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 HAMPSHIBE GLOSSARY. 95 Tilt or Tilth [tilth], sb, to ^ve land one, two, or three Hits is the same as to plough to oue^ two, or three earths. See Earth. — Lisle. Timber-bob [tim'bur-bob], ab, a pair of wheels and pole on which a felled tree is slung. — N. H. See Bob. Timersome [timnirsum], adj. timorous.— Cooper. Timid. *Ak. Tine [tein], sb, a tooth or spike [of a fork, rake, &c.]. — Lisle. Tine [tein], v, to snuff a candle ; not (as originally) to light it. — Wise, New Forest. It would mean to make it bum brightly ; hence, to snuff it for that purpose. Tining [tei'ning], sb. to give two tinings^ three tinings^ &c., to draw the harrow oyer the ground twice or thrice in the same place. — Lisle. Tinker [tink'ur], v. to mend, but not thoroughly. — Cooper. Tinkler [^tink'lur], sb. a tinker. — N". H. A field in Eversley parish named in surveys and terriers Tinker's Croft is called by the people, ' TinkUr'a Croft. Tip-np [tip-up], V. (!) To cause to fall down. — Cooper, (2) To set on end. — J. Tiflsick [tis'ik], sb. a tickling, faint cough ; called also a tissicky cough. — Cooper. From Pthisia, Tit [tit], sb. a teat. *Ak. Tite [teit], V. a. to ascertain the weight of a thing, by lifting or otherwise ; to weigh.— N. H. Jennings' Dialects of the West of Eng^ land, p. 76. Titty [tit'i], adj. small. A little titty cat. To [too], prep, used for at. Ex. ' He lives over to Gosport. ' — Yi, "EL. 0. Toad-in-a-hole [toad-in-a-hoal], sb. a baked meat pudding. — P. M. Toad-lodge [toad-lodj], sb. the stone loach. — N. H. Toad's-spawn [toad-spaun], sb. (or rather Twoad-spawn), the green scum on a pond : described by Shakespeare as the ' green mantle of the standing pool ; ' Lear, iii. 4. — W. To-dee [tu'-dec], to-day. — Cooper. Todged milk [toj *d-milk], sb. milk thickened with flour. *Ak. To-do [tu'-doo*], sb. ado, bustle, stir. — Cooper. A fuss. *Ak. Tole [toal], v. to entice ; primarily, to entice or allure animals. — Wise, New Forest, p. 192. Toll [tol], sb. a clump of trees. — Cooper. Toll [toal], v. to tell, i. e. to count. ' I toll ten cows,' I count ten cows. — ^Wise, New Forest, p. 192. It is evidently used as the preterite of teU.— W. H. 0. Ton^ [tong], v. to toU a beU. Ex. ' The bells be tonged,' i. e. are being tolled. — ^Wise. *Ak has tang, Cf. the common Eng. ting- tang, the bell last toUed before the Bervice.