WEST CORNWALL QLOSSART. 47 Seeye, v. to separate by means of a sieye, seeds, small oom, &o. from the good grain. Kemlet, a remnant. Sesnrrection- lay , Easter Sunday. Sibble-rash, rabble-iash, the rabble. Siffle, a break in a roof made by a strong wind carrying away the slates or thatch. Siffled, V. carried away by the wind. ** The wiod riffled lots of housen last night; the hellings (slates) were flying about." Big, fun j frolic ; noise. Single, t;. to ring; to tinkle. "The bells are tingling all day long. * * I heard something r ingle on the floor." Biyer (pron, revver), any small stream of water is ciedled a river, Boach, a rash. Bobin's alight, a game of forfeits played around the fire. A piece of stick is set on fire, and whirled around rapidly in the hand of the first player, who says,
- ' Bobin's alight , and if he go out
I will saddle your back.*' It is then passed to the next who says the same thing, and so on. The person who lets the spark die out has to pay a forfeit. Scilly. «* Jack's alive."
- ' Jack*s alive and likely to live ;
If he die in my hand a pawn rU give." J. W. Lostwithiel. Bode, sense or wit. He hasn't the rode to do it." Bodelesa, adj, without sense or wit* Bodeling, Botling, part, talking • deliriously. **Bh.e*Bhiarodeling all the night." Boosteock, a domestic cock. As red as a rooskock" Bopar'f-newt, anything told as news that is not news. ** That's Roper* 9 news — hang the crier ! " Bory-tory, adj, very gay; tawdry.
- 'I wouldn't wear such a g'eat
rory-tory pattern." Bosnm, rosin. ^' Short of rosum** short of cash. Boup, V, to gulp down ; to drink noisily. Bonsabont, a bustling woman.
- ' She's a regular rousahouV^
Bout-ont, a Saturday-pie (spoken in jest). Boying, p, p, raving. • "He's roving mad." Bow, rough. Bow, Bows, coarse, undressed tin ore; refuse from the stamping mills. Bow-cast, rough-cast (a compost of lime and pebbles plastered over the outside of houses). Bndded, v. made red. Es feace all nidded and whited." Unde Jan Trenoodle, Budge, " a partridge." Polwhele. Bnd locks, the rood loft. Bottrell. Bnlly, Bull, v. to wheel ; to roll along. Bulls, rolls of carded wool. Bnmbelow. With Halantow, Bumbelow, the burden of the Furry song. Bumbustioiis, adJ, noisy ; trouble- some. '* They strutted about so braave and rumbustioiM as lubber- cocks" (Turkey-cocks). Uncle Jan Trenoodle, Bummage, rubbish. A good riddance to bad rummage,** Bxunmet, dandriff. Bumpin, adj. small; miserable. F. 0. Bumpy, adj, coarse; uneven.
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