A Glossary of Provincial Words & Phrases in use in Somersetshire Part 17

Quar _v._ to coagulate--applied to milk in the breast

Quarrel, Quarrey _s._ a pane of gla.s.s

Quat _adj._ full, satisfied

Queane _s._ a little girl, a term of endearment

Queest, Quisty _s._ a wood-pigeon or blue-rock. A quarish queest _s._ a queer fellow

Quilled, or Queeled _adj._ withered, as gra.s.s

Quine _s._ a corner (Fr. _coin_)

Quirk, Quirky _v._ to complain, to groan, grunt

Quat, or Aquat _adj._ sitting flat, like a bird on its eggs to quat _v.n._ to squat (It. _quatto_)

Qwerk _s._ the clock of a stocking

Rade, or Rede _s._ part of the tripe or stomach of a bullock, the maw

Raening _adj._ thin, applied to cloth

Raft-up _v._ to disturb from sleep

Rain-pie _s._ woodp.e.c.k.e.r, yuckle

Rake _v.n._ to rouse up

Rally _v._ to scold

Ram _v._ to lose, by throwing a thing beyond reach

Rammel _adj._ (raw milk), applied to cheese made of unskimmed milk

Rams-claws _s. p._ crow's foot

Rampsing _adj._ tall

Range _s._ a sieve

Rangle _v._ to twine, move in a sinuous manner

Rangling Plants _s._ such as entwine round other plants, as hops, woodbine

Rap _v._ to exchange

Rape _v._ to scratch

Rare _adj._ raw, or red, as meat

Rasty, Rusty _adj._ rancid, gross, obscene

Ratch _v._ to stretch

Rathe, Rather early, soon Milton: "the rathe primrose"

Rathe-ripe _s._ an early kind of apple; also a male or female that arrives at full maturity before the usual age

Raught _part._ and _past tense_ reached, ex. E' raught down his gun

Rawn _v.a._ to devour greedily

Rawning-knife _s._ the large knife with which butchers clear their meat; cleaver

Rawny _adj._ thin, meagre

'Ray _v.a._ to dress. Unray to undress

Read, Reed _v._ to strip the fat from the intestines

Reads.h.i.+p, or Retchup, Rechip, Rights.h.i.+p _s._ truth, dependence, trustworthiness

Ream _v.a._ to widen, to open, to stretch _s._ an instrument or tool for widening a hole (generally used for metals) _v.n._ to bear stretching. Reamy _adj._

Reams, Rames _s. pl._ the dead stalks of potatoes, &c.; skeleton (Query Remains)

Re-balling _s._ the catching of ells with earthworms (yea.s.ses) attached to a ball of lead

Reed _s._ wheat-straw prepared for thatching (w. of Parret)

Reen, or Rhine _s._ watercourse, or d.y.k.e; an open drain

Reeve _v.n._ to shrivel up, to contract into wrinkles

Remlet _s._ a remnant

Reneeg _v._ to withdraw from an engagement (Lat. _renegare_) (Shaksp.

Ant. and Cleop. i. 5)

Rere-Mouse _s._ a bat (A S _hrere-mus_)

Revel-twine _s._ same as Hevel-twine

Revesse _s._ the burden of a song, from _vessey_, _v._ to make verses

Rew _s._ row _v._ to put gra.s.s in rows