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 323 St. Tibb'S Eve. Neither before nor after Christmas, i.e., at no time. "I'll do et next St. Tibb's Eve." M.A.c. Like the ** Greek calends." ScaW-COO. The night shade. M.A.C. Celtic Cornish. Scaw-dower. The water elder. M.A.c. It is Celtic Cornish from, scawen, elder, {scaw elders,) and dour water. Scullions. (Onions. T.w.s.) Elsewhere called seal- lions or leeks. " The leek was worshipped at Ascalon, (whence the modern name of scallionSy) as it was in Egypt. Leeks and onions were also deposited in the sacred chests of the mysteries both of Isis and Ceres, the Ceudven of the Druids It may also induce one to think that the wearing of leeks on St. David's day, did not originate at the battle between the Welch and the Saxons in the sixth century, but that its origin lies in the remotest antiquity." Hoggs Fabulous Ilishj. of Ancient Cormvall. j). 448. Shortahs. "Masses of loose rubbish in slate quarries which have fallen in, and filled up cracks and rents." c. Tarving. Struggling, storming, agitating. " Tarving about in a rage." In Celtic Cornish, iervyns, a tem- pest. Teary, or Tary ground. Loose, fissured, or bro- ken ground, or rock. In Celtic Cornish tyrry, to break, and terry, a breaking.