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. Arg, to, toargue, to dispute. C. 
Armwrist, the wrist. C. i 
' Arrere, strange, wonderful. C. 
- Arrish, stubble; wheat-arrish, wheal- 
stubble. C. Erish, perhaps from the 
Spanish Era. “The corn in Spain is 
trodden out of the ear by mares, in the 
field where it grows, on a circular spot, 
called Era.” See Carter’s Journey, vol. 
‘II. 103. Edish, stubble. (Saxon.) 
Art, eight. Ex. Arteen, eightcen. Ex. 
' Ascat, broken like anegg. D. 
Asinder, (Sax.) asunder. D. 
Aslat, cracked like an earthen vessel. D. 
Asneger, (Greek, ovaypoc,) an ass. D.C. 
(or Devon and Cornwall.) 
- Athart, athwart, crosswise. C. 
_ Aunt, Aunt and wnele are prefixed to 
the names of elderly persons in Cornwall, 
and (it is said) in the Isle of Nantucket, 
in North America. In some parts of 
England Gaffer and Gammer are so used. 
In Shakspeare’s time aunt seems to have 
been a cant word for a bawd— Summer- 
songs for me and my aunts.” Malone’s 
Shakspeare, vol. IV. p. 192. 
Avroar, frozen, frosty. Ex. 
Ax, to, toask. C, 
Axwaddle, an ash padder, or pedlar, 
one that collects or deals in ashes ; one 
that tumbles or wallows in ashes, whence 
an aven-cat ; one that paddles or draws 
lines in the ashes with a stick or poker. 
Ex. 
Azoon, soon. Ex. 
Baaling, crying, bawling. C. 
Baarge, (bearge, a barrow-pig, Sax.) 
a@ heavy person, unwieldy as a fat hog. D. 
Backside, the back yard of a house, the 
court. C,D. (or Cornwall and Devon.) 
Backledge, id. “* You will find the lad- 
der in my backside.” 
Backster, a baker. C. 
Bageaged, behugged, i.e. hag-ridden, 
or bewitched. Ex. 
Bal, (from bali, pal, to digg, in Irish,) 
a place. Lhuyd’s Arch. p. 81. 
Ballirag, to, to abuse a person with vul- 
gar language. C.D. 
Ballitraunt, a silly person. Used as a 
term of reproach or contempt. D. 
Bamby, by and by. C. 
Bang, to, to beat, or strike. C.D. 
Banging, very great. 
Bak, to, to beat. Ex. 
Bank up, to, toheapup. “ It is bank- 
ing up” Spoken of “a cloud gathering 
before a shower”—of ‘ clouds heaped on 
clouds before a storm.” C. 
Bannel, broom (a plant). C. 
Bare-ridged, riding on the bare buck of 
a@ horse.—* Zenobia Baraguannith at the 
Devonshire and Cornwall Vocabulary. 
[Dec. 1, 
age of ninety-nine rode bare-ridged on a 
young beast (a colt), to the court.” See 
Polwhele’s Hist. of “ the Population, 
Diseases, &c. &c. of Cornwall,” (Atay, 
1806.) p. 51. 
Barm, yeast. C.D. 
Barngun, fiery pimples (from bern, to 
burn, and gund, tabes, Sax.) Ex. 
Barra, a gelt pig. Ex. 
Barton, «large demesne. C.D. 
Bate, to, to guarrel. Hence a make- 
baie’ D. 
Bats. ‘“ To play at bats,” i.e. to play 
at cricket. C. 
Bavy, to bathe. C. 
Be, tor ave. C. tor been. . 
up to vicarage.” N.D,. 
Bed-ale, groaning-ale, brewed for a 
christening. D. 
Bedoled, stupified with pain. C. 
Beebut, a beehive. C. 
Beet, to, to muke or feed a fire. C. 
Beet, to, ‘‘ to beet ground, “ to pare 
off the turf, in order to burn it. C.D. 
a Beet, turf pared off ready for burning. 
“Vve a be 
Beet-axe, the instrument used in beet- 
ing ground, in burn-beeting, or denshir- 
ing. 
Before, till, or until. .‘ Before after 
dinner.” D. (Dean Milles’s MSS, 
Begrumpled, affronted. D. C. 
Being, because. ‘“ Being itis so.”* D, 
Bejinged, out of his senses. N.D. 
Bellyharm, the colic. D. 
Beliyholding, a crying out in labour. 
Ben. “ To the true ben,” soundly 
and to the purpose. ‘ A slouching lub- 
ber! Ods danget ! I wish I bad the trim- 
ming o’en! Vd lerick "en to the true 
ben!” N.D. ( Ben, lignum, seu ma- 
teria exterior navis, laterum firmamen- 
tum.” Junius.) A curious wood called 
the Ben-reed, grows in the forests of Nor- 
way. “ Where the ben-reed gleams.” 
Polwhele’s “ Local Attachment,” a Po- 
em. 
Benefitz, a benefice. C. 
Betwattled, befoliled, turned fool. Ex, 
c. 
Bewivered, bewildered. Ex. 
Bide, to, to abide. C.D. 
Billis, a pair of bellows. C. 
Birth, w place, a station. 
Biscan, a finger-glove of leather, used 
by the harvest women, particularly in sup- 
port of a wounded finger. Meneg, in 
Cornwall. 
Biver, to, to shake, to quiver. C.D. . 
Blackhead, a kind of boich, or bile, C. 
Blakeaway, to, ¢o be out of breath, toi . 
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