"You wretched little tarrier!"

Sure, ye'r more surprised to see 'im leppin' down the hill to meet ye, like a rale Irish tarrier.

Kaviak, for ever following at Mac's heels "like a rale Irish tarrier," found his allegiance waver in these stirring, blissful days, if ever Farva so belied character and custom as to swing an axe for any length of time.

yes; the spiders Cobweb, out of which great flyes breake and in which the little are hangd: the Tarriers snaphance, limetwiggs, weavers shuttle & blankets in which fooles & wrangling coxcombes are tossd.

"Tarrier" must mean "a person that causes delay": cf.

a passage from Sir Thomas Overbury's character of "a meene Petty fogger":"He cannot erre before judgment, and then you see it, only writs of error are the tariers that keepe his client undoing somewhat the longer" (quoted in Todd's Johnson, sub tarrier).

Steccadoes ( = stoccadoes, thrusts in fencing) Stewd prunes Stigmaticke Stoope Striker Strive curtesies ( = stand upon ceremony) Suds, in the Suetonius, quoted Sure Surreverence Tacitus, quoted Take me with you Take in Tarleton Tarriers Tell Tale, the, (MS. play) Tent Termagant

Well, thish-yer Smiley had rat-tarriers, and chicken cocks, and tom-cats and all of them kind of things, till you couldn't rest, and you couldn't fetch nothing for him to bet on but he'd match you.

Old men of to-day who remember these little "red tarriers" tell us that they were the originals of the present-day Brussels Griffons, and to the sporting propensities of the aforesaid miners is attributed the gameness which is such a characteristic of their latter-day representatives.

The next thing he had a holt o' my coat-collar an' shuck me like a tarrier-dog shakes a rat.

Later he acquired a pair of "tarriers" and took enough interest in them to write detailed instructions concerning them in 1796.