ALMONDBURT AND HUDDERSFIELD. 95 Oration^ a large number, or a long row. ' There's walls enough to build an oration of cottages for poor folk.' * Au saw an oration of people.' See Noration. 088 (pronounced os sharp), to offer, attempt, &c. Eay suggests from atMiM. [But rather from F. oaer, a derivative of austis. — ^W. W. S.]
- Au sail ne'er om ' = * I shall never attempt.' On the occasion when
Sir John Bamsden came of age, he gave several public dinners, and on passing between Loneley Hall and Huddersfield, he encountered some mill hands, lads and lasses. A lad taps a lass on the shoulder, and she says, * Drop it, lad ; Au want none o' thi bother.' The lad, * Au'm noan baan to mell on thee.' ' Well, but tha were oasin,* Sir John was much exercised with this, and took it up at the dinner, where he found plenty of his guests able to restore the dialogue to its beauty, and explain its meaning. OssingSy the name of a field : probably oxlnga. See Aise. Othersome, t. e, others : very common. Sometimes used even in the pluraL 0il8e, formerly used for ox. See Letter X, and Ossings. Occurs in The Death of Farcy Beed, ver. 20 :
- turn thee, turn thee, Willie Ha',
turn thee, man, and fight wi' me. When ye come to Troughend again, A yoKe o' oivsen I'll gie thee.' Again in TJie Fray o' Suporty ver. 1 : ' Nought lefb me o' four and twenty good ousen and ky. My weet-iidden gelding, and a white quey.' 0nt-tre68, cross pieces of wood which support the material of a door. On-wher, or Awer, anywhere. ' Tha'U nooan faund (find^ it awei' near theer.' They say also nower for nowhere, a word which seems closer to its equivalent. Oven is pronounced 0*0171, as in room. See Letter V. Overlade (pronounced ovverlade ; gl, ovurlaid), sick ; troubled ; over-burdened. It is a corruption of overled. To overlead in Old English means to oppress. [' Shal neither kynge ne kn^te, constable ne meire Overlede the oomime,' &c. (t. e. oppress the commons). Piers Flouman, B. text, 3. 314.— W. W. S.] Owler, or Oler {gl. oul'ur, or oal'ur), the alder tree, Alnus glutinosa. Owlet (pronounced ullet; gl. ul'et), the owl.
