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98 I5AST OORNWALI. OLOSSAHY. Babblt-Ash, unsaleable tish, shared by the tishermen. Video, N,S^ Q., yoL X. No. 265. Vide Raflle. SMe, a string. E. g. Of onions. Baffle, refuse. The less saleable fish which are not sold, but divided among the boat's crew, are called raffle fish. Bag, a large roofing stone. Baiiy, a ridge of low rocks in the sea covered and uncovered by the tide. Bare, raw. Banning, ravening; voracious. That voracious fish, Merlangu$ CorhonarittSy is called the rauning pollack. Beam, (1) v. to stretch. A.S. ryman^ to extend. (2) n. the rim or surface. Cold cream is called ** raw ream,*' Beeee, v. Corn is said to reese. when from ripeness it falls out of the ear. Bheem, to stretch or extend, as india-rublwr will do. Biding, Bam-riding. A rude method, once common in our villages, but now suppressed, of marking disapproval of, or holding up to in&my, any breach of connubial fidelity. A cart, in which were seated burlesque representatives of the erring pair, was drawn through the village, attended by a procession of men and boys, on donkeys, blowing horns. This custom was often the occnsiou of much riotous behaviour. Big, fun ; frolic. He little thought when he set out Of running such a rig. CowPBR, John Gilpin. Bish, the rush ; a list. Our people, instead of *' turning over a new leidP," beffin a new risk" 1 have thought that this may have been derived nrom a primitive way of keeping a tally by stringing some sort of counters on a rush. Bode, skill ; aptitude. ** He hasn't the rode to do et." Not rode in mad-brain*s} hand is that can help, But gentle sldll doth make the proper whelp. — Tussbr. Bodeless, without rode or skill. Bodeling, helpless ; tottering ; wandering in mind. Boper's news, news told as new, but heard before. '^ That's Jioper'^ new8,'^ £. C. adage. Boneh, Boohe, rough. Bonnd-robin, the angler fish, Lophius plsnitorin^. Boving, severe pain. Bow, rough, as in row-hound, the fish S(/tiaIm canic*da, and in the Cornish hill, Rouyfor.