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 38 WEST CORNWALL GLOSSARY. Mood, the fungus produced on liquor by fermentation. J. W. A sweetbread. " Vegetable sap. * ' Coucb. MoonBhine, spirit that has been smuggled. Hoor, Maur, the root of a plant or tree. ''NackH the mabyers (little hens) both stiff wi' a great maur of fuz" (furse). — llnde Jan Trenoodle. Moorstone, granite. Xoney-penny, the small white cowrie. SciUy. Hop and heedy; hide and seek (mope and hide). '* Every fit and turn, mopping about to- gether. Mopping = going to- gether in company; spoken of a young man and woman sup- posed to be courting.'* Towed- nack, T. C. Mor, Murre, a guillemot. Moral, a resemblance ; a likeness. Morrabs, Morraps, land near the sea. Now used as a proper noun. Mort, hog's lard. Mort, a plenty ; a great number. '* A mort of people." Mort, Morty, t;. to digest; to turn to fiat. Mot, the root. Moth, moss. F. C. Month-speech, speech.  Hav' 'ee lost your mouth-Bpeechf** Mow, Bmmnial, a round mow, enlarging in diameter from the base uj) to a certain height, &om which it again contracts to the aj>ex. All tae sheaves are placed with the ears inward in the lower, and outward in the upper, part, (firummal Mow.) Mow, Pedrack, a round mow preserving the same diameter throughout until it begins to contract at the apex, having all the ears inside. (Pedrack Mow.) Davy, Zennor. Mowhay (pran. mo-ey), an en- closure of ricks of com or hay. •* Out in the mo^ close." Moyle, a mule. " A hybrid be- tween a stallion and an ass." T. Q. Couch. **A8 stubborn as a moy/e." Moyle is a surname in Cornwall. Mnggets, sheep's entrails. Mnggety-pie, a pie made of sheep's entrails, parsley, and cream. Mnle, V, to work hard ; to knead ; to make dough. Mnller, a stone formerly used for reducing tin ore to powder. Mnmohanoe Opron. chaence), a silent, stupid person. '* To sit mumchance, to sit silent." J. W. Mnmming-boofh, the tent in which strolling players perform. The performers are never spoken of as actors, but play-actors. Mun, decaying fish used for manure. Mnndio, iron pyrites ; sometimes cut, polished, and sold for orna- ments under the name of '' Mar- casite." Munge, v.. to chew; to knead* Mnnged (g soft). ** He did not strike me ; he munged me upon my side wi^ his knee when I was on the ground." Penzance, T. C. Mnnger, a horse-collar made of twisted straw. Polwhele. Mnr, Mnrs, '^ a mouse, mice ; a dormouse, dormice." (Qu. mures Lat.) I heard a woman in Meneg say of two children asleep, "They are sleeping like two little murs** Polwhele. Mured, p. p. squeezed. ''He murtd me up agen the walL"
 * * The very moral of his fayther.' '
 * Munge your dough well."