38 ANTRIM AND DOWN GLOSSARY. Fits. ' It Jits you to a hair in the water ' = it fits you exactly : said of a garment. Fitty forra coo, sb, a cov that has heen giving milk for say fifteen months, and is not with calf. Flail^ (I) sb. * Lichenin' flaff,* a flash of lightning. (2) v. to flutter or flap. Flaghter spade, sb. a broad, pointed spade, with one edge turned up, used for paring sods or * scraws ' off the sur&oe of the ground. Flail, sb. A flail consists of three parts; the han' staV, the hooden or mid-kipple, which is a piece of cow-skin or eel-skin; and the soople, or part that comes in contact with the grain. Flake, Flaik, sb. a hurdle, or arrangement of branches, on which flax was formerly dried over a fire. Flannen, sb. flannel. Flatter, to wheedle; to coax; to persuade. ' Away and flcUter him for the loan of his wheel-barra.' Flaucht, sb. a flash. Flayers, sb. what drops from a dog's tongue. Flax ripple, sb. a comb with large iron teeth through which flax is drawn, to remoye the bolls or seeds. Flea. ' He would skin a flea for the hide and tallow : ' said of an avaricious person. Flee, sb. a fly. Fleeoh, v. to coax or supplicate in a fawning way. Fleet-line (float-line), sb. a line used in a particular kind of sea- fishing; the hook floats mid- way between the surface and bottom, and is carried away clear off the boat, which remains at anchor by the current. Flied, Fliet, adj. frightened. Flinch, sb. a finch; e. g. gold-flinch. Flisky, adj. skittish, specially applied to a mare which kicks when toiiched on the flank. Flit, V. to change house. 'Do you^i^ this week or nextT Flitting, sb. furniture, &c., when in transit from one house to another
- A load of flitting.*
Flofflng, Flaffin', v. fluttering, as a bird when held. Flooster, Floosterer, sb. a flatterer. Flooster, v. to flatter, or coax. Floostered, v. flurried. Flo wan, the bog cotton, Antkemis Cotuh.
