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Nov. 25th, 2008 12:07 amfasti: (n) 1. In Roman Antiquity: A calendar or calendars, indicating the lawful days for legal business, and also the festivals, games, anniversaries of historical events, etc., connected with each day of the year; especially consular fasti (L. fasti consulares): the register of the events occurring during the official year of a pair of consuls; the series of such registers.
2. A chronological register of events; annals, chronological tables or lists of office-holders.
hodden: (n) 1. Woollen cloth of a coarse quality such as used to be made by country weavers on their hand-looms.
2. hodden grey: Grey hodden, made without dyeing, ‘by mingling one black fleece with a dozen white ones’. Applied to the ‘cloth worn by the peasantry, which has the natural colour of the wool'. Hence often taken as the typical garb of homely rusticity. Originally a poetic inversion of grey hodden, used for rime's sake by Ramsay in a well-known passage, whence also in Burns, which has thence become a stock phrase, the two words being often hyphened, as if ‘hodden’ were a qualification of ‘grey’, or ‘hodden-grey’ were a colour.
poke: (n) 1. A bag, now especially a paper bag; a small sack; a beggar's bundle. Also: a bagful.
2. Originally: a small bag or pouch worn on the person. Later: a pocket in a person's clothing.
3. A purse, a wallet; a pocketbook; A roll of banknotes; money; a supply or stash of money.
4. The funnel-shaped opening of a fish-trap.
5. A bag-shaped fishing net, a purse net.
6. A long full sleeve.
7. The stomach, esp. of a fish; (also) the swim bladder of a fish.
8. More fully Bavarian poke. A goitre.
9. An oedematous swelling on the neck of a sheep, caused by infection with liver flukes (fascioliasis); the disease fascioliasis.
10. In Whaling: A bag or bladder filled with air, used as a buoy or float.
11. A projecting brim or front of a hat or bonnet; the peak of a cap.
12. A detachable brim attached to a bonnet to shade the wearer's face;
13. A kind of hood or peaked hat.
14. A plant (of uncertain identity) used by North American Indians for smoking; the dried leaves of this plant. Plants with which poke has been identified include a lobelia (Lobelia inflata), pearly everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea), and wild tobacco (Nicotiana rustica), all also called Indian tobacco.
15. More fully Virginia poke, Virginian poke. Pokeweed, Phytolacca americana. Also (with distinguishing word): any plant of the genus Phytolacca.
16. In full Indian poke. White hellebore, Veratrum viride.
17. The action of poking (in various senses).
18. In Cricket, A stroke made by jabbing or poking at the ball rather than by swinging the bat; In Baseball, A hit; (also) a ball that has been hit.
19. An act of sexual intercourse; a woman considered as a sexual partner.
20. Power, especially (in a car or other vehicle) horsepower; strength, vigour.
21. An act of searching, rummaging, or prying.
22. A yoke or collar (often with a pole attached, which projects forward and downward) put round the neck of an animal to prevent it from breaking through or jumping over fences.
23. A slow or lazy person, a dawdler; a fool.
24. The green heron, Butorides striatus. Also: the American bittern, Botaurus lentiginosus.
oedematous: (adj) Of the nature of oedema; affected or characterized by oedema; of or relating to oedema.
oedema: (n) Originally: a fluid-filled tumour or swelling. Now: the localized or generalized accumulation of excessive fluid in tissues or body cavities. Freq. with distinguishing word indicating the site, nature, etc. of the oedema.
bannock: (n) 1. The name, in Scotland and north of England, of a form in which home-made bread is made; usually unleavened, of large size, round or oval form, and flattish, without being as thin as ‘scon’ or oat-cake. In Scotland, bannocks are usually of barley- or pease-meal, but may be of wheaten flour; in some parts a large fruit cake or bun of the same shape is called a currant-bannock. In north of England the name is sometimes given to oat- or haver-bread, when made thicker and softer than an oat-cake; but local usage varies.
2. A small quantity of meal [sufficient to make a bannock] due to the servants of a mill by those grinding their corns or thirled thereto, ordinarily termed in charters of mills the sequels.
peasemeal: (n) Meal made from dried split peas. Also figuratively: a hotchpotch, a mess.
haver: (n) Oats.
thirl: (v) 1. To reduce to or hold in bondage or servitude; to enslave (a person, country, etc.).
2. To subject or bind to some condition.
3. In Scottish Law: To bind or astrict (lands or tenants) to a servitude, especially to a particular mill (usually that of the landlord or superior) for the grinding of their corn.
4. To mortgage (land, etc.).
5. To bind or oblige (a person) to give his work, service, or custom to one particular party.
6. To bind, confine, or restrict in service or action to (some party or thing); to tie to.
guddle: (v) 1. To gargle.
2. To guzzle.
3. To catch (fish) with the hands, by groping under the stones or banks of a stream.
4. To grope for fish in this manner.
leal: (adj) 1. Loyal, faithful, honest, true.
2. True, genuine; real, actual; exact, accurate; very (truth). Of a blow or shot: Well-aimed, hitting the mark.
3. Lawful; also, just, fair.
bawbee: (n) A Scotch coin of base silver equivalent originally to three, and afterwards to six, pennies of Scotch money, about a halfpenny of English coin; hence, in modern use, a halfpenny, a ‘copper.’
dwine: (v) 1. To waste or pine away; to decline in vigour, languish, fade, wither.
2. To cause to pine or waste away.
sourock: (n) 1. The common sorrel, Rumex acetosa; also, sheep's sorrel, R. acetosella.
2. figuratively, A sour-tempered person.
fash: (v) 1. To afflict, annoy, trouble, vex. Also, to give trouble to, bother, weary. Also reflexive, To weary, be annoyed; to bother or trouble oneself; to take trouble.
gaberlunzie: (n) 1. A strolling beggar or mendicant. Also, a beadsman: A public almsman or licensed beggar.
2. The trade or calling of gaberlunzie.
cottar: (n) 1. Sometimes used to translate medieval Lating cotarius, applied in Domesday Book to a villein who occupied a cot or cottage with an attached piece of land (usually 5 acres) held by service of labour (with or without payment in produce or money).
2. A peasant who occupies a cot-house or cottage belonging to a farm (sometimes with a plot of land attached), for which he has (or had) to give or provide labour on the farm, at a fixed rate, when required.
3. A peasant, especially in the Highlands, who occupies a cottage and rents a small plot of land under a form of tenure similar to that of the Irish cottier.
cottier: (n) 1. A peasant who lives in a cot or cottage; a cottager; orig. a villein who occupied a cottage; a ‘cotset’, ‘cottar’ or ‘coterell’.
2. Specifically, in Ireland: a peasant renting and cultivating a small holding under a system hence called cottier tenure. The main feature of this system was the letting of the land annually in small portions directly to labourers, the rent being fixed not by private agreement but by public competition; recent legal and political changes have rendered this practice obsolete.
3. A small farmer cultivating his parcel of land by his own labour.
4. The tenancy of the Irish cottier; by an Act of Parliament of 1860 defined as tenancy of a cottage and not more than half an acre of land, at a rent not exceeding £5 a year.
2. A chronological register of events; annals, chronological tables or lists of office-holders.
hodden: (n) 1. Woollen cloth of a coarse quality such as used to be made by country weavers on their hand-looms.
2. hodden grey: Grey hodden, made without dyeing, ‘by mingling one black fleece with a dozen white ones’. Applied to the ‘cloth worn by the peasantry, which has the natural colour of the wool'. Hence often taken as the typical garb of homely rusticity. Originally a poetic inversion of grey hodden, used for rime's sake by Ramsay in a well-known passage, whence also in Burns, which has thence become a stock phrase, the two words being often hyphened, as if ‘hodden’ were a qualification of ‘grey’, or ‘hodden-grey’ were a colour.
poke: (n) 1. A bag, now especially a paper bag; a small sack; a beggar's bundle. Also: a bagful.
2. Originally: a small bag or pouch worn on the person. Later: a pocket in a person's clothing.
3. A purse, a wallet; a pocketbook; A roll of banknotes; money; a supply or stash of money.
4. The funnel-shaped opening of a fish-trap.
5. A bag-shaped fishing net, a purse net.
6. A long full sleeve.
7. The stomach, esp. of a fish; (also) the swim bladder of a fish.
8. More fully Bavarian poke. A goitre.
9. An oedematous swelling on the neck of a sheep, caused by infection with liver flukes (fascioliasis); the disease fascioliasis.
10. In Whaling: A bag or bladder filled with air, used as a buoy or float.
11. A projecting brim or front of a hat or bonnet; the peak of a cap.
12. A detachable brim attached to a bonnet to shade the wearer's face;
13. A kind of hood or peaked hat.
14. A plant (of uncertain identity) used by North American Indians for smoking; the dried leaves of this plant. Plants with which poke has been identified include a lobelia (Lobelia inflata), pearly everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea), and wild tobacco (Nicotiana rustica), all also called Indian tobacco.
15. More fully Virginia poke, Virginian poke. Pokeweed, Phytolacca americana. Also (with distinguishing word): any plant of the genus Phytolacca.
16. In full Indian poke. White hellebore, Veratrum viride.
17. The action of poking (in various senses).
18. In Cricket, A stroke made by jabbing or poking at the ball rather than by swinging the bat; In Baseball, A hit; (also) a ball that has been hit.
19. An act of sexual intercourse; a woman considered as a sexual partner.
20. Power, especially (in a car or other vehicle) horsepower; strength, vigour.
21. An act of searching, rummaging, or prying.
22. A yoke or collar (often with a pole attached, which projects forward and downward) put round the neck of an animal to prevent it from breaking through or jumping over fences.
23. A slow or lazy person, a dawdler; a fool.
24. The green heron, Butorides striatus. Also: the American bittern, Botaurus lentiginosus.
oedematous: (adj) Of the nature of oedema; affected or characterized by oedema; of or relating to oedema.
oedema: (n) Originally: a fluid-filled tumour or swelling. Now: the localized or generalized accumulation of excessive fluid in tissues or body cavities. Freq. with distinguishing word indicating the site, nature, etc. of the oedema.
bannock: (n) 1. The name, in Scotland and north of England, of a form in which home-made bread is made; usually unleavened, of large size, round or oval form, and flattish, without being as thin as ‘scon’ or oat-cake. In Scotland, bannocks are usually of barley- or pease-meal, but may be of wheaten flour; in some parts a large fruit cake or bun of the same shape is called a currant-bannock. In north of England the name is sometimes given to oat- or haver-bread, when made thicker and softer than an oat-cake; but local usage varies.
2. A small quantity of meal [sufficient to make a bannock] due to the servants of a mill by those grinding their corns or thirled thereto, ordinarily termed in charters of mills the sequels.
peasemeal: (n) Meal made from dried split peas. Also figuratively: a hotchpotch, a mess.
haver: (n) Oats.
thirl: (v) 1. To reduce to or hold in bondage or servitude; to enslave (a person, country, etc.).
2. To subject or bind to some condition.
3. In Scottish Law: To bind or astrict (lands or tenants) to a servitude, especially to a particular mill (usually that of the landlord or superior) for the grinding of their corn.
4. To mortgage (land, etc.).
5. To bind or oblige (a person) to give his work, service, or custom to one particular party.
6. To bind, confine, or restrict in service or action to (some party or thing); to tie to.
guddle: (v) 1. To gargle.
2. To guzzle.
3. To catch (fish) with the hands, by groping under the stones or banks of a stream.
4. To grope for fish in this manner.
leal: (adj) 1. Loyal, faithful, honest, true.
2. True, genuine; real, actual; exact, accurate; very (truth). Of a blow or shot: Well-aimed, hitting the mark.
3. Lawful; also, just, fair.
bawbee: (n) A Scotch coin of base silver equivalent originally to three, and afterwards to six, pennies of Scotch money, about a halfpenny of English coin; hence, in modern use, a halfpenny, a ‘copper.’
dwine: (v) 1. To waste or pine away; to decline in vigour, languish, fade, wither.
2. To cause to pine or waste away.
sourock: (n) 1. The common sorrel, Rumex acetosa; also, sheep's sorrel, R. acetosella.
2. figuratively, A sour-tempered person.
fash: (v) 1. To afflict, annoy, trouble, vex. Also, to give trouble to, bother, weary. Also reflexive, To weary, be annoyed; to bother or trouble oneself; to take trouble.
gaberlunzie: (n) 1. A strolling beggar or mendicant. Also, a beadsman: A public almsman or licensed beggar.
2. The trade or calling of gaberlunzie.
cottar: (n) 1. Sometimes used to translate medieval Lating cotarius, applied in Domesday Book to a villein who occupied a cot or cottage with an attached piece of land (usually 5 acres) held by service of labour (with or without payment in produce or money).
2. A peasant who occupies a cot-house or cottage belonging to a farm (sometimes with a plot of land attached), for which he has (or had) to give or provide labour on the farm, at a fixed rate, when required.
3. A peasant, especially in the Highlands, who occupies a cottage and rents a small plot of land under a form of tenure similar to that of the Irish cottier.
cottier: (n) 1. A peasant who lives in a cot or cottage; a cottager; orig. a villein who occupied a cottage; a ‘cotset’, ‘cottar’ or ‘coterell’.
2. Specifically, in Ireland: a peasant renting and cultivating a small holding under a system hence called cottier tenure. The main feature of this system was the letting of the land annually in small portions directly to labourers, the rent being fixed not by private agreement but by public competition; recent legal and political changes have rendered this practice obsolete.
3. A small farmer cultivating his parcel of land by his own labour.
4. The tenancy of the Irish cottier; by an Act of Parliament of 1860 defined as tenancy of a cottage and not more than half an acre of land, at a rent not exceeding £5 a year.
