QUITTANCE [kweet 'uns], sb. Acquittance; receipt. Less com. than quitment.

I showed'n the quittance in his own handwritin'.

QUITANCE: an Acquittance, release, discharge.—Cotgrave.

QVYTAUNCE. Acquietancia, apoca.—Promp. Parv.

vor wiðute cwitaunce, up of his prisun nis non inumen-Ancren Riwle, p. 126. QUIZ OUT [kwúz aew't], v. t. To pry; to try to find out. Her on't be very long 'vore her'll quiz it all out.

QUOD [kwaud], sb. Common cant term for gaol. Always used with in. Recent importation.

Her man's in quod for taking Farmer Jones's ducks.

R

R. The sound represented by this letter has been pronounced by Mr. Ellis and other phonologists to be one of the chief characteristics of South-Western speech. Upon this subject see W. S. Dial. pp. 20-27.

When followed by the sound of short u, expressed by either e, i, or u, it is very commonly transposed; as in [uurd, puur cheel, úrd, Uur chut,] red, pritchel, rid, Richard, &c.

On the other hand, it is sometimes placed before the vowel which in lit. Eng. usually precedes it; for examples see IV. S. Dial. pp. 74, 75. See also TAY-RUN.

Ac wane ni3tes cumeth longe,

And bringeth forstes stark an stronge.—Owl and Nightingale, l. 523.

Na mo the deth a wercche wranne.—Ib. 1. 564.

RABBLEMENT [rab·lmunt], sb. A mob of roughs.

I 'sure 'ee I an't a bin in no jis rabblement's 'twas up there, no, I don't know the time when.

RACE [rae'us], sb. In weaving, that part of the warp which lies up the race-board, over which the shuttle passes, forming, in fact, the under part of the 'bosom' (q. v.).

RACE-BOARD [rae'us-boo'urd], sb. In weaving, the board on which the shuttle passes backwards and forwards.

RACK [raak], v. and sb. Hunting. To break fence; the place where a deer jumps over, or through a hedge.

The impression being necessarily wider on wet than on dry ground, and still larger when racking over a fence.-Records North Devon Staghounds, p. 9.

Here the hind was seen to break over the hedge into Mr. Drake's grounds, but the few hounds who came on with her lost the scent, and we could only get one hound (Cottager) to lay on the rack.-Ib. p. 88.

Can he find the rack or place where the deer broke the fence into the wood, and where probably the slot will be visible?-Collyns, p. 79.

RACK [raak], sh. A long upright frame on which woollen cloths are stretched while drying. In the West of England Rackfield is a common field name, telling of manufactures which have long disappeared.

Down the water to Chelpham Bridge, Colley Bridge, Yeo town, Pitt Farm, Pilton Bridge into the Rack-field at Barnstaple.—Rec. N. D. Staghounds, p. 70. RACK AND RUIN [raak 'n-rùe'een], sb. Wreck and ruin; destruction.

You never zeed no jis place in all your live, the premises be all a-urnd to rack and ruin, 't'll cost a little fortin vor to put it in order.

RACKETING, RACKETY [raak'uteen], adj. 1. Noisy.

Your drashin machine's a racketing old concarn, can year'n gwain a mild off.

2. Boisterous in behaviour; fast-living; profligate. (Com.)

I don't know a more racketiner young fuller no place; he'll come to the dogs 'vore long, mark my words!

RACKLISS [raak lees], sb. Auricula. (Always.)

I sim ours be the finedest sort o' racklisses any place.

RACK UP [raak aup], v. t. To fasten up a horse with a short chain so that he cannot lie down.

See Do UP.

I've a-rack'n up eens he can't lie down, an' when I do's 'n up, 'm bye night, I'll put on thick there thing to keep 'm vrom tearin [oa f] off the bandage.

RADDEN-BASKET.

willows; a "black basket."

A large basket made of coarse unpeeled

A farm and hill in the parish of Thorverton called Raddon, is said to be so named on account of the number of willows growing there. W. H. G., Dec. 6, 1883.

RADDLE [rad·l], v. t. and i. 1. To wattle, or interweave brushwood between stakes so as to make a fence.

2. sb. The wattle or wreathing made as above.

Jan! the bullicks be a-brokt out agee-an in the turmuts, urn down and cut a thurn or two and put up a good raddle, eens mid stap 'em proper.

RADDLING [rad·leen], sb. 1. The act or operation of wreathing brushwood.

Tookt us best part of a day 'bout that there raddling, and now 'tis all a-come to doin' again.

2. The wreathing itself. Same as RADDLE.

RR

RADICAL [radikul], sb.

Reticule. (Always.) A small

covered basket, often called a radical basket.

I'll let 'ee have a brood o' they chicken next time you comes along, nif you'll bring on a radical basket long way 'ee vur to put 'em in.

RAG [rag'], v. t. To scold; to abuse.

I know'd thee'ts meet way ut; I told thee zo! I'll warn maister did rag thee down proper; and sar thee jis but right too.

RAGGED JACK [rag'ud jaak'], sb. 1. Ragged Robin. Lychnis Floscuculi.

2. Com. variety of curled or Scotch kale.

RAGGINS [rag inz], sb. Scolding; abuse.

I meet'n eens I was gwain 'ome, drunk's a pig, zo I zess' to un, s'I, thee't have thy raggins 'm bye, my hearty! but I never thort her'd vall 'pon un eens her ded.

RAGONET [rag'unut], sb. Areca nut. (Always so called.)

The vallyation of a bit o' ragonet, 'bout zo big's a [bee'un] long way zo much mort 'll zoon cure they there worms.

RAGROWTERING [rag'ruw tureen], sb. Romping; rustling

horse-play.

Es marl who's more vor Rigging or Rumping, steehopping or Ragrowtering, Giggleting, or Gambowling than thee art thysel. Ex. Scold. 1. 131. See also l. 141.

RAISE [ruy'z, raa'yz], v. t. Applied to winged game. To disturb; to startle; to cause to fly up. P. tense [roa'uzd], p. part. [u-roa uzd]. There is no distinction between raise and rise. I rosed a fine covey o' birds 'ez mornin', right in the garden, home by the vore-door.

RAKE ARTER [rae'uk aartur], v. i. To rake up the litter after the wagon, when loading hay.

Tom 'll pitch to load, an Betty her can rake arter.

In this case Betty would be spoken of as the raker arter.

RAKE OUT [rae'uk aewt], v. i. 1. To get up from bed. Applied to the sleepy, yawning state in which farm servants and others usually appear just after getting up in the morning.

Can't think hot's comin' to the young vokes. Hon I was a young man, I'd a-mowed half an acre o' grass, or a-do'd more'n a quarter day's work avore you be a raked out mornin-times.

2. Applied to fire--to extinguish; to pull all the fire out of the grate so as to put it out.

Rake out the vire and let's go to bed.

RAKE UP [rae uk aup], v. t. 1. To cover; to bury.

Come on, rake up the vire, and let's go to bed, i. e. cover the embers with ashes, so that they may keep alight. Of wood fire, an every-day saying. Coal fires are generally "raked out." At Lillington in Dorset is the following epitaph, date 1669:

Reader, you have within this grave

A Cole rakt up in dust.

His Courteous Fate saw it was Late,
And that to Bed He must.

Soe all was swept up to be kept

Alive until the day,

The Trump should blow it up and shew

The Cole but sleeping lay.

Then doe not doubt the Coles not out,

Though it in ashes lyes,

That little sparke now in the Darke

2. Also to stir up;

Will like the Phoenyx rise.

(Copied by S. Philip Unwin, Shipley, Yorkshire.)

to poke up; to rouse.

To rake up the fire (depending on tone and context) means to stir it, but in this sense roke up (q. v.) is more usual. Note difference from rake out.

RAKING [rae ukeen], sh.

Loose stalks of corn, or litter of

Ees, all in to a little rakin.

hay raked up after the main crop is loaded. Finished harvest, Mr. White?

RAKY UP [rae'ukee aup], v. i. and ref. To rouse or bestir oneself.

Come, soce! do 'ee raky up a bit; why thick there job'll take a month o' Zindays like you be gwain on.

and wi' the same tha wut rakee up and gookee.-Ex. Scold. 1. 144. Ad, thoa es rakad up, and tuck en be tha Collar.--Ex. Courtship, 1. 355.

RALLY [raal ee], v. t. I. To scold.

Her wad'n a bad sort of old ummun; but her'd a-got a bit of a tongue like-her wid rally the maaidens mind, nif there was ort aniss, an' no mistake!

2. sb. Scolding; quarrelling; vituperation.

There was a purty rally betwixt 'em, sure 'nough; they called one tother-i. e. one another-but everthing.

RAM [raam], v. t. To stuff or press together; to pack carelessly. They on't never ride like that, a-rammed in thick farshin, more 'n half o'm 'll be a spwoiled. Said of packing some apples.

RAMBLE [raaml, rarely raam bl], sb. The branch of a tree when felled. A large tree when cut down is divided into(1) The butt or stock, called timber [túm ur].

(2) The larger branches, cut off into such lengths as are worth sawing into board, called second timber [sak'un túm'ur].

(3) The crooked limbs, and such as are too large for faggot-wood; called rambles.

(4) The tops of the branches, which are bound up into faggots; these tops are called the wood [èo⋅d].

(5) The moot or stump, including all the moors or roots.

Tom

RAM-CAT [raam -kyat], sb. A tom-cat. Usual name. is "genteel" talk. In parts of Devon they say Ram-cat and Daycat. In W. Somerset it is Ram-cat and Ewe-cat [yoa'kyat].

Already has killed one Ram-cat.

1802. Peter Pindar, Great Cry and Little Wool, vol. v. p. 185. RAMES [rae'umz], sb. A skeleton; hence the mere hones, the framework; remains or remnants of anything. Also, and very generally, applied to any person or animal unnaturally thin.

Poor old rames, her's most come to a nottomy; there idn_fat enough about her vor to graice a gimlet. Said of a person.

"Reg'lar old rames" is a common description of any lean, halfstarved person or animal. Also the framework of anything when the principal part is gone; as "the rames of a gate," a very common description of part of a broken gate.

The shelf was purty high, sure 'nough; there wadn on'y the rames of a goose 'twixt vower o' us.

There's the rames of a wheelbarrow lyin' about; take an' burn out th'ire stuff, 't'll do agee-an.

RAMMEL [raam'ul], adj.

Contraction of raw-milk, applied to cheese made from the best milk, to distinguish it from skim-milk cheese.

[Wee doaun maek noa'un búd raamul cheez yuur; voaks dhút-v u-boa⚫ut aaw'ur geo'dz wau'ns, kau'mth ugee'un,] we make none but raw-milk cheese here; those who have once bought our (dairy) goods come again.

RAMMISH [raam eesh], adj. Strong in smell; rank; stinking. A ram in hot weather is one of the rankest of animals.

Thick there dog's 'ouse do smell rammish, sure 'nough, vor all I've a warsh'n an' a-clane un out proper.

And stod vp in his stomak, þat stank as þe deuel;
In vche a nok of his nauel, bot nowhere he fynde3

No rest ne recouerer, bot ramelande myre.

E. Allit. Poems, Patience (Jonah), 11. 274, 278-9.

For al the world thay stynken as a goot;
Her savour is so rammyssch and so hoot,
That though a man fro hem a mile be,
The savour wol infeste him trusteth me.

Chaucer, Prol. of the Chanounes Yeman, l. 333.