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Seed-lip. A seed-box. A. S. leap, basket. 

 Silgrene. House-leek. A. S. singrene, evergreen. 

 Sillow (only just obsolete). A plough. A. S. sulk. 

 Ski/leu. Out-house. A. S. scyldan, to protect. 

 Shin. A sloe. A. S. sldn, plural of sld. 

 Snead. The pole of a scythe. A. S. snaed. 

 Spade. The congealed gum of the eye. A. S. sped, phlegm. 

 Stadd/cs. The pillars on which a rick stands. A. S. staftol. 

 Stale. The long handle of any husbandry tool. A. S. del (in 

 compounds) . 



Starved. Perished with cold. A. S. steorfan, to die. 



Stem. A period of time, as " a stem o 1 dry weather." A. S. stemn. 



Tine. To enclose a field with a hedge ; u the Tyning," a field- 

 name. A. S. tynan. 



Zam-zodden. Long-heated over a slow fire, and so spoilt. A. S. 

 mm-soden, half -boiled. 



The following examples from literature are interesting : — 



Afeard. "A soldier, and afeard? " Shakespeare, Macbeth. 

 Away with (endure). "The new moons and sabbaths I cannot 



away with (Isaiah, i., 13) . 

 Ax. " They axed him " ; common in Wyclif's translation of the 



Grospels. 



GaUey. To frighten. u The wrathful skies gallow the - very 

 wanderers of the dark. Shakespeare, Lear, iii., 2. 



Hele. To cover. " That a woman pray unto Gfod not heled on 

 the head." Wyclif, in I. Cor., xi., 13. In Tisbury Church 

 may be seen inscribed on a beam " 1560 This Hele was erected." 



Magotty-pie (magpie). u Magot-pies and choughs." Shakespeare, 

 Macbeth, iii., 4. 



Mammock. To pull to pieces. " He did so set his teeth and tear 

 it ; Oh, I warrant, how he mammocked it." Shakespeare, 

 Coriolanus, i., 3. 



Pleach. To plait a hedge. 4 ' Walking in a thick-pleached alley." 

 Shakespeare, Much Ado, i., 4. It occurs also in the colleotioia 

 of Songs of the West, Song 17, p. 37, " pleached palisading 



