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308 Watty, or Wat. A name for a hare. So called from his long ears or ivattles. Brewer. " By this poor Wat, far off upon a hill Stands on his hinder legs, with listening ear." Shakspere in " Venus and Adonis.^^ Way. The "reason why." "That is the way I did it/' i.e., That is why I did it. Way. '^In ^ way. Disturbed in mind. Angry. " Mawther's in a putty way. See Taer, Taking. Touse, and Por. Ware East. Ware West. Cries in hurling for the goal. Carew. (Ware or Whare, Celtic Cornish for quickly, soon, at once.) Wear, or wor. Fashion. See Oal tha wor. " It is not the wear'^ Shakspere . Wedgin day. A day set apart by miners for repairing tools, &C. E.N. ■^00ly9S^ (weelys) Crab or lobster pots. Tonkin. Wee's nest. A mare's nest. " Why dost thou laugh 1 What mare's nest hast thou found *? " Beaumont and Fletcher, " Bonduca, v. 2. In Cornwall they say, " you have found a wee's nest and are laughing over the eggs. " Brewer. Wee-wow. A rocking unsteady motion. Wobbling about. Weet. To pull. (" ril weet thy loggers." M.A.c.)