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1.50 THB DIALECT OF ' Baith dae and rae and hart and hind. And ot a' wild beasts great plentie : He heard the bows that Doldly ring, And arrows whidderan* him near by.' So also in Barhour*$ Bruce^ b. xyiL L 684, it is said of a stone shot from a groat engine that * it flaw out, quIieLtrand^ with a rout/ i. cl with a great noise. Woaf (no doubt the word xoauf)^ indigestive ; insipid. ' If 70a had put some pepper and salt in it, it would not ha' been so woaf J Woaf, or Woaye, a measure ten feet long, applied to the warp of a piece of doth. Wok, or W5Sk» the oak by some. Wok tree, oak tree. Others use yak, Wol&tonoB, Th' oostones, a place near Holm&rth Woolly boy, Arctia caja, a large rough caterpillar. . In other parts of England called woolly hear^ and in Cumberland hairy worm. When a woman meets one of tiiese creeping, she takes it and throws it over her head ; then she shall have the next man she meets, or one of the same name. Workened, or Wnrken'd, choked ; suffiDcated, &c. ' She made the grog so strong he wur fSairl;^ worhtn^d wi' it.' * The smell almost workerCd me.' [Bay spells this whirkened, p. 73. — W. W. S.3 Worm, pronounced worrom, or vmrrum ; gl. wuorr'm. Worsit {gl. wurs'it), t. e. worsted, the material for stockings, &c. Wot, Wote, or Wut, sometimes used for hot. * He*ll hev it if it's nother too whcft nor too heavy.' Wottle (pronounced wottil), an iron to bum holes with : perliaps connected with the preceding word. WoTyen, L 0. woven, past participle of to weave. Wraithe, or Wraive {th as in lathe), vb. and ttb. the same as wale. As a yerb, to raise a mark on the flesh by a stroke of a cane, &c; and as a substantive, the mark so made. Perhaps the word is only raithe (jgL raidh). Wrammle, to hustle, pull the hair. Might be said of a now boy at school, ' Let's wrammle him.' Wrang, wrong. Wrate, past tense of to write. Wreeght^ pronunciation of wright, for wheel«7r/|7^^. Wun, wound (of thread), past tense of to toind. Wur, was, or were. ' Aw wur just thinkin' sooa.' Wnr, sometimes used for our.