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unbethink, underbethink    -    to remember, recollect ""Ah                                                    knowd his features, but ah                                                      couldna like unbethink mysel on                                              his name"

underling   -    an animal which is bullied by others

urchan'  -     hedgehog

ungain    -   (1)awkward (2)ill-fitting (3)inconvenient, indirect                     (Icelandic word gegn = handy)

unhinge   -    inactive, stiff-jointed 

unhooder   -     to take off the 'hoods' from corn-hattocks. The                       pile of sheaves is capped by a hood, a thatch                         like roof made of straw, to keep the rain off the                       harvest until it is ready to be moved. 

unwady     -    soon consumed, uneconomical

up-end    -   to overturn, upset "If tha ses anny moor t'mey,                       h'll up-end thee" 

uphowd     -   to uphold, assert, verify "That's true ah'll                               uphowd it" 

upshoot    -    (1)an uproar, a row (2)an upshot, an issue 

upsides    -     even "Hoo's auvays agate o' mey, but I'll bey                           upsides with 'er yet afore I've done with her"

upstairs    -     high, considerable "I've gotten a good, upstairs                       price for my cheise" 

"Up to the knocker"     -    smart and proper (like up to the                                               nines) "Hoo was dressed up to the                                           knocker" 

*ussels      -         ourselves

utick   -    folk-name for a whinchat because of its call "u-tick                 tick tick" 

uzzard     -   the old name for the letter 'Z' "as crookit as a                          uzzard"