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Shooen, or Shune, shoes. 

 Shool, shovel, var. dial. 

 Shooyts, shovel-board, where the shillings are directed as at a mark in 



shooting. 



Cow Sharn, or dung. 



Shroffs, a company of bushes, of hazel, thorns, briers. 

 The Site, used in straining milk. 

 It Sites, i. e. rains fast. 

 To Sipe, to let all the water or liquor out which cleaves to the sides of a vessel 



after the main is poured out. 

 Skath or Scath, loss, S. a Scat>e, nocumentum, as the scath came in at his own 



fence, Prov. 



A Skeel, a kit or milking-pail. 

 Skeller'd, warped Yorkshire as well as Derbyshire. 

 Sheer the esse, tide esse. 



Skanskback, easily knowable, having some special mark. 

 To Skimmer, shine, look bright. 

 A SlamtrasJi, a slovenly dirty person. 

 To Slap one, i. e. beat, a sono verbonun, vox ovoparoir. 

 To Slart, to plash with dirt. 

 To Slap out the tongue. 

 To Sleat a dog. 



Slim, sometimes signifies crafty, knavish, a slim customer. 

 To Slive, to clear, to rive. 

 A Slivinff, a lazy fellow. 

 To Slot the door, to bolt it when shut. 



A Slough, a watery hoggish place, item, the cast skin of a snake. 

 A Slush, wasteful. 



To Slush through work, to do much, but slimly, carelessly. 

 A Smithy, a smith's shop. 

 To Smoar, to smother, per contrac. 

 To Snaffle, to speak through the nose. 

 A Snaffle-bridle or Bit, snape bit. 

 A Snap, & lad or servant, now mostly used ludicrously, a S. Suapa, pucr, 



Matt. viii. 13. 



To Snaffle, to linger, delay, magno conatu nihil agere. 

 To Snavle, snivel, speak through the nose. 

 Snever, slender, smooth. 



To Sniff, to draw the wind smartly up the nose. 

 A Snicket, one that pincheth all to nought. 

 To Suite, is to blow the nose ; to wipe, is to dry it. 

 A Sod, a turf, is thin and round, or oval, taken from the surface of the earth ; 



a sod thick and square, or oblong mostly. 

 Soncy, cunning. 

 To Sonter, to loiter, a santering or sonlriny body, one that squanders the 



time in going idly about. 

 To Sosse, proper to dogs. 

 To Souse or Sawse on the ears, i. e. box. 

 Snuffers for the nose, or nostrils. 

 A Spaniel. Qu. If not the S. name for N. Langholds, we have in these 



parts no other name but Cow-ty. 

 To Sparkle away, disperse, spend, waste. 

 To Specr, inquire the road, a S. Spynian, scrutari. 



A Spclk, a wooden splinter tied on, to keep a broken bone from bending or 

 unsctting jigain. 



