ivi PROCEEDINGS, 
rections. But Halliwell gives it as Westmoreland for an uproar, so that 
it is probably old English. 
Scred, a piece or fragment. It seems the same as “shred,” the 
Anglo-Saxon screade. Webster gives Provincial English screed, 
Seeming, judgment or opinion. Given in dictionaries as obsolete, but 
used by the best writers of the past. Thus Milton has 
The persuasive words impregnd 
With reason to her seeming.—Paradise Lost, ix, 738. 
And Hooker says, ‘‘ Nothing more clear to their seeming.” 
In Newfoundland, the sled or sleigh of the continent, the sledge of 
the English, is called a slide, but according to Wright this is the original 
form in old English. So shard is used as in Shakspeare’s time and as 
still in some Provincial dialects of England to denote broken pieces of 
pottery. 
Spancel, as a noun, denoting “a rope to tie a cows hind legs” and as 
a verb to “ tie with a rope.” In the dictionaries it is given as Provincial 
English and an English gentleman informs me that the word is still in 
common use in Yorkshire. 
Spell from Anglo-Saxon spelian means in old English, as a verb, to 
supply the place of another, or to take a turn of work with him, and as a 
noun, the relief afforded by one taking the place of another at work for 
a time. In a similar sense it is used in Newfoundland. A Newfound- 
lander speaking of seals as swiles was asked how they spelled the word, 
replied, ‘‘ We don’t spell them, we generally haul them.” It is however 
specially used to denote carrying on the back or shoulders. ‘‘ He has 
just spelled a load of wood out,” meaning he has carried it on his back. 
It is also applied to distance, as ‘‘ How far did you carry that load,” 
Answer, ‘‘ Three shoulders spells,” meaning as far as one could carry 
without resting more than three times. In connection with this I may 
note that the word turn is used to denote what a man can carry. ‘‘ He 
went into the country for a twrn of good,” that is as much as he can 
earry on his back. The Standard Dictionary mentions it as having the 
samne meaning locally in the United States. 
Starve, viz., with cold or frost. Ihave heard the same in Nova 
Scotia. Johnson gives it as a verb neuter, with one of its meanings 
“to be killed with cold,” and as active with the meaning to ‘kill with 
cold ” and quotes Milton’s line, 
From beds of raging fire to starve in ice. 
