GLOSSARIAL INDEX. 



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Sacchciro-saline, partaking the properties both of 



sugar and salt, p. 1039. 

 Saddle-grafting, explained by figures, p. 1143. 

 Sulin, explained, s. 5360. p. 853. 

 Saliva, the spittle of animals. 

 Salt-cat, a mixture given to pigeons to promote 



their digestion, p. 1096. 

 Saltings or iiigs, salt-water marshes, p. 747. 

 Sandcrac/cs, explained, s. 6525. p. 988 

 Saner kraut, explained, s. 5507. p. 868. 

 Scab, explained, s. 7265. p. 1066 

 Scalene triangle, a triangle with three unequal 



sides, s. 4343. 

 Scantling, all quartered timber under five inches 

 square, s. 4002. p. 652 In masonry, a term ex- 

 pressive of the size of stones. 

 Scarcement, a rebate or set-back in the building of 



walls, or in raising banks of earth, p. 481. 

 Scarification, cutting through the bark and soft 

 wood of a thick branch with an edge tool, pre- 

 viously to sawing through the hard wood, s. 3164. 

 p. 513. 

 Scapula, the shoulder blade, p. 964. 

 Scarifier, a machine to excoriate and disturb the 



surface of soil, p. 528. 

 Sclerotic coat, a coat of hard consistence, p. 970. 

 Scoop wheel, a large wheel with numerous scoops 



fastened in its periphery, s. 4277. p. 706. 

 Scoria of founderies, the refuse or dross of the me- 

 tals, s. 3643. p. 58S. 

 Screening, the act of sifting earth or seeds through 

 a large oblong sieve or riddle, called a screen, p. 

 509. 

 Scudda. See Fors and Scudda. 

 Scuffler, a kind of horse-hoe, p. 528. 

 Scutching flax, breaking the woody part of it pre- 

 paratory to separating it from the fibrous parts, 

 p. 915. 

 Sea-ooze, the alluvial deposit, the mud or slime 

 lea by the sea where its waters have subsided, 

 p. 746. 

 Seed-lobes, the cotyledons, or very first leaves dis- 

 played on a seedling plant. 

 Scllenders, in horses, explained, s. 6293. p. 961. 

 Seminal roots, the first roots, those emitted from 



the seed itself, p. SOS. 

 Sensible frog of the horse, explained, s. 6420. p. 976. 

 Sensible Idmince, explained, s. 6121. p. 976 

 Septic, causing putridity, producing putrescence, 



s. 6844. p. 1023. 

 Serum, whey, or the remainder of milk after its 

 better parts have been taken away ; also, the yel- 

 low and greenish fluid which separates from the 

 blood when cold and at rest, s. 6980. p. 1036. 

 Sesamoids, little bones found at the articulation of 

 the toes (in man) ; so called from their supposed 

 resemblance to the seeds of the plant called sesa- 

 mum, s. 6319. p. 965. 

 Scions, explained, s. 6537. p. 990. 

 Set-sod, explained, s. 3014. p. 486. 

 Sets and eyes of potatoes, slices of the tubers of the 

 potato, each slice being furnished with at least 

 one eye or bud, p. 818. 

 Shab, explained, s. 7265. p. 1066. 

 Shagreen, or fagri, the prepared skin of the ass, 



s. 6757. p. 1012. 

 Shakes in the boles of trees, fissures, clefts, or rents, 



p. 656. 

 Shakers, a variety of pigeon, p. 1095. 

 Shaking quags, shaking bogs ; wet spongy sod, p. 



694. 

 Shaley soil, explained, s. 4750. p. 774. 

 Shearer, a reaper, s. 3250. p. 526. 

 Shearing, reaping, p. 515. 

 Sheath, land guard of embankments, s. 4362. 4j66. 



1>. 719, 720. 

 Shearing rivers, the process of mowing the plants 

 which abound in rivers; the instrument with 

 which this is effected is formed of a line of scythe- 

 blades, rivetted together by their extremities, and 

 which line of scythe-blades is worked or moved 

 along over the surface of the mud by levers at- 

 tached to the line, operated upon by men in boats, 

 s. 3171. p. 515. 

 Shift of crops, an alternation or variation in the 



succession of crops, p. 814. 

 Shifting beach, a beach of gravel liable to be shifted 

 or moved by the action of the sea, or the current 

 of rivers, s. 4332. p. 714. 

 Shingles, pieces of thin board used as tiles, a com- 

 mon practice in timber countries on the Continent 

 and in America, s. 3051. p. 495. 



Shocks, stooks or hattocks, assemblages of sheaves, 

 never of more than ten sheaves in those places 

 where the tithe is paid in kind, as this arrange- 

 ment facilitates the taking of the tithe ; in Scot- 

 land, from six to twelve, independently of the 

 two or four hood or roof sheaves, p. 515. 

 Shoughcd, earthed in, p. (ilo. 

 Siddow peas, such as boil freely, s. 7791. p. 11-10. 

 Siliceous, of the nature of sand or flint, p. 587. 

 Siloes, repositories, explained, s. 4988. p. 810. 

 Single wind-rows, a single range of new-made hay, 



before it is packed into cocks, p. 903. 

 Skirling or peat turning, explained, s. 3210. p. 520. 

 Skreen plantations, plantations marie for the purpose 



of skrecning or sheltering, p. 753. 

 Slab, the outer board sawed from the trunk of a tree. 

 Sleepers, explained, s. 37S5. p. 613. In Suffolk tin' 

 root stocks, when left in the soil, of such trees as 

 are sawed off level with the surface. 

 Slip-coat cheese, explained, s. 7085. p. 1047. 

 Slit planting, explained, s. 3953. p. 642. 

 Slob farrow, explained, s. 3213. p. 521. 

 Sludger, explained, s. 2518. p. 378. 

 Snaffle, a bridle with a single rein, and without a 



curb, s. 6734. p. 1009. 

 Snag pruning, pruning or cutting off branches so as 



to leave snags, s. 40-J7. p. 655. 

 Snags, stumpv bases of branches left in pruning, 



s. 3993. p. 650. 

 Sob, a convulsive spasm of the air passages to re- 

 lieve congestion, s. 6723. p. 1008. 

 Soil, earth, either of one or of several sorts, mixed 



with decomposed organic matters. 

 Soiling, feeding horses or cattle in houses or sheds 

 with clover or other herbage in a green state, p. 874. 

 Sough, a box-drain, s. 4254. p. 700. 

 Sowens, explained, s. 5146. p. 828. 

 Spay, to incapacitate a female animal for pro- 

 ducing young, s. 7306. p. 1069. See Castrate. 

 SpAacrfaterf, withered, blasted, mortified, gangrened, 



s. 6945. p. 1032. 

 Spinalis processes, projections resembling spines or 



prickles, s. 6764. p. 1013. 

 Spired, grown, shot out into spires, s. 5108. p. 825. 

 Spitful of earth, a spadeful jf earth, p.5<>7. 

 Splint, in horses, a preternatural excrescence of 



bone, or a hard tumour, s. 6293. p. 961. 

 Spots, a variety of pigeon, p. 1095. 

 Spray drain, a drain formed by burying the spray 

 of wood in the earth, which keeps open a channel, 

 s. 4284. p. 708. 

 Spray of a tree, the twigs of the branches of a tree, 



p. 649- 

 Spring feed, herbage produced in the spring, p. 905. 

 Squeakers, pigeons under six months of age, p. 1096. 

 Stacking stage, explained, s. 3289. p. 533. In Cam- 

 bridge, the object of the stage is effected by a stage 

 hole left in one side of the upper part of the rick 

 Stack guard, explained, s. 3288. p. 532. 

 Staddles, explained, s. 5796. p. 903. 

 Stake and rice, a fence composed of stakes driven 

 into the ground and interwoven with branches 

 retaining their spray, or with rods without their 

 spray; the latter is frequently called a wattled 

 fence, p. 487. 

 Staggers, a disease of the horse, explained, p. 978. 

 Straw mow, a stack or rick of straw formed in a 



barn, s. 5045. p. 818. 

 Steining a well, lining it with stone or brick, s. 44<9. 



p. 735. 

 Stifle of the horse, explained, s. 6276. p. 9i>9. 

 Stire, a sort of cyder apple, s. 4082. p. 665. 

 Stock, the animals of agriculture called live stock ; 

 also, the implements and other lifeless articles of 

 property on a farm, called dead stock. 

 Stocking a pasture, putting in as many head of 



cattle as the pasture will maintain, s. 5. v">. p. 906. 

 Stolones, the creeping rooting shoots of some y. . 



and other plants, by which they increase, p 904. 

 Stoloniferous grasses, grasses producing stolones, 



p. 887. , , . 



Stone-brash, a sub-soil composed of shattered rocK 



or stone, s. 4519. p. 742. 

 Sti toks, shocks or hattocks, p. 817. 

 Stools of a cop} ice, the stump j root-stocks of trees 



previously cut down, p. 662. . 



Stover q) rape, the pods and points broken oft in 



threshing, p. '.'■'- 

 Strull, a bar so placed as to resist weight, p. 498. 

 Stubs, stocky stumpv portions of the stems of trees 



and shrubs, p. 1009. 

 Stud, a post, a stake, an upright, in a building, 

 ■ '.; a collection of breeding horses and marcs. 



