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 110 THB DIALECT OF Sobinet, the Eedbreast. A nickname giyen to the people of Famlej Tyas. Booken, reached. Sold, a word used for rough. A void night is a stonny one ; void work is a quarrel. I think once also I heard the words ' void wheat^' which possibly meant coarse. [This is common in Mid. English, and roide is the French word for rough, — W. W. S.] Boit (perhaps roat^ or rote), the same as Bail, which see. Bommy, or Boms, a certain plant (AlUttm ursinum, the Broad-leayed Oarlic — BaiiMons) of which cows are fond. It grows in hedge-bottoms, and, when eaten, spoils the taste of the milk. Booaky, drizzling : as in the phrase, a ' rooaky weet neet' Boois, the pronunciation of a word which is most likely roos, or rooz. When a person has been doin^ something out of the common, and no one a^putuds him, if he begms to praise himself he is said to be ' roouin' hissen.^ Halliwell gives the word roity to praise. The word rooB seems not, however, to be used for praising in general See ruse in Jamieson's Scot. Did, Bounce, or Bown.B6 (gl, rauns), to make round, in case of a loop being enlarged to admit of a new spindle. Bout, to bellow, or make a noise as a cow, donkey, &c. Pronounced ratdi, and so spelt by Hall. ; but it must be observed that if ratU were the proper spelling Almondbury people would call it roU^ as some do. [A.S. hrutany to beUow. The A.S. 2 is Mid.£big. U^ and commonly passes into modem standard •». — ^W. W. S.] Boye, past tense of to rive. See Baye. Boying, a process in spinning wool, by which the filaments are drawn out to much greater length than by the proper method. Both word and process as followed in the wool trade introduced by Mr. J. NowelL Boyd, a very common word in names of places, and in sumamea most probably derived from such. Places : Eoyda* hall, jRoydhouae, Bumrwi, Oisroyd, Doeroyd, 'Highroydy "Kjidroyd^ "Kvntroyd, Jack- trw{2, "Kidroyd, Ladyroyef, Lestenroy^, "Pitroyd, Sealro^d, Bouihrayd, "VfaesLtroydi &c. Families: Akero^cf, Ackro^c^, 'Booihroyd (also a place), Kolroyd, IjQ&royd, Oldroyd, Mar^trvyd. The meaning is supposed by some to indicate a clearing m a wood where the ^es have been got rid of, and that the true word is rode^ which would here be called royd. It is remarkable that the word *road' (for carriages) is not so pronounced. It is clear the word has not been always spelt royd. We read of * A dispensation from Selow for Bichard de Akero(i«, &c., issued from Bome oy Jordan, bishop of Alba, Apr. 27, 1433.' This is the now familiar name ox Akroyd, or Aciroyd. [The word is Scandinavian ; cf. IceL rjdiSrf a cleari ng, derived from, the strong verb hty^iSa, to dear, allied to £ng. rid, — ^W. W. S.]