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Scar of the House — modern, h. at the scar. 



Skyer Beck =l Scarbeck. 



The Skerries, rocky islands ofp the coasts of Scotland and 

 Wales. 



The Skerne, the small river running past Darlington. See 

 Trans. Tyn. Nat. Field Club, vol. viii. 



•^ Seal. 



Hanging. "Hanging Seal, the drooping or weeping willow," 

 Bell. Salh, sealh, A.-S. saugh. Scottice the sanl or sallow. 



At Hexham is a public park or promenade called ' The Seal.' 

 There may have been willows there formerly. 



" Seal^ sele^ time, season, as hay-seal, ivheat-seal, barley -seal. ^' 

 East Anglia Vocab. 



Solomon's Seal — Convallaria polygonatum, 



Seavy. 



Icel. sef (Eng. sedge, Dan. siv), sef-tjorn, sedge tarn ; sef-visk, 

 sedge wisp. Cleasby. 



Dan. siv, rush, bulrush, reed ; sivbeforen, seavy, rushy, reedy. 



Sw. scif, vass, ror, rush. TFass, in Weardale, indicates a wet 

 place where rushes might grow. Ger, binse, rush, bent grass. 

 Dut. hies, rush. El. bies, riet, ib. 



A.-S. segg, secg, sedge, reed, cane; risce, rixe, a rush. 



"Wei. palwyr, bnvyn, rushes, candle-wicks. Gael, luachair. 

 rush. Ir. brog-braidhe. Manx shuin. Corn, bronnen. Bret. 

 bren, broenn, a rush. 



Jjat-juncus, arundo. It. giunco, canna. 8-p.junco, cafia. Port. 

 Junco, canna, canniqo. ~Ev.jonc, roseau, canne. 



"/S«/, juncus, arundo (our ancestors said skcef, as I learn), 

 Dan. sif, Isl. swefn, Auctore Gudmundrer Andrese, from the 

 Historia Alexandrimagni; the Germans say schilf, either insert- 

 ing an I into our word or deriving their word from skcelfva, 

 tremere. "Wachter derives it from Gr. ^evywfjn, jungd, others 

 from the Hebrew word for juncus fjlD, unde mare Erythraeum 



