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10 ANTRIM AND DOWN aLOSSARY. Blood-sucker, ah, a stinging jelly-fish, or Meduacu Blooming Sally, sb. the hairy wiUow herb, Epilobium hirsutum. BlooBter, v. to bluster. Blootther, sb, a severe blow ; a clumsy blundering rustic. BlosB, sb. contraction for blossom ; a term of endearment. Blue-bonnety sb. the blue titmouse. The bird that is here called the ' cock blue bonnet,' is really the great titmouse. Blne-bow, Blew-bowed, sb, said of flax when it blossoms. Blue-month. ' It happens longer or shorter, from tke time that the owl pratis (potatoes) goes out, an' the new ones is not come in.' — Ollmdtick. Blnit, sb. a fish ; some description of skate or thom-bacL Blurtin' thing, sb. a crying child. Boag, sb. a bog. Boagie, sb. a strong low truck with four wheels. Board, (I) v. 'To board a person,' to brinj? him before a board (of Guardians, for instance) on some charga * What ails you at the man P ' ' Sure he boarded me an' got me the sack ' (dismissed). (2) V. to accost a person. Bog-bean, sb, Menyantliea trifoliaia. It is used medicinally by the peasantry. Bogging, sb. black bog or peat, used for manure (Mason's Parochial Survey, 1814). Boggle, sb. a mischievous spirit or goblin. Bog-wood, sb. fir-wood dug out of peat bogs. Bohog, sb. a rude shed, under which the priests said mass during times of persecution. Boil, sb. the boil = the boUing point * The pot's comin' to the boiL' ' If 8 just at the 6(n7.' Boiled milk, sb. porridge made of oat-meal and milk. Boiled upon, boiled with. 'Take some of that herb boiled upon sweet milk.' Soke, V. to retch ; to incline to vomit. Bole, sb. a small recess in the wall of a room. Bo-man, sb. a bogey. The word is used to frighten children. Bonanght, sb. a thick round cake made of oaten meal, baked on the clear turf coal, and often used on the first making of meal after harvest (Dubotjrdibu's Co. Down, 1802).