[To Ruck, to squat down.]

Rudder or Ridder, (C.) a wide Sieve for separating Corn from

the Chaff.

Rune, (W.C.) a Water-course.

Runge, (N.C.) a Flasket.

Sackless, (N.C.) innocent.

Saurpool, (N.C.) a stinking Puddle.

(Scuttle v. Skepe.)

Scottering, (in Hereford-shire) the Custom of burning a Wad of Pease-straw, by the Boys, at the end of Harvest. Seen or Spene, (C.) a Cow's Teat or Pap. [Setter-Wort or Set-Wort, an Herb.]

Sew, (C) a Cow, when her Milk is gone.

Shack, (C.) the Liberty of Winter-Pasturage: Also a Custom in Norfolk to have Common for Hogs, from the end of Harvest till Seed-time, in all Mens Grounds.

[Shacking-Time, the Season when Mast is ripe.]

Shake-Time, (C.) the Season when Mast and such Fruits fall from Trees.

Shaw, (C.) a tuft of Trees that encompasses a Close; also a
Persian Word for a King.

Sheat or Shut,1) (C.) a young Hog: Also a kind of Fish.
To Sheer, (N.C.) to Reap.

To Shimper, (S.C.) to shine.

Shippen, (N.C.) a Cow-House.

To Shunt, (C.) to shove.

Sicery,2) (N.C.) Surely.

Sick or Sike, (N.C.) a little Water-course that is dry in Summer. A Sike, (C.), a Quillet, or Furrow.

Sizzing, (S.C.) Barm or Yest.

Skepe or Scuttle, (C.) a sort of flat and broad Basket to winnow

Corn with.

To Slat on, (N.C.) to cast on, or dash against.

To Sleech, (N.C.) to take up Water.

Slim, (in Lincoln-shire) crafty, naughty.

To Smartle away, (N.C.) to waste away.

Snag, a Knot, Knob, or Bunch: In Sussex, a Snail.

1) Bailey: saut.

2) Bailey richtig sickerly.

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Snead, Sneath or Sneed, (C.) the Handle of a Scithe.
Snithe-Wind, (in Lincoln-shire) a cutting Wind.
[Snurl, a Rheum in the Head.]
Soam, (W.C.) an Horse-load.

Souse, (C.) the Offal of Swine.

Spancel, (N.C.), a Rope to tie a Cow's hind Legs.
Speal, (N.C.) a Splinter.

Stam-wood, (C.) the Roots of Trees grubbed up.
Stang, (N.C.) a Cowl-Staff.

Start, (N.C.) a Tail or Handle.

(Stirk v. Sturk.)

Stot, (N.C.) a young Horse, or Bullock.

Stover, (C.), Straw, or Fodder for Cattel.

Stowlt,1) (C.) the Handle of any thing.

Strom, (N.C.) an Instrument to keep the Malt in the Fat. Strunt, (N.C.) a Tail, or Rump, especially of a Horse.

Stunt, (in Lincoln-shire) stubborn, angry.

Sturk or Stirk, (C.) a Young Ox, or Heifer.

Sull, (W.C.) a Plough.

[Sull-Paddle, a Tool to cleanse the Plough from the Clods of Earth.]

To Summer-stir, (C.) to fallow, or till Land in the Summer. Swale, (O.) swelled: In the North-Country, windy, bleak. Swang, (N.C.) a green Swarth, or Furrow, amidst Plough'd Land. Swathe, (N.C.) calm.

To Sweal, to melt away wastefully, as bad candles do; also a Country-Word for to sindge a Hog.

Sweanish,2) (N.C.) modest.

To Sweb, (N.C.) to swoon.

Swill, Hog-wash: In the Northern Parts, a Shade or Shadow; also a Washing-Tub with three Feet.

Swine-Hull or Swine-Crue, (C.) a Swine-Sty, or Hog-sty.
Sword-sleiper, (N.C.) a Sword-Cutler.

Tag, the point of a Lace; in Kent, a young Sheep.

To Tawn,3) (N.C.) to swoon.

To Ted, (C.) to turn, or spread new-mown Grass.

1) Bailey: Stowke.

2) Bailey richtig sweamish.

3) Bailey: Tawm.

Teen, (N.C.) angry.

Teenage, (C.) Brush-wood for Hedges or Fences.

Temese, (N.C.) a fine small Sieve.

Terns, (N.C.) large Ponds.

To Thirl, (in Lincoln-shire) to bore.

Theave, (C.) an Ewe-Lamb of the first Year.

Thrave, (C.), 24 Sheaves of Corn set up together.

To Threap or Threap down, (N.C.) to affirm positively, to persist in a Thing obstinately.

To Throw, to fling, or hurl: In the North-Countries, to work as a Turner does.

Tiching, (W.C.) a setting up of Turves to dry.

(Tidder v. Titter.)

Tike, (C.) a small Bullock, or Heifer; also a kind of Worm.

Tills, (C.) Lentils; a sort of Pulse.

Tine, (C.) the grain of a Fork.

[To Tine an Egg, is to dress it.]

Tits, (C.) small Cattel.

Titter or Tidder, (W.C.) soon, quickly.

Trugg, (C.) a Milk-Tray, a Hod to carry Mortar in: Also a kind of Measure us'd in old times, and containing about two Bushels.

Trychnos, (C.) the Herb call'd Nightshade.

Turn the Tup to ride, (C.P.) put the Ram to the Ewe, to engender.
Twinters, (in Bedfordshire) Cattel two Winters old.
Tympan, (C.) the Drum of the Ear: Also a Frame belonging

to a Printing Press, cover'd with Parchment, on which
every Sheet is plac'd in order to be printed off.

Vallor, Vallow or Vate, (Country-Word) a hollow Mould in which a Cheese is press'd.

To Vang, (in Somerset-Shire) to take or undertake.
Velling, (W.C.) ploughing up, Turf to burn.

Voor, (C.) a Furrow of Land.

Vraic, Wrack, a Sea-weed us'd for Fuel in the Islands of Jersey and Guernsey.

Vrith, (S.C.) Etherings or windings of Hedges.

To Walt, (N.C.) to overthrow, to totter or lean one way.
Wankle, (NC.) limber, fickle.

Want, (N.C.) a Mole.

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Wantey, (C.) a Sursingle, or large Girth for a Pack-Horse. War and War, (N.C.) worse and worse.

Ware your Money, (N.C.) bestow it well.

Way-bred, (N.C.) the Herb Plantain.

[Wase, a wreath of Cloth, &c. to be laid under a Vessel that is born on the Head.]

Weanel, (C.) a Young Beast newly taken off from sucking its Dam. Weel, a Bow-net to take Fish in. In Lancashire, a Whirlpool. Wence or Four Wence, (in Kent) a Place where four Roads meet and cross each other.

To Wend, (N.C.) to go.

Wheam or Wheem, (in Cheshire) so close that no Wind can enter; also convenient.

Wheamow, (N.C.) Nimble.

Wheden, (W.C.) a simple Fellow.

Wheen-Cat, (N.C.) a she Cat.

Whee, or Whey, (in Yorkshire) an Heifer, or young Cow.
Wherkened, (N.C.) Choaked.

Whisket, (C.) a Scuttle, or Basket.

White-Straits, a course Cloath made in Devonshire.

Whittle, (W.C.) a doubled Blanket which some Women wear over their Shoulders.

Widow-bench, (in Sussex) that share which a Widow is allow'd of her Husband Estate besides her Joynture.

Yare, (0.) .... In the North-Country, covetous, stingy.
To Yark, (N.C.) to prepare.

Yate or Yatt, (C.) a Gate.

Yelt, (C.) a young Sow.

Yule, (N.C.) the Festival of the Nativity of our Lord, commonly

call'd Christmas.

WÜRZBURG.

D. UND M. FÖRSTER.

KEATS' BRIEFE IN IHREM WERT FÜR DIE CHARAKTERISTIK DES DICHTERS.

Einleitung.

Um zu dem charakter eines dichters vorzudringen, bieten sich uns zwei gruppen von hilfsmitteln, die ich als 'werke' und 'material' unterscheide. Unter den werken verstehe ich der einfachheit halber, da der begriff kunstwerk streitig ist, alles, was der künstler selbst als erzeugnisse seines freien, schöpferischen geistes dem publikum vorgelegt hat, unter material zunächst alles, was der dichter sonst noch geschrieben hat, wie wissenschaftliche abhandlungen und rezensionen, briefe und tagebücher, und sodann memoiren und sonstige aufzeichnungen von freunden und zeitgenossen, erinnerungen an gespräche mit ihm usw. Es drängt sich da sogleich die frage auf, ob werk und material in gleicher weise für die kenntnis des charakters nützlich sind, oder ob man auf dem einen weg vielleicht besser und leichter zum ziele gelangt als auf dem andern. Unter dem material nehmen die briefe bei weitem den hervorragendsten platz ein, und in der hauptsache handelt es sich also um werke und briefe. Um die wertfrage zwischen beiden zu entscheiden, wollen wir zusehen, ob und wieweit die briefe mittel zur charakteristik geben, und wir lassen darauf zunächst die bisherige kritik antworten. Damit diese antwort möglichst allgemein giltig sei, halte ich mich an ein bedeutendes, mir nahe liegendes beispiel, den briefwechsel Goethe's.

Strehlke giebt in dem 2. bd. seines wertvollen und grundlegenden werkes 'Goethe's Briefe' (Berlin 1884) s. 535-542 einen hinweis auf die gesamtresultate, die aus diesen briefen zu ziehen sind. Er wehrt zunächst den hierin etwas skeptischen

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