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Snide, or Snite, the beak, (to wipe the beak after feeding), vide 



Feake . 



Snipe, LU. chaha, Hindu. : })d cJj nuk-daraz, Mod. Pers. 



Snite, or Snyte, [a snipe], vide Walk and Wisp. 



Snow-cock, <c^> lS*? kabk-i darri, Mod. Pers. (Tetraogallus Cas- 



picus) : ; £*> f(j ram chakor , in Kashmir (the Himalayan 



Snow-cook). 

 Snurt, (cold in the head), &**£> &iij$ j«* sar girifta shudan, Ind. 



Pers. MS. (an ordinary cold in the head, but vide Rye). 

 Soarer, ^^i dawr-chi, Mod. Pers. 

 Soar-hawk, vide Sore-hawk. 

 Soar, to, &±j$ J)* dawr kardan, Mod. Pers. ; &&) *«>j* 3 eJ^j>>> 



dawr kardan va parsa zadan, Mod. Pers. : vide also Ring. 



Sock, y^ kuchi, Panj. (for any bird; vide Mail) ; ^tJ gaddi 



(the strait-waistcoat of a sparrow-hawk, used in early train- 

 ing). 



Soda, e^j! xjy bura-yir Amanl, Mod. Pers. (crude carbonate of 



soda). 



Sorage, (the first year of a hawk, whether eyess or brancher or 



passage-hawk) : ^jj*- or ^j^- chuzi or chuzagi, Hindu, and 



Panj. (lit. chickenhood) : ^j&jj! j is'jy 3 . buzttu yurigarl, Mod. 



M * ■ 



Pers. 



Sore, Sorde, or Sute [a flock of mallards]. 



Sore-hawk, and Soar-hawk, )^ chuz, Hindu, and Panj. (a hawk 



in the immature plumage) : }yijyi buzyur or jy buz, P., T. 

 (ditto): £y farkh, Ar., Myi afrajch pi. (also nestling). 



Souse, (blow, stoop) [If youre hawke nym the fowle a lofte : ye 

 shall say she toke it at the mount or at the souse. — Boke 

 of St. A., p. 48. Halli well has ' ' ' Dead as a fowle at souse ' 



Beaumont and Fletcher VII, 278. ' To leape or 

 seaze greedily upon, to souze downe as a hawke.' Florio, 

 p. 48, % Ed. 1611." Harting in his Birds of Shakespeare, 

 pp. 38-9, gives the derivation of this old falconry term, 

 and also a quotation from King John, Act V, Sc. 2]. 



Sparrow, ^fr chin, Hindu, and Panj. : iS^J gunjishk, Pers., 

 vide Ost; [Sparrow fart, break of day]. 



Sparrow-hawk, 1 ^ basha (female) and ^^ bashin (male), 



Hindu, and Panj., (the Common Sparrow-hawk) ; a^L basha, 



1 A spare hawke was ■ an hawke for a prest.' while the \!u*kyet 

 was for a holiwater olerke. 



