Chapter 3

Kecker, Kyecker-pipe, Kyecker, Kyeck-horn, the wind-pipe, a pervious pipe, from _kike_ to look through

Keeve, or Kive _s._ a large tub used in brewing or cider making _v._ to put the wort or cider in a keeve to ferment

Keep _s._ a large basket

Keffel _s._ a bad, worn-out horse (Welsh, _Keffyl_)

Kern _v._ to coagulate as milk; also applied to fruit and wheat becoming visible after the blossoming

Kex, Kexy _s._ dry, pervious stalks, as of cow-parsley and hemlock Kexies, see Kecker

Kid _s._ a pod To Kiddy _v._ ex. They do kiddy, but they don't villy

Kilter _s._ money

Kircher _s._ caul, used by butchers

Kittle, or Kettle-Smock _s._ a carter's frock

Knap _s._ a rising ground

Knee-sick _adj._ applied to corn when the stalk is not strong enough to bear the ear

Knottle _v._ to entangle with knots

Knottlins _s._ the intestines of a pig prepared for food

Knot _s._ flower-bed

Knot-Sheep _s._ sheep without horns

Kowetop _s._ the barm which rises above the rim of the tub

Kurpy, Kerp _v._ to speak affectedly; scold (Lat. _increpare_)

Labber _v._ to loll out the tongue

Lades, or Ladeshrides _s._ the sides of a waggon which project over the wheels

Ladies-smock _s._ bindweed _Convolvulus sepium_, _Cardamine pratensis_

Lady-Cow _s._ lady-bird _Coccinella septempunctata_,

Laiter _s._ the whole number of eggs laid by a hen before she becomes broody, ex. She 've laaid out her laiter

Lamiger _s._ lame, a cripple

Lar _s._ bar of a gate

Larks-lees, Leers _v._ neglected lands

Lart, Lawt _s._ a loft, as cock-lart, hay-lart, apple-lart

Lary, Leary, Lear _adj._ empty, thin _s._ flank; Lear-quills, small quills

Las-chargeable _interj._ be quiet! _i.e._, he who last speaks or strikes in contention is most to blame

Lat, or Lart _s._ a lath, ex. Lartin nails

Lat _s._ shelf

Latitat _s._ a noise or scolding

Lattin-sheet _s._ iron-tinned; also as _adj._ made of tin, as a Lattin Saucepan

Lave _v._ to throw water from one place to another; to gutter, as a candle

Lay-field _s._ a piece laid down to grass

Lea, Leaze, Leers _s._ an open pasture field

Leapy, Lippary _s._ wet, rainy weather

Learn, Larn _v._ to teach, ex. Who larned 'e thay tricks

Leathern-bird, Leather-wing _s._ the bat

Ledge _v._ lay hands on; to lay eggs

Lent-lilies _s._ daffodils

Lescious ex. She is lescious of a place, _i,e._, knows of it and thinks it may suit

Levers _s._ a species of rush or sedge

Levvy _s._ a level (Fr. _levee_)

Lew, Lewth, Lewthy shelter, sheltered, lee-side

Libbets _s._ tatters; _little-bits_

Lidden _s._ a story, a song (Ger. _lied_)

Lief, Leaf _v._ leave; ex. I would as lief

Ligget _s._ a rag

Lijon _s._ the main beam of a ceiling

Lip, or Lippen _s._ applied to certain vessels, as Ley-lip, Seed-lip, Bee-lippen bee-hive (Wiclif's Test.: Leten hym doun in a _lepe_ be the wall Acts ix. 25)

Limmers, Limbers _s._ the shafts of a waggon or cart

Linch _v._ a ledge, hence "linch-pin" (A S _hlinc_)

Linney, Linhay _s._ an open shed

Lirp _v._ to limp

Lirripy _adj._ slouching

Lissom _a._ lithesome, active, supple

Lissum, or Lism _s._ a narrow slip of anything

Locking-bone _s._ the hip joint

Long-tailed Capon _s._ the long-tailed titmouse

Lug _s._ a pole; a measure of land, perch or rod

Lug-lain _s._ full measure

Lumper-scrump _s._ cow-parsnip _Heracleum sphondylium_

Lurdin _s._ a sluggard (Fr. _lourd_)

Lizzom _s._ a shade of colour in heavy bread, or in a mow

Mace _s._ pl. acorns, mast

Macky-moon _s._ a man who plays the fool

Maethe (th soft) sweet as meathe (Welsh _Medd_, mead)

Maggems, Maay-geams _s._ May games, larking

Magne _adj._ great

Make-wise _v._ to pretend

Manchet _s._ a kind of cake eaten hot

Mandy _adj._ and _v._ haughty, domineering Commandy

Mang _v._ to mix

Mang-hangle _adj._ and _s._ mixed-up in a confused mass

Math _s._ a litter of pigs

Maules _s._ measles

May-bug _s._ cockchafer

Mawkin (maaking) an oven swab; scare-crow; a bundle of rags

Mawn _s._ a basket (A S _mand_)

Maze-house _s._ madhouse

Mazy _adj._ mad, ex. I be mooast maazed; a mazy ould vool

Mear, Mear-stone boundary (A S _meare_)

Meat-weer _adj._ applied to land capable of producing food that is good, fit to eat; applied to peas, beans, &c.

Meg _s._ the mark at which boys play pitch and toss

Meg's, or Maggotts Diversions _s._ rattling or wanton fun

Meg-with-the-wad _s._ will o' the wisp

Melander _s._ a row (Fr. _melee_)

Me'll _v.a._ to meddle, touch; ex. I'll neither mell nor make; I ont mell o't, _i.e._, I will not touch it

Mesh _s._ moss; lichen on apple-trees

Mesh _s._ a hare's creep or run _v._ to run through the same

Mess, Messy _v._ to serve cattle with hay _s._ Messin

Mid, Med _v._ might, ex. Nor zed a mid; midst, medst, ex. Thou medst if wouldst

Midgerim _s._ mesentery

Mid'n might not, ex. I mid or I mid'n

Mig in the same sense

Milemas _s._ Michaelmas

Mind _v._ to remember

Misky form of misty

Miz-maze _s._ confusion

Mog _v._ to decamp, march off

Mooch _v._ to stroke down gently

Mood _s._ the mother of vinegar

Mole _s._ higher part of the back of the neck

Mommacks _s._ pl. fragments, scraps

Mommick, Mommet _s._ a scarecrow (Wiclif's N. Test.: "a sacrifice to the _mawmet_" Act vii. 41)

Moocher, Mooching, Meecher _s._ one who skulks; absents himself from school

Moor-coot _s._ a moor-hen

More _s._ a root

Moot _v._ to root up _s._ Mooting-axe

Moot _s._ that portion of a tree left in the ground after it has been felled

Mop _s._ tuft of grass

More, Morey _v.n._ to take root; applied to trees

Mother, Mothering _s._ white mould in beer or cider

Mothering-Sunday _s._ midlent Sunday, probably from the custom of visiting the mother-churches during that season

Mought for might _aux. verb_

Mouse-snap _s._ a mouse-trap

Mouster _v._ to stir, to be moving

Mow-staddle _s._ a conical stone with a flat circular cap, used for the support of a mow or stack of corn

Muddy-want _s._ a mole

Mullin _s._ metheglin

Mumper, Mump, Mumping a beggar, to beg

Nacker _s._ a nag

Nagging _adj._ applied to continued aching pain, as toothache; also, teasing with reproaches

Nammet, or Nummet _s._ luncheon; a short meal between breakfast and dinner. Noon-meat

Nan, Anan _interj._ Eh! what? (Shakes.)

Nap _s._ a small rising, a hillock

Na-poast _s._ gnaw-post, a fool.

Narn, or Norn _pron._ neither, ex. Narn on's

Nasten _v.a._ to render nasty

Nathely _adv._ nearly, as a baby is nathely pining away

Naunt _s._ aunt

Nawl _s._ navel; Nawl-cut a term used by butchers

Neel, Neeld _s._ a needle (Shaks. Mid. N. Dr. iii. 2)

Nesh, Naish _adj._ tender, delicate (A S _hnesc_)

Nestle-tripe _s._ the poorest bird in the nest; weakest pig in the litter; puny child

Never-the-near to no purpose

Newelty _s._ novelty

Nickle _v.n._ to move hastily along in an awkward manner _adj._ beaten down, applied to corn

Nicky, Nicky-wad _s._ a small fagot of thorns

Niddick _s._ the nape of the neck

Nif _conj._ if and if

'Nighst, Noist _prep._ nigh, near

Ninny-watch _s._ a longing desire

Nippigang, Nimpingang _s._ a whitlow

Nitch _s._ a burden, a fagot of wood

Nix _v._ to impose on, to nick

Northern, Northering _adj._ incoherent, foolish

Nosset _s._ a dainty dish such as is fit for a sick person

'Nottamy _s._ applied to a man become very thin (anatomy)

Nug _s._ unshapen piece of timber, a block

Nug-head _s._ a blockhead

Nuncle _s._ uncle _v.a._ to cheat

Nurt, or Nort nothing (w. of Parret)

Nuthen _s._ a great stupid fellow

Oak-web (wuck-ub) _s._ cock-chafer, may-bug

Oak-wuck _s._ the club at cards

Oaves _s._ the eaves of a house

Odments _s. pl._ odd things, offals

Oh _v._ to long greatly

Old-man's-Beard _s._ clematis

Old-rot _s._ cow-parsnip (_heracleum_)

Onlight _v.n._ to alight from on horse-back

Ool will; o'ot wilt o'ot'n't wilt not

Ope _s._ an opening

Open-erse _s._ a medler (A S _open-oers_), a fruit used medicinally

Ordain _v._ to purpose

Orloge _s._ a clock (horologe)

Or'n _pron._ either, ex. O'rm o'm, either of them

Ort _pron._ aught, anything

Orts _s._ scraps, leavings

Oseny, or Osening _v._ to forbode, predict (A S _wisian_)

Ourn ours

Out-ax'd _part._ to have the bands fully published

Out-faring _s._ lying outside the borough

Over-get _v.a._ to overtake

Over-look _v.a._ to bewitch

Over-right (auver-right) _adv._ opposite

Ovvers _s. pl._ over-hanging bank of rivers, edge of rivers (A S _ofer_)

Pair-of-Stairs _s._ a staircase with two landings

Pallee _adj._ broad, as pallee-foot, pallee-paw

Palme _s._ catkins of the willow (_salix caprea_)

Pame _s._ the mantle thrown over an infant who is going to be Christened

Panchard-night _s._ Shrove-Tuesday night

Pank _v._ to pant

Papern _adj._ made of paper

Parget _v.a._ to plaster the inside of a chimney with mortar made of cow-dung and lime

Parrick _s._ a paddock

Paumish _adj._ handling awkwardly

Pautch, Pontch _v._ to tread in mire

Payze, 'Pryze _v._ to upraise with a lever (Fr. _peser_)

Peart _adj._ brisk

Pease _v._ to run out in globules

Peasen _s. pl._ of pea _adj._ made of peas, ex. Peasen-pudding

Peazer _s._ a lever

Peek, Peeky, Peekid _adj._ pinched in face by indisposition

Peel _s._ a pillow

Pen, Penning, Pine, Cow-pine _s._ an enclosed place in which cattle are fed

Pen _s._ a spigot

Pick, Peckis _s._ pick-axe

Pick, Peek _s._ hay-fork

Pigs _s._ pixies, fairies, as in the common saying, "Please God and the pigs"

Pig's-hales _s._ hawes

Pig's-looze _s._ pig's-sty

Pilch, Pilcher _s._ a baby's woollen clout

Pill _s._ a pool in a river

Pill-coal _s._ peat from a great depth

Pillow-tie, Pillow-beer _s._ pillow-case

Pilm, Pillum _s._ dust

Pin, Pin-bone _s._ the hip

Pind, Pindy _adj._ fusty, as corn or flour

Pin'd _adj._ applied to a saw which has lost its pliancy

Pine, Pwine, Pwining-end, and Pwointing-end _s._ the gable-end of a house

Pinions _s. p._ the refuse wool after combing (Fr. _peigner_)

Pink-twink _s._ chaffinch

Pinswheal, Pinswil, Pensil _s._ a boil with a black head

Pirl, Pirdle _v._ to spin as a top

Pix, Pex, or Pixy _v._ to pick up fruit, as apples or walnuts, after the main crop is taken in

Pixy _s._ a fairy Pixy-stool _s._ toad-stool

Planch _s._ Planchant _adj._ a wood floor (Fr. _planche_)

Plazen _s. pl._ places

Plim, Plum _v.n._ to swell, to increase in bulk, as soaked peas or rice

Plough _s._ a team of horses; also a waggon and horses, or a waggon and oxen

Plough-path _s._ bridle-path

Plud _s._ the swamp surface of a wet ploughed field

Pock-fretten, Pock-fredden _adj._ marked with small-pox

Pog _v._ to push, to thrust with a fist

Pomice, Pummice, Pummy, or Pumy-Squat _s._ apples pounded for making cider (Fr. _pomme_)

Pomple _adj._ responsible, trustworthy

Pompster, or Pounster _v._ to tamper with a wound, or disease, without knowledge or skill in medicine

Ponted _adj._ bruised, particularly applied to fruit, as a ponted apple

Pooch _v._ to pout

Pook _s._ the stomach, a vell

Pook _s._ a cock of hay

Popple _s._ a pebble

Porr _v._ to stuff or cram with food

Pot-waller _s._ one whose right to vote for a member of Parliament is based on his having a fire-place whereon to boil his own pot, as at Taunton

Pound-house _s._ house for cider-making

Prey _v._ to drive the cattle into one herd in a moor, which is done twice a year (_i.e._, at Lady-day and at Michaelmas), with a view to ascertain whether any person has put stock there without a right to do it

Proud-tailor _s._ gold-finch

Pulk, or Pulker _s._ a small pool of water

Pumple, or Pumple-foot _s._ club-foot

Pur, or Pur-hog _s._ a one-year-old male sheep

Purt _v._ to pout, to be sullen

Puskey _adj._ short-breathed, wheezing

Putt _s._ a manure cart with two or three broad wheels

Puxy _s._ a slough, a muddy place

Pyer _s._ a hand-rail across a wooden bridge (Fr. _s'apuyer_)

Quar _v._ to coagulate--applied to milk in the breast

Quarrel, Quarrey _s._ a pane of glass

Quat _adj._ full, satisfied

Queane _s._ a little girl, a term of endearment

Queest, Quisty _s._ a wood-pigeon or blue-rock. A quarish queest _s._ a queer fellow

Quilled, or Queeled _adj._ withered, as grass

Quine _s._ a corner (Fr. _coin_)

Quirk, Quirky _v._ to complain, to groan, grunt

Quat, or Aquat _adj._ sitting flat, like a bird on its eggs to quat _v.n._ to squat (It. _quatto_)

Qwerk _s._ the clock of a stocking

Rade, or Rede _s._ part of the tripe or stomach of a bullock, the maw

Raening _adj._ thin, applied to cloth

Raft-up _v._ to disturb from sleep

Rain-pie _s._ woodpecker, yuckle

Rake _v.n._ to rouse up

Rally _v._ to scold

Ram _v._ to lose, by throwing a thing beyond reach

Rammel _adj._ (raw milk), applied to cheese made of unskimmed milk

Rams-claws _s. p._ crow's foot

Rampsing _adj._ tall

Range _s._ a sieve

Rangle _v._ to twine, move in a sinuous manner

Rangling Plants _s._ such as entwine round other plants, as hops, woodbine

Rap _v._ to exchange

Rape _v._ to scratch

Rare _adj._ raw, or red, as meat

Rasty, Rusty _adj._ rancid, gross, obscene

Ratch _v._ to stretch

Rathe, Rather early, soon Milton: "the rathe primrose"

Rathe-ripe _s._ an early kind of apple; also a male or female that arrives at full maturity before the usual age

Raught _part._ and _past tense_ reached, ex. E' raught down his gun

Rawn _v.a._ to devour greedily

Rawning-knife _s._ the large knife with which butchers clear their meat; cleaver

Rawny _adj._ thin, meagre

'Ray _v.a._ to dress. Unray to undress

Read, Reed _v._ to strip the fat from the intestines

Readship, or Retchup, Rechip, Rightship _s._ truth, dependence, trustworthiness

Ream _v.a._ to widen, to open, to stretch _s._ an instrument or tool for widening a hole (generally used for metals) _v.n._ to bear stretching. Reamy _adj._

Reams, Rames _s. pl._ the dead stalks of potatoes, &c.; skeleton (Query Remains)

Re-balling _s._ the catching of ells with earthworms (yeasses) attached to a ball of lead

Reed _s._ wheat-straw prepared for thatching (w. of Parret)

Reen, or Rhine _s._ watercourse, or dyke; an open drain

Reeve _v.n._ to shrivel up, to contract into wrinkles

Remlet _s._ a remnant

Reneeg _v._ to withdraw from an engagement (Lat. _renegare_) (Shaksp. Ant. and Cleop. i. 5)

Rere-Mouse _s._ a bat (A S _hrere-mus_)

Revel-twine _s._ same as Hevel-twine

Revesse _s._ the burden of a song, from _vessey_, _v._ to make verses

Rew _s._ row _v._ to put grass in rows

Rexen _s. p._ rushes (A S _rixe_)

Rip _v._ to rate or chide

Riscous applied to bread imperfectly baked

Robin-riddick, or Ruddock _s._ redbreast

Roddicks, Roddocks _s._ ex. Off the roddocks, as a cart off the grooves of the axle

Rode _v.n._ to go out to shoot wild fowl which pass over head on the wing early at night or in the morning; also applied to the passage of the birds themselves, ex. The woodcocks' rode

Roe-briar _s._ the large dog-rose briar

Roller, Rawler, Brawler _s._ a bundle of reed, ex. As weak as a rawler

Rompstal _s._ a rude girl

Ronge _v._ to gnaw, to devour (Fr. _ronger_)

Room, Rhume _s._ scurf of the scalp

Root-chains _s._ main plough chains

Roozement _s._ a slip or falling-in of earth

Ropy _adj._ wine or other liquor is ropy when it becomes thick and coagulated; also bread when a kind of second fermentation takes place in warm weather

Rose _v.n._ to drop out from the pod or other seed-vessel when the seeds are over ripe

Rose, Rooze-in _v._ to fall in, as the upper part of a quarry, or well

Round-dock _s._ the common mallow

Rouse-about _adj._ big, unwieldly

Rout _v._ to snore

Rowless _adj._ roofless. A Rowless Tenement an estate without a house

Rowsse _v._ to rush out with a great noise

Rozzim, Rozzums _s._ quaint sayings, low proverb

Ruck _v._ to couch down

"What is mankind more unto you yhold Than is the shepe that rouketh in the fold."

(Chaucer, Knight's Tale)

Rudderish _adj._ rude, hasty

Ruge _v.n._ to hang in folds, to wrinkle (Lat. _rugae_)

Rungs, Rongs _s. pl._ the rounds of a ladder, also of a chair

Rushen _adj._ made of rushes

Sand-tot _s._ sand-hill

Sape _s._ sap of trees, juice of fruit. Sapey _adj._ as fruit-tart

Sar, Sarve _v._ to earn wages

Scad _s._ a sudden and brief shower

Scamblin _s._ irregular meal

Scarry-whiff _adv._ askew

Scorse, Squoace, Squiss _v._ to exchange, barter

"And there another, that would needsly scorse A costly jewel for a hobby-horse"

(Drayton's Moon Calf)

Scottle _v._ to cut into pieces wastefully

Scourge-mettle _s._ the instrument with which a boy whips his top

Scovin, Scubbin _s._ the neck and breast of lamb

Scrambed, Shrambed _adj._ deprived of the use of some limb by a nervous contraction of the muscles; benumbed with cold

Scrint _v._ to scorch, singe; also to shrink a good deal in burning, as leather, silk, &c.

Scun _v._ to reproach with the view of exposing to contempt or shame (A S _scunian_, to shun, avoid)

Scurrick, Scurrig _s._ any small coin, a mere atom; ex. I havn't a scurrick left

Scute _s._ a sum of money, a gratuity, the impress on ancient money, from _scutem_, a shield. So _ecu_, Fr., a crown; shilling, from A S _scild_, a shield. Chaucer uses _shildes_ for ecus, _i.e._, crowns

Seam _s._ a horse-load (A S _seam_)

Seed-lip _s._ a sower's seed basket

Seem, Zim _v._ to think, to be of opinion; ex. I do zim, or zim t' I

Seltimes _adv._ seldom

Sense _v._ to understand

Seven-sleeper _s._ dormouse

Shab _s._ itch or mange in brutes _adj._ Shabby

Shaff-Tuesday _s._ Shrove-Tuesday

Shalder _s._ rush, sedge growing in ditches

Sham _s._ a horse-hoe

Share, Sheare _s._ the quantity of grass cut at one harvest, a crop

Sharps _s._ shafts of a cart

Shaul _v._ to shell, to shed the first teeth

Shaw _v._ to scold sharply

Sheen _adj._ bright, shining

Sheer _s._ a sheath, ex. Scissis-sheer

Shelving-stone _s._ a blue tile or slate for covering the roofs of houses

Shod _part. of v. to shed_ ex. No use crying for shod milk

Showl _s._ for shovel

Shrig _v.a._ to shroud or trim a tree

Shrowd, Shride _s._ loppings of trees

Shuckning _adj._ shuffling

Shut _v._ to weld iron

Shuttles, Shittles _s._ floodgates

Sife, Sithe _v._ and _s._ to sigh

Sig _s._ urine (Dutch _v. zeycken_)

Silch, Sulch _v._ to soil, daub

Silker _s._ a court card

'Sim t' I it seems to me

Simlin _s._ a kind of fine cake intended for toasts

Sin, Sine _conj._ since, because

Sinegar _s._ the plant stocks

Singlegus _s._ the orchis

Skag _s._ a rent, tear, wound

Skenter, Skinter _adj._ relaxed, as applied to oxen

Skiff-handed _adj._ awkward

Skiffle _s._ as to make a skiffle, to make a mess of any business

Skiffling _s._ the act of whittling a stick

Skilly _s._ oatmeal porridge

Skimps _s._ the scales and refuse of flax

Skimmerton-riding _s._ the effigy of a man or woman unfaithful to marriage vows carried about on a pole accompanied by rough music from cows'-horns and frying-pans. Formerly it consisted of two persons riding on a horse back to back, with _ladles_ and _marrow-bones_ in hand, and was intended to ridicule a hen-pecked husband

Skir _v._ skim, mow lightly, as thistles

Skir-devil _s._ a black martin, swift

Skirrings _s._ hay made in pasture lands from the long grass left by the cattle

Skitty _s._ a water-rail

Skitty-vamps _s._ laced half boots

Skred, Skride _v._ to stride

Slat, Slate _v._ to split, crack, crumble

Slate _s._ a sheep-run. Slated _adj._ accustomed to, contented

Slerib _s._ a spare rib of pork

Sley for "as lief," ex. I would sley do it as not

Sliden, Slidder, Slither _v._ to slide

Sliver _s._ a thin slice

Slock _v._ to encourage the servants of other people to pilfer

Slooen _adj._ of sloe, ex. A slooen tree

Slop _adj._ loose (Dutch _slap_)

Slope _v.n._ to decay, rot, as pears and potatoes

Srnitch, Smit, Smeech _s._ smut, or fine dust

Snag _s._ a tooth standing alone; a small sloe

Snag-blowth _s._ the blossom of the black-thorn

Snake-leaves _s._ ferns

Snap-jack _s._ stitch-wort (stellaria holostea)

Snare _s._ the gut or string stretched tightly across the lower head of a drum

Snell, or Snull _s._ a short thick stick about 4 inches long, called a "cat," used in the game called cat and dog

Sneyd _s._ the crooked handle of a scythe

Snicker, Snigger _v._ to laugh in an insulting way

Snoach _v._ to snuffle, to speak through the nose

Snoffer _s._ a sweetheart (Dutch _snoffen_, to sigh)

Snool _v._ to smear anything by rubbing the nose and mouth over it (Dutch _snavel_, a snout)

Snop _s._ a sharp blow

Soce, Zuez _s. pl. voc._ friends (Query _socii_)

Sog, or Sug _s._ a morass. Soggy _adj._ boggy; also as a verb, to be sugged-out by the wet

Sowle _v._ to handle rudely, to hale or pull

"He'll go, he says, and sowle the porter of Rome gates by the ears"

(Shaks. Coriol. iv. 5)

Spane _s._ the prong of a fork

Sparcled, Sparked, Spicotty _adj._ speckled

Spar-gad _s._ sticks split to be used for thatching

Sparrables, Spurbles _s._ shoemaker's nails, ex. Sparrable boots

Spars _s._ twisted hazel or willow for thatching

Spawl _v._ to scale away _s._ a scale broken off from the surface of a stone

Speard _s._ spade

Spine _s._ the sward or surface of the ground; the fat on the surface of a joint of meat

Spinnick _s._ Spinnicking _adj._ a person every way diminutive

Spittle _v._ to dig lightly between crops

Splat _s._ a row of pins as sold in paper

Sprack, Spree, Spry _adj._ nimble, alert, active

Sprackles _s. pl._ spectacles

Sprank _v._ to sprinkle with water. Spranker, Sprenker _s._ a watering-pot

Spreathed _adj._ said of skin harsh and dry with cold, but not chapped

Spried, Spreed _adj._ chapped with cold

Spounce _v._ to spatter with water

Spuddle _v._ to be uselessly or triflingly busy

Spur _v._ to spread abroad or scatter, as manure over a field (Lat. _spargere_)

Squail _v._ to throw a short stick at anything. Squailer _s._ the stick used in squirrel hunting

Squails _s._ nine-pins

Squap _v._ to sit down without any employment

Squatch _s._ a chink or narrow clift

Squelstring _adj._ sultry

Squinny _v._ to squint "Dost thou squinny at me?" (Shak. King Lear)

Squittee _v._ to squirt

Squoace, or Squss _v._ to truck or exchange

Staddle _s._ foundation of a rick of hay or corn, a mark left by a haycock, or anything allowed to remain too long in one place

Stag _s._ a castrated bull

Stagnated _adj._ astonished

Stang _s._ a long pole

Stap _v._ for to stop

Stare-basin, Glow-basin _s._ glow-worm

Stean _v._ to stone a road. Steaned _part. s._ a large stone pitcher (Dutch _steen_)

"Upon an huge great earthpot stean he stood"

(Spenser, Faery Queene)

Steanin _s._ a stone-pitched ford

Steeve _v._ to dry, to stiffen (Dutch _styven_)

Stickle _s._ shallow rapids in a stream. Steep _adj._ steep as a hill

Stitch _s._ a shock of corn, ten sheaves

Stive _v._ to keep close and warm

Stiver _s._ a bristling of the hair

Stocky _adj._ short, stumpy

Stodge _s._ thick slimy mud _adj._ miry; ex. "Pendummer, where the Devil was stodged in the midst of zummer"

Stodged _adj._ stuffed with eating

Stool _s._ the stock of a tree cut for underwood

Stoor, Storr _v._ to stir, move actively (Dutch _stooren_)

Stomachy _adj._ proud, haughty

Stout _s._ a gnat-fly

Strablet _s._ a long, narrow strip

Strame _s._ a streak, mark, trace _v._ to trace (Dutch _stram_)

Straw-mote _s._ a bit of straw

Strickle _adj._ steep as the roof of a house

Strod _s._ a leathern buskin worn by peasants

Strout _v._ to strut, stand out stiff