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70 ANTRIM AND DOWN GLOSSARY. Mootther, sb, the proportion of meal or seeds that the miller takes as his payment for grinding. Kope, sb, a mop. Ilore betoken. Besides, generally used when adding a circomstanoe to prove the correctness of a statement. Hore holy nor godly, applied to a tattered garment. More red nobs than midges : said in very cold weather. Hore than middling, very superior. ' His mother was more than middling,* Hom*8 morra, sb, the day after to-morrow. Horra. ' The morra come niver ' = never. Horrian, sb, a fish, the hallan wrasse. Same as Bavin. Horth 0* oowl, sb, a very heavy cold. Hortial, or Mortal, very, or very great. ' Martial cold.* * A mortial lot.' Host, sb, a peat bog. Hoss-ban, sb, the edge or boundary of a peat bog. Hoss-choeper, sb, the titlark or meadow pippit. Mother naked, adj, quite naked. Hountain men, sb. pi, ** That sect of dissenters called * Covenanters '." — McSkimin's Carrickfergm, Mountainy, adj, mountein. ' Mountainy people.' ' Mountain^ land.' Mouth. ' Entry mouth,* i, e, entry end ; where an entry opens on a street. Monfh, (1) 'A mx)uth on you like a tern pocket,' a comparison. (2) ' He niver as much as axed me if A had a motUh on me,' i, e. he did not ojSer me anything to eat or drink. (3) ' You're a mouthy* an expression of contempt. Howli, Howl, sb. i. e. moulds ; earth. Huckle, adj, much ; big. Hnddlo for potatoes, v, to get them out with the hands, surrepti- tiously. Hud fat, adj, very fat 'The grass here is that good, that in six weeks a beast will get mud fat on it.' Hud-lark, sb, a navvy, working at muddy embankmente or exca- vations. Hudler, sb, a small metal stamper, used in public houses to crush the lumps of sugar in punch.