“The leevin surs! she _towp’t_ her ower Or yen cud say, ’Od bliss her.” _Mark Lonsdale._ The Upshot. Toytle, C and S, totter. “Tak care thou doesn’t _toytle_ intil t’ beck.” Said to a top-heavy neighbour at Branthwaite. Tryste, S, an appointed meeting, also to appoint a meeting. “Crack _tryste_, crack credit.”—Proverb. “I daurna _tryste_ wi’ you, Willie, I daurna _tryste_ ye here, But I’ll meet wi’ you in heaven Willie, i’ the spring-time o’ the year.” _Aytoun._ Annie’s Tryste. Tyle, C, to distress, as with pain or fatigue. “I’s _tyled_ to deeth wid this kurn. I’ve been kurning iver sen mwornin’, an’ I seem as far off butter as iver.” A farmer’s wife. U. Unco, S; Unket, C, strange, remarkable. “A hungry care’s an _unco_ care.”—Proverb. “What, is there owte _unket_ i’ your country side?” _Anderson._ Bruff Reaces. Up-bank, C, upwards. “Till watters run _upbank_ an’ trees they grow down-bank, We niver can leuk on his marrow agean.” _Anderson._ Kit Craffet. W. Waistrel, C, an unthrift, a useless fellow. The late Sergeant Wilkins, in reply to the Court, once defined _waistrel_, not very accurately, as “something spoiled in the manufacture, and sold at half price in the Lowther Arcade.” Wale, S, choose, choice. “For sake o’ gear Ane _wales_ a wife as he wad buy a mear.” _Ramsay._ The Gentle Shepherd. “The king o’ gude fellows an’ _wale_ o’ auld men.” Song—Auld Rob Morris. Wankle, C, weakly, flaccid. “As _wankle_ as a wet seck.”—Common saying. Wanter, C, one wanting a wife or husband. “He leeves aw his leane, but he’s seerly to bleame, When a _wanter_ like me’s to be hed sa near heame.” _Anderson._ Auld Robbie Miller. Wanwauchtie, S, unable to drink freely (wan, un, and waucht a hearty draught.) “He’s unco _wanwauchtie_ that scunners at whey.”—Proverb. War-day, C, work-day—so distinguished from the day of rest. “She cheerfu’ wrowte her _warday_ wark, Than sat down at her wheel.” _Rayson._ Ann o’ Hethersgill. Ware, S and C, spend. “Jockey and Jenny they went to the fair, Jockey gave Jenny a penny to _ware_.” Children’s Rhyme. Wat, S, know. “She’s a wise wife that _wats_ her ain weird.”—Proverb. Waukrife, S, wakeful, or preventing sleep. “Fleas and a girnin’ wife are _waukrife_ bedfellows.” Proverb. Weird, S, fate, destiny.