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Fish-skin, used in New England to clarify coffee.

Fix, _a difficulty_, _a nonplus_.

Foller, folly, _to follow_.

Forrerd, _forward_.

Frum, _from_.

Fur, _far_.

Furder, _farther_.

Furrer, _furrow_.
Metaphorically, _to draw a straight furrow_ is to live uprightly
or decorously.

Fust, _first_.

G.

Gin, _gave_.

Git, _get_.

Gret, _great_.

Grit, _spirit_, _energy_, _pluck_.

Grout, _to sulk_.

Grouty, _crabbed_, _surly_.

Gum, _to impose on_.

Gump, _a foolish fellow_, _a dullard_.

Gut, _got_.

H.

Hed, _had_.

Heern, _heard_.

Hellum, _helm_.

Hendy, _handy_.

Het, _heated_.

Hev, _have_.

Hez, _has_.

Holl, _whole_.

Holt, _hold_.

Huf, _hoof_.

Hull, _whole_.

Hum, _home_.

Humbug, _General Taylor's antislavery_.

Hut, _hurt_.

I.

Idno, _I do not know_.

In'my, _enemy_.

Insines, _ensigns_;
used to designate both the officer who carries the standard, and the
standard itself.

Inter, intu, _into_.

J.

Jedge, _judge_.

Jest, _just_.

Jine, _join_.

Jint, _joint_.

Junk, _a fragment of any solid substance_.

K.

Keer, _care_.

Kep, _kept_.

Killock, _a small anchor_.

Kin', kin' o', kinder, _kind_, _kind of_.

L.

Lawth, _loath_.

Let day-light into, _to shoot_.

Let on, _to hint_, _to confess_, _to own_.

Lick, _to beat_, _to overcome_.

Lights, _the bowels_.

Lily-pads, _leaves of the water-lily_.

Long-sweetening, _molasses_.

Loon, _the northern diver_.

M.

Mash, _marsh_.

Mean, _stingy_, _ill-natured_.

Min', _mind_.

N.

Ned, a slang phrase, going it like Ned, equivalent to our 'going like
old Harry.'

Nimepunce, _ninepence_, _twelve and a half cents_.

Nowers, _nowhere_.

O.

Offen, _often_.

Ole, _old_.

Ollers, olluz, _always_.

On, _of_;
used before _it_ or _them_, or at the end of a sentence, as _on 't_,
_on 'em_, _nut ez ever I heerd on_.

On'y, _only_.

Ossifer, _officer_ (seldom heard).

P.

Peaked, _pointed_.

Peek, _to peep_.

Pickerel, _the pike, a fish_.

Pint, _point_.

Pocket full of rocks, _plenty of money_.

Pooty, _pretty_.

Pop'ler, _conceited_, _popular_.

Pus, _purse_.

Put out, _troubled_, _vexed_.

Q.

Quarter, _a quarter-dollar_.

Queen's arm, _a musket_.

R.

Resh, _rush_