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ANTRIM AND DOWN GLOSSARY. HI Up the oonntry people, tb. pL persons from any part- of Ireland, except the north-east of Ulster. VSy prcm. me. Vaig, eb, a disreputable, wandering person. Vaigiah, adj. vagrant. ' A vaigish looking person.* Vast. To be ' vast against a person/ is to be yery mnch opposed to him. Vaut, ab. a yanlt. Vermint o' rats, a great quantity of rats ; a plague of rats. Waarsh, Worsh, adj. insipid. 'A'ye got a warsh taste in ma mouth.' Wabster, sb. a weaver. Wad, V. to wager. Wag at the wa', sb, a clock, of which the pendulum is exposed to view. Wag on, V. to beckon. ' I wagged an him to come across the field to me.' Wait a wee, wait a little bit. Waited on, just expected to die. ' He was waited on last night.' ' He's just a waitin* on.^ Wakerife, Wankerife, adj wakeful. Wale, (1) sb. that which is chosen or selected. (2) V. to pick the best out of a quantity of anything. Waling [wailing] glass, sb, a weaver^s counting glass, which magnifies a small portion of the surface of linen, and thus enables the set or count to oe ascertained. Walked [I sounded], acy. shrunken, applied to flannel that has shrunk in washing. ' The flannen 's as wcUk&i an' hard as a ca's lug ' [a calf s ear]. Wallop, ab. * A wallop of a horse,' a loose-limbed horse. Walloping, v. floundering. A certain lake had overflowed its banks, and it was said that ' the eels were wdUopirC through the fields.' Wallopy, adj. loose limbed. Walter, v, 'The potatoes lie down and waiter on the ground,' i, e. they remain lying. Waltiiered, adj. mired or stuck in a boggy road, or swampy place. ' Whiles in the momin' I find the branches of the trees all waUhered and smashed,' broken down into the mire.