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312 Wiff. A. small tippet or cape. Go and put on your Wildfire^ or Weeldfire. Erysipelas. Wild lead. See Mock lead. Willen. A beetle. This is spelt hwlllaen in Celtic Cornish by Pryce; Huilan by Borlase. Wilkin^ or Wilkey. A frog. See Quilkey, and Quilkin. Wilver. The pot, or ^^ baker" under which country bread is baked in burning wood ashes; called a " baking kettle " in Devonshire. Wimbly-wambly. Feeling sick and giddy. "I'm all wimbly-wambly." Windle. A spindle. Wind-mow. A rick made in the open field. Winds. A windlass. Pryce. Windspur broach. ^' A crooked stick thrust into each end of a thatch to secure the windspur rope." H.R.C. Windspur rope. A rope to keep the top of a hay- stack safe from the wind. Wingarly. Faint, sick. Borlase. Wingery. " Oozing, shiny, as tainted meat." M.A.C. Winky. Very quickly, ^'like winky," i.e., in a mo- ment, in the twinkling of an eye.