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 GLOSSARY.

A, ''indef. art. used instead of an'' before a vowel, as 'a egg,' 'a apple.'
 * 'If she be a idle ill-temper'd gossip.'—Bywater, 134.

A or EH, pron. what; used in asking questions. Pronouced like the a in May.
 * 'Where have you been to?' 'Eh?'

A, adj. one.
 * 'They're just about a size.'

ABBUT, conj. but, yes but, aye but, eh but.
 * ' Abbut o'm not goin' to work for nowt.'

ABIDE, v. to endure.
 * 'I can't abide him.'

ABOON, prep. above.
 * The word occurs in a Hallamshire couplet, in which the heads of a family generally held in respect in Sheffield (the Bridges) in the early part of the last century are thus characterised:
 * 'Gentleman Thomas t'foot aboon t'cross,
 * Prodigal Robin and slovenly Joss.'
 * Hunter's MS.

ACK, v. to attend, to notice, to listen.
 * ' Ack thee, Tom, what's that?'
 * Apparently a variant of hark.

ACRE HILL
 * 'A piece of arable lying upon acre hill.'—Harrison.
 * Harrison mentions a field called 'the Acre,' containing one acre and sixteen perches, in Ecclesfield.

ADAMFIELD, near Horsley gate, Dronfield. O.M.
 * Possibly called after a person. Adam occurs amongst the names in the Liber Vita, p. 2.

ADDERFIELD, in Ecclesall, anno 1807.
 * B.