practice of placing quartz stones in moorland streams so that they would sparkle in moonlight and thereby attract salmon to them in the late summer and autumn (Gaelic)

mirage caused by mist or haze rising from the ground (Shetland)

horse poop (Scots)

old grass found around the edges of lochs after storms and used as bedding for cattle (Gaelic)

rustling noise produced in grass by petty agitations of wind (East Anglia)

long withered grass on old pastures or meadows (Galloway)

to swell with moisture (Cotswolds)

muddy or marshy land (Scots)

soft, damp, wet (Exmoor)

when land is full of springs (Exmoor)

purling or the murmur of a stream (Gaelic)

gentle sound made by a quick-flowing stream (incessant chattering, monotony and repetition being implied) (Cumbria)

little puddle (Northamptonshire)

small dirty pool (Essex)

raindrop which falls after a cloud has passed

froth collected by running streams in ditches, or in puddles by the roadside (Northamptonshire)

ripple in water caused by wind (Exmoor)

twilight (Devon)

interval between the time of sufficient light to work or read by and the lighting of candles — therefore a time of social domestic conversation (East Anglia)

strong gleam of heat from sunshine (East Anglia)

like a candle, star, etc: to shine with a faint or wavering light, to glimmer, to twinkle (southern England)

first star that rises after sunset (Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire)

to huddle miserably together from cold (herefordshire)

when a bird fluffs up feathers in response to cold (Herefordshire)

cloud; 'urpy' means cloudy with very large clouds (kent)

when wind comes in unpredictable gusts (Kent)

bank of earth on which a hedge grows (Cumbria)

to stuff bushes in a hedge to confine livestock (Herefordshire)

hole deliberately left in a wall for animals to pass through (Scots)

potato, left in the ground, which sprouts again (Herefordshire)

when turnips are not good; spongy (Northern Ireland)

leaf skeleton (Banffshire)

yellow gelatinous substance found on rotten wood or timber, once thought to have dropped from the sky (Herefordshire, Northamptonshire)

when a plant or tree has many roots (Kent)

steam rising from the bodies of cattle (Lincolnshire)