COMMON BAT, PIPISTRELLE OR FLITTER-MOUSE 105 



mouse (Forbes) ; bat-mouse, of Stafford (Adams, MS.) ; batty mouse, 

 billy-bat {Plecotus, Wright) ; bit-bat (Forbes), blin'bat, i.e., blind-bat, of 

 Kirkcudbright (Service, Zoologist, 1878, 427); blind-bat, of Dublin 

 (Moffat, MS.) ; brere-mus (Forbes), (?) = reremouse ; chipper, i.e., 

 chirruper, from its cry of " chip, chip " (Forbes) ; flickermouse (Ben 

 Jonson), as in New Inn, iii., i — 



" Once a bat, and ever a bat ! a rare mouse. 

 And a bird o' twilight ; . . . 

 Come, I will see the flickermouse " ; 



flinder (Forbes), compare Dutch vlinder, i.e., a butterfly ; flinder-, flinter-, 

 i.e., butterfly-mouse (compare in Caxton's Reynard the Fox{\\%\), 112, 

 ed. Arber — 



" Thenne cam . . . the flyndermows and the wezel " ; 



fliner (Forbes); fletter-, flit-, flitter- (or vlitter-) mouse, flitty, flitty- 

 mouse, fluttermouse (compare German fledermaus), of many counties, 

 e.g., Yorkshire (Atkinson, op. cit.) and Essex (Laver), as in Ben Jonson's 



Alchemist, v., 2 — 



" My fine flitter-mouse, 

 My bird o' the night ; " 



glaik of Lothian (Forbes), i.e., a transient glance or gleam ; haddabat 

 (Miller and Skertchley, i^^«/««^, 1878, 358); hatbat (Forbes); leathern 

 mouse, leathern wings (Forbes); leather-winged bat of Wexford (Moffat, 

 MS.); mouse bat, of Buckingham and Berkshire (Cocks, Zoologist, 1878, 

 334) ; oagar-triunse, of Shetland (Forbes), (?) = -hiunse, -hinnse or 

 -hunch, i.e., a frightful creature (Wright) ; pipistrelle, mostly a book- 

 name, from French pipistrelle, from Italian pipistrelle, vipistrello, vespis- 

 trello, variants or diminutives of vespertillo or vespertilio, from Latin 

 vespertilio, i.e., a bat ; raamis, ramished, raamouse, raamse, raird, ramsh, 

 rare, rare-, rattle-, rye-, and ry-mouse, rawmil, rawmouse, rawmp, ray- 

 mouse (Gloucestershire), rearie, rearmouse, reelrall, reelymouse, reeraw, 

 reerd, reerie, being mostly words signifying riot or confusion, or con- 

 nected with reermouse, and reremouse, from middle English reremous, 

 and Anglo-Saxon hrdremiis, from hreran, i.e., to move, shake, stir, and 

 m^s, i.e., a mouse, as in — 



" Some war with rere-mice for their leathern wings. 

 To make my small elves coats " 



— Shakespeare, Midsummer Nights Dream, Act ii., Sc. iii. ; 



rannermouse (Bingley), rannymouse, of south Hampshire (Corbin, 

 Zoologist, 1878, 429), see under Shrew. 



(Celtic): — Most usually ialtagox ialtog, with variants dialtog,fialtag ox 

 taltag, perhaps from iall = leather, sometimes combined with leathair, 

 i.e., leather ialtag ; craicneach (?) = craicneog, i.e., skinny, as in Man 

 (see Kermode) ; callah or cal-luch, and feascarluch, mioltog leathair, 



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