M.

Mash, _marsh_.

Mean, _stingy_, _ill-natured_.

Min', _mind_.

N.

Nimepunce, _ninepence_, _twelve and a half cents_.

Nowers, _nowhere_.

O.

Offen, _often_.

Ole, _old_.

Ollers, olluz, _always_.

On, _of_; used before _it_ or _them_, or at the end of a sentence, as _on't_, _on 'em,_ _nut ez ever I heerd on_.

On'y, _only_.

Ossifer, _officer_ (seldom heard).

P.

Peaked, _pointed_.

Peek, _to peep_.

Pickerel, _the pike_, _a fish_.

Pint, _point_.

Pocket full of rocks, _plenty of money_.

Pooty, _pretty_.

Pop'ler, _conceited_, _popular_.

Pus, _purse_.

Put out, _troubled_, _vexed_.

Q.

Quarter, _a quarter-dollar_.

Queen's arm, _a musket_.

R.

Resh, _rush_.

Revelee, _the réveillé_.

Rile, _to trouble_.

Riled, _angry_; _disturbed_, as the sediment in any liquid.

Riz, _risen_.

Row, a long row to hoe, _a difficult task_.

Rugged, _robust_.

S.

Sarse, _abuse_, _impertinence_.

Sartin, _certain_.

Saxton, _sacristan_, _sexton_.

Scaliest, _worst_.

Scringe, _cringe_.

Scrouge, _to crowd_.

Sech, _such_.

Set by, _valued_.

Shakes, great, _of considerable consequence_.

Shappoes, _chapeaux_, _cocked-hats_.

Sheer, _share_.

Shet, _shut_.

Shut, _shirt_.

Skeered, _scared_.

Skeeter, _mosquito_.

Skootin', _running_, or _moving swiftly_.

Slarterin', _slaughtering_.

Slim, _contemptible_.

Snaked, _crawled like a snake_; but _to snake any one out_ is to track him to his hiding-place; _to snake a thing out_ is to snatch it out.

Soffles, _sofas_.

Sogerin', _soldiering_; a barbarous amusement common among men in the savage state.

Som'ers, _somewhere_.

So'st, _so as that_.

Sot, _set_, _obstinate_, _resolute_.

Spiles, _spoils_; _objects of political ambition_.

Spry, _active_.

Staddles, _stout stakes driven into the salt marshes_, on which the hay-ricks are set and thus raised out of the reach of high tides.

Streaked, _uncomfortable_, _discomfited_.

Suckle, _circle_.

Sutthin', _something_.

Suttin, _certain_.

T.

Take on, _to sorrow_.

Talents, _talons_.

Taters, _potatoes_.

Tell, _till_.

Tetch, _touch_.

Tetch tu, _to be able_; used always after a negative in this sense.

Thru, _through_.

Thundering, a euphemism common in New England for the profane English expression _devilish_. Perhaps derived from the belief, common formerly, that thunder was caused by the Prince of the Air, for some of whose accomplishments consult Cotton Mather.

Tollable, _tolerable_.

Toot, used derisively for _playing on any wind instrument_.

Tu, _to_, _too_; commonly has this sound when used emphatically, or at the end of a sentence. At other times it has the sound of _t_ in _tough_, as, _Ware ye goin' tu? Goin' t' Boston_.

U.

Ugly, _ill-tempered_, _intractable_.

Uncle Sam, _United States_; the largest boaster of liberty and owner of slaves.

Unrizzest, applied to dough or bread; _heavy_, _most unrisen_, or _most incapable of rising_.