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 143 Cornish diamonds. Crystals of quartz, " of a fine clear water but some are yellow, brown, cloudy, opake, white, green, purple, black. The black is very rare, and called by Linnaeus nitrum guartzosum nigrum^ or '^ Morion." Borlase's Natural History, Cornish organ. The bellows. Cornish pies. These are various, toothsome, and wholesonie. Some are peculiar. It is a moot question which is the better, a Cornish pie or a Cornish pasty. Here is a list of a few pies : — ^ 1. Squab pie. 9. Nattlin pie. 2. Fishy pie. 10. Muggety pie. 3. Star-gazing pie. 11. Likkey pie. 4. Conger pie. 12. Tetty pie. 5. Parsley pie. 13. Giblet pie. 6. Herby pie. 14. Taddago pie. 7. Lamb-y pie. 15. Bottom pie. 8. Piggy pie. 16. Sour-sab pie, &c. They say that the Devil would not venture into Cornwall, fearing that the Cornish might put him into a pie. They use pepper instead. Cornish. "To Cornish together," i.e., several persons to use only one glass like "a loving cup." Cornish hair. The rough wool of ancient Cornish sheep. Carew. this Glossary,
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