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_Sammy_, soft, a soft head; simpleton.

_Sar_, to serve or give food to (cattle).

_Sarch_, to search.

_Scote_, to shoot along fast in running.

_Scrag_, a crooked branch of a tree.

_Scraggle_, to screw scramly about (of a man), to screw the limbs

scramly as from rheumatism.

_Scram_, distorted, awry.

_Scroff_, bits of small wood or chips, as from windfalls or hedge plushing.

_Scroop_, to skreak lowly as new shoes or a gate hinge.

_Scud_, a sudden or short down-shooting of rain, a shower.

_Scwo'ce_, chop or exchange.

_Settle_, a long bench with a high planken back.

_Shard_, a small gap in a hedge.

_Sharps_, shafts of a waggon.

_Shatten_, shalt not.

_Shroud_ (trees), to cut off branches.

_Sheeted cow_, with a broad white band round her body.

_Shoulden (Shoodn)_, should not.

_Shrow_, _Sh'ow_, _Sh'ow-crop_, the shrew mouse.

_Skim_, _Skimmy_, grass; to cut off rank tuffs, or rouets.

_Slaït_, (5, 1) _Slite_, a slade, or sheep run.

_Slent_, a tear in clothes.

_Slidder_, to slide about.

_Slim_, sly.

_Sloo_, sloe.

_Slooworm_, the slow-worm.

_Smame_, to smear.

_Smeech_, a cloud of dust.

_Smert_, to smart; pain.

_Snabble_, to snap up quickly.

_Snags_, small pea-big sloes, also stumps.

_Sneäd_ (1, 4), a scythe stem.

_Snoatch_, to breathe loudly through the nose.

_Snoff_, a snuff of a candle.

_Sock_, a short loud sigh.

_Spur (dung)_, to cast it abroad.

_Squaïl_ (5, 1), to fling something at a bird or ought else.

_Squot_, to flatten by a blow.

_Sowel_, _Zowel_, a hurdle stake.

_Sparbill_, _Sparrabill_, a kind of shoe nail.

_Spars_, forked sticks used in thatching.

_Speäker_ (1 4), a long spike of wood to bear the hedger's nitch on

his shoulder.

_Spears_, _Speers_, the stalks of reed grass.

_Spik_, spike, lavender.

_Sprack_, active.

_Sprethe_ (2), to chap as of the skin, from cold.

_Spry_, springy in leaping, or limb work.

_Staddle_, a bed or frame for ricks.

_Staïd_ (5, 1), steady, oldish.

_Stannèns_, stalls in a fair or market.

_Steän_ (1, 4) (a road), to lay it in stone.

_Steärt_ (1, 4), a tail or outsticking thing.

_Stout_, the cowfly, _Tabanus_.

_Stitch_ (of corn), a conical pile of sheaves.

_Strawèn_, a strewing. All the potatoes of one mother potatoe.

_Strawmote_, a straw or stalk.

_Strent_, a long slent or tear.

_Streech_, an outstretching (as of a rake in raking); a-strout stretched

out stiffly like frozen linen.

_Stubbard_, a kind of apple.

_Stunpoll_ (7), stone head, blockhead; also an old tree almost dead.

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