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ALLICAMPANE, sb. the herb elecampane. The accent is on the last syllable as in 'champagne.' The first syllable is sounded as in alley. Some verses were sung in which this word occurred, but I cannot now recover them.
ALL THERE, adv. of competent understanding.
- 'He's not all there' means that he is not quite in his senses.
ALLYS, adv. always.
ALMS HILL, near Whirlow. O. M.
- Mr. Furness, of Whirlow, tells me that he has always known this place as Holms Hill. Alms is a modern corruption. There is a brook at the foot of the hill.
AMANG, prep. among.
AMANG-HANDS, prep. and adv. amongst or between ourselves; also between whiles.
AMERICA, the name of a field in Dore, and also in Cold-Aston.
- The one in Cold-Aston is said to have been so called on account of its remoteness from the village.
AN', conj. and.
AN' ALL, adv. and all, also.
- Hunter quotes a stanza from James Montgomery without giving the reference:—
- 'Recovering he found himself in a warm bed,
- And in a warm fever an' all.'
ANGER, v. to vex, irritate.
ANGERUM.
- 'Great Angerum wherein are coale pitts,' in Ecclesfield.—Harrison.
- 'Angram Close and Barn,' in Ecclesall, anno 1807. There is Hangeram Lane near Whiteley Wood. William Ingram of Bradfield is mentioned in the Poll Tax Returns for 1379, p. 34. Cf. Angram near Kettlewell, in the West Riding. Stratmann gives angrom, 'angustia,' a narrow place. See INGRE DOLE.
ANKER, sb. the tongue of a buckle.
ANLEY MEADOWS, fields in Sheffield. Harrison.
ANNIS FIELD, in Ecclesfield.
- Harrison several times mentions 'Annis field' and 'Annat field' in Ecclesfield, and as both forms occur there can be no doubt that the herb anise or dill is intended, 'the two carminatives being originally confounded' (New English Dictionary}. Dill was formerly much used in medicine. See Cockayne's ' Saxon Leechdoms,'passim
- 'The wonder-working dill he gets . . .
- Which curious women use in many a nice disease.'
- Drayton, Folyolbion xiii. (1613).
- See BALM GREEN and LEIGHTON.
