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76 HAMPSHIRE QLOSSABT. Bouse-about [rooz-ubout], adj. bustling. Ex. 'Mm. Jonea ia a. route^dbout womlin.' — J, Bowen and Bowet [roa'un, roanit], sh. winter grass. — ^lasle. Bowings [roa'ingz], sh. pJ, the latter pasture, which springs up after the mowing of the first crop. — Cooper. Bubbage [rub*j], sb, rubbish. Bubble [rubi], sb, rubbish. Bubble [rub *1], v. to remove the gravel, which is deposited, in the New Forest, in a thick layer over the beds of clay or marL — ^Wiae, New Forest. Bubblin [rub-lin], sb. the gravel over the marl or day. — ^Wise^ New Forest. Budder [rud*ur], sb. a riddle, a sieve. — ^W. Buddley [rud*li], adj. stained with iron nist Ex. 'They drain-tiles we took up was all full of ruddley stuff,' i. e. mould imprecated with, . iron. Sometimes incorrectly pronounced ruggley. — W. l£ 0. Bue [roo], sb. a row ; a hedge-row. — Cooper. Buffittory [ruf-utori], adj. rude, boisterous. — F. Ml Buggley. See Buddley. Bug-stick [rug-stik], sb. a bar in a chimney, on which hangs the cotterel (or iron-scale or c^ane, as it is also called) to which the kettle or pot is faatened. Called also %-«<icA;.— Wise, New Forest, Bum [rum] , adj. eccentric, queer ; as, *a rum oV feller.' — Cooper. Com. Bumbustical [rumbustikl], adj. blusterous in manners, bustling, pushing, and incommoding others. — Cooper. Used also of an un- manageable horse. — ^N. H. Bumpled-skein [rum*puld-skain], sb. anything in confusion ; a dis- agreement. *Ak. Bnmmey [rum*i], adj. queer, eccentric. See Bum. — N. H. Bung [rung], sb. the cross-rail or step of a ladder. — ^N. H. Busty [rust-i], adj. restive. ♦Ak. Buz [ruks], r. a. to stir, or shake. As * to rtw? it out.'— K BL Saaoe [saas], sb. sauciness, impertinence. *Ak. Sabbed [sabd], pp. saturated with water or liquor.— Cooper. Safe [saif], adj. sure. Ex. ' Safe to die.' N. and Cl 1st Ser. x. 120.— HaL Certain. Ex. ' I'm safe to be there myself.* Sag [sag], V. to bulge.— J. Rather to bulge downwards.— W. W. S. Salt-cat [sault-kat], «&.^(1)^A mixture of coarse meal, clay, and salt, with some other ingredients, placed in a dove-cot to prevent the pigeons from leaving it, and to allure others. Forby derives it from cats, i. e. cake.— F. M,