The Westmorland Dialect in Four Familiar Dialogues; In Which an Attempt Is Made to Illustrate the Provincial Idiom (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 Excerpt: ...own estate; a small landholder. His eldest son is called a laird, and when there is no son, the eldest daughter is born to the title of lady or leady, while the holder of a manor of course bears that of Irvord, Thus we may see a statesman driving the plough, lady Bell labouring at the churn, and lord Ritson attending the market with turnips to sell.--Jollie's Cumberland Manners. Stavlan, lounging. Stayt, staid. Steaad, stood. Steaak, stake; also, to shut. Steaal, stole. Steaalin, stealing. Steai, a stool. Stee, a ladder, or stile. Steek, or Stuik, to shut; to close. "Kittle t' coal, and mak t' ingle shine; Stee t' dere, and keep out t' swine." Steaan, a stone. Steg, a gander. Steven, to set the Steven, is to agree upon the time and place of meeting previous to some expedition--MS. Olossary. Stevvin, to be in a fuss.--MS. Glossary. Stibble, stubble. Sticks, furniture. Stint, a limit; quantity or allowance of anything, as of labour, victuals, &c. Perhaps from the Saxon stincan, to restrain, or set bounds to. "How much wine drink you in a day? My stint in company is a pint at noon."--Swift. Stitches, narrow ridges of land. Storken, to cool, to stiffen like tallow. Stoun, or Stound, a sudden and transient pain. "Such piercing grief her stubborn heart did wound, That she could not endure the doleful stound."--Spenser. Stoup (stoop), to bend forward. Stour, dust. Stoury, dusty. Stove, a young shoot of wood.--MS. Glossary. Stown, stolen. Stowter, to struggle; to walk clumsily. Strack, or Struik, struck. Strae, straw. Strammer, large; great; as, "a strammer lie."--MS. Glossary. Strones, tenants who are bound to assist the lord in hunting, and turning the red deer on the tops of the mountains to the forest.--Nicolson and B...