A

DICTIONARY

OF

rchaic and Provincial lords,

OBSOLETE PHRASES, PROVERBS, AND ANCIENT CUSTOMS,

FROM THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY.

BY

JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL, ESQ., F.R.S., Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy; Corresponding Member of the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries, of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, of the Archæological Society of Stockholm, and the Reale Academia di Firenze; Honorary Member of the Royal Society of Literature, of the Newcastle Antiquarian Society, of the Royal Cambrian Institution, of the Ashmolean Society at Oxford, and of the Society for the Study of Gothic Architecture; Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries; Corresponding Member of the Comité des Arts et Monuments, &c. &c.

A

DICTIONARY

OF

Archaic and Provincial Words,

OBSOLETE PHRASES, PROVERBS, AND ANCIENT CUSTOMS,

FROM THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY.

BY

JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL, ESQ., F.R.S.,

Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy; Corresponding Member of the Royal Society of Northern
Antiquaries, of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, of the Archaeological Society of Stockholm, and the
Reale Academia di Firenze; Honorary Member of the Royal Society of Literature, of the Newcastle
Antiquarian Society, of the Royal Cambrian Institution, of the Ashmolean Society at Oxford, and of the
Society for the Study of Gothic Architecture; Fellow of the Society of Antiquarics; Corresponding
Member of the Comité des Arts et Monuments, &c. &c.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL I. A-I.

Fourth Edition.

LONDON:

JOHN RUSSELL SMITH, 36, SOHO SQUARE.

MDCCCLX.