Notes.--_Sennet_, seven nights, week; _seun_, seven; _lownd_, still, calm; _murgeon_, rubbish earth cut up and thrown aside in order to get peat; _windraw_, heap of dug earth; _ling_, kind of heather; _skirling hullet_, shrieking owlet; _herrensue_, young heron; _miredrum_, bittern; _blead storkened_, blood congealed; _neet_, night; _poak_, bag; _yance_, once; _seck_, sack, i.e. contents of this sack; _elding_, fuel; _steal_, stool; _brandreth_, iron frame over the fire; _seaty_, sooty; _rattencreak_, potcrook, pothook; _randletree_, a beam from which the pothook hangs; _stee_, ladder; _loft_, upper room; _lile ans_, little ones; _whiting speals_, whittling small sticks; _snottering_, sobbing; _ya_, one; _bullen_, hempstalk; _loww_, flame; _loup_, loop, stitch in knitting; _sweal_, blaze. MIDLAND (Group I): LINCOLN. I here give a few quotations from the Glossary of Words used in the Wapentakes of Manley and Corringham, Lincolnshire, by E. Peacock, F.S.A.; 2nd ed., E.D.S., 1889. The illustrative sentences are very characteristic. _Beal_, to bellow.--Th' bairn be{a}led oot that bad, I was cl{e}an scar'd, but it was at noht bud a battle-twig 'at hed crohl{e}d up'n hisairm. (_Battle-twig_, earwig; _airm_, arm.) _Cart, to get into_, to get into a bad temper.--Na, noo, thoo ne{a}dn't get into th' cart, for I we{a}n't draw thee. _Cauf_, a calf, silly fellow.--A gentleman was enlarging to a Winterton lad on the virtues of Spanish juice [liquorice water]. "Ah,then, ye'll ha' been to th' mines, whe{a}re thaay gets it," the boy exclaimed; whereupon the mother broke in with--"A gre{a}t cauf! Duz he think 'at thaay dig it oot o' th' grund, sa{a}me as thaay do sugar?" _Chess_, a tier.--I've been tell'd that e' plaaces whe{a}re thaay graw silk-worms, thaay ke{a}ps 'em on traays, chess aboon chess, like cheney i' a cupboard. (_E'_ in; _cheney_, china.) _Clammer_, to climb.--Oor Uriah's clammered into th' parson's cherry-tree, muther, an' he is swalla'in on 'em aboon a bit. I shouldn't ha tell'd ye nobbut he we{a}nt chuck me ony doon. (_Nobbut_, only.) _Cottoner_, something very striking.--Th' bairn hed been e' mischief all daay thrif; at last, when I was sidin' awaay th' te{a}-things, what duz he do but tum'le i'to th' well. So, says I, Well, this is a cottoner; we shall hev to send for Mr Iveson (the coroner) noo, I reckon. (_Thrif_, through; _sidin' awaay_, putting away.) _Ducks_.--A girl said to the author, of a woman with whom she had been living for a short time as servant, "I'd raather be nibbled to de{a}d wi' ducks then live with Miss P. She's alus a natterin'." (_De{a}d_, death; _alus_, always; _natterin'_, nagging.) _Good mind_, strong intention.--She said she'd a good mind to hing her-sen, so{a} I ax'd if I mud send for Mr Holgate (the coroner), to be ready like. (_Hing_, hang; _mud_, might.)