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KA8T CORNWALL (SLOSH A KY. 103 Stuggy, stout ; thickset. Style, steel. Suent, smooth ; equable ; eveu. Snnunexiiigy store cattle turned wild in summer for pasturage on the wild, unenclosed moors, are sent iummering under the care of the moorland herdsmen. Burveyy an auction. Swail, or Zwail, to scorch ; singe. BwaiT) a swathe, or row of mown corn or hay. Bwopi to barter. Syoh, the edge or foaming border of a wave as it runs up a harbour or on the land. Vide Seech. Tab, a turf. Taoky to clap; to slap sharply. '* He tacked his hands.** Tail, Teel, to till or set. " To tail corn," or " to tail a trap." With us it is usual for a pers >n who has gone through mud or water to sa;^ that it ieeled him up so high as he was immersed or coyered. — "Video, N. A Q., voL x. No. 266. Taildon, or Tailor's If eedlet, the herb Scandtx pecten Veneris, Tale, measure. A tale lobster is one eleven inches from snout to tail ; all that fidl short of this the master of a lobster smack will only give half-price for. Tallet, a loft. " Hay talUt." Tarn, short; dwarf. The dwarf furze, Ulex naftusy is here called

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Furze of which the shrubby sort is called tame, — Oabew. Tang, an abiding taste. Tap, the sole of a shoe. Used also as a verb, ^* tap a shoe.** Teary, soft, like dough. Teen, to close. ** I haven't teen*d my eye.** Tell, to count or enumerate. Why should he think I tell my apricots. Every man in his humour , I. i. Tend, to kindle ; to set a light to. (Tinder, here pronounced tender.) Wash your hands, or else the fire Will not tend to your desire. Herbick, Hesperides, Ixxii. Thekky, Thekka, tliMt one ; that person, or thing. Syn thiUee day. — CHxr'CER, Knightea Tale.