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ANTRIM AND DOWN GLOSSARY. 45 Good lock, sb, a large quantity. ' Ah, tbdt's nuthin' ; gi'e us a good ioek: Gooldflpring, sb. the goldfinch. Qooae seam, sb, goose grease. Ooppen, Ooapeiiy sb. the full of both hands. ' She gave the poor body a goppen & meal.' Gorb, sb. a greedy person. In Belfast the boys of any one school oalled the boys of another gorh$. Oorb-eeL Same as Culloch, q. v. Oorgy-viU-tree, sb. a willow. Gonoon, sb. a young lad. Gospel greedy, fond of going to church. about, or Ooving round, v. staring about in a stupid way. Gowk stonn. On the N.£. coast of Co. Antrim, "the peasantry look forward with the greatest interest every spring for what they call the gowk (cuckoo^ stornif that takes place about the end of April or the beginning oi May, when the note of this bird is heard. This storm, which is from the east, casts on the beach yast qiiantities of sea- wrack, which is used as manure for their potatoes. — Thompson's Nat. Hut of Ireland. Oowl, V. to howl ; to cry in a howling way. Oowler, s?K a dog, /. e. a howler. Oowpin, sh. the painf id beating or throbbing in a suppurating finger. Gra» liking for ; aifection. ' I had no ^*a for it.* Graden, sb. a coarse kind of oat-meal. Obsolete. Oraithi sb. horse liamess. Granny, sb. The granny is a small sheaf composed of the Inst remaining growing stalks of com on a farm at harvest. The stalks are plaited together, and are cut down by the reapers throwing their reaping-hooks at it from a little distance. It is then carried home in triumph, and the person who has cut it down puts it round the neck of the oldest woman of the farmer's family. It is sometimes hung up against the ' chimney brace,' where it remains till next harvest, ^en^ it gives place to the new granny. Also called the Ohum and the ~ Granny gills, sb. head vermin. Granny's needle, sb. a hairy caterpillar; a dragon-fly. Same a» Deil's needle. Granl, sb. a sea-fish rofiomhling a young salmon. Harris (1744). A half-grown fellow.