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 20 WEST CORNWALL GLOSSARY. Dumes, Dnrns, the panels around a door; the door jambs. <*I were squabVd (squeezed) *gen the durriee.*' Dwaling, ^^a?*/. speaking in a rambling, confused manner. Ear-bnsflaa, the tonsils. Ear- bussums, T. Q. Couch. ^ve, Heave, v, to thaw; to become moist. *• Uneeve," Pol- whele. Ees-fye, adi in faith; certainly. here." Egg-hot, a Christmas drink made with hot beer, sugar^ eggs, and rum. Elements. "The lightning went all across the elements" Elicompane, a sweetmeat; hard- bake. ** What's your name?" that name? " '' My Master and Dame." EUcompanie, a tomtit. " There ie a vulgar tradition that the elicompanie is a bird by day and a toad by night." Polwhele. Elvan, blue porphyry. Elvan is derived from Old Cornish elven, a spark, the rock being so hard as to strike fire. Em-mers, TTmers, embers. Emmut, stroke^ as spoken of the wind." ** Right in the emmiU of it,'' that is, right in the stroke of it. Polwhele. En, the plural termination still in use, as *' house, housen; prim- rose, primrosen." Ene, mene, mona, mi, Pasca^ lara, bona (or bora), hi. Elke, belke, boh. Eggs, butter, cheese, bread, stick, stack, stone dead. Said by children in W. Cornwall when they want to know who shall be bhnd-man in blind-man's buff, &c. See Viaeery. Ent, r. to empty. Enties, empty bottles. JEmpt is often used as a contraction, as, EttaWy a shackle for fastening two chains together, so as to make them one long one. Mouse- hole fishermen, through W, P. P. Eval, a three-pronged stable-fork. Turn-down eval, a garden tool for digging. E-ver, a grass; evergreen rye. " Eaver, so called in Paul parish, is the darnel principally found in red wheat." H. E. C. Every one week, pfir^ every other week« "There's a collec- tion at our chapel every one week,** Ewety Ebbet, a newt. Eyeable, adj pleasant to the eye. Faokle, an acute inflammation in the foot. Faddy, Flora, Furry-day, a feast held at Helstone on the 8th May, when all ranks (each kee|)ing to its own class, and starting at different hours) dance through the town, to a peculiar tune called ** The Flora or Furry • " sometimes going in through the front door of a nouse and out at the back. There is always a ball in the evening. Fade, v, to dance from town to country. Fadge, Fadgee, v, to suit; to agree; to do, ** That 'nil never fudge.** " How do *ee fadgee?" now do you do? Faggot, a bad woman. ''It is also used to describe a secret and unworthy compronuse. In wrest- ling, a man who ' sells his back' is said * to faggot* *' Couch. Fainaigne, u, to cheat; to deceive;
 * Ees'/ye, there's a bad smell
 * * Elicompane" * * Who gave you
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