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 236 England/' are names of the various kinds of fairies, viz : 1. — The small people. 2. — The Spriggans. 3. — The Piskies or Pigseys. 4. — The Buccas, Bockles, or Knockers. 5. — The Browneys. (Pisky is Celtic Cornish for Fairy. Borlase,). Piskey feet or Pixies' feet. See Pysgy pows. Piskey-led. Said of one bewildered, confased, or who has lost his way. " He's like anybody piskey- led." Piskey-StOOl. A mushroom. Pit-work. The part of the mine machinery which is placed in the shafts or levels. E.N. Pitch. A bargain of work in a mine. Pitch, pitch, butterfly ! An invocation by which children hope to catch a butterfly, thus " Pitch, pitch, butterfly, down low, down low.'* Pitch to. To set about a thing in real earnest. Pitch-haired, or Pitchy-haired. A rough staring coat, as of a horse in cold weather. Pitch up to. To make advances, as in "making love." Pize, Pise, Peize, or Peise. To weigh. In Corn- wall it means generally, to estimate or guess the weight of a thing by holding it in the hand, as " I've a pized et," i.e., I have handled it, or lifted it so as to judge the weight. Peise. Chaucer, (Peysen, peisen, weights. m.a.c.)