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 WBST CORNWALL GL0S3ART. Boutig^o, Bout-a-go, Bout-1-go (pron. Boutshego), a tramp. '* I caan't abear hautiao» coming round the town plaace" (the farm-yard). Bowed, bent A little bowed old man.** Bowerly, adj. burly; corpulent. " A fine howerly man." Bowings, bowings of the legs; the under part of the knee-joint Bow-jowler (ow like how)^ a place in fishing boats for hauUng foot- line through. Mousehole fisher- men, through W. F. P. and B. V. Boys. There are no men in Cornwall; they are all Ciomiah hoys" Boy's love, southernwood. Braave, Bra, adj, and adv, fine ; very. "He's grown a bra cheeld.'' *' I'm hraave and well, thank 'ee.'* And between two a^ectiyee (in Cornwall) applies the preceding one to the latter. Brave and wicked (bravely or very wicked), although brave alone would be a term of com- mendation. J. W. " A hrave- looking man " is a good-looking man. Brace, the mouth of a shaft. Mining Becord^ through W. Noye. Brage, v. to scold violently. Couch. Braging, part, roaring; raging. " Braging like a lion." Braggashans. " But I scorn to stand speeohing hraggasTians" — Uncle Jan Trmoodle, Braggaty, adj, spotted ; mottled. " A hraggaty cow." Brake, a larg;e quantity: parti- cularly applied to flowers, as a hrahe of honeysuckle. Brandis, a three-cornered iron rest for baking meat on; also used to hold a kettle, or support burning brands. Brash, an eruption ; a rash. Breach. A horse or cow ia said to hreach when it breaks down fences. A ** hreachy cow " is one that breaks bounds. Breachy water, brackish water. Bread - and - cheese, the young leaves of hawthorn, often eaten by children. Breal, Breel, a mackerel W. K., B. V. Breed, Breedy, v, to make or mend fishing-nets with a mesh and needle. Bren, Brend, v. to wrinkle the forehead. ** Don't hrend your brows so." Brow brenner, eye winker. Old Nursery Rhyme, Brick, Breck, a rent or flaw. Brizniniiig, the phosphorescence of the waves. Brink, the gill of a fish. E. P., through W. Noye. Briny, adj, luminous ; phosphor- escent: applied to tiie sea; the medussB. Brit, a small kind of fish the size of a sprat F. W. P., Jago, M. B. Briihyll, a trout (jpron. truff). BLRO. Broad-flg, a Turkey fig. Broft, p. p, brought. " She was broft home in a cart'* Broil, earth on the surface indi- catmg a vein of metal. ''The bimt stuff, word used by Berry- man, who professes to find lodes to this day by the divining rod." T. 0. Br<»l, V. to discover metal from the earth thrown up by the heat of the vein.
 * There wasn't a brick in it"