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lar-bhleothainn (Ir. i.irmhhle^on or bleo^un, W. S.), after-milk 



blegu, milking (? b-logu), leigeadh, milking (i.e., letting). 

 Im, butter ; im ur, fresh butter. A famous lampooner ealled 

 Aonghus nan Aoirean speaks of "Im iar a ghlanadh le 

 Spain, 's caise 'n deis a naire thoirt as," Butter cleaned 

 (scraped) with or by a spoon and cheese with its shame 

 taken out of it — being so bad. 

 Imideal, imlid, Inadal, inutile, skin lid of a "cuman" when 

 making hasty churning, or carrying milk a distance. 

 Applied also to a " boganach," softie, of a fellow. 

 Lac, lachd, lacht, laith, laithe, sweet mifk. 

 Lamban, curds. 



Leamhnachd, leamlacht, sweet milk. 

 Leasach, rennet or runnet. 

 Leastar, milk-dish. 



Lestar-lulaic, biestings-milk basin (Ir.). 

 Leum, luim, milk (Ir. Loim). 

 Loinid, a churn-stafF, or wooden instrument for frothing or 



whipping cream. 

 Lulaic, milk of a newly calved cow. 

 Maistir, a churn. 

 Maistreadh, churning. 



Meadar, measair, milk-dish, measure. In an old Irish Testament 

 or Will of 1388 we find " inascr (measair) ligata given as a 

 bowl hooped or bound with silver, while Whitley Stokes, in 

 Revue Celtique, gives "Lestar or Lestur" as a milk dish or 

 vessel, though also meaning any vessel. 

 Measgan, a dish to hold butter. 

 Meilg, melg, milk — akin to mealag, " milt." 

 Meog, meug, whey (Ir. medg, medgusc, whey water). (In 



Shetland blaand.) 

 Minid, rennet or runnet (see binid). 

 Miodair, miosair, a milk-dish measure (see meadar). 

 Miosgan, a dish to hold butter (see measgan). 

 Muidhe, muighe, a churn. 

 Mulach, mulachag, mulchan, a cheese. " Mulach air gad " a 



cheese on a withy. 

 Obhan, odhan, omhan, othan, froth of milk (half-churned), or 



whey. 

 Paiteag, butter, a small lump of. 

 Ron, a milk-whipper or frother, a wooden instrument with a 



rim of hair round it. 

 Seisreach, seisreadh, milk allowance for six people, a gallon. 

 Sile, milk (lit. drop or flow). 

 Sine, sinne, sithne, teat, sometimes udder — pi. sinean and 



sinneachan. 

 Slagan, slaman, slamban, curds or milk curdled by rennet. 

 Sramh, sreabh, a jet of milk running from udder. 



