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 ANTRIM AND DOWN GLOSSARY. 7^ Plates, eh. pi. flat rocks in a harbour. Play oneself v. to play. ' Play yourRelves/ 1. e. go and play. ' The chile 's playin' his self.' Pleaioh, sh. the 'sea devil' or fishing frog, Lophius. Also called MoUy gowan, Xilmaddy, &o. Pleasement, sh. what pleases; satisfaction; gratification. 'I was glad to hear it, but perhaps it's no pleasemeTit to you.' * I'll do it to your pleasemetU. ' Plenishing, sb. the famishing of a house. Ploigher, v, to cough in an asthmatic or wheezing way. Ploitin' down, v. falling down. 'What are ye pUntirC down for there, ye fitless falla.' Plout, V, to splash* Pock-arred, adj, pock-marked. Poddock-stool, eh, a toad-stool. Pedes, sh, lice. Children are warned that if they do not allow their heads to be combed with a * fine tooth comb,' the pode$ will make ropes of their hair, and drag them into the sea and drown them. Point. 'Potatoes and point,* i.e. potatoes and nothing. The potatoes are supposed to be pointed at a herring as they are eaten, to give them an imaginary flavour. Peitered ent, Pontered ent, v. said of land which has been ex- hausted, and has received only sHght supei-ficial cultivation. Poke, sb. a bag. Poke shakins, sb. the last child borne by a woman — supposed to be puny. ' That's a brave chile, it's no the poke shakins I'm thinkin'.' Polled, having the horns cut off. Same as Skulled. Polluted, adj. puffed up with pride ; conceited ; overrun. ' Them people 's got quite polluted.* * The house is polluted with books.' f. 6. he tampered with the boundary. Pont, sh. a kind of boat which carries thirty hundred-weight of turf, used on Lough Neagh (Masoit's Par. Survey). Pooin', V. pulling. Poor month, v. to ' make a poor mouth, to complain of troubles or poverty, and to make the most of these, for the purpose of exciting pity. Poppel, sb. a flower, the corn-cockle, Lychnis Githago. Poryent, Pnrvent, v. to prevent. Pos»-tab, Pooss-tub, sb. a kind of wash-tub.
 * Polluted with oeg^rs,' &c. * The other man polluted the mearing,'