190 Hoppety bed. A game, hopscotch. In playing it, a figure like the diagram is marked out on the ground, on a space about 9 or 10 feet long, and about 4 feet wide. The figures are for explanation. 6 A small stone being placed at No. 1, the player, standing on one foot, has to tip the stone, in hopping, from bed to bed, as numbered. If the stone go beyond the next space, or over the line, or, if the player cease to stand on one leg, he is ^^out," (Pan bed. Truro). Horn-fish. The gar-fish. Borlase, Horny-wink. Plover, (in the east); slugs, (in the west). Dr, Bannister, Horny-winky. A toad. H. J. Boyal Instit, of Corn- wall Horny-winky. Desolate, outlandish, as of a place fit only for ^^horny-winks and lap-wings." J.W. Hosen. Stockings. In Celtic Cornish, hosan, a stock- ing. Housey. Ennui from too much confinement in the house, feeling housey." HOSS in the lode. When a piece of "dead," ground (matrix) is found in an expansive form in the lode, they say " the lode have taken boss," (horse). E.N.
