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Skare, 2/7, wv. frighten. 
to drive away. 
Skared, 69/4, ff. frightened, cheated of. 
Skavel, 17/19, s. a kind of spade, having 
its sides slightly turned up, used 
in draining, and cleaning narrow 
ditches. Compare scuffle, a garden 
hoe, and shovel. 
Skep, 17/3, s. a basket made of rushes 
or straw. 
Skill, 113/38, s. plan, design. 
Skillesse, 112/4, aaj. simple, homely. 
Skirrets, 40/19, s. A/. the water-parsnip. 
Stum latifolium, contracted from 
skirwort, its older name, a cor- 
ruption of sazgar-wort. Ger. zucker- 
wourzel, 
Skreene, 90/2, s. fire-screen. See note. 
Skreine, 17/16, s. sieve, screen. O. Fr. 
escrein., 
Skuppat, 17/19, s. a spade used in 
draining and making narrow ditches. 
Belgian schup, a spade. 
Skuttle, 17/16, s. a screen for cleaning 
corn, 2.2. a large broad and shallow 
shovel for casting threshed corn 
from one side of the barn to the 
other that light grains and dust 
may fall short. 
Slab, 1/35, s. the outside cut of sawn 
timber. 
Slabbered, 48/20, #/. dirtied, beslob- 
bered. L. Ger. and Dut. s/addern. 
Slained, 106/15, #. slain, murdered, 
but perhaps we should read stazned. 
Slake, 1/4, v. to slacken. 
Slapsauce, 98/2, s. ‘‘a parasite.”— 
Minsheu. ‘‘ A lickedish, a lickerish 
fellow, a slapsawce.” — Nomen- 
clator, 1585. 
*Slapt, 72e, pp. 
Slea, 107/3, v. slay, kill. A.S. slean. 
Sled, 17/11, s. sledge, truck. Ger. and 
Dutch slede. Icel. sledi. A.S. 
slidan, to slide. 
Slept, 90/1, AA. slipt, forgotten, omitted. 
Slise, 35/20, v. imp. slice, cut. 
Sliuers, 23/1, 5. A/. pieces of split wood, 
chips. A.S. sian. 
Slugging, 75/1, s. lying late in bed. 
Sluts, 75/5, s. g/. slovens, slatterns. 
Ger. schlutte. Dutch s/et. 
Smack, 57/24, s. a pleasant repast. 
Smalach, 45/20, s. celery, or water 
parsley. The sma// ache or parsley 
as compared with the Azpposelinum 
or great parsley. 
Icel. skivra= 
Glossary. 
Small nuts, 34/22, Smal nuts, 33/57, s. 
hazel nuts. 
Snagdragons, 43/30, s. £7. snapdragons, 
so called from its corolla resemb- 
ling the szap or snout. Dut. sveb 
of some animal. Called by Lyte 
** Calf’s snowte.” 
Snorting, 9/16, aaj. snoring, sleepy. 
A.S. sora, a snoring. 
Snudgeth, 62/2, v. gr. ¢. is economical 
or saving, or, works quietly or 
snugly. In Lance. snidge. A.S. 
suid. Danish smedig, cunning. 
““Thus your husbandrye, methincke, 
is much more like the life of a 
covetous szudge, that ofte very evill 
proves, then the labour of a goode 
husbande, that knoweth well what 
hedoth.’’—~Ascham, Toxophilus, p.6. 
Sockle, 385/30, v. amp. suckle, provide 
with milk. 
Sod, 22/27, Ap. boiled. 
Soketh, 19/2, v. gr. 4. wets, soaks. 
Soles, 17/21, s. p/. a collar of wood, put 
round the neck of cattle to confine 
them to the post. 
Sollen, 89/13, adj. sullen, sulky. 
Soller, 57/5, s. garret, loft, or upper 
room. ‘‘ Solarium, an upper room, 
chamber, or garret which in some 
parts of England is still called a 
sollar.” —Kennett, Gloss. p. 134. 
Sooth, 10/61, wv. to flatter. 
Sops in wine, 48/31, s.a kind of pink 
resembling a carnation ; the clove 
pink. ‘*‘The rose and speckled 
flowre cald sops-in-wine.” — The 
Affectionate Shepheard, 1594. 
Sorell, 39/36, s. sorrell. Fr. szrelle, a 
dimin. from L. Ger. swuv=sour, 
from the acidity of the leaves. 
Rumex acetosa, L. 
Sost, 48/20, fp. dirty, foul. ‘‘ Of any 
one that mixes several slops, or 
makes any place wet or dirty, we 
say in Kent, he makes a soss.”— 
Kennett MS. 
Souse, 12/5, s. pigs’ feet and ears pickled. 
Soutage, 57/51, s. bagging for hops, or 
coarse cloth. See More’s MS. 
Additions to Ray’s North Country 
Gloss. 
Southly, 16/20, adv. facing the south. 
Sowce, 19/37, wv. zwp. steep in brine, 
pickle. 
Sower, 385/51, adj. sour. 
Spare, 112/3, vw. economize, be sparing. 
