a 
1808.) 
sink away. “Twas ready to blake away 
wi’ Jaughing.” N.D. 
Blank, blenk, blonk, blunk, a spark of 
fire. D. : 
Blast, to, to miss fire of w gun. D. 
Blast up one’s cyes, to turn up one’s 
eyes in a praying posture. .D. 
Blast, « sudden inflammation. ‘I have 
caught a blast in my eye.” C.D. 
Blazing, spreading abroad news ; bla- 
zoning the faults of others. C.D. 
Blenky, or blenk, to, to snow but spa- 
ringly, like the blenks or ashes that some- 
times fly out of u chimney. D. 
Bless vore, to, to bless for it, with a 
view to cure it, to use charms or spells to 
cure disorders. D. 
Blid, biood. D. Blid an owns! an 
exclamation. D. 
Blindworm, the slow-worm. C. 
Blissum, in kind. Used particularly 
for ewes— The ewe is blissum ;” perhaps 
blithesome. D. 
Blogey, to be sullen. Ex. 
looking sullen, Ex. 
Bloomings, those flushings of the fuce 
which accompany fever. D. 
Blooth, D. blowth,C. blossom. “ Her 
looked zo cherry as a crap of fresh apple- 
blooth; but now ’tis like a davered rose, 
sweet in th’ midst o’t.” N. D. 
Blowmaunger (perhaps fromthe French 
blanc-mange), white meat, a kind of flum- 
mery; a fat, blown-cheeked person, as if 
puffed up by full feeding.” * Ex. 
Bobbin, a string made of cotton, like a 
round lace. C.D. : 
Bock, fear (from baulk). “ He bocked 
at it”—he was afraid of it. C. 
Boldering, louring, inclinable to thun- 
der. ‘Vis boldering weather.” C. 
Boneshave, @ bony or horny excres- 
cence growing out of horses’ hecls; the 
scratches. Ex. Pavn inthe bones. (Lyt- 
telton’s MSS.) 
Boostering, labouring busily, so as to 
sweat. C. D. 
Booty, beauty, so pronounced in Corn- 
wall. “ Out of Sion hath God appeared 
a parfec. booty.” The parish-clerks of 
Cornwall. In Shakspeare’s Tenry IV. 
_wehave a pun on the word—* Let not 
_us that are squires of the night’s body be 
called thieves of the day’s beauty.” In 
Henry VI.—“ So triumph thieves upon 
their conquered booty.” 
Born. ‘I never seed sich a thing in 
all my born days.” C.D. 
— Borrid. A sow is said to be horrid 
when she wants the male. C. 
osky, full fed ; stupid from repletion 
er intovicalion, (Gr. Booxw.) 
Blogging 
oS? 
h 
4 
Blunders in Origny’s Dictionnaire des Origines. 
423 .. 
Bothan, a tumour, as arising from the 
blow of a stick on any part of the body, 
C. ; 
Bourn, burm, yeast. Ex. D.C. 
Bowerly, blooming. §* Acomely, bow 
erly woman.” N. D. 
Braggeshans, brags. C. 
Brandis, a trivet. C. 
Brand-new, quite new. C. 
Brave, well, recovering in health. 
“ He’s brave to-day. C. 
Brawn, a Christmas log to burn. 
(Lyttelton’s MSS.) 
Breach, A horse or other beast is said 
to be-breach when it breaks through or 
over fences. C. ’ 
Breachy. The water of aspring is said 
to be breachy when it has a slight taste of 
salt, or is brackish. C. 
Break, to, to tear. D. Break deal, 
to, to lose the deal at cards. D. 
Breeding, muking fishing ox. other nets; 
braiding. C. 
Brewster, @ brewer. C. 
Brick, a small rent in a garment. 
“ ‘There’s a brick in your apron.” C. 
Briss, dust—not in the Devonian sense 
of pilm, but dust mixed with small por- 
tions of furze, frith, faggot-wood. Hence, 
“I’ve got some briss in my eye,” means 
not a particle of dust, but a small bit of 
furze, a light and minute fraginent of 
Jrith. D. Briss and buttons, dust and 
sheep’s-dung. D. See Bruss, 
Broach, a sharply-pointed stick, to 
thrust into mows of corn, &c. &c. 
Whence to broach a cask, C. i 
Broadfig, the fig; the dry fig. C.D. 
Brocking-mangrel, a vicious jade or 
mungrel, apt to throw her rider. Ex. 
Broke, tern, rent. “His coat. is 
Croker? ie se 
Browny, a British household god, not 
yet forgotten in Cornwall. Bran or bron 
is, in the British, a king, or high person. 
‘The Cornish subjoin the y final to many 
of their words. 
Brudle, to, to suffer a child to lie till 
he’s fullawake. (Lyttleton’s MSS.) D. 
Brush, @ nosegay. C. 
(Lo be continued. ) 
— 
To the Editor of the Monthly Mugazine, 
SIR, 
N your Magazine for June last, is a 
quotation from the Dictionnaire des 
Origines,—The author of thi’ work isa 
Frenchman, named Origny. As it is per- 
petually quoted, it cannot be improper to 
give the character of the work, and to 
demonstrate that itis an absurd and ex- 
ceedingly bad book. 
Pp. 
Professor 
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