The sound of S is very often converted into the sound of Z. Thus
many of the following words, _Sand-tot, Sar, Seed-lip, Silker,
Sim, &c._, are often pronounced _Zand-tot, Zar, Zeeäd-lip,
Zilker, Zim, &c._
Sâ'cer-eyes. Very large and prominent eyes. [Saucer eyes.
Sand-tot. _s_. A sandhill.
To Sar. _v. a._ To serve--Toearn; as, _I can sar but
zixpence_ a day.
Sar'ment. _s._ A sermon.
Sar'rant. _s._ A servant.
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 crushing 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.
Shil'lith. _s._ A shilling's worth.
Shine. _s._ Every _shine 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 assizes.
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.
To Skeer. _v. a._ To mow lightly over: applied to pastures
which have been summer-eaten, never to meadows. In a neuter sense,
to move along quickly, and slightly touching. Hence, from its mode
of flight,
Skeer-devil. _s._ The black martin, or Swift.
Skeer'ings. _s._ pl. Hay made from pasture land.
Skent'in. _adj_. When cattle, although well-fed, do not
become fat, they are called skentin.
Skenter. _s._ An animal which will not fatten.
To Skew, \ To Ski'ver. / _v. a._ To skewer.
Skiff-handed. _adj._ Left-handed, awkward.
Skills, \ Skittles. / _s. pl._ The play called nine-pins.
Skim'merton. _s._ To ride Skimmerton, is an exhibition of
riding by two persons on a horse, back to back; or of several
persons in a cart, having _skimmers_ and _ladles_, with
which they carry on a sort of warfare or gambols, designed to
ridicule some one who, unfortunately, possesses an unfaithful
wife. This _may-game_ is played upon some other occasion
besides the one here mentioned: it occurs, however, very rarely,
and will soon, I apprehend, be quite obsolete. _See_
SKIMMINGTON, in _Johnson_.
Skiv'er. _s._ A skewer.
To Skram. _v. a._ To benumb with cold.
Skram. _adj._ Awkward: stiff, as if benumbed.
"With hondis al _forskramyd_."
CHAUCER, _Second Merchant's Tale_.
Skram-handed. _adj._ Having the fingers or joints of the hand
in such a state that it can with difficulty be used; an imperfect
hand.
To Skrent. _v. a._ [An irregular verb.] To burn, to scorch.
Part. _Skrent_. Scorched.
Skum'mer. _s._ A foulness made with a dirty liquid, or with
soft dirt.
To Skum'mer. _v.a._ To foul with a dirty liquid, or to daub
with soft dirt.
Slait. _s._ An accustomed run for sheep; hence the place to
which a person is accustomed, is called slait.
To Slait. _v. a._ To accustom.
To Slait. _v. a._ To make quick-lime in a fit state for use,
by throwing water on it; to slack.
To Slat. _v. a._ To split; to crack; to cleave. To Sleeze.
_v. n._ To separate; to come apart; applied to cloth, when
the warp and woof readily separate from each other.
Sleezy. _adj._ Disposed to sleeze; badly woven.
Slen. _adj._ Slope.
'Slike. It is like.
Slipper-slopper. _adj._ Having shoes or slippers down at the
heel; loose.
To Slitter. _v.n._ To slide.
To Slock. _v. a._ To obtain clandestinely.
To Slock'ster. _v. a._ To waste.