BUZZARD, sb. a large moth.
BUZZER, sb. a steam whistle.
BY-DYKE, sb. a feeder or narrow stream for a mill-dam.
BYERLAW. See BIERLAW.
BY GUY, an oath or exclamation.
BY JABERS, an oath or exclamation.
BY LEDDY, an exclamation meaning 'By our lady.'
- I have also heard By Lakins.
BY NAH [be nar], by now, by this time.
BYRE, sb. a cow-house; a shed for cows.
BYSET, sb. a hollow or gutter across a road.
BY THE MASS, an oath.
- 'By the mass, man, oh loike to mak one in a show.'
- Mather's Songs, 91.
- 'By the mass, man, oh loike to mak one in a show.'
- This once common oath is still occasionally heard in Sheffield.
CADDIS, sb. a sort of woollen stuff.
- Cadas, Bombicinium. Prompt. Parv.
CADDY, adj. in good health or spirits; contented.
CADE-CHILD, sb. a child brought up with excessive care. H.
CADE-LAMB, sb. a lamb brought up in the house.
CADGE, v. to stitch lightly, to overcast.
- 'I cadge a garment, I set lystes in the lynyng to kepe the plyghtes in order.'—Palsgrave. When a thing is badly sewn it is said to be cadged up.
CADGE, v. to beg.
- 'Soon he set off an' cadged his way to Edinburgh.'—Bywater, 130.
CADGE, sb. a cage ? 'For taking down the cadge, 0-3-0.'—T. T. A., 102. 'For the old pavers belonging to the cage, 0-2-0.'—Ibid., 103.
CAKE-SPRITTLE, sb. a thin board used for turning oatcakes while over the oven. H.
CAKING DAY, sb. the 2nd of November, All Souls' Day. Hunters MS.
- The Soul Mass Cake is doubtless referred to. See Hampson's Medii Ævi Kal., i. 374. And see THARF CAKE.
CAKY, adj. silly. Johnny-cake in Evans' Leicestershire Words.
