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ANTRIM AND DOWN QLOSSART. 9 Blanket. ' It's as braid as it's lang, like Padd/s blanket * ^ it's no matter which of two ways a thing is done. Blanter, ah. a particular kind of oats, long in the pickle, and late in ripening. Blashy, adj, splashy. Blast 0* the pipe, sh. a smoke. Blate, adj. bashful Blatther, ah. ' He fell a hlatther on the graunV «• e- with great force. Bland, (1) ah. a slap or blow. (2) V, to slap. Bleart, adj. bleared. Bleary-een. 06. pL eyes affected by a thick fluid ; inflamed eyes. Bleerie-tea, ah, very weak tea. Blessed be the Maker ! an exclamation, made after saying that any one is particularly ugly. Blessing, (1) 'You missed as you missed your mammy's hleaain'* said derisively to some one who is disappointed at haying missed something. (2) ' The Lord's blessing be about you,' a common form in which a beggar acknowledges an akns. Blether, Blather, (1) ah. a talking, empty person. (2) V, to talk f ooHshly ; to talk indistinctly. Blethers, ah. nonsense ; foolish talk. Blind, V. to ' blind a road ' = to spread small stones or cinders so as to coyer up the large stones, with which a new road has been ' pitched/ and to fill the interstices. Blind man's stan, ah. a boy's game, played with the eggs of small birds. The eggs are placed on the ground, and the player, who is blindfolded, takes a certain nimiber of steps in the direction of the eggs ; he then slaps the ground with a stick thrice, in the hope of breaking the eggs ; then the next player, and so on. Blinked, adj. Cow's milk is said to be hlinked when it does not produce butter, in consequence of some supposed charm haying been worked — a counter charm is required to bring it right. Blister, ah. an annoying person. Blockan, ah. the coal fish, Merlangua earhonqriua. The fry are called gilpins, small ones pickies ; the mid-sized ones blockans and glaahans, and when large, grey lord and stanlock. Blood, (l)v. 'To get hlood from a turnip,' to achieve something very difficult in the way of getting. (2) V. to bleed. * Tour nose is hloodin*