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ANTRIM AND DOWN GLOSSART. 27 Cadden, sh. a small fish, the young of the coal-fishi Merlangua carhonar%%i%. Cuddy, $h. a donkey. 'Cndnae tell a B frae a bill'a-flt,' applied to a person utterly ignorant. Coidhiehy A. a night's lodging and food. CuUooli, sh, the hroad-nosed eel, Anguilla latirostrU, This word is used at Lough Neagh, and is the Irish CoUoch = wicked, in allusion to this eel's yoracious habits. It is idso called Hunter Sal and Qorb EeL Cummingt, sb, pi. the rootlets of malt. Curohie^ sb. a curtsey. Curoudioughly, adv. comfortably ; cosily. Curl doddy, $h. a flower, the blue scabious, Seabwsa media. Children twist the stalk of this flower, and as it slowly untwists in the hand, say to it : ' Cwrl doddy on the midden^ Turn round an' tak* my biddin'.* Curleya, ah. curled kaiL Cnrmurring, sb. grumbling ; the sound caused by iiatua within the body. Cum, sb. a currant. Cumaptious, adj, quanekome; cross-grained. Custom gate, Custom gi^, sb. one of the approaches to a fair. Cut, (1) sb. a measure of linen yam. See under Spangle and Lea. (2) V. to tack from side to side up an inclined plane ; to more a hea^ object forward by pushing each end alternately. Cut butter. ' It would cut buttety if it was hot,' is said of a parti- cularly blunt knife. Cut meat. To, v. to eat an^hing. ^They never cut meat from Saturday till Wednesday : ' said of a lot of sheep which were in transit from Ireland to England. Cuts. * To draw eu^,' to draw lots. Cutter, eb. a slate pencil. Cutty, (1) ab. a short, clay pipe. (2) %b. a sea bird, the razor-bilL Also the guillemot. (3) * There you are puttin' in your cuUy among spoons,' said to a youngster who attempts to join in the conversation of the elders. (4) adj. short. ' CuUy pipe.' ' Cvtty spoon/ Cutty fillL 'You hav'n't a cutty fulV (of brains), i. e. you have no sense.