THE

WEST SOMERSET WORD-BOOK.

A Glossary

OF

DIALECTAL AND ARCHAIC WORDS AND PHRASES

USED IN THE

WEST OF SOMERSET AND EAST DEVON.

BY

FREDERIC THOMAS ELWORTHY,

MEMBER OF COUNCIL OF THE PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY,

"In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold;

Alike fantastic, if too new, or old:

Be not the first by whom the new are tried,

Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."

POPE, Essay on Criticism.

London:

FOR THE ENGLISH DIALECT SOCIETY

TRÜBNER & CO., LUDGATE HILL.

R. Clay and Sons, London and Bungay.