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20 TH£ DIALECT OF Baskers, a name applied to those who drive game from the cover for those employed iu the amusement of hattue abooting. Buttershiye (pronounced huttershauve)^ a slice of bread and butter. Halliwell gives 'buttershag' in the same sense. Treacle$hive {gh traiklshauv) explains itself. These are oommon sayings : ' No thank ye has lost mony a gooid hvMershauv ; ' ' There's neer been no gooid doins since thumb huUershauvB went daan.' Butty (pronounced hootty ; gl, buot'i), being in league witL If two men engage to deceive a third, they are huUy, ^e word in some dialects means a companion. BuBf to empty a bottle ; to drink off. Buzz, to rush out, or against Perhaps the same as Bosk in one of its meanings. A person who should run against another in the street would ' hmz agen him.' Buzz, to force out ; perhaps the same as Bosk. At the time when the first organ was put up in Ahnondbury church, in order to make room for it several pews were required, one of which the occupants were unwilling to surrender. It was suggested by a member of the conmiittee that the organ should be built over the refractory parties, and, added he, * we mun huzz *em aat.' Of course it is quite possible he might intend to employ the word hwsz solely in allusion to the sound of the instrument, for it is certaiuly so a^phed sometimes. Jonathan Martin, incendiary of York Mmster, in his defence said, ' The organ then made such a buzzing noise, I thought, "Thou shall buzz no more; HI have thee down to-night." ' Buzzard, properly a moth, not a butterfly. Buzzer, a kind of whistle used in the mills to caU the hands together, &c. ; also to give alarm of fire. The noise is hoarser than that of the ordinary wlusUa By^ sometimes curiously used with the omission of the noun follow- ing ; oRy *by the school breaks up,* i. e. by [the time when] the school, &o. Byname, a nickname. See Preface, ' Nicknames.' Byset, a channel cut in the road to take off the water. The letter c coming before I is supposed to have the sound of i; thus dear is Uear. Only one such word, however, has been ^ven to me, which will be mentioned in its proper place ; but I see m some publications the same form continually recurring. Ch at the end of a word is frequently pronounced hard ; thus, birch is birkf perch is pi&rh, reach is rake^ screech is akreek or Bkrikcj speech is speek or epeyk; also formerly cAt^cA was kirk, as is manifest from Kirk Burton, Kirk Heaton, ITtrMees — names of places near; and