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ANTRIM AND- DOWN GLOSSARY. 75 On you, on your person; about you. 'Have you any money on tfouf Open weather, sb, weather in winter that is not frosty. Or, cidv. till, * It won't be long or we'll be back.' Orchit, sh, an orchard. Ordinary, adj. plain-looking, as a person. Or ever, adv. before. * It's twelve or ever you're in bed.' Ortin', V. rejecting ; taking out, as a cow does the good fodder from the bad. OrtillB, Oartins, sb. refuse; anything rejected. *' Other weemen's artins shan't be Sally's pick."— Flecheb. *The mornin's oartins is the evenin*s fodther/ saying. It arises from oow-house experience. Ofher, each other. ' If they take out the gun they'll shoot otherJ Ofher morrow, sb. the day after to-morrow. Our, adv. over. Our ones, Our uus, sb, my own family. * Our ones all goes to meetin'.* Out-by, adj. out of doors ; outside the house. Outlandish, adj. foreign, such as ships belonging to foreign countries. Out of the fitee, adv. to do a thing ' out of the face ' is to do it right through from first to last without stopping. Out of one's name, by a wrong name. ' He called me out of my name/ i. e. not by my own name. Out ower, adv. out ; quite over. Out-relation, sb. a distant relative. Out-wailinB, sb. refuse. Over, adj. asleep. * The chile's just over.^ Over all, adv, 'That's over all ivir A heerd,' i.e. that surpasses all, &c. Over-looked, v. the same as Over-seen, and means having received the * blink of an evil eye.' Overly muoh^ adv. too much. ' That meat's overly much done.' Owranoe, sb. mastery ; authority ; having command over. Oxther, sb. the armpit. " Whether would you rather Or rather would you be Legs to the oxther Or belly to the knee P " Ozther-eoned, v. * They oxtlher-cogged you home,' i. e. helped you along by holding you up by the arm-pits.