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SJwoen, or Shune, shoes. 



Shool, shovel, var. dial. 



ShooyU, shovel-board, where the shillings are dii-ected as at a mark in 



shooting. 

 Cow Sham, or dung. 



Shroffs, a company of bushes, of hazel, thorns, briers. 

 The Sile, used in straining milk. 

 It Sites, i. e. rains fast. 

 To Sipe, to let all the water or liquor out which cleaves to the sides of a vessel 



after the main is poured out. 

 Skath or Scath, loss, S. a Sca-De, nocumentum, as the scath came in at his own 



fence, Prov. 

 A Skeel, a kit or milkiug-pail. 

 Skelleid, warped — Yorkshire as well as Derbyshire. 

 Skeer the esse, cide esse. 



Skanskhack, easily knowable, having some special mark. 

 To Skimmer, shine, look bright. 

 A Slamtrash, a slovenly dii'ty person. 

 To Slap one, i. e. beat, a sono verborum, vox 6vo;u«ro7r. 

 To Slart, to plash with dirt. 

 To Slap out the tongue. 

 To Sleat a dog. 



Slim, sometimes signifies crafty, knavish, a slim customer. 

 To Slive, to clear, to rive. 

 A Sliving, a lazy fellow. 

 To Slot the door, to bolt it when shut. 



A Stowgh, a watery hoggish place, item, the cast skin of a snake, 

 A Slush, wasteful. 



To Slush through work, to do much, but slimly, carelessly. 

 A Smithy, a smith's shop. 

 To Smoar, to smother, per contrac. 

 To Snaffle, to speak through the nose. 

 A Snaffle-bridle or Bit, snape bit. 

 A Snap, a lad or sei-vant, now mostly used ludicrously, a S. Snapa, puer 



Matt. viii. 13. ' ' 



To Snattle, to linger, delay, magno conatu nihil agere. 

 To Snaide, snivel, speak through the nose. 

 Snever, slender, smooth. 



To Snift, to draw the wind smartly up the nose. 

 A Snicket, one that pincheth all to nought. 

 To Snite, is to blow the nose ; to wipe, is to dry it. 

 A Sod, a turf, is tliin and round, or oval, taken from the surface of the earth ; 



a sod thick and square, or oblong mostly. 

 Sonci/, cunning. 

 To Sontcr, to loiter, a santering or sontriny body, one that squanders the 



time in goiiig idly about. 

 To Sosse, proper to dogs. 

 To Souse or Saiose on the ears, i. e. box. 

 Snuffers for the nose, or nostrils. 

 A Spaniel. Qu. If not the S. name for N. Langholds, we have in these 



parts no other name but Cow-ti/. 

 To Sparkle away, disperse, spend, waste. 

 To Hpeer, inquire the road, a S. Spyniau, scrutari. 

 A Spelk, a wooden splinter tied on, to keep a broken bone from bending or 



imscttiug again. 



