Part 22 (2/2)

{150g} Gab, mouth.

{148b} Gars, makes; ”gars me greet,” makes me weep.

{147h} Gate, road. Icelandic, gata.

{35} Habergeon, small hauberk, armour for the neck. Old High German, hals, the neck; bergan, to protect.

{94d} Harlock, This plant-name occurs only here and in Shakespeare's Lear, Act iv. sc. 4, where Lear is said to be crowned ”with harlocks, hemlocks, nettles, cuckoo-flowers.” Probably it is charlock, Sinapis arvensis, the mustard-plant.

{98} Hays, The hay was a French dance, with many turnings and windings.

{100} Hient Hill, Ben Hiand, in Ardnamurchan, Argyles.h.i.+re.

{152a} Hotched, hitched.

{147g} Ilka, each one, every.

{85c} Infere, together.

{148c} Ingle, fire. Gaelic, aingeal, allied to Latin ignis.

{95b} Keep, ”take thou no keep”--heed, ”never mind.”

{148f} Kirkton, familiar term for the village in which the country people had their church.

{94k} Ladysmock, Cardamine pratensis.

{93b} Leir, lore, doctrine.

{94g} Learned his sheep, taught his sheep.

{94a} Lemster, Leominster.

{95a} Lingell, a shoemaker's thong. Latin lingula.

{151h} Linkit, tripped, moved briskly.

{108c} Lubrican, the Irish leprechaun, a fairy in shape of an old man, discovered by the moan he makes. He brings wealth, and is fixed only as long as the finder keeps his eye upon him.

{108b} Mandrake, the root of mandragora, rudely shaped like the forked animal man, and said to groan or shriek when pulled out of the earth.

{93c} Marchpine, sweet biscuit of sugar and almonds. Marchpane paste was used by comfit-makers for shaping into letters, true-love knots, birds, beasts, etc.

{130} Megrim, pain on one side of the head, headache. French migraine, from Gr. eemikrania.

{147i} Melder, milling. The quant.i.ty of meal ground at once.

{148a} Mirk, dark.

{108a} Molewarp, mole. First English, moldwearp.

{148e} Nappy, nap, strong beer.

{126} Pam, Knave of Clubs, the highest card in the game of Loo, derived from ”palm,” as ”trump” from ”triumph.”

{137} Partridge, a maker of prophetic almanacs, who was ridiculed by Swift as type of his bad craft.

{94b} Peakish hull, hill by the Peak of Derbys.h.i.+re.

{19} Pose, catarrh. First English, geposu.

”By the pose in thy nose, And the gout in thy toes.”

--Beaumont and Fletcher.

{88b} Prow, profit. Old French, prou, preu--”Oil voir, sire, pour vostre preu i viens.”--Garin le Loharain.

{91a} Qu, Scottish = W. Quhair, where; quhois, whose; quheill, wheel; quha, quho, who; quhat, what.

{82a} Ray, striped cloth.

{151d} Rigwoodie, tough. Rigwiddie is the rope crossing the back of a horse yoked in a cart; rig, back, and withy, a twig. Applied to anything strong-backed.

{82c} Rise, ”cherries in the rise,” cherries on the twig. First English, hris, a twig, or thin branch. The old practice of selling cherries upon shoots cut from the tree ended in their sale by pennyworths with their stalks tied to a little stick of wood. So they were sold in London when I was a boy.

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