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To strike gently; to pat. Stand not ticking and toying at the branches. Latimer.

Easily frightened; timorous. [Written also timersome.] [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

One who keeps a tippling-house. [Obs.] Latimer.

To peep; to look narrowly. [Obs.] Latimer. For birds in bushes tooting. Spenser.

The dead grass that remains on mowing land in winter and spring. [Prov. Eng.] Mortimer.

h pain; to toil. [Archaic] "Slothful persons which will not travail for their livings." Latimer.

A long, narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as, a trench for draining land. Mortimer.

To plow the third time before sowing, as land. Mortimer.

f imitation, or the like. Plows, to go true, depend much on the truth of the ironwork. Mortimer.

a dense tuft or bunch of grass or sedge. Such laying of the hair in tussocks and tufts. Latimer.

Something serving to tie or secure. [Obs.] Latimer.

Ugly. [Obs.] "Such an uglesome countenance." Latimer.

ive; loathsome. [Obs.] -- Ug"some*ness, n. [Obs.] "The horror and ugsomeness of death." Latimer.

A prolific sort of apple, good for cider. [Obs.] Mortimer.

An upstart. [Obs.] Latimer.

me foul vermin." Chaucer. Great injuries these vermin, mice and rats, do in the field. Mortimer. They disdain such vermin when the mighty boar of the forest . . . is before them. Burke.

Woad. [Obs.] Mortimer.

, wherewith he might wage soldiers. Holinshed. I would have them waged for their labor. Latimer.

I'd walk in any plot B. Jonson. I heard a pen walking in the chimney behind the cloth. Latimer.

ly equivalent to with a vengeance, with a plague, or with misfortune. [Obs.] B. Jonson. Latimer.