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. 1886 Excerpt: ... The whortle-berry; bilberry (vaccinium.) Harvest-man. The cranefly, or daddy-long-lags (tipulaoleracea). Ha'skim-cheese. Halfskim cheese; cheese made of milk skimmed only once. Haskets (E.) Hazel and maple bushes. Brushwood. Hassen. Hast not. Hassock, Hassick. A tuft of sedge or brushwood. Hatch. A wicket or little ...
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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. 1886 Excerpt: ... The whortle-berry; bilberry (vaccinium.) Harvest-man. The cranefly, or daddy-long-lags (tipulaoleracea). Ha'skim-cheese. Halfskim cheese; cheese made of milk skimmed only once. Haskets (E.) Hazel and maple bushes. Brushwood. Hassen. Hast not. Hassock, Hassick. A tuft of sedge or brushwood. Hatch. A wicket or little low garden-gate; a half-door. (A.S. haeca.) Hatch (W.) Hitch. Hatches (W.) Double gates, as to a farm yard. Have. To have something done is much used for to cause it to be done, as " I'll have the pony a-clipped." "I'll have a cowhouse a-builded." "I'll have the child a-brought hwome." Haves, Heps. The fruit of the wild rose. Johnson calls heps or hips the fruit of the hawthorn. I think not; they are haiels (N.j or haws. Hav. The spikelet of the oat. "The woats be out in hay." Haw, Hawoo. Ahoe. Hawked, or howked cow. A cow with a white or white-patched face. Hawledge. The work or cost of hawling. Haymaiden. A plant of the mint tribe; ground ivy glechoma hederacea.) Used for making a medicinal liquor,"haymai'den tea." Haymeaken. Haymaking formerly consisted of several operations which, with fine weather, commonly followed each other in Dorsetshire thus: The mown grass--in zwath, swath--was thrown abroad--tedded--and afterwards turned once or twice; in the evening it was raked up into little ridges--rollers--single or double, as they might be formed by one raker, or by two raking against each other; and sometimes put up into small cones or heaps, called cocks. On the following morning the rollers or cocks were thrown abroad in passels (parcels), which, after been turned, were in the evening put up into large ridges--weales; and the wales were sometimes pooked, put up into larger cones--pooks--in wh...
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