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 109 Arrish-mow. A round pile of corn sheaves, about ten feet high ending with a cone, crowned by a single sheaf. Eaised in the fields for fear of rain before the corn is carried. Arry. Any. Arry wawn. i.e., any-one. A"Sani. Partly open, as of a door. "The door's a-sam." Ascrode. Astride. C. Ass. This animal has several names in Cornwall, viz : Ass, Donkey, Jackass, Neddy, Negger, Dicky; Moguz and Peter Moguz, in Callington ; King, in Eedruth. Asen and Rounsan are Celtic Cornish for ass. Ass-neger. A silly fellow, a fool. U.J.T. Brewer, in his " Dicty. of Phrase and Fable," spells it assinego, and calls it a Portuguese word. "Thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows; an assinego may tutor thee." Troilus and Cressida. Atal. (Pronounced attle.) Mine rubbish, refuse, or waste. A Celtic Cornish word. It has even been said that this is a Phoenician word. Atal Sarazin. The offcasts of the Saracens, old works supposed to have been worked by them. Keigwin, quoted hy Pryce in his Cornish English Vocabulary. Atween. Between. " Eight atween the two." " Her loose long yellow locks, like golden wire, Sprinkled with perl, and perling flowr's atween.'^ Spenser,