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Somersetshire word, but certainly more general since I find it both 

 in Dumfriesshire and Mark Twain's " Huckleberry Finn." 



Spelk, a piece of wood applied to a fracture, a little bit of thin 

 wood that has run into the hand. Renfrewshire, shelf. 



Spunrj, Jamieson says this is a Galloway word meaning to pick 

 one's pocket. In Renfrewshire a spung Avas a purse, but the word 

 was used chiefly as a synonym for wealth. " A man with a good 

 spung" was credited with having in his possession valuable deposit 

 receipts. 



Saster, a pudding. An old Moniaive man used this word. In 

 Hislop's collection of Sc. prob., we have " ye're as fu's a stappit 

 saster." 



Syke, a small rill. North of England word. Also, the gutter 



in a street. 



Squair, the gentle depression between two heights. Possibly 

 it may be a corruption of an older word swyre, applied to the neck 

 in Chaucer. The Northumbrian prov. says- 

 Little kens the guid wife, as she sits by the fire, 

 How the wind blaws caul' in hur-burl swire. 

 Swyre is a place name in Dunscore. It is a hill-road in Selkirk- 

 shire. It means neck and hollow in the " Waverley Novels." 



Strifen, film of thin skin. 



Snifeit, excessively cruel. When a parent cowhide's his 

 child it is surfeit. 



To Swap, used as to " vouch." " I'll swap that's true." 



Stampcole, a small rick of hay. 



Snabbie, the chaffinch. — Communicated. 



Swedged, grooved, applied to a horse shoe, or the iron of 



clogs. 



Soult or Saalt or Sout, a leap, applied when the plough 

 leaps up by striking a hidden stone. Also used when on a hay- 

 stack. " Give it a sout"— t.e., leap up so as to press it down. 

 The same word is in English. Summersault, originally written 

 supersault (Skeat), being a leap up or a leap over. 

 Swab, a loose idle fellow, as " a drunken swab." 

 To Stell, to place firmly. To stop as when a horse stells on 



the road. 



Sosh, quiet, contented, applied either to man or dog. Vide 



snosh. 



