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 76 EAST CORNWALL GLOSSARY. Arg, to argue. Arranti errand. GK) soul the body's guest Upon a thankless arrant. The Lie, by Sir W. Baleigh, (a Devonshire man). ArriBh. See Erish. Ary monfle, hairy mouse ; the bat. A.S. hrere mus, Tq war with rere-mice for their leathern wings. Mids. N. Dream, II. ii. 4. The Tillage boys at Polperro address the bat as it flits aboye them in this song : — Ary-motise, ary-mouee ! fly over my head, And you shall ha' a crust o' bread, And when I brew and when I bake, You shall ha' a piece o' my wedding cake. Aflcrode, astride. Attle, rubbish ; refuse. The Cornish tinner, in GareVs time, called the heaps of abandoned tin works, AttcJ Sarazin, which he translates, "The Jewes offcast" {Survey of Cornwall, ed. 1769, p. 8). The word is spelt bv Pryce {MtnercUogia Comubieneis), attal, attle, adall, addle, and said to mean corrupt, impure, off-casts, deads. A.S. aidlian. Whatever the root, there are many branches, as addle, idle, ftc. Avore, before. Ax, to ask. Azew. A cow is said to be azew when drained of milk before calving. In some parts, when milking is discontinued, the cow is " gone to ««u;." Bal, a mine. Ball, (1) to beat. (2) to ball, or as noun, a bawl. ** Hold thy haH," hold your noise. Balch, a stout cord used for the head-line of a fishing net. Balk, in some places bulk. To hdlk pilchards is to pile them wall- Hkey in layers of pilchards and salt. Balk seems to mean a hedge, ridge, and metapnorically, an obstacle. Shakspere used this word as we do. Sir Walter Blount brings news of the discomfiture of Douglas, and describiDg the field, speaks of-^ Ten thousand bold Scots, two and twenty kni^ts, Balk'd in their own blood. — Henry iK., Pt. 1, I. L That like a halk with his cross builded wall. Phineas Fletcher's Purple Island, Canto iv. Stanza II. Ballywrag, to scold or abase. Barnes, in the Glossary appended to his Poeme of Rural Life in the Dorset dialect, suggests a derivation from A. 8. healu, evil, and wiregan, to accuse.