28 HAMPSHIRE GLOSSARY. Bimch [dunch], adj. slow of comprehension ; deaf. — Cooper. Dejif, Btupi(L Ex. ' Dunch as a bittle/ t. e. deaf as a beetle. * Ak. Commoii in the New Forest. — ^Wise. Cfl 'And all the daughters of music be deaf ; that is when the earee be dull and dunchj — Newton, An HerbaU to the Bible [1587] p. 237. The allusion is to EcGlesiastes xii. 4, where the Vulgate has * Obeurdescent omnujilicd carminis.* Dunch-dnmpling [danch-dumplin], eb, a hard dumplings made of flour and water. '^Ak. Dnnnamany [dun-u'meni], for * I don't know how many.' — Cooper. Bannamuoh [dun-u'much], for * I don't know how muck' — Cooper. Bunnies [dun-iz], sh, pi. Petasitea vulgaris, — J. B. Dwarf elder [dwaurf-eld'ur], ah. ^gopodium Podagravia. *The common name throughout Hants.' — Dr. Bromfield, Flora Vedenaisj 202.- J. B. Sairts [etirtz], sb. (1) Stubble. (2) That which is refused at meals. — N. H. t. e. orts. Earth [urth], sb. to one, two, three earths, means to plough the ground once, twice, or thrice; to bow after one, two, or three ploughings. — Lisle. Earth-nuts [urth-nuts], sb, pi. the tubers of (Enanthe pimpineUoides* Dr. Bromfield in Fhgtologist, O. S. iii 260.— J. B. Easy [ee'zi], adv. easily ; for which it is generally used in N. H. Ex.
- He 11 easy walk that far.' ' That can easy be mended.'
Eath, or Yeath, sb. earth. *Ak. Edge-grown [edj-groan], adj. coming up uneven ; not ripening together. — Lisle. Een-a-most [een'u'moast*], even almost, nearly. — Cooper. Ees [ees], sb. an earth-worm. — J. Halliwell and Wright spell it JSace. Eez [eez], adv. yes. *Ak. Eflfet [ef -ut], sb. an eft, a kind of lizard. A.S. Efeta.—N, H. Also •Ak. andN. F. Elam [ealum], sb. a handful of thatch. 'Common in the New Forest. Three elams make a hundle, and 20 bundles a score^ and 4 scores a ton.* — Wise, New Forest. See Telm in HalliwelL Eldem [el*dum], sb. an elder-tree. *Ak. Eldem, adj. anything made of the elder-tree. *Ak. EUnm [el'um], sb. elm, the elm-tree. — N. H. Elm. See Helm.
