Upsighted _s._ a defect of vision rendering a person unable to look down
Ur, Hur _pron._ he, she, or it
Urn, Hurn _v._ to run (A S _yrnan_)
Utchy _pron._ I (Ger. _ich_)
Vage, Vaze _v._ to move about or run in such a way as to agitate the air
Valch _v._ to thrust with the elbow or fist
Vang _v._ to take or catch, to receive as well as earn wages; ex. To
vang a fire, to vang money; also to stand sponsor (A S _fangen_)
Vare _s._ weasel or stoat. Vair ermine
Vare _v._ to bring forth young, applied to pigs (from farrow)
Varmint _s._ a vermin
Vaught _part._ fetched, hence the proverb
vur vaught
dear a-bought
Vawth _s._ a bank of dung or earth prepared for manure; litter of pigs
Vay, or Vie _v._ to go, to succeed, to turn out well (Fr. _va'tail_) ex.
How doe't vay wi'ye?
Veelvare, Veldevere _s._ field-fare
Vell _s._ a part of the stomach of a calf used for making cheese;
membrane
Vent, Vent-hole _s._ the wrist of a shirt, the button-hole
Verdi, Verdit _s._ opinion, ex. Thats my verdit therefor I zay 't
Vester _s._ a pin used to point out the letters to children learning to
read
Vier _s._ fire
Vig _v._ to rub gently by a quick motion of the finger forward and
backward (Dutch _ficken_)
Vinnid, Vinny _adj._ mouldy, as bread; humoursome, as a spoiled child;
affected
Vitten, Vitty _adj._ fitly, featly, properly applied _s._ a whim or
pretence
Vleer _s._ flea
Vlother _s._ incoherent talk, nonsense
Voccating _adj._ going about chattering in an idle manner
Vore-right _adj._ blunt, rude, impertinent
Voss, Voth _s._ a side furrow
Vouce _adj._ strong, nervous
Vug _v._ to strike with the elbow _s._ a blow with the elbow
Vyer _s._ the fair, ex. Guaine to vyer?
W an initial W is often pronounced as in Welsh _oo_, ex. Walter, oolter;
witness, ootness; Wells, ools
Wallet _s._ brushwood, bramble-wood
Wamble, Wammel _v.n._ to move in an awkward manner, applied chiefly to
machinery
Want, Wont _s._ a mole
Want-wriggle _s._ mole-track
War _v. pret. of the verb_ "_to be_" I war, he war, we war, &c.
Wash-dish _s._ the wag-tail
Wassail _v._ drinking success to the apple crop
Way-zaltin _s._ a play in which two persons standing back to back
interlace each others arms, and by bending forward alternately raise each
other from the ground
Weepy _adj._ moist, abounding in springs
Welch-nut _s._ walnut (Ger.
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