Ever-green
household: houshold
virtue: vertue
vermin: vermine
Appamattox: Apamaticks, Appamaticks (probable)
cloud: clowd
aspen: aspin
ache: ach
burr, bur. (Both are still used, but "burr" is now more common,
where John Lawson tends towards "bur".)
cathartic: cathartick
cachexia (plural): cachexies ("cachexy" is an English form of the word,
now rarely, if ever, used.)
calico: callico
hazelnut: hazle-nut
conic/conical: conick
exotic: exotick
serviceberry/Juneberry/shadblow: service (given as the name of a fruit),
the plant it grows on is called the shadbush. (probable)
relished?: relisht
apricot: apricock
gooseberry: goosberry
vinedresser/vine dresser/vine-dresser: vigneroon (French "vigneron")
Madeira: Madera
rabbit: rabbet
jackal: jackall
havoc: havock
holler: hollow (Not all cases. Of the Panther, "He hollows like a Man"
should be "He hollers like a Man".)
sourwood tree: sowr-wood-tree, sowr wood, sorrel
surprise: surprize
raspberry: rasberry
mink: minx
mussel: muscle (in cases such as "muscle-shell")
rheum/rheumatism: rhume/rhumatism
rheumatic: rhumatick
tortoise: tortois
burrow: borough
chipmunk: ground squirrel (probable)
chase: chace
insect: reptile
reptile: insect
("Insect" is used strangely, to include reptiles and amphibians.
Conversely, Lawson uses "Reptile" to refer to insects.)
thoroughly: throughly (possible, p. 127)
entering: entring
frightened: frightned
connection: connexion (spelling in common use through the 19th century)
excrementitious (spelling still technically correct, but rare enough
that "excrescent" is suggested as an alternative, yet even that
has the wrong connotation in modern usage.)
terrapin: terebin
tadpole: tad-pool
easy: easie
wandering: wandring
leech: loach
Screech Owl: Scritch Owl (probable)
Trumpeter Swan: Swans, called Trompeters (probable)
fish hawk: fishawk
smallness: smalness
grasshopper: grashopper
set: sett
shot (past tense of shoot): shotten (see case on p. 151)
livor: liver
waiving: waving (??? - p. 163)
rye: rie
indigo: indico (??? - p. 164)
plasterers: plaisterers
governor: governour
joists: joices (probably this or a related word)
hazel: hazle
dye: die (p. 172)
gait: gate (p. 172)
inventor: inventer (both spellings acceptable, but "inventer" non-standard)
pare: pair (p. 173)
warrior: warriour
Trap-Ball (from Sense 8 of "Trap" in the AED)
A game and also one of the instruments used in playing the game,
the others being a small bat and a ball. The trap is of wood,
made like a slipper, with a hollow at the heel end,
and a kind of wooden spoon working on a pivot, in which
the ball is placed. By striking the handle or end of the spoon
the ball is projected up into the air, and the striker endeavors
to hit it as far as possible with the bat before it falls to the ground.
The opponents endeavor to catch the ball, or to bowl it
so as to hit the trap. Also called Trap-bat and Trap-bat and ball.
baton, bat: batoon (a variant spelling of baton, with a meaning
closer to that of bat. See Trap-Ball)
worse: worser
wrangling: rangling
sepulchre: sepulcre
hominy (grits): Rockahomine Meal (conjecture: Lawson gives Roocauwa
as the Woccon word for homine [hominy].), homine
nowadays: now adays
flag (p. 189) is another word for rushes or reeds.
artificially (p. 189) has changed meaning over the years.
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