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 C ANTRIM AND DOWN GLOSSARY. Batt (1) sh, a blow. ' He geed me a hat on the heed.' (2) Bh, a moth. XhathB called * a leather-winged haij Bats and bandf, a description of rude hinges, consisting of a hook which is driyen into the door-frame, and a strap with an eye which is nailed to the door, so that the door can at anytime be lifted off its hinges. Battery, ah, a sloping sea wall. Batflef bottle, $h, a small bundle of hay or straw. Bavin, ah. a sea fish, the Italian wrasse, family Lahrua. Fishermen esteem it of yery little account, and generally nse it to bait their lobster-pots with. It is also called 'Morrian,' ' Mnrran-roe,' and •Oregah.' Bay, ah. one of the diyisions or apartments in a cottage. Baal, V, to suppurate. Bealdin, Bealin, ah, matter from a sore. Bealin, ah. a suppurating sore. Beat all, v. to surpass all. * Well, now, that heat all that oyer I heard.' Beauty sleep, ah. the sleep had before twelve o'clock. Becker-dog, ah. the grampus. Beeomes, v. ' She hecomea her bonnet,' means the bonnet becomes her. * Shure the creathur hecomea his new shuit' Beddy, adj. interfering; meddling. 'You're very heddy^' saucy at one s food, also greedy, covetous. ah. a bed-ridden person ; same as BethereL Beeoe, ah. cattle ; beasts. Beeslingi, ah. beestings — ^the milk got from a cow at the three first milkings after she has calyed Beet, ah. a small sheaf, or bunch of flax. Beets, ah. pi. the medullary rays in wood. BeetlOi ah. a round wooden mallet or pounder for kitchen use ; a wooden block as used in a ' beetling mill.' p.mill, ah. a mill fitted with large wooden 'beetles,' raised perpendicularly by machinery and foiling with their own weight, for finishing linen. Beggar's stab, ah. a coarse sewing-needle. Begond, Begood, v. begun. Begunked, adj.' disappointed. Same as Ounked. Behang, an exclamation. < O hehxing t' ye for a fool.'
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