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ANTRIM AND DOWN GLOSSARY. 71 Hndyees, sb. short tongs. Kngy 8b. the mouth ; a sulky person. Muggy, (1) sb. a hand-basket made of well twisted straw rope. (2) adj, foggy; close and wet; dark, applied to the weather. Hull, sb, a mess ; something spoiled. Huphies, sb. pi, potatoes. HiiiTaii-roe» ab, a fish, the ballan wrasse. Same as Bavin. Kiusel picker, ab, a bird, the oyster catcher, HtBrnatopus ostralegua. My day, ab. all my life. 'He's the wee-eat man ivir A seen in ma day.* Hy lone, His lone, &c., ad. alone. Hy lord, ^6. a hunch-backed man. Hy ! an exclamation of surprise. Vaethin' ava, sb. nothing at all. Hag, sb. the wooden ball or ' knur,' used in the game of * shinney ' (hockey) ; also called a ' golley.' Vager [naiger], sb. a niggardly person. Vagerliness, adj. niggardliness. Kaggin, sb. a measure of liquid = quarter of a pint. K aigies, ^5. pL horses. Vail, V. to strike with a sure aim. Vails. The little white marks that come and go on the finger-nails are the subject of the following divining rhyme : we begin at the thumb — a gift ; a friend ;. a foe ; a loyer ; a journey to go. Vaperty, sb, a vetch, with a fleshy root, Lathyrus macrorkizus. Cfiiildren dig up and eat the little knobs at the roots. Vapper, Vabber, sb. anything large and good of its kind. Hatnre, sb. the name for a particular quality in flax, an oiliness, softness, or kindliness in working, which is of great value. ' This flax is hard and birsely, it has no nature.* * Now nere's a flax full of nature.* Hanky, adj. cunning. Heaped in, acff. term used when a vessel cannot get out of a harbour in consequence of tides or winds causing the water to be shallow. Hear, adj. miserly ; penurious. Vear begone, acff. penurious ; stingy. ' Near begone people disn*t give the workers jnate enough sometimes, an' that's a bnrmn' shame.'