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GLOSSARY.
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Wagwanton, quaking grass.
Weäse, (1, 4) a pad or wreath for the head under a milkpail.
Weäle (1, 3), a ridge of dried hay; see Haÿmeäkèn.
Welshnut, a walnut.
Werden, were not or was not.
Wevet, a spider’s web.
Whindlèn, weakly, small of growth.
Whicker, to neigh.
Whiver, to hover, quiver.
Whog, go off; to a horse.
Whur, to fling overhanded.
Wi’, with.
Widdicks, withes or small brushwood.
Winh, a winch; crank of a well.
Withwind, the bindweed.
Wont, a mole.
Wops, wasp.
ps, not sp, in Anglo-Saxon, and now in Holstein.
ps, not sp, in Anglo-Saxon, and now in Holstein.
Wotshed, Wetshod, wet-footed.
Wride, to spread out in growth.
Wride, the set of stems or stalks from one root or grain of corn.
Writh, a small wreath of tough wands, to link hurdles to the sowels (stakes).
Wrix, wreathed or wattle work, as a fence.
Y
Yop, yelp.
Z
z for s as a heading of some, not all, pure Saxon words, nor for s of in-brought foreign words.
Zand, sand.
Zennit, Zennight, seven night; “This day zennit.”
Zew, azew, milkless.
Zoo, so.
Zive, a scythe.
Zull a plough to plough ground.
Zwath, a swath.
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