428 CORRESPONDENCE OF RAY. 



Spick and span new, that has never been worn. 



To be Spurr'd, is to have the banns of marriage asked. 



To Squat down, to cower down suddenly. 



A Stawk, i. e. stalk of plants. 



Stark, stiff., weary ; also covetous. 



Staupings, winter steps, the holes made by the feet of horses and cattle in 



miry highways and other places. 

 Stovers, hedge-stavers, i. e. stakes. 

 Stav'd, stawv'd, as a hedge that is cut. 

 To Steim, to bespeak a thing. 

 Stevon, a strong-sounding voice, a S. Srerin. 

 A Stiddy, an anvil. 

 A Stiffh, a ladder. 



Storcks Bill, to storken, proper to fat growing cold, and so hard. 

 Stowd, cropped as horses' ears. 

 Stradling, strutting and striding. 

 Strea, straw. 



ToStreik, stretch out the limbs. 



A Stroak of corn with us is but half a bushel, or two pecks. 

 A Stroom, Strawm, the instrument to keep the malt in the vat, that it run not 



out with the liquor. 

 Strunted, cut off short. 

 A Swaithe, the row of grass cut down with the scythe. Laid o' th' swaithe 



bank, is spread abroad. 

 Swamous, modest. 



A Swamp, a boggy bottom, a soft rushy piece. 

 A Swatch, a shred of cloth. 

 To Sweat, as a candle with the wind. 

 A Swine-coat, hog's-stye, a S. Cote, domuncula. 

 To Swinge, scourge, a S. Spinsan, to thresh. 

 To Switch a hedge, i. e. to cut off the outlying boughs. 

 To Swither, to singe. 



Taplash, small beer, or thin drink. 



A Tarrant (forte pro tyrant), a crabbed froward fellow. 



A Tavern, a cellar. 



To TW-witb. the hand. 



A water Tawv, a swooning fit. 



A Teathy body, peevish, crabbed. 



A Teeming-woman, i. e. child-bearing woman. 



A Tether, tedder, var. dial. 



Thor-cake, or hearth-cake. 



Tharms, pudding-skins. 



Thaw, thou, var. dial. 



To Thoyl, afford. 



To Thraw, to turn wood with a tool. 



A Threave of straw, a burden of it. 



A Thwang for a shoe, the latchet, S. $pan3, a thong. 



To Tifle, to stifle, overset. 



A Tifted Horse, when broken above the loins. 



To Tipe over, fall, or overturn. 



Tiper-down, strong drink, for tiping over. 



Tipsy, almost drunk, from tipling. 



Titter and better, sooner. 



