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106 EAST CORNWALL GLOSSAKY. Vitty, fitting ; proper ; appropriate. Y^tteh, to tread hfiayily. Vogget^ to hop on one leg. Voider, a small wicker basket of the finer sort. In the stage directions to Heywood's Woman Killed with Kindness is this : — *' Enter three or four serving men» one with a voider ^ and a wooden knife.*' Voks, folk; people. Volyer, the second boat in a pilchard seine. Qy. a corruption of follower. Vore, a furrow of a plough. Wad, a bundle. " A wad o' straw." " Joan the wad " is the folk- name of a piak^i Jack the lantern, Joan the wad. That tickled the maid and made her mad, Light me home, the weather*s bad. — PoL^ftBO. Wadge, to bet or lay a wager. Walye, to wallow. ^ a Wang, to hang about in a tiresome manner. Want, the mole, Talpa Europooa, Waps, wasp. Warn, warrant. " I'll warn 'ee." Watercase, the herb Helosciadum nodifiorum, often made into pies in the neighbourhood of Polperro. Watty, the hare. A name in common use among poachers. Shak- spere, in a beautiful description of the hare and its many shifts to elude pursuit, uses the abbreviation, Wat, By this poor Wat^ far off upon a hill Stands on his hinder legs with listening ear. Venus and Adonis. Well-a-fyne, a common interjection, meaning " it's all very well." Wei a/yn.— Chatjcer, Rom. of the Rose, also Coh^s Tale of Oamelyn. Wettel, a child's clout. Can this be a corruption of swaddle ? Whelvc, Whilve, to turn any hollow vessel upside down (Polperro). Whiffy to fish with a towing-line under a breeze. Whip-tree, the spreader by which the chains of iron traces ai'e kejit asunder (Whippletree). Whitnecky the weasel. Whole, to heal. A.S. halian. Widdow-man, widower.