176 APPENDIX TO A LIST OF OBSOLESCENT WORDS. 



H. 



Handsel. To use or handle for the first time. 

 Hange. Tlie heart, lungs, and liver of an animal. 



" Head and hange." 

 Hakdah. Elvan. 



Haresmeat. Woodsorrel, Oxalis acetosella. 

 Heal. To hide or conceal. A.S. 



" The healer is as bad as the stealer." Old Proverb. 

 HoBBiN. A sort of pasty commonly forming the hedge repast of 



the husbandman. 

 Holt. Hold, place of retreat. 1 From helan. A.S. 

 Homer. Homeward. 

 Hulster. a hold or retreat. 



" This rubbish is only a hulster for snails." 



J. 



Jack-o'-Lantern. Ignis fahms, the Pisky Puck. 

 Jowter. a travelling fishmonger. 



Carew says of Polperro, that there " plenty of fish is Tented 

 to the fish drivers, ■whom we call Jowters." 



K. 



Keenly. Deftly, as "he does it keenly "; also kindly, favourable, 

 " brave keenly gossan." 



KiB. To Jab a gap, is to mend a gap in a hedge with thorns, and 

 put tabs to keep them in place. 



KiEVE. A large tub, 



KiMBLY. The name of a thing, commonly a piece of bread or 

 cake, which w^as, in the memory of people now living, given 

 to the first person met on going to a wedding or christening. 

 My father, who remembers this as a Polperro custom, in- 

 terprets it to have some reference to the idea of averting 

 ■or deprecating the evil eye. The Idmhhj is also given to 

 the person bringing the first news to persons interested in 

 the bu'th. 



Lampered. Mottled, "lamper'd all over," 

 Lank. The flank. 



