Part 12

=Rubbly=. _adj._ Of soil, loose from being full of broken bits of chalk (_Agric. Survey_).

=Rucksey=. Muddy, dirty, untidy, as applied to road, weather, or house.--S.W.

=Rudder=. (1) _n._ A sieve. A.S. _hridder_. See Riddle.--N.W. (2) _v._ To sift.--N.W.

=Rudderish=. Passionate, hasty (A.B.G.).--S.W. (Som. bord.)

=Rudge=. _n._ The space between two furrows in a ploughed field.--N. & S.W.

=Rumple=, _v._ To seduce. The full force of the word can only be given by _futuere_, as:--'He bin rumplin' that wench o' Bill's again laas' night.'--N.W.

*=Rumpled-skein=. Anything in confusion; a disagreement (A.).

=Rumpum-Scrumpum=. _n._ A rude kind of musical instrument, made of a piece of board, with an old tin tied across it as a bridge, over which the strings are strained. It is played like a banjo, or sometimes with a sort of fiddle-bow.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

=Rusty=. See ~Rafty~.

=Ryemouse=. The bat (A.B.). A form of Reremouse.--N.W.

=Saat=. 'Saat bread,' soft, sweet puddingy bread, which pulls apart in ropes or strings, made from 'grown-out' wheat. Cp. Halliwell (~s.v.~ _Sad_): 'Sad bread, _panis gravis_, Coles.' See ~Zaad-paul~.

=Sails=. The upright rods of a hurdle (D.). ~Hurdle-zailin'~, _sing_. (Clyffe Pypard).--N.W.

=Sally-withy=. A willow (A.H.Wr.). A curious reduplication, both parts of the word having the same meaning in Anglo-Saxon.

=Sar=. (1) To serve (S.) or feed (_Wilts Tales_, p. 112). 'Sar the pegs, wull 'ee,' i.e. 'Give them their wash.'--N. & S.W. (2) ''Twon't sar a minute to do't,' will not take a minute.--N.W.

=Saturday's Pepper=. _Euphorbia Helioscopia_, L., Sun-spurge (_English Plant Names_). ~Saturday-night's-pepper~ (_Village Miners_).

=Sauf=. As if (S.). 'Looks sauf 'twur gwain to rain.'--N. & S.W. (Clyffe Pypard, &c.)

=Scallot=. Quarrymen's term for one of the upper beds of the Portland series--a fine white stone (Britton's _Beauties of Wilts_, vol. iii).

=Scambling=. 'A scambling meal,' one taken in a rough and hurried way.--N.W.

'In the _Percy Household Book_, 1511, "Scamlynge days" is of constant occurrence for _jours maigres_.'--SMYTHE-PALMER.

=Scat=. _v._ To whip, beat, smack, slap.--S.W., occasionally.

=Scaut=. (1) _v._ To strain with the foot in supporting or pushing (A.); as at foot-ball, or in drawing a heavy load uphill; to stretch the legs out violently. ~Scote~ in S. Wilts.--N. & S.W.

'Stick your heels in the ground, arch your spine, and drag with all your might at a rope, and then you would be said to "scaut." Horses going uphill, or straining to draw a heavily laden waggon through a mud hole "scaut" and tug.'--_Village Miners._

(2) _n._ The pole attached to the axle, and let down behind the wheel, to prevent the waggon from running back while ascending a hill (A.S.).--N. & S.W.

*=School-bell=. _Campanula rotundifolia_, L., Harebell.--N.W. (Enford.)

=Scoop=. (1) A shovel (D.).--N.W. (2) Allowance or start in a race, &c. 'How much scoop be you a going to gie I?'--N. & S.W. (Baverstock, &c.)

'Alwaies dyd shroud and cut theyre fuel for that purpose along all the Raage on Brayden's syde alwaies taking as much Skoop from the hedge as a man could through [throw] a hatchet.'--_Perambulation of the Great Park of Fasterne near Wootton Bassett_, 1602.

The original document is in the Devizes Museum.--N.W.

=Scotch=. A chink, a narrow opening. The spaces between the boards in a floor are _scotches_.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard, Huish, &c.)

=Scote=. See ~Scaut~.

*=Scottle=. To cut badly or raggedly (H.Wr.). 'Her did scottle the stuff so, that my new gownd's 'tirely spwiled.'--N.W.

=Scraamb=. 'To scraamb a thing down' is to reach up to it and pull it down violently (S.), in the manner thus described by Jefferies:--

'Suppose a bunch of ripe nuts high up and almost out of reach; by dint of pressing into the bushes, pulling at the bough, and straining on tiptoe, you may succeed in "scraambing" it down. "Scraambing," or "scraambed," with a long accent on the aa, indicates the action of stretching and pulling downwards. Though somewhat similar in sound, it has no affinity with scramble: people scramble for things which have been thrown on the ground.'--_Village Miners._

It would not be used of such an action as scrambling about on rocks.--N.W.

*=Scram=, =Skram=. Awkward, stiff as if benumbed.--N.W. (Malmesbury.)

=Scran=. *(1) A bag (A.H.Wr.) in which food is carried.--N. & S.W. (2) Victuals (S.).--S.W.

=Scratch Cradle=. Cat's-cradle (A.B.).

=Screech=. (1) The Missel Thrush, _Turdus viscivorus_ (A.).--N.W. (2) _Cypselus apus_, the Swift (_Birds of Wilts_, p. 309).--N. & S.W.

=Screechetty=. _adj._ Creaky (S.).--S.W.

=Screech Thrush=. The Missel Thrush, _Turdus viscivorus_ (_Birds of Wilts_, p. 129).--S.W. (Sutton Benger.)

*=Scricele=. To creak or squeak. See ~Scruple~.--N.W. (Wroughton.)

=Scriggle=. To take the last apples. See ~Griggles~.--N.W.

=Scroff=, =Scruff=. Fragments of chips (S.). The refuse of a wood-shed; ashes and rubbish for burning.--S.W.

=Scrouge=. To squeeze, press, or crowd any one (A.B.). 'Now dwoan't 'ee come a scrougin' on I zo!'

=Scrow=. (1) Angry, surly (A.H.).--N.W. *(2) Sorry, vexed.--N. & S.W., occasionally.

'Lawk, zur, but I be main scrow to be ael in zich a caddle.'--_Wilts Tales_, p. 137.

=Scrump=. (1) _n._ A very dried up bit of anything (S.), as toast or roast meat 'done all to a scrump' (_Cottage Ideas_).--N. &. S.W. (2) Hence, sometimes applied to a shrivelled-up old man.--N. & S.W. (3) _v._ 'Don't scrump up your mouth like that!' i.e. squeeze it up in making a face.--N. & S.W. (4) _v._ To crunch. A sibilated form of Crump.--N. & S.W.

=Scrumpshing=. Rough play: used by boys (_Bevis_, ch. ix).--N.W.

=Scrupet=. To creak or grate, as the ungreased wheel of a barrow (_Village Miners_). Also Scroop, Scripet, Scrupetty, Scroopedee (S.), &c.--N. & S.W.

=Scruple=. To squeak or creak. 'When the leather gets old-like, he sort o' dries up, an' then he do scruple--he do scricele, Sir!' i.e. the saddle squeaks. Cf. ~Scroop~.--N.W. (Wroughton.)

=Scuff about= or =along=. To drag one's feet awkwardly, as in too large slippers; to 'scuff up' the dust, as children do for amusement, by dragging a foot along the road.--N. & S.W.

=Scuffle=. An oven-swab.--S.W.

=Scythe=. The various parts of the scythe are as follows in N. Wilts:--~Snead~, or ~Snaith~, the pole; ~Nibs~, the two handles; ~Pole-ring~, the ring which secures the blade; Quinnets (1) the wedges which hold the rings of the nibs tight, *(2) the rings themselves (A.); ~Crew~, the tang of the blade, secured by the pole-ring to the snead.

=Seed-lip=. The box in which the sower carries his seed (D.) (_Village Miners_). A.S. _léap_, basket, Icel. _laupr_.--N. & S.W. Misprinted _Seed-tip_ in Davis.

=Seer!= or =Sire!= 'I say, look here!' a very usual mode of opening a conversation when the parties are some distance apart.--N. & S.W.

=Seg=, =Sig=. Urine.--S.W.

=Seg-cart=. The tub on wheels in which urine is collected from house to house for the use of the cloth mills.--S.W.

=Sewent=, =Shewent=, =Suant=. (1) _adj._ Even, regular (A.B.C.S.), working smoothly. Formerly used all over the county, but now growing obsolete, although it is not infrequently heard still in S. Wilts. O.Fr. _suant_, pr. part. of _suivre_, to follow.--N. & S.W.

'A Piece of Cloth is said to be--shewent--when it is evenly wove and not Rowey--it is also applied in other cases to denote a thing Level and even.'--_Cunnington MS._

*(2) Demure (C.).--N.W., obsolete.

'To Look Shewent, is to Look demure.'--_Cunnington MS._

*=Shab off=. To go off (S.).--S.W.

=Shackle=. (1) A hurdle wreath or tie (S.): a twisted band of straw, hay, &c.--N. & S.W. (2) 'All in a shackle,' loose, disjointed (S.).--N. & S.W. (Devizes, Huish, Salisbury, Clyffe Pypard, &c.)

=Shaft-tide=, or =Shrift=. Shrovetide.--S.W.

=Shaggle=. Of a bough, &c., to shake.--S.W.

=Shakers=. _Briza media_, L., Quaking-grass.--N. & S.W.

*=Shally-gallee=. Poor, flimsy (_Great Estate_, ch. iv). Compare _Spurgally_, wretched, poor, Dors.; and _Shally-wally_, a term of contempt in N. of England.--N.W.

*=Shame-faced Maiden=. _Anemone nemorosa_, L., Wood Anemone (_Sarum Dioc. Gazette_).--S.W. (Farley.)

=Shammock=. To shamble or shuffle along hastily.

*=Shandy=. A row about nothing (S.). Probably a form of _Shindy_.--S.W.

=Shape= (pronounced _shap_). To manage, arrange, attempt, try. 'I'll shap to do 't,' try to do it. Compare the similar use of _frame_ in some counties.--N.W. (Devizes.)

=Shard=, =Shord=, =Sheard=. (1) A gap in a hedge (A.B.).--N. & S.W.

'I went drough a sheard in th' hedge, instead o' goin' drough th' geat.'--_Wilts Tales_, p. 167.

'1636. Itm. to Robert Eastmeade for mendinge a shard in Englands ijd.'--_Records of Chippenham_, p. 207.

(2) A narrow passage between walls or houses; usually Shord.--S.W. (3) 'To put in a shard, or shord,' to bay back or turn the water in a meadow trench by a rough dam, such as a piece of wood or a few sods of turf.--N.W.

(4) 'A cow-shard,' a cow-clat.

*=Shares=. The cross-bars of a harrow (D.).

=Sharpish=. Considerable. 'I be eighty-vive to-year, an' 'tis a sharpish age.'--N.W. (Huish, &c.)

=Sharps=. The shafts of a cart (A.S.).--N. & S.W.

=Shaul=. v. To shell nuts. Compare _Shalus_, husks (_Chron. Vilod._).--N.W.

=Sheening=. Thrashing by machinery (_Wild Life_, ch. vi).--N.W.

=Sheep=. See _Agric. of Wilts_, p. 260; also quotation below.

'In the article of sheep what strange nomenclature! Besides the intelligible names of ram, ewe, and lamb, we have wether hogs, and chilver hogs, and shear hogs, ram tegs, and theaves, and two-tooths, and four-tooths, and six-tooths. So strange is the confusion that the word hog is now applied to any animal of a year old, such as a hog bull, a chilver hog sheep. "Chilver" is a good Anglo-Saxon word, "cylfer" [this should be "cilfer"] ... a chilver hog sheep simply means, in the dialect of the Vale of Warminster, a female lamb a year old.'--_Wilts Arch. Mag._ vol. xvii. p. 303.

*=Sheep-bed= (_Ship-bed_). When a labourer had drunk too much, he would 'take a ship-bed,' i.e. lie down like a sheep to sleep in a grass-field, till he was sober.--N.W., obsolete.

=Sheep's-cage=. The same as ~Lamb's-cage~.--N.W.

=Sheep-sleight=. See Sleight (D.). Common in Wilts (Jackson's _Aubrey_, p. 10).

=Sheer=. Sharp, cutting. 'Uncommon sheer air s'marnin', yunnit?'--N.W.

=Shekel=. (1) The old reaping sickle, now quite superseded by the vagging-hook. The first _e_ is long. An old labourer, on being asked how he used to sharpen his ancient reaping-sickle, said, 'I did allus use to car' a grab [crab-apple] wi' me, an' draa my shekel droo un,' the acid biting like aquafortis into the curiously serrated edge of the steel, and renewing it without injury. Farm-lads still sharpen their knives thus. See _Great Estate_, ch. v; also _Summer in Somerset_.--N.W., obsolete. (2) The fork in which 'elms' are carried up to the thatcher.--N.W.

=Shepherds'-crowns=. Fossil _Echini_.--N.W.

*=Shepherds'-pedler=. _Capsella Bursa-pastoris_, L., Shepherds' purse.

=Shepherds'-Thyme=. _Polygala calcarea_, Sch., Chalk Milkwort.--S.W. (Salisbury, Bishopstone, Little Langford, &c.).

=Shepherds'-weatherglass=. _Anagallis arvensis_, L., Scarlet Pimpernel.--N. & S.W.

=Shewent=. See ~Sewent~.

=Shick-shack=. See ~Shitsack~.

*=Shim=. It seems. 'He's a fine fellow, shim' (A.B.C.H.Wr.).--N.W.

'This word is rather of Glocestershire, but it is nevertheless in use on the North Border of Wilts.'--_Cunnington MS._

*=Shimmy=. _Convolvulus sepium_, L., Great Bindweed. Reported to us as 'Chemise.'--S.W. (Little Langford.)

=Shirp=, or =Shrip=. (1) 'To shirp off,' to shred or cut off a little of anything.--S.W. (2) 'To shrip up,' to shroud up the lower boughs of roadside trees, to cut off the side twigs of a hedge or bush.--N.W.

*=Shirt-buttons=. Flowers of _Stellaria Holostea_, Greater Stitchwort.--S.W. (Deverill.)

=Shitabed=. _Leontodon Taraxacum_, L., Dandelion (H.).--N.W.

=Shitsack=, or =Shitzack=. An oak-apple (H.Wr.). Oak-apple and leaf (S.).--N. & S.W.

=Shitsack, or Shick-shack Day=. King Charles' day, May 29. The children carry ~Shitsack~, sprigs of young oak, in the morning, and ~Powder-monkey~, or ~Even-Ash~, ash-leaves with an equal number of leaflets, in the afternoon. See _Wild Life_, ch. v.--N. & S.W. (Clyffe Pypard, &c.)

=Shivery-bivery=. All in a shake with cold or fright.--N.W.

=Shog=. To sift ashes, &c., by shaking the sieve.--N.W. (Devizes, Huish, &c.)

=Shog off=. To decamp in a hurried, stealthy, or cowardly manner (A.B.C.).--N.W.

=Shoot=, =Shute=. (1) A young female pig of three or four months old (D.).--N. & S.W. (2) _Fore-shoot and Backward-shoot_, the pieces of wood immediately behind the coulter of a plough (D.). (3) A precipitous descent in a road; a steep narrow path.--N. & S.W.

=Shord=. See ~Shard~.

=Shore=. _n._ The edge of a ditch on the meadow side (_Wild Life_, ch. xviii).--N.W.

'A Mearstone lyinge within the Shoore of the Dyche.'--Perambulation of the Great Park of Fasterne, 1602.

=Shot=, or =Shut of, to be=. To rid one's self of a thing. 'Her can't get shut o' thuck there vool of a bwoy.'-N. & S.W.

=Shoulder, to put out the=. At Clyffe Pypard and Hilmarton it is customary to ask a man whose banns have been published once, 'How his shoulder is?'--because you have heard that it has been 'put out o' one side,' owing to his having 'vallen plump out o' the pulput laas' Zunday.' Next Sunday will 'put'n straight agean.' This implies that the banns were formerly published from the pulpit.--N.W.

=Showl=. A shovel (A.B.D.); occasionally a spade (D.).--N. & S.W.

=Shrammed=. Chilled to the bone, benumbed, perished with cold (A.B.M.S.).--N. & S.W.

'I was half-shrammed (i.e. perished with cold) on the downs.--_Monthly Mag._ 1814.

=Shrift=. See ~Shaft-tide~.

*=Shrigging=. Hunting for apples (S.). See ~Griggles~ and ~Scriggle~.--S.W.

=Shrill=. To shudder. 'I never couldn't eat fat bacon--I do allus shrill at it.'--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

=Shrimps=. A particular kind of sweets.--N. & S.W.

=Shrowd=. (1) To trim off the lower boughs of a tree (S.).--N. & S.W. (2) To cut a tree into a pollard. See Polly.--N. & S.W.

=Shrub=. To rub along somehow, to manage to live after some sort of a fashion. 'I do shrub along middlin' well, when I bain't bad wi' the rheumatiz.' A sibilated form of _rub_.--N. & S.W., occasionally.

=Shrump up=. To hunch up the shoulders. 'Don't shrump up your shoulders like that!'--N.W.

=Shucks=. Husks of oats, &c.--S.W.

=Shuffet=. To shuffle along hurriedly.--N.W.

*=Shurne=. _Cacare_ (_MS. Lansd._ 1033, f. 2), Cp. A.S. _scearn_, dung.--Obsolete.

=Shut=. (1) _v._ To join together; used of welding iron, splicing a rope, joining woodwork, laying turf, &c.--N. & S.W. (2) _n._ The point of junction, as where rick is built against rick.--N. & S.W. (3) _adj._ See ~Shot~.

=Shutleck=, =Shutlock= (S.). See ~Waggon~.

=Sibilated words=. These are somewhat common in Wilts, as _Snotch_, notch; _Spuddle_, puddle; _Scrunch_, crunch; _Spyzon_, poison; _Spicter_, picture.

=Sick=. 'Turnip-sick,' of land, exhausted as regards turnip-growing (_Great Estate_, ch. i). 'Tater-sick,' &c.--N.W.

=Sideland ground=. Sloping ground on a hillside.--N.W.

=Sidelong=, =Sideling=. (1) With one side higher than the other (_Wild Life_, ch. vi). 'I wur nigh upset, th' rwoad wur that sideling.'--N. & S.W. (2) Sitting _sidelong_, i.e. with the side towards the spectator (_Gamekeeper at Home_, ch. ii).

=Sig=. See ~Seg~ (S.).--S.W.

=Sight=. A quantity, as 'a sight o' vawk,' 'a main sight o' rain.'--N. & S.W.

*=Sil=. Seldom. 'Sowle-grove sil lew,' February is seldom warm (H.).--Obsolete.

=Silgreen=. _Sempervivum tectorum_, L., Houseleek (_Village Miners_). A.S. _singréne_. See ~Sungreen~--N.W.

*=Sillow=, =Sullow=, or =Sul=. A kind of plough (D.). A.S. _sulh_.--S.W., obsolete.

'~Sylla~, a plough, was used at Bratton within the memory of persons still living. ~Sylla-foot~, or ~Zilla-fut~, was a guiding piece of wood alongside of the share.'--Miss WAYLEN.

*=Silver-bells=. The double Guelder-rose of gardens.--N.W. (Cherhill.)

=Silver-fern= or =Silver-grass=. _Potentilla Anserina_, L., which has fern-like silvery foliage.--N. & S.W.

=Sim=. _n._ A smell, as of burning wool or bone. 'That there meat hev got a main sim to 't.'--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

*=Simbly=. To seem.--N.W.

'He've a bin and tuk dree bottles o' doctor's stuff; but I'll be whipped if a do zimbly a bit th' better var't.'--_Wilts Tales_, p. 137.

=Simily=. Apparently, as 'Simily 'tis a bird.'--N.W.

=Simmin=. It seems. 'Simmin to I 'tis gwain' thic way.'--N.W.

=Sinful=. Excessively, as 'sinful ornary,' very ugly.--N.W.

=Sinful-ordinary=. Plain to the last degree in looks.--N.W.

'I once knew a young gentleman in the Guards who was very ordinary-looking--what is called in Wiltshire "sinful ordinary."'--_Illust. London News_, March 23, 1889.

=Singreen=. See ~Sungreen~.--S.W.

=Skag, Skeg=. (1) _v._ To tear obliquely.--N.W. (2) _n._ A ragged or oblique tear in clothes, such as is made by a nail.--N.W.

=Skeart=. To cause to glance off, as a pane of glass diverts shot striking it at an angle.--N.W.

=Skeer=. (1) To skim lightly and quickly over a surface, barely touching it, as a ball does along ice.--N.W. (Malmesbury.) *(2) To mow summer-fed pastures lightly.--N.W. (Malmesbury.)

=Skeer-devil=, =Skir-devil=. _Cypselus apus_, the Common Swift.--N.W. (Malmesbury, &c.)

=Skewer-wood=. _Euonymus Europaeus_, L., Spindle-tree.--N.W.

=Skewy=, =Skeowy=. When the sky shows streaks of windy-looking cloud, and the weather seems doubtful, it is said to 'look skeowy.'--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) Compare:--

'_Skew_: thick drizzle or driving mist.'--JAGO'S _Cornish Glossary_.

*=Skiel=. A cooler used in brewing beer (A.B.G.H.Wr.).

=Skiffley=. Showery. Perhaps from O.E. _skyfte_, to change.--S.W.

=Skillet=. A round pot to hang over the fire.--N.W.

=Skillin=, =Skilling=. A pent-house (A.C.S.); an outhouse or cow-shed. A.S. _scyldan_, to protect; Old Germ. _schillen_, to cover (A.). _Skillion_ is used in Australia for a small outhouse.--N. & S.W.

=Skimmenton=, =Skimmenton-riding=. A serenade of rough music got up to express disapproval in cases of great scandal and immorality. The orthodox procedure in N. Wilts is as follows: the party assembles before the houses of the offenders, armed with tin pots and pans, and performs a serenade for three successive nights. Then after an interval of three nights the serenade is repeated for three more. Then another interval of the same duration and a third repetition of the rough music for three nights--nine nights in all. On the last night the effigies of the offenders are burnt. ~Housset~ is the same thing. The word and the custom have emigrated to America.--N.W.

=Skimmer-cake=. A cake made of odd scraps of dough (S.). See ~Skimmer-lad~.--S.W.

=Skimmer-lad=. A dunch-dumpling, or piece of dough put on a skimmer and held in the pot while boiling.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

=Skippet=. The long-handled ladle used for filling a water-cart, emptying a hog-tub, &c.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

=Skipping-ropes=. Sprays of _Clematis Vitalba_, L., Traveller's Joy.--S.W. (Bishopstone.)

=Skit=. A passing shower (_Great Estate_, ch. i).--N.W.

*=Skive=. To shave or slice (_Wilts Arch. Mag._ vol. xxii. p. 113).--N.W. (Cherhill.)

=Skram=. See ~Scram~.

=Skug, Sqwug=. A squirrel. 'I say, there's a skug! Let's have a cock-shot at him with your squailer.'--N. & S.W.

=Slack=. Impudence, cheek (S.). 'I'll ha' none o' your slack!'--S.W.

=Slammock=, =Slummock=. A slattern. ~Slammick~ (S.).--N. & S.W.

=Slan=. A sloe (A.). A.S. _slán_, pl. of _slá_, sloe.--N.W. (Castle Eaton, &c.)

'Those eyes o' yourn be as black as slans.'--_Wilts Tales_, p. 81.

=Slang-up=, or =Slang-uppy=. Untidy, slatternly.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

=Slat=. (1) _v._ To split or crack (A.B.S.). 'Thuc plate's slat.'--N. & S.W. (2) _n._ A crack. 'What a girt slat thur is in un.'--N. & S.W. (3) _n._ A slate (A.). 'Thur's a slat blowed off.'--N.W.

=Slay=. See ~Sleight~.

=Sleek=. (1) _adj._ Slippery. 'The rwoad's terrible sleek.'--N.W. (2) _n._ Sleet.--N.W.

=Sleight=, =Slay=. (1) _v._ To pasture sheep on the downs (D.).--N.W. (2) _n._ Sheep-sleight, a sheep-down (D.); a pasture good for sheep.--N.W.

=Slent=. (1) _v._ To tear (S.). 'I've a bin an' slent ma yeppurn.'--S.W. (2) _n._ A tear or rent in clothes.--S.W.

=Slewed=, =Slewy=. Drunk (S.).--N. & S.W.

*=Slickit=. (1) A long thin slice (not a curly shaving) of wood (_Village Miners_).--N.W. (Berks bord.) (2) 'A slickit of a girl,' a young undeveloped girl (_Ibid._).--N.W. (Berks bord.) Cp. _Slacket_, slim, Cornw.

=Slide=. The cross-bar on the tail of the fore-carriage of a waggon. See Waggon.--N.W.

=Slip=. To shed. Of a horse, to shed its coat.--N. & S.W.

=Slippetty-sloppetty=. Draggle-tailed, slovenly. 'I never zeed zich a slippetty-sloppetty wench in aal my barn days.'--N.W.

=Slire=. _v._ To look askance or out of the corners of your eye at anything.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard, &c.)

'"Why should you suspect him?" "Aw, a' be a bad 'un; a' can't look 'ee straight in the face; a' sort of slyers [looks askance] at 'ee."'--_Greene Ferne Farm_, ch. ix.

*=Slize=. To look sly (A.B.H.Wr.). To look askance at any one.--N.W.

=Slocks=. See ~Slox~.

=Slocks about=. To go about in an untidy slatternly way.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

=Sloe=. In S. Wilts, about Salisbury, the large fruit is known as Sloes or Slues, and the small as Snags; in N. Wilts, at Huish, ~Slŏns~ are large and ~Hedge-speäks~ small, while at Clyffe Pypard the same terms are used, but the latter is not confined to the small fruit. At Cherhill ~Hilps~ and ~Picks~ are the names. ~Slues~ is used in both N. and S. Wilts, and ~Slŏns~ or ~Slăns~ in N. Wilts.

=Slommakin=. _adj._ Of females, untidy, slatternly (S.).--N. & S.W. (Malmesbury, &c.)

*=Sloop=. To change (A.H.Wr.). Perhaps a perversion of _slew_, or a misreading of _swop_ in badly written MS.

=Slop about=. To shuffle about in a slipshod slovenly fashion.--N. & S.W.

=Sloppet=. (1) _v._ The same as Slop about.--N.W.

'He "sloppets" about in his waistcoat and shirt-sleeves.'--_Hodge and his Masters_, ch. xxiii.

*(2) _v._ Applied to a rabbit's peculiar gait, and the manner in which it wears away and covers with sand the grass near its bury (_Amateur Poacher_, ch. ii).

=Slouse=. To splash about, as a horse or dog does in water.--N.W.

*=Sloven's year=. A wonderfully prosperous season, when even the bad farmer has good crops (_Great Estate_, ch. viii).

=Slox=, =Slocks=. To waste, to pilfer from employers (A.B.C.H.Wr.).--N.W.

=Slummock=. See ~Slammock~.

=Sly=. 'A sly day' looks bright and pleasant, but the air has a chill nip in it. 'Sly cold' is the treacherous kind of cold raw weather that was very prevalent during the influenza epidemic two or three years ago.--N.W. (Huish.)

=Smaak=. _n._ 'Aal in a smaak,' quite rotten; used of potatoes.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

=Smarm=. To bedaub. 'Don't smarm me aal auver wi' they dirty paws o' yourn.' ~Smaam~ (S.).--N. & S.W.

=Smart=. A second swarm of bees.--N.W.

=Smart=, =Smartish=, _adj._ Considerable (H.), as 'a smartish lot o' vawk.'--N. & S.W.

=Smeech=. Dust.--S.W. (Salisbury, Hill Deverill, &c.)

=Smeechy=. Dusty.--N.W. (Cherhill.)

*=Smicket=. A smock or shift (A.).

=Smother=. A weed and rubbish fire in a garden.--N. & S.W.

=Snag=, =Snaig=. (1) A badly shaped or decayed tooth; often used of a child's first teeth.--N.W. (2) Fruit of the sloe, q.v. (S.).--S.W.

*=Snag-bush=. _Prunus spinosa_, L., the Sloe (_Miss Plues_).

=Snake-fern=. _Pteris aquilina_, L., Bracken.--S.W. (Deverill.)