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 36 WEST CORNWALL GLOSSARY. turkeys to yez them« ''As red as a luhhercock" Lad. " Sent all of a lud," struck all of a heap. W. N. Lug, the beach-worm, used for bait. LugBf ears. " Til gi' 'ee a click under the lug,^^ a box in the ear. Lug-sand, the fine sand close to the water* s edge in Mount's Bay; Lngg, the undergrowth of weeds in a field of com. Lump, V, " If you don't like it you must Iwnp it." ** SwaUow Ml a. lump** Lumping-eel, Sudles-eel, a fish. Petromyzidic (query)." H. B. C. Lumpous, adj. all of a heap. Lurker, a boat in which the master seiner sits to give instruc- tions. Lurk, Lurg^, idleness; laziness. "The fever of lurh^ two stomachs to eat, and neither one to work ; " or the fever of lu/rgy, Lutter-poooh, Litter -poooh, a slovenly person. Xabyer, a young hen that has never laid. **As sti£^ as a mahyer** Xadgiowler, a large moth. Xag^ty-pie {cfs hard), a magpie. Mahogany, a drink made of gin and treacle. Xair. The weather was so catching that I could not put my ' sheaves of com either into shoc^ or arish-mows ; but made them into mairsj* These are built longitudinally, about 18ft. in length by 12ft. deep. St. Levan, through H. E. 0, Make-home, v, to shut. ** Make- ' home the door.*' Hake wise, a make-belief. He's only a make-'wUeJ' Making-wise, v. to make belief. HaUdn^ a cloth nailed to a stick ; used to dean out ovens ; a dirty person. Hanohet, a small loaf of bread, not baked in a tin, in shape like a large bun ; called by the com- mon people '* Manchun bread.'* Harket-jew, Marazion. A cor- ruption of the old name, Mai- raiew ; a Thursday's market (Oarew). Norden spells it Mar- c^ewe, and gives it the same meaning. '* In his own lights like the Mayor of Marketjew** porate electors of Marazion. Through J. M. Cornish, Pen- zance. Market -jew turmut, a laige white turnip grown in Mara-^ zion, or Yellow Dutch. Mashes, a great number. ** Aye, a caled the poor doctor a mashes of names.'* — Unde Jan Trenoodle* Maun, Maund, a large coarsely- made hamper used for sending potatoes, &c., to market. Maw, a piece of bread and butter. and suear. (Morse 1, pron. Mawsel.) Maxim, a whim ; idea. " That's old Ann*s work; she's fall of her maxims.** May, the young shoots of the sycamore. May-bee, a cockchafer. May-bird, the whimbrel. Couch. May-game (pron. maygum), an odd, foolish action ; also a person who so acts. '* Don't make mock of a may game; you may be struck comical yourself one oay.*' May-horn, a large tin horn blown by boys on May-day. Sometimes as early as five in the mornings
 * ' A lamprey of the fBLmily called
 * ahe sat down lumpousP
 * ' Capital inhabitants,*' the cor-
 * * A sugary maw,* * bread, butter,