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‘the means of preventing many, perhaps 
some thousand tons of valuable vege- 
table materials for making paper, &c. 
from being thrown away as usual, your 
giving it a place, as you lately did the 
result of my experiments on the pruntogs 
of the vine, will much oblige him who has 
sent you a specimen of bean-hemp, and 
who 1s, with respect and good wishes, 
Your's, &c. 
JamMes Hatt. 
London, Sept. 13, 1808. 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
A provincial vocaBuLary; containing, 
Sor the most Part, such woRDS as are 
current amongst the common PEOPLE of 
DEVONSHIRE and CORNWALL.—1808. 
(Continued from p. 423.) 
Bry: the dry spine of furze broken 
of: C 
Bucha-boo, @ ghost, or bughear ; said 
of milk, when it froths in the milk-pon, 
and turns sour. (From bucha, Cornish, 
@ metear. ) 
Bucked, hamng a rankish taste, or 
gnell, as applied to milk. “ The huck 
is in the milk,” qu. from a foul bucket, 
or from bucha, or from the (animal) buch, 
as milk is seldom bucked but in the rutting 
season. C.D. 
Buckle, a struggle. D. 
Buddled, suffocated ; washed as tin-ore 
in the buddle-pool. Ex. . 
Bud-picker, the bullfinch. C. 
Bul, a wooden bowl. C. 
» Buldering, hot, sultry, tending to thun- 
der. (Buldrer, Danish, perstrepere. ) 
DiC: 
Bulcht, attacked by a bullock’s horns. 
Cc. 
Bulbagger, @ scare-crow, a something 
to frighten children. D. 
Bullied. A cow is said to be bullied 
when she wants the male. C. 
Bullies, round pebbles on the sea-shore. 
Cc 
- Bullock, either or or cow. C. 
Bullum, the wild plum, the bullace. 
Cc. D. 
Burd, bread. Ex. 
Burley-fac’d, pimply-faced. D, 
Burm, yeast, barm. C. 
Burn, to, to scald (with water). C. D. 
Barnish, to, to grow fut, to look jolly, 
or rosy. Ex. 
Bushment, a thicket, abrake. D.C. 
Buss, a steer. D. Bussa-calf, a calf 
kept on the cow till it weans itself. C. 
Bussa, aiarge jar. C. 
Busking. It is said of women running 
Devonshire and Cornwall Vi ocabulary. 
[Jan. I, 
agajnst each other’s busks, by way of pru- 
vocation. Ex. : 
Bustious, burdensome to herself. “How 
bustious she's walking !”"—said of a wo- 
man with child. C. 
Busy, requires.” It is busy three men 
to heave it.” —* It requires three inen to 
liftit.” €. 
But-gap, a hedge of pitched turf. 
E. C. (East of Cornwall.) 
Butt, a bee-hive. D. C. Butt, a 
cart. D.C. “ Butt-end, from Bubos, 
Gr. the bottom; the bottom of a thing 
being the end of it’—says Nugent. See 
Primitives, p. 324. 
Butt, of beef. C. 
Buttons, sheep-dung. C. ’ 
Buzzom-chuck'd, having a deep-dark 
redness in the cheeks. N. VD. 
Caal, call. Caaling, giving public no- 
tice by the cryer. “LT had et cacl’d—I 
had it cried.” C. 
Cabs and cauches, nastiness. C.D. 
Cader, a small frame of wood, on which 
the fisherman keeps his line. C. 
Caal-ves, in two syllables for calves. 
N. D. E. C. The cows and calves of 
a farm were supposed to be bewitched. 
I saw a great bonfire. “ They are burn- 
ing the witch (said the farmer) becaase 
my cual-ves be ali dead, or dying.”—To 
dissolve the spell, In Probus, there isa 
white witch (and at a farm near Exeter), 
who pretends to exhibitin a mirror the 
person of the black witch, or sorceress, 
complained of. 
Cammel, chamomile. C. 
Candle-teening, candle-lighting. C. 
Canker, the dog-rose, the canker-rose. 
Canniffle, to, or Cunniffle, to dissems= 
ble, to flutter. Ex. 
Cant, a fall. D.C. 
Caravan, a stage-waggon. C. 
Care, the mountain-ash, very plentiful 
about Leskeard, and in in all our exten- 
sive woods. E. C. 
Carne, an assemblage of rocks. C. 
Casar, a sieve. C.D. To casar, to 
sift. D. 
Cassabully, the winter cress. C. 
Cast, to, to vomit. C. 
Cat-ham’d, fumbling, aukward. Cate 
handed, id. ‘* How unvitty and cat- 
handed you go about it. Go thy ways, 
thou foolish traunt.” N. D. 
Caudle, a slop. Caudling, making o 
slop. ‘ Caudling weather,” wet dirty 
weather. C. 
Cawbaby, an aukward timid boy. D. 
Cawch, nasty, viscous stuff; @ mess. 
Cup, Bees 
Cawcheries, 
