BARGAIN, a parcel, an indefinite quantity or number; as, I have a good bargain of corn this year, or a good bargain of lambs. Norf.

BARGH, a horseway up a hill; corrupted to BAR, in Derbyshire. Baslow-bar, Beely-bar, &c.

BARK, a box for receiving the ends or pieces of candles. N.

BARKEN, a yard of a house, backside or barton, See BARTON. S.

BARKIT, dirt, &c. hardened on hair; perhaps from its adhering like the bark of a tree. BARME, yest. Kent and S.

BARMSKIN, a leather apron. Lan.

BARNACLES, spectacles. Borrowed from the instrument by which a horse's nose is held when he will not stand still to be shoed, &c.

BARNGUN, a breaking out in small pustules in the skin. Exmoor.

BARR, a gate of a town or city. N.

BARRA, or BARROW, a gelt pig. Exmoor.

BARRING-OUT. The breaking up of a school at the great holidays, when the boys within bar the door against the master. N.

BARSALE, barking-time. Norf.
BARSON, a horse's collar. York.
BARST, burst. Lanc.

BARTH, a warm place or pasture for calves and lambs. S. Hence, perhaps, the sea-term, a Berth.

BARTON, a yard of a house, or backside. Sussex.

In Cornwall it implies the demesne-lands lying

close to the house of the lord of the manor, or soil. Carew's Cornwall, p. 36.

BASE, a perch. Cumb.; in Hampshire, a seaperch.

BASHY, fat, swelled. N.

BASS, a hassock to kneel upon at church. N.
BASTERLY-GULLION, a bastard's bastard. Lanc.
BAT, to bat the eyes, to wink. Derb.

BATCH, a kind of hound. N. BATCH of bread, as much as is baked at one time, be it more or less, analogous to a CLATCH of poultry.

BATE, OF BEAWTE, without, except. Lanc.

BATING WITH CHILD, breeding, gravid. N.
BATTEN, to feed or fatten. N.

BATTIN, the straw of two sheaves folded together. N.

BATTLES, Commons, or board. Oxford and Camb. BATTLE-TWIG, an ear-wig. Derb.

BATTLINGS, the loppings of trees, larger than faggots and less than timber. Norf. and Suff.

BATTRIL, a batting staff used by laundresses. Lan. BAUGH, a pudding of milk and flour only. Chesh.

BAUK, the summer, beam, or dorman; also a pole or beam, such as are used under the roofs of small buildings; also land left unploughed, to divide the property of different persons in common or open fields. Northumb. BAURGHWANS, horse-collars. N. BAUTERT. See BARKIT. BAVEN, a brush, faggot. Kent.

BAWKS, a hay-loft. Cumb.

BEAKMENT, a measure containing four quarts. N. BEAM. To beam a tub, is to put water into it, to stop the leaking by swelling the wood. N.

BEATHING, or bathing wood by the fire, setting or straitening unseasoned wood by heat. Norf. and Suff.

BEATING WITH CHILD, breeding. York.
BECK, or BEEK, a rivulet or brook. N.
BECKER, a wooden dish. Northumb.

BEEN, nimble, clever. Lan.

BEEOS, a corruption of BEASTS; the general name for horned cattle in Derbyshire; cows.

BEEST, OF BEESTINGS, milk immediately after the cow has calved. Lan. and Glou.

BEESTLING-PUDDING, pudding made of beest.

BEETHY. Meat under-done is so called in Herefordshire.

BEET-NEED, a help on extraordinary occasions.
Lanc.

BECLARTED, besmeared or bedawbed. N.
BEELD, shelter. N.

BEER, or BIRRE, force or might; with aw my
beer, with all my force. Chesh.
BEER-GOOD, yest. Norf. and Suff.

BEES, Cows. Cumb.

BEESOM, OF BYSSUM, a broom. N.

BEENT MEED, help on particular occasions. Lanc. BEGONE, decayed, worn; the thatch of this house is lamentably begone. Norf. and Suff.

BEHITHER, on this side; in opposition to beyond. Sussex.

BEHOUNCH'D, tricked up and made fine; a metaphor taken from an ornament worn by a carthorse, called hounches, which lies spread upon his collar. This term is in general used ironically. Sussex.

BEIGHT (of the elbow), bending of the elbow. N. BELEAKINS, i. e. by the lady-kin, or little lady; a Lancashire and Derbyshire interjection.

BELIEVE, anon, by and by, in the evening, towards night. Northumb. and N.

BELIKE, probably, perhaps. N.

BELIVE. When it rains a little, and the shower
is likely to increase, they say in Yorkshire and
Derbyshire, It spits now, it will spew belive.
BELK, to belch. Derb.

BELLAND, the gripes in cattle. N.
BELLART, a bull or bearward. N.

BELLY-WARK, the gripes. N. They also say TOOTH-
WARK, and HEAD-WARK.

BEN, or BEND; to the true ben or bend! possibly of BENDAN, Saxon, to stretch out; to yield to; to the purpose, or sufficiently; to the utmost stretch. Exmoor.

BEND, a border of a woman's cap. N.; perhaps from BAND.

BEND-KITT, a kind of great can with a cover. N. BENEFIT, a church living, or benefice. N.

BENSEL, to beat or bang. Vox rustica. Yorksh.

BER, force in general. Lanc.

BERRY, to berry, to thresh out corn. N.
BERRYER, a thresher.

BESOM, a broom. N. Salop.

BETWATTLED, confounded, out of one's senses, also bewrayed. N.

BEVERING, trembling. N.

BEWIVERD, lost to one's self, bewildered, confounded. Exmoor.

BIBBER, to tremble; I saw his under lip bibber. Kent. See Bevering.

BID, to bide, or bede, to pray. N.; whence bedes

man.

BIDDEN, invited, suffered; whence, for forbidden. N.

BIDE, to stay or abide. C. It will bide billinge at, it will bear working at. N. Let un'bide, let him stay. W.

BIEL, or BIELD, a shelter. York.

BIG, barley, to big, to build. Cumb.

BIGGE, a pap or teat. Essex.

BIGGEN, or BIGGIN, the head-dress of an infant. BIGGENNING; I wish you a good biggenning, i. e. a good getting up after lying in. Ñ.

BILBERRY. N. The hortleberry, or whortleberry,

in other parts.

BILLARD, a bastard capon. Sussex.

BILLY-BITER. York. The bird called in general a Black-cap.

Bird of the EYE, the pupil or sight of the eye. Suff.

BÜRD, or BIRD, bread. Exmoor.

BIRK, a birch tree. N.

BIRLADY, by our lady. York and Derby.