in the United States of Ameriea, 535 
Spitz. “ A peg or pin to stop a hole inacask.” Webst. This word is mention- 
ed by an English friend, who obseryes, that it “ is used here for a sfigot, and 
vulgarly for a file.” The dictionaries have not sfile, but sill, under which 
Dr. Johnson gives this example: “ Have near-the bung-hole a little vent-hole 
stopped with a spill. Mortimer.” 
Sprincr. This is often used here by the vulgar, (as an English friend ob- 
serves) for active or agile: He is a sfringy man. It is in the dictionaries, 
in the sense of elastic. — 5 ; 
Srimvtvs. Some of our writers have doubted whether this is an authorized 
, Word. It is not in the dictionaries, but is in common use with the English 
- Reviewers: “We should expect the voluntary productions of the pen, 
without this violent stimulus, to be sufficient,” ke. Brit. Crit. vols ii. p- 362. 
“ Will receive from his book a powerful stimulus to their ambition,” &c. 
vol. iii. p, 518, I we ies 
To Svgszrve. This is sometimes used by English writers ; but perhaps not so 
much as by those of this country. The English more commonly say ¢o de sud- 
servient to, or to serve, as in the following example : “ We are of opinion,. 
that it may serve the interests of society,” &c. Brit. Crit. yol. ili. p. 579. 
Superior. See Inferior, in this Supplement. 
Tror, Neat, cleanly. Vew England. This colloquial word is in all the diction- 
aries; but in the Gentleman’s Magazine (vol. 1xiii. p. 1084) it is classed 
among the /oca/ words of the “ West of England.” oh 
To for Ar. (See Vocab.) A writer in the Gentleman’s Magazine says, this is 
used “ all over Devon,in England.” vol. Ixiii. p. 1084. 
Woucp for Sxo ULD, in this expression: It would seem. This is 
in America: The Scotch writers also use it: “ But these people, it would 
seem, need to be informed,” &c. Campb. Philos. of Riet. B. ii. a 3, sect. 
3. (p. 255. Amer. edit.) The English, I believe, uniformly say, it age 
seem: “ Irritated, as it should seem, by the exaggerated praises,” Kc. Christ. 
Observer, vol. ii. p. 44. “The want of correspondence is to ze Pa 
sometimes, it should seem, to inadvertency, and sometimes to design.” ni 
view of Dr. Combe’s Horace (written by Dr. Parr join: the Brit. Cri. 
vol. iii, p- 53. This use of would has escaped me in two or three instances. 
in the preceding Memoir and Vocabulary. See Zrraia. 
very common. 
