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106 ANTRIM AND DOWN GLOSSARY. ploughing, Ac. ' Qoing through the floor ' = walking about a room as a. nurse does with a restless child. Throngh-ofher, Throother, adj, confused; untidy; without order. ' She's a through-oiher sort o* buddy.' * His horse is all through-cither J ThroWf V. to cause. ' It throws us that we can't get the place cleared out.' Throw by, v. throw away. ' Throw by that owl hat aff ye.' Thrum, ab, a threepence. A commission of three pence per stone on flax, paid by a flax buyer to a person who brings th.e buyer and seller together in open market. Thramphry, ab. rubbish; broken furniture. Thrums, ab. pi, the ends of the threads of a weaver's warp. Thnuhy ab, a boy's game. Thmsh, fhe, ab, a skin eruption. Thnuhed in the feet, applied to a horse whose feet have become tender from the effect of dry hot weather. Thump, ab, bean champ, t. e, mashed potatoes and beans. Thunder. ' He turned up his eyes like a duck in thunder/ i, e, he showed astonishment. Thunder-bolt, a stone celt; also a belemnite. Thunderin', very. ' ThunderirC good hay.' Thurrish, v. to be friendly, kindly, or accommodating. ' These people wouldn't thurriah together.* Tib's eye, or St. Tib's eye, never. ' I'll marry you on TWa eve^ an' that's neither before Christmas nor after,' saying. Tioht, adj, smart; active. ' A tichty clean fellow.' Ticklish, acy, difficult; precarious. Tid, Tidge, ab, a fine warm bed for crops; adj, the quality of soil that is fit for the reception of seed. ' That groiuid is in fine M,' t . e, pulverised and dry. Tied. ' He was fit to be tiedf* i, e. in a great passion. Tig, ab, a children's game. The one that ' has %,' chases the others till he ' gives tig ' to one of them by touching; the one ' tigged ' then chases the others who avoid him as dangerous. ' Cross-^t^,' is a modification of this game. Till, (l) ab, heavy clay; the subsoil. (2) prep, used for to. ' A'm goin' till lisbum.' Till iron, ab, a crow-bar. Till midden, ab, a manure-heap in a ploughed field.