Playful Poems by Unknown
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{150d} Skirl, sound shrill.
{147d} Slaps, breaks in walls or hedges; also narrow passes. {149b} Smoored, smothered. {151j} Spean, wean. {32} Spear-hawk, sparrow-hawk. From the root spar, to quiver or flutter, comes the name of "sparrow" and a part of the name "sparrow-hawk." {94e} Summerhall, Stubbs, in the "Anatomy of Abuses," speaking of the maypole, tells how villagers, when they have reared it up, "with handkerchiefs and flags streaming on the top, they strew the ground about, bind green boughs about it, set up summerhalls, bowers, and arbours hard by it, and then fall they to banquet and feast, and leap and dance about it." {148d} Swats, new ale, wort. First English, swate. {88c} Teen, vexation, grief. {152b} Tint, lost. {150c} Towsie tyke, a large rough cur. {92a} Tynsall, loss. {147c} Unco', uncouth, more than was known usually. {151i} Wally, walie thriving. First English, waelig. {91c} Warsill, wrestle. {150b} Winnock-bunker, the window seat. {93d} Woned, dwelt. {17} Wottest, knowest. {88a} Woxen, grown. {93a} Yconned, taught. |
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