Part 13

=Snake-flower=. (1) _Verbascum nigrum_, L., Black Mullein. Children are cautioned not to gather it, because a snake may be hiding under the leaves.--S.W. (Salisbury.) (2) _Stellaria Holostea_, L., Greater Stitchwort.--S.W. (Barford.)

*=Snake's-head=. _Potentilla Tormentilla_, Sibth., Tormentil.--S.W. (Zeals, Hill Deverill, &c.)

*=Snake-skin Willow=. _Salix triandra_, L., so called because it sheds its bark (_Great Estate_, ch. v).

*=Snake's-victuals=. _Arum maculatum_, L. Cuckoo-pint.--N.W.

'In August ... she found the arum stalks, left alone without leaves, surrounded with berries.... This noisome fruit ... was "snake's victuals," and ... only fit for reptile's food.'--_Great Estate_, ch. ii.

=Snap=. A trap, as _Mouse-snap_, _Wont-snap_.--N. & S.W., occasionally.

=Snaps, Snap-jacks=. _Stellaria Holostea_, L., Greater Stitchwort.--S.W.

*=Snap-willow=. _Salix fragilis_, L., from its brittleness (_Great Estate_, ch. v).

=Snead=, =Snaith=. The pole of a scythe (A.). A.S. _snǽd_.--N.W.

=Snig=. A small eel.--S.W.

=Sniggle=. (1) To snigger.--S.W. (2) 'To sniggle up,' to toady or endeavour to ingratiate yourself with any one.--S.W.

*=Sniggling=. 'A sniggling frost,' a slight frost that just makes the grass crisp.--S.W. (Steeple Ashton.)

=Snig-pot=. An eel-trap.--S.W.

=Snippy=. Mean, stingy.

=Snivett=. A newt. Perhaps a sibilated form of _Evet_.--N.W.

=Snop=. (1) _v._ To hit smartly, as in chipping a stone.--N. & S.W. (2) _n._ A smart blow (S.), as 'A snop on the yead.'--N. & S.W.

=Snotter-gall=. The yew-berry, probably from its slimy pulp.--N. & S.W.

=Snotty=. (1) 'A snotty frost,' a slight crisp rime frost.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) (2) Nasty, dirty, mean.--N. & S.W.

=Snowball-tree=. The double Guelder-rose. ~Snowballs~, its blossoms.--N. & S.W.

=Snow-blunt=. A slight snowstorm.--N. & S.W. See ~Blunk~.

=Snow-in-harvest=, or =Snow-in-summer=. _Cerastium tomentosum_, L.--S.W.

=Snowl=. (1) _n._ A large piece of anything (S.). 'Gie I a good snowl o' bread, mother!'--N. & S.W. *(2) _n._ The head.--N.W. (Malmesbury.)

=Snow-on-the-mountains=. (1) _Saxifraga granulata_, L., White Meadow Saxifrage.--S.W. (2) White Cress.--N. & S.W.

=Snuff-rag=. A pocket-handkerchief (S.).--N. & S.W. (Lockeridge, &c.) Also used formerly at Clyffe Pypard, N.W.

=Sobbled=. Soddened, soaked with wet (_Village Miners_).--N.W.

*=Soce=. Friends; addressed to the company generally, as 'Well, soce, an' how be ye all to-day?'--N.W. (Malmesbury.) Very rarely heard in Wilts, but common in Dev. and Som. It is probably a relic of _Socii_, as used by monkish preachers. In the old ghost-story in Jefferies' _Goddard Memoir_ (see Waylen's _History of Marlborough_, p. 555), the use of the word _soas_ (there spelt _source_) by one of the characters is alluded to in such a way as to show that it was looked on as a curious peculiarity of his. See _W. Somerset Words_.

=Sod-apple=. _Epilobium hirsutum_, L., Great Hairy Willow-herb, from its smell when crushed.--N.W.

'Willow herb ... country folk call it the sod-apple, and say the leaves crushed in the fingers have something of the scent of apple-pie.'--_Great Estate_, ch. ii.

*=Soft-tide=. The three days next before Lent (_Wilts Arch. Mag._ vol. xxii. p. 113).--N.W. (Cherhill.)

=Sog=. Soft boggy ground (S.).--N. & S.W. (Malmesbury, &c.)

=Sogging-wet=. Soaked.--N.& S.W.

=Soldiers=. _Papaver Rhoeas_, &c., Red Poppy.--S.W.

=Soldiers'-buttons=. _Arctium Lappa_, L., Burdock.--S.W. (Hamptworth.)

=Soldiers-sailors-tinkers-tailors=. _Lolium perenne_, L.--S.W.

=Souse=. 'Pigs'-sousen,' pigs'-ears.--N.W. (Malmesbury, Clyffe Pypard, &c.)

*=Sow-flower=. _Sonchus oleraceus_, L., Sowthistle.--(Lyneham.)

*=Sowle-grove=. February. (A.H.Wr.)--Obsolete.

'The shepherds and vulgar people in South Wilts call Februarie "_sowlegrove_," and have this proverb of it:--"Soulgrove sil lew,"--February is seldome warme--sil _pro_ seld, seldome.'--AUBREY, _Anecdotes_, Camden Society, cxlvii.

=Spade=. The congealed gum of the eye (A.B.). Also ~Spady~ in N. Wilts. A.S. _sped_, phlegm.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard, &c.)

*=Spances=. 'Raves or sides, spances, compose the waggon-bed' (D.).

=Spanky=. Showy, dashing (A.B.).--N.W.

=Spar=. In thatching, the 'elms' are fastened down with 'spicks' or 'spars,' split hazel rods, pointed at both ends, and bent into hairpin shape, with a twist just at the bend to give them a tendency when fixed to spring outwards, and so hold faster.--S.W.

=Sparked, Sparky=. Of cattle, mottled or of two colours (D.); pied, variegated (_Wilts Arch. Mag._ vol. xxii. p. 225).--N. & S.W.

'One of the earliest indictments on the roll of the Hilary Sessions [Wilts], 1603-4, tells of _quatuor vaccas quar' due color sparked et una alia coloris rubri et altera color browne_.'--_Wilts Arch. Mag._ vol. xxii. p. 225-6.

=Sparked-grass=. _Phalaris arundinacea_, L., Striped Ribbon-grass.--S.W. (Som. bord.)

*=Spawl=. A chip or splinter from a stone.--N.W. (Malmesbury.)

=Spear=. (1) _n._ A stalk of reed-grass (S.).--N.W. (2) _v._ See ~Spurl~.--S.W.

=Spend=. To turn out. 'How do your taters spend to-year?'--N.W.

=Spick=. (1) In thatching, the same as ~Spar~.--S.W. (2) Lavender. ~Spick~ (Som. bord.), and ~Spike~ (Hants bord.).--S.W.

=Spikenard=. (1) Lavender.--N.W., occasionally. (2) _Anthoxanthum odoratum_, L., Sweet Vernal-grass.--N.W. (Bromham.)

=Spill=. (1) The long straight stalk of a plant.--N.W. (Malmesbury.) *(2) 'To run to spill,' to run to seed.--N.W. (Malmesbury.) *(3) Hence, figuratively, to be unproductive.--N.W. (Malmesbury, occasionally.)

=Spit, Spet=. (1) _n._ 'The very spit of his father,' his very image (_Wilts Tales_, p. 31). Cf. _Spit_, to lay eggs (_Skeat_). Just like (S.).--N. & S.W. (2) _v._ 'To spit up the ground,' to work the surface lightly over.--N. & S.W.

=Splash=. Commoner form of ~Plash~, q.v.--N.W.

*=Split-fig=. A short-weight grocer (S.).--S.W.

=Sploach=. To splutter (S.).--S.W.

=Sprack=. (1) Lively, active (A.B.C.S.); also ~Sprag~ (B.).--N. & S.W.

'That's a sprack mare o' yourn.'--_Wilts Tales_, p. 68.

(2) Intelligent, quick (A.C.).--N. & S.W.

'He had picked up a few words and phrases with which he sometimes "bothered" his neighbours, who thought Jem "a mortal sprack chap"; but in truth he was a great fool.'--_Wilts Tales_, p. 65.

=Sprank=. A sprinkling of anything. 'There be a good sprank o' fruit to-year.' Also used in Somerset.--N.W. (Mildenhall.)

*=Sprawing=. A sweetheart. This word is given for Wilts by Britton, Akerman, Halliwell, Wright, and others, but should be treated as a 'ghost-word,' and struck out of our glossaries. In _Cunnington MS._ it is written as ~Sprawny~, q.v., but Britton when transcribing from that source would appear to have misread it as _Sprawing_, probably not being himself acquainted with the word, while Akerman and others must simply have taken it blindly on his authority.

*=Sprawny=. A sweetheart (_Cunnington MS._). A variant of _Sprunny_. See note on ~Sprawing~. A male sweetheart in Glouc.--N.W., obsolete.

'Whipped to some purpose will thy sprunny be.'--COLLINS, _Miscellanies_, 1762.

=Spreader=. The thin pole or bar which keeps the traces apart _(Wilts Tales_, p. 173).--N.W.

*=Spreath=, =Spreeth=. Active, nimble, able (A.B.H.Wr.). 'He is a spreeth young fellow' (B.).

=Spreathed=. Of the skin, roughened or chapped by cold (B.S.) Spreazed (A.).--N. & S.W.

=Spreyed=. Of the skin, roughened by cold, but not chapped. Spryed on Som. bord.--S.W.

=Spring=. Of a cow, to show signs of calving.--N.W.

=Spring-dag=. A chilblain. Cf. _Dag_, a twinge of pain.--S.W.

=Spring-flower=. The garden Polyanthus.--N.W.

=Spuddle=. (1) _v._ To stir about (A.B.), to fuss about at doing trifles. 'He's allus a-spuddling about like, but there yen't nothen to show for 't ses I.'--N.W. (2) v. To make a mess (S.). A sibilated form of _puddle_.--S.W.

=Spudgel=. A wooden scoop (S.).--N. & S.W.

=Spuds=. Potatoes (S.). Perhaps introduced by Irish harvesters.--N. & S.W.

*=Spur=. See ~Spurl~.--S.W.

=Spurl=. To spread dung about the fields (S.). Also ~Spear~, ~Spur~, and ~Spurdle~.--N. & S.W.

*=Spurling-boards=. Boards set to prevent the corn from flying out of the threshing-floor (D.).

=Spur-stone=. A projecting stone, set in the ground as a support to a post, or to protect anything near the roadway (_Bevis_, ch. v).

*=Squab=. The youngest or weakest bird of a brood or pig of a litter (A.). The 'darling' of a litter.--N.W. (Lockeridge.)

=Squail=, =Sqwoil=. (1) To throw (A.H.S.); used of sticks, not stones.--N. & S.W.

'In the orchard Bevis and Mark squailed at the pears with short sticks.'--_Bevis_, ch. xvi.

'They would like to squail a stick at his high and ancient hat.'--_Ibid._ ch. xvi.

(2) _Fig._ To do a thing awkwardly (H.), as 'Her went up the street a squailing her arms about.'--N.W. *(3) Cock-squoilin, throwing at cocks at Shrovetide (A.).--Obsolete. Bird-squoilin, killing birds with stones (S.). (4) Of a candle, to gutter.--N. & S.W.

=Squailer=, =Squale=, =Squoile=. A stick or loaded cane, used by boys for throwing at apples, rabbits, squirrels, &c.--N. & S.W.

'The handle of a "squailer" projected from Orion's coat-pocket. For making a squailer a tea-cup was the best mould:... A ground ash sapling with the bark on, about as thick as the little finger, pliant and tough, formed the shaft, which was about fifteen inches long. This was held upright in the middle of a tea-cup, while the mould was filled with molten lead. It soon cooled, and left a heavy conical knob on the end of the stick. If rightly thrown it was a deadly missile, and would fly almost as true as a rifle ball. A rabbit or leveret could thus be knocked over; and it was peculiarly adapted for fetching a squirrel out of a tree, because, being so heavy at one end, it rarely lodged on the boughs, as an ordinary stick would, but overbalanced and came down.'--_Amateur Poacher_, ch. iii.

'The "squaler" came into use very early in the school's history, and was for years almost as much a part of the ordinary equipment of a Marlborough boy as a cricket-bat would now be. To later generations the very name probably conveys no meaning. The weapon itself was simple enough, though extremely formidable. It consisted of a piece of lead something the shape and about the size of a pear, with a cane handle about eighteen inches long. A squaler could be thrown a great distance and with terrific force, and at short ranges by the practised hands of the Marlburians of those days with great accuracy. Its ostensible purpose was squirrel-hunting, as the name suggests [No, it is not a contraction of "squirreller," but is from _squail_, to throw.--_G.E.D._], but it came in handy for the larger quarry which the more adventurous tribes pursued and slew, such as rabbits, hares, and very frequently even deer. It lingered on as an article of local sale till the middle of the sixties; but ... was made contraband, and finally died out.'--_History of Marlborough College_, ch. ix. p. 94.

'To make a squailer you provide yourself with an eighteen-inch length of half-inch cane, two inches of which you sheath with tow and then insert in a ladle of molten lead. There you manipulate it in such sort that there is presently left to cool at the end of your cane a pear-shaped lump of lead of the weight experience has shown you to be proper. With this weapon an adept can bring down a squirrel from on high, or stop one on the level at five-and-twenty yards, almost to a certainty.'--W. F. WALLER in _Notes & Queries_, 8th series, ii. p. 197. 'Another Marlborough mode of making it is to pour the melted lead into a cone composed of many folds of well-wetted paper, tied round the slightly notched upper end of the cane or ground ash.'--G. E. DARTNELL in _N. & Q._, 8th series, ii. p. 257. Also see various letters in _N. & Q._, 8th series, ii. pp. 149, 197, 257. Squailers were in use at the Grammar school as well as at the College, up to about 1867.

=Squailing=. Clumsy, badly, or irregularly shaped, as 'a squailing loaf,' 'a squailing sort of a town,' &c. (H.).--N.W.

=Square=. Thatching is paid by the 'square,' which is 100 square feet.--N.W.

=Squat=. See ~Squot~.

=Squeak-Thrush=. The Missel Thrush.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

=Squeeze-belly=. A V-shaped stile.--N.W.

=Squelch=, =Squelp=. (1) _adv._ 'A vell down squelch,' he fell heavily (A.B.).--N.W. (2) _v._ To squash to pieces, as a heavy stone would an egg.--N.W.

=Squinney=. (1) _v._ 'To squinney round,' to peep about.--S.W. (2) _n._ 'Squinney-hole,' a peep-hole. Sometimes also used of a hagioscope in a church.--S.W.

=Squish=. (1) _v._ Of soft or boggy ground, to give under foot with the peculiar spirt and sound that denote a water-logged condition. 'The rwoad wer squishing under I ael the waay to 'Vize.'--N. & S.W. (2) _v._ Of mud, to spirt and splash up as it does in a boggy place. 'It wer main hocksey, an' the muck squished up ael over I, purty nigh up to my eyes.'--N. & S.W.

=Squishey=. _adj._ Soft, wet, swampy.--N. & S.W.

'The ploughing engine be stuck fast up to the axle, the land be so soft and squishey.'--_Wild Life_, ch. vii.

=Squoil=. See ~Squail~ (S.).--S.W.

=Squot= or =Squat=. (1) n. A bruise (Aubrey's _Wilts MS._).--N.W. (2) _v._ To bruise or crush (S.), as 'I've bin an' squot my thumb.' To bruise by compression (B.).--N.W.

=Sqwawk=. To squall out as a hen does when pulled off the nest.--N.W.

=Stabble=. v. Of ground, to poach up by continual treading, as near a field gateway (_Village Miners_). Children are always 'stabbling about' indoors, making a mess and litter.--N. & S.W.

=Stack=. 'A stack of elms'=either one score or two score of 'elms.'--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

=Staddles=, =Staddle-stones=. The pillars on which a rick stands (A.B.S.). Cf. ~Stavel~ (~Steevil~ in S.W.). A.S. staðol.--N. & S.W.

=Stael=. See ~Stale~.

=Stag=, =Steg=. A rent in clothes.--N. & S.W.

=Staid=. Of mature age, elderly (S.).--N. & S.W.

=Stake-and-ether-hedge=. A wattled fence. See ~Ether~.--N.W.

=Stale=, =Stael=, or =Steale=. The long handle of any husbandry tool (A.B.). A.S. _stel_ (in compounds).--N.W.

'A was as lang and as lane as a rake-stael.'--_Wilts Tales_, p. 177.

'The peculiar broad-headed nail which fastens the mop to the stout ashen "steale," or handle.'--_Wild Life_, ch. iv.

*=Standing=, =Stannin=. A stall or small booth at a fair. ~Stannen~ (S.).--S.W.

=Star-flower=. (1) _Potentilla Tormentilla_, Sibth., Tormentil.--S.W. (Barford.) (2) _Lysimachia nemorum_, L., Wood Loosestrife.--S.W. (Barford.)

=Stark=. _v._ To dry up. 'The ground is got so stark--you see the hot sun after the rain did stark the top on't.'--N.W. (Hilmarton.)

=Starky=. (1) Stiff, dry (A.B.). Shrivelled up, as applied to things.--N.W. (2) Shrivelled and wasted by ill-health.--N.W.

*=Stars=. _Campanula glomerata_, L., Clustered Bellflower.--N.W. (Enford.)

=Start=. (1) An outing or pleasure-party. 'Wher be th' missus, Bill?' 'Whoy, off on a bit of a start.'--S.W. (2) A 'go.' 'That's a rum start, yun' it?'--N.W.

=Starve=. (1) _v._ 'To starve with cold,' to be extremely cold; to cause anything to be cold. Chiefly used in past participle, as 'starved wi' th' cowld,' perished with cold. A.S. _steorfan_, to die. 'My old man he do starve I at nights wi' the cowld, 'cause he got a crooked leg, and he do sort o' cock un up 'snaw, and the draaft do get in under the bed-claus, and I be fairly starved wi' the cowld.'--N. & S.W. (2) See ~Bird-starving~.--N.W.

*=Stavel-barn=. A barn on stone pillars (Agric. Survey). See ~Staddles~.

=Steale=. See ~Stale~.

=Stean=. (1) _v._ To 'stone,' or cover a path or road with gravel or small stones.--N.W. (2) 'To stean a well,' to line its sides with stone (S.).--S.W.

=Steaner=. The man who lays the second and inner rows of sheaves in building a wheat rick.--N.W.

=Steanin=. (1) A road made with small stones (A.).--N.W. (2) The built-up portion of a well.--S.W. See ~Stean~.

=Steart=. (1) _n._ The tang which fastens anything; the ring of a button, &c.--N.W. (2) _n._ The small iron rod, on the head of which the cappence of the old-fashioned flail played.--N.W. (3) _n._ A young ox. Apparently _steer_, with _t_ excrescent.--N.W.

=Steer=. The starling. A form of _Stare_.--N.W.

=Steip=. See ~Stipe~.

=Stem=. A period of time (A.H.S.), as 'a stem o' dry weather.' Work on the roads, &c., is done 'on the stem,' or 'by the stem.' A.S. _stemn_.--N. & S.W.

=Stepple=. A hoof-mark (_Village Miners_). Cf. ~Stabble~.--N.W.

=Stewer=, =Stour=, =Sture=. Fuss, commotion.--S.W.

=Stew up=. To tidy up.--S.W.

=Stick=. To decorate with evergreens, &c. 'We allus sticks th' Church at Christmas,'--the decorations formerly consisting only of sprigs of holly stuck into holes in the backs of the pews.--N.W.

=Stickle=. To stick. 'They're as thick as they can stickle on it.'--S.W.

=Stick-up=. _v._ To make the first tentative advances towards courtship.--N.W., occasionally.

'I've bin a-stickin' up to another young ooman this summer, wi' a view to keepin' comp'ny wi' she.'--_Dark_, ch. xv.

=Stipe=. 'The stipe o' the hill,' the steepest part.--N.W.

*=Stipe=, =Steip=. A dozen and a half of 'elms' (H.Wr.). '_Steip of helms_, eighteen helms: Wilts.'--Holloway's _Dict._--S.W.

=Stived up=. Shut up in a warm close place. Fighting cocks were formerly kept warm in a 'stive,' or kind of straw basket like a hive, whilst waiting their turn to fight.--N. & S.W.

=Stoach=. To plant potatoes with a 'stoacher.' In some counties _stoach_=poach, to trample into holes.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard, &c.)

=Stoacher=. 'A tater stoacher,' a thick stake, with projecting notch on which the foot is placed to drive the sharpened point into the ground. The potatoes are dropped into the holes so made.--N.W.

=Stobball-play=. An old game, played with a withy-staff and a small ball, stuffed full of quills, said by Aubrey (_Nat. Hist. Wilts_, p. 117, ed. Brit.) to be peculiar to North Wilts, North Gloucester, and the neighbourhood of Bath; but probably a form of _stool-ball_ (H.Wr.).--N.W., obsolete.

'Illegal games ... mentioned are ... hand-ball, foot-ball, and stave-ball or "stobball"; (_pilum manualem, pedalem, sive baculinam_), "nine-holes" and "kittles."'--_On the Self-government of Small Manorial Communities, as exemplified in the Manor of Castle Combe.--Wilts Arch. Mag._ vol. iii. p. 156.

=Stodge=. (1) _n._ Substantial food.--N.W. (2) _v._ To stuff gluttonously. ~Stodged~, quite unable to cram down another morsel.--N.W.

=Stodgy=. _adj._ Of food, causing a feeling of repletion.--N.W.

=Stogged=. Stuck in the mud, bogged (S.).--N. & S.W.

=Stoggy=. Wet and sticky; used of ground that 'stogs' you, or in which you get 'stogged.'--N.W.

=Stomachy=. _adj._ Unbending (S.). Obstinate, headstrong, self-willed.--N. & S.W.

*=Stone-bruise=. A kind of corn on the foot. In an American trouting-yarn in _Fishing Gazette_, December 17, 1892, p. 429, the following occurs:--

'It's just the age for "stone-bruises" in a boy, and he must have a pair of shoes any way.'

*=Stone-osier=. _Salix purpurea_, L. (_Gamekeeper at Home_, ch. viii).--N.W.

=Stop=. A hole in the ground--not in a hedgerow, but a few yards away, or on cultivated ground--where the doe rabbit has her young; said to be from her 'stopping' or covering it over when she leaves it. Also used in Hants.--N.W., common.

=Storm-cock=. _Turdus viscivorus_, Missel Thrush (_Birds of Wilts_, p. 129).--S.W.

=Stout=. The gadfly (A.B.). 'They stowuts be so terrifyin'.'--N.W.

=Stowl=. (1) _n._ The root of a timber-tree left in the ground after felling (A.B.C.); the stump of a bush or tree, in hedge or copse, cut off low down so as to form a stock from which underwood may spring (C.D.S.).--N. & S.W. (2) _v._ 'To stowl out,' to shoot out thickly, as a bush cut off low down, or wheat which has been fed off when young.--N.W.

=Strafe=. To wander about.--N.W., occasionally.

=Strapper=. An Irish harvester or tramping labourer.--N.W.

=Strawberry-leaved Geranium=. _Saxifraga sarmentosa_, L. See ~Hanging Geranium~.--S.W.

=Strick=. See ~Strike~.

*=Strickle=. See ~Stritch~.

*=Striddling=. The right to lease fallen apples after the gathering in of the crop. Cf. ~Griggling~.

=Strike=, =Strick=. To slip up; to slip and swing out as a vehicle does when turning a corner fast on a slippery road. 'Her stricked up on thuck there slide, an' come down vlop.'--N. & S.W.

*=Strim-strum=. _adj._ Unmusical (S.).--S.W.

*=Stripe=. A fool, a simpleton (H.Wr.). Probably a mistake for ~Stupe~.

=Strip-up=. _v._ To shroud the lower part of a tree, as is usually done with hedgerow timber at intervals.--N. & S.W.

*=Stritch=, =Strickle=. A piece of wood used for striking off the surplus grain from a corn measure. A.S. _stricol_.--N.W. (Malmesbury.)

*=Strommelling=. *(1) Awkward, ungainly (A.B.H.). *(2) Unruly (A.B.H.), as 'a strommellin' child.'

=Strong=. 'Strong a-dying,' at the point of death.--N.W.

*=Strouter=. A strut or support in the side of a waggon (S.).--S.W.

=Stub=. (1) _n._ A stump of a tree; a projecting root.--N. & S.W. (2) _v._ In walking, to strike the foot against a stub or projecting root.--N.W. *(3) _v._ 'To stub off,' to cut off a bush or tree close to the ground (_Agric. of Wilts_, ch. x). (4) 'Stubs,' stubble, as _wheat-stubs, barley-stubs_ (D.).--N.W.

=Stubbed=. A 'stubbed' broom is one much worn down by use, as opposed to a new one.--S.W.

*=Stuck=. A spike (A.).

=Stud=. _v._ To ponder over, think about. 'Don't 'ee stud upon 't so much.'--N. & S.W.

=Studdle=. To stir up water so as to make it thick and muddy.--N. & S.W.

=Studdly=, =Stoddly=. Thick, as beer before it settles after moving.--N.W. (Berks bord.)

*=Stultch=. A crutch, a boy's stilt (_MS. Lansd._ 1033, f. 2). (H.Wr.). Stelch in Glouc.--Obsolete.

=Stun=. _v._ To cause to make no growth. 'Grass was stunned in its growth this season' (1892).--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard, Potterne, &c.)

=Sture=. See ~Stewer~.

=Suant=. See ~Sewent~.

=Succour=. (1) _n._ Shelter; a sheltered place. A tender plant is set 'in the succour of the wall'; and cattle on a cold wet day get 'in the succour of the hedge.' ''Tes gwain' to rain, for the wind's down in the succours,' i.e. hollows and sheltered places generally. On bleak parts of the Downs the cottages are mostly to be found in the succours.--N.W. (Huish, Clyffe Pypard, &c.)

'Goddard the elder being a copyholder of lands in Eylden within the Manner of Ogburne near adjoyning to His Majesties Chace being a place that in winter time was a special and usual succour for preserving the breed of young deer belonging to the Chace.'--Extract from _Bond_ v. _Goddard and others_, 1636. See _Wilts Arch. Mag._ vol. xxiii. p. 259.

(2) _v._ To shelter. An old-fashioned bonnet is said to 'succour' the ears. A cold wind cuts up cabbages, except where they are 'succoured' by bushes or walls.--N.W.

=Suck-blood=. The Common Leech. ~Zuckblood~ (S.).--S.W.

=Suffer=. To punish, to make to suffer. 'I'll suffer you, you young rascal!'--N.W.

*=Suffy=. To draw a deep and quick breath.--N.W. (Malmesbury.)

=Sugar-codlins=. _Epilobium hirsutum_, L., Great Hairy Willow-herb.--N.W.

=Suggy=. Wood that is soaked with wet is said to be 'suggy.' See ~Sog~.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

*=Suity=. Even, regular (A.B.).

*=Sultedge=. A coarse apron, worn by poor women (A.B.C.). ~Sultredge~ (H.Wr.). By which is probably intended that the apron is made of _sultedge_, or a kind of coarse sheeting.--N.W.

*=Summer field=. See quotation.

'In the four-field system, where the clover is sown the second year, and mowed the third, the field becomes in the fourth year what is called, in Wiltshire, a summer field.'--_Agric. of Wilts_, ch. vii.