Drum, Ivy-, An. The stem of an ivy tree or bush, which grows round the hole of another tree. Drunch, To. To draw up, press, squeeze. We find the substantive “drunge,” with which it is evidently connected, given in Wright as a Wiltshire pronunciation for pressure, or crowd. Mr. Barnes also, in his _Glossary of the Dorsetshire Dialect_, p. 235, gives the forms “dringe” or “drunge,” to squeeze or push. Elam, An. An handful of thatch. Common both in the New Forest and Wiltshire. In the former three elams make a bundle, and twenty bundles one score, and four scores a ton. In the latter the measurement is somewhat different, five elams forming a bundle. Fessey. (From the Old-English _fús_, ready, prompt, quick). Proud, upstart. In the glossaries of Wright and Halliwell we find “fess” given as the commoner form. Fetch, To. Used with reference to churning butter. “To fetch the butter,” means, to raise the cream into a certain consistency. Fire-bladder. A pimple, or eruption on the face. _See_ “bunch.” Flisky. Small, minute. Used especially of misty rain. Flitch, or quite as often Fritch. (From the Old-English _flit_, or _geflit_). Not only as explained in the glossary of Wiltshire, impertinent, busy, but, by some _boustrophêdon_ process, good-humoured. “You are very flitch to-day,” that is, good-natured. Fluders. Worms, which on certain land get into the livers of sheep, when the animal is said to be “cothed.” Called also “flukes,” and “flounders.” _See_ the word “cothe.” Gait, A. A crotchet, or, as the vulgar expression is, a maggot. Used always in a deprecatory sense. When a person has done anything foolish he says, “this is a gait I have got.” Doubtless, identical with “get” in Wedgwood, vol. ii. p. 144. Gettet. Sprung, or slightly cracked. Used throughout the West of England. Giggle, To. To stand awry or crooked. Said especially of small things, which do not stand upright. Glutch, To. (From the French en-gloutir). Not simply, to swallow or gulp, as explained in the glossaries, but more especially to stifle a sob. Gold-heath, The. The bog-moss, (_Sphagnum squarrosum_), which is used in the New Forest to make fine brooms. Gold-withey, The. The bog-myrtle, or English mock-myrtle (_Myrica Gale_), mentioned in Mr. Kingsley’s New Forest ballad,— “They wrestled up, they wrestled down, They wrestled still and sore; Beneath their feet, the myrtle sweet, Was stamped in mud and gore.” It grows in all the wet places in the Forest, and is excessively sweet, the fruit being furnished with resinous glands. It is said to be extensively used in drugging the beer in the district. Graff, or grampher. _See_ Wosset. Gross. Often used in a good sense for luxuriant, and applied to the young green crops, just as “proud,” and “rank,” or rather “ronk,” as it is pronounced, are in the Midland Counties.