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ALMONDBURT AND HUDDERSFIELD. 57 Oood, pronounced goaid. A clerical friend, in his house-to-house visitation, found a boy suffering from a retention of water. The mother, who was a Methodist, had heard say that a borrowed Common Prayer Book was gooid for it. She put it into his * coit pocket and ligged it oyyer him i' bed.' The boy got well. Good few (pronounced gooid faoo)^ means sevend, or a good many. Oood-like (pronounced gooid-lauk), adj, good-looking, or comely. Gk>w. See Ouys. Gk>wk and titling. When two persons are constantly seen in company together, the one in somewhat obsequious attendance on the other, they are said to be 'like gowk and titling,* The gowky or cuckoo, is popularly supposed to be constantly attended by a little bird of the tit species {titling). This saying is, or was, in constant use at Paddock. Graat (the pronunciation of grotd — see Aa), ah, a term applied to small beer; properly the last nmnings of the wort, or what is left in the barrel bottom. Grabber, sb. a tight-handed man. Gradelji adj. and adv. decent; decently. Ray spells the word greathlyj and gives the meaning * handsomely, towardly.' This word, though known to some here, is not much used at Almondburv, but is rather perhaps a Lancashire than a Yorkshire word. It is, however, well understood in the parts bordering on Lancashire. Gran', or Gmn', past tense of to grind. QrurC is also the past parti- ciple. Gratehoil, i. e. gratehole, sb. the hole on the hearth into which the ashes are drawn. See Assnook. ChrSftse (pronounced gredz; gl. gri'h'z), to flatter. Grease in with, vb. to endeavour to gain the friendship of any one by flattery. Greasy, adj. flattering. See Slant Great, pronounced gret^ and formerly get Perhaps this was the first word actually noticed by me m Almondbury itself, through which village I was one day walking, before my appointment to the Ghrammar School, with the then resident master, about 1846. We met a butcher, to whom he said, ' L9 it Halifax get fair to-day P ' ' What is get fair 9 ' said L * Oh, it means great fair, but that^s the way they say it.' Oret, however, is mubh more common now. For the dropping of the r see Letter K. Greensance, the plant Sorrel, Rumex acetosa, called also by some soar ^OM (sour grass), much used formerly as a sauce with meat, especially veaL When the Be v. J. Paine entered on the occupancy of Woomand's Grove, Dewsbury Moor, about 1829, there was m the