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_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 elders.h.i.+p 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, s.h.i.+ELLING, _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.
