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

Blis'som. _ad._ Blithesome.
Blood-sucker. _s._ A leech.
Bloody-warrior. _s._ The wall-flower.
Boar. _s._ The peculiar head or first flowing of water from one to two

feet high at spring tides, in the river Parret a few miles below and at
Bridgewater, and in some other rivers.
[In Johnson's Dictionary this is spelt _bore_; I prefer the above spelling.
I believe the word is derived from the animal Boar, from the noise,
rushing, and impetuosity of the water, Todd gives it "a tide swelling
above another tide." Writers vary in their opinions on the causes of this
phenomenon. St. Pierre. Ouvres, tom vi., p. 234, Ed. Hamburgh, 1797,
describes it not exactly the same in the Seine as in the Parret:--"Cette
montagne d'eau est produite par les marèes qui entrent, de la mer dans
la Seine, et la font refluer contre son cours. On l'appelle la Barre,
parce-qu'elle barre le cours de la Seine. Cette barre est suivée d'une
seconde barre plus elevèe, qui la suit a cent toises de distance. Elles
courent beaucoup plus vîte qu'un cheval au galop." He says it is
called Bar, because it bars the current. In the Encyclop. Metropol., art.
Bore, the editor did not seem more fortunate in his derivation.]
Bobbish. _adj._ In health, and spirits. [Pirty bobbish, pretty well.] Bonk.
_s._ Bank.
Booät. _s._ Boat.
Booäth. _pron._ Both. "_Boo'äth o' ye_; both of you.
Bor'rid. _adj._ A sow is said to 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-viër. _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 _Ã Dieu_, to God. Bwye, and
good-bwye, are, therefore, how vulgar soever they may seem, more
analogous than bye and _good-bye_.

C.
Callyvan'. _s._ A pyramidal trap for catching birds.
Car'riter. _s._ Character.

Câs. 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.
ChaÃ-ty. adj. Careful; nice; delicate.
To Cham. _v. a._ To chew.
Chámer. _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._