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‘Beed-lip. The box in which the sower carries his seed. (D.) (Village 
Miners.) N. & S.W. 
- Seer ! or Sire! “I say, look here!” a very usual mode of opening a con- 
versation when the parties are some distance apart. N. & S.W. 
Sewent, Shewent, Suant. Even, regular (A.B.), working smoothly. 
Formerly used all over Wilts, but now growing obsolete. 
Shakers. Briza media, L., Quaking-grass. N. & S.W. 
*Shally-gallee. Toor, flimsy. (Great Estate, ch. 4.) BW: 
 *Shame-faced Maiden. Anemone nemorosa, L., Wood Anemone. 
(Sarum Dioc. Gazette.) §. W. (Farley.) 
~ Shammock. To shamble or shufile along hastily. 
Shard, Shord. (1) A gap in a hedge. (AB) Sheard. (Wilts 
Tales, p. 167.) Shord is aS. Wilts form. N. & S.W. 
(2) A narrow passage between walls or houses; usually Shord. 
This is probably the chore of MS. Lansd. S.W. 
(3) ‘To put in a shard, or shord,” to bay back or turn the water in a 
meadow trench by a rough dam, such as a piece of wood or a few sods of 
turf. N.W. 
(4) ‘‘A cow-shard,” a cow-clat. 
*Shares. The cross-bars of a harrow. (D.) 
Sharp. The shaft of a cart. (A.) NW. 
Shaul. To shell nuts. Shalus, husks. (Chron. Vilod.) N.W. 
Sheening. Thrashing by machinery. (Wild Life, ch. 6.) N.W. 
Sheep’s-cage. Same as Lamb’s-cage. N.W. 
Sheer. Sharp, cutting. ‘Uncommon sheer air s’marnin, yunnit?” N.W. 
(1) The old reaping sickle, now quite superseded by the vagging- 
N.W. 
(2) The fork in which ‘‘elms”’ are carried up to the thatcher. N.W. 
Shepherds’-crowns. Fossil Eehini. NW. 
* hepherds’ -pedler. Capsella Bursa-pastoris, L., Shepherd’s-purse. 
Shepherd’s Vhyme. Polygala calearea, Sch., Chalk Milkwort. 8.W. 
(Salisbury.) 
Shepherd’s-weatherglass. Anagallis arvensis, Is, Scarlet Pimper- 
nel. N. & S.W. 
~*Shim. It seems. ‘He's a fine fellow, shim.” (A.B.H.) 
_ thing. S.W. 
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