Still Sow - A cunning and selfishman. " The still sow eats the wash or ' draff.' "" We do not act, that often jest and laugh ; 'Tis old but true, ' Still swine eat all the draugh.' "Tipler ----- Ale-house keeper. Top of the house - - - To be " top of the house"is to be out of temper. Trim-tram Gate - The church lich-gate. Tram means train or cortege. Valiant - ... From vaillant (French),stout; well built. See Kipling's " Dymchurch Flit" : "She was a fine, valiant woman, the Widow Whitgift." Weather-tender - Wise. Kipling's Widow Whitgift, who could tell "where lost things might be found, an' what to put about a crooked baby's neck, an' how to join parted sweethearts," would be called weather-tender.