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ALMONDBURY AND HUDDBRSFIELD. 107 B This letter is much elided or slurred over. Thus the proper names Armitage and Charlea are generally called Aymiiage and Chcdeaf or Chale ; so parlour, parson, and primrose are paylor, paaaon, and pimrose, [The droppmR of the r occurs in standard English in speak, inyariably used for A.o. aprScan, showing that our word should be ipreak. The r was dropped in that word aoout a.d. 1100. — ^W. W. 8.] Aeain, h is found in a few instances where r occurs in ordinaryEng- li^, as' hime for rime (hoar-firost), hush for rtMh (of wind). [This h probably represents the A.S. hr, the r being dropped. — ^W. W. S.] Sa&Y7» not fresh ; dissipated ; half washed ; unshaven ; nntrimmed. Baok, the apparatus for roasting meat Baddle, a piece of wood stuck full of pegs, haying also a top part which dona on to hold the warp while it is wound on to the beam. A porty (and sometimes half a pciiy) goes through one space in a woollen warp. Bade, past tense of to ride, for rode. See Bonnie O^orge Campbell^ Ter. 3 : ' He rode saddled and biidled, &o.| Careless and free.' BUsty, or Baisty, rusty; bad-tempered: also applied to a foul tobacoo-*pipe. Clearly the same word as ridsty, rancid. Baggabraah, a ragamufi^ — a term of reproach. HalL writes raga- brash, and Nares raggahash. Bake, or Balk, the pronunciation of reach. Bake. To rake a fire is to throw on a large quantity of coals in order to keep the fire in through the night. Yery commonly done. [So used by Chaucer, Cant. T., 3880 : ' Tet in our ashen cold is fyr i-reke,* i. e. still in our cold ashes is fire raked togethed. So the M8BSo-Gk>thio yersion of Bom. xiL 20 is practically, * Thou shalt rake (or gather together) coals of fire on his head/ where rikan is used to translate ffW^MW.— W. W. S.] Bammy, rank ; smelling like a ram. Bandy, acceneus libidine. Bange (pronounced roange ; gl. roanj). Bantipoles, eh. the game of see-saw. 'Let's lake at rantipowW Base, past tense of to rise, for rose.