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(2) ‘To shrip up,” to shroud up the lower boughs of roadside trees, to 
cut off the side twigs of a hedge or bush. INE Wis 
Shitabed. Zeontodon Taraxacum, L., Dandelion. (H.) N.W. 
Shitsac. An oak-apple. (A.) Shitsack Day. 29th May. The children 
carry Shitsack, sprigs of young oak, in the morning, and Powder- 
monkey, or Kven-A sh, ash leaves with an equal number of leaflets, 
in the afternoon. Shick-shack Day. (Wild Life, ch.5.) N.W. (Clyffe 
Pypard.) 
Shivery-bivery. Allin a shake with eold or fright. N.W. 
Shog off. To decamp in a hurried or cowardly manner. (A.B.) 
Shoot. (1) A young female pig of three or four months old. (D.) N. & S.W. 
(2) Fore-shoot and Backward-shoot, the pieces of wood immediately 
behind the coulter of a plough. (D.) 
(3) A precipitous descent in a road; a steep narrow path, N. & S.W. 
Shore. The edge of a ditch on the meadow side. (Wild Life, ch. 18.) N.W. 
Shot or Shut of. Rid of. N. & S.W. 
Showl. A shovel. (A.B.D.) N. & S.W. 
Shrammed. Chilled to the bone, perished with cold. (A.B.) NAW 
Shrill. To shudder. ‘I never couldn’t eat fat bacon—I do allus shrill at 
see N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) 
Shrump up. To hunch up the shoulders. ‘ Don’t shrump up your shoulders 
like that!” N.W. 
Shuffet. To shuffle along hurriedly. N.W. 
*Shurne. Cacare. (IS. Lansd.) Obsolete. 
Shut. (1) ». To join together; used of welding iron, splicing a rope, joining 
woodwork, laying turf, etc. N. & S.W. 
(2) m. The point of junction. N. & S.W. 
Sick. ‘ Turnip-sick,”’ of land, exhausted as regards turnip-growing. (Great 
Estate, ch. 1.) ‘‘ Tater-sick,” ete. N.W. 
Sideland ground. Sloping ground on a hill-side. N.W. 
Sidelong, Sideling. (1) With one side higher than the other. (Wild 
Life, ch. 6.) ‘<I wur nigh upset, th’ rwoad wur that sideling.” N. & S.W. 
(2) Sitting sidelong, i.e., with the side towards the spectator. (Game- 
keeper at Home, ch. 2.) 
Sight. A quantity, as ‘‘a sight o’ volk,” ‘“‘a main sight o’ rain.” N.& S.W. 
*Sil. Seldom. “ Sowle-grove sil lew,” February is seldom warm. (H.) Obsolete. 
Silgreen. Sempervivum tectorum, L., Houseleek. (Village Miners.) N.W. 
