HAHPSHIBE GLOSSARY. 87 Olutch [gluchl, ». (1) to stifle a sob, — Wise, New Forest^ p. 190. (2) To swallow. •Ak. Onash [naah], adj. crude, raw. — Lisle. CtoadBman [goad'zmun], sh, the driver of an ox-team. Ex. ' Thee'st a kind-hearted goadaman as ever went to field.' — Horace Smith's New Forest. A novel 1829. ii p. 22. Ood Almighty's oolly-oow [god umeitiz koli-koul sb. the ladybird ; Coccinella Bfptempunctata ; which it is considered unlucky to kilL Hants child^n repeat this rhyme : —
- God almighty* s coUy-cow,
Fly up to heaven ; Carry up ten pound, And bring down eleven.' They also use the common rhyme, quoted in Barnes. Ood a'mighty's thumb-and-flngers, sb. Lotus corniculatus. See Fingers. ^STS^l^ [gog'l]) fib. shake, tremor. Ex. ' His head was all on a goggle^' said of a paralytick person. — N. H. Ooldoup [goa'ldkup], eb. Ranunculus bulbosus (and no doubt also R, acris and B. repens). HoUoway's Dictionary.---^. B. Cooper says — ' The meadow ranunculus.' Odd Heath [goa-ld heth] sb. Sphagnum. — J. B. Ck)ld- or Oolden-Wiihy [goa-ld, goal -dun- widhi], sb. Myrica gale.--* J. B. The bog-myrtle, or sweet gale.
- Beneath their feet, the myrtle sweet
Was stamped in mud and gore.' New Forest Ballad, by Charles Kingsley.
- It grows in all the wet places in the Forest, and is excessively sweet,
the fruit bein^ furnished with resinous glands.' — Wise, New Forest. It also grows m damp places in the fir woods and heaths in the north of the countj, in the neighbourhood where Kingsley resided. Its sweet scent is very perceptible, especially after a shower, whether it be in fruit or only in leaf, — W. H. C. Ooldweed [goa*ldweed], sb. Ranunculus arvensis. — J. B. Oomer [goa-mur], sb. (I) A pewter dish. (2) A new hat— Winch. Sch. Gl. Adams suggests * go- homer* as the aerivatiou. — Wykehamica, p. 424. Oooding [guod'ing], sb. To ' go gooding ' is when poor old women go about on St. Thomas's day to collect money for Christmas. — Wise, New Foresty p. 178. The recipients are supposed to be the wives of holders of cottages — ' goodmen,' f . e. house-holders (comp. St. Matt, xxiv. 43), and were called Goodwife or Goody. Hence the name. In old lists of Goodings of BramshiU, the recipients are all entered
- Goody so-and-so.'
Ck)08e-gog8 [goo'sgogz], sb. pi. gooseberries. — F. M.
