Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ... proceeding. Pishty, =a term applied, 1. to a dog when the speaker does not know its usual name; 2. to a object of little value. This is common in Wales and near its borders. N. W. Her. Pitch, .=a point 'They always make a pitch of picking the hurden fruit' N. W. Her. .=a hill. v.=i. To pave. 2. To throw up, as hay or wheat on to a waggon. Rowlstone. Plain, = unassuming, friendly in manner. Pronounced as playn. T likes them Miss J.'s, they be so playn.' Said by an old woman of some young ladies who visited her. Plants, = young cabbage, brocoli, and other 'greens.' Plash or Pleach, =to lay down a hedge. Playcher or Plasher, =a pleacher or stem in a hedge, half cut through and bent down. Pleck or Plock, =a plot of ground. Plim, n.=i. on the level. 2. Smoothly. 'It went as plim as could be.' 'How plim that's going.' E. z.=to swell. 'The bacon pli/tim'd.' N. W. Her. Note It Is customary-at Hereford (i) to give three times three strokes on one of the Urge bells or tenor for a Male (2) To ring one bell for about 15 minutes. (3) Then to sound nine strokes on each bell, beginning with the treble bell. (4) lo tell the last bell according to the age of the deceased. For a Female, three times two strokes Six strokes on each bell after ringing the tenor. 27 Plough, =a fall. 'I went such a plough.' N. W. Her. Plough, =The various parts of a plough are: Cosp, =that which is placed on the beam to regulate width and depth. Coulter, = the part used for cutting the ground and easing the share. Flay, = used in skimming the surface of foul land and turning it over. Share, =that part which bursts the soil in bottom of furrow. Sheal-board, =that which turns the soil over. Sock, = a ploughshare. Throck, = pronounced Drock, is the frame, now of iron,
