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 482 NOTES AND QUERIES. ri2S.vm.juNB, is, Doom : dome. C. Draw bread and drawey bread : sticky bread. C. " Good Friday's bread never gets drawey nor yet mouldry." Duberous : dubious. C. and D. Earms: arms. C. East and eeast : yeast. C. Facty : decayed or over-ripe cheese. D. Farn : fern. C. and D. First off : to begin with, in the first place. C. Fit: feet. C. Flash : a swampy bit of roadside waste. C. Flights : the top part of a house just under the roof, and open to the tiles. D. Forelaid: waylaid. D. Forelong : soon. C. Four corners* : a game played at one time in the skittle-alley of a public-house. Most public-houses in Sussex had these. D. Fuelling: fuel. C. Gahmy: sticky. C. Garry wissome : twisted. D. Glad as a little adder : happy, light-hearted. C. A Cranleigh man said to me the day his son was married he expected they was " glad as little adders." Gluvyers: glovers. Gritted up : earthed up as potatoes or celery. D. Groshers: grocers. C. Gunch : a short plump pig. D. Haant me to death: to harass, worry, tor- ment. D. Hadn't need : no occasion to. C. Half -boots: a working man's ordinary everyday boots. D. " Where's my ah-boots, mistus ? " Hammicky: demented. D. " The children make such a noise they are enough to drive me hammicky." Handle. To exercise power over any particular object or thing so as to enable one to obtain something else is " to make a handle of it." Generally used in an unfavourable sense. Hap: perhaps. C. Hatching the blackthorn: C. A spell of cold weather in spring is said to be " hatching the blackthorn." Hayroosh: to do anything in a great hurry, without much consideration. D. Healing: roofing. C. Hearshes : stubble-fields. C. Heeves: hives. C. Hekth: height. C. Helt: held. C. Hime : hive. C. Hod: hidden. C. Hod it : hide it. C. Hope upf : embarrassed. C. House beans : broad beans. D. How's yourself ? : How are you ? C. Hughly: hugely. D. Hungry John : pig's cheek. Ill and alive. C. " He's no better, just ill and alive." Dialect Dictionary ' only from Kent and the Isle of Wight. t This is " holp up," i.e., helped up. They say in Birmingham, " He's well helped up now with no wife and all them kids." Itchell, " As thick as itchell " : very close together. " I warn't sure about the seed, so I sowed plenty of it and it came up as thick as itchell." Jenny scut : a wren. C. and D. Jerry* : a beer-house. C. and D. Lady's smock : a wild flower (Cardamine pra- tensis). D. Lid: lead. C. Ligs : legs. D. Linded : lined. C. and D. Lit: " He lit with me," he met me. D. " I lit wid un at the post office." Living fruit : apples that will keep. C. " Long and ornery like a workus pudden." C. Long pod : the long-tailed tit. C. Luddick: a blow. D. "I give him such a luddick." Make it out ; make 'em out. " Grapes don't fetch much te year, I think I shall make 'em out," i.e., make wine with them. Sometimes all kinds of fruit are ground up together in a cyder mill and the resulting liquor is called Samson, it being very strong and heady. Milkmaids : Cardamine pratensis (see ' Lady's smock.'). C. Mired : Stuck in the mud. C. " I was very near mired." Mischiful : mischievous. D. Mistrust: distrust. Mourning : moorhen. C. and D. Muck- worm: a restless child. D. "What a little muck- worm he is, surely e." (Wright and Halliwell give " grubber," " miser," " upstart " in this sense.) Muffle tit : the long-tailed tit. Mouldry : mouldy. C. Nare a one : not one. D. Natally : naturally. C. " I am natally tired of it." No account: of no use. C. and D. " Oh, he's an idle worthless fellow of no account." Nohow at all : unwell, poorly. C. Not: neat, close, firm. C. "It's nice and not." (Wright has this word but not in the same Nub : knob. C. and D. Oaad a massa : God 'a mercy. D. " Oaad a massa, Lucy, I can't think what you will do wid all dem gurt boys." Out o' conceit of : lost confidence in. C. Paradiddles : button moulds, a toy. C. and D. Parl : the rind of cheese. C. Pea boughs : pea sticks. Peel: a flat wedge-shaped piece of wood on a long handle, used for taking bread out of an oven when done. Pelt : an iron shoe-tip. Pig indoors. D. The great aim of a Sussex labourer is, or used to be, to get a " pig indoors " for the winter's food. Pincher bob : stag beetle. C. Plat : a plot of grass. D. Plod: plaid. C. Plump up : to swell in boiling, as a piece of pork or bacon. C: and D. (Halliwell gives this in several meanings, but not in this one.) Pomp : pump. C. Onlv from northern districts in ' E.D.D.'
 * " Four corners " is recorded in the ' English