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 ANTRIM AND DOWN GLOSSARY. 43 Gentle, adj. haunted by fairies. The large hawthorns growing singly are deemed sacred to fairies, and are hence called gentU thom$. McSkimin's CarricJc/erguB, 1823. Gentry, sb. the fairies. Ctentry bushes, ' fairy thorns,' &c. They are sacred to the ' good people,' and are therefore let alone. Oet, (1) 8b. an opprobrious term used in scolding matches. (2) 17. to be called. * He gets the name of Toal,' i.e. he is commonly called Toal. * TTth name is Mulgrew, but he get$ Timony.* Oet out of the shengh,' get out of the way. Oet yer heed in yer han', v. to get a great scolding. Oet your lines, v, to be dismissed from employment Same as Oet the sack and Oet the bag. Ohost, V. to haunt a person or place for the purpose of importuning for money or anything else. Ohoster, sb. one who follows another person or hangs about for the purpose of asking for something. CKants' Orayes, ib. cromlechs and kistvaens. Oib, sb. a hook on the end of a peculiar pattern of yard-stick. Oif, if. ' I certainly will fight gif your honour bids me.' mutual giving and taking. ' Qiff^gaff mak*s guid ireens.' Oig-ma-gog's Oraye, sb. a kistyaen between Coleraine and Busli- mills, Co. of Antrim. Oilderoy. * I wouldn't give it to you if you were as big as Qilderoy^ a defiance. G. was a celebrated outlaw. Oillaroo trout, sb. a large lake trout, commonly said to have a gizzard like that of a fowL CKllets, sb. narrow channels among rocks. Oilpins, sb. the fry of the coal-fish, Merlaiigus Carbonarius. Oinkin, sb. a fish. Harris (1744) says it is ''a delicate small fish, spotted and shaped something like a trout It is called here a ginkin^ in the rivers of the 0. Gttlway a streamer, in some parts a graveling, and in the C. Kilkenny a gilloge." Oinling, v. catching fish under stones with the hands. Oim, (1) sb. a noose. The noose which is made with a halter and put in a norse's mouth is called a gim. ' Fit a gim in his mooth.' (2) V. to snare trout, &c., with a noose. (3) V. to cry. * Stop that girning*