danis oriundi Norfolcienses puellam hodie vocant , quod interea rident Angli caeteri , vocis nescientes probitatem . Cupio patrio meo suffragari idiomati . Intelligendum igitur est Norfolciam hanc nostram ( quae inter alios aliquot Angliae Comitatus in Danorum transyt ditionem , An. Dom. 876 ) Danis maxime habitatam fuisse , eorumque legibus , lingua atque moribus imbutum claras illi virgines & puellas ( ut Arctoae gentes aliae ) Moer appellabant . Inde quae canendo heroum laudes & poemata palmam retulere ( teste Olao Wormio ) Scaldmoer i. e. Virgines cantatrices quae in praelys gloriam ex fortitudine sunt adeptae Sciold Moer hoc est Scutiferas virgines nuncupârunt . Eodem nomine ipsa , Amazones . &c. En quantum in spreta jam voce antiquae gloriae . Sed corrumpi hanc fate or vulgari labio , quod Mother matrem significans etiam pro Moer h. e. puella pronunciat . M●ckson up to the buckson , Devon. Dirty up to the Knucles . The Mokes of a net ; the Mashes or Meishes , Suss . N. A NAil of beef , v. g. Suss . i. e. the weight of eight pound . Newing : yeast or barm . Ess . Near now : just now , not long since Norf. To Not : and notted : i. e. polled , shorn . Essex . ab As. Hnot , ejusdem significati . O. OLd land : ground that hath layn untilled along time and is new plowed up . Suff. O●et : Fewel : q. d. Ellet , ab As. Aelan , Onaelan , accendere , Dan. Eld. Ignis . Oost or East : the same that Kiln or Kill , Somersetshire , and elsewhere in the West . Orewood : Quaedam Algae species quae Cornubiae agros merificè faecundat , sic dicta fortè , quod ut Aurum in colas locuplet et , & auro emi meretur . Est autem vox Cornubiae ferè propria . Sea-wrack , so called in Cornwal , where they manure their land with it . Ope lande : Ground plowed up every year , ground that is loose or open , Suff. P. A PAddock : a Frog . Ess . Minshew deflectit à Belg. Padde Bufo . A Paddock or Puddock is also alittle Park or enclosure . Pease-bolt : i. e. Pease-straw , Ess . Pipperidges : Barberries , Ess . Suff. To Ply ; spoken of a pot , kettle or other vessel ull of liquor , i. e. to boil : playing hot ; boylin Norfolk they pronounce it plaw . A Poud : a Boil or Ulcer , Suss . Puckets : nests of Caterpillars , Suss . Q. QVotted : Suss . Cloyed , glutted . R. RAthe : early , Suss . as Rathe in the morning . i. e. early in the morning . Rath-ripe fruit , i. e. early fruit , fructus praecoces , ab As. Radh , Radhe , cito . A Riddle : An oblong sort of sieve to separate the seed from the corn : ab As Hriddel , cribrum ; hoc a Hreddan , liberare , quia sc . c●ibrando partes puriores a crassioirbus liberentur . A Ripper : a Pedder , Dorser or Badger , Suss . To Rue : to sift Devonsh . S. SAy of it : i. e. tast of it , Suff. say for Assay per Aphaeresin , Assay from the French essayer , and the Italian assaggiare , to try , or prove , or attempt ; all from the Latine word sapio , which signifies also to taste . A Seame of corn of any sort : a Quarter , 8 bushels , Ess . ab As. seam ; a load , a burthen ; a Horse-load , it seems also to have signified the quantity of eight bussels , being often taken in that sense in Matth. Paris . Somner . A Seam of wood : an Horse-load , Suss . ejusdem originis . Seel or seal ; time or season . It is a fair feel for you to come at , i. e. a fair season or time ; spoken ironically to them that come late , Ess . ab As Sael . time . What Seel of day ? What time of day . To go Sew : i. e. to go dry , Suss . spoken of a cow . A Shaw : a wood that encompasses a close , Suss . ab As. scuwa umbra , a shadow . A Shawle : a shovel to winnow withall , Suss . videtur contractum à shovel . A Sheat : a young Hog , Suff. in Essex they call it a shote , both from shoot . Shie or shy , apt to startle and flee from you , or that keeps off and will not come near . It Schifo , à Belg. schouwen , schuwen , Teut. schewen , vitare , Skinner . Sheld : Flecked : party-coloured , Suff. inde Sheldrake & sheld fowle , Suss . To Shimper : to shimmer or shine , Suss . Dial. To Shun : to shove , Suss . Dial. Sibberidge : or sibbered : the Banes of Matrimony , Suff. ab As. syb , sybbe , Kinred , alliance , affinity . A Shuck : an husk or shell ; as Beanshucks , Bean-shells , per Anagramatismum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Husk forte . Sizzing : yeast or barm , Suss . from the sound Beer or Ale make in working , Sidy : surly , moody , Suss . Sile : filth . Simpson : Groundsell , senecio , Ess . Suff. Skaddle : scathie , Ravenous , mischievous , Suss . ab As. skade , harm , hurt , damage , mischief : or scaedan , laedere , nocere . Skrow : surly , dogged , used most adverbially , as to look shrow , i. e. to look sowrly , Suss . Skeeling : an Isle or bay of a barn , Suss . To Skid a wheel : Rotam sufflaminare , with an iron hook fastned to the Axis to keep it from turning round upon the descent of a steep hill , Kent . A Slappel : a piece , part , or portion , Suss . A Snagge : a snail , Suss . Dial. A Snur●e : a Pose or Cold in the head , Coryza , Suff. To Summerland a ground ; to lay it fallow a year , Suff. Soller or solar , an upper Chamber or loft , à Latino solarium . To Squat : to bruise or make flat by letting fall : activè , Suss . The Steale of any thing , i. e. manubrium the Handle , on Pediculus , the footstalk : à Belg. steel , stele . Teut. stiel Petiolus . A Seen or spene : a cows pappe , Kent . ab As. spana , mammae , ubera . A Stew : a pool to preserve fish for the table to be drawn and filled again at pleasure . A Stoly house , i. e. a clutter'd dirty house , Suff. A Strand : one of the twists of a line , be it of horse-hair or ought else , Suss . A Stound : a little while , Suff. q. a stand . The Strig : the footstalk of any fruit ; Petiolus , Suss . Stamwood : the roots of trees stubbed up , Suss . A Stuckling : an apple-pasty , Suss . Stusnet : a posnet or skillet , Suss . A Stull : a luncheon , a great piece of bread , cheese or other Victuals , Ess . A Stut : a Gnat : Somerset , ab As. stut , Culex . Stover : Fodder for cattel , as hay , straw or the like , Ess . from the French estouver fovere , according to Cowel . Spelman reduces it from the French estoffe materia , & estoffer , necessaria iuppeditare . To Sweale : to singe or burn , Suss . a sweal'd pig , a singed pig : ab As. swaelan , to kindle , to set on fire or burn . To Sworle : to snarle as a dog doth Suss . T. A TAgge : a sheep of the first year Suss . Temse-bread , i. e. sifted bread . Very Tarky ; very dark , Suff. A Theave : an Ewe of the first year , Ess . Tiching : Devon. Cornw. setting up turves that so they may be dryed by the Sun and fit to burn upon land . To Tine or tin a candle ; to light it : ab As. Tynam , accendere ; hinc Tinder . A Tovet or Tofet : Half a bushel : Kent . a nostro Two , As. Tu , Duo , & Fat mensuram unius pecci signante , a peck . A Trammel : an iron instrument hanging in the chimney , whereon to hang pots or kettles over the fire , Ess . Trewets or Truets : Pattens for Women , Suff. A Trip of sheep , i. e. a few sheep , Norf. A Trug : a tray for milk or the like , Suss . Dial. To Trull : to trundle ; per contractionem , Suss . V. To VAng : to answer for at the font as Godfather . He vangd to me at the Vant , Somerset . in Baptisterio pro me suscepit : ab As. Fengan , to receive , also to undertake , verso f in v pro more loci . Velling : Plowing up the turf or upper surface of the ground , to lay on heaps to burn . West-countrey . A Voor : a furrow , Suss . A Vollow : a Fallow , Suss . Generally in the West-Country they use v , instead of f. and z. instead of s. Vrith : Eththerings or windings of hedges , teneri rami Coryli , quibus inflexis sepes colligant & stabiliunt : ab As. Wrydhan , torquere , distorquere , contratorquere : Wridha , lorum , Wridelf , Fascia , quia sci . hi rami contorti instar lori & Fasciae sepes colligant , Skinner . W. VVAttles : made of split wood in fashion of gates , wherein they use to fold sheep , as elsewhere in hurples , Suss . ab As. watelas , crates , hurdles . A Wem : a small fault , hole , decay or blemish , especially in cloth , Ess . ab As. wem , a blot , spot or blemish . A Were or wair : a pond or pool of water , ab As. waer a fish-pond , a place or engine for catching and keeping of fish . A Whapple way , i. e. where a cart and horses cannot pass , but horses only . A Wheden : a simple person , west . Whicket for whacket : or quittee for quattee ; i. e. Quid pro quo , Kent . A Whittle : a doubled blanket , which Women wear over their shoulders in the West Country , as else where short cloaks , ab As. Hwitel , Sagum , Saga , l●na , a kind of garment , a cassock , an Irish mantle , &c. v. Somner . Widows bench : a share of the Husbands Estate which Widows in Sussex enjoy beside their joyntures . To Wimme : Suss . Dial. Woadmell : A bairy course stuff made of Island wool , and brought thence by our Sea-men to Norf. Suff. &c. Woodcock soil , Ground that hath a soil under the turf that looks of a Woodcock colour and is not good . Y. Y Are : nimble , sprightly , smart , Suffolk . A Yaspen or Yeepsen : in Essex signifies as much as can be taken up in both hands joy n'd together . Gouldman renders it vola seu manipulus , fortean a nostro . Grasping , elisa propter euphoniam litera canina r , and g , in y facillim● sanè & vulgatissima nostrae linguae mutatione transeunte : q. d. quantum quis vola comprehendere potest , Skinner . In Sussex for hasp , clasp , wasp , they pronounce hapse , clapse , wapse , &c. for neck nick , for throat throtte , for choak , chock . Set'n down , let'n stand , come again and fe●'n anon . C'have cat so much c'ham quit a quot , Devon. i. e. I ean eat no more , I have eat so much that I am cloyed . A CATALOGUE : OF ENGLISH BIRDS As well such as constantly abide and breed in England , as those that come and go at certain Seasons . Rapacious Diurnal Birds . AQuila : The Eagle ; What sort I cannot certainly determine . But that there have been several seen , and some bred in England I am well assured . Particularly Anno 1668. in the Woodlands near Derwent in the Peak of Derbyshire was found an Eagles nest , made of great sticks resting the one end upon the ledge of a Rock , the other upon two Birch trees ; above the sticks was a layer of rushes upon the Rushes a layer of Heath , and upon he Heath Rushes again ; upon which lay one young one and an addle Egge , and by them a lamb and a hare , and three heath-poults . The nest was about two yards square , and had no hollow in it : The young Eagle was as black as a Hobby , of the shape of a Gos-hawk , of almost the weight of a Goose , feathered down to the foot , and having a ring of white about the tail , an Pygargus Aldr. and it is said that there are Eagles build yearly on the Rocks of Snowdon in Carnarvanshire in Wales . The Sparrow-hawk : Accipiter fringillarius , Recentioribus , Nisus . The Bald Buzzard : Balbusardus Anglorum , Haliaetus , Aldrov . The common Buzzard : Buteo , Triorches . The Honey-Buzzard : Buteo apivorus . The Ringtail : Pygargus : the cock of this kind is called the Hen harrow . The Kite or Glead : Milvus . Milvus aeruginosus : Aldrov . I know not any English name of this Bird. The Hobby : Subbuteo . The Kestrell or Stannel ; in some places the Windover . Tinnunculus seu Cenchris Aldrov . The great Butcher-bird called in the Peak of Derbyshire Wirrangle . Lanius cinereus major . The lesser Butcher-bird , called in Yorkshire . Flusher Lanius tertius Aldrov . Turner calls this Bird the Shrike . The Cuckow : Cuculus . Rapacious nocturnal Birds . The Horn-Owl : Otus sive Noctua aurita . The common gray or Ivy-Owl . Strix Aldrov . The common Barn-Owl , or White Owl : Aluco minor Aldrov . The Churn-owl , Fern Owl or Goat sucker , Capr imulgus . The Crow-kind or Semirapacious Birds . The Raven : Corvus . The common Crow : Cornix . The Rook : Cornix frugilega . The Roiston Crow : Cornix cinerea frugilega . The Jacdaw : Monedula sive Lupus Aldrov . The Magpie or Pianet : Pica varia caudata . The Cornish Chough : Coracias , Pyrrhocorax . The Jay : Pica glandaria . The VVoodpecker-kind . The green Woodpecker or Woodspite : called by some Heyhoe . Picus viridis . The greater spotted Wood-pecker or Hickwall ; Picus varius major . The lesser spotted Wood-pecker or Witwal : Picus varius minor . The Wryneck : Jynx sive Torquilla . The Nut hatch : Picus cinereus . The Creeper or Ox-eye Creeper . Certhia . The Poultry kind . Genus gallinaceum The common Cock and Hen : Gallus gallin aceus & Gallina . The Pheasant : Phasianus . The common Partridge : Perdix cinerea . The Quail : Coturnix . The common Heath cock , Black game or Grous ; Tetrao sive Urogallus minor . The Redgame : Grygallus minor , an Longolii Gallina Betula ? Aldrov . The Bustard : Otis , Tarda avis Aldrov . The Pigeon-kind . The common Pigeon or house-Dove : Columba domestica , seu vulgaris . The Turtle-Dove : Turtur . The Ring-Dove or Queest : Palumbus torquatus . The Stock-dove or Wood-pigeon : Oenas sive Vinago . The Thrush-kind . The Missel-bird or Shrite ; Turdus viscivorus major . The Mavis , Song-thrush or Throstle ; Turdus viscivorus minor . These two are Birds of pafsage , that were never known to breed in England The Fieldfare : Turdus pilaris . The Redwing or Swine-pipe : Turdus Iliacus . The black-bird ; Merula vulgaris . The Ring Ouzell ; Merula torquata . The Water-ouzoll : Merula aquatica . The Stare or Sterling : Sturnus . Small Birds with slender Bills . The common Lark ; Alau da vulgaris . The Wood-lark . The Tit-lark : Alauda pratorum . The common House-swallow ; Hirundo domestica . Tbe Martin : Hirundo agrestis sive rustica Plin. The black Martin or Swift ; Hirundo apus . The Land-martin or Shore-bird : Hirundo riparia . The Hedge-sparrow : Curruca Eliotae . Pettichaps : Ficedula Septima Aldrov . Moucherolle : Bellonii forte . These two Birds have not any English names generally known ; neither can I certainly say that they are described . The Redstart : Ruticilla . The Robin-red-breast or Ruddock : Rubecula . The Nightingale . Luscinia , Philomela , Atricapilla : Aldrov . The Fallow-smich or Wheat-ear ; or White-tail ; Oenanthe sive Vitiflora Aldrov . Oenanthe alia , duabus maculis albis in singulis alis insignita . The Stone-smich or Stone-chatter ; an Muscicapa tertia Alarov ? The Goldfinch . Germanis dicta . avicula , quamvis cum Fringilis nihil habeat commune , in the mountains of the Peak of Derbyshire . The White-throat : an Spipola prima Aldrov ? The White Water-wagtail : Motacilla alba . The Yellow Water-wagtail : Motacilla flava . The copped Wren : Regulus cristatus . Regulus non cristatus Aldrov . an Asilus , an Luteola Turneri ? The Wren : Passer troglodytes . The great Titmouse : Parus major , seu Fringillago . The black-headed Titmouse ; Parus ater , Gesn . The Marsh Titmouse : Parus palustris ; The blew Titmouse : Parus caeruleus . Tbe long-tail'd Titmouse : Paru caudatus . Small Birds with thick and short Bills . The Haw-finch . Coccothraustes . The Green-finch : Chloris . The Bull-finch , Alpe or Nope : Rubicilla seu Pyrrhula Aldrov . The Shell-apple or Cross-bill : Loxia . The House-sparrow : Passer domesticus . The Chaffe-finch : Fringilla . The Bramble or brambling : or Mountain-finch : Fringilla montana . The Gold-finch : Carduelis , Acanthis . The common Linnet : Linaria vulgaris . The greater red-headed Linnet ; Linaria rubra major . The lesser red-headed Linnet : Linaria rubra minor . The Siskin : Spinus sive Ligurinus . Birds having a hard protuberancy in the upper chap. The Bunting : Emberiza alba , Gesn . The Yellow-hammer , or amber : Emberiza flava , Gesn . The Reed-sparrow : Passer arundinaceus . VVater Fovvl : Such as have their toes divided , and that only wade in the Water , or frequent watry places . The Greater kind . THe Crane : Grus . The common Heron or Heron-shaw : Ardea cinerea major . The Bittern : Ardea stellaris . The middle and lesser kind's . Such as have slender and very long bills : The Woodcock : Scolopax . The Snipe : Gallinago minor . The Gid or Jack-snipe : Gallinago minima . The Godwit or Stone-plover : an Fedoa Gesn . The Stone-Curlew : These Birds are like one to the other , and have bills longer then the Woodcock . The Curlew : Arquata , Numenius . The Sea-pie : Haematopus Bellonii . The Redshank : Such as have slender bills of a middle length . An Callidrys Bellonii ? Gallinula crythropus major , Gesn . — Tringa major . Sand-piper : Tringa minor . The Knot : Canuti avis ; Cinclus Bellonii . The Ruffe and Re eve : Avis pugnax Aldrov . The Sanderling or Curwillct ; so called about Pensans , it is about the bigness of the lesser Tringa or Sand-piper , and wants the back claw , by which note it may easily be known from all others of its kind . The S●int . To these I may add ( though he hath very short legs , and wades not . ) The King-fisher . Ispida . Such as have short Bills . The Lapwing : Capella sive Vanellus . The Green-plover : Pluvialis viridi . The Grey-plover : Pluvialis cinerea . The Sea-Lark : Charadrius sive Hiaticuia : This also wants the back claw . The Turn-stone : an Cinclus Turneri . This bird we observed on the coast of Cornwall : it is lesser then a Plover , and somewhat bigger then a Black-bird . Of such as Swim in the WATER . Such whose toes are divided , which I may call Fin-toed . Colymbus christatus : The crested Diver . The Didapper or Dob-chich : Colymbus minor . The common Weter-hen or More-hen : Gallinula chloropus . The Velvet Runner : Gallinula Serica . The Coot : Fulica Mr. Johnson of Brigna near Crota bridg York-sh . shew'd me a bird of the Coot kind scollop-toed not much bigged then a Black-bird . VVhole or VVeb-footed . Such as have all four toes webbed together . The Soland-Goose : Anser Bassanus . The Cormorant : Corvus aquaticus . The Shagge : Graculus palmipes . Such as want the Back-toe . The Pope , called in some places Puffins : Anas Arctica Clus . The Rasor-bill : Auk or Murre : Alka Hoieri & Womii . The Guilliam , Cuillem or Kiddaw : Lomwia insula● Ferrae : Such as have slender bills sharp-pointed . The greatest Diver : Colymbus maximus , an Lum ? The Herring-gull or greatest ash-coloured Mew : Larus cinereus maximus . The lesser ash-coloured Sea-cobor Mew : Larus cinereus minor . The great Gray Gull : an Wagel Cornubi-ensium ? Of this Bird the Cornish men about Pensans report , that he pursues and strikes at the small Gull so long , till out of fear it mutes ; The Wagell presently follows and greedily devours the excrement , catching it sometimes before it be fallen to the water . This several Seamen affirmed themselves to have oftentimes seen . The great black and white Gull : Larus maximus ex albo & nigro varius . The Gannet , An Catarractes . We saw about St. Ives in Cornwal many of these birds flying . It hath long wings , and a long neck , and flyeth strongly , it prys upon Pilchards ; the Scoles whereof great numbers of this fowl constantly frequent and pursue . It casts it self down with great violence upon its prey , insomuch that they say one way to catch it is by fastning a Pilchard to a deal board a little under water , upon which it will precipitate it self with such vehemency , that it will dash out its own brains against the board . The Coddy moddy or lesser grey Gull : an Larus major Aldrov ? The Pewit or Sea-crow : Larus albus minor . The Tarrock : Cornub : Larus cinereus Bellonii . The Sea-swallow : Hirundo marina . The small black Cu●l : Larus niger , vel Larus piscator . The Puffin or Curviere : Puffinus Anglorum . This bird builds on a little Island called the calf of Man at the South end of the Isle of Man , and also upon the Silly Islands , but is nothing such a thing as is described in Aldrovandus : for that is feather'd and can fly swiftly . Avosetta Italorum : Recurvirostra . Such as have toothed-bills . The Gossander or Bergander : Merganse● Aldr. The lesser tooth-bill'd Diver : Mergus cinereus fuscus . Albellus alter Aldrov . Mergus glacialis Gesneri . This hath no English name known to me , unless it be that which Dr. Merret in his Pinax calls by the name of Nun : The Germans call it the White Nun. The cock and hen in this and the Gossander differ so much in colour , that Authors have made four distinct species of them . Broad-billed Birds . The Swan : Cygnus . The Elk , Hooper , or wild Swan : Cygnus ferus , this bird is specifically distinct ●om the tame Swan ; as is manifest from that one note alone , that in this the winde-pipe enters into the breast-bone , and is therein reflected , which it doth not in the tame Swan . The Goose : Anser . The Wild-Goose : Anser ferus . The road-Goose , or small Wild Goose . The Bernacle : Bernicla : The common Wild Duck : Boschas major . The tame Duck : Anas domestica . The Shelldrake : Tadorna Belonii . The Gadwall or Gray : Boschas minor orquata . The Sea Pheasant : Anas caudacuta . The Wigeon : Penelope Aldrov . Anas fistularis . The Pochard : Anas fera fusca . Rothals , Gesn . Mergus cirratus minor , Gesn . Caporosso Venetiis dicta . The Teal : Querquedula . Quattro occhis Venetiis : Clangula . The Shoveler : Anas platyrynchos , sive clypeata Germanica Aldr. The Scoter : Anas niger . Anatis nigrae aliam speciem nobis oftendit D. Johnson Eboracensis . The Cuthbert Duck : Anas S. Cuthberti , building only on the Farn Islands upon the coast of Northumberland . A. CATALOGUE OF FISHES Taken about Pensans and St. Ives in Cornwall given us by one of the Ancientest and most experienced fishermen , the most whereof we saw during our stay there . Of the Cetaceous Kind . 1. THe Whale , Cetus , Balaena : of what sort he could not tell us . Vulgus enim non distinguit . 2. The Porpesse : Phocaena Rondel . These Fishes have lungs and breathe like quadrupeds , are also viviparous and give suck to their young . Of the Cartilagineous kind , Long. 3. Blew Sharks ; Glaucus . 4. White Sharks . 5. Topes ; An Mustelus laevis secundus seu Canosa Salviani ? 6. Picked Dogs ; Catulus spinax . 7. Rough Hounds ; Mustelus , an laevis primus Salviani ? 8. Morgay ; Catulus major Salviani . Broad or Flat . 9. Thornback ; Raia clavata . 10. Flair or Ray ; Raia laevis . 11. Monk-fish : which either is or ought to be called Skate , if we follow the Etymology of the word ; Squatina . The Italians call it Pesce Angelo , The Angel-Fish . 12. The Piper , Raio-squatina Rondel . I am not ignorant that the Cornish men call another Fish , viz. A sort of Cuculus or Gurnard by the name of Piper : wherefore this Homonymy is to be carefully noted to avoid confusion . 13. Pesc mollan ; the Frog-fish , or Sea-Divel : Rana piscatrix . Spinous or Bony Fishes . Flat-Fishes that swim sideways and lye most part grovelling at the bottome . 14. Holibut or Halibut ; the biggest of all this kind , an Hippoglossus Rondel ? 15. Turbot Rhombus . These names of Turbot and Halibut are confounded in several Countreys . What in the North they call the Halibut in the North they call the Turbot ; and the Turbot the Bret , nay in some parts of the West of England they call the Turbot Bret and the Halibut Turbot . 16. The Plaise ; Passer maculosus . 17. Flukes or Flounders , called in some places Buts , Passer laevis vulgaris . 18. The Dab : Passer asper , seu squamosus Rondel . 19. Lanterns : Lug aleth Cornubiensibus . 20. Queens : a Fish thinner than a Plaise . Of these two last we know nothing but the names , having never seen the Fishes . 21. Soles : Solea , Lingulaca . Of Fishes that swim upright , which at present we will distinguish into 1 Long and narrow . 2. Broad or deep . Of long Fishes . Such as have three fins upon the Ridge of their Backs which I call properly the Cod-kind . 22. The Common Cod-fish : Asellus vulgaris , Cabiliau . 23. The Whiting-Pollack . 24. The Raewlin-Pollack . 25. The Haddock : Asinus Antiquorum . 26. The Bib or Blinds . 27. The Bulcard . 28. The Whiting : Asellus mollis . Of these fishes we saw and described all , save the Bulcard : several of them we judge not yet described by any Authour extant in print : indeed the writers of natural History of Animals living far from the Ocean , and so having never had opportunity of seeing these kinds of Fishes , which are proper to the Ocean and not found in the Mediterranean Sea , write very confusedly and obscurely concerning them . To these may be referred two other Fishes , which have not three fins on the back , because their flesh is like that of the precedent , and they are usually salted and dried in like manner , viz. 29. Ling : by some called Asellus longus , and by some Asellus Islandicus . 30. Hake : Asellus alter , sive Merlucius , Aldrov . Of the Gurnard kind , having as it were fingers before the fins on their Bellies . 31. Gray Gurnard or Snowd : Cuculus . 32. Red Gurnard . 33. Tub-fish or Piper . Lyra prior Rondel . Of the Herring-kind . 34. Herrings : Harengus . 35. Pilchard : Harengus minor . This Fish , though not so great as the Herring , yet seemed to us of a more Delicate tast . 36. A lose : called in other places Shads , which are of the Anadromi , coming up Rivers , commonly taken in the Rivers of Thames and Severn , called in Latine Clupeae & Alosae . They are the biggest of this kind , growing to be far greater then a Herring . Of the Mackrel-kind . 37. Tunny , called there Spanish Mackrel , of which we saw a large one taken at Pensans . 38. Scad ; Trachurus . 39. Mackrel ; Scomber . Miscellaneous long Fishes of several Kinds . 40. Mullet ; Mugil . 41. Basse . 42. Old-wives ; which I saw not but by the description made of it I guess to be a kind of Turdus . 43. Wrasse ; another sort of Turdus : in Careys description of Cornwal this is called a Wroth. 44. Sur-Mullet ; Mullus Antiquorum . 45. Cuckow-Fish ; That sort of Turdus called by Salvianus Pavo . 46. Girrock : Acus major , called elsewhere Horn-Fish and Needle-Fish . 47. Skipper ; Acus minor . 48. Conger or Sea-Eel : Congrus . 49. Calken ; i. e. Weaver or Wiver , Draco sive Araneus . 50. Salmon ; Salmo . 51. Smelt ; Violacea . 52. Sand-Eels or Launces ; Ammodytes Gesneri , so called because they dig them out of the Sand when the Tide is out . 53. Whistle-Fish ; Mustelus . 54. Mulgronock ; Alauda marina . 55. Father-Lasher Cornubiensibus pueris dictus : Scorpaena Bellony . 56. Butter-Fish : 57. Sea-Adder ; These two last are very small Fishes , and not described or mentioned by any Authour I know of . 58. Rock-Fish ; Gobius marinus . 59. A Gid ; A scaly Fish lesser then a Pilchard : this we saw not . Broad or Deep-Fishes . 60. Gilt-Heads ; Aurata , Chrysophrys . 61. Sea-Bream , Chad ; Pagrus Aldrov . 62. Dory ; Faber piscis . 63. Sun-Fish ; Mola Salviani . Shell-Fish . Crustaceous . 64. Black Crabfish . 65. White Crab : Pagurus . 66. Scottish Crab : 67. Spanish Crab : Tragezawt : Cancer maias . Besides all these we observed two other sorts of small Crabs . 68. Lobster : Astacus . 69. Long Oyster , Sea-gar , Red Crab : Locusta marina . The name long Oyster is no doubt a Corruption of Locusta . 70. Shrimp , Beeban booban Cornub. Squilla . Testaceous . 71. Cockle : Pectunculus . 72. Muscle : Mitylus . 73. Oyster : Ostrea . 74. Limpet : Patella . 75. Shorts : Echini marini . 76. Wrinkles or Periwinkles : Cochleae marinae : Of which there are found several species . Fish called in Latine Exanguia aquatica mollia . 77. Cuttle Fish : Lolligo . 78. Call : Sepia . 79. Mulgouly : a sort of Urtica soluts or Blubber , round and finely coloured with rayes on one side , from the center to the circumference . 80. Star-Fishes of several sorts , Stellae marinae . On the Rocks near the Lands end they often find the Phocae ( which they call Soils ) sleeping . Sometimes they kill them by striking them cross the snout with a pole , otherwhiles they shoot them . Some of these Soils ( they say ) grow to the bigness of a heifer of two years old , and they are of divers Colours . They defend themselves by casting stones backward with their feet upon those that come near them . Being shot dead the male they say sinks down presently to the bottom of the water , but the female flotes or swims : which is not to be credited . They distinguish between Soils and Sielos : the Siele they affirm to be a Fish and no Amphibium , much less then the soile , and not taken upon our Coasts . A CATALOGUE OF Fresh water Fish found IN England . Anadromi : Sea fish that come up Rivers at certain Seasons . THe Sturgeon : Sturio , Acipenser . The Salmon : Salmo . The Shad or Alose : Clupea ▪ Alosa . The Smelt : Violacea , Eperlanus Roudel . Lacustres : such as are found only in Lakes or Meres . The Charre of Winander-mere in Westmorland : This I take to be the same with the Welsh Torgoch , taken in the lake of Llanberis near Snowdon-hill , and in other pools in Carnarvanshire . The same I saw and described at Zug in Switzerland , by the name of Reutell : which the fisher men , there , said was proper to their lake . Of this fish there are two sorts taken in Winander-mere . The greater having a red belly they call the red Charre : and the lesser having a white belly , which they call the Gilt or Gelt Charre . The Guiniad : found in the lake of Bala in Merionethshire in Wales . This is the same with the Farra of the lake of Geneva , discribed in Aldrovandus , and the Alberlin of the lake of Zurich in Switzerland . It is found also in a lake in Cumberland five miles from Pereth called Huls water : where they call it the Schelley . Fluviatiles : River Fishes , and such as live in standing pools and ponds of VVater . Squamosi ; Scaly . THe Trout ; Trutta . Of these there are said to be several sorts : as the Lincoln-shire Shard , the Salmon-trout : The Bull-trout : Grey-trout , or Skurf . But to me these differences are not well known . The Samlet : a small Fish of the trout-kind taken in Hereford River . The Grayling : Thymalus . I take this to be the same Fish , which in some places of the North they call the Vmber . The Pike , Pickrell or Jack : for these are but several names of the same Fish according to its age or bigness , Lucius . The Carp : Cyprinus . This Fish , though now there is none more common with us , was but lately brought over into England . Leonard . Mascall in his book of Fishing saith that himself was the first that brought in Carps and Pippins . The Bream : Cyprnius latus , Abramis . The Perch : Perca , this Fish at Huls Water before mentioned they called the Basse . The Ruffe : Perca aurata . The Tench : Tinca . The Barble : Barbus . The Chub or Chevin : Capito , Cephalus fluv . The Dace or Dare : Leuciscus . The Bleak or Bley : Alburnus . The Roche : Rubellio . The Gudgeon : Gobio fluviatilis . Fluviatiles laeves ; River Fish without scales . The Eel : Anguilla . The Eel-pout or Burbot : Mustela . The Lampern : Lampetra minor . The Minow , Minim or Pink : Varius sive Phoximus laevis . The Loche : Cobites barbatula . The Stickle-Back or Banstickle : Pungitius piscis . Of this there are two kinds : One that hath only three prickles on the ridge of the back : another that hath six or more . The Bull-head or Millers thumb : Gobio capitatus , Cottus Rondel . FINIS . THE Smelting and Refining OF SILVER , AT The Silver Mills in CARDIGANSHIRE . THe Oare beaten into small Pieces is brought from the mine to the Smelting House , and there melted with black and white Coal ; i. e. With Charcoale and wood slit into small pieces and dried in a kiln , for that purpose . The reason why they mix black and white Coal is , because black alone makes too vehement a Fire , and the white too gentle , but mixt together they make a just temper of hear . After the fire is made the mine is cast on the coales ; and so interchangeably mine and Coales . The mine when melted runs down into the Sump , i. e. a round pit of stone covered over with clay within . Thence it is laded out and cast into long square bars with smaller ends fit to lift and carry them by . These bars they bring to the refining Furnace , which is covered with a thick cap of stone bound about with Iron and moveable , that so they may lift it up , and make the test at the bottome anew ( which they doe every refining ) In the middle of the cap there is a hole in which the barr of metal hangs in Iron slings above the Furnace , that so it may be let down by degrees as it melts off . Besides this they have another hole in the side of the Furnace parallel to the Horizon , and bottomed with Iron . At this hole they thrust in another barr . The rest is of an oval Figure , and occupies all the bottome of the Furnace . The fire is put in by the side of the bellows . When the Furnace is come to a true temper of heat , the lead converted into Litharge is cast off by the blowing of the bellows , the Silver subsiding into the bottome of the test . The blast blows the lead converted into Litharge off the Silver after the manner that Cream is blown off Milk. As soon as all the glut of Litharge ( for so they call it ) is cast off , the Silver in the bottome of the Cuple grows cold , and the same degree of heat will not keep it melted as before . The Cake of Silver after it grows cold springs or rises vp into branches . The test is made of marrow-bones burnt to small pieces , afterward stamped to pouder , and with water tempered into a past . The test is about a foot thick laid in Iron . After the cake of silver is taken out , that part of the test which is discoloured they mingle with the Oare to be melted ; the rest they stamp and use again for test . The Litharge is brought to a reducing Furnace , and there with Charcoale only melted into Lead . The Litharge is cast upon the Charcoale in the bing of the Furnace , and as the Charcoale burns away and the Litharge melts , more Charcoale thrown on and Litharge put upon it as at first smelting . Another Furnace they have , which they call an Almond Furnace , in which they melt the slags or refuse of the Litharge ( not stamped ) with Charcoale only . The slags or cinders of the first smelting they beat small with great stamps lifted up by a wheel moved with water , and falling by their own weight . First they are stamped with dry stamps , then sifted with an Iron sieve in water . That which lies at the bottome of the sieve is returned to the smelting Furnace without more adoe . That which swims over the sieve is beaten with wet stamp . That which passeth through the sieve , as also that which after it hath been beaten with the wet stamps passes through a fine grate or strainer of Iron , goeth to the Buddle , which is a vessel made like to a shallow tumbrel , standing a little shelving . Thereon the matter is laid , and water running constantly over it , moved to and fro with an Iron rake or how , and so the water carries away the earth and dross , the metal remaining behind . That which is thus Budled they lue with a thick hair sieve close wrought in a tub of water , rolling the sieve about and enclining it this way and that way with their hands . The light which swims over the sieve is returned again to the Buddle . That which subsides is fit for the smelting Furnace . They have besides an Assay-Furnace , wherewith they try the value of the metal , i. e. what proportion the lead bears to the Silver , cutting a piece off every bar and melting it in a small Cupel . First they weigh the piece cut off , then after the lead is separated the Silver . A tun of metal will yield 10 , sometimes 15 , and if it be rich 20 l. weight of Silver . All lead oar dig'd in England hath a proportion of silver mixt with it , but some so little , that it will not quit cost to refine it . At the first smelting they mingle several sorts of oare , some richer , some poorer , else they will not melt so kindly . The Silver made here is exceeding fine and good . These six mountains in Cardiganshire not far distant from each other afford Silver oar , Talabont , Geginnon , Comsomlack , Gedarren , Bromefloid and Cummer . At our being there they dig'd only at Talabont . They sink a perpendicular square hole or shaft , the sides whereof they strengthen round from top to bottome with wood that the earth fall not in . The transverse pieces of wood , they call stemples and upon these catching hold with their Hands and Feet they descend without using any rope . They dig the Oar thus , one holds a little picque or punch of Iron , having a long handle of wood , which they call a Gad ; another with a great Iron hammer or sledge drives it into the vein . The vein of metal runs East and West , it riseth North and flopes or dips to the South . There is a white Fluor about the vein , which they call Spar , and a black which they call blinds . This last covers the vein of Oare , and when it appears they are sure to find Oare . They sell the Oare for 3 l. or 4 l. the tun , more or less as it is in goodness , or as it is more rare or plentiful . This information and account we had from Major Hill , 1662. Who was then master of the silver mills . The History of these Silver-works may be seen in Dr. Fullers Worthies of Wales General , p. 3. The smelting of Lead is the same with the smelting of Silver Oare , and therefore no need that any thing be said of it . The preparing and smelting , or blowing of Tin in Cornwall . THe tinners find the Mine by the Shoad ( or as they call it Squad ) which is loose stones of tin mixed with the Earth , of which they give you this account . The load or vein of tin before the flood came up to the Superficies of the Earth . The flood washing the upper part of it as of the whole earth , brake it off from the load , and confounded or mixed it with the earth to such a depth . They observe that the deeper the shoad lies , the nearer is the main load , and the shallower the further off . Sometimes it comes up to the exterior Superficies of the earth . The main load begins at the East and runs Westward , shelving still deeper and deeper ; and sometimes descending almost perpendicularly . Besides the main load , they have little branches that run from it North and South , and to other points which they call Countrey . The vein or load is sometimes less , sometimes greater , sometimes not a foot thick , sometimes three foot or more . When they have digged a good way they sink an air-shaft , else they cannot breathe nor keep their candles light . The shoad commonly descends a hill side . There is a kind of fluor which they call Spar next the vein , and which sometimes encompasseth it . In this are often found the Cornish Diamonds . Above the Spar lies another kind of substance like a white soft stone , which they call Kellus . They get out the Mine with a Pick-ax , but when it is hard they use a Gad [ a tool like a Smiths punch ] which they drive in with one end of their Pick-ax made like a hammer . When they have gotten out of the Mine , they break it with a hammer into small pieces , the biggest not exceeding half a pound or a pound , and then bring it to the stamps . [ The stamps are onely two at one place , lifted up by a wheel moved with water as the Silver Mills ] There it is put into a square open box into which a spout of water continually runs and therein the stamps beat it to powder . One side of the box mentioned is made of an iron-plate perforated with small holes like a grate , by which the water runs out , and carries away with it the Mine that is pounded small enough to pass the holes , dross and all together , in a long gutter or trough made of wood . The dross and earth ( as being lighter ) is carried all along the trough to a pit or vessel into which the trough delivers it , called a loob : the tin as being heavier , subsides and staies behind in the trough : and besides at a good distance from the stamps they put a turf in the trough to stop the tin that itrun not further . The tin remaining in the trough they take out and carry to the buddle [ a Vessel described in the Silver work ] where the sand and earth is washed from it by the water running over it , the tinners stirring and working it both with a shovel , and with their feet . In the buddle the rough tin ( as they call it ) falls behind ; the head tin lies uppermost or foremost . The head tin passes to the wreck , where they work it with a wooden rake in Vessels almost like the buddling Vessels , water running also over it . In the wreck the head tin lies again foremost , and that is finished and fit for the blowing house , and is called black tin , being black of colour , and as fine as sand . The rough tin lies next , that as also that in the buddle they sift to separate the course , and dross , and stones from it , which is teturned to the stamps to be new beaten . The fine is lewed in a fine sierce moved and waved to and fro in the water , as is described in the Silver work ; the oar subfiding to the bottom , the sand , earth and other dross flows over the rimme of the sierce with the water : that which remains in the sierce they sift through a fine sieve , and what passes through they call black tin . In like manner they order the wast tin that falls hindmost in the Buddle and wreck , which they call the tail , as also that which falls into the loob , pit or sump , viz. washing and sifting of it , which they call stripping of it , returning the rough and course to the stamps , and the finer to the wreck . With the rough tin that is returned to the stamps they migle new ore , else it will not work , but fur up the stamps . The tin in the loob they let lie a while , and the longer the better , for , say they , it grows and encreases by lying . The black tin is smelted at the blowing house with Charcoal only , first throwing on Charcoal , then upon that black tin , and so interchangeably into a very deep bing ( which they call the house ) broader at the top and narrower at the bottom . They make the fire very vehement , blowing the coals continually with a pair of great bellows moved by water , as in the smelting of other metals . The melting tin together with the dross or slag runs out at a hole at the bottom of the bing into a large trough made of stone . The cinder or slag swims on the top of it like scum , and hardens presently . This they take off with a shovel and lay it by . When they have got a sufficient heap of it they sell it to be stamped , budled and lued . They get a good quantity of tin out of it . Formerly it was thrown away to mend high wayes , as nothing worth . When they have a sufficient quantity of the melted metal they cast it into oblong square pieces in a mould made of Moore-stone . The lesser pieces they call slabs , the greater blocks . Two pound of black tin ordinarily yields a pound of white or more . The tin after it is melted is coyned , i. e. marked by the Kings Officer with the Lion Rampant . The Kings custom is four shillings on every hundred pound weight . Other particulars concerning the tin-works I omit , because they may be seen in Carewy's survey of Cornwal . But the manner of preparing the tin for blowing or smelting is now much different from what it was in his time . Tin-oar is so different in colour and appearance from tin , that one would wonder that the one should come out of the other : and somewhat strange it is that tin being so like to lead , tin-oar should be so unlike to Lead-oar being very like to the lead that is melted out of it . The manner of the Iron-work at the Furnace . THe Iron-mine lies sometimes deeper , sometimes shallower in the Earth from 4 foot to 40. and upward . There are several sorts of mine , some hard , some gentle , some rich , some courser . The Iron-masters always mix different sorts of mine together , otherwise they will not melt to advantage . When the mine is brought in , they take small cole and lay a row of small cole and upon it a row of mine , and so alternately , S. S. S. one above another , and setting the coles on fire therewith burn the mine . The use of this burning is to mollifie it , that so it may be broke in small pieces : otherwise if it should be put into the furnace as it comes out of the Earth , it would not melt but come away whole . Care also must be taken that it be not too much burned , for then it will loop , i. e. melt and run together in a mass . After it is burnt , they beat it into small pieces with an Iron sledge , and then put it into the Furnace ( which is before charged with coles ) casting it upon the top of the coles , where it melts and falls into the hearth in the space of about twelve hours more or less , and then it is run into a Sow . The hearth or bottome of the furnace is made of a Sand-stone , and the sides round to the height of a Yard or thereabout , the rest of the Furnace is lined up to the top with Brick . When they begin upon a new furnace ; They put fire for a day or two before they begin to blow . Then they blow gently and increase by degrees till they come to the height in ten weeks or more . Every six days they call a Founday , in which space they make 8 tun of Iron , if you divide the whole summ of Iron made by the Foundays : for at first they make less in a Founday , at last more . The hearth by the force of the fire continually blown grows wider and wider , so that if at first it contains so much as will make a Sow of 600 or 700 pound weight , at last it will contain so much as will make a Sow of 2000 l. The lesser pieces of 1000 pound or under they call Pigs . Of 24 loads of coals they expect 8 tun of Sows to every load of coals , which consists of 11 quarters they put a load of mine which contains 18 bushels . A Hearth ordinarily if made of good stone will last 40 Foundays , that is 40 weeks , during which time the fire is never let go out . They never blow twice upon one hearth though they go upon it not above five or six Foundays . The cinder like scum swims upon the melted metal in the hearth , and is let out once or twice before a Sow is cast . The manner of working the Iron at the Forge or Hammer . IN every forge or hammer there are two fires at least , the one they call the Finery , the other the Chafery . At the Finery by the working of the hammer they bring it into Blooms and Anconies , thus . The sow at first they roll into the fire , and melt off a piece of about three fourths of a hundred weight , which , so soon as it is broken off , is called a Loop . This Loop they take out with their shingling tongs , and beat it with Iron sledges upon an Iron plate near the fire , that so it may not fall in pieces but be in a capacity to be carried under the hammer . Under which they then removing it , and drawing a little water , beat it with the hammer very gently , which forces cinder and dross out of the matter , afterwards by degrees drawing more water they beat it thicker and stronger till they bring it to a Bloom , which is a four-square mass of about two foot long . This operation they call shingling the Loop . This done they immediately return it to the Finery again , and after two or three heats and working they bring it to an Ancony , the figure whereof is in the middle , a barr about 3 feet long of that shape they intend the whole barr to be made of it : at both ends a square piece left rough to be wrought at the Chafery . Note , At the Finery 3 load of the biggest coals goe to make one tun of Iron . At the Chafery they only draw out the 2 ends sutable to what was drawn out at the Finery in the middle , and so finish the barr . Note , 1. One load of the smaller coals will draw out one tun of Iron at the Chafery . 2. They expect that one man and a boy at the Finery should make 2 tuns of Iron in a week : two men at the Chafery should take up , i. e. make or work five or six tun in a week . 3. If into the hearth where they work the Iron-sowes ( whether the Chafery or the Finery ) you cast upon the Iron a piece of Brass it will hinder the metal from working , causing it to spatter about , so that it cannot be brought into a Solid piece . This account of the whole process of the Iron-work I had from one of the chief Iron-masters in Sussex , my honoured friend Walter Burrell of Cuck-field Esquire deceased . And now that I have had occasion to mention this worthy Gentleman give me leave by the by to insert a few observations referring to Husbandry communicated by him in occasional discourse on those Subjects . 1. In removing and transplanting young Oakes you must be sure not to cut off or wound that part of the root , which descends down-right ( which in some Countreys they call the tap-root ) but dig it up to the bottome , and prepare your hole deep enough to set it : else if you perswade it to live you hinder the growth of it half in half . 2. Corn or any other grain , the longer it continues in the ground , or the earlier it is sown , caeteris paribus , the better laden it is , and the berry more plump , full and weighty and of stronger nourishment , as for example , winter Oats better then summer Oats , Beans set in February then those set in March , &c. 3. The most effectual way to prevent smutting or burning of any corn is to lime it before you sow it , as is found by daily experience in Sussex , where , since this practise of liming , they have no burnt corn , whereas before they had abundance . They lime it thus , first they wet the corn a little to make it stick and then sift or sprinkle poudered lime upon it . 4. He uses to plow with his Oxen endwayes or all in one file , and not to Yoke them by pairs , whereby he finds a double advantage . 1. He by this means loseth no part of the strength of any Oxe , whereas breastwise , it is very hard so evenly to match them , as that a great part of the strength of some of them be not rendred useless . 2. In this way a wet and clay ground is not so much poached by the feet of the Oxen. 5. He hath practised to burn the ends of all the posts which he sets into the ground to a coal on the outside , whereby they continue a long time without rotting , which otherwise would suddainly decay . This observation I also find mentioned in an Extract of a Letter , written by David von-der beck a German Philosopher and Physitian at Minden to Dr. Langelot , &c. Registred in the Philosophic : Transact . Numb . 92. Pag. 5185. In these words , Hence also they sleightly burn the ends of timber to be set in the ground , that so by the fusion made by fire , the volatile Salts , which by the accession of the moisture of the earth would easily be consumed to the corruption of the timber may catch and fix one another . 6. He first introduced the use of Fern for burning of lime , which serves that purpose as well as wood , ( the flame thereof being very vehement ) and is far cheaper . 7. Bucks if gelded when they have cast their head , their horns never grow again , if when their horns are grown they never cast them , in brief their horns never grow after they are gelded . This Observation , expressed in almost the same words , I find in the Summary of a Book of Francesco Rodi the Italian , called Esperienze intorno a diverse cose naturali , &c. Delivered in the Philosophical Transactions Numb . 92. Pag. 6005. 8. Rooks , if they infest your corn , are more terrified if in their sight you take a Rook and plucking it limbe from limbe , cast the several limbes about your Field , then if you hang up half a dozen dead Rooks in it . 9. Rooks when they make their nests , one of the pair always sits by to watch it , while the other goes to fetch materials to build it . Else if both goe and leave it unfinished , their Fellow-Rooks , ere they return again will have carried away toward their several nests all the sticks and materials they had got together . Hence perhaps the word Rooking for cheating and abusing . The manner of the VVire-work at Tintern in Monmoth-shire . THey take little square bars , made like bars of steel , which they call Osborn-Iron , wrought on purpose for this manufacture ; and strain i. e. draw them at a Furnace with a hammer moved by water ( like those at the Iron Forges but lesser ) into square rods of about the bigness of ones little finger , or less , and bow them round . When that is done they put them into a furnace , and neal them with a pretty strong fire for about 12 hours : after they are nealed they lay them in water for a month or two ( the longer the better ) then the Rippers take them and draw them into wire through two or three holes . Then they neal them again for six hours or more , and water them the second time about a week , then they are carried to the Rlippers who draw them to a two-bond wire as big as a great packthread . Then again they are nealed the third time and watered about a week as before , and delivered to the small wire drawers , whom there they call Overhouse-men , I suppose only because they work in an upper room . In the mill , where the Rippers work , the wheel moves several Engins like little barrels , which they also call Barrels hoopt with Iron . The Barrel hath two hooks on the upper side , upon each whereof hang two links standing a-cross , and fastned to the two ends of the tongs , which catch hold of the wire and draw it through the hole . The Axis on which the barrel moves runs not through the center , but is placed towards one side , viz. that on which the hooks are . Underneath is fastned to the barrel a spoke of wood , which they call a Swingle , which is drawn back a good way by the calms or cogs in the Axis of the wheel , and draws back the barrel , which falls to again by its own weight . The tongs , hanging on the hooks of the barrel , are by the workmen fastned on the wire , and by the force of the wheel the hooks being drawn back draw the wire through the holes . They anoint the wire with train-oil , to make it run the easier . The plate , wherein the holes are , is on the outside Iron , on the inside steel . The holes are bigger on the Iron side , because the wire finds more resistance from the steel and is streigthned by degrees . There is another mill where the small wire is drawn which with one wheel moves three Axes that run the length of the house on 3 floors one above another . The Description whereof would be tedious and difficult to understand without a a Scheme , and therefore I shall omit it . Modus faciendi Vitriolum coctile in Anglia . Worm . Mus . Sect. 2. Cap. 13. p. 89. LApides ex quibus Vitriolum excoquitur ad litus Orientale insulae Shepey reperiuntur . Ubi ingentem horum copiam collegerunt per spatiosam areterrae mistos spargunt , donec imbrium illuvie , accedente Solis aestu & calore in terram seu pulverem redigantur subtilissimum , nitrosum , sulphureum odore praetereuntes offendentem . Interea aqua per hanc terram percolata in Subjecta vasa per tubulos & canales derivata in vase plumbeo amplo sex vel septem dierum spatio coquitur ad justam consistentiam , tum in aliud vas plumbeum effunditur immissis asseribus aliquot , quibus adhaerens concrescat vitriolum omnibus refrigeratis . Nullo alio vase coqui aut contineri hoc lixivium potest quàm plumbeo ; cui ut facilius ebulliat ferri injiciunt particulas , quae à lixivio plané consumuntur . We saw the manner of making Vitriol or Copperas at Bricklesey in Essex . They lay the stones upon a large bed or floor prepared in the open air , underneath which there are gutters or troughs disposed to receive and carry away the liquor impregnate with the mineral to a Cistern where it is Reserved . [ For the air and weather dissolving the stones , the Rain falling upon them carries away with it the Vitrioline juice or salt dissolved , ] This liquor they boil in large leaden pans putting in a good quantity of Old Iron . When it is sufficiently evaporated they pour it cut into large troughs wherein it coals , the Vitriol crystallizing to the sides of the troughs and to cross barrs put into them . The liquor that remains after the Vitriol is Crystallized they call the mother , and reserve it to be again evaporated by boyling . They gather of these stones in several places besides the coast of the Island of Shepey . I have observed people gathering them on the Sea-shore near to Bright Helmston in Sussex . The manner of making Vitriol in Italy is something different from ours in England , which take in Matthiolus his words . Minerae glebas in acerves mediocres conjectos igne suppsito accendunt . Sponte autem urunt semel accensae , donec in calcem seu cineres maxima ex parte reducantur . Mineram cubustam in piscinas aquae plenas obruunt , agitando , miscendoque eam , ut aqua imbuatur substantiâ Vitrioli . Aquam hanc Vitriolatam a sedimento claram hauriunt ; & in caldaria plumbea transfundunt , quam igne supposito decoquunt . Verum dum ebullit , in medio cocturae vel parum supra vel infra addunt modicum ferri veteris vel glebae aeris juxta intentionem operantis . Aquam Vitriolatam decoctam in vasa lignea transfundunt in quibus frigescens congelatur in vitriolum . The making of Minium or Red Lead . FIrst they take Lead and waste it in an Oven or Furnace : that is bring it to a Substance almost like a Litharge , by stirring it with an iron rake or how . This they grind with two pair of stones which deliver it from one to another : the first grind it courser , the the second finer [ There is a mill so contrived as that it moves at once six pair of these stones ] Thus reduced to powder and washed it is put into an Oven or reverberating Furnace , and , by continual stirring with the iron rake or how , it is brought to the right colour in two or three dayes . The fire must not be extreme all this while , else it will clod together and change colour . The iron rake wherewith it is stirred is hung or poised on an iron hook , else it is so heavy that it could not be moved by one man. The Allom VVork at Whitby in Yorkshire . THe process of making Allom , as we partly saw , and partly received from the Workmen , was as followeth . First they take the Mine picked from the D●sse or Rock , and laying it on great heaps burn it with whins and wood till it be white . When it is sufficiently burned , they barrow it into a pit made on purpose some ten feet long , six foot broad , and seven fourths of a yard deep , where it is steeped in water for the space of eight or ten hours . Then they draw out the Liquor , ( which is but a Lixivium impregnated with the Allom-mine ) into troughs by which it is conveyed to the Allom-house , into a deep Cistern of about twenty yards circumference , and three yards and half deep . After this first water is drawn off the Mine in the pits , they do not presently cast away the mine , but pour fresh water on it the second time , and after the second water is drawn off ( which is much weaker then the first ) they cast out the Mine and put in new , and pour on fresh water as before . Out of the Cistern they convey the Lixivium by troughs into the pans , where it is boiled for the space of twenty four hours ordinarily . Then they take off the Liquor out of the pans , and examine it by weight , to know how much Lee made of kelp it will require , which is for the most part six inches of the pans depth . Which being put in so soon as the Liquor boils or flows up by the putting in of an iron cole-rake , or other iron Instrument , they draw it off into a settler , and there let it stand about an hour , that so the Sulphur and other dregs may settle to the bottom , which being done it is drawn off into coolers , where it continues about for days and nights . The cooler being drawn about half full , they pour into it a quantity of Urine , viz. about eight gallons into a cooler that contains about two half tuns . Having thus stood four days and nights , it is quite cool , and the Allom crystallized to the sides of the cooler . Then they scope out the Liquor ( which they call the Mother ) into a Cistern , and put it into the pans again with new Lixivium to be evaporated by boiling , &c. The Allom that is shotten and crystallized on the sides of the cooler they scrape off and wash with fair Spring water ; then throw it into a bing , where the water drains from it . Thence it is taken and cast into a pan , which they call the rocking pan , and there melted , it is scoped out and conveyed by troughs into tuns , in which it stands about ten days untill it be perfectly cool and condensed . Then they unhoop and stave the tuns , and taking out the Allom , chip it and carry it into the Store-house . We failed to enquire exactly what proportion of kelp they put in . For though they told us six inches of the pans depth , yet they told us not how deep the pans are made . The making of Salt at Namptwych in Cheshire . THe Salt-spring or ( as they call it ) the Brine-pit is near the River , and is so plentiful that were all the water boil'd out that it would afford ( as they told us ) it would yield Salt enough for all England . The Lords of the pit appoint how much shall be boiled as they see occasion , that the Trade be not clogged . Divers persons have interest in the Brine-pit , so that it belongs not all to one Lord ; Some have one Lead-walling , some two , some three , some four or more . [ N. B. A Lead-walling is the Brine of twenty four hours boiling for one house . ] Two hundred and sixteen Lead-wallings or thereabout belong to all the Owners of the pit . No Tradesman , Bachelor or Widow can Rent more then eighteen Lead-wallings . They have four sworn Officers chosen yearly , which they call Occupiers of Walling , whose duty it is to see equal dealing between Lord and Tenant , and all persons concerned . They appoint how many Houses shall Work at a time , and that is twelve at the most . When there is occasion for Salt to be made , they cause a Cryer to make Proclamation , that so all Parties concerned may put to their fires at the same time ; and so when they shall cease at a determinate hour , at which they must give over ; else they cause their Salt to be marred by casting dirt into it , or the like . There are in the Town about fifty houses , and every house hath four pans , which the Rulers are to see be exactly of the same measure . Salt-water taken out of the Brine-pit in two hours & a quarter boiling , will be evaporated and boil'd up into Salt. When the Liquor is more then lukewarm , they take strong Ale , bullocks blood and whites of Eggs mixt together with Brine in this proportion ; of blood one Egg-shell full , the white of one Egg and a pint of Ale , and put it into a pan of twenty four gallons or thereabouts . The whites of the Eggs and the bloud serve to clarifie the Brine by raising the scum , which they take off just upon the boiling of the pans , otherwise it will boil in , and spoil the Salt. The older the bloud is , the better it is ; caeteris paribus . They do not always put in bloud , viz. when there is danger of the Liquors boiling too fast . If the Liquor happens to boil too fast , they take to allay it Brine that had been boil'd and drain'd from the Salt : Crude Brine , they say , will diminish their Salt. The Ale serves ( they said ) to harden the Corn of the Salt. After one hour boiling the Brine will begin to Corn : then they take a small quantity of clear Ale , and sprinkle thereof into the pan about one Egg-shell full [ N. if you put in too much it will make the broth boil over the pan . ] Ale the while before they put in the last Ale they cause the pan to boil as fast as they can ; Afterwards very gently till the Salt be almost dry . They do not evaporate ad siccitatem , but leave about a pottle or gallon of Brine in the pan , lest the Salt should burn and stick to the sides of the pan . The Brine thus sufficiently boil'd and evaporated , they take out the Salt and put it into Conical Baskets , ( which they call barrows ) and in them let the water drain from it an hour , more or less , and then set it to dry in the Hot-house behind the Furnace . A barrow containing six pecks is sold therefor 1s . 4d . Out of two pans of forty eight gallons they expect seven pecks of Salt , Winchester-measure . N. The house in which the Salt is boil'd is called the Wych-house , whence may be guessed what Wych signifies , and why all those Towns where there are Salt-Springs and Salt made are called by the name of Wych , viz. Namptwych , Northwych , Middlewych , Droitwych . The Vessel whereinto the Brine is by troughs conveyed from the Brine-pit is called the ship . It is raised up out of the pit by a pump . Between the Furnace and the Chimney tunnels which convey up the smoke is the Hot-house where they set their Salt to dry , along the floor whereof run two Funnels from the Furnaces almost parallel to the Horizon , and then arise perpendicularly ; in these the flame and smoke running along from the Furnaces heat the Room by the way . At Droitwych in Worcestershire the Salt is boil'd in shallow leaden pans . They first put in Salt-water out of the Brine-pit . After one hours boiling they fill up the pan with water that drains from the Salt set to dry in barrows : after a second hours boiling they fill up the pan again with the same . In five hours space the pan boils dry , and they take out the Salt. In twenty four hours they boil out five pans : and then draw out the ashes : After the ashes are drawn out , they put in the white of an Egg , to cause the scum to arise [ viz. the dust and ash that fell into the pans while the ashes were drawing out ] which they take off with a scummer . After four hours they begin to take out the Salt ; and once in twenty four hours they take out a ( ake which sticks to the bottom of the pan ●which they call ●lod Salt ) otherwise the pan would melt . They told us that they use neither Bloud nor Ale. The Salt made here is extraordinary white and fine . The manner of making Salt of Sea-sand in Lancashire . IN Summer time in dry weather they Skimme or pare off the upper part of the Sand in the flats and washes that are covered at full Sea , and bare when the Tide is out , and lay it up on great heaps . Of this Sand they take and put in troughs bored with holes at the bottom , and thereon pour Water , as Laundresses do upon Ashes to make a Lixivium , which Water draining through the Sand , carries the Salt therein contained down with it into Vessels placed underneath to receive it . So long as this liquor is strong enough to bear an Egg they pour on more Water ; as soon as the Egg begins to sink they cast the sand out of the troughs , and put in new . This water thus impregnate with Salt they boil in leaden pans , wherein the water evaporating the Salt remains behind . There is also at Newcastle , Preston pans in Scotland , Whithaven in Cumberland and elsewhere great plenty of Salt made of Sea-water by boiling and evaporating in like manner , wherein they make use of Oxes Bloud . FINIS . ERRATA . PAg. 2. line 16. r. A. 24 arrha , 11. 20. dele gal . 19. 27. Foison . 25. 5. Helder . 27. ●1 . Kennan . 19. Kinnel 26. 6. dele for t . 10. lathing . 30. 4. lestal . 32. 21. bauks . 39. 21. scarr . 43. 25. sneck . 48 21. ●bony . 58. 6. nigh . 59. 24. idem . 60 9. Brine . 66. 17. to Frase . 72. 6. Huckson . 74. 10. play . 75. 13. scrow . 27. a soller . 76 4. speen , 77. 7. T●arky 79. ult . to Winnow . 82 28. Windhover . 93. 7. Sea. c●b 94. 23 , that it . 99. 17. West .