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183 Groyne. A seal. m.a.c. Grunge, or Grange. To grind the teeth, to make a grinding sound in chewing. Guag. Eubbish is so called by shoaders. TonUn, A Celtic Cornish word. Pryce says "when the tinners hole into a piece of ground, which has been wrought before, though filled up again, they call it holing in gwag'^ Guff. See Caff. Guinea-pigs. Small white cowrie shells. Guis. "An old sow that hath had many pigs. Polwhele. It is a Celtic Cornish word. Guise-dance. A kind of carnival or hal-masquS at Christmas. Polwhele calls it the guise or disguise dance, for so the Cornish pronounce guise (geez). This dance answers to the ^ mummers ' of Devon, and the morrice dancers of Oxfordshire," &c. In Celtic Cornish ges, means mockery, a jest. Gulge. To drink to excess. Gur. The shanny fish. c. Gurt. A gutter. Callington. GurgO, or Gurgy. A low hedge, or rough fence. Gur in Celtic Cornish means an end, an extremity, and ge, a fence.