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181 Gozzan. An old, rusty, scratch wig. Grab. Very sour. Grafted. Coated, or loaded with dirt. "Your nails are grafted with dirt." Grail. A three-pronged fish spear. M.A.C. Grainy. Sour-tempered, close-fisted, proud. ^' A grainy ould chap." Grambler. A stony place. M.A.C. Grammer-sow. See Sow-pig. Gramfer, or Granfer. Grandfather. Grange. See Grunge. Grass. The surface at a mine, a miner's term. " Gone to grass," i.e., come up out of the mine. Graving clouds. Clouds moving contrary to the wind below them. A sign of storm. Grebe. A handful, a small portion. Green sauce. The dock sorrel. Bumex acetosa. See Sour-sauce, Sour-sabs, and Sour-sops. Greet, l^ry earth. Greet-board. The earth board of a plough. Greglan. See Griglan. Grend. A twist or kink in a chain. Mousehole. Grendin-Stone. Grinding stone. Grey. A badger. Polwhele. Grey-bird. The song thrush. ^