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ALMONDBURT AND HUDDERSFIELD. 15 Botch, to mend carelessly, as 8:ud of ill-darned stockings. Botclier, a cobbler. Bothum, the pronunciation of bottom. Also used adverbiaUy. 'A bothum bad un ' is a very bad one. Bothnm^d, a word much used in quarrels, as, ' Tha' a't a bad hothum^d woman.' Bothnmest, a sort of superlative of bothum or bottom, and is pro- bably bottommost, corresponding to topmost. It may be said of a book in a pile, ' If s the bothumest of all the lot.' Bottle (of straw). See Bat < To look for a needle in a bottle of hay ' 18 a well-known proyerb. Occurs also in Midsummer Night* s Dream f Act lY. so. i., where Bottom says, * Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle of hay : good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.' Bottlebnuh, a plant otherwise called Common Spurry, or Farmer's Buin : SpergtUa arvenfiis. It has received its first name from being suitable to * fettle a bottle.' See Fettle. Another plant bears the same name—the Mare's Tail, or Hippurts vulgaris, Boulder, a round stone, called here, and at Lepton, boolder. Bout, without See Baat. Bowl, pronounced baal. See BullybaaL Bowman, the dried moisture of the nostrils. See Boggard. And also, like boggard, it means a ghost in some parts. Brabblesome, quarrelsome : not much known. Halliwell also gives ' brabble,' ' brabbler,' and other derivatives. Bracken (pronounced brachin), a kind of fern : Pteris aquilina, Bradford, often pronounced Bradforth. The pronunciation is a favourite one, and the interchange of d and th is common enough in old English. Bee Letter D. Braid, used in the form, ' to Irraid of,' t. e. to be like to, to resemble. Bay gives as a Scotch proverb, * Ye breid o' the miller's dog, ye Hck your mouth or the poke be ope.' Also to retch. Branded, perhaps the same as brinded. A term applied to express a mixture of black and fawn colour, with which cattle are sometimes marked alternately. Brandreth, or Brandrith, a frame, supported on pillars, on which oom-sta<^ are placed. In some parts a trevet is so called. Bay has it in that sense with the latter speUinjg; and to the same form Halliwell gives this meaning — ' a fence of wattles, or boards, roimd a welL' Brass, a word commonly used for money. Halliwell says, * copper coin ; ' but here it undoubtedly signifies money in general See note to Almondbury. Brast, past tense of burst.