The Complete Works (Illustrated Edition). Elizabeth Gaskell
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1. "Nesh;" Anglo-Saxon, nesc, tender.
2. "Farrantly," comely, pleasant-looking.
3. A common Lancashire phrase.
4. "Frabbit," peevish.
5. "Clem," to starve with hunger. "Hard is the choice, when the valiant must eat their arms or clem."—Ben Jonson.
6. To "pick ower," means to throw the shuttle in hand-loom weaving.
7. "Nor," generally used in Lancashire for "than." "They had lever sleep nor be in laundery."—Dunbar.
8. "Shut," quit.
9. "Sin'," since. "Sin that his lord was twenty yere of age." Prologue to Canterbury Tales.
10. "Old Church;" now the Cathedral of Manchester.
11. "Don" is constantly used in Lancashire for "do;" as it was by our older writers. "And that may non Hors don."—Sir J. Mondeville. "But for th' entent to don this sinne."—Chaucer.
12. "Cowd," cold. Teut., kaud. Dutch, koud.
13. "Mither," to trouble and perplex. "I'm welly mithered"—I'm well nigh crazed.
14. "For he had geten him yet no benefice."—Prologue to Canterbury Tales.
15. Wicklife uses "childre" in his Apology.
16. "What concord han light and dark."—Spenser.
17. "And thay soupe the brothe thereof."—Sir J. Mandeville.
18. "They'n," contraction of "they han," they have.
19. The case, to my certain knowledge, in one churchyard in Manchester. There may be more.
20. "Lile," a north-country word for "little." "Wit leil labour to live."—Piers Ploughman.
21. "May happen," perhaps.
22. "Wick," alive. Anglo-Saxon, cwic. "The quick and the dead."—Book of Common Prayer.
23. "At after." "At after souper goth this noble king." Chaucer; The Squire's Tale.
24. "Ritling," probably a corruption of "ricketling," a child that suffers from the rickets—a weakling.
25. "Cotched," caught.
26. "Letting on," informing. In Anglo-Saxon, one meaning of "lætan" was "to admit;" and we say, to let out a secret.
27. "Reet," right; often used for "very."
28. "Rucks," a great quantity.
29. A similar use of a double negative is not unfrequent in Chaucer; as in the "Miller's Tale": "That of no wife toke he non offering For curtesie, he sayd, he n'old non."
30. "Down-lying," lying-in.
31. "Disremember," forget.
32. "Pobbies," or "pobs," child's porridge.
33. "Again," for against. "He that is not with me, he is ageyn me."—Wickliffe's Version.
34. "Baggin-time," time of the evening meal.
35. "Dree," long and tedious. Anglo-Saxon, "dreogan," to suffer, to endure.
36. "I have not been, nor is, nor never schal."—Wickliffe's "Apology,".
37. "Gloppened," amazed, frightened.
38. The fine-spirited author of "Passages in the Life of a Radical"—a man who illustrates his order, and shows what nobility may be in a cottage.
39. To "side," to put aside, or in order.
40. "Liefer," rather. "Yet had I levre unwist for sorrow die." Chaucer; "Troilus and Creseide."
41. "Forrard," forward.
42. "Frabbit," ill-tempered.
43. Vide Manchester Guardian, of Wednesday, March 18, 1846; and also the Reports of Captain Williams, prison inspector.
44. "Knob-sticks," those who consent to work at lower wages.
45. "To set," to accompany.