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_.
V.
V-spot, _a five-dollar bill_.
Vally, _value_.
W.
Wake snakes, _to get into trouble_.
Wal, _well_; spoken with great deliberation, and sometimes with the _a_ very much flattened, sometimes (but more seldom) very much broadened.
Wannut, _walnut_ (_hickory_).
Ware, _where_.
Ware, _were_.
Whopper, _an uncommonly large lie_; as, that General Taylor is in favor of the Wilmot Proviso.
Wig, _Whig_; a party now dissolved.
Wunt, _will not_.
Wus, _worse_.
Wut, _what_.
Wuth, _worth_; as, _Antislavery perfessions "fore "lection aint wuth a Bungtown copper_.
Wuz, _was_, sometimes _were_.
Y.
Yaller, _yellow_.
Yeller, _yellow_.
Yellers,_ a disease of peach-trees_.
Z.
Zack, Ole, _a second Washington, an antislavery slaveholder, a humane buyer and seller of men and women, a Christian hero generally_.
INDEX.
A.
A. B., information wanted concerning, 427.
Adam, eldest son of, respected, 393.
aeneas goes to h.e.l.l, 441.
aeolus, a seller of money, as is supposed by some, 441.
aeschylus, a saying of, 414, _note_.
Alligator, a decent one conjectured to be, in some sort, humane, 451.