Wanchancie, unlucky, ill-omened, inauspicious.

Wanrestfu', restless, un

easy. Wark, work. Wark-lume, a tool to work with. Warl, or Warld, world. Warlock, a wizard. Warly, wordly, eager on amassing wealth. Warran, a warrant; to

warrant. Warst, worst. Warsti'd, or Warsl'd, wrestled. Wastrie, prodigality. Wat, wet: I wat, I wot,

I know. Water-brose, brose made of meal and water simply, without the addition of milk, butter, &c.

as

Wattle, a twig, a wand. Wauble,to swing, to reel. Waught, draught. Waukit, thickened, fullers do cloth. Waukrife, not apt to sleep. Waur, worse; to worst. Waur't, worsted. Wean, or Weanie, a child.

Wearie, or Weary; mo

nie a weary body, many a different person. Weason, weasand. Weaving the stocking. See Throwing the stocking, page 89.

Wee, little.

Wee things, little ones. Wee bit, a small matter. Weel, well. Weelfare, welfare. Weet, rain, wetness. Weird, fate. We'se, we shall. Wha, who. Whaizle, to wheeze. Whalpit, whelped, brought forth. Whang, a leathernstring, a peice of cheese, bread, &c; to give the strapado. Whare, where Whare'er, wherever. Whase, whose. Whatreck, nevertheless. Whaup, the curlew a kind of water-fowl. Wheep, to fly nimbly, to jerk: penny-wheep, small-beer. Whid, the motion of a hare, running but not frighted; a lie. Whidden, running as a hare or coney. Whigmeleeries, fancies, crotch

Whingin, crying, complaining, fretting. Whirligigums, useless ornaments, trifling appendages. Whirrin', whirring; the sound, made by the flight of the partridge

&c. Whisht, silence; to hold one's whisht, to be silent. Whisk, to sweep, to lash. Whiskin,large, sweeping Whiskit, lashed.

Whissle, a whistle; to whistle. Whitter, a hearty draught of liquor.

Whun-stane, a whin

stone.

Wilfu', willing, full of will.

Willyart, bashful, reser-
ved, timid.
Wimple, to meander, to
run very irregularly.
Wimpl't meandered.
Wimplin, waving, mean-
dering.

Win to wind, to winnow.
Wn't winded, as a bot-
tom of yarn.
Win', wind.
Win's, winds.
Winna, will not.
Winnock, a window.
Winsome, hearty, vaun-
ted, gay.

Wintle, a staggering motion; to stagger to reel.

Winze, an oath.

strong desire.. Withouten, without. Witless, simple, easily imposed on. Wizen'd, hide-bound, dried, shrunk. Wonner, a wonder, a contemptuous appellation. Wons, dwells, resides. Woo', wool.

Woo, to court, to make love to. Woddie, a rope, more properly one made of

withs or willows, a halter, a gallows. Wooer-hab, the garter knotted belowthe knee with a couple of loops. Wordy, worthy. Worset, worsted. Wow, an exclamation of pleasure or wonder. Wrack, to tease, to vex. Wraith, a spirit, ghost; an apparition exactly like a living person, whose appearance is said to forbode the person's approaching death. Wrang, wrong; to wrong to injure. Wreeth, a drifted heap of snow.

Writers, attorneys, law

Y.

'Ye; this pronoun is frequently used for thou. Year, is used both for singular and plural, years. Yearlings, born in the

same year, coevals. Yearns, longs much, desires earnestly. Yell, barren, that gives no milk. Yerk, to lash, to strike, to jerk. Yerkit, jerked, lashed struck. Yestreen,

yesternight, the night before. Yett, a gate, such as is usually at the entrance into a farm-yard or field.