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XAST CORNWALL QLOSSART. 95 cider are often deep. The neck may be seen haaging to the beam of many of our fiurm-houeeB between harvest and Christmas eve, on whicn niffht it is giyen to the master bullock in the ehaU. '* Hollaing the neck '^is still heard in East Oomwall, and is one of the oheerfollert of rural sounds. Haggnr, the ass. Heasely a snood of twisted twine, home-made^ to which the hook is fastened in fishing for smaller fish, whiting, pollack, &c. Hessel-birdy the smallest of a brood. Hessel-taker, the little engine for making nessds, fixed to the beams of the fishermen's dwelling. Hew-fiEUig, Hew-Tang, something newly got; new fangled. Vide Fang. Hibby-gibby, narrowly escaped or missed. Hioky-nan-night, the night of Shroye Monday. For an acconnt of the curious customs which distinguish this day, vide Bep. B. Inst of Com., 1842, and Couch's Hitt. o/rolperro, p. 151. Viddiok^ occiput, or nape of the neck. Hiff, a slight offence ; a tiff. Vimpingale, a whitlow. Hut-hall, the hazel, Corylua aveUana. Oak- web, the cockchaffer, Melohntlia vidgaris, Oile, the awn or hile of barley. Ood, wood. Oott, a disease of cattle, a symptom or cause of i^hich is the presence of worms in the windpipe and bronchial tubes. Open-asses, the medlar, MespUua germaniccc, A yulgar and ill- sayoured stoij is told here as well as in Chaucer's Prologue of the Beeve, where it is said of the open^ere, ** Till we be roten, can we not be rype." Orestone, the name of some large single rocks in the sea, not far from land. Some fish are said to taste ory, some things to smell ory^ that is, like oreweed or seaweed. Oreweed, seaweed. Onrel, a porch or balcony. The ground-floor of a fisherman's house is often a fish-cellar, and the first floor seryes him for kitchen and parlour, which is reached by a flight of stone steps ending in an orrd or porch (Polperro). Ortt, scraps or leayings, especially of food. J. Orees, eayes of a house.