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 94 XAST CORNWALL GLOSSARY. Kor, the gaiUemot. Hord, laid ; pig's grease. Mother Carey's eUoken, stormy petiels, ProceBarta pekigica. Kowhay, the inclosure where stacks and mows are made. HuffleSy freckles in the skin. Hnggets, the small entrails, chitterlings. In a MS. cookery-book of the tune of Queen Elizabeth, in my possession, and probably Cornish, there are directions how '* to boyle calyes muggetta,^^ Hnle, to beplaster with mud. " He was mtUed in mud." The same as moiled or bemoiled. HvlBf to knead or make dou^h. In Riley's Mummenta Oildhallm LcndmenaUy yoL iii., a story is given in Latin of a roa^sh baker who used to cheat his customers by haying a hole in nis table, '* qwB vocaiur inMing horde,'' a.d. 1327. IKnr, the sea bird Guillemot ( Uria). Kute, the hybrid between male ass and mare. Haeker, the wheatear, Saxieola oenan&ie, Haert, night Hail, a needle. Hatey, adj, applied to fat when fairly composed of fat and lean. Hattlings, the small guts. Qy. from C. enederen. Heat, d^'. simple; undiluted. This word has wide distribution witii many yariations among the North-western branches of the Aryan languages. With us its use is £eu3t dying out, and is chiefly appued to spirituous drinks. E.g. 'TU har it neat" i,e. without water. Ohiistopher Marlowe in his Hero and Leander uses it in our sense. Wnd sayages that drink of running springs Think water £ur ezcells all earthly things ; But they that drink neat wine despise it. Hack, a miniature sheaf of wheat with four plaited arms, intertwined with everlastingBy and the more durable of flowers. The stalks of wheat brought down by the last sweep of the scythe are brought home in thankfdl ^imiph, and woyen as described. In the eyening the sheaf or tang is taken into the mowhay, where are assembled all the harvest party. A stout-lunged reaper proclaims — '^IhaVen! IhaVen! Ihay'en!" Another loud yoice questions : — "WhathaVeeP WhathaVeeP What hay'ee P '* «*An«A/ AnecA:.' Aneckf' is the reply ; and the crowd take up, in their lustiest tenes, a chorus of * * Wurrah." General merriment follows, and the draughts of ide or