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(Seoon banks = sunny banks. Bell.) 



Scone, in Scotland, where Scottish kings were crowned in 

 former times. 



Scoon, in Norway. 



SCEOGGS. 



^ ^ Scrohha= shrxihs" Bell. 



A.-S. scroi, scroib, a shrub ; also scrybe — The Scrub. 



Scroggs, a shrubby or scrubby place. 



'^Scrogs, s.b., stunted bushes, low growing brushwood; nearly 

 related to, indeed almost coincident with, scrag, what is lean, 

 angular, and thence twisted, ill-grown. Cf. Dan. sicrog, a 

 shrivelled, dried-up carcase. Dan. Dial, skrav, skrag, a twisted, 

 stunted branch. Gael, sgrog, to shrivel, wither up; sgrogag, 

 anything shrivelled, a stunted tree, useless old timber. The 

 Dan. Dial, word is scrub, identical with A.-S. scrybe. Comp. 

 also scrogglings, small worthless apples, not good enough to 

 gather." Atkinson's Clev. Gloss. Scrabs or crab-apples, in 

 Durham. ' ' Scroggs, stunted shrubs, as the hazel browsed by 

 cattle." Eng. Dial. Soc, E. Yorks. 



SCAE. 



Icel. '■'•slier (Dan. sMer, shjcer, Sw. shdr, Engl, sherry), a 

 skerry, an isolated rock in the sea." Cleasby. Also shera (A.-S. 

 sceran, Engl, shear, Ger. scheren, Dan. shjcere), to cut; also to 

 shea^ or carve. 



Suio-Goth. ^' skar, rupes, ivom sMra, csedere, scindere. 



Alem. scorr. Belg. ant. schorre, schore. Dan. skjcer and skjcere, 

 to cut, to carve ; and Iclippe, a rock. Sw. IcUppa, n. and v. rock, 

 and to cut. Angl. to clip." 



Ger. hlippe. Dut. rots. Elem. rots, steenrots. 



A.-S. scar, scearn, a shearing, what is cut off, from sceran, to 

 shave, shear, gnaw, cut off, share, divide, &c., hence the Engl. 

 shire, a part of the land cut off from the rest, to shear, &c. 



"Wei. eraig, carreg, earn, rock, crag; esgair, esgard, cleft, and 

 yagcur, separation, share ; and Ir. aisgeir, ridge of a mountain, 



