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HAMPSHIRE GLOSSARY. 35 Furl [forll, v. to throw. Ex. ' H.e furled a geart stick at Lis head.' — J. (rrobably a xnispronunciation of HorL) Furze [fuzl, sb, Ulex eurqpcBus. — R Turner, Botanologia, 1664. — J. ff. *Ak. gives the pron. * fuz.' So pronounced, but in North Hants the Ulex is generally called Gorse. Fme-haoker [fuz-hak-ur],* sb. the bird whiuchat ; so called from its cry. — Wise, New Forest, p. 270. Furze-jack [fo^^jak], sb. the whinchat. — N. H. Fusty [f ost'i], adj, thirsty. *Ak. Chtauy [gaani], adj sticky. — N. H. Oaa cot [gaa oot], mterf. go out, go outwards ; addressed to horses in a team. The opposite to coom heddeTf come hither. *Ak. Gaby, sb. a stupid or clumsy fellow. *Ak. Com. Oaffer [gaf -ur], sb. grandfather. — Cooper. Oag [gag], V. to choke ; like a dog or cat in eating greedily. — J. Oait [gait], sb, a crotchet, a whim. ' When a person has done any- t]jing foolish, he says—*' This is a gait I have got" ' — Wise, New Forest, Oale [gail], sb, an old bull, castrated. — Grose ; Warner ; F. M. Oall [gaul], sb. a disease in the oak tree. — W. H. C. Oalley [gal'i], v, to frighten. — ^Wise, New Forest^ p. 165. *Ak. gives— ^(jrarferai, gallowed, frightened.* Chatterton has the word, which he no doubt picked up at BristoL ' List ! now the thunder's rattling noisy sound Moves slowl^r on, and then, full-swollen, clangs ; Shakes the high spire, and lost, expended, drowned. Still on the gcUlard ear of terror hanga' Chatterton' s Works, ed. Skeat, ii. 112. See also Trans, of the Phil, Soc, 1858, pt i pp. 123, 124, with refer- ence to gcUlow in Shakespeare's King Lear, iu. 2. Galley, v, a. to drive away. Ex. ' Oalley them pigs out o' the peasen.' — J. Evidently a second meaning of the same verb. Galley-baggar [gali-bag*ur], sb, a scarecrow. — Wise, New Forest^ p. 165. *Ak. ffives the form galley^crow. Evidently compounded from the preceding. Gallows [galniz], sb, a frame formed by fixing four poles, two and two, in the ground, crossed X wise, and laying another pole across, against which planks or boards are set when sawn out, to dry. — Galls [gaulz], by, interf. * By Galls ! ' an oath. — Wise. Gambril [gambrel], sb, a spreader. — J. D 2