HAMPSHIRE GLOSSARY. 29 Elmin [el*mun], adj. made of elm. Also sh * an ehnin tree/ an elm- tree. *Ak. As an adjective it should, no doubt, be spelt Elmen ; as
- Oaken/ * Beecben/ * Gblden,' &c.— V. H. 0.
Emmet [em*ut], sb, an ant, — Wise. Enjuet-hnmps [em'ut-bumps], 8h. pi. anthills. — ^Wise. Empt [empt], v, a. to empty, to void, to pour out. *Ak. Ei^joy [enjoi*], v. to thrive, to grow freely. Used of plants. Ex.
- They oaks do seem to enjoy the'selve&'— N. H.
Erishes [er-ishuz], sb, pi, stubble. — N. H. Ershe [ursh], ab, stubble. — ^Lisle. See Eriahes. Eten-bird [ee*tn-burd], little, sb, the wryneck. * Known in the New Forest as the ** Little Eten bird," and from its cry the " Weet- bird." '—Wise, New Forest, p. 310. See also Barley-bird and Fell- ing-bird. Ether [edhnir], sb, a piece of pliant underwood wound between the stakes of a new-made hed^e. — Cooper. They speak of an ^ ether'- hedge,' t. e, a hedge made hke a hurdle. — Wise. From A.S. eder^ a hedge. "^Ak. In a ' stake and ether hedge,' the stake is the upright, the ether the horizontal twisted rod. ' When you intend to stock a pool with carp or tench, make a close ethering hedse, across the head of the pool, about a yard distance off the dam, and about three feet above me water.' — liowlker, qu. in leaak Walton, pt i. ch. 20. Ether [edh-url, v. to bind hedges with flexible rods called ethers, — Wise, New Forest, p. 193. Eve-jar [eev-jaa], sb. the goat-sucker. See Packeridge. Evet. See Effet Eye [ei], sb. ' A light eye, a break in the clouds. — ^Wise. Eyoty [ei'uti], adj. like an eyot or island. Ex. ' That eyoty pieca near the fori' — N. H. Fag [fag], V. to reap oats. — N. and Q. 1st Ser. 400. Com cut with the sickle is said to he fagged. — Wise. Faggot [fag'ut], sb, a ' trimmed * bundle of fire-wood. ♦Ak. See Bavin. The word faggot is never used in North Hants ; * bavin ' is the term universally employed. — W. H. 0. Faggot [fag'ut], sb. a term of reproach [to a female] — J. Faggots [fag'utz], sb. pil. a savoury mess of liver and onions. — J. Fairy-butter [fair-i-but-ur], sb. Tremella. — J. T. Nostoe'i Fairy's Bath [fairdz-baath], sb. Peziza cocdriea. — J. Fall [faul], sb. the time of cutting timber. — Cooper. Fall [faul], sb. a valley.— F. M.
