Brize. To press. “Brize it down,” means, press it down. Is this only another form of the old word prize, preese, to press, crowd? Boughy. A tree, which instead of running up straight is full of boughs, is said to be “boughy.” It is also used generally of thick woods. Akin to it is the old word buhsomenesse, boughsomeness, written, as Mr. Wedgwood notices (_Dictionary of English Etymology_, p. 285), buxomeness by Chaucer. Bower-Stone, A. A boundary-stone. Called a “mere-stone” in some of the Midland Counties. Perhaps from the Keltic _bwr_, an inclosure, intrenchment; just as manor is said to be from _maenawr_, a district with a stone bound. Bound-Oak. _See_ Oak, Mark-. Brownies, The. The bees. _See_ chap. xvi., p. 185. Brow. Mr. Halliwell and Mr. Wright give this as a Wiltshire word, in the sense of brittle. In the New Forest it is applied only to short, snappy, splintering timber of bad quality. Buck, The. The stag-beetle, so called from its strong horn-like _antennæ_. The children, when catching it, sing this snatch— “High buck, Low buck, Buck, come down.” It is also called pinch-buck. The female is known as the doe. _See_ “Bryanston Buck,” in Mr. Barnes’s _Glossary of the Dorsetshire Dialect_, appended to his _Poems of Rural Life_. Bunch, A. A blow, or the effects of a blow; and then a blotch, burn, scald, pimple, in which latter senses “bladder” is also often used. The verb “to bunch,” to strike, is sometimes heard. _See_ Wedgwood (vol. i. p. 269, and vol. ii. p. 263) on its allied forms. Used by Pope, _Iliad_, bk. ii. 328. Cammock, The. (From the Old-English _cammec_, _cammoc_, _cammuc_.) The various species of St. John’s-wort, so plentiful in the neighbourhood of the New Forest; then, any yellow flower, as the fleabane (_Pulica dysenterica_) and ragwort (_Senecto Jacobæa_). In Dorsetshire, according to Mr. Barnes, it only means the rest-harrow (_Ononis arvensis_). Cass, A. A spar used in thatching, called in the Midland and North-Western Counties a “buckler.” Before it is made into a cass, it is called a “spargad.” Cattan, A. A sort of noose or hinge, which unites the “hand-stick” to the flail. It is made in two parts. The joint which joins the “hand-stick” is formed of ash or elm, whilst that which fits the flail is made of leather, as it is required to be more flexible near the part which strikes the floor. Mr. Wright and Mr. Halliwell give as a North-country word the verb “catton,” to beat, with which there is evidently some connection. Childag, A. A chilblain. Often called simply a “dag,” and “chilbladder.” Cleet, A. More generally used in the plural, as “cleets.” Iron tips on a shoe. Hence we have the expression, “to cleet oxen,” that is, to shoe them when they work. Close. Hard, sharp. “It hits close,” means it hits hard.