The dialect of Craven - v. 1 Author:William Carr Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 14 AUVISH, Silly, clownish. AVELANG, Elliptical, oval. Qu. a corruption of oblong? AVERAGE Winter eatage. Fr. hiver, winter, and Eng. eatagc. A learn... more »ed friend, not approving of this mongrel derivation, thinks that it may with mbre propriety be derived solely from the French, as from the verb badiner, comes badinage, and from hiver, hiverage. AVRIL, April. Fn. avril. This word is nearly obsolete. Dr. Jamiesou, in his Supplement, says that the following old stanza, though imperfect, is used in Fife. " In the month of Averil, The gawk comes o'er the hill, In a shower of rain ; And on the - of June, He turns his tune again." AWN, ) . . ,T ' Own. AAN, ) " This house, these grounds, this stock is all mine awne." Sad Shep. 2. To visit. " He nivver awns us ;" i. e. he never visits nor calls upon us. AWNS, Beards of corn. S. G. agn. AWR, Our. AX, To ask. A. S. axian. " If he nre a fish, wole he gcve him an eddrc." Malt. 7, Wwlif. 2. To publish banns in the church. AX'D OUT, Published three times in the church. AXETH, Asketh. " And in this wise his law taxeth, That what man his daughter axeth." Gower. " Butforthou arest why labouren we." Cham.. Fr. Ta!r. AXING, Asking. " And he axynye a poyntel." Wlclif. " Be your axyngls knowceil to God." Philip. Idem. AXXLE-TOOTH, ASSLE-TOOTH, A grinder. Isl. jaxle, dens molaris, situated near the axis of the jaw. There is another word of the same signification, and probably more ancient than this, mentioned by Verstegan, though I do not recollect to have heard it in Craven. " The syd teeth, he remarks, are called wang teeth. Before the use of seals was in England, divers writings had the wax of them bitten with the wang-tooth of him that passed them," which was' also therein ment...« less