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62 WEST CORNWALL GLOSSARY. XTzzle {pron, oozle), the throat. XTzzle-pipe, the wind-pipe. Vady, adj. damp ; musty. Van, a kind of omnibus entered firom the front part Van, a rude process of trying tin ores by crushing and washing on a shoveL Yargood, a spar about 23ft. long used as a bowhne to the foresail of our fishing boats. W. F. P. Yeak, Yeaoh, an inflammation near a finger-nail ; a whitlow. Yean (Old Cornish), adj. little. BtUl occasionally used, but more as a term of endearment. "Cheeld-veow." Yeor (Old Cornish), great. Used in proper nouns, as Younder- veor, great lane. Yeer, a sucking pig. Yenom, a gathering in the finger, not near the top ; a whitlow. Yeskin, a protection for a sore finger ; a glove. Yestry, the smiling of infants in their sleep. Yietor-nnts, hazel-nuts. See Oock-haw. Yinnied, cuff, mouldy. Blue- ripe cheese is called vinnied cheese. Yisgie, an agricultural imple- ment, in shape between a mat- tock and a hammer, for beating down hedges. Yisnaa, Yidnan, a sand lance or sand eel. Yizzery, vazzery, vozery, vem, Tizzery, tazzery, tozery, tem, Hiram, jiram, cockrem, spirem, Poplar, rollin, gem. There stanos a pretty maid in a black cap. i< If you want a pretty maid in a black cap. Please to take she." Salf, TJie Queen, Aug. 23, 1879. Said by children in & Cornwall when they want to know who shall hide, &o. See Ene, Menei &c. Yla, Flaw, the colic in cattle produced by their eating too much green food. Yoaoh, V. to tread on heavily. Yolyer. See Folyer. Yore, a furrow. Yoryer, a horse-way; a border round a field. Yoyder, a clothes basket ; a laige basket for holding unmended linen sold by gipsy women. Yug, Yugh« Hugo. See Fogo. Wagel, a grey gull. Waiter, a tea-tray. Walk (pron. waalk), v. to make a journey or visit, not a walk. Walk, a journey. "Have you had a nice waalk f " asked on a return from France. Walye, v. to wallow. "Tm vxdving in riches." Wambling, a rumbling. " I have a wambling in my innerds." Want, a mole. " What's that % " "What you rich people never have in your house, a wanV^ Want-hilly a mole-hill. Wanting, phr. *^ How long have you been wanting $"i= how long nave you been away from home P Warsail, a corruption of wassaiL About New Yearns Day four or six men join together; afber dark, carrying with them a little bowl, they go from house to house, opening the doors, and calling out *• Warsail.'* They