The Dialect of Craven Author:William Carr Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BITCH-DAUGHTER, Night mare. There is no tra dition to explain the meaning of this curious word. BI'T LEDDY, By the Virgin Mary. BI'TMESS, BITE, A mouthful,... more » " gimme a bite o' breeod," a word in daily use, though Dr. Jamieson in his Supplement says, it is not used in English in this sense. Isl. bite, bucca. BLAA, Blue, hence blaa-berries. Dr. Willan. BLACK-AVIZED, Dark countenanced. " A black-avixed and dapper fellow Nor lean, nor overlaid wi' tallow." A. Ramsay. BLACK-BITCH, A gun. BLACK AND BLUE, Excessively, " he caud me black and blue." BLACK-FROST, Frost without rime. BLACK-OUSEL, Black bird. BLACK- WATTE R, Phlegm or black bile on the stomach. 2. A disease in sheep, very rapid, and frequently fatal. BLACK-SETTERDAY, The first Saturday after the old twelfth day, when a fair is annually held at Skipton. I believe the name is confined to a portion only of this Deanery. On this day also many parishes, of which the Prior and Canons of Bolton Abbey were the impropriators, pay their tithe rent. It is not improbable but that, from this circumstance, the day has received its appellation, particularly as the Receivers were black Canons of St. Augustine. BLACK-SPICE, The fruit of the bramble. BLACK AND WHITE, Put it down i black and white, a common phrase for writing it down. BLAIN, To blanch, to whiten. BLAKE, Yellow. Belg. bleed; pale. " The butters feaful blake." The yellow bunting (emberiza citri- nella) is in some places called a blakeling. Isl. blur. " Blake autumn." Chatlerton vul. Brockett. BLANCH-FARM, An annual rent paid to the Lord of the Manor, by various possessors of land in this Deanery. Spelman thinks it was so called to distinguish it from Black-mail (hoc est census vel firma nigra.) The blanch farm argento quasi cens...« less