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SETTREL, SETTEREL, _adj._ Thickset, S.B.
_Journal Lond._
SETTRIN, SET RENT, _s._ The portion of a servant or cottager, consisting of different kinds of food, Ang. Perths.
_Ruddiman._
SETS, _s. pl._ Corn in small stacks, Loth.
Isl. _sate_, Su. G. _saata_, c.u.mulus foeni.
SEUCH, SEWCH, _s._
1. A furrow, S.
_Douglas._
2. A gulf.
_Pal. Hon._
Sw. _sog_, colluvies, Lat. _sulc-us_.
_To_ ~Seuch~, _v. a._ To divide.
_Douglas._
Lat. _sulc-are_.
SEUIN STERNES, the Pleiades, S.
_Douglas._
SEW, _pret. v._ Sowed.
_Douglas._
SEWANE, _s._ Uncertain.
_Douglas._
SEWAN BELL, Perh. recollection-bell.
Fr. _souvient_.
_Dunbar._
SEWANS, L. _sewaris_, sewers.
_Houlate._
s.e.x, _adj._ Six.
V. ~Sax~.
_Wyntown._
SH. For words not found printed in this form, V. ~Sch~.
SHABLE, SHABBLE, _s._
1. A crooked sword, or hanger.
_Colvil._
Su. G. Dan. Belg. _sabel_, id.
2. An old rusty sword, S.
3. Any little person or thing, Strathm.
_To_ SHACH, _v. a._ To distort; pret. _shacht_, S.
Isl. _skag-a_, deflectere, _skack-ur_, obliquus.
~Shach-end~ _of a web_, the f.a.g-end, S. B.
_To_ ~Shachle~, _v. a._ To distort from the proper shape or direction, S.
_Burns._
_Shachlin_, unsteady, infirm, S.
~Shachle~, _s._ Any thing worn out, S. B.
_To_ ~Shachle~, ~Shochel~, _v. n._ To shuffle in walking, S.
