in the United States of America. 525 
SUANT ; even, regular, x. The grain is sown suant. Used in some 
parts of New England, It isan English frovincialism : Marshall has it a- 
mong his Provincialisms of the West of England thus: “ Souant ; fair, 
even, regular. (A hackneyed word).” Grose also has it, with only the 
change of s into z, which is common in that part of England: “ Zuant ; 
regularly sowed. The wheat must be zown zuant.” Prov. Gloss. 
SUBSCRIBER, “Letters signed by princes are a very uncertain test of the tal- 
ents of (what by a very convenient American innovation is called) the eué- 
acriber,”’ Edinb, Rev. No. xii. p. 188. 
SUCCOTASH; “a mixture of new soft maiz and beansboiled.” Webst. An 
Indian word. 
ToSWAP. See To Swof. 
SWEEP, zx. The same thing which in Yorkshire, in England, is called a swapie ; 
that is, “a long pole ‘tuning on a fulcrum, used in raising water out of a 
well.” Marshall’s Provincialisms of Yorkshire. Itis hardly necessary te 
observe that it is used only in our country towns. 
To SWOP or SWAP. “ To exchange, or,as they term it, o swaf:, are the pur- 
suits in which they wish to be constantly engaged.” Kend. Trav, vol. iil. 
p. 87. 
juni word 2 bas | becn, often noticed by English travellers in this country, 
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by the wsigar! in that Seay. Dr, Johnson and the other lexicographers 
call it a low word, but do not speak of it as provincial. Horne Tooke also 
mentions it without any remark of that kind, and gives the following etymol- 
ogy of it: “ The Anglo-Saxon yerb is swifian, in modern English to sweeft. 
Swoop and swop are (as we have already seen in so many other instances) 
its regular past participle,by the change of the characteristic I to O..A 
swof: between two persons, is where, by the consent of the parties, without 
any delay, any reckoning or counting, or other adjustment of proportion, 
something is swept off at once by each of them.” Diversions ¢ Purley, 
Part 2. p.317—18 Amer, Edit, This word is also much used in Zreland : 
«He makes me an offer to seu. his mare.” Edgeworth Castle Rack 
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