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 307 tailors to use for this purpose. The custom is obsolete or very rare now. Perhaps from the Celtic Cornish fur, sage, prudent. Sage-woman's cloth. Bod- min, Wack. Allowance, quantum. ^' He looks like a fellow who can take his wacL^' Wad. A small bunch, or bundle of hay, straw, &c. The "rubber" used by french-polishers is called a " wad." Also, bread, butter, and sugar in a tied rag, for infants to suck. This is called a " sugary wad." Waiter. A tea tray. Wagel. A grey gull. M.A.C. Wambling. Rumbling in the stomach. Feeling sick and faint. See Wimbly-WaiXlbly. Wang. To hang about in a tiresome manner. M.A.C. Want. A mole. Want-hill. Mole-hill. Warming stone. A name formerly given to a kind of stone, which when once heated retains the heat a great while. Called by Charlton, Lapis schistos duriss: et solidissimus. (Borlase's Natl. Histy.) Warn. To warrant, as " TU warn'ee," i.e., I'll warrant you. Watercase. A plant resembling watercress, but the leaves are not so round, and it has a more stinging taste. ( Helosciadum nodiflorum. c.) Wattery. Faint and hungry, " I'm feeling very wat- tery."