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8 ANTRIM AND DOWN GLOSSABY. Biflcake, sh, a biscuit. Biscuit, sb, the root of PotentUla tormeniilla, called also * tormentiiig root.' Bisna, r. is not. 'If it hisTia the right thing, we canny work wi' it.' Bissent, is not. ' I can carry it, if it bissent too weighty.' Bit, (1) sb. The bit of a key is the part that is cut to pass the wards of the lock. (2) »h, to ' come to the hit,* is to come to the point ; to arriye at the last stage of a bargain. Biting Billy, ab, a very hot description of sugar-stick. Bits of things, eb. pi, household furniture. Biz, bees, v. is or are. ' If you biz goin' I'll go too.' ' When that work beei finished ye may go.' Bisz, t;. to buzz. " And sweetly you hizzed wee happy bee." — ^Fleoheb. Blab, sb. (!) a raised blister; (2) a tell-tale; (3) a bee's blab, the little bag of honey within the boay of a bee. Black-a-yized, adj, dark-complexioned. Black-baok, $b, a fish, the flounder or fluke, Platessa flestis. Black-head, eb, the reed bunting. Black lumps, ab, pi, a favourite sweetmeat made up in balls, and flavoured with cloves. Black out, adj, 'The fire's black out,* t. e, quite out. Black scart, ab, a cormorant. Blad, (1) ab, a useless thing. (2) Bh. a slap or blow. (3) V, to slap. (4) v. to blow or flap about in the wind^ as clothes do when drying on a line. * The wind would blad the young trees about.' Bladding =^ flapping about. Blade, sb. Strawberries, raspberries, and currants, are sold by the blade ; i. e, a cabbage-leaf into which a pint or quart, as the case may be, of the fruit, has been put. Blade mangles, to, v. to take the outside leaves off growing mangolds, Blae, adj, livid ; blueish. ' Blae with cold.' Blae-berry, ab, the whortle-berry, Vaccinum myrtUlua. Same as Frughan. Bla-flum, Bla-fom, sb, nonsense ; something said to mislead.