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Volume XXIV Part 64

_To_ SCHUTE, _v. a._ to push.

SCLAITE, SKLAIT, _s._ slate.

SCLATCH, _s._ a lubberly lazy fellow.

_To_ SCLENT, SKLENT, _v. n._ to slope.

ASCLENT, _adv._ obliquely.

SCON, _s._ a flat cake, made of barley meal or flour.

SCREED, _s._ a harangue.

_To_ SCREED, SKREED. _v. a._ to rend in pieces.

_To_ SCREIGH, SKREIGH, _v. n._ to shriek.

SCRIMP, _adj._ narrow; scanty.

SCROOFF, SCRUFF, a thin crust.

SCRYMMAGE, _s._ a skirmish.

_To_ SCUG, _v. a._ to shelter.

SCULDUDRY, has an illusion to a breach of chast.i.ty.

SCULL, _s._ a shallow basket.

Sc.u.m, _s._ a mean greedy fellow.

_To_ SCUNNER, _v. n._ to loathe; to shudder in disgust.

_To_ SCUTLE, _v. a._ to spill from carelessness.

SEAM, used in respect to any sort of needlework.

SEATH, SYTHE, _s._ the coal-fish.

SEGG, _s._ the yellow flower-de-luce.

SEKER, SICKER, _adj._ firm.

SEMPILL, SYMPILL, _adj._ low-born.

SEN, _conj_. since; seeing.

SENSYNE, since that time.

SERD, SAIRD, _pret_. served.

SERGE, _s._ a sieve.

SESSION, _s._ the consistory, or parochial eldership in Scotland.

SESSION-HOUSE, _s._ a vestry.

_To_ SET, _v. a._ to let; to become--as, _He sets his rank well_.

SHACHLED, _adj._ crooked; unseemly.

SHACKLE-BANE, _s._ the wrist.

SHAFT, _s._ a handle.

_To_ SHAK-A-FA', _v. a._ to wrestle.

SHAKE-DOWN, _s._ a temporary bed made on the floor.

_To_ SHAMBLE, _v. n._ to make a wry mouth.

_To_ SHANK, _v. a._ to travel on foot.

SHARNE, SHERNE, _s._ the dung of cattle.

SHAVER, _s._ a wag.

SHAWS, _s. pl_ the foliage of esculent roots.

SHEAL, SHIELLING, _s._ a hut or residence for shepherds or fishermen.

_To_ SHEAL, _v. a._ to take the husks off pulse, etc.

SHEELINS, _s. pl_ the husks of grain.

_To_ SHEAR, _v. a._ to reap; to cut down corn.

SHEARER, _s._ one employed in reaping corn.

SHEARIN, _s._ the act of cutting corn.

SHELTIE, _s._ a very small horse.

SHEUCH, _s._ a furrow.

_To_ SHEUCH, _v_. to place plants in the earth before they are planted.

_To_ SHEVEL, _v. a._ to distort.