GLOSSARIAL INDEX. 



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Saccharo-saline, partaking the properties both of 

 sugar and salt, p. 1039. 



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



Sa/in, explained, s. 5360. p. 853. 



Saliva, the spittle of animals. 



Salt-cat, a mixture given to pigeons to promote 

 their digestion, p. 109S. 



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



Sandcracks, explained, s. 65S5. p. 98a 



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



Scab, explained, s. 7265. p. 10C6. 



Scalene triangle, a triangle with three unequal 

 sides, s. 4343. 



Scantling, all quartered timber under five inches 

 square, s. 4002. p. 652. In masonrv, a terra 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. 4'277. p. 706. 



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

 tals, s. 3643. p. 588. 



Screening, the act of sifting earth or seeds through 

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



Scudda. See Forx and Scudda. 



Scvfflcr, 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 

 left by the sea where its waters have subsided, 

 p. 745. 



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

 played on a seedling plant. 



Sellenders, in horses, exi)lained, s. 6293. p. 961. 



Seminal roots, the first roots, those emitted from 

 the seed itself, p. 808. 



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



Sensible Idmince, explained, s. 6t21. 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 yeU 

 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. 



Setons, 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. 848. 



Shah, explained, s. 726.'"). 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. %5^. 



Shakers, a variety of pigeon, p. 1095. 



Shaking quags, shaking bogs j wet spongy soil, p. 

 694. 



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



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



Shearing, reaping, p. 51.5. 



Sheath, land guard of embankments, 6, 4362. 4566. 

 p. 719, 720. 



Shearing rivers, the process of mowing the plants 

 which abound in rivers; the instrument with 

 which this is eflTected is formed of a line of scytlic- 

 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 hne, 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 sheave.^, 

 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. 

 Shoughed, earthed in, p. 640. 

 Siddow peas, such as boil freely, s. 7791. p. 1140. 

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

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

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



before it is packed into cocks, p. 903. 

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

 Skreen plantations, plantations made for the purpose 



of skreening or sheltering, p. 753. 

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

 S/c<?pf;,s, explained, s. .3785. p. 613. In SufFolk the 



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. 

 Snafjfic, 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. 4027. p. 655. 

 Snags, stumpy bases of branches lefl 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, naixed 



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. 

 Soivcns, explained, s. 5146. p. 828. 

 Spay, to incapacitate a female animal for pro- 



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

 5pAflce/rtto/, withered, blasted,inortified, gangrened, 



s. 694,5. p. 1032. 

 Spinous processes, projections resembling spines or 



prickles, s. 6764. p. 1013. 

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

 Spifful qf earth, a spadeful jf earth, p. 507. 

 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. 90.5. 

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

 Stacking stage, explained, s. 3289. p. 5S3. 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. 4479. 



p. 735. 

 Stifle of the horse, explained, s. 6276. p. 959. 

 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. 5285. p. 906. , 

 Stolones, the creeping rooting shoots of some grasses, 



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

 Stolonifcrous grasses, grasses producing stolones, 



p. 887. 

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



or stone, s. 4519. p. 742. 

 Stooks, shocks or hattocks, p. 817. 

 Stools of a coppice, the stumpy root-stocks of trees 



previously cut down, p. 662. 

 Stover of rape, the pods and points broken off in 



threshing, p. 932. 

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

 Stubs, stocky stumpy portions of the stems of trees 



aiid shrubs, p. 1009. 

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



p. 5C0.; a collection of breeding hcrses and mares. 



