150 Contributions towards a Wiltshire Glossary. 
Snow-blunt, A slight snowstorm. N. & S.W. 
Snow-in-harvest, or Snow-in-summer. Cerastivm tomentosum, 
L. S.W. 
Snow-on-the-mountains. (1) Sazifraga granulata, L., White 
Meadow Saxifrage. S.W. 
(2) White Cress. N. & S.W. 
*Sobbled. Soddened, soaked with wet. (Village Miners.) 
Sod-apple. Epilobium hirsutum, L., Great Hairy Willow-herb, from its 
apple-like smell when crushed. (Great Estate, ch. 2.) N.W. 
*Soft-tide. The three days next before Lent. (Wilts Arch. Mag., vol. 
xxit., p. 1138.) N.W. (Cherhill). 
Sogging-wet. Soaked. N. & SW. 
Soldiers. Papaver Rheas, etc., Red Poppy- S.W. 
Soldiers-sailors-tinkers-tailors. Lolium perenne, L. S.W. 
*Sow-flower. Sonchus oleraceus, L., Sowthistle. N.W. (Lyneham.) 
*Sowle-grove. February. (A.H.) Sowle=swill, grove=ditch, the name 
thus answering to Fill-dyke. (Skeat.) Obsolete. 
Spade. The congealed gum of the eye. (A.B.) N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) 
*Spances. ‘* Raves or sides, spances, compose the waggon-bed.”” (D.) 
Spanky. Showy, dashing. (A.B.) N.W. 
Spar. In thatching, the ‘‘ elms” are fastened down with “spicks ” or “ spars,” 
split hazel rods, pointed at both ends, and bent into hairpin shape, with a 
twist just at the bend to give them a tendency when fixed to spring outwards, 
and so hold faster. S.W. 
Sparked, Sparky. Of cattle, mottled or of two colours (D.); pied, 
variegated. (Wilts Arch. Mag., vol. xxii., p. 225.) N. & S.W. 
Sparked-grass. Phalaris arundinacea, L., Striped Ribbon-grass. S.W. 
(Som. bord.) 
Spend. To turn out. ‘‘ How do your taters spend to-year ?” N.W. 
Spick. (1) In thatching, the same as Spar. S.W. 
(2) Lavender. Spick (Som. bord.), and Spike (Hants bord.) S.W. 
Spikenard. (1) Lavender. N.W., occasionally. 
(2) Anthoranthum odoratum, L., Sweet Vernal-grass. N.W. (Bromham.) 
Spit, Spet. (1) 2. “The very spit of his father,” his very image. (Wilts 
Tales, p. 31.) of. Spit, to lay eggs. (Skeat.) N. & S.W. 
(2) . “To spit up the ground,” to work the surface lightly over, N.&S.W. 
Splash. Commoner form of P lash, qv. Nie 
