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 WKST CORNWALL OLOSSART. 37 parties of l)oy8, five or six in a parhr, will assemble under your winaows, blowing tin boms and oonch shells, and begging for money. With the money col- lected they go into the country and hare bread-and-cream jun- ket, &o. An additional rinjgf of tin is added to the bottom of the horns every year, Kaied-antie, V azegerry, Haie- gerry-pattiok {pron. maazed), a wild, foolish, firolicsome fellow. Xassard, a small black cherry. Meanolafl, a kind of stove. It
 * was a square box filled with

stones and clay, used by fisher- men in their boats, before the invention of stoves, as a fire- place on which they dressed tiieir meat. W. F. P., Mouse- hole, lidnolas, H. K 0. Meat (pron, mait), v. to feed. ''Matt the piG;s.*' *' Meat is still used in Cornwall in its general sense, and not for ani- mal food only.** J. W. Heat-earth, soil Meaty, adj. fleshy. ''She's a matfy little pig.** Meayer, a measure. Meeder, a mower. Polwhele, Halliwell, Couch. Men, a stone. MSn is not used as a common noun, but only in proper names. Mto-aa-tol, a stone with a round hole in it^ Called by the country people *' crick-stone,*' because it • IS supposed to have the power of healmg those who would crawl through it. " Maen tolf or the stone with a hole, on Aiiguidal Downs in Madem, famous for curing pains in the back, by foing through the hole, three, ve, or nine times.** — Borlase*s ''Antiquities,*' p. 178. MAnr-ekry&y an inscribed stone. Sometimes spelt ^MSn acri/ffa^^* Merle, a link of a chaiiu Meryon, an ant; a term of en- dearment. «* She's iayther* 8 little meryon*^ (pran, mer-yon). Merry-dancers, the Aurora Borealis. Merrysole (pran. merisol), a French sole. Mewed, p. p, "scattered by frigjit.*' Sennen, T. 0. Midget, a very small bit; a scrap. Midgetty-morrows, the fidgets. Midgetty-por, a great confusion. " What a midgetty-por you have around you.** Miggaloonpore. H.B. 0. Midjana, small bits ; shreds. ''The cup is skat (broken) to Milchy - bread, moist, sticky bread, made from milchy com. Milehy-comy com that has germi- nated. Milpreve, a coralline ball worn as a charm against adders. MimBey, the minnow. Mineh, Minchy, v, to play the truant. Meech, Polwhele. Mincher, one who plays the truant. Misment, a mistake. " 'Twas a misment on my part.** Mia-mase, Mizzy-maze, a bewil- derment. '* Pm all o' a mizgy- maze.** Mock, a large block. A piece of this year's Christmas mock is in some parts saved to light the next year's. See Chrestmas- stock. Mock, the cheese or compound of apples and reeds in the wring or cider press. Poli;rhele. Mocket, a bib attached to an apron to keep the front of the dress clean.