A

GLOSSARY

OF

North Country Words,

IN USE.

FROM AN ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT,

IN THE LIBRARY OF

JOHN GEORGE LAMBTON, ESQ., M. P.

WITH CONSIDERABLE ADDITIONS.

BY

JOHN TROTTER BROCKETT, F. S. A.

LONDON AND NEWCASTLE.

Et were pity that such particulars should be lost.

Mirror for Magistrates.

Newcastle upon Tyne:

PRINTED BY T. AND J. HODGSON, FOR E. CHARNLEY.

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Les mots sont le lien des sociétés, le véhicule des lumieres, la base des sciences, les dépositaires des découvertes d'une Nation, de son savoir, de sa politesse, de ses idées: la connoissance des mots est donc un moyen indispensable pour acquérir celle des choses; de-là ces Ouvrages appellés Dictionnaires, Vocabulaires ou Glossaires, qui offrent l'étendue des connoissances de chaque Peuple.

Gebelin.

JOHN GEORGE LAMBTON, ESQ. M. P.

FOR THE COUNTY OF DURHAM,

This Glossary

IS INSCRIBED

AS A SINCERE TESTIMONY OF RESPECT FOR THE PUBLIC PRINCIPLES AND PRIVATE VIRTUES FOR WHICH HIS CHARAC

TER IS DISTINGUISHED AND REGARDED;

AND IN

KINDNESS,

BY HIS MUCH OBLIGED AND FAITHFUL SERVANT,

JOHN TROTTER BROCKETT.

Albion Place, 31st. December, 1824.

Preface.

THE elucidation of language, and the improvement of lexicography, are investigations that have occupied the attention, and engaged the pens of many men distinguished for talents and learning.

First impressions, and early associations, are difficult to remove. In our youth we are instructed to regard the Greeks and the Romans as the greatest, the wisest, and the most. polished of Nations; and to associate with the name of Goths every thing that is ignorant, barbarous, and savage. To Gothic ancestors, however, it should be remembered, we are indebted for our existence, our language, and a part-perhaps the most valuable of our laws. We should also recollect that, when these immense hordes forsook their native forests, and settled in the countries they subdued, the freedom of the individual was respected and supported. The authority he acknowledged, and the subordination he yielded, were not the will of a tyrant, or the aggrandizement of a chief; but the voice of

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