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BUZZARD, sb. a large moth.

BUZZER, sb. a steam whistle.

BY-DYKE, sb. a feeder or narrow stream for a mill-dam.

BYERLAW. See BIERLAW.

BY GUY, an oath or exclamation.

BY JABERS, an oath or exclamation.

BY LEDDY, an exclamation meaning ' By our lady. '
 * I have also heard By Lakins.

BY NAH [be nar], by now, by this time.

BYRE, sb. a cow-house; a shed for cows.

BYSET, sb. a hollow or gutter across a road.

BY THE MASS, an oath.
 * ' By the mass, man, oh loike to mak one in a show. '
 * Mather's Songs, 91.
 * This once common oath is still occasionally heard in Sheffield.

CADDIS, sb. a sort of woollen stuff.
 * Cadas, Bombicinium. Prompt. Parv. 

CADDY, adj. in good health or spirits; contented.

CADE-CHILD, sb. a child brought up with excessive care. H.

CADE-LAMB, sb. a lamb brought up in the house.

CADGE, v. to stitch lightly, to overcast.
 * ' I cadge a garment, I set lystes in the lynyng to kepe the plyghtes in order. ' —Palsgrave. When a thing is badly sewn it is said to be cadged up.

CADGE, v. to beg.
 * ' Soon he set off an ' cadged his way to Edinburgh. ' —Bywater, 130.

CADGE, sb. a cage ? ' For taking down the cadge, 0-3-0. ' —T. T. A., 102. ' For the old pavers belonging to the cage, 0-2-0. ' —Ibid., 103.

CAKE-SPRITTLE, sb. a thin board used for turning oatcakes while over the oven. H.

CAKING DAY, sb. the 2nd of November, All Souls' Day. Hunters MS.
 * The Soul Mass Cake is doubtless referred to. See Hampson's Medii Ævi Kal., i. 374. And see THARF CAKE.

CAKY, adj. silly. Johnny-cake in Evans ' Leicestershire Words.