_en_--not _èn_--in Dorset, as well as in book English, as an ending of some kinds of words often, in running talk, loses the _e_, and in some cases shifts into a sound of the kind of the one close before it. After a lip-letter it becomes a lip-letter _m_, as Rub en, Rub-him; rub'n, rub'm; oven, ov'm; open, op'n op'm, in Dorset mostly oben, ob'n, ob'm. So after _f'_, deafen, deaf'n, deaf m, heaven, heav'n, heav'm, in Dorset sometimes heab'm. zeven, zeb'n, zeb'm. After a throat-letter it becomes a throat one, _ng_, as token, tok'n, tok'ng.
_Eltrot_, Eltroot, cowparsley (_Myrrhis_). [Elt is Freisic, robustus, vegetus, as cowparsley is among other kinds.] _See_ Bibber.
_Eve_, to become wet as a cold stone floor from thickened steam in some weather.
_Feäst_ (1, 4), a village wake or festival; _festa_.
_Flinders_, flying pieces of a body smashed; "Hit it all to flinders."
_Gnang_, to mock one with jaw waggings, and noisy sounds.
_Goodnow_, goodn'er, good neighbour; my good friend; "No, no; not I, goodnow;" "No, no; not I, my good friend."
_Grægle_, _Greygle_, the wild hyacinth, _Hyacinthus nonscriptus_.
_Ground-ash_, an ash stick that springs from the ground, and so is tough; "Ground the pick," to put the stem of it on the ground, to raise a pitch of hay.
_Hagrod_, hagridden in sleep, if not under the nightmare.
_Haïn_ (5, 1), to fence in ground or shut up a field for mowing.
_Hansel_, _Handsel_, to use a new thing for the first time.
_Happer_, to hop up as hailstones or rain-drops from ground or pavement in a hard storm, or as down-shaken apples; to fall so hard as to hop up at falling.
_Ha'skim_, halfskim cheese of milk skimmed only once.
_Haum_, _Haulm_, _Hulm_, the hollow stalks of plants. _Teätie haum_ potatoe stalks.
The steps of haymaking by hand, in the rich meadow lands of Blackmore, ere machines were brought into the field, were these:--The grass being mown, and laying in _swath_ it was (1) _tedded_, spread evenly over the ground; (2) it was _turned_ to dry the under side; (3) it was in the evening raked up into _rollers_, each roller of the grass of the stretch of one rake, and the rollers were sometimes put up into hay cocks; (4) in the morning the rollers were cast abroad into _pa'sels_ (parcels) or broad lists, with clear ground between each two; (5) the parcels were turned, and when dry they were pushed up into _weäles_ (weales) or long ridges, and, with a fear of rain, the weäles were put up into _pooks_, or big peaked heaps; the waggon (often called the _plow_) came along between two weäles or rows of pooks, with two loaders, and a pitcher on each side pitched up to them the hay of his side, while two women raked after plow, or raked up the leavings of the pitchers, who stepped back from time to time to take it from them.