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Sile, to pass through a filter. 



Snosh, comfortable. An old snoshie; a fat, comfortable old 

 man. 



Squeel, " on the squeel," an expression signifying that butter- 

 milk is becoming too sour for use. 



Stank-hen or Stankie, water-hen. 



Starn, the pupil of the eye. 



Steep, ranunculus flammula, from its acting like rennet. 



Steelcers, boot or shoe laces. 



Stiirdied Sheep, sheep suffering from water in the head. 



Scrog, a stunted shrub. 



Stannerie, lichens yielding a stain or dye. 



Stnlk, a quantity, " as she has got a stalk of temper " — i.e., 

 is passionate. 



Spret, juncus articulatus. 



Stool-benf, juncus squari'osus. 



Stoothin, lathing plastered, 



Storm, applied to a period of frost as well as to wind and rain. 



Stog, to walk heavily. 



Skerrii or Scairy, a shadow, a reflection, a metaphor. A 

 woman was telling me how she had employed her Sunday reading 

 in Revelation, when I began to corner her concerning- the woman 

 clothed with the sun, explaining how many thousand times it was 

 larger than the earth, and so inconceivably hot that any woman 

 would have melted in a moment, when she answered me rather 

 ■ pat — " Oh ! sir, St. John's account o' her maun be a scairy." 



Skhj, the place on which one slides. 



Skellie, to exaggerate, to narrate incorrectly. 



Scraw, a thin turf. 



Spell, to add to a story, to exaggerate. In Chaucer spell 

 means a narrative, and so in the word " gospel." 



Skelpy, a mischievous girl. 



Stangs, to take the stangs, to have a fit of passion, 



Spang, to give a high leap. — Ramsay. 



Siieel, Dumfries cont. for snivel. — " Waverley Novels." 



Sti-ae Sonks, a wreath of straw used as a cushion or load 

 saddle. — " Bennett's Tales of Nithsdale." 



!^onks, seats. — " Waverley." 



Spi-i/, active, nimble, lively ; also, smart in appearance and in 

 dress. Added by Todd to Johnston. Given by Halliwell as a 



