And, oh, her mouth's like ony hinny pear; Neat, neat she was in bustine waistcoat clean, As she came skiffing o'er the dewy green.

Hinny, honey, sweet.

[Lat.], rara avis [Lat.], queer fish; mongrel, random breed; half-caste, half-blood, half-breed; metis [Lat.], crossbreed, hybrid, mule, hinny, mulatto; tertium quid [Lat.], hermaphrodite.

ass, donkey, jackass, mule, hinny; sumpter horse, sumpter mule; burro, cuddy^, ladino [U.S.]; reindeer; camel, dromedary, llama, elephant; carrier pigeon.

[horse]; bray [donkey, mule, hinny, ass]; mew, mewl [kitten]; meow [cat]; purr [cat]; caterwaul, pule [cats]; baa^, bleat [lamb]; low, moo

There's nae danger in the voyage, hinny, no a grain o' danger; sae dinna greet; but come, kiss me, Tibby, and when I come hame I'll mak ye leddy o' them a'.

But oh, hinny, hae ye it weel aff?

Before the railway on the south side of the river was laid down, passengers who wished to reach Jarrow had to alight at Howdon and cross the river; and a racy dialect song"Howdon for Jarrow" with its refrain of "Howdon for Jarrama hinnies, loup oot"commemorates the fact.

Of songs in dialect, Joe Wilson's "Aw wish yor Muthor wad cum!" stands easily first; and the other, "Sair feyl'd, hinny!" is given as an example of the Northumbrian muse in another mood.

They are all growing green in my North Countrie!" SAIR FEYL'D, HINNY! "Sair feyl'd, hinny!

They are all growing green in my North Countrie!" SAIR FEYL'D, HINNY! "Sair feyl'd, hinny!

Sair feyl'd now, Sair feyl'd, hinny, Sin' aw ken'd thou.

Sair feyl'd, hinny!

Sair feyl'd now; Sair feyl'd, hinny, Sin' aw ken'd thou.

Sair feyl'd, hinny!

Sair feyl'd now, Sair feyl'd hinny, Sin' aw ken'd thou.

Sair feyl'd, hinny!

Sair feyl'd, hinny, Sin' aw ken'd thou" Thus said the aud man To the oak tree; "Sair feyl'd is aw Sin' aw kenn'd thee!

Sair feyl'd, hinny!

Sair feyl'd now; Sair feyl'd, hinny, Sin' aw ken'd thou.

Mules and hinnies are mongrels and grafts as it were on a stock of a different species, for a mule is got by an ass out of a mare, and a hinny by a horse out of a she ass.

Mules and hinnies are mongrels and grafts as it were on a stock of a different species, for a mule is got by an ass out of a mare, and a hinny by a horse out of a she ass.

"The get of a horse out of a she ass is called a hinny: he is smaller in the body and usually redder in colour than a mule, and has ears like a horse, but mane and tail like an ass.

Hinnies are carried by the dam twelve months, like a horse, and, like the horse too, they are raised and fed, and their age can be told by their teeth.