Let day-light into, to shoot. Let on, to hint, to confess, to own. Lick, to beat, to overcome. Lights, the bowels. Gump, a foolish fellow, a dul- Lily-pads, leaves of the water-lily Grouty, crabbed, surly. Gum, to impose on. lard. Gut, got. H, Long-sweetening, molasses. Hed, had. M. Mash, marsh. Heern, heard. Hellum, helm. Hendy, handy. Het, heated. Hev, have. Hez, has. Holl, whole. Holt, hold. Huf, hoof. Mean, stingy, ill-natured. Min', mind. N. Nimepunce, ninepence, twelve and a half cents. Nowers, nowhere. Pint, point. Shappoes, chapeaux, cocked-hats. Slarterin', slaughtering. Snaked, crawled like a snake; but to snake any one out is to track him to his hiding-place; to snake a thing out is to snatch it out. Soffies, sofas. Sogerin', soldiering; a barbarous amusement common among men in the savage state. Pocket full of rocks, plenty of Som'ers, somewhere. So 'st, so as that. Sot, set, obstinate, resolute. Spiles, spoils; objects of political ambition. Spry, active. Steddles, stout stakes driven into salt marshes, on which the hayricks are set, and thus raised out of the reach of high tides. Streaked, uncomfortable, discomfited. Suckle, circle. Sutthin', something. Suttin, certain. T. Riled, angry; disturbed, as the Take on, to sorrow. sediment in any liquid. Riz, risen. Talents, talons. Taters, potatoes. Row, a long row to hoe, a diffi- Tell, till. Tetch, touch. Tetch tu, to be able; used always after a negative in this sense. Tollable, tolerable. Toot, used derisively for playing on any wind instrument. Thru, through. Thundering, a euphemism common in New England, for the profane English expression devilish. Perhaps derived from the belief, common formerly, that thunder was caused by the Prince of the Air, for some of whose accomplishments consult Cotton Mather. Tu, to, too; commonly has this | Wannut, walnut (hickory). sound when used emphatically, or at the end of a sentence. At other times it has a sound oft in tough, as, Ware ye goin' tu? Goin' tu Boston. U. Ugly, ill-tempered, intractable. Uncle Sam, United States; the largest boaster of liberty and owner of slaves. Unrizzest, applied to dough or bread; heavy, most unrisen, or most incapable of rising. V. V spot, a five-dollar bill. W. Wake snakes, to get into trouble. Wal, well; spoken with great deliberation, and sometimes with the a very much flattened, sometimes (but more seldom) very much broadened. Ware, where. Whopper, an uncommonly large lie; as, that General Taylor is in favor of the Wilmot Proviso. Wig, Whig; a party now dissolved. INDEX. A. wants his axe ground, 385. Abraham (Lincoln), his constitu- Eneas goes to hell, 168. Eolus, a seller of money, as is Allsmash, the eternal, 398. American Eagle, a source of wrongly classed, 114 long Americans bebrothered, 331. Anakim, that they formerly ex- speak French, 83-conjectured to be 80. Anglo-Saxon mask, 81. Antiquaries, Royal Society of -by Antonius, a speech of, 101- Apollo, confessed mortal by his Apollyon, his tragedies popular, Alexandrian, not Ararat, ignorance of foreign Ardennes, Wild Boar of, an an- cestor of Rev. Mr. Wilbur, 295. Arms, profession of, once es- Arnold, 103. Ashland, 173. America supposed to be settled B., a Congressman, vide A. Balcom, Elder Joash Q., 2d, which most pleasant, 169. Bartlett, Mr., mistaken, 324. Beast, in Apocalypse, a loadstone Beauregard (real name Toutant), Beaver brook, 484. Beelzebub, his rigadoon, 125. Behn, Mrs. Aphra, quoted, 362. Bible, not composed for use of Biglow, Ezekiel, his letter to Hon. J. T. Buckingham, 62— Biglow, Hosea, Esquire, excited by composition, 63-a poem war, 65 wanted at home by - - letter to, ib. called "Dear - - picks his apples, 192-his |