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Sar'tin. _adj._ Certain.
Sar'tinly. _adv._ Certainly.
Scad. _s._ A short shower.
Schol'ard. _s._ A scholar.
Scissis-sheer. _s._ A scissors-sheath.
Scollop. _s_. An indentation; notch; collop.
To Scollop. _v. a._ To indent; to notch.
Scoose wi'. Discourse or talk with you.
To Scot'tle. _v. a._ To cut into pieces in a wasteful manner.
Scrawf. _s_. Refuse.
Scrawv'lin. _adj_. Poor and mean, like scrawf.
Screed. _s_. A shred.
To Scrunch. _v. a._ and _v. n._ The act of crus.h.i.+ng and bringing closer together is implied, accompanied with some kind of noise. A person may be said to scrunch an apple or a biscuit, if in eating it he made a noise; so a pig in eating acorns. Mr.
SOUTHEY has used the word in _Thalaba_ without the s.
"No sound but the wild, wild wind, "And the snow _crunching_ under his feet."
And, again, in the _Anthology_, vol 2, p. 240.
"Grunting as they _crunch'd_ the mast."
Scud. _s_. A scab.
Sea-Bottle. _s_. Many of the species of the sea-wrack, or _fucus_, are called sea-bottles, in consequence of the stalks having round or oval vesicles or pods in them; the pod itself.
Sea-crow. _s_. A cormorant.
Seed-lip. _s_. A vessel of a particular construction, in which the sower carries the seed.
Sel'times. _adv_. Not often; seldom.
Shab. _s_. The itch; the hug. Applied to brutes only.
Shab-water. _s._ A. water prepared with tobacco, and some mercurial, to cure the shab.
Shabby. _adv._ Affected with the shab. Hence the origin of the common word _shabby_, mean, paltry.
Shackle. _s._ A twisted band. Shal'der. _s._ A kind of broad flat rush, growing in ditches.
Sharp. _s._ A shaft of a waggon, &c.
Shatt'n. Shalt not.
Sheer. _s._ A sheath.
s.h.i.+l'lith. _s._ A s.h.i.+lling's worth.
s.h.i.+ne. _s._ Every _s.h.i.+ne o'm_, is, every one of them.
To Shod. _v. a._ To shed: to spill.
Sholl. _v._ Shall.
Shord. _s._ A sherd; a gap in a hedge. A _stop-shord_, a stop-gap.
Shower. _adj._ Sure.
Showl. _s._ A shovel.
To Showl. _v. a._ To shovel.
To Shride, To Shroud. _v. a._ To cut off wood from the sides of trees; or from trees generally.
Shride, Shroud. _s._ Wood cut off from growing trees. It sometimes means a pole so cut; _ladeshrides_--shrides placed for holding the load. _See_ LADESHRIDES.
To Shug. _v. a._ To shrug; to scratch; to rub against.
Shut'tle. _adj._ Slippery, sliding: applied only to solid bodies. From this word is derived the __shuttle__ (_s._) of the weaver.
Sig. _s._ Urine.
Sil'ker. _s._ A court-card.
To Sim. _v. n._ To seem, to appear. This verb is used personally, as, _I sim_, _you sim_, for _it seems to me_, etc.
Sim-like-it. _interj._ (Seems like it.) Ironically, for _very improbable_.
Sine. _conj._ [Probably from __seeing__ or __seen__.] Since, because.
Single-guss. _s._ The plant orchis.
Single-stick. _s._ A game; sometimes called __backsword__.
Sizes. _s. pl._ The a.s.sizes.
To Skag. To give an accidental blow, so as to tear the clothes or the flesh; to wound slightly.
Skag. _s._ An accidental blow, as of the heel of the shoe, so as to tear the clothes or the flesh; any slight wound or rent.
