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158 flues beneath the tiled floor. On the hot floor the semi-liquid china clay is dried and rendered fit for shipment. This mode of drying Clay has been used about 20 or 30 years. Dryer. A dram or ^^nip" of spirit after drinking beer. "We had fower pints of beer, and haaf a noggin of rum for a dryer T J, T, Tregellas. DufFan. "An egotistical hypocrite." "A regular duffan. Duffed. Struck. E.N. Duffy. An outspoken person. BottraU. Dug. A push, a thrust, a poke. A " dig." Duggle. See Doggie. Dule. Comfort. Carew. Dull of hearing. Hard of hearing." Dum- dolly. A mishapen marble. M.A.C. DummetS, or DimmetS. Twilight. "Between the two lights." Dumbledory, Dumbledore, Dumbledrone, Drumbledraiiij and Dumbledrane. Differ- ent names for a drone. (In Celtic Cornish drane means " a thorne, a bryer, a bramble." Pryce.) Dungin'. Manuring. Dunged. Manured. Messed or dirtied. "I'll have ivy graw oal roun' the tower," says the passon. " And so you shall, my dear," says