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 ANTRIM AND DOWN GLOSSARY. 103 Take. *T<ike to your beaters.' ' Take to your scrapers' = ran away. Take a hand at, v, to impose upon ; to banter ; to hoax. ' I know yer just iakin* a haiC at me.' Take an' do, to do. ' Take an* do that at onco.* Take bad, v. to take ill. Take in with, to overtake a person. ' You'll soon take in mth him.' Taken on with, pleased with. ' They're greatly taken on mth him.' Take notioe, v. an infant beginning to show that it observes things is said to ' take fwtice,* Take ott, (!) ab, a mimic. *Dear ! but you're a sore/aA^ ojf.' (2) V, to mimic. ' He tock her off to the life.' Take stock, v. to take notioe of ; to observe. Tak' yer tobaoco, don't be in a hurry. Tanonock, d>, a little knoll, in a bog or marsh. Tanny, sb, a dark-complexioned (tawney) person. Tap 0' kin, sh, the head of the family. Tap o' tow. Flax or tow placed on the ' rock ' of a spinning-wheel, which if set on fire, would be all ablaze in an instant. Hence the saying — * He went aff like a tap o* tow,* meaning he got into a flaming passion in an instant. Tarble han', terrible hand. Same as Sore hand. Tarbillest, adj. most terrible. Targe, (1) ^. a scolding woman. (2) V. to scold loudly. Targein'. ^ A targein* fine horse,' a very fine horse. Taste, sb, a small quantity. ^ A taste o' matches.' Tasty, adj. tasteful ; natty. ' Oh, he's a very tasty man.' Tatty, adj. untidy ; unkempt. Tawpened, adj, tufted as a fowl. Tawpenny, eh. a hen with a tuft on its head. Tear, (1) v. to run fast. (2) V. to knock or ring violently at a door. (3) [Teer] 'There's a tear in yer e'e like a threv'lin' rat,' saying. Tears. * The tears were running down his cheeks like beetles up a hiU : ' said in ridicule of a child who is crying for nothing.