"BEST AUCHT," the most valuable possession, usually a horse or ox, claimed by the superior on the death of a farm tenant. BICKERING, moving noisily. BIEN, prosperous. BIGGIT, built. BINWUD, ivy. BLACK-SPAULD (SPAUL), a pleuritic disease of cattle. BLEW SPOT, a significant witch-mark also another term for "dede-nip." BLINMENS' BAWS, common puff-ball (devil's snuff-box). BLINKING, attractive, comely. BLUIDY-FINGERS, foxglove. BOGLE-BO, hobgoblin. BOOR-TREE, elder-tree. BOWCAIL, cabbage. BOWTE, to strike against. BRATTLE, a clattering sound. BRECKAN, bracken. BREERS, briars "BROCKEN," the important mediæval place of witch festival in Germany (see _Faust_). BROSE, pease-meal mixed with boiling water. BUMBEE, humble-bee. BUTTER-SKEP, butter-basket. BYKE, a wasp's or bee's nest. C "CA CUTTIE CA," called upon to eat freely, even greedily. "CANNIE MOMENT," significant time. CANTIE, canty, contentedly. CANTRIP, charm or spell. CAP, caup, a wooden bowl. CARLE, a man. CERTES, certainly. CHAMPIT, bruised. CHANNEL-STANE, curling-stone. CHESSEL, the tub for pressing cheese. CHICKEN-WORT, chicken-weed. CHIST (KIST), a wooden box. CHOWED, chewed. CLOWT, cloth. COG, a wooden domestic vessel. COGFU', the full of such a vessel. COMPEARED, appeared. COUPE, to empty or capsize. COUTERS, thick mucous secretion. COUTHIE, in rude comfort. COWER, to bend down. COWES, bushes, more particularly of the broom. COWSHERNE, cow-dung. CRAFT, croft or field. CRONE, hag, old woman. CROUSELY, proudly. "CRUMMIE," a term for cows with usually crooked horns. CRUNE, a murmuring sound, sometimes threatening. CRUPPEN, contracted. D DEAD-BELI } } DEDE-CHACK } } DEDE-DRAP } } DEID-LICHT } See text, pages 210 to 213. } DEDE-NIP } } DEDE-SPALL } } DEDE-SPEAL } } DEAD-WATCH } DEIL'S MILK, milky sap. DEMPSTER, judge. DEERAY, disorder. DIVINATION, conjuration. DOME, doom. DONNERT, stupid. DOOR (DOUR) here used (page 59) in the sense of sour or astringent. DRABBLED, slobbered. DRUBBING, thrashing. DRUGGET, coarse woollen cloth. DRUMLIE, thick. DWINED, pined away or wasted. E EEN, eyes. "EFFIGIES CLERICORUM," a mock poem on the clergie when they met to consult about taking the Test in the year 1681 (printed A.D. MDCXVII.). ELFIN, fairy. ESHEITE, forfeited. F FALD, fold. FARINTOSH, whisky. FASH, trouble. FEARIE, used here (page 203) in the sense of fearless. FEAT, tidy. FEATS, clever doings. FECKET, under-jacket. FEN, to strive hard for the means of livelihood. FEY, a small field or croft. FIENT, no one at all. FIRSLE, to rustle. FLEYED, frightened. FLUTTERBAWS, puff-balls (see blinmens' baws). FOGGY, mossy. FORFOCHTEN, exhausted. FOWK, people. FRENZIET, eccentric, mad. FUMART, pole-cat. G GALL, bile. GARS, makes or compels. GAUR, to compel. GELLOCKS, earwigs.