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Rizzards, currants. (Sanquhar.) 



Road-riddens or Road-rihhens, stuff cleared off the road and 

 banked up on the side. 



Rime or Rine, the Dumfriesshire word for hoar frost. Ayr- 

 shire cranreuch. It can be shown that the two words are vari- 

 ants from the same root. Anglo-Saxon spelt it with an initial h. 

 Curtius connects hrim with the Greek krumos frost. 



Rile, Dumfriesshire contraction for ravle, Eenfrewshire. To 

 rile worset, to entangle it. 



Rip, a regardless fellow. 



Ragabus, a tatterdemalion, a vagabond. 



Rieii, conta'action for riven. 



Rackingwarje, too great a wage. Comp. E. rack-rent. 



Red land, ploughed land, so called by many who know it is 

 not red. Vide Gladstone's misconceptions of Homeric inability to 

 distinguish colour, founded on paucity of Homeric colour-names. 

 In old Scotch ballads the fox and yellow gold are red. 



S. 



Sad, firm, steady. " The jelly is sad enough." It means 

 grave or steady in Chaucer. 



Scart, the Cormorant — of Gaelic origin. " Waverley Novels." 



Scowder, to scorch. 



Shore, to shore a dog on ; to hound on a dog to cattle or 

 sheep, perhaps with the intention of dividing the flock into separate 

 parts. 



To shie, to start, as of a horse at a strange object. E.E. 



Shott^ an ill-grown ewe. 



Slid, slippery. 



Shoddie, a baby's shoe. 



Shine, to fling or throw violently. In Renfrewshire a shine 

 was a quarrel. 



Shog-bog, a quaking moss-bog. 



Shilbands, cart tops. 



Shyle, to make wry faces. Renfrewshire, showl. 



Sit, applied to any piece of crockery or furniture. These sit 

 in Dumfriesshire, but stand in Renfrewshire. 



Scoory, disreputable in appearance. A " scoory-looking blade," 

 a broken-down looking tramp whose face creates sinister sugges- 

 tions. 



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