VAUNCE-ROOF, the garret. Suff.

VEAKING, fretfulness, peevishness. Exm.

VELLING, ploughing up the turf or upper surface of the ground, to lay in heaps to burn. S.

VENNEL, a gutter, called the KENNEL, i. e. CHAN-
NEL elsewhere. Northumb.

VESSEL of paper. See FRAZE.
VIGGING. See POTEE.

VINEROUS, hard to please. N.
VINNIED, fenny, mouldy. Exm.
VINNY, a scolding-bout. Exm.

VIT; to vit, to dress meat. Exm.

VITTY, decent, handsome, well. Exm. Neatly dressed.

VLICK, or FLICK, a blow with a stick. I ged un a vlick. W.

VOKEY, moist. Exm.

VOOR, a furrow. Exm.

VORE, forth; to draw vore, to twit one with a fault. Exm.

VORE-REERT, forthright, without circumspection. Exm.

VORE-DAYS, or VOARDAYS, late in the day. Exm.
VORTHY, forward, assuming. West.

VRITH, etherings, or windings of hedges. S.
VULL-STATED. See FULL-STATED. Exm.
VUNG, received.

VURDIN, a farthing. Exm.

VUR-VORE, far-forth. Exm.

W.

WAD, black-lead. Cumb. It also means a neighbourhood, as such and such places lie in the same wad or beat.

WADE, to walk in water. Var. Dial.

WAFF. See WAUGHING.

WAG'D, hired, bribed: They wag'd him to do it. North.

WAIN, a waggon. N.

WA-IST HEART! woe is me! N.

WAITS, a band of music belonging to a town. North. Rather general.

WAKE, the feast of the dedication of the parish church. N.

WAKKER, easily awakened. N.; more awake, or more wakeful.

WALCH, OF WARSH, insipid, fresh, waterish. In the

South we say WALLOWISH, meaning somewhat

nauseous.

WALKER, a fuller; a WALK-MILL, a fulling mill: à Belg. WALCHER, fullo; hoc à verb. Belg. WALCHEN; Ital. GUALCARE, pannos, premere, calcare; Teut. WALCKEN, pannum polire; all probably from the Latin CALCARE. Skinner.

WALL; he lies by the wall; spoken of a person dead but not buried. Norf. and Suff.

WALLING, i.e. boiling; it is now in frequent use among the salt-boilers at Northwych, Namptwych, &c. Perhaps the same as WALLOPPING; whence in some boroughs, persons who boil a pot there are called pot-walloppers, and entitled to vote for representatives in Parliament.

WALLOPING, a slatternly manner. N.

WALLY, to cocker or indulge. N.

WALT, to totter, or lean one way, to overthrow; from the old Saxon WELTAN, to tumble or roll; whence our weltering in blood: or rather from the Saxon WEALTIAN, to reel or stagger. N. WANKLE, weak. N.

WA'NGERY, flabby. Exm.

WANG-TOOTH, the jaw-tooth; ab A. S. WANG, WONG, the jaw; WONE TODH, or rather WONGTODH, the anine tooth.

WANKLE, limber, flaccid, ticklish, fickle, wavering. N.

WANT, a mole. N. and V. From the Saxon WAND. Herefordshire; where it is pronounced WUNT. WANTI-TUMP, or ONTI-TUMP, a mole-hill. Glouc. WAP, a bundle of straw. N.

WAPPER'D, restless or fatigued; spoken of a sick person. Glouc.

WAPS, a wasp. Var Dial.

WAR, worse; WAR AND WAR, worse and worse. Var. Dial.

WAR, beware.

WARCH, or WARK, to ache, to work; ab A. S. WARK, pain, also a work.

WARCK-BRATTLE, fond of work. Lanc.

WARE, to spend money with another in drink. WARE; to ware one's money, to bestow it well, to lay it out in ware. N.

WARISHT, that hath conquered any disease or difficulty, and is secure against the future; also well-stored or furnished. N.

WARISON, the stomach. Cumb.

WARK, a pain. N.

WARP, to lay eggs; a hen warps or warys. N. WARPING, turning a river on land to obtain the mud for manure when it recedes. A modern term in Yorkshire.

WARY, to curse. Lanc. Ab A. S. WARIAN, WeRIGAN, to execrate or curse. To WARY is also to lay an egg. N.

WARTH, a water-ford. WARTH, in the old Saxon, signifies the shore.

WARSTEAD, used in that sense; q.

WASSET-MAN, a scarce-crow. Wilts.

WÁSHAMOUTHE, a blab.

Exm.

WASHBREW, flummery. Exm.

WASTE, a consumption. N.

WA'S ME! woe is me! Var. Dial.

WATERSTEAD.

WASTERS, damaged or mis-shapen goods. North. WATCHET, wet shod, wet in the feet. Oxf.

WATER-TEEMS, risings of the stomach when nothing but water is discharged by vomiting. North.

WATTLES, hurdles; also the lowest part of a cock's comb. N.

WATSAIL, a drinking song, sung on twelfth-day

eve, throwing toast to the apple-trees, in order to have a fruitful year, which seems to be a relic of the heathen sacrifice to Pomona. WASSAIL. Exm. WAUGHING, barking; probably from the sound. N. pronounced WAFFING; a waffing cur is a little barking dog. A species of cur is called a WAPPE in Pennant's British Zoology, 8vo. I. pp. 50. 57. whence, by change of the letters, it may perhaps be applied.

WAUGHIST, faintish. N.

WAY-BIT (or rather a WEE-BIT), a little piece; a mile and a wee-bit, or way-bit. Yorksh. WEE is Scotch for little.

WAY-BREAD, plantain; from the Saxon WEGBRÆDE, so called, because growing every where in streets and ways. N.

WAZE, a small round cushion, put under, or on the crown of the hat, to carry hannels or gegzins upon. Cumb.

WEAKY, moist. N.

WEALK, a wilk, a shell-fish, called cochlea marina.

WEAR, to lay out money with another in drink. N.
WEAR; to wear the pot, to cool it. N.

WEAT, to weat the head, to look it for lice. N.
WEA-WORTH YOU, woe betide you. N.
WEE, little. N.

WEEKEY, moist. N.

WEEKS of the mouth. The sides of it. Lanc.
WEEL, well. N.

WEEL, a whirl-pool. Lanc.

WEET, or WITE, nimble, swift. N. Used also in that sense in the South.

WEIR, or WAAR, sea-wrack, or alga-marina. Northumb. From the old Saxon WAAR. The Thanet-men, according to Somner, call it WORE or WooRE.

WEIR, or WARE, a pool of water or pond. S. WEIR, or WARE, a dam in a stream to keep up the water. North.