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£AST CORNWALL OLOSSART. 79 Brown-worty the figwort, Scrqphtdaria nodosa. The leayes are mudh used as an applicatdon to ulcers. Browihy. Light and spongy bread is hrowthy. Buck. The Imck in the dairy is a change in the milk and cream, produced by some unknown influence, perhaps electrical, or more probably some fungoid or other growth by which they acquire a disagreeable taste and smelL It is very difficult to eradicate from the dairy when once in. Bnckhom, whiting, salted and dried. Once a considerable article of export from Polperro and other fishing towns; but in these days when we cannot wait for fish to be salted the trade is discontinued. Bnflle-headi thick-head; dunder-head But my Lord Mayor, a talking, bragging, luffle^'hiaded fellow. — Pepy$, March 17, 1663. Bollard, buUward ) In the cow, maria appetens, Bnllnm, the fruit of the Prunua interstitial or bullace tree. Bnltyt , Boulter, a term applied by fishermen to an apparatus for catclung conger, pollack, &c. It consists of a long line, having at intervab hanging from it snoods of a fathom length armed with tinned hooks. The snoods have many separate cords to preyent the fish liberating themselves by jawing, luie whole is moored, and its position marked by a buoy. Oarew calls it a hotUter. Bnmfire, bonfire. Bunt, the concavity or bellying of a net or sail. Burrow, a mound or heap; a sepulchral tumulus. See Beat- bnrrowis* Boss, a yearling calf still sucking. Bus^y-milk, the first milk after calving. Buts, bote, a disease of the horse. Shakspere uses the word. Tusser bids the farmer beware of giving his cattle *^ green peason for breed- ing of iote/' — Five Hund, Points : December Husb., v . 17. Butt, (1) a heavy two-wheeled cart. (2) a hive; **abee-bui" Butter and Eggs, the fiower Narcisma poeticus. Butterdock, the herb burdock, Arctium majus. The fruit are called cockle-bells. Cab, a dirty mess; a slovenly, untidy thing. Cabby, adj. dirty. Oaff, refuse; especially refuse or unsaleable fish. Cannis, to toss about carelessly.