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 290 Tender. A waiter, as at an inn, or at a gentleman's dinner table. " Ev'ry Tender what's tlieere, my dears, is a rail gen'leman to look upon, mostly passons I reckon, or they've got their cloos, and they're like 'em too 'bout their throtts." The " Queen'' s washing day " by Tregellas, Tender-box. Tinder box. A metal box with a cover containing charred rags on which a spark from flint and steel increased so as to light a sulphur match. Superseded by lucifer matches in 1834. Tern. A bittern. " Crying like a tern." M.A.C. Tetties, Taties, Tates. Potatoes. Tetty-hobbin. Potato cake. Callington, Tetty-hoggan. Potato pasty. Callington, Hogen in Celtic Cornish means a pork pasty. Pryce, Tetty-rattle. Cornish stew. Thew. Threaten. Carew, Thikky, Thekka, Thikky there. That, as "thikky man," i.e., that man. (In Celtic Cornish theh means the, Pryce.) Thickee and thuckee. This and that. "Some caan't abide thickee, and t'other man caan't tich thuckee,^^ Mrs. Parfs Adam omd Eve, Thirl^ or Thurl. Thin, wan, hollow-eyed. ^*He's looking quite thirl." '' I'm feeling very thirl." Throstel. A thrush. Throstel. Chaucer, Throyting. Cutting little chips from a stick. Carew.