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banybelly, a low and coarse word denoting a boiled pudding consisting 

 of flour, molasses, soda, etc., and not uncommonly seal-fat instead of suet. 

 I think we need hardly go searching for the origin of the name chin or 

 cheek music, singing at dances, where they have no fiddle or accordeon, 

 as often happens among the fishermen ; elevener, given by Halliwell as in 

 Sussex denoting a luncheon, but in Newfoundland meaning a glass of 

 grog taken at eleven o'clock, when the sun is over the fore yard ; gum 

 bean, a chew of tebacco ; ear winkers, flannel coverings for the ears in. 

 winter ; ramporious, a sort of slang term, describing parties as very 

 angry and excited, yet it seems well formed English, having its root- 

 word ramp, and being kindred with rampage, rampant, rampacious or 

 rampageous, with the last of which it is nearly synonymous ; and locksy, 

 regarded as a coriuption of look see, but probably the first part is a form 

 of the Anglo-Saxon loke, according to Halliwell, meaning to look upon, 

 to guard, to take care of. 



Y. Lastly. There are a number of words, of which I am unable to 

 trace the origin or relations. Thus a species of white bean is advertised 

 commonly and sold under the name of callivances. Eggleston, in an 

 article in the "Century Magazine" for 1894, mentions " gallivances 

 and potatoes " as given in 1782 among the products of Pennsylvania, 

 and in the same year, in "a complete discovery of the State of Carolina," 

 a list is given of several sorts of pulse grown in the colony, " to wit, 

 beans, pease, callavances," &c. He is puzzled about the woid and sup- 

 poses it to mean pumpkins, and to be from the Spanish calabaza (gourd). 

 But they would not be pulse. Probably it meant there as it now does 

 in Newfoundland, the small white bean, in contrast with the broad 

 English bean. But what is the origin of the word, and how did it 

 come to be found in places so distant and in circumstances so different 

 a s in Carolina and Newfoundland ? And is it not singular to find it 

 surviving in the latter when it has elsewhere disappeared so entirely, 

 that the learned are unable to ascertain its meaning 1 



Of other words to me of unknown origin I note the following : 

 babbage, used to the northward to denoie the plaiting of a snowshoe ; 

 baiser, applied by boys fishing, to a large trout; when such is caught, 

 a common exclamation is, " Oh, that's a baiser ;" ballacarda, or 

 ballaca-dar, ice about the face, also ice along the foot of the cliff, touch- 

 ing the water; chronic, an old stump; cockying ,in Harbor Grace, 

 copying in St. Johns, describing an amusement of boys in spring, 



