The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire | Page 9

crowd; to thrust.
Dring'et. _s._ A crowd; a throng.
To Droa. _v. a._ To throw.
Droa. Throw.
Droo?¤te. Throat.
Drob. _v._ Rob.
Drode (_throw'd_). _part._ Threw, thrown.
Droo. _prep._ Through.
To drool. _v. n._ To drivel.
To Drow. _v. n., v. a._ To dry.
_The hay do'nt drowy at all._ See the observations which precede this vocabulary.
Drowth. _s._ Dryness; thirst.
Drow'thy. _adj._ Dry; thirsty.
Drove. _s._ A road leading to fields, and sometimes from one village to another. Derived from its being a way along which cattle are driven. RAY uses the word in his _Catalogus Plantorum Angli?|, &c._, Art. Chondrilla.
To Drub. _v. n., v. a._ To throb; to beat.
Drubbin. _s._ A beating.
To Druck. _v. a._ To thrust down; to cram; to press.
Dub, Dub'bed, Dub'by. _adj._ Blunt; not pointed; squat.
Dub'bin. _s._ Suet.
Duck-an-Mallard. _s._ (Duck and Drake) a play of throwing slates or flat stones horizontally along the water so as to skim the surface and rise several times before they sink. _"Hen pen, Duck-an-Mallard, Amen."_
To Dud'der. _v. a._ To deafen with noise; to render the head confused.
Duds. _s. pl._ Dirty cloaths.
Dum'bledore. _s._ A humble-bee; a stupid fellow.
Dunch, (Dunce?). _adj._ Deaf.
As a deaf person is very often, apparently at least, stupid; a stupid, intractable person is, therefore, called a DUNCE: one who is deaf and intractable. What now becomes of Duns Scotus, and all the rest of the recondite observations bestowed upon DUNCE?--See GROSE.
I have no doubt that Dunch is Anglo-Saxon, although I cannot find it in any of our old dictionaries, except Bailey's. But it ought not to be forgotten, that many words are floating about which are being arrested by our etymologists in the present advancing age of investigation.
Durns. _s. pl._ A door-frame.
Dwon't, Dwon. _v._ (Don't) do not.

E.
Eake. _adv._ Also.
Ear-wrig. _s._ Earwig.
This word ought to be spelled Earwrig, as it is derived, doubtless, from wriggle. See WRIGGLE.
Eese. _adv._ Yes.
Eet. _adv._ Yet.
El'men. _adj._ Of or belonging to elm; made of elm.
El'ver. _s._ A young eel.
Em'mers. _s. pl._ Embers.
Emmet-batch, _s._ An ant-hill.
To Empt. _v.a._ To empty.
En. _pron._Him; _a zid en_; he saw him.
Er. _pron._ He. [Used West of the Parret.]
Eth. _s._ Earth.
To Eve. _v.n._ To become damp; to absorb moisture from the air.
Evet. _s._ A lizard.
Ex. _s._ An axle.

F.
Fags! _interj._ Truly; indeed.
Fayer. _s._ and _adj._ Fair.
To Fell. _v.a._ To sew in a particular manner; to inseam.
This word is well known to the ladies, I believe, all over the kingdom; it ought to be in our dictionaries.
Fes'ter. _s._ An inflammatory tumour.
Few, Veo. _adj._ More commonly pronounced veo. Little; as a few broth.
Fig. _s._ A raisin.
Figged-pudding. _s._ a pudding with raisins in it; plum- pudding.
Fild?¨fare. _s._ A Fieldfare. "Farewell field?¨fare." Chaucer. Meaning that, as fieldfares disappear at a particular season, the season is over, the bird is flown.
Fil'try. _s._ Filth; nastiness; rubbish.
Firnd. _v._ To find.
Firnd. _s._ Friend.
Fitch, Fitchet. _s._ A pole-cat. _As cross as a fitchet._
Fit'ten, Vit'ten. _s._ A feint; a pretence.
Flap-jack. _s._ A fried cake made of batter, apples, &c.; a fritter.
To Flick. _v.a._ To pull out suddenly with some pointed instrument.
Flick-tooth-comb. _s._ A comb with coarse teeth for combing the hair.
Flick. _s._ The membrane loaded with fat, in the bellies of animals: a term used by butchers.
Flook. _s._ An animal found in the liver of sheep, similar in shape to a flook or flounder.
Flush. _adj._ Fledged; able to fly: (applied to young birds.)
Foo?¤se. _s._ Force. See Voo?¤se.
To Foo?¤se. _v.a._ To force.
Foo'ter. _s._ [Fr. _foutre_] A scurvy fellow; a term of contempt.
Foo'ty. _adj._ Insignificant; paltry; of no account.
For'rel. _s._ the cover of a book.
Forweend'. _adj._ Humoursome; difficult to please: (applied to children).
Fout. _preterite._ of to fight.
French-nut. _s._ A walnut.
To Frump. _v.a._ To trump up.
To Frunt. _v.a._ To affront.
To Fur. _v.a._ To throw.
Fur'cum. _s._ The bottom: the whole.
Fur'nis. _s._ A large vessel or boiler, used for brewing, and other purposes; fixed with bricks and mortar, and surrounded with flues, for the circulation of heat, and exit of smoke.

G.
Gaern. _s._ A garden.
Gale. _s._ An old bull castrated.
Gal'libagger. _s._ [From gally and _beggar_] A bug-bear.
Gal'lise. _s._ The gallows.
Gallid. _adj._ Frightened.
To Gal'ly. _v. a._ To frighten.
Gallant'ing, Galligant'ing. _part._ Wandering about in gaiety and enjoyment: applied chiefly to associations of the sexes.
Gam'bril. _s._ A crooked piece of wood used by butchers to spread, and by which to suspend the carcase.
Gan'ny-cock. _s._ A turkey-cock.
Ganny-cock's Snob. _s._ The long membranous appendage at the beak, by which the cock-turkey is distinguished.
Gare. _s._ The iron work for wheels, waggons, &c., is called ire-gare; accoutrements.
Gate-shord. _s._ A gate-way; a place for a gate.
Gat'fer. _s._ An old man.
Gaw'cum. _s._ A simpleton; a gawkey.
Gawl-cup. _s._ Gold cup.
To Gee. _v.n._ [g soft] To agree; to go on well together.
To Gee. _v.n._ [g hard; part, and past tense, gid.] To give. Gee often includes the pronoun, thus, "I'll gee" means I'll give you; the gee, and ye for you, combining into gee.
To G'auf. _v.n._ To go off.
To G'auver. _v.n._ To go over.
To G'in. _v.n._ To go in.
To G'on.