ALMONDBURY AND HUDDSRSFIELD. 5 Bradley of Alxnondbury, well known to a generation almost passed away, used to say, * The infection of some feyers would stop in an arrintoeb for seyen years/ Had he, or the good folk who repeat his saying, any iinconsdons mental association between the words arrand and arrin 9 Spiders are still, in some places, considered poisonous. Arsy-fiEUToy, no donht arsy-versy : topsy-turvy; irregular; disobedient. Said of a woman who is dressed in an out-of-the-way style : * Sho dresses in an argy-farcy way.' A parent will say to a dusobedient child, * Tha a't yarry ar ay-farcy.* Ask, put for haskf i. e. harsh. Phillips says cisk means dryness. Here it is evidently used as an adjective, expressiog a peculiar (juaHty or condition of cloth, such as might be produced from boiling in a solution of alum. * It handles a«A,' mi^nt be said of wool if dried too quickly on a stove, or if it has remained too long, in which case it never works well, choose what oil they use. * It's varry ask and drau, and hasn't natur in it it owt to have. Asker, a newt, or lizard. Askness, diyness : put for haskness, or harshness. See Ask. Ass (a as in fat)^ vb. to ask. Ass (pronounced as above), ashes, or ash. Asmook, the place where the ashes fall beneath the grate. The hole in the hearthstone (chiefly found in kitchens) into which the ashos are drawn is called the graiehoiL See Preface, * Introduction of the Study of Chemistry into this District.' Astpaii, a pan, or instrument of iron, placed under the grate to catch the ashes. 'At, pron, and conj, that. But as a pronoun chiefly the relative, as, ' Them *at Au catch,' &c. For the demonstrative that the word ' you ' is commonly employed, especially if emphatic. At after, prep, and adv. after. It is used by Chaucer in The Frankelyn's TaU, I 483 : ' At after souper fell they in tretee.' Atatta, or Antatta. To go aicUta is to go a-walking : a word used to children, and no doubt deriyed from saying * tatta ' on departing. Grown youn^^ women will also use this expression to each other, instead of saying * agate'ards.' Avelong (pronounced aivlong), oblong, or ovaL Spectacle-glasses are avehng. Awand (the second a pronounced as in hand), a word much used. < Au'U atoand thee tha'U do it ; ' similar to the ' warrant thee ' in other parts of England. Aye, the usual answer for yes, Ah*ee is nearly the sound.
