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 78 EAST CORNWALL GLOSSART. Bloody warrior, the wall-flower, Cheiranihus cheirL Blooth, Blowthy blossom. No fruit I promise from the tree Which for this Uooth hath brought. Cabew's Survey of C. Pro9cpopei<i. Blao-poU, a species, or more probably a variety of salmon remarkable for the steel blue colour of its head, and for ascending our riyers (e. g. the Camel), about Candlemas ; hence, when occurring in numbers • they are called "^e Candlemas schuU." The great majority are obsenred to be males or kippers. Bobble, a pebble. Boldacious, audacious ; bold ; impudent Bon-crab, the female of the edible crab, Platycarcinua pagurus. BoostiB, fi&t ; well conditioned. Boots and ShoeSi the columbine, Aguilegia vulgaris, Bewerly, stately and comely. " A bowerly woman." Boy's love, southernwood. Brage, to scold violently. Braffgaty, spotted ; mottled. In an old manuscript account book which belongjed to a white witch or charmer of East Cornwall, I find a charm in which this adjective is applied to the adder. be repeated three times, nine before eight, eight before seven, seven before six, six before five, five before four, rour before three, three before two, two before one, and one before every one. Three times for the bit of an ader." Brandys, a tripod or trivet used in cooking. Brath, broth. Here chiefly noticed for a curious idiom we have, in it Brave, fairly good ; tolerably well. It is sometimes used without any well-de&ied meaning to qualify a noun, implying that the thing is moderately good of its sort E,g, *' *Tis brave weather." ** How be youP" "Braviah." Pepys writes (September 19, 1662), "that he walked to BedrilEe by brave moonshine.^ Breek, a rent or hole in a garment Qy. break. E, g, " There isn't a breek in it" Briming. The name given to those scintillations of light in the sea waves at night, produced by several species of entomostraca, medussa, &a, when excited. Carew calls it briny, Bronse, thicket.
 * a few broth" a dish of broth with a few cubes of bread soaked