The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire | Page 7

be borrid when she wants the male.
Bote. _part._ Bought.
Bow. _s._ A small arched bridge.
Boy's-love. _s._ Southernwood; a species of mugwort; artemisia abrotonum.
Brave. _adj._ Well; recovering.
Bran. _s._ A brand; a stump of a tree, or other irregular and large piece of wood, fit only for burning.
Bran-vi??r. _s._ A fire made with brands.
Bran'dis. _s._ A semicircular implement of iron, made to be suspended over the fire, on which various things may be prepared; it is much used for warming milk.
Brash. _s._ Any sudden development; a crash.
Brick'le, Brick'ly. _adj._ Brittle; easily broken.
Brim'mle. _s._ A bramble.
To Bring gwain. _v. a._ [_To bring going._] To spend; to accompany some distance on a journey.
To Brit. _v. a._ To indent; to make an impression: applied to solid bodies.
Brock. _s._ An irregular piece of peat dried for fuel; a piece of turf. See TURF.
Bruck'le, Bruck'ly. _adj._ Not coherent; easily separable: applied to solid bodies. "My things are but in a bruckle state." Waverley, v. 2, p. 328, edit. 1821. See BRICKLE.
Bruck'leness. _s._ The state of being bruckle.
To Buck. _v. n._ To swell out.
To Bud'dle. _v._ To suffocate in mud.
To Bulge. _v. a._ To indent; to make an irregular impression on a solid body; to bruise. It is also used in a neuter sense.
Bulge. _s._ An indentation; an irregular impression made on some solid body; a swelling outwards or depression inwards.
Bul'len. _adj._ Wanting the bull.
Bul'lins. _s. pl._ Large black sloes; a variety of the wild plum.
Bun'gee. _s._ (g hard), Any thing thick and squat.
Bunt, Bunting, _s._ Bolting cloth.
Bunt. _s._ A bolting-mill.
To Bunt. _v. a._ To separate flour from the bran.
Bur'cot. _s._ A load.
Buss. _s._ A half grown calf.
But. _s._ A conical and peculiar kind of basket or trap used in large numbers for catching salmon in the river Parret. The term but, would seem to be a generic one, the actual meaning of which I do not know; it implies, however, some containing vessel or utensil. See BEE-BUT. But, applied to beef, always means _buttock._
Butter-and-eggs. _s._ A variety of the daffodil.
Bwile. _v._ Boil.
Bwye. _interj._ Bye! adieu. This, as well as _good-bye_ and _good-bwye_, is evidently corrupted from _God be with you_; God-be-wi' ye, equivalent to the French _?? Dieu_, to God. Bwye, and good-bwye, are, therefore, how vulgar soever they may seem, more analogous than bye and _good-bye_.

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Callyvan'. _s._ A pyramidal trap for catching birds.
Car'riter. _s._ Character.
C?￠s. Because.
Cass'n, Cass'n't. Canst not: as, _Thee cass'n do it_, thou canst not do it.
Catch corner. A game commonly called elsewhere puss in the corner.
Cat'terpillar. _s._ The cockchafer; Scarabeus melolontha.
West of the Parret this insect is called _wock-web_, oak-web, because it infests the oak, and spins its web on it in great numbers.
Cha?-ty. adj. Careful; nice; delicate.
To Cham. _v. a._ To chew.
Ch??mer. _s._ A chamber.
Change, _s._ A shift; the garment worn by females next the skin.
Chay'er. _s._ A chair; chayer--Chaucer.
Chick-a-beedy. _s._ A chick.
'Chill. I will.
Chim'ley. _s._ A chimney.
Chine. _s._ The prominence of the staves beyond the head of a cask. This word is well known to coopers throughout England, and ought to be in our dictionaries.
To Chis'som. _v. n._ To bud; to shoot out.
Chis'som. _s._ a small shoot; a budding out.
Chit'terlins. _s. pl._ The frills around the bosom of shirt.
Choor. _s._ A job; any dirty household work; a troublesome job.
Choor'er, Choor'-woman. _s._ A woman who goes out to do any kind of odd and dirty work; hence the term _char-woman_ in our polished dialect; but it ought to be _choor-woman_.
To Cho?3ry. _v._ To do any kind of dirty household work.
Chub'by. _adj._ Full, swelling; as _chubby-faced_.
Claps, _s._ A clasp.
To claps, _v. a._ To clasp.
Cl??vy and Cl??vy-piece. _s._ A mantel-piecce.
[Clavy was probably given to that piece of wood or other material laid over the front of the fireplace, because in many houses the keys are often hung on nails or pins driven into it; hence from clavis (Latin) a key, comes clavy, the place where the keys are hung.]
Clavy-tack. _s._ The shelf over [tacked on to] the mantel- piece.
Clear-and-sheer. _adv._ Completely; totally.
Cleve-pink. _s._ A species of Carnation which grows wild in the crannies of Cheddar-cliffs: a variety of the _Dianthus deltoides_; it has an elegant smell.
To Clim, to Climmer. _v. a._ To climb; to clamber.
Clin'kers. _s.pl._ Bricks or other earthy matter run into irregular shapes by action of heat.
Clinker-bell. _s._ An icicle.
Clint. _v.a._ To clench; to finish; to fasten firmly.
Cliver-and-Shiver. _adv._ Completely; totally.
Clit. _v. n._ To be imperfectly fermented: applied to bread.
Clit'ty. _adj._ Imperfectly fermented.
Clize. _s._ A place or drain for the discharge of water regulated by a valve or door, which permits a free outlet, but no inlet for return of water.
Co?¤se. _adj._ Coarse.
Coathe. _v. a._ To bane: applied to sheep.
Cob-wall, _s._ Mud-wall; a wall made of clay mixed with straw.
Cockygee. _s._ Cockagee; a rough sour apple.
Cocklawt. _s._ A garret; cock-loft.
Originally, most probably, a place where the fowls roosted.
Cock-squailing. _s._ A barbarous game, consisting