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 Seed-lip. A seed-box. A. 8. /aip, basket. 
Silgrene. House-leek. A. 8. singrene, evergreen. 
_ Sillow (only just obsolete). A plough. A.S. swlh. 
Skillen. Out-house. <A. S. scyldan, to protect. 
‘Slan. Asloe. A.S. sidn, plural of sid. 
Snead. The pole of a scythe. A. S. snaéd. 
Spade. The congealed gum of the eye. A. S. spéd, phlegm. 
Staddles. The pillars on which a rick stands. A. 8. staSol. 
Stale. The long handle of any husbandry tool. A. S. s¢e/ (in 
compounds). 
Starved. Perished with cold. A. 5S. steorfan, to die. 
‘Stem. A period of time, as “‘a stem o’ dry weather.” A.S. stemn. 
Tine. To enclose a field with a hedge; “the Tyning,” a field- 
name. A.S. tynan. 
Zam-zodden. Tong-heated over a slow fire, and so spoilt. A. S. 
___- sdm-soden, half-boiled. 
The following examples from literature are interesting :-— 
“ A soldier, and afeard?’’ Shakespeare, Macbeth. 
Away with (endure). “The new moons and sabbaths I cannot 
away with (Isaiah, i., 13). 
4x. “They axed him”; common in Wyclif’s translation of the 
Gospels. 
Galley. To frighten. “The wrathful skies gallow the very 
wanderers of the dark. Shakespeare, Lear, iii., 2. 
Hele. To cover. ‘‘That a woman pray unto God not heled on 
the head.” Wyclif, in I. Cor., xi., 18. In Tisbury Church 
may be seen inscribed on a beam “ 1560 This Hele was erected.” 
Magotty-pic (magpie). ‘‘ Magot-pies and choughs.” Shakespeare, 
a Macbeth, iii., 4. 
Hammock. To pull to pieces. ‘‘ He did so set his teeth and tear 
- it; Oh, I warrant, how he mammocked it.” Shakespeare, 
 Coriolanus, i., 3. } | 
each. To eae a hedge. ‘“ Walking in a thick-pleached alley.” 
_ Shakespeare, Much Ado, i., 4. It occurs also in the collection 
of Songs of the West, Song 17, p. 37, “ pleachéd palisading 
