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s.

O weel's us a' on our guidman. 'S, 'Se, -s, -se. Besides the possessive case of — For he's come hame, these forms Wi' a suit o' new claes nouns, represent ; But sarkin he's got nane. '' 1. as in till's ain time Come lend to me some sarkin, The pronoun Ms ; Wi' a' the haste comes." ye dow. And ye'se be weel pay'd back again, Had rowth o' gear, and house o's ain, When ance I spin my tow. And beef laid in an' a'. s. Alex. Wilson's Poems, ii. 369, ed. 1876. SACCADGE, Sack, pillage, plundering. " . . . for the misery iuflictd by the Gothes at of or 2. The present tense the verb to have, the saccadge of Rome." Blame of Kirkburiall, ch. 2.

which is still used both in and Fr. sac, ruin, spoil ; from Lat. saccus, a sack, has, sing, pi. ; bag." " * ' use of in " '* From the a sack removing plunder ; as in Thou 'se to fear We 'se nathing ; Skeat's Etym. Diet. it got it, an' we 'se it," i.e., we've got keep Reconciled. V. Saucht. and we'll it see under s. below. SACHT, part. pt. keep ; 4, I'll clout my Johnie's gray breeks, SACKLESS, Sakles, adj. V. Saikless. For a' the ill he's done me yet. Breeks. Song, Johnie's Gray SACRAND, Sacryng, Sacryn, adj. Sacring, Wee modest crimson-tipped flow'r, services i.e., notice of sacred or ; Thou's met me in an evil hour giving holy ; " For I maun crush amang the stour the sacrand bell," Dunbar and Kennedy, slender stem. Thy 1. 160 Mait. Club Misc., iii. 203. Burns, To a Mountain Daisy, st. 1. ; Sacrand is the old sacring, the pres. part. " little bell at mass to 3. The present tense of the verb to I or IS, Sacring hell, the rung give notice that the elementsare consecrated are which is still used in both numbers. [i.e., being see iii. consecrated] ; Henry VIII., 2, 295;" Schmidt nae luck about the There's house, Shakespeare's Lexicon. When our guidman's awa. Hector MacneU. SAGRISTANE, Segstar, s. A sexton. Jenny and her jo's come. E. sacrist and sacristan. Old Song. Recs. i. 0. Sagristane ; Burgh Aberdeen, 1503, 72, Sp. 4. They represent the verb sal. Old Northern Segstar; Ibid., 1531, i. 143. form of and therefore a s. Forms of v. see shall; express (in SAIG, Saige, Sege, q. ; future etc. sense) purpose, determination, also under Sege. In some cases the also is included present ; " To SAIG, V. a. To press down. V. Sag, as in Tse no do I'll not do that," i.e., that, Seg. I shall not do it now or ever. s. But, Tse hae sportin by and by, SAILLIE, Sailye, Sally, A projection ; For my gowd guinea ; to a room, or The' I should herd the Buckskin outjutting; applied gallery, kye the face For't, in Virginia. other building projecting beyond Burns, Epistle to Rankin. of a house or wall.

In this sense 's, 'se should, more correctly, be writ- The saillie or sailye was a device to enlarge the rooms ten "Is' no do I shall not do that. s'y thus, that," i.e., of houses built in the narrow streets and lanes of olden short for Jie sal still in "He's, probably (he will); of which still be seen in of times ; specimens may many use in the North of England." Note to The Two our large towns. It was adopted also as a means of Noble Kinsmen, iii. 2, 22, ed. Skeat, 1875. For fur- defence in fortified castles, city walls, &c. ; and gave a ther see Dr. Murray on Scot. Dialects, p. explanation massive frowning appearance to the battlements. 216. When so used, it was called a corbalsailye, q. v. O. Fr. saillie, a projection; "an eminence, iutting In the same sense a " 5. they express promise, or out others Fr. to " bearing beyond ; Cotgr. saillir, etc. as Ye'se mair than to issue threat, ; in, get ye go out, forth, project. for." bargain SAIL-STONE, Saile-Staxe, s. The stone But Mauchline race or Mauchline fair, for i.e., the lodestone, magnet. I should be to meet there : sailing by, proud you " We'se gie ae nicht's discharge to care Magnes, the adamant, the saile-stone." Duncan's If we forgather, App. Etym., ed. Small, E.D.S. An' hae a swap o' rhymin-ware Wi' ane anither. SAIM, Seim, Seem, Seam, s. Fat, lard; Burns, Ep. to Lapraik, to " but generally applied hog's-fat, hog's- The from the old version of The following stanza, lard. V. Weary Pund o' Tow," is remarkable for the number [Same]. and variety of the examples of 's and 'se which it con- When used in the sense of hog's fat or hog's-lard, tains. saim is short for hog's-saim. This is shown by the SAI [209] SAL

the real other compounds still in use, such as hen-saim, goose- probably understanding cause of the rise in that saim, sioine-saim. The word is pron. both saim and price, and foreseeing the rise must increase rather seam. than abate, they tried to steer a middle course by draw- Saim is not from A. -S. seim, as is frequently stated, ing out a scale of charges w^hich apparently fixed the of at but from O. Fr. saim, lard, contr. from L. Lat. sagi- price the article, but the same time gave oppor- for its advance. The was their resolu- men ; of. saginare, to fatten. V. Burguy, s. v. tunity following "The A.-S. seim is seen to be a be- tion, which was generally accepted throughout the city easily fiction, " the law salmon tails." cause the diphthong ei is unknown in A.-S. MSS." as of Skeat. "The pro vest, bailyeis, and counsall, wnderstanding the grait abuse done and committit by William Ander- tsAIR, adj. Severe, greedy, undue. Addit. sone, present breker of the salmound, in taking sutche grait and exorbitant pryces for the taillis of salmound to Sair, q. V. att his awin pleasour and optioun, far exceiding the " baxtaris maltmen Complaint of the and aganis to of old for prycis that war wont be takine ; remeiding David Graheme, custummair, for trubling of thaim in quhairof it is statut and ordaiiit that the said William, sat?- of thair custum." the wrangus and taking Burgh nor na vtheris the breckeris of salmound att the tonnes Recs. 46. Stirling, 1546-7, p. comnioun stock, tak na mair for salmound taillis heir- SAIR, Sairin. V. Ser. efter except the pryces following, viz. aught pennies for the taill of ane lytill salmound, and sextein pennis for the taill of ane meikle and that vuder SAKAR, s. A purser, treasurer. salmound, the pane of deprivatioun presentlie, the samein being " in the said feussit court dene Comperit George and for the beir to the said tryit ; yeit, regard thej of Cambusschennocht, and dene John Esok, subprior William, they will oversie him to tak, during thair Arnot, sakar of the said place, and thar requirit the willis onlie, tuelff pennis for the taill of ane lytic sal- said Duncan Patonsoun to thame ane stane of talk pay mound, and twa schillings for the taill of ane meikle or of eftir the forme and tenor of thar chartour," xvjd., salmound." Burgh Ptecs. Glasgow, 13 April, 1638, Burgh Kecs. Stirling, 17 January, 1520-1. vol. i., 387, Kec. Soc. "It was fundin be the that Duncan Bow- p. inquest For a time peace was restored, and the sale of the that he keist to dene sould mak the pot Johen Arnot, went on but as the far town's salmon quietly ; demand ^akar of Cambussckennecht, ane sufficient gude pot." exceeded the supply, the breker felt he could get a bet- Ibid., 23 Oct., 1525. ter price for the tails, and was tempted to adopt ques- L. Lat. saccus, a ; saccare, to into a bag, purse put tionable practices in order to secure it. Fish of medium bag; Ducange. size he cut slightly above the crumb or vent, that their tails look like tails of "meikle salmound," and SALAR, Saler, Salure, s. A salt-cellar. might so fetch the highest price. Again the outcry against Addit. to v. Saler, q. the salmon-breaker was raised, his greed and his mal- practices became subjects of public talk ; and the SALL s. A helmet. AT, Sallet, Sellet, poor, who could no longer be purchasers, declared they V. Sellat. were wronged and oppressed. Once more the magis- trates deal the case as were compelled to with ; and s. coarse Sallat-Oil, Sellett-Oyle, A the breaker was clearly in fault his dismissal was all but resolved on. kind of oil used in polishing helmets, in However, by judicious apologies before the and the influence of domestic etc. council, through cleaning armour, utensils, friends in office powerful outside, he was retained ; of Rates Customs, 1612, Halyburton's but he was strictly bound down to the law of tails, and to obedience thereto the threat of Ledger, p. 311. implicit by instant dismission should he offend again. At the and written sallad-oil; but not to Frequently called, same time the council expressed its sympathj' with be confounded with the pure, sweet oil now called the people by fixing a new scale of charges, and salad-oil. See Palmer's Folk Etymology, p. 338 reducing the highest price of a tail from two shillings 0. Fr. a sallet or head see salade, piece ; Cotgr. to twenty pence, Scotch. There, however, their sym-

ended : for the then fixed were s. The and inviolable oath pathy prices they SALMON, great considerable in advance of those of 1638. The ordin- of the Scottish ; a corr. of O. Fr. — gipsies ance of the council on this occasion was as follows : sarment, an oath. "The pro vest, bailleis, and counsall, taking to ther cousideratioune the great wrongis and abuissis done be "She swore by the salmon, if we did the kinchin no the breker of the salmount, in taking far greater and harm, she would never tell how the ganger got it." moir exorbitant pryces for the tails of salmount nor Sir W. Scott, ch. xxxiv. Guy Mannering, hes bein done heirtofoir or allowed be the counsall SALMON-TAIL, Salmond -Taill, Sal- conforme to the act sett doun theranent vpon the threttein of 1638 the saids mont-Taill, Saumont- day Aprill ; provest, Samont-Taill, bailleis, and counsall now ordain that he tak no moir Taill, s. The tail-piece of a salmon, the for the taile of ilk salmount he breks of the pryce of twentie and benethe but twelff Scotea portion extending from the vent or anal-fin schilings penneis allanerlie for the taill of ilk salmount he moneye ; and to the of the tail. tip breks that is of the pryce betuixt twentie and threttie This of the sextein and for the taill of ilk sal- portion fish, being the cheapest, was much schilings, penneis ; in demand by the lower classes in Glasgow. But as mound that is above threttie or fourtie schilings, or the of his twentie Scotes population increased, and the salmon did not, this aboN'e, broking, penneis moneye ; article of tail sail food naturally rose in price : a result which swa that the dearest of salmound that he brek the people stoutly resisted, and which they attributed sail not exceid the said soume of tuentie penneis simply to the greed of the magistrates and of their ser- moneye. And that he sail be heirby bund and vant the breaker or salesman of salmon at the public astrictit to lay the tails of the salmount to these partes stocks. Troubled by the continued clamour and re- that he sail brek, that gif it be the buyers will and peated charges against this public servant, the magis- desyr to have the tail with that pairt of the fische they trates at were to take action that the sail have it to whom it sail fall length compelled ; and, buy, persone (Sup.) C 2 SAL [210] SAN

be lot or cavill, the said breker sail rander the samein SALVED, Salued, pret. and pa7± pt. vpon payment of the pryces on the tails as is above Awnt. 12. writtin, having respect to the pryces of the salmound Healed, doctored; Arthur, 17, as it is above specefeit. Nather sail it be leasum to s. saddle- him to cutt the salmound above the crumbe or any SAMBUTES, pL Housings, pairte therof. And gif it sail happen him to contra- cloths; Awnt. Arth., i. 11, MS. Douce. vein in any of the premisis heirefter he is presentlie to Addit. to Sambutes, q. v. be dischargeit of his said charge and haill casualties he Jamieson's of this term is defective. The word hes therby, and never to be readmitit therto," Burgh etym. has come from L. Lat. contracted Recs. ii. Rec. Soc. sambnta, sabiita, Glasgow, 67-8, ' ' " ' ' curris vel ornatus Such was the famous Law of Salmon Tails to equi ; Ducange. which in after years the people of Glasgow frequently SAMEABILL, Semlabill, adj. Similar,^ appealed. But it is now only a record of the past. Recs. 1. The Clyde, which then was one of the best salmon like; Burgh Aberdeen, 320. rivers in is noted for so Scotland, now something very Sameahill is prob. a mistake for samlabill : the tran- that from Dumbarton to no different, Rutherglen scriber having misread a short I as an e. The form sem- salmon could live in it. labill occurs in p. 317 of same vol.

v. n. or run s. Awnt. Arth. 8. To SALLY, Saully, To move SANAP, A napkin ; 35, from side to side, as children do in certain Errat. in Dict. games, and as workmen do on board a ship Delete the entry under this heading in Dict. The and salers" means and salt- after it is launched to rock or from phrase "sanapes napkins ; swing cellars and ; the use of the sanap is clearly indicated side to like a small boat at side, anchor; by the full form of the name—a savenappe. The Parv. " also, to rise and fall, like a ship on a rough Prompt. gives, sanop, manutergium, mantile."^ See Sir F. Madden's ed. of Sir sea. Gawayne. SAND-BLIND, Saan-Blin, adj. V. Dict. side Sally, Saully, s. A run from side to ; As noted by Jamieson, this term has various applica- a rush or dash a from side to tions but it ; swing side, ; always implies that the person so afflicted a continuous and a is partially blind. Lit. it means half-blind, and is a rocking ; rising falling, corr. of O. Eng. sam-blind : from A.-S. sdm, half, and sail in a small boat over water ; the rough blind, blind. See Palmer's Folk Etymology, p. 339. or motion of a at swinging bounding ship V. Dict. sea. SANBE, part. pt. Delete this entry in Dict. Sande is a misreading of Fr. saillir, to issue forth, bound, leap. Saude, sewed, embroidered ; q. v. under in Dict. SALT. V. Salt-fat, SANDEL, Sandil, s. The sparling or To the note on Spilling Salt add the following :— smelt : lit. little sand-fish. West of S. Spilling salt at table was formerly reckoned a serious s. Silk. Sendal. and ominous accident, presaging a quarrel between the SANDEL, V. the salt and the person towards whom person spilling Saunders, Sanners, Sauners,, the spilled salt fell. The seriousness of the quarrel SANDERS, the extent s. 1. of was indicated by the quantity spilled ; and Abbrev. Alexander. V. Sandie. or endurance of it the surface over which the salt by This abbrev. of the name, in all its various forms, is in case a matter of spread. The accident was any to its generally applied an elderly person ; and equiva- concern to the interested but it was of grave parties ; lent Sandie is applied to younger persons. This dis- if to be and gravest import they happened relatives, tinction is almost observed in families and constantly above all if they were members of the same family where father and son are named Alexander. For ex- household. a wife will to her husband as he leaves ample, say " home on some errand : — see Sandie Upo' Ane's Tail. This Sanders, gin you To Cast Salt on the road sen' him hame." In a similar way the expression is used in various ways, but forms Sandie or Sannie and Sannock are employed. the most common applications are to take 2. A ludicrous and familiar name tor the one unawares, to get the better of one in devil: sometimes the adjective aidd or auV argument, in bargain-making, or by means is prefixed. the bias and of the of some sly, underhand trick. Considering religious upbringing Scottish people, it is surprising to find in their voca- Burns in fond of his faithful, oft-tried, names for the praise riding" bulary so many familiar and jocular devil, said she could even the mare, Jenny Geddes, outstrip and so many playful allusions to his abode, his charac- fleet for he with — dawn," could, fitting opportunity, ter, and his wiles. In our old popular poetry, but in our older and in the familiar . . . when auld Phoebus bids good morrow, specially proverbs, of this humour is of fre- Down the zodiac urge the race, sayings every day life, grim occurrence but there is an air of And cast dirt on his godship's face : quent ; generally it in For I could lay my bread and kail, geniality about it, and very seldom does appear He'd ne'er cast saut upo' thy tail. an offensive or irreverent form. See Burns' Address to to Parker Burns, Ep. Hugh the Deil, and the following passage of later date. It had been for and and Saluted. good you me. SALUTE, pret. part. pt. Had mither Eve been sic a bt auty. With ane humble and lamentable chere She soon would garr'd auld Saunders flee Thus salute I that goddesse bryght and clere. Back to his dungeon dark and sooty. Whistle i. 127. The Kingis Quair, st. 98, ed. Skeat. Alex. Rodger, Binkie, SAN [211 J SAU

SANDS. To tali the sands, to flee the To SAUOHTINE, v. a. To reconcile, make seek in Burns. between. V. country, safety flight ; peace Saucht. Dear thu succure me My Ma Sang. A veil'd oath laydy, yet SANG, Sang, ; And sauchtine me and thi sowne, a corr. of the O. Fr. oath, Tja Sangue, or La That I ma cume with hym to wyne And bruk Ms — Dieu. Addit. to v. blys. Sangue Sang, q. Barbour, Legends of the. Saints. Delete the last of the in DiCT. Jamieson para, entry A.-S. sa/it, reconciliation. The M. Eng. verb to re- misled his of this which is a mere was by etym. term, concile was sahtlen, from A.-S. sahtlian. See under fancy. Saucht in Dict.

s. a SANGSTER, A songster, singer ; also, SAUDE, part. ft. Sewed, embroidered, collection of songs or of song-tunes. V. ornamented. Sang. Here sadel sette of that ilke " ore canit a Saude with sambutes of silke. Oscen, qui ; sangster, a singing foule shewing things to come ;" Duncan's App. Etym., ed. Awnt. Arthure, 2, 11, MS. Douce. Small, E.D.S. Misprinted sande in Pinkerton's version. Sir F. Madden with hesitancy suggested "served" s. A dimin. of as the of this term that it is SANNOCK, Sannie, Sandie, meaning ; but simply a &c.; an abbreviation of Alexander. form of sewed (indeed, it represents a pron. that is still common), is confirmed by the reading of the Lincoln An' L— remember singing Sannock, MS., which is— Wi' hale breaks, saxpence, and a bannock. Burns, Letter to James Tennant. Hir sadill semyde of that ilke Semlely sewede with sylke. s. the a SAP, Sapp, a bunch, ; sap, clump secure " in SAUF, Saufe, adj. Safe, ; as, kind of bait used in eel-fishing, consisting " sauf keepin'." Hir worschip sauf," her of a number of worms strung on woollen honour safe str and formed into a bunch or being kept ; Kingis Quair, yarn clump ; ed. Skeat. West of S. V. Sop. 143, To Sauf, v. a. To save, preserve, keep v. n. To fish with the To Sap, Sapp, sap ; to safe, protect. Addit. Sauf, v., q. v. part. pr. sapping. Saw- This mode of fishing for eels is practised in salt SAUFFER, Saulffer, Saifare, water as well as fresh, and is still followed at the Silver, s. Salvage money; Register mouth of tidal rivers on the east coast of England. Priv. Council, VII. 148, 712, 721, 728, 744- There also it is called by the same name sapping. V. 5. V. Saughe. Life of Frank Buckland, p. 217. Safer, Sap is simply a form of sop, a round compact mass, SAULLY, V. and s. V. Salli/. from Icel. soppr, a ball ; see under Soppe. SAUNIE, Sawnie, Sawny, s. 1. Abbrev. SAP, Saup, s. a quantity, lot: applied to for A lexander. V. Sandie. liquids, and generally to liquor. West of S., Orkney. 2. A ludicrous and familiar name for the devil. V. Sanders. These are prob. local forms of Soup, Sup, q. v. The under term a small or generally implies quantity lot, and is She turns the key wi' cannie thraw, often used to extenuate the threshold ventures by persons wishing quan- An' owre the ; tity of liquor they have consumed. But first on Sawnie gies a ca', in she enters Syne bauldly ; SAPE, s. Soap. V. Saip. A ratton rattl'd up the wa', An' she cry'd Lord preserve her ! s. B. R. I. An' ran thro' midden-hole' an' SARGE, A taper ; Aberd., 206, a', An' wi' zeal an' Sp. C. V. Serge. prayed fervour, Fu' fast that night. Burns, Halloioeen, st. 22. SARKIE, s. Dimin. of Sark, q. v. V. n. varnish To SAUNT, To ; Burns. V. SATOURE, s. Del. this entry in Dict., and see Fatoure. Sant.

Satoure is a of a deceiver and misreading fatoure, ; SAUSER, Sawser, Saser, Suaser, all the of The have this editions Kingis Quair mistake, Saucher, Sawschir, s. The figure or except the one by Prof. Skeat, which has fatoure. emblem of a saucer; a Sibbald reads /ea

Aberdeines merches of propertie." Burgli Recs. Aber- Mendis and medicine for all mennis neidis, till hert and till helefuU it deen, ii. 322, Sp.C. And having traced the old march- Help hurt, was, " Vnder the circle solar thir sauourous sedis line through the greater part of its course, and keip- Were nurist be dame Nature, that nobill maistres. and the said aulde merche rod, stane be stane as thay Houlate, 1. 31, Baun, MS. ar merkit with the said signe of the sauser . . . Asloan MS. has sauorus. In Pinkerton's version it till it come to ane great sauser stane merkit with twa was sanourous, which Jamieson rendered saiisei's" (Ibid., p. 325), the party then turned east- printed still line medicinal ;" see DiCT. ward ; and tracing the boundary they came "healing, to "merche stanes merkit with ane sauser and ane v. a. To salve. V. Sauve. key," and also to "twa merche stanes merkit with To SAW, Sau, Sanct Peiteris key," which marked the boundary "of auld betuixt the landis of Sanct Peteris hospitall and To SAWE, V. a. To save, preserve. the said towne of Aberdeines landis." Ibid., p. 326. I can nocht say suddanlie, so me Christ sawe. And soon afterwards the was completed. perambulation Houlate, 1. 120, Bann. MS. Regarding the origin of this sauser-merk, or how it came to be the no information can adopted by burgh, Sawte, Sawate, s. Safety, protection. be obtained but the statement in ex- now ; following "Euerie man sail his dik sufiiciant , planation of the mark occurs in the Council Register bygge for sawate of thair awin stufe." Recs. Prest- of 6th May, 1580, in a record regarding the marches of Burgh Mait. C. a certain of the town-lands. It runs thus : — wick, 1572, p. 73, " portion The first me.che of the saidis Justice Mylnis begynnis s. A V. at the graye stane quhair it is pottit and ingrauit the SAWSTER, sausage, pudding. towns common mark vitht ane sauser, and swa callit Saster. the sawser in the burne betuixt the landis stane, lyand "Farcimen, a pudding, a sawster;" Duncan's App. of the Justice and the lands of Ferrihill." Mylnis Etym., ed. Small, E.D.S. The term is repeatedly used as an adj., meaning of

or with the saiicer-mark, saucer-like ; and sometimes SAXEAR, s. A six-oared boat : short for in the sense of saucered, marked with the saucer-mark. Thus :— Sixareen, q. v.

". . . to the held of the den of Murthill quhair Dan. sex, six, and aare, an oar : Icel. sex, and dr. thair is ane great sauser stane on the south syde of the at the heid of the said fra the myir den ; and said SAXTER, adj. Of or belonging to a set or marche stane," etc. Burgh Recs. Aberdeen, ii. 323, of six the oath of a Sp.C. company ; saxter-aith, ". . . quliilk stane wes ordanit to be helpit in of six " company compurgators. the suaser mark thairof . Ibid. 322. , p. " of the saxter-aith of . . has failzeat quittance the stowth of the last and to the To Sauser, Sawser, Saser, v. a. To cut a lynis zeir, according lawis is decernit to quyte himself thairof this zeir with on a block of wood or saucer-shaped mark the twelter-aithe, and failzeing thairof to pay 12marki3 In the Law- stone, to mark or engrave the figure of a and to underly the law thairof as stowt." ting Court of July 21, 1603, one is ordained to quit saucer: sauserit, saserit, marked part. pt. himself of theft by the twelter-aith, because the stowth with the of a as in the to himself of the same theft figure saucer, phrase, is ; and another " great quit ane saserit stane." with the saa:*er-aith only, in respect of his minority. " Peterkin's Notes on Orkn. and Shetl., Appendix, p. 35. . . . quhair thair wes ane merche stane ordanit " According to the old Norse law which ruled in Orkney to be saivserit with the townes mark. Recs. Burgh and Shetland, if an accused person could not clear him- Aberdeen, ii, 322. " self by his oath, which was called

he had to and find twelve ; and this SAUT, s. and v. Salt. go compurgators was called "iAe tivelter-aith." six com- To SAUVE, Saufe, Sau, Saw, v. a. To Icel. s4ttar-eithr, the oath of a company of : of purgators sittar being the gen. of sett, a company anoint : also to heal, cure. salve, alleviate, and an oath. V. Icel. Diet, s, v. " six, eithr, Vigfusson's This term occurs in various Scot, proverbs. Save Sett. fit a' ye can : it will help to sauve a sair ;" i.e., it will s. bucket. V. Dict. be a means of support in time of need. SAY, A " wha ser the dell They freely " Scot, say. North of E. so, soa, and M. Eng. soo, are Hae little to sau the sairs o' eil'. not derived from Fr. seau, as Jamieson has stated. A.-S. sealf, ointment : Du. zalf: M.E. salue. They have come from Icel. sdr, Swed. sd, a cask. The final r in the Icel. word is merely the sign of the nom. s. wood- SAVORCOLL, Savorcoil, A case. cutter or a forester savorcollis Fr. seau is formed from L. Lat. sawyer, ; pi. regularly sUellua, dimin. of Lat. a bucket and is therefore savorcoilis. situla, ; quite " a different word. Ordanis the thesaurer to pay four pundis mouie to in the of burrowis for persute the werkmen s. drain agent SAYER, Sever, Sire, A gutter, ; clachanis and savorcoilis ; and it sail be allowit be the Recs. II., 54, 73, Rec. counsale." Charters of Stirling, Appendix ii. p. 219. Burgh Glasgow, Gael, sdbhair, a sawyer or cutter, and coille, a wood, See. V. SiVER. forest, or grove. V. M'Leod and Dewar. SCAIRTH, adj. Y. Dict. Sauourous, SAVOUROUS, Sauorus, adj. The etym. of this term is simply IceL skarth-r, di- Wholesome, nutritious. V. Savour. minished, scanty. SCA [213] SCH

"It is avisit SCALDRIE, s. Scolding, intemperate lan- and thocht expedient be the com- missaris of burrowis . . . that thar be direct guage. V. Scald. ane scha.p clerk and twa burges merchandis of fasson "Personis convict for flyting and scaldrie adjugeit to the Archeduk of Austrie." Burgh Recs. Aberdeen, to be on the croee four afternone govit quhill ;" Burgh 1498, i. 67, Sp. C. Recs. Edinburgh, 13th Jan., 1502-3, Rec. Soc. A.-S. to form scapan, sceapan, shape, ; hence, ta train, qualify : pp. scapan, sceapen, formed, qualified. SCALE, Scale-dish, Skeillte, s. A thin shallow vessel like a saucer used for skim- SCHAWIS, Schevis, s. pi. Blocks or pul- " : borrowit ming milk. V. Skail, s. 3. leys thair thre greit schaivis," borrowed their three great pulleys, i.e., their SCANTLING, Scantlin, Scant, adj. scanty, set of block and tackle Accts. of very scanty. ; Burgh Edinburgh, 1554-5. V. Schav. Burns, in one of bis letters to Clarinda, uses this term in the sense of small but as scanty, ; generally SCHEIR, s. The V. Sohere. used it is a SCHEAR, groin. dimin. of scant, and implies very small, " very scanty. s. A shadow a sched but SCHED, shade, ; substance," a shadow without a SCAS, s. Del. this entry in DiCT. substance, mere shadow Rob Stene's Seas is a misreading of cast in Pinkerton's version of ; Dream, p. 3, Sir Gaw. and Sir Gal. Mait. C.

SCASHLE, s. Scuffle. V. Scushle. SCHEDDIT, pret. Shed forth, shone, Pal. of I. glovsred ; Hon., Douglas, 71, 14, SCAUR, adj. Timorous, shy, shrinking. V. ed. Small. Scar, Skak. SCHEIDIS, s. pi. Del. this entry in Dict. And tho' yon lowin hengh's thy hame. Scheidis was a for scheildis in Pinker- Thou travels far ; simply misprint ton's version of Gawan and Gol. : Jamieson's ex- An' faith ! thou's neither lag nor lame, hence, Nor blate nor scaur. planation of the term is a mere fiction. Burns, Address to the Deil, st. 3. SCHEILLEN, Scheilling, Schellen, s. SCEBLES, adj. Knavish. V. Skehlous. Same as Recs. Prest- Shillin, q.v. ; Burgh s. Mait. C. SCERLANE, A form of skirling, scream- wick, 1562, p. 6Q, ing ; shouting, acclamation. V. Skirl. SCHENKIT, part. pt. Del. this entry in "Item, on the XV Apprill in anno a thousand vi Dict. hundred ane yeir, the Kingis Majestie cam to Perth, This is a of schonkit in Pinkerton's ver- and that sam day he was made Provost, with ane great misreading sion : Jamieson's are scerlane of the coiirteours, and the bancait was made explanations therefore useless. at the crois, and the Kingis Maiistie was set down &c. To v. a. To or dress thereat," Peacock's Annals of Perth, p. 597. SCHERE, ScHEiR, clip cloth. Addit. to Schere, q. v. SCHAKELL, s. A fetter, bond, handcuff. V. Shackle. ScHERAR, ScHEiRAR, s. A cloth-clipper, a bonnet-dresser. To SCHANK, ScHONK, v. n. To go, depart, " . . . that in tyme to cum baith the craftis, run, rush, : also, to break, or gush snap, viz. webstaris, wakeris and scheraris, in all tymes of give way at the shank or handle, as when a processioun pas togedder and be incorporat vnder ane

baner in als formis as thai . . . and the hammer or a breaks while in use pleis ; spear ; said scheraris and wakeris to pas vnder the banner of and schonkit. V. pret. part. pt. schankit, the wobstaris quhill thai may gudlie furnis thair awin, ScHANK o^, under SCHANK. and the armys of the said scheraris and wakeris to be now in the webstaris bannaris thai be Thair speris in splendris sprent, put gif may formit and thairvntill." Recs. On scheldis schonkit and schent, gudlie gottin Burgh Euin our thair hedis went. Edinburgh, 15th May, 1509, Rec. Soc. field scherar is for claith In far away, Properly, short scherar of ; and Qol. and 1. 619. in the Seal of Cause of the Walkers and Shearers of Gawane, " Wallace the formast in the the craftsmen are so named : — the byrneis bar ; Edinburgh, The grouuden sper throuch his body schar. masteris and craftismen of the Walkaris and Scheraris The shafft to schonkit off the fruschand tre : of claith." Burgh Recs. Edinburgh, i. 80, Rec. Soc. Dewoydyde soue, sen na bettir mycht be. About twenty years after the passing of this Seal of iii. 147. Wallace, Cause, the Bonnetmakers were associated with them ; A.-S. sceacan, to shake, also to run, flee, fly off: no doubt because walking and shearing were necessary hence the of their craft and manufactures see same vol. sceanca, scanca, shank or lower part of the parts ; leg, lit. the runner, that by which the body is moved. p. 19S. Hence the shaft or handle of a hammer, a spear, &c., is called its shank. SCHETE, SCHIT, s. A shoot or by-water accom- of a mill. A.-S. scedtan, to shoot. SCHAP, adj. Skilled, learned, able, " " . . . for dailis to mend the schete of the Rude plished : ane schap clerk," a learned Milne with." Burgh Recs. Peebles, 1555, p. 221, Rec. scholar. V. Sciiapyn. Soc. SCH [214] SCO

of s. To SCHIRRYVE, v. a. A poet, form SCOGGERS, ScuGGEBS, pi. Shanks or schryve, to shrive, used by Dunbar in his legs of old stockings used by countrymen to Tabill of Confessioun, 11. 9, 18, Scot. Text keep the snow out of their shoes. Same as Soc. ed. HOGGERS, q. V. This form represents a very common pron. of the SCOLE, ScOLLE, 8. The skull, head, brain, word, and accounts for the form schir or schire, to Icel. bowl. shrive, which occurs in the Howard MS. version of this understanding, ability. sMl, ed. see 1. 4. same and is in Dr. Laing's ; " " piece, adopted Thick o' the scolle is still used to express dull or In the Maitland MS. it is However, schir " schryve. slow of understanding: and "/<«s scolle's crackit im- may here mean to share, skeir, i.e., to pour off, sepa- plies that the person is of weak mind, or lacks in rate, in the sense of to or cleanse. V. Schire, v. purge ability.

With mony a noble resoun, as him likit, SCHONKIT, To-Shonkit, pret. and part. pt. Enditing in his faire latyne tong, Snapped, broke, broken, gave way. V. So full of fruyte, and rethorikly pykit, Schank. Quhich to declare my scole is ouer yong. Kingis Quair, st. 7, ed. Skeat. Del. the entry in Diet. ^ "Not 'school' as Tytler supposed. 'Cranium, To ScHRUED, Schryde, v. a. scolle;' Wright's Vocabularies, vol. i., p. 179, 1. 5." SCHROUD, Gloss., ed. Skeat. To cover, protect, screen, ward off. V. SCHROUD, S. To SCON, V. a. and n. V. Dict. Schruedede in a schorte that the cloke, rayne schrydes. A more direct etym. for the term is A.-S. scunian, to Awnt. Arthure, 2. 7. shun, originally to speed, scud along. From this word -S. A. scrud, garment, clothing ; Dan. and Swed. scon or scoon comes the word schooner. See Skeat's skrud, dress, attire. Etym. Dict.

s. The bink or fixed seat SCHYNBANDES, Schynbawdes, s. pi SCONCE, by the for side of the fire in the of Greaves, armour the legs ; Awnt. large open chimney olden times. Arthur, 31, 5. This term is improperly defined in DiCT. The schyn- SCONE. The haly stane of Scone, the bawd or schynband was a piece of armour for defence of coronation stone on which the of the shank or lower part of the leg, and at first consis- kings ted of a from the knee to the front single plate reaching Scotland were crowned at Scone ; Dunbar of the foot, and fastened by straps behind. It after- and 1. 277. wards became a jamb or steel-boot, with a sollei-et or Kennedy, the over-lapping plate for the foot. See Planche, British This stone was taken from Abbey of Scone by carried to It Costume, pp. 132, 150. Edward I. and England. was placed in the Abbey of Westminster as an offering to Edward s. in- the Confessor and it is now under the corona- SCHYND, ScHOiND, ScHOWND, An ; placed of the tion chair. See Tytler, Hist. Scot., vol. i. p. 47, ed. quest Thingmen regarding rights, 1864. and settlement of Orkn. claims, heritage; Scoir To and Shetl. To SCORE FLESH, Mutton. make incisions in the breast or buttocks of Originally the finding of this court was given viva in order to voce, but after the accession of the Scottish Jarls, it an over-fed sheep, improve the was generally by a Skynd-bref or Schynd Bill. V. appearance of the flesh and to reduce its Memorial for Orkney, p. 118. ramp flavour. V. under Let doun, s. 3. Icel. shyn, understanding, judgment ; Dan. skjon, estimate. ' ' judgment, That all flescheouris bring thair flesche to the

mercat croce, . . . and that thai blaw nane thair- s. Errat. for V. SCLADYNE, Seladyne, of, nor yet let it doune, nor score it under the pane of s. Recs. Peebles, 1555, Rec. Soc. DiCT. viij" Burgh p. 215, It is statute and ordanit that thair be na muttoun in So misprinted Pinkerton's version ; and the sela- scorit on the bak nor na pairt thairof, nor yit lattin dynes of MS. Douce is a clerical error for selandynes, doun before, bot ane scoir owder befoir or behynd, q. V. The rendering of the term given by Jamieson is, wnder the pane of viij s. ilk fait." Burgh Recs. however, correct. Glasgow, 1574, i. 26, Rec. Soc. This barbarous practice was common all over the «. A mantle SCLAVIN, ScLAUiN, pilgrim's ; country, and was persisted in until comparatively L. Lat. sclavina, O. Fr. esclavine. modern times, in spite of all the efforts of the magistrates to put it down. When an over-fed sheep Al his he forsoke, kingdom was about to be killed it was thus and Bot a sclauin on him he toke operated upon, ; was then left to bleed for some hours before it He ne hadde kirtel no hode, slowly was to death. In some cases salt was into the Schert no nother gode ; put put to further the Bot his harp he tok algate, wounds process. And dede him barfot out atte zate. Orfeo and Heurodis, 1, 229. SCOSCHE, s. A drum. V. Swesch. " Item, ane perchement skyn to Robert Mair to To SCOB, V. a. To out scoop roughly; cover the scosche, iij s. vj d." Burgh Recs. Glasgow, Burns. V. Scob, «. 1574, i. 455, Rec. Soc. SCO [215] SEE

SCOTCH MILE, Scots Mile, s. One thou- SCRUBBS, s. pi. The husks of oats, barley,, sand nine hundred and eighty-four yards, rye, &c. Orkn. or two hundred and twenty-four yards s. a SCRY, SCRIE, A great number ; crowd, than an mile. longer Enghsh multitude; West of S., Orkn. Same aa While we sit at the bousing nappy, V. An' getting foil and unco happy, SCROW, q. We think na on the lang Scots miles. s. The or hinder The mosses, waters, slaps, and stiles, SCUFF, Skuft, nape part That lie between us and our hame. of the neck : also called scruff, and cuff, and Burns, ^Tam o' Shanter. frequently the cuff o' the nech, scuff o' the SCOTINGABLE, Scotinyabil, adj. Lit., neck, or scruff o' the neck. able to bear scotting or taxing, fit to be Wedgewood derives this terra from Du. schochty of neck and he defines it as schoft, atlas, the nape the ; taxed; Burgh Recs. Peebles, 1457, p. 125, "applied to the loose skin on the shoulders by which Rec. Soc. V. v. Scot, one lays hold of a dog or a cat." But scuff and scruff as now used are merely varieties of cuff in the sense of s. V. Dict. SCOTTISWATH, flap, fold, or slack : and this idea is confirmed by the For Icel. vad, as given by Jamieson, read Icel. vath, fact that the slack skin of the buttocks is also called a ford, and the explanation of the term becomes more the cuff, scuff, or scruff oi that region. simple and direct. SCUILL, ScuiL, ScuLE, s. School. SCOUT-WATCH, Scout-Watche, s. A These old forms of the word are common in our patrol. Records, and the common pronun- " Burgh represent Ordaines a scowt-watche to be keipit nightlie, and ciation.

that twa horsmen be sent . . . and that ane owt, Naked. V. of the scowtis ryd to David Heislope hows, and the SCULTY, adj. [Scuddy]. vther scowt to ryd to Gladhowe mihie and dayle, To V. a. V. Dict. report newes anent the motiown of the enemie." SCUTCH, Burgh Recs. Peebles, 1650, p. 390, Rec. Soc. Scutching-Knife, s. a bill-hook, a hedging- SCOWIS, s. pi. Small wattles used in fixing knife. thatch on the roof of a house Recs. ; Burgh ScUTCHiNGS, ScuTCHiNS, s. pi. Refuse lint Edinburgh, I. 221. Addit to Scow, v. q. or flax that remains after the process of waste tow. SCRANNY, ScRANKiE, adj. Thin, meagre, scutching ; as wrinkled, withered, applied to a person : " 2. Twigs, thistles, etc., that have been lopped a bit o' a or scranny meat," lean, scrappy, a scutcher scrub. by ; indifferent Addit. to piece. Scranny, q. v. SEA-REVER, Sea-Rewar, s. A sea-rover,. SCRATTER, s. A coarse scrubber made of pirate. V. Rever. heather, used for &c. " cleaning pots, pans, a a Duncan's Orku. V. Pyrata, sea-reioar, pyrate." App. Scrubber. Etym., ed. Small, E.D.S. SCRAUT, Sckawt, s. and v. Scratch. V. SECK, Sek, s. Sack. Lat. saccus. Scrat. This term, while it has come to us from the Lat., is prob. of Egyptian origin : cf. Coptic sok, sack-cloth, SCREED, V. and s. V. Dict. s. Seck-Claith, Sek-Cloth, Sack-cloth ; It is now generally accepted that this term is simply st. ed. the Northern form of E. shred ; cf. Sc. reid for E. red. Kingis Quair, 109, Skeat.

SCREIGH, Screech (ch gutt.), Skreigh, SECONDER, adj. Secondary, second, of the second rank or Blame of Kirk- adj. Screechy, screeching, shrill, piercing. grade ; V. V. ch. 11 Recs. SCREIGH, buriall, ; secundare. Burgh Still in common use see I. Rec. Soc. ; quotation under Sheer. Edinburgh, 46, Irish screach, Gael, sgreach, Welsh ysgrechian, to shriek. SECRETEE, s. Secrecy. Lat. secretus. And secretee, hir thrifty chamberere, To V. a. A term in : SCREW, golfing same That besy was in tyme to do seruice. with st. ed. Skeat. Draw, q. v. Kingis Quair, 97, SEE'D. 1. Represents a common pron. of SCROTCHERTIS, s. pi. Sweatmeats : see it ; West of S. Burgh Recs. Glasgow, I. 454. V. ScoR- CHEAT. 2. A vulgar pret. of see : used only by the " lowest classes ; I see'd him comin." SCROW, Skrow, s. a scroll. V. Dict. " The of this term is 0. Fr. "a scroll SEESTU, Seesta, Seestow, v. Seestthou. etym. escroue, ; From Dutch a shred. Cotgr. schroode, See Skeat's These forms represent the old pron. which is still s. v. Scroll. Etym. Diet., followed in some parts of the country. SEG [216] SEN

The form is a SEGE, Saig, Saige, s. Seat, i.e. stool, Semeible, quoted by Jamieson, prob. mistake for Semlible, the transcriber misread a Addit. to having night-stool, closet, privy. Sege, short I as an e. See under Sameabill.

" To SEN, t'. a. To send, grant, bestow. And also that all maner of personis indwellares in " Unto the Cok in mynd he said, God sen this towne clenge all filth of saiges, and vther filth " That I and thow wer faii'lie in my den. befor thair lugeings within three dayes heirafter," Henryson, Chantedeir and Fox, \. 160. Burgh Recs. Edinburgh, 1521, i. 204, Kec. Soc. " the said Ane stand-bed fixit in the wall of SEN, s. V. DiCT. chalmer, weill bandeit, ane panttrie dure, and ane saig This is prob. a misprint for fen, mud, filth, which is dure,"—Burgh Recs. Glasgow, 1589, i. 148, Rec. Soc. the reading in the Elphynstoun MS. : see Small's ed. of Douglas, Vol. ii., p. 132. SEGSTAR, s. A sexton; Burgh Recs. Aberdeen, i. 143, Sp. C SENACHIE, ScHENACHY, Chenachy, 8.

A reciter of stories, an orator ; a recorder, SEIL, s. and v. V. Sile. annalist, genealogist : chenachy, Houlate, 1. Bann. MS. SEILL, s. The collar by which cattle are 803, " At the the orator or senachie the bound in the stall; Spald. Club Misc., I. grave pronounced panegyric of the defunct, every period being confii'med 179. Hence cattle in the stall is binding by a yell of the coronach." Smollet, Humphry Clin- called seilling them. ker, Letter of Sept. 3. Gael, seanachaidh, a reciter of tales or stories, an Icel. sell, A.-S. seel, a rope, string. historian, genealogist : from seanachas, story or event SEINDILL, Seyndill, Sendill, adv. of the past, comp. of sean, old, and cUis, matter, afi'air. Seldom Rol- V. M 'Leod and Dewar. ; Alex. Scott's Poems, p. 87, land. Court or Venus, ii. 156, S. T. S. SENCE, s. Incense. This is the O. E. form in Parv. V. Sens. st. 58. given Prompt. SEKE, adj. Sick ; Quair, Kingis " sowne of and sence V. Seik. Wyth clarioun, organe, song For the atonis, Lord, Welcum all we cry. Dunbar, Welcum to Lord B. Stewart, 1. 22. st. Sekexess, Seknesse, s. Sickness ; Ibid., 111. SENDAL, Sendale, Sandill, s. Fine silk Awnt. 9 ; Arth., 30, ; sandeill, Burgh SELANDYNE, s. A chalcedony; Avvnt. Recs. Aberdeen, I. 234, Sp. C. Also written Arth. 2, 9, MS. Douce. cendal. SELL'D, Sell't, pret. and part. pt. Sold, s. did sell. SENSES, pi. Faculties, wit, mind, judg- " out of one's senses" ment ; deranged, My plough is now thy bairn-time a': e'er "one's semises are in a where Four gallant brutes as did draw ; mad; creel," i.e., Forbye sax mae, I've sdVt awa, and how they ought not to be, hence, be- That thou hast nurst : reft of one's They drew me thretteen pund an' twa, senses, mad, foolish, stupid ; The verra warst. " another form of this expression is, one's Bums, The Farmer to his Mair Maggie. head is in a creel." SELLET - - s. V. OIL, Sellett Oyle, My senses wad be in a creel, Sallat-Oil. Should I but dare a hope to speel, Wi' Allan, or wi Gilbertfield, The braes o' fame 'SELOUR, Seloure, Selure, Seilour, s. ; Or Ferguson, the writer-chiel, A canopy; Gawan and Gol., QQ. V. A deattiless name. Sylour, Siller. Bums, to W. (StwwoM, Ochiltree.

1. s. SELY, adj. Seasonable; Kingis Quair, SENTENCE, Opinion, judgment ; Kingis St. 185, ed. Skeat. Quair, st. 149, ed. Skeat. Addit. to [Sen- V. 2. st. tens], q. Innocent, simple ; Ibid., 134. O. Fr. sentence, a sentence, pithy saying, opinion, a of Addit. ; from Lat. sententia, to Seily and Sely, q. v. judgment way thinking, formed from Lat. sentire, to feel, think. A.-S. scelig, timely, seasonable.

or : the SENTRICE, s. pi. Centres cooms To SEMBLE, v. n. To join battle, to fight. wooden frames used by builders in con- Addit. to Semble, q. v. arches, vaulting, etc. Errat. in Now, bot T semble for thi saull with Sarazenis mycht, structing Sail I neuer sene be into Scotland. DiCT. Eoulate, L 484, Asloan MS. The defin. suggested by Jamieson is altogether and unwarranted by the record from which his SEMLABILL, adj. Similar, like; Burgh wrong, : — quotation is taken. It runs thus Recs. Peebles, 1568, 73, Rec. Soc. V. his tuk on p. *•. . . Gelis Monro and complecis into the Semeible. hand to vphaue (i.e., upheave, hoist position) SEQ [217] SE\

sentrice of the brig quhilk the spait haid brocht dovne Sets-ye-weel. It becomes well : incontinent, quhow sone he mycht gudly, for ane you gener- France crovne of to in the said used in a or ironical sense. V. gold promest him ; and ally taunting Gelis defalt the said sentrice ar broking, spylt, and Set, s. 8. away to the see haid in gret skayth and damag of that Set. noble wark : the quhilk skayth extendis to ane hun- Setten, part. pt. Recs. i. dreth pundis." Burgh Aberdeen, 105, Sp.C. This old part, form is still used by the common See also Centers, Centreis, and the there and a other passages people ; few verba also retain it, such as referred to in Vol. ii, hit, let, put, &c.

: in SEQUELS, s. pi. Lit. followers applied to Setten-on, adj. Short growth, stunted, " children of or to the ill-thriven He a wee setten-on the neyfs serfs, and ; body." young of animals. Addit. to Sequels. V. Set-on, [Sitten]. "Gum natlvis et eorum sequelis means exactly with All the words and phrases of the foregoing group are neyfs and their followers, just as a horse-dealer now common in various parts of the North of England also. sells a mare with her followers. It implies a transfer s. on the of the property of the whole descendants of the neyf SETOLER, Soteler, A player for ever." Cosmo Innes, Legal Antiq., p. 51. citole ; Awnt. Arth., 27, 5.

To SER, Sair, v. a. 1. To serve, supply : SETTEEN, s. A weight. V. Setting. " and saird : Dail pret. part. pt. serd, sma', Icel. sittungr, a sixth part ; being the sixth of a meil. and sair a'," i.e., divide into small portions in order to serve the whole company. SETTER, s. The infield pasture of a tun or farm Orkn. Addit. to and Ster. of ; Seter, 2. To be use, profit, or advantage. Icel. soetr, setr, a seat, residence : also, mountain If honest nature made ye fools, lands What sairs your grammars ? pastures, dairy ; Vigfusson. Ye'd better taen up spades and shools, SET Set on Sevin. In Or knappin hammers. UPON SEVIN, Burns, Ep. to Lapraik, st. 11. most cases this expression is spoken of God in allusion to the work of creation set To See out, Sair out, v. a. To deal, divide, ; " " deal out to ser out the the of or set in ; as, puir-siller ; having meaning dispose " to fulfil order, as in of Susan, xxi. 4, Gol. also, complete, ; as, The prentice Pystyl maun ser out his time." and Gawan, 1. 1045. But sometimes it means to attack, encounter, or meet in Serin, Sairin, s. Service, supply, portion, battle, as in Gol. and Gawan, 1. 668. dole " himsell ; as, He helps ; he neer waits I swere be suthfast God that settis all on sevin. for a serin." Ool. and Oaxoan, 81, 8. For thair is segis in yon saill wil set vpone sevn. SERVIT, V. pret. Deserved, was justly Or thay be wrangit, I wis, I warne you ilk wy. liable Tabill of Ibid., 40, 3. ; Dunbar, Confessioun, 1. 22. V. Serve. In the Towneley Mysteries, pp. 85, 97, 118, the expres- sion occurs in the first sense ; and in Mort Arthur, fol. 75^, it occurs in the second. In this latter sense s. and v. tax short for SESS, Cess, stent, ; it means to strive to the uttermost, fight or work with assess. all one's might. Lat. assessus, of assidere, to sit beside whence pp. ; SEUTE, part. adj. Runout, used up, set assessor, one who sat beside the judge and fixed the out of use ; lit. taxes : from that term was formed the verb to assess. aside, waiting on, kept V. Skeat's Etym. Diet. waiting. " Ordanis the Vanelaw to be To SET, V. n. 1. To face in a dance. [a common] proclamit waist, seute, and hanyng," i.e., empty or not in use, The loud and louder blew piper ; or run and under or The dancers and close-cropt out, protection preser- quick quicker flew ; vation; Burgh Eecs. Peebles, 1571, p. 326, Rec. Soc. They reel'd, they set, they cross'd, they cleekit, O. Fr. in the sense of in iu Till ilka carlin swat and reekit. suite, suite, waiting, kept other forms of suite are site. V. Burns, Tain o' Shanter. waiting ; seute, siute, Burguy. 2. Short for to set off, i.e., slip off, go away. To SEW, Sue, v. a. and n. To follow, pur- A countra Laird had ta'en the batts. Or sue Awnt. 2 some curmurring in his guts. ; Arth., 6, ; Kingis Quair, p. His only son for Hornbook sets. 54, 1. 4, ed. Skeat. An' pays him well. The for twa lad, guid gimmer-pets. To V. a. To describe, relate. Was Laird himsel. SEW, show, Burns, Death and Doctor Hornhook. Now gife I sail sew The ordour of thair armes, it war to tell teir. Set, part. pt. Bent, warped : as applied to Houlate, 1. 577, Bann. MS. wood not properly seasoned. SEYER, s. A gutter, drain. V. Sayer. Set, s. a twist or warp. SEYNDILL, adv. Seldom. Y. Seindill. (Sup.) D 2 SEY [2181 SHE

V. utter "That nana shar(je spaidis nor worklowmes vpon To SEYNE, a. To say, declare, ; the brig-stanes vnder the pane of xl s. toties quoties." st. 27, 42, 98, ed. Skeat. Kingis Quair, 38, Burgh Recs. Peebles, 1622, p. 361, Rec. Soc. This which is still in is a SEYNITY. Del. this in Diet. word, use, prob. corruption entry of E. sharp. It may, however, be a softened form of As the term is a misprint for seymly, the explanatory- E. shark used iu the sense to sharpen. Similarly a note is useless, sharper is called a shark.

S. 1. In SHACKLE, SCHAKELL, SCHAKYL, To SHAVE, Shaue, v. a. To gall, fret, or This term means the as in ruffle the skin and the sing. wrist, ; part, shaving ; pret. it in shackle-baney the wrist-bone, wrist-joint ; part. pt. shaved; as wind-sAaved is also applied to the ankle or ankle-joint. Shaved, adj. Galled, fretted. 2. In the it has the same meanings as in pi. Shaving, Shauing, s. A shaving, fretting, viz. bonds, fetters, connections; but Eng. or ruffling of the skin. it is most generally applied to fetters for "Intertrigo, galling, or shauing;" Duncan's App. anklets. the wrists and ankles, handcuffs, Etym., ed. Small, E.D.S. In s. 1. the term is common in the north of Eng. Peacock. SHEAL, ScHELE, s. V. DiCT. also ; see Gloss, of Brockett, Atkinson, In all the meanings of this term two ideas are A much simpler and more direct etym. for this term or is Icel. cover Dan. and implied, movement or movableness, and coupling shyli, skdli, skjdl, shelter, ; connection. Swed, skjul. That it is allied to Swiss chalet, how- " Icel. of a is a mistake that word is from Lat. casa. A.-S. sceacul, bond, fetter ; skolcul, pole ever, ; Nor loose shaft of a is it allied to Icel. sael nor to A.-S. saeld. V. Skeat's carriage, from skaka ; Swed. shakel, ; carriage; Dan. skagle, the same." Skeat. Etym. Diet.

s. and SHAIRD, s. Shred, shard, portion, frag- SHEERMEN, Shearmen, Properly cloth- dressers but ment. V. Shard. originally cloth-clippers, ; all the crafts An' when the auld moon's gaun to lea'e them, latterly cloth-workers, including hindmost shaird fetch it wi' The they'll them. engaged in dyeing, fulling, dressing, and Just i' their pouch. cloth. Addit. to v. Bums, Ep. to Will. Simpson. finishing Sheermen, q. Backward, The combination of these crafts, which the general SHANDY, Shannie, adj. shy; term sheermen must have been or implies, accomplished in energy. but it to have been all also, wanting vigour, push, gradually ; appears completed For the first sense the synon. is hlate : for over the country before the middle of the sixteenth In the walkers and shearers of the V. Shan, Shand. century. Edinburgh second, feckless. cloth obtained their Seal of Cause from the Magis- trates in 1500 and in 1520 the honiietmakera were in- Shangie, s. A loop of gut or ; SHANGY, _ and a new Seal of Cause was obtained in ratifi- of a boat into which cluded, hide round the mast cation of the contract. From that time the term Shear- the lower end of the sprit is slipped; men began to be used as a general name for the various crafts so In the same the term Ham- Orkn. Addit. to Shangan, q. v. grouped. way mermen included smiths, Wrights, masons, coopers, and armourers. And these SHANK, Shanks, s. Short for NoonshanTcs^ slaters, goldsmiths general terms were rapidly brought into use through the pro- q.v. clamations and arrangements that had to be made in connection with the and of the SHANNA. Frequently so written, but pro- processions pageants crafts at the great popular festivals of Candlemas and sha' shall not. perly nttf Corpus Christi. See Burgh Recs. Edinburgh, i, 80, 198, will not do not—the do Rec. and B. R. i. C, Similarly winna, ; dinna, Soc, Aberdeen, 450, Sp. with short as in divide being pronounced di, i, ; minna, may not—the rwa?/ being pron. mi, with short i. These SHEET-MAKER, Scheit-Makar, s. A have probably been formed in imitation of canna, can maker of sheet-iron. not, ma.nna, man (i.e. must) not. "The baillies hais assignet this day xv days to the To SHAP, Shape, v. n. To begin or set dekin and craftismen of the hammermen to prefe gife *' scheit makaris scottis and lottis with thar craft in uder about as, He to his work anything ; shaps borouis, —that is to say in Edinburgh, Dunde, Glasgow, like a man ;" to seem, appear, promise : as, Sanctiohentoun, or in Abirdene." Recs. Stir- " Burgh " a beast 17 Feb. 1521-2. It shapes weel to grow guid ; ling, " to be The '11 also, fit, adapted ; as, naig SHEKYLS, Shakers, s. A name for ague : better for the cart nor the " shap plow.'' also called the trimles," i.e., the trembles ; but the latter term is used in re- Shapin-Brod, Schaiping - Buird, s. A mostly ference to smooth flat board on which a tailor, or a sheep. is not an uncommon term in M. as is shoemaker, shapes his materials; Burgh Shekyls E., shown by its use in the Town. Myst., p. 99. Recs. Aberdeen, I. 176, Sp. C. shake. SHEUK, pret. Shook, did To SHARGE, Sharg, v. a. To sharpen, He ended ; and the kebars sheuk face. the chorus roar grind, Aboon ; SHE [219] SIN

While frighted rattons backward leuk, traced through M. E. shreioe to A.-S. scredwa, a shrew seek the benmost bore. And mouse : lit. biter. And all the various senses in which Burns, Jolly Beggars, the term has been used, even the worst of them, are did easily accounted for by the very old fable the SHEW, pret. Showed, show ; stated, regarding shrew-mouse, that it had an exceedingly venomous explained. bite. " . . . yet the necessitie was neuer absolute, as we shew before." Blame of Kirkburiall, ch. 19. SHRO, ScHRO, s. A shrewmouse. " Sorex, a rotton, aschroj" Duncan's To v. n. V. Dict. App. Etym., SHEYL, Shyle, ed. Small, E.D.S. A.-S. sciol, squint, as in sdol-edge, squint-eyed, Cf. To V. n. To shake shyle, and skelly. SHUG, ; part. pr. shuggin, shug-shuggin, frequently or con- 8HIEL, ScHiEL, Shielin, Sheelin, s. A tinuously Whistle Binkie, ii. hut, shed, &c. V. Sheal. shaking; 226, 316. V. Shog. To SHILL, Shool, v. a. To take the husks To v. a. and w. off seeds. V. Sheal. Shuggle, Shoogle, Freq. of shug, shoog : to shake rapidly or easily, s. The old SHIP-POUND, ScHip-PUND, to make a rattling noise by shaking. standard of a barrel bulk in weight shipp- Addit. to Shuggle, q. v. it contained sixteen and a half stones ing ; The moon has rowed her in a cloud. Troy, or 264 lbs. Stravagin win's begin To shuggle and daud the window-brods. "Ilk Barrel [i.e., skipper's barrel] being of weicht Like loons that would be in. ane pund." William st. i. " schip Miller, Gree, Bairnies, Oree, Ane schip pound conteinis sexteene stanes and ane halfe of Scottish Trois weicht." SIBOW, Sybow, s. An onion. V. Seibow. " Ilk Trois stane conteinis sexteene Trois." Ital. pound O. Fr. scipouUe (Cotgr.), cipolla, an onion ; M. De Verb. Skene, Sign. E. chebole ; all from Lat. ccepe, dimin. ccepuUa,

SHIP-RAE, Ship-Eaa, s. A the v. a. a sail-yard, To SIDDER, To sunder, separate ; of a V. Ray. yard ship. Ra, corr. oi sinder ; Alex. Scott's Poems, p. 25, "Antenna, a ship-rae ;" Duncan's App. Etym., ed. ed. 1882. Small, E.D.S. SIDESMAN, s. An umpire, referee. Addit. SHIP-RAID, Schip-Rade, s. Schip-Rede, to Sydesman. road or haven for Leslie's Hist. A ships ; or Scot., p. 8, 127, S.T.S. SIDE-WIPE, s. An indirect, covert, sly rebuke : a remark implying blame or reproof To SHIRE, V. a. To off. V. pour Schire, of a and not to him but so Share. person, spoken that he may hear it, SHOK, ScHOK, s. A piece or roll of cloth SIESTER-PEN, s. The plectrum or quill containing twenty-eight ells. used for striking the sistrum. V. Seistar. "Poldaveis the shok contening xxviii. elnis." " a or a Dun- Halyhurton's Ledger, p. 318. Plectron, fiddle-stick, S2&sfer-pen;" can's E.D.S. of App. Etym., SHONE, s. A form Schynd, q. v. " s. A sieve. Y. Siv. . . to be at the ArfFhows . . betwixt this SIFE, sifting-cloth, and All-hallow-evin next eftir the dait of this " " present Uxcerniculum, a sife or boulte-claith ; Duncan's writ, to mak ane lauchfull shone and ayrfkest, as law App. Etym., ed. Small, E.D.S. levis." Grievances of Orkney, Append. II. SILVER-SEIK, without SHORE, V. Shoop. adj. Moneyless, pret. Shaped. : as s. in funds also used b}^ Henryson a the SHORT-AIND, Short-ainded, Short- sense of one whose money is yet to seek. I I sum ended, adj. Short of breath, short-winded. Sen am Stewart, wald we had stuff, I wait richt weill " And ye ar silver-seik, ; Anhelus, pursie, or short-ended;" Duncan's App. Thocht we wald thig, yone verray churlische chuff, ed. E.D.S. Etym., Small, He wald nocht gif us ane hering of his creill, " Befoir yone churle on kneis thocht we wald kneill. s. He SHOT, Share, proportion ; as, plans Henryson, Wolf, Foxe, and Cadgear, 1. 86. ay to the shot" i.e., the best get lucky SINDLE, Sinnle, adj. and adv. Rare, rarely, share : each share of also, man's the laioin seldom. V. Seindle. or score at a tavern. A.-S. Icel. Dan. SINGT, Singet, Singit, part. pt. Singed. scot, shot, payment ; skattr, skat, tribute, tax. Skatt, an old Danish tax is still paid in V. Sing. Shetland. V. under Skat, Skatt. SINGULAR, adj. Single, individual, certain. " SHREW, s. V. Dict. Again, of the peculiar sort, sum ar proper to and others to of Jamieson's long and learned note on this term is alto- singular persons only, mo, yet being one sort or Blame of ch. 8. gether misleading. The word shreio has been clearly family." Kirkburiall, SIP [220] SKE

SIPERS, s. Fine crape : so called because it SITHOL, SiTHiLL, s. V. Cithol. was made in Rates of originally Cyprus ; SITTLENESS, s. Subtilty; Alex. Scott's Customs, 1612, Ledger, p. 328. Halyburton's Poems, p. 76, ed. 1882. V. [Sittil]. Of the various kinds of crape then used the most n. valuable were the curl sipers, silk sipers, and scum To SIVE, V. To drain. V. Sipe. sipers, noted in Bates of Customs of 1612. SKAINYA, s. Packthread. V. Skeengie. SIRE, Syour, s. a gutter, drain; Burgh SKAIRNES, s. Scantness, scarcity. V. Recs. II. Rec. Soc. V. Glasgow, 128, and Skairth, SiVER. [Skair, r.], adj. ". . . that the tries [barrels] wer nocht to the extreme becaus of and slcairnes of SIRFOOTFEATS, s. pi. Fragments left quantitie penuritie Recs. of Glasgow, i. 153, Rec. Soc. after a or of delicacies. tymer." Burgh banquet feast, scraps A.-S. to shear, cut, diminish; Icel. " sceran, skera, . . . wine drunk in abundance, glasses broken, Dan. skcere, Sw. akara, to shear, cut short. sirfoot/eats casten abroad on the causey, gather whaso V, please." Eejoicings in Aberdeen, 26 June, 1597. SKARCH, s. A form of skars, an opening Reg. Priv. Council, v. 67, Intro. rocks Recs. between ; Burgh Peebles, 1470, O. Fr. sorfait, excess, and fait, faict, a part, portion, from Lat. and 1. Rec. Soc. V. Skairs. article ; sorfait having come super p. 165, facere. SKEBLOUS, Scebles, adj. Rascally, evil- s. The zither. V. Seistak. SISTIR, disposed. V. Skebel, "And everie and scebles SIT, SiTT, s. Pain, ailment. Addit. to begger, vagaboun, ydel men and women." Recs. i. 359, Rec. v. Burgh Glasgow, Site, q. Soc. Icel. sMy pain, suflfering. « SKEER, adj. Exciting, rousing, wild. Addit. To SIT, t'. n. To fit, suit, become. It sits to Skeer, q. V. is said of a who ye weel," ironically person It's no the little thing sae screech and sl-eer, attempts what is beyond his power or posi- That drunken fiddlers play in barns and booths. But the big gaucy fiddle that sae soothes tion. Set is used with the same meaning. The speerit into holiness and calm. That e'en some kirks hae thocht it mends the Sit down on one's knees. To kneel or psalm. To H. Leighton, Bapteesement o' the Bairn. bow as a suppliant, to humble oneself in SKELLUM, s. A worthless fellow, ne'er- the dust, to assume the of contrition posture do-well. V. SCHELLUM. and supplication. She tauld thee weel thou was a skellum, This was the first which offenders the act, against A blethering, blustering, drunken blellum ; law had to perform in doing penance publicly in the That fra November till October, parish church, as the following record duly sets forth. Ae market-day thou was nae sober. In Aberdeen, in the year 1555, John Sandris and his Buriis, Tarn o' Shanter, wife were, after due trial, found guilty of "strublens, Du. schelm, Swed. skalm, rogue, knave, villain. of GeUane and his stryking, and bluiddrawing Thomas We got this word from the Netherlands early in the " and been bound over to the wyfe ; having duly keep seventeenth century. ' ' peace, the baillies modifiit the amends of the said : that is to thai or- strublens as after following say SKELPIE, adj. Lit. fit or deserving to be danit the said John and his spous forsaid to pay to the or an term skelped whipped ; opprobrious said Thomas Gellane xx s. Scottis, and to pay the har- to a to bour for the mending and curing of his woundis, within generally applied girl. Addit. and alse to com on nixt to viij dayse ; Sonday cuming Skelpie, q. V. Sanct Nicholase parroche kirk, in the queir thereof, in This term is often used as a s. the tyme of hie mess, with ane candill of wax in euerie thair and thair to sit doune on thair hieis ane of handis, SKELPlE-LBmER, s. A mischief-worker that of the men of the and ask the in presens guid toun, deserves to be an extended form said Thomas and his wyf forgifnes : and gif euer thai skelped; be conuickit for siclyk in tyme cumyng, to pay tene of skelpie, but more particular and opprob- markis to be applyit to Sanct Nicholace wark onfor- rious. Burgh Recs. Aberdeen, i. 282, Sp.C. gewin." it This term is generally misunderstood ; and has For similar records see Burgh Recs. Aberdeen, i. 27, been misinterpreted and misapplied by various writers Burgh Kecs. Glasgow, i. 149. " on Bums. Jamieson defined it as an opprobrious " To Sit on one^s knees. To kneel, remain term applied to a female : which, though not absol- utely wrong, is certainly a vague explanation. Others kneeling, as in prayer. have interpreted it as "a mischievous or violent woman and Dr. in his and Humour To Sit summons. To sit still when called, to ;" Mackay, "Poetry of the Scottish Language," has explained it as "a a call or to or disregard summons, neglect violent woman ready both with hands and tongue." for reasons these are absurd disobey orders. Now obvious meanings ; and chiefly because the term, if used, cannot The gude wyfe [was] glaid with the gle to begin, properly at for she is too old to be For durst scho neuer sit summoundis that scho bard him be applied to a woman all, of which the say. subjected to the chastisement skelping, the Rauf CoUyear, 1. 99. term implies. Besides, as used by Burns, term was SKE [221] SLA

applied to a young girl, a mere child, whom certainly" Skoogit, ScooGiT, part, and adj. Concealed, he calls wee Jennie," who pled for the presence and sheltered, shaded. protection of her grandmother in the daring adventure here comes which she proposed. To such an one the epithet Now Forgan manse amang the trees, A cozie weel frae the skelpie-Ummer, mischief-worker deserving to be skelped, spot, skoogit breeze. and that she R. Leighton, Bapteesement o' the Bairn. was most appropriate ; was such an one, and not a woman, will be evident to one who every V. and s. Shelter. V. reads the with SKOUGH, Skook, passage ordinary intelligence. Skug. Wee Jennie to lier grannie says. Will ye go wi' me, Grannie ? Skreech I'll eat the apple at the glass, SKREIGH, {ch gutt), Screech, I frae uncle Johnie." gat adj. Screeching, shrill, piercing. V. She fuff' t her pipe wi' sic a lunt, In wrath she was sae vap'rin. Screigh. She notic't na, an aizle brunt Her braw new worset apron To SKRIP, Skripe, Skrap, Skrop, v. a. Out thro' that " night. To mock; Houlate, 1. 67. V. Skirp, Ye little skelpie-Ummer's face ! I daur you try sic sportin, SCORP. As seek the foul Thief onie place, The has Bann. MS. skirp ; the Asloan, skripe. For him to spae your fortune." Burns, Halloween, st. 14. To SKRYM, Skryme, v. n. To rush, dash, Both and are still in use in the skelpie skelpie-Ummer a at 1. make feint ; Houlate, 67. Asloan West of S. but are to ; they applied only young people, MS. V. Skyrme. and mostly to girls. O. Fr. to escrimer, fence, fight ; from 0. H. Germ. s. An a SKEMLER, attendant, lacquey. scirman, to skirmish. Addit. to Skambler, q. v. SLABBER, Slubber, s. The slop or mud s. V. Skamble. SKEMLIS, pi. of roads in wet weather : also, the slush or half-melted snow on roads SKILLET-BELL, s. V. Skellat. when a thaw sets in. SKINKING, adj. Thin, liquid, and much Same as v. boiled; sMnking-ware, liquid food, as soups, Slabby, adj. Slabbery, q. etc. V. Skink. s. soft or SLACK, A slimy place ; Sempill Auld Scotland wants nae skinking ware, Ballates, 117. Addit. to v. in p. Slack, q. That jaups luggies ; But if ye wish her gratefu' prayer, SLAID, s. A sledge. V. Sled. Gie her a Haggis. Bums, To a st. 8. Haggis, To SLALK, V. n. V. DicT. To SKINK, Skynk, v. a. To give or hand This is a MS. form due to the scribe writing (by way of kk so as to resemble Ik. There is no over, to add over and above, make a present contraction), such word. It should be slakk, rhyming with wakk of of. Addit. to q. v. Skink, the previous line.

. This of ". . thai sail content and pay to him ten li. method contracting the writing of double . . at the compleiting, ending, and vpsetting of long-letters was fully explained by Prof. Skeat in his

. . to the in the said ruf, , and vpoun his gude warkmane- Address Philological Society 1886. schip and gyding thai skynk him the tymmer of the To v. a. To as with auld ruf." Burgh Recs. Edinburgh, 30 Sept., 1508, I. SLAMB, Slam, smear, Eec. Soc. lard : 117, or ointment part. pt. slamd, slamby slam. To SKLENT, v. a. To utter or give forth With to at one in a or coistly furis, lucive and sabile, indirectly, speak spiteful stanis and With perle innumerable ; sarcastic Addit. to manner. Sklent, q. v. All gold begaine, a glorius growme, Slamb ouer with faird and D'ye mind that day, when in a bizz, fyne perfwme. Rob Stem's 4. Wi' reekit duds an' reestit gizz, Dream, p. Ye did smoutie present your phiz, ado. 'Mang better folk. SLAP, Suddenly, unawares, unexpec- An' sklented on the man of Uzz tedly : an imitative word, implying sudden Your spitefu' joke. or as if at a or Burns, Address to the DeU, appearance change, slap clap of the hand. s. Scoiuson or SKONSCHON, escoinson ; let us not, like snarling tykes, the interior of a w^indow side or In be divided edge jamb. wrangling ; See Gloss. Archit. Terms. Till, slap, come in an unco loon, And with a decide it. " rung The dores and chimnayis to be marbillit, and the Burns, The Dumfries Volunteers, st. 2. pend of the windowes and skonschonis to be weill layit To SLATE, V. a. To set on, hound, incite. over with ane blew gray." Acct. for Painting in Addit. to v. Stirling Castle, 1628, Mait. Club Misc., iii. 372. Slate, q. O. Fr. escons, hidden, covered, pp. of esconser, to "TosZa^e" implies more than "to let loose," as conceal from Lat. abscondere. hide, ; given by Jamieson. Comparison of the passage quoted will confirm this. To v. a. and n. SKOOG, ScooG, V. Skook. The etym. is not Icel. slaeda, but A. -S. slcetan, to set SLA [222] SMO

dogs on a bull or other animal, and hence, to hound, in- SLOUN, s. Y. Dict. cite. See ^^Ifric's Lives of the Saints, ed. Skeat, vol. Sloiin cannot be connected with slowhoiind, as sug- i. p. 266, 1. 72. gested. See under Sleuth-hund. Most prob. from Icel. ' ' " a and clownish boor ; to be sldni, gaunt Vigfusson. SLAUGHTER, adj. For slaughter, killed for food. SLUCHT, s. A kind of cloak or overcoat, a

" . V. Slogie. Ilk s^aMc/tier kow passing langis the brig . ., jupe. Slug, tua ilk pennies ; and fyve sheep cuming they wyes, "To Alex^. Checkum, commoun poist, fyve pundis Recs. 132. tua pennies." Burgh Stirling, 1612, p. to help to by him a slucht of blew." Burgh Recs. Aberdeen, ii. 163, Sp. C. SLED, Slead, Slaid, s. A sledge : a low cart s. V. Dict. without wheels used for the carriage of SLUGHORNE, A slughorn is not a horn at all, but a battle-cry : the goods. etym. given is therefore wrong. For explanation see •' a slead." Duncan's ed. Trdhea, Appendix Etym., under Slogan. Small, E.D.S. n. or smell of a Icel. slethi, Dan. skede, Sw. slede, a sledge. To SMACK, V. To taste, thing. SLENK, s. Del. this entry in DiCT. " Resipio, to smell or smack." Duncan's Appendix for a in Pinkerton's Slenk is a misprint slynge, blow, Etym., ed. Small, E.D.S. version of Gaw. and Gol. Smak, s. a taste, smell, taint. s. V. SLEUTH-HUND, Slewth-hund, "Sapor, a taist or smack." Duncan's App. Etym,, DiCT. ed. Small, E.D.S.

The the of sleuth are un- s. kind of emerald also suggestions regarding origin SMARADGE, a ; suitable. It is simply Icel. shith, track or trail. applied to any precious stone of an emerald similar Alex. Scott's ed. 1882. SLIK, Slyke, adj. Such like, such, ; colour; Poems, p. 15, Rom. Alexander, 1. 783. Lat. smaragdus, an emerald. From A. -S. swd-Uc M. Goth, swaleiks. The latter ; SMATTRIE, s. A large number, flock. V. is Jamieson as the of : but this given by origin swylh Smytrie. is a mistake : it is simply the A.-S. swilc, which is made up of sicd and lie. SIVUDDIE-GUM, s. Small-coal used in a SLIK, adj. Del. this entry in Dict. smithy. for use Slik is a misreading of slikes in Pinkerton's version. In various parts of Scot, dross or small-coal is called a of V. Slike, V. in smithies and furnaces gum, corruption which in some dialects is coom culm, "(Halliwell). defines as the refuse of a To SLIKE, V. n. To slide, slip, glide. Brockett smiddy-gum smith's the struck off from the hot The swerd swapped on his swange and on the mayle slikes, shop, fragments iron the hammer." Awnt. Arthur, 48, 6, Douce MS. by The Lincoln MS. reads slydys. V. a. cheat and To SMIKE, To ; pret. part, cheated. To v. a. To pt. smikit, SLING, Slyng, cast, throw, " Becaus it is weill knawin and fund that he smikit dash, strike. and defraudit his brother foirsaid, and did siclyck to the said Nicoll his brothir sone." Grievances of Ork- Sling, Slyng, Slynge, s. A cast, stroke, II. V. Smaik, s. blow. ney Append. to SMIT, s, Infection, contagion. Addit. SLOGAN, s. V. Dict. Smit, q. V. Slogan is not a corruption of slughorne, but a more correct form of it. Indeed, slughorne is a corr. of Smittlish, Smitlish, adj. Infectious, con- slugome, an old spelling of slogan, a battle-cry : from tagious. Gael, sluagh-gliairm, comp. of sluagh, people, tribe, and a call. is therefore not a army, gairm, Slugorne SjnTTiNG-SlCKNESS, s. An infectious disease, horn at all. See Slughorn in Suppl. to Skeat's Ebym. Dict. infection. ** CojUagio, an infection or smitting-sicknes." Dun- v. a. To To SLOKE, Sloik, slake, quench, can's Appendix Etym., ed. Small, E.D.S. to as satisfy ; also, reduce, pulverize, by SMOUTIE, adj. Smutty, black, begrimed : throwing water on lime-shells : pret. and merely a poetic form of smutty. part. pt. slokit, sloikit. " D'ye mind that day, when in a bizz, . . with ane onsatiable scho droutht, quhilk Wi' reekit duds, an reestit gizz. culd nocht sZoi^*." Trials for Misc. Witchcraft, Spald. Ye did present your smoutie phiz, I. 88, 1597. 'Mang better folk, An' sklented on the man of Uzz, SLOT-STAFF, s. A kind of pike, or Jed- Your spitefu' joke. Address to the Deil. Recs. Burns, burgh-staff ; Burgh Prestwick, 1561, V. «. V. Smoo. p. 66, Mait. C. SMOW, and Smile. SNI [223] SOK

the Swed. would be and the Dan. and SNICK, Snick-Deawing. V. under Sneck. seg-na, seg-ne ; the two latter are found. The Dan. segne, is to settle sink down and the Swed. SNIPE, Snype, s. a kind of muzzle for a down, gradually ; segna, though not given in the Tauchnitz Diet., appears in pig, which prevents it from eating the Widegren's Diet. (1788), with a by-form signa, to sink corn and Shetl. growing ; Orkn. down. Further light is thrown on the word by Swedish Dialects. Thus, Rietz gives siga, to sink, with the To v. a. To to a Snipe, Snype, muzzle, put derivatives signa, sujna, to sink slowly down. These he the mod. Swed. Hence to soane is muzzle on the snout of a pig. explains by segna. " to sink down gradually, to settle into a final position." Anent the swyne of Papa, that thai sail be snypit From the same root we have the forms to seg, sag, and ringit in tyme of summer and winter also, to the sag, to shake, press, or settle down, as in filling a sack, effect that tlie haill nyebours in thair griss land and with grain or flour. V. Seg, v. cornis may be frie of thair skayth." Peterkin's Notes on Orkn. and 30. Shetl., Appendix, p. SOBER, SoBiR, adj. Steady, industrious, Dan. snabel, a snout : of. O. Du. snavel, snabel, dimin. " ; as, He was a sober of sndbhe, snebbe, a bill, beak. well-doing douce, man," a quiet, industrious man, or, a quiet, To Snurtle, v. n. Dimin. of SNIRTLE, sobir the well-doing, working-man ; folkis, snirt; to laugh in a subdued, restrained, sohir estait, working people, the working timorous, or mocking manner : to snirtle in class. Addit. to Sober, q. v. ones sleeve, to snirtle secretly, to chuckle This meaning of the term, which has not yet passect or smile in of a V. slylj mockery person. out of use, was overlooked by Jamieson. It occur* Snirt. frequently in our Burgh Bees., especially in regulations of rates and charges for the community. Wi' ghastly ee, poor Tvveedle-dee The Town Council of when the Upon his hunkers bended, Aberdeen, fixing emoluments of the sacristan in to And pray'd for grace wi' ruefu' face, 1565, agreed give him a of ten And sae the quarrel ended. salary merks yearly, and that he should have "of accidentis, of euery mariage, xviijd., of But tho' his little heart did grieve honest or reche and of sobir and of round the tinkler folkis, xijd. folkis ; When prest her ; baptysme, xij. penneis of honest folkis, and vid. of He feign'd to snirtle in his sleeve, sobir folkis and for of of When thus the Caird address'd her. ; making gravis the buriall, of reche and honest and of the Burns, Jolly Beggars. xviij penneis folkis, xijd sobir estait (alwaise, in all ther thre forsaidis, the puir Snirt, of which snirtle is a dimin., is allied with both and indegent to be fre)." Burgh Bees. Aberdeen, i. sneer and snort, and comes from Dan. sneerre, to grin 361, Sp. C. like a dog, or show one's teeth at a person. V. Skeat's Etym, Diet., under Sneer. To SOG, V. a. and n. To sink or press down, V. v. To SNOWK, Snouk, Snock, v. a. To poke, Seg, Sag, or turn over press into, with the nose, as a s. " SOIL, SOILL, Sill, base, bottom, or does : as, The snowkin out '' dog pig pig's support : the soillis of the windois," the tatties." Addit. to v. Snowk, q. Burgh Recs. Glasgow, I. 348, Rec. Soc. Nae doubt but were fain o' they ither, A.-S. Icel. and Swed. An' unco an' thick syl, abase, support; syll. pack thegither ; Wi' social nose snufF'd and whyles snowkit, SOIL-BURD, SOILL-BURDE, SOILBAND, S. A Whyles mice and moudieworts they howkit. of on the sill of Burns, The Twa Dogs. strip wood placed a window To SOANE, v:n. To sink down, settle down, to keep out the rain. Ibid., I. 67. fall into and like a hewn place position, SOK, Sock, s. 1. A stock, frame, rest, sup- stone in a *' building. The needs a new sock.'^ " port ; as, gun For as Salomons thousand artificers were many 2. assistance: exercised about the of the materiall Surety, guarantee, backing, building temple ; *' so must we, the many millions of the greater nor Salo- to lay sok to a warrant," to find or obtain mons men, be in the occupyed making vp spiritual], surety for a claim, i.e., security against loss and in our seines as the Lords stones squairing lyuely ; or that being founded on all sides, we may soane aright damage. in the Lords islare work, the which is our edification." To Sok, Sock, v. a. 1. To stock; to fix or Blame of ch, 15. Kirkburiall, mount on a frame or The account of the of support. following interesting etym. " this word is Prof. Skeat. . . and als tha ordand the deyne of to cause " by gild The spelling soane suggests an A.-S. form sd-nan, the Hamburght man soh the gwne at the blokhouse one from a base sd-, Goth, sai-, a strengthened form from a suflBcientlie with ane guid soun sok, the townis ex- a root SI. But comparison with A.-S. further suggests pensis." Burgh Bees. Aberdeen, i. 222, Sp. C. that the root should rather be SIG-, as there is a strong 2. make sure or to or find verb to sink down but no such verb as si-an. To secure, give sigan, ; " loss of is loss or : The g not uncommon, as in E. rai7i, brain, A.- surety against damage to sok to

S. This shows the • regn, brmgen. that A.-S. equivalent one's warrant," to fall back upon one's of soane was sag-nan, regularly formed with the or in case of loss. passive intransitive suffix -nan from sdg, pt. t. of surety sig-an, to sink. But as the A.-S. sdgnan is not "That Theman, goldsmycht, sal snstene na scathe recorded, we must find its equivalent in other lan- for the brekine of the saide ferthing [of a gold noble], guages. The Icel. form would be seig-na (not found), bot deliuer it agayn to the saide Thomas Byburne, and SOL [224] SPA

he to content Theman of v 3. vi d. that he agayn, gaf SOUSE, 5. V. Dict. him for it, sen it was nocht lachfull nor sufBciande to "0. Fr. is derived from Lat. nom. pass for payment na werk, and the forsaide Thomas sols, sous, solidus, like Charles from Carolus ; but the Mod. Fr. sou is de- till sok til his warande, gif he hafe ony, til vpricht rived from Lat. ace. solidum." Skeat. him," Burgh Recs. Aberdeen, 1463, i. 26, Sp. C. The of the last statement of the above meaning To SOW, SouE, V. n. To breathe, murmur, award is that Thomas might fall back upon the person a form of but a from whom he got the gold piece to free him from loss. sigh: SOUCH, implying Sok is short for 0. Fr. prob. socor, socors, succour, lighter, gentler sound, as if it were a dimin. aid, support, which Burguy records along with secors " of that term : The wind scarce sowed and sucurs, from Lat. succurrere, to succour, support. amancr the birks." West of S. SOLAND, SoLAND Goose, s. V. Dict. Sow's-TAiL, s. A spoiled knot The etym. given by Martin and Sibbald are certainly SOW-TAIL, in sheaves Orkn. wrong : that given by Pennant, and adopted by Neill is binding ; but not Solan is Icel. correct, complete. simply siilan, In binding sheaves the ends of the straw band are the : n for the def. article in the def. gannet standing brought together and twisted into a particular kink ; form of Icel. a V. Skeat's Dict. sula, gannet. Etym, and if that kink is not properly made, the result is a *' sow's-tail. Prob. so called from the appearance of the s. A term in denoting the SOLE, golfing band after the knot has slipped. flat bottom of the head of a golf-club/' a. form of v. Gl. Golfer's Handbook. To SOWF, V. A Sowth, q. ; Whistle Binkie, L 123. SOLEYING, part. V. Solyeing. SPAC, Spak, adj. Quick, smart : used also To SowLP, V. a. and n. To SOLP, steep, also as an adv., short for spacly, spakly. drench and soak, ; pret. part. pt. solpit ; His sclauin he dede on al so spac. Houlate, 1. 957, 42, Asloan MS. V. Sowp. And henge his harp opon his bac, And had wel gode wil to gon. SONGATIS, SoNEGATis, adv. According to Orfeo and Heurodis, 1. 343. the course of the sun. Now athir stoure on ther stedis strikis togedir, out with speris in hand. *' Spumes spakly I find it wilbe ane deir yeir : the bled of the come Jiom. Alexander, L 786. it growis -withersones ; and sonegatis quhan growis Spac and spacli occur repeatedly in Will, and Wer- it wilbe ane Trials for about, gude chaip yeir." wolf. See Gloss. Witchcraft, 1597, Spald. Mis., i. 96. SPAIKIT, Spab:it, pai^t. and adj. Dried on SO'NS, s. pi. A contr. form of sowens; or flakes of like skins spaiks, i.e., bars wood, butter d sons, sowens served with butter in- or hides for export. V. Spaik. of a stead milk, formed the usual supper of " nor . . nor skynnis spaii^, hyddiskippit," i.e., country company after the amusements of neither dried skins nor salted hides. Burgh Bees. Halloween; Burns, Halloween, st. 28. V. Edinburgh, 1437-8, i. 5, Rec. Soc. Sowens. SPAK, Spack, pret. Spoke, spake. In his note to this term Burns stated that buttered Yestreen I met you on the moor, so'ns is like stoure always the Halloween supper. It was so at the Ye spak na, but gaed by ; time the poet wrote, and in the district with which he Ye geek at me because I'm poor, was but But fient a hair care I. acquainted ; even then sowens were beginning Tibbie I hae seen the to give place to potatoes in various districts of Scot- day. Ye would na been sae shy ; land, and now they are almost entirely disused. The For lack o' gear ye lightly me, usual supper now is beat or mashed potatoes, or as But trowth I care na by. they are usually called champit tatties. Bums. This form is still common; and it is used in the SOO, Soo-BoAT, 8. A small square-sterned North of England also. V. Brockett's Gloss. boat with a scull-hole, for towing after a is or To SPANYS, V. n. V. Dict. larger one, called a soo, a soo-boat ; Orkn. Not from O. Fr. espanouir, as given by Tyrwhitt, but from the shorter 0. Fr. espanir, to blow, given by SOOLEEN, s. V. Dict. Cotgrave, which made the part. pres. espaniss-ant ; and this verb is not Germanic, as Jamieson suggests, Dan. from which Jamieson derives solen, rightly but has come from Lat. expandere. Shetl. sooleen, means "the sun," being the def. form of Dan. sun en the def. article. A Rates 80I, ; representing SPAR-HALK, s. A sparrow-hawk; similar form is found in the word Solan, q. v. of Customs, Haly. Ledger, p. 313; Hou- 1. Asloan MS. Bann. MS. has SOPS DE MAYN, s. pi. Strengthening late, 330, draughts or viands. Addit. to entry in Sperk Halk, q. V. Dict. SPART, Spert, Spirt, s. A dwarf rush : coarse rush-like which SOUCAND, SoucAN, s. A single-ply straw- also, the grass grows when is is on land. Other forms of the rope ; the rope it called wet, boggy " two-pl}-^ a simmond or simmon.*' name are Sprat, Spreat, Sprit, q. v. SPA [225] SPI

Spier v. a. Sparty, Spertt, Spirty, adj. Full of To Speir out, Speer out, out, or V. Spritty. To search out, find out, or procure by spart rush-grass. " means of inquiry; to speir out men fitting SPAVIE, s. The spavin; Burns, The In- to be employit," Burgh Recs. Glasgow, II. N'entory. 157, Rec. Soc. Spaviet, adj. Spavined, having the spavin. " SPELDER'D, pt. Lying of a horse Speldert, part. O. Fr. esparvain, "a spavin in the leg ; with the limbs stretched out : like a Cotgr, But this O. Fr. form has come from the L. dog or Lat. sparvarius, sparrow-like, from the hopping before a fire. Addit. to Spelder, q. v. motion of a horse afflicted with sparrow-like spavin. ? Hey ! Willie Winkie, are ye coming ben V. Skeat's Diet. Etym. The cat's singing gray thrums to the sleeping hen, The dog's spelder'd on the floor, and disna gie a cheep, To SPAYN, Spean, Speane, Spen, v. a. To But here's a waukrife laddie that winna fa' asleep. William Miller, Willie Winkie, st. 2. wean : also to hinder, prevent, suspend : part. s. and pt. spaynd, speand, spent. Addit. to Spain, q.v. SPELINGr, Del. this entry in Dict., " Depello, to put away, to speane, lacte depellere ;" see under Spilling. Duncan's App. Etym., ed. Small, E.D.S. v. a. to To SPEN, Speen, To spean, wean ; and s. suspend- Spayning, part, Preventing, hinder, prevent, stop. Forms of Spain, Addit. to v. ing, stoppage. Spaining, q. V. of q. West S. V. Spayn. "That nane of thame tak vpoun hand to tap nor sell shut. . of darrer [i.e. dearer] . . vnder the payne SPERD, Sperde, part. pt. Barred, spayning fra the occupatioun for yeir and day." Burgh V. Spar, v. Kecs. Edinburgh, i. 164, E,ec. Soc. V. and s. V. Spairge. or SPERGE, SPECHT, s. The speight, spite, wood- a kind of better s. a of but spite, large woodpecker, SPERK, A spark ; gleam fire, known as the Picus the merest as in the ex- popinjay ; viridis, generally gleam, Linn. pression, "No a sperk on the hearth," im- The was a to Specht pursevant, proude apper, plying that the fire has gone out : also, That raid befor the emperour. a small as a In a cot of armour sperk d fire, fire, "Bide wee, ^ Of all kynd of colour, an' I'll put on a sperk o' fire-/" hence, and Cumly cleir. like in the least or de- Houlate, 1. 334, Asloan MS. spark Eng., portion a o o' sense. The Spite is one of the Rain-birds. It is called by gree, as, sperk wit, sperk various names, such as the Awl Bird, High Hoe or Quhareby there hang a ruby, without faUle— into Yaffle That as a of so Highaw (corr. He-ha), Yappingale, ; see sperk lowe, wantonly Montagu's Ornith. Diet., p. 385, ed. Rennie, Semyt birnyng vpon hir quhyt6 throte. st. ed. Skeat. Cf. O. Fr. epeiche, which Cotgrave renders "A Kingis Quair, 48, the or Speight ; red-tayled woodpecker, Highaw." SPIDARROCH, s. Lit. spade-darg, a day's work with a the extent of SPEELIE-WALLIE, Speely-Wally, adj. spade, ground of with a in one and s. Same as Peelie-Wallie, q. v. capable being dug spade day. SPEENDRIFT, s. V. Dict. V. a. To the note appended to this entry add : — To SPIER, To ask, enquire. V. Speee. The old sense of spoon was a chip of wood, hence speendrift means that the spray flew about like chips SPILLING SALT. V. under Salt. driven by a storm. SPILLING, Spillynge, s. Failure, mis- s. SPEET, Speat, Speit, A ; spit Burgh take, loss; Awnt. Arth., 1. 253, Lincoln Recs. Stirling, 1560, p. 72. MS. V. Spill. To Speet, Speit, Speat, Spait, Spate, v. a. MS. Douce, from which Pinkerton's version was has which is an error of the scribe. fix a to stab or taken, speling, prob. To spit, on spit ; run through Jamieson rendered the term "instruction," a meaning with a instrument. sharp which makes nonsense of the passage. That entry He swoor by a' was swearing worth, must therefore be deleted. V. Speling. To speet him like a pliver. Unless he wad from that time forth SPITTAL, Spittaill, Spittle, Spittal- Relinquish her for ever. Hous, s. An Burns, Jolly Beggars. hospital, leper-house. Than in ane mantill and ane bevar hat. To SPEIR in, Speer in, Spier in, v. n. To With cop and clapper, wonder prively. in and ask for " in at father's He opnit ane secreit yett, and out thairat go ; as, Speir Convoyit hir, that na man suld espy. as ye gang by:" also, to call at a place Unto ane village half ane myle thairby, " hir in at the to fetch in at the Delyverit Spittaill hous. ; as, S'peir something And daylie sent hir part of his almous. tailor's for coat. my Henryson, Test. Cresseid, 1. 391. (Sup.) E 2 SPO [226] SPU

to the This is a contr. form of hospital, which Henryaon ing and taking agane Edinburgh sport stafes and uses in the same poem. gownes." Burgh Recs. Stirling, 1 Sept., 1634, p. 172. Thairfor in secreit wyse ye let me gang Spowsage, s. Wedlock; the Unto your Hospitcdl at the tounis end. SPOUSAGE, Ibid., 1. 382. state or bonds of wedlock; spoushrehe, " adultery; brekar of To SPONE, V. a. To dispone, bestow, ex- spousbreche, spowscr^e," an adulterer or an adulteress ; Recs. pend; part. pt. sponyt: a contr. of dispone. Burgh StirHng, Stirling, 28 April, 1547. ". . . to geyf hym a sufiand lewyn, and the layf be sponyt on the plas qwar mast ned is." Burgh SPRAINGED, part, and adj. Dotted, scat- Recs. Peebles, 1456, p. 116, Rec. See. tered, spread over. Addit. to Sprainged, Spunge, s. A brusli SPONGE, Spounge, q.v. made of hair, fine heath or heather, &c. ; The window's sprainged wi' icy stars. Whistle ii. 350. Kates of Customs, Halyburton's Ledger, Binkie, s. corr. of p. 329. SPRAWLS, pi. A spalds, pieces, '* '* tatters lit. limbs : rive to The name sponge was formerly given to any imple- shreds, ; sprawls; ment used for cleaning, clearing, or dressing, such as a Whistle Binkie, i. 352. or various articles of mop, brush, besom ; and that kind

still : s. cattle are so called such as the brush with which the SPREAGH, Speech, Lit. ; hence cleans out his the with which artillery-man gun ; mop Rob ch. 26. prey, booty ; Scott, Roy, 23; a baker cleans out his oven, &c. And the act or pro- Addit. to v. cess of cleaning is in each case called sponging. Speeith, q. The Rates of Customs of 1612 mention "spounges or " SPRETTY, adj. V. Spritty. brushes of heather, of heath, and of hair ; used res- as cleaners, as head-brushes, and as brushes pectively SPRING, s. The degree of suppleness that for weavers or "fordichting of clothes." And what " an or the handle of an instru- are now named sponges are there called watter instrument, for and are rated at spounges chirurgeans," twenty ment, possesses : used regarding a fishing- the See Hal. shillings pound weight. Led., pp. 292, the shaft of a etc. 330. rod, golf-club, " s. Tak a o' ain SPONTOON, s. A kind of half-pike carried SPRING, spring your fiddle," i.e.. Follow your own and take by inferior officers in the army : hence, plan " the consequences. V. Spring. metaph. an officer : gilded spontoon^^ This is addressed to who gaudy officer. proverb persons propose some questionable plan, or to those who resist good From the gilded spontoon to the fife I was ready, advice. I asked no more but a laddie. sodger But sen ye think it easy thing Bums, Jolly Beggars. To mount aboif the moon, Bums represents this fille du regiment as ready to Of yoxir ain fiddle tak a spring. welcome any soldier from the gold-braided officer to And dance quhen ye half done. the humblest bandsman. Montgomery, Cherrie and Slae, st. 66. Fr. a kind of etc. " ' I hear sponton, esponton, half-pike, ; from can no remonstrances,' he continued, turn- Ital. spuntone, derived from spuntare, to break off the ing away from the Bailie, whose mouth was open to to blunt and that has * the service I point, ; again come from Lat. address him ; am on gives me no time ex and pungere, to pierce, prick. for idle discussion.' 'Aweel, aweel, sir,' said the ' to Bailie, you're welcome a tune on your ain fiddle ; and s. A form of " SPORNE, part, sparing, but see if I dinna gar ye dance till't afore a's dune.' spurring in the sense of hasting, hm-rying, Sir W. Scott, Rob Roy, ch. 29. setting out on a &c. Errat. in journey, To SPRUN, V. 11. To spur, spring, rise, DiCT. project. Oft in Rominis I reid, " beikis ar he and bauld. Airly spome, late speid." My spruning Petition 1. 40. Gawan and Gol., 68, 11. Dunbar, of Gray Horse,

A.-S. a Ger. : hence E. Delete the entry in the Dict, Jamieson has been spura, spur; spom spur, to misled by the unusual form of the word, else he would press forward, and spurn, to rise superior to, as "to have recognised the very common proverb here used. spurn delights." Throughout Scot, its usual form is SPULE, Spuil, s. a cope or pirn on which The mair haste the waur speed is for the Quo' the tailor to the lang thread. yarn wound weaver; Whistle Sometimes it has a slightly different form, and runs— Binkie, i. 353, Burgh Rec. Edinburgh, i. The mair hurry the less speed : 122, Rec. Soc. Errat. in Dict. Like a tailor wi' a lang thread. Not "a shuttle," as Jamieson defined it, but the or which carries the in the shuttle and SPORT-STAFES, s. pi. The staves or cope pirn yarn ; filled or is the pirn whether empty so named ; that is» poles used in the or sport of game quarter- a spule is a pirn for yam or a pirn of yam. Besides, staff. the copes of yam used in thread-making are called ' ' E. Remittis to Johnne Robesoun, travellour, the sex- spules. spools. tene pundis for his nychtbourheid and in burgesship, s. A ludicrous name respect of the service done be him to the toun the SPURTLE-BLADE, tyme of his Majesteis being in Scotland, in hambring- for a sword. V. Spurtill. SPY [227] STA

It's tauld he was a bred, sodger Stene's Dream, p. 8, Mait. 0. V. And ane wad rather fa'n than fled ; Starker. But now he's quat the spurtle-blade. And dog-skin wallet, And ta'en the Antiquarian trade, To STALE, Stail, v. a. To shun, avoid. I think they call it. V. under Mait. Burns, On Captain Grose, st. 5. That under cure I got sic check. s. SPYNLE, Spynyle, A spindle ; myl- Which I might not remove nor neck, the or shaft of a corn-mill But eyther stail or mait. spynyle, spindle ; Montgomery, Cherrie and Slae, st. 16. Recs. 6 1496. V. ' ' Burgh Prestwick, Feb., and are all chess terms. But Chech, stale, mate, " Spinnel. eyther stail or mait," means, but I must either suffer stale-mate or check-mate," i.e., I must, in any case, a ask. V. To SPYRE, V. To search, get the worst of it. Stail is simply E. stale, allied to Spere. stall and still.

i v. n. and a. SQUADER, A squadron, squad, set, To STALE, Stail, Stal, Stell, Inter. party. To make water, piss; pret. staild, "The next squader that commes in are captaines of Droichis, Bann. MS., 1. 54. cheef." Blame of Kirkburiall, ch. 19. " Item, gif ony stal in the yet of the gilde or upon a 0. Fr. esquadre, escadre, from Ital. squadra, the wall of the endurand the he sail "gild gild, gif iiijd. squadron. to the mendis. Lawis of the Gild, ch. 10. Ancient Laws of Scot. Rec. Soc. term in used to , SQUARE, adj. A golfing, Lat. stillare, to drop, distil. denote the state of a game which stands Stall, Stell, s. A pool or collection of evenly balanced, i.e., when the players are urine, that which has been staled. equal in their count of holes. Gl. Golfer's Handbook. STANCHER, Staneoher, Stanchel, s. An iron bar for a window. V. Stanssour. SRAL, s. V. DiCT. A misprint in Pinkerton's version of Sir Gaw. and To STAND for, Stand m for, v. a. To Sir Gal. for which is a of L-al, prob. corruption Orielle, be bound, come for, war- a kind of stone described Sir John Maun- engage, good precious by rant. deville as "a ston well schynynge;" Voiage, p. 48, ed. 1839. V. Gloss, to Sir Gawayne. Thou art ane limmer, I stand/or'd. " Irale, a kind of precious stone." Halliwell. Lyndsay, Three Estaitis. Stand for'd, stand for it. STABLE-MEAL, s. The liquor consumed The expression stand in for is used when one party for " the becomes surety another ; as, He has taen in an inn by farmers by way of remuner- " farm, and his brother stands in for him,. ating the innkeeper for accommodating their horses during the day : i.e., stable-mail. STANDAR, adj. Always standing : ''standar When thou an' I were and the that stands young skeigh, oliphant," elephant always ; An' stable-meals at fairs were dreigh, st. ed. Skeat. How thou wad prance, an' snore, an' skreigh. Kingis Quair, 156, An' tak the road. "The elephant was said to have only one joint in The Fanner to his Mare Burns, Maggie. bis legs, so that he could not lie down. He used to

lean a tree to to sleep ; see Philip de Thaun, s. The foundation against go STADDLIN, Staddle, tr. of i. c. 32 E. p. 101 ; Golding's Solinus, bk. ; Phip- or stance for a corn or stack hay ; also, son's Animal Lore in Shakespeare's Time, p. 146." the mark left in the grass by a hay-rick Ibid., Note, p. 87. The use of this Yerbal-adjective form ending in-ar which has stood for a long time on account (Eag. er) is in imitation of Chaucer. In his Assembly of bad weather. V. Staddle. of Foules we find "the sliooter ew," and "the bilder ook." See Gl. Kingis Quair, p. 109. STAG, s. A stake, pile, fixed or for fixing in the ground: E. stake. West of S., STANG, pret. Stung, did sting. Aberd. This old preterite of sting is common in Mid. Eng. To Stag, v. a. To stake, to drive stakes in STANNEL, Stanel, Stanyel, Stonegal, s. the and ground ; pret. part. pt. staggit, Same as Stanchell, q. v. staked, set on stakes, erected on piles; To v. a. and n. To Burgh Recs. Aberd., II. 300. STAUK, Stawk, stalk, to hunt to walk with and game ; also, high s. Dim. of STAGGIE, stag. as s. proud step : part. pr. staukin, used also a The' thou's howe-backit an' now, knaggie, E. stalk. I've seen the day. Thou could hae gane like ony staggie The last Halloween I was waukin Out-owre the droukit as ken lay. My sark-sleeve, ye ; Burns, The Farmer to his Mare Maggie. His likeness cam up the house staukin— And the very grey breeks o' Tam Glen ! STAKRAND, part. Staggering; Rob Burns, Tam Glen, st. 7. STE [228] STI

thai na frieman that is liable to them To STEAL, V. a. A term in golfing meaning stope gif ordiner, " nor tak syluer fra ane to pas to ane vther." Burgh to hole an unlikely from a distance." put Recs. Glasgow, i. 207, Rec. Soc. Gl. Golfer's Handbook. A.-S. steopan, to bereave, deprive; 0. H. Ger. stiu/an, to deprive of parents, to deprive of anything To STEAVE, Steve, Stave, v. a. 1. To valuable to one.

stiffen, screw ; and tighten, up pret. part, To Step-bairn, Step-barne, v. a. To treat staved, made firm. pt. steaved, stiffened, with or unkindness to partiality, disfavour, ; I steave up my temper-string gayly, An' a bit verse 1 from favour, benefit, or whiles do chant ; exempt advantage. For lasses maun be " ye ken, wylie, And if otherwise it were, why doe they so To mak their unco bit want. up partially step-barne the pursse-miserable poore from W. Watson, The Unco Bit Want, st. 3. " such a soul-helpe ? Blame of Kirkburiall, ch. 19. 2. ''He his To sprain ; sieved wrist and staved s. kind of hawk 1. STEROP, A ; Houlate, thumb." Addit. to v. v. my Steeve, q. 652. to STEDABLE, adj. Helpful, ready give STEWTH, Stewthe, s. Theft: Burgh assistance. V. Sted. Stede, v. Recs. 134. A form of " Stirling, p. Stowth, The saide Thomas sail be stedahle to the saide q. V. Willam iu all thingis that he has ado." Burgh Kecs. Aberdeen, 1467, i. 27, Sp. C. To STICK, V. a. To stab, kill, murder: pret. and part. pt. stickit ; part. sticking STEEK, Stek, Stik, s. A piece, as of pr. also as a " I cloth. V. Sticke. used s., as, wadna trust him wi' the stickin o' a cawf." Steil-Bowed, STEEL-BOWED, part. pt. A.-S. stician, Du. steken, to stab. or set for a Astricted, devoted, apart special mur- inviolate. Stickit, Sticked, part. pa. Stabbed, purpose ; guaranteed, assured, V. dered, assassinated. Steel-bow-Goods. " " , . the corps of sticked Tarquin to be both bathed For as by the foster-father-hood of such high " and balmed ; Bl. of Kirkburiall, ch. xiv. callings, Gods Altar-mens trauels in his own trueth to be Steil-boiced : ought so these great-good gifts of STIDDIE, s. An anvil. V. Study. nature and grace does plentifully promit that comfort "Incus, a smith's stiddie." Duncan's App. Etym., to vs." Blame of Kirkburiall, Dedication. ed. Small, E.D.S. STEEPFAT, Stepfat, s. A vat in which " STIMY, STEIMMY, s. A term in golfing malt is steeped : and step/at,** Kyll Burgh to express the predicament in which a player Eecs. Peebles, 1550, 204, Rec. Soc. p. is placed when he finds that his opponent's A steep-vat was also called a malt-coble ; but often it ball lies in the line of his put. was only "a coble." See under Coble, Coble. Prob. a corr, from E. stem, to check, stop, block, V. To a. To scatter, which has come from A.-S. stcefii, the stem STEKIL, straw, " stefn, stemn, stekillede. of a tree : from the throwing of a tree-trunk into a sprinkle ; part. pt. river, which checks the current. So Icel. stemma, In stele was he stuffede, that steryn was on stede. Dan. stemme, to dam up, from stemme, trunk. Skeat's Alle of stemys of golde, that stekillede was on straye. Etym. Diet. Awnt. Arth., 1. 390. This be a corr. of to straw but may strekle, strinkle, ; To STINT, Stynt, v. a. To scrimp, curtail, the context rather its connection with M. E. suggests of stunt, impoverish ; West S. Addit. to steken, to stick in, insert, inlay, of which stekil may be v. a dimin. Hence slickly, rough, prickly, on account of Stint, q. small or inserted or inlaid. is still points objects Stitit so used in the West of Scotland ; as in the common sayings, "Stint the to deed the s. A- V. Styme. belly STEME, Stem, glimpse. back "It's ill hain't to stint a bairn in his brose " ;" ;" A sunless simmer stints the corn." As the STENCHER, Stenser, Stensel, s. V. following shows the term was so used in the time of Burns. Stenohel. entry Stanssour, It is the same as E. stint, M. E. stintan, but it has a wider range of meaning and application. To STENYE, Steyne, Sten, v. a. and ji. Stintit, Styntit, and To stretch, extend. Forms of Stend, q. v. part, adj. Scrimped, stunted and in some A gay grene cloke that will nocht stenye. curtailed, ; applications Wowing of Jok and Jenny. it implies small and grudgingly given, as in " the a stintit Cf. To STEP, Stap, Stope, v. a. To step over, expression, poor wage." E. stinted. pass by, miss, leave out: to neglect, syn. " Fra stintit meat comes reestit is a hip. growth," common in the West of S. In Scot, the adage burghs long ago, common minstrel or But now the cot is bare and cauld. piper was supplied with dmner daily by the inhabitants in Its branchy shelter is lost and gane. rotation ; and he was directed the " by magistrates And scarce a stintit birk is left to nane." In the list of instructions hip given to the To shiver in the blast its lane. minstrels in one Glasgow 1600, was,— "Item, that Burns, Destruction of Drumlanrig Woods. STI [229] STR

That stint and stunt are closely connected may be townis artalyere, now presentle lyand in the end of the seen from the following. M. E. stintan, to shorten, kirk, and to by and caus furnia all thingis necessar cut short, has come from A.-S. styntan, formed from thairto, to the effect the saniyn may be in reddines to and in cais forane stunt, stupid, short of wit ; and 0. Swed. stynta, preparit reperallit onye inemyis wald shorten, has come from stunt, short, small, cut short. cum and persew this burgh," &c. Burgh Recs. Edin., Skeat, Etym. Diet. In fact, A.-S. y is the regular 9 July, 1567, Recs. Soc. mutation of u. All the varieties of stock, implying a stick or stalk, staff, stem, stump, block, table, frame, stand, etc., may s. or rod STIRRAP, A hook, chain, bj be referred to A.-S. docc, a stock, post; Ger. stock, " Dutch Icel. Sw. stock. See which an article is suspended : thre stok, siokkr, Dan. stok, " and for the of Vest- Wedgwood, Skeat. stirrapis lampys ; Register ments, &c., in St. Salvalor, St. Andrews, STOFE, s. A stove, vapour-bath. Addit. to v. Mait. Club, Misc. III. 205. E. stirrup. Stove, q. *' a hot Duncan's adv. Del. this in Vaporarium, stofe." App. Etym.,. STITHILL, entry DiCT., ed. Small, E.D.S. and take the following one instead. STONEGAL, s. A kind of hawk. V. To STITHIL, Stithill, Stithle, Stichtle, Stanchell. V. n. To exert oneself, to toil, journey, To v. 11. Same as stound ; on also as a v. to dis- STOO, Stou, voyage, press ; a., and as applied to the sense of ta pose, guide, manage, rule. feeling, thrill " wi^ ache, smart, ; stooin Mony sege our the sea to the cite socht : " My finger's our the streme thai stithil full the as to the sense of hear- Schipmen straught, pain ; applied With alkyn wappyns I wys that was for were wroght. to sound, resound, Oawan and Gol., 1. 460. ing, clang, thrill; pret. stouin. V. Jamieson evidently misunderstood this passage, and stooit, stou't; part. pr. stooin^ his failure, if not caused, was at least confirmed by Stound. stithil as an or adv. V. Dict. reading adj. meikle bliss is in a kiss, In its active sense it occurs in the Green mair than in a score repeatedly Whyles ; Knight, and in Rom. Alexander, 1. 195, 589, 2298. But wae betak the stouin smack, I took ahint the door. To STIVEL, Stiffle, v. n. To stumble, Song, The kiss ahint the door. to walk or work like one "Stouin smack," loud kiss, as Buru» stagger; stupified; " sounding" or, called a kiss see it, skelpin ; The Jolly Beggars. part. pt. stivelit, stijilit : al to-sti^lit, com- or confounded and s. Acute in pletely staggered ; Gol. Stoo, Stou, pain experienced Gawane, st. 49. V. Stevel. stings or throbs; a sting, thrill, or throb of the a pain ; also, feeling produced by STOCK, s. 1. A plant of colewort or kail, shrill, piercing sound. Same as Stound, cabbage, etc. q. v. The stocks pulled by persons holding Halloween were whole plants. STOORIE, adj. Restless, romping, frolic- 2. head or of the some. V. Stoor. The top plant, i.e., the edible Sture, portion is also called a stock: "Bring in a Wearied is the mither that has a stoorie wean. William Miller, Willie Winkie, st. 5. guid kale-s^oc^, and a weel-filled cabbage- stock for the broth the day." STOUT, STOOT,ac?j/. Stout-hearted, haughty, defiant • Jamieson's defin. of a stock is not the one generally ; also, daring. used. V. Dict. Stout is frequently so used in Scot, ballads. And hae on a 3. A stand or rest. The block or table on they quarrell'd day, Till heart wae Marjorie's grew ; which a butcher or a fishmonger cuts up And she said she'd chuse another love, And let his I. young "Benjie gae. goods ; Burgh Recs. Edinburgh, 114, And he was stout and proud-hearted, B. R. I. 64. a handle, o't bitterlie Glasgow, Also, hold, And thought ; stalk. And he's the wan Addit. to Stock, q. v. gane by moonlight To meet his Marjorie. Fitted with a Stockit, Stokit, pa7't. pt. " Oh wha has done thee wrang, sister, stock or stalk : mounted. V. Stok. Or dared the deadly sin ? *' . . . vnto thame ane bell, new and Wha was sa stout, and fear'd na dout. presented " stockit, quhilk he frielie gevis and mortifies for the vse As throw ye o'er the linn ? of the grammer schole." Burgh Recs. Aberdeen, ii. Ballad, Young Benjie, 395, Sp. C. STOWIN, part. pt. A poetic form of stown, To Stok- v. a. To Scott's ed. 1882. Stock-Band, Band, stolen ; Alex. Poems, p. 25, mount, fix, and bind a gun on its stock : To STRAIK, Streik, Strek, v. a. To strike, generally applied to the fixing of a cannon start, begin, commence : part. pres. on its carriage. " straikin, streikin, streking, used also as a s., [The provost, bailies, and council] ordanis Jhone as in ^Hhe straikin o' thelicht" the Harwod, theasurar, to caus stok band and mont the (i.e., STR [230] STY

" " break of the strekin o' the bed Recs. I. Rec. day), plews ; Burgh Edinburgh, 91, to (i.e., when farmers begin plough, or, the Soc. V. Strek, Streik. commencement of spring). Addit. to Streikin, s. V. under Straik, v. Straik. STREKIN, " To V. a. To bind or . . tua vesitouris to be maid and chosing per- STRET, by promise to in all astrict petualie vesy yeirlie tyme cuming properteis oath, ; part. pt. stretit, bound, and commonteis pertenyng te the liberte and fredom astricted, constrained ; Spald. Club Misc., i. of burgh at the streking of the plewis yerelie, betwix Sanct Lucas day and Mertymes, and at harrowis 95. V. Strait. streking, gif ony thairof be telit be nychtbouris adia- that the samin be resistit in STRINCATES, s. pi. Jewels, trinkets; cent, may tyme." Burgh " E«cs. Peebles, p. 218, Eec. Soc. tresour, strincates, and artalyery;" Burgh The various entries of Straik to be combined, ought Recs. Aberdeen, 1489, 1. 45, Sp. C. as they present mere varieties of meaning. Perhaps a corr. of trinkets, from O. Fr. trencher, to Straik, Strake, Strek, s. 1. A handful of cut, carve, of which Burguy gives as prov. forms Cf. and Ital. flax in process of dressing: and when trencar, trinchar, trinquor. Sp. trinchar, trinciare, to cut, carve. For further discussion see dressed it is made into a small roll or up Skeat's Etym. Diet. bundle, called a straik, or a straik o' lint. V. and s. Strone. V. Streik, Streek STROAN, V.

2. A streak, line, trace; as, "a straik o' To STROW, V. a. To scatter, spread, cover " bluid : a small a over strewn quantity, a very little, ; part. pt. strowit, ; Kingis " mere handful Gie the a st. ed. Skeat. ; as, puir body Quair, 65, straik o' meal." West of S. A.-S. streowian, Goth, straujan, to strew, scatter. Cf. Lat. stramen, straw, lit. what is scattered. Straik o' Day, Streik o' Light, s. Day- " break, dawn of day : He was up by STRUDER, Struther, Stroudyr, Strow- straik o' is s. walk Recs. day" Another form streek o' DER, Lane, avenue, ; Burgh day. Peebles, p. 180. V. Strothie. term is used in various districts of and is To STKAIT THE PIN, Streek the Pm. This Scot., generally applied to a long, straight lane or country- To tighten the temper-pin of a spinning- road near the bank of a river. it at the which im- wheel, keep right pitch, V. Strick. close attention to the STRYCHT, part. pt. Strecht, plies spinning ; hence, " the order, strait or streek the pin" meant STRYND, Strynde, s. A strum, a sullen, or fit : same as v. attend to your spinning, mind your work. surly, pettish Strunt, q. ; Auld luckie says they're in a creel, Dunbar and Kennedy, 1. 55 : also, perver- And redds them up, I trow, fu' weel. Alex. ed. 1882. " sity ; Scott, p. 16, Cries, Lasses, occupy your wheel, A:aA. strait the pin." s. V. DicT. Keith, The Farmer's Ha', st. 15. STRYND, " •'Auld luckie," the mistress of the house. Strynd, in the sense of 'race' or 'disposition,' is " R«dds them up," rates or scolds them for their from A. -S. strynd, race, as stated in Dict. But 0. Fr. estraine is from a Frankish of it, not from trifling. equivalent " Lat. extractio, as Roquefort suggested. Skeat. STREANE, V. and s. Stram, sprain. V. Streind. STUDE, pret. Stood, did stand. " of u for oo are found in Stringo, to streane, or wring." Duncan's App. Similar examples Eng. gude, Etym., ed. Small, E.D.S. fade, blude, rude.

STRECHT, Strycht, part. pt. Bound, STUIVIPIE, s. Dimin. of stump : applied to attached; 1. Asloan MS. Houlate, 652, a worn quill. V. v. Strick, Sae I got paper in a blink. And down gaed stumpie in the ink. STREIPILLIS, s. pi. Strapples, small liwns, Ep. to Lapraik. " sadill friend Burns straps ; Ane with streipillis,'" i.e., In another epistle to the same uses the word as an meaning much worn, blunt : — stirrup-straps, Aberd. Reg. Cent. 16. Errat. adj., in DiCT. Sae my auld stumpie pen I gat it Wi' muckle wark, Not as but stirrups, suggested by Jaraieson, straps An' took my jocteleg an' what it for stirrups : and very prob. they were called small Like ony dark. to them from the for straps distinguish larger straps The above meanings are additional to those given by the saddle in There or not keeping position. may may Jamieson. have been stirrups along with them. Simply a dimin. from E. strap, as in Jamieson's first STY, Stie, Stee, 8. A narrow way, lane, suggestion. a ladder Rom. 1 path ; ; Alexander, 5064, STREK-BED, Streck-bed, s. A folding 2481. Addit. to Sty. STY [231] SUR

and thair in hostile manor thair STYEN, s. V. DicT. kingdome, making stay and residence thay destroy the game, cuttis the The for this term does not the etym. given explain woddis^ and utherwayes committis suche insolencies final n. The A.-S. name was from the stigend, rising, as could not be weill borne with yf those boundis wer of to rise. It was used as part. pres. stigan, ascend, still ane bordour, and sould noway be sufi'erit in the which in M. short for stigend edge, rising eye, Eng. middis of this oure And thairfore oure ' ' very kingdom. became into e, as if it meant sty on corrupted styany and will is . . . thair " sometimes pleasour forbearing ony ; and afterwards dropping -ye, eye by suche lyke sommering heirefter, under greate pecuniall sometimes -anye, it became styan, and sty. See Skeat's panes," etc. Letter of James I., 12 April, 1606, Privy Diet., s. v. Sty. Etym. Council Records, vol. vii. p. 489. This accounts for the expression still explanation" common, a sty on the eye." SUMQUHILE, SwMQUHYL, adv. For some at one some time SUAIF, SwAiF, adj. Suave, sweet, pleasant. time, time, ago. ta Becauss I fand hir ay so swat/, "Deponyt that he hym self twk siomqvhyl the Sic favour to that sueit I gaif, Rwd servys tha iiij s. of the sayd landis." Burgh That ay I sail hir honour saif, Recs. Peebles, 1460, p. 136.

And schame conseill ; And for hir sake lufe all the laif SUN-HORLOGE, Sone-horolage, s. A With littill deill. sun-dial " to or ; draw and mak dyellis sone Alex. Scott's Poems, p. 93, ed. 1882. Jiorolages ;" Burgh Recs. Aberdeen, II. 158, SITARE, SwAR, s. The neck. V. Sware. Sp. 0. O. Fr. horloge. s. form of Isobel SUBELL, SuBBELL, A ; Burgh Recs. Glasgow, I. 245, Rec. Soc. SUPPLIE, Supple, s. Support, backing; in the sense of with or written suld. taking part lending SUD, pret. Should ; commonly aid to another. O. Fr. suppleer. s. a of the fit- " SUDAR, A napkin ; portion Forsamekle as the forsaid lorde is oblist till ws of a church altar of Dun- in manteuance and to ws in oure fredomes. tings ; Recs. Old supplie keipe and infeftnientis for certaine termes." Burgh Recs, dee, p. 559. E. sudary. Aberdeen, 1462, i. 22, Sp. C. Lat. sudarium, a napkin : from eudare, to sweat. SURCOAT, SuRCOTE, s. An upper garment SUERDOME, s. V. under Sw^er. worn by females, a dress or ornamented SUFFERAGH, s. Suffrage; service or kirtle. Errat. in Dict. prayer for the dead. V. Suffrage. In his treatment of this word Jamieson has confused " the surcoat and the sarket. The sarket, dimin. of sark, . . twa markis of obit siluer to be uplift and was a of dress worn both men and women tane to the feft chaplanis yeirly for suffer agh to be donn portion by ;. but the surcoat was worn women and it was for the sauUis of wmquhill Allexander, lord Elphin- by only, or ornamental to the rank of the stoun and Sir Johen Elphinstoun his fader, of ane land plain according wearer. It is thus desciibed Planche in and tenement liand in the Bakraw." Burgh Recs. by his account; of female costume in the twelfth century : Stirling, 14 Oct., 1521. " Over the robe or tunic is seen a. This term most iirob. represents the local pronunci- long occasionally shorter of the same fashion, which answers ta ation of suffei-age, a form of suffrage. The population garment the of the tunica or sur first of Stirling was at that time chiefly of Celtic origin description super cote, familiar mentioned by the Norman writers. In the illumina- and with Gaelic ; hence the peculiar termina- tion of this word. tions it is chequered or spotted, most likely to repre- sent embroidery, and terminates a little below the knee= an SUFIAND, SuriANT, adj. Sufficient, suit- with indented border. This was the commencement of a fashion against which the first statute was promul- able; Burgh Recs. Peebles, 1456, p. 116, gated by Henry II. at the close of this century, but Rec. Soc. which defied and survived that and all similar enact- ments." Brit. ed. A colloquial and equivalent contr. form of suffisand, Costume, p. 81, 1874. in which occurs Barbour, i. 368. Cf. Fr. suff,re, which And ane surcote she werit long that tyde. may have been Englished as stiffy. E. suffice is not That semyt [vn]to me of diuerse hewls. st. ed. from the infinitive, but from the stem of the part. pres. Kingis Quair, 160, Skeat. suffis-ant. To SURFLE, SuRFEL, v. a. To overcast, to SuGGET, s. A SUGET, subject. gather or spread a wider edge over a nar- SUMMERING, Sommering, s. An old rower one : hence, to ornament or adorn with border custom of making hunting excur- trimmings, edging, or embroidery; sions into England during the summer similar to purjle, q. v. season. SURFLE, SURFEL, SURFELING, SURFLING, s. Those gypsy adventures, well outlined in the follow- An overcast; a trimming, edging, or em- ing extract, were gradually put down after the union a border or of of the Crowns, broidery; edging ermine, " &c.; the hem of a V. Quhairas sindrie of the Ellottis and Armestrangis sable, gown. in Liddisdaill and some other partis of the Middle Purfle. Shyris of this Hand continewis ane auld custome (whiche wes formarlie keepit be thame whill as these SURGET, s. Errat. for Suget. V. DiCT. Middle were under the of Shyris divydit governament This is, as I suspected, a misreading of suget in Pin- two severall free in the Princes), sommer tyme repair- kerton's version. The Lincoln MS. reads sugette; to some of these boundis that to ing belong this Jamieson's note must therefore be deleted. V. Suget. SUR [232] SWI

SURRE Surre- s. Mait. GENIE, Surregexrie, SWDOUR, A sudary ; Club. GENRY, s. Surgery, the craft of a surgeon. Misc., III. 204. V. Sudor. " . . . our said craft of Surregenie or Barbour " s. A of the skin. craft. Seal of Cause to Barbers, Bees. Edin- SWEAT-HOLE, pore Burgh *' burgh, i. 102, Rec. See. Porus, a sweat-hole;" Duncan's App. Etym., ed. '• . . . and that na harbour, maister nor seruand, Small, E.D.S. within this burgh hantt, vse, nor exerce the craft of SWEIR. Sweir-out, or Surregenrie without he be expert and knaw perfytelie SWEER, unwilHng the thingis [belonging to the craft]." Ibid. p. 103. difficult to turn out, hard to draw : a term 0. Fr. "a chirwgien, surgeon;" Cotgr. applied to a very lazy person. And for ane ane cloak has tane SUTE, s. Soot, smut, blacks. jack ragged ; " Ane sword sweir-out and rusty for the rain. sute." Duncan's ed. Fuligo, App. Etym., Small, Priests of Peebles. E.D.S. SwEER, SwEiR, s. A lazy time, a short rest SUTHRON, adj. Southern; English. during working hours, such as field- Addit. to Southron, q. v. labourers take between meals ; Forfars. We'll sing auld Coila's plains and fells. V. to Her moors red-brown wi' heather bells. To SwEER, SwEiR, n. To be lazy, rest Her banks an' braes, her dens an' dells. for a short time during working-hours ; Where glorious Wallace " let's sioeer i.e., let us have a Aft bare the gree, as story tells, Come, now," Frae Suthron billies. short lazy. Bunts, To IF. Simson, Ochiltree. SWEERDOM, SUERDOME, s. Laziness, un- SWAIF, adj. Suave, sweet. V. Suaif. willingness to work. s. SWAIRD, Sward ; Burns. For thi ensampil ma be tane Of this haly mane, sanct Niniane, To SWALL, V. n. To swell, enlarge : pret. Suerdmne and idlenes for to lie And al wite wicht to be. and swald, swale; still common. agane part. pt. the Saints. V. SWALD. Barbour, Legends of Cf. A.-S. siccer, Icel. svarr, Ger. schtoer, heavy, diffi- SWANE, s. Sweden. cult. "The said James weddit ane tar barrale that the SwYME, s. Forms of the " SWIME, sown, Queue grace of Yngland suld the of Sivane. mary Kiug relative proportion of cattle or sheep to Burgh Bees. Peebles, p. 262, Rec. Soc. or vice versa Corshill Baron pasture, ; Court Burns: SWANK, adj. "Stately, jolly;" Book, Ayr and Wigton Arch. Coll., iv. 152. well knit, erect, and bold ; and when s. A term used in to denote apphed to a person it means well-formed, SWING, golfing the circular of the club when the good-looking, manly; West of S. Addit. sweep is Gl. Golfer's Handbook. to Swank, q. v. player driving. Jamieson is in his certainly wrong statement that SWINGEOUR, Swinger (g soft), s. A lazy 3urns has improperly explained this word : for it is so that he to lounger ; lazy requires be still in common use with the meanings which Burns or to his work Recs. Attached to it. Nay, more : in the passage from Fer- swinged whipt ; Burgh guson quoted as proof against him, the word must be Glasgow, i. 291, Rec. Soc. V. Swinge. Accepted in Burns's sense. Look at it— s. Mair hardy, souple, steeve, an' swank, SWINGLE, Swingle-tree, The movable Than ever stood on shank. Tammy's of a flail, which strikes the : ^^ part grain If swank here means limber, pliant, as agile," more frequently called the souple^ and Jamieson then it has the same by says, exactly meaning Burns called the as souple with which it is joined, and the line is a Jlingin-tree. whose is worthless let weakling testimony , but swank s. In a full stroke. mean stately, as the author no doubt intended, and the SWIPE, golfing, driving line becomes one of which even Burns would not be Gl. Golfer's Handbook. Addit. to Swipe, q.v. ashamed. Besides, whatever may be the meaning s. Recs. which the word has elsewhere, we must grant that SWISCHE, A drum; Burgh Burns knew the sense in which he used and precise it, Peebles, 1672, p. 336, Rec. Soc. V. that he expected it would be understood by his readers in that sense SWESCH. ; and surely we may accept his word for it. To SWIVE, Swiff, Swtve, Swyfe, v. a. Moreover, the term swanking, which is similarly Futuere; Recs. Stirling, 1546, p. 43; applied, and which is still common in various districts of Burgh Thrie 1. Scotland and of the North of England, means "great, Lyndsay, Estaitis, 162, 318. and See Diets, of large, strong strapping, hearty." did Halliwell and Wright, and Gloss, of Brockett, Atkin- SWOOR, Swure, pret. Swore, sware, son, Peacock. swear. He swoor a' was swearing worth, To V. a. To by SWARE, speak, declare, answer; To speet him like a pliver. he from that time forth Rom. Alexander, 1. 674. Unless wad Relinquish her for ever. A.-S, swerian, to to declare. swear; also, speak, Bums, Jolly Beggars. SWY [233] TAI

To SWYKE, V. a. To deceive, betray, fail, Syloring, Sylloring, par^ pr. Lining or act Awnt. 1. 539. a Recs. treacherously; Arth., covering ceiling ; Burgh Glasgow, Errat in DiCT. i. 342, Rec. Soc. V. Syll. Both defin. and etym. as given by Jamieson are SYMBACLANIS, Symbilyjse, s. A musi- wrong. The word occurs frequently in alliterative cal instrument a form of romances, and always implies deceit, treachery, or ; prob. cymbals. failure as in Morte 1. 1795. ; Arthure, Claryonis lowde knellis, Swappecle owtte with a swerde that swykede hym never. Portatiuis and bellis, Symbadanis in the cellis, So also in Rom. Alexander, 1. 5000, and in Havelok. That soundis so V, Halliwell's Diet. soft, Houlate, 1. 766, Asloan, MS. A.-S. swic, deceit, deceitful; sivican, to deceive. Quhar cherubyne syngis sweit Ossana, With organe, tympane, harpe, and symhilyne. SYBO, Sybou, Sybow, s. An onion; " Dunbar, Roiss Mary most of Verteio, 1. 15. sybous or ingons," Burgh Recs. Glasgow, s. V. Sumlare. II. 146, Rec. Soc. V. Seibow. SYMBLER, Sumleyr, Sybo was the spelling used by Burns. SYOUR, Sire, s. A gutter, drain; Burgh Recs. Glasgow, II. 128, Rec. Soc. V. SYITH, Syth, s. a scythe. " SiVER. Falx, a huik or syith." Duncan's App. Etjmi., ed. Small, E.D.S. SYTH, Sythe, s. a sey, sieve, or strainer for milk. V. Sye. SYLOR, Sylour, Syling, s. The ceiling. V. SiLiNG, and Selour. SYTHARIST, s. A musical instrument : " the 1. Asloan Laquear, vellaquiarium, the syling ot ane house." prob. harp ; Houlate, 757, Duncan's App. Etym., ed. Small, E.D.S. MS. V. CiTHARIST.

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notices were the TABBY, Tab, adj. Striped or brindled, proclaimed by town-officer, who was bellman as well and when the notice was to be like ; given marked tahhy (i.e., tabin or tabinet, by took o' drum, the town-drummer accompanied him. waved or watered Fr. to silk, tahis) ; applied In some places, however, the town-officer had charge a cat so marked. of both drum and bell.

O. Fr. tabourin, "a little Drumme ; also the " s. for or Drummer of a of footmen Tabby, Tabbie, Tab, Short tahhy-cat, Drumme, companie ; a male-cat also a or Cotgr. From O. Fr. labour, a drum. tom-cat, ; colloq. pet Tabuirie, however, may be a colloquial form of name for a cat. laborer, a drummer, O. Fr. taboureur. The most prob. explanation of these terms is that s. A toad. V. Taid. they stand for Tibbie, a pet name for a cat, derived TAED, from Tibalt or Tybalt (coll. for Theobald), which was Taed-Spue, Taed-Red, s. The seed or the proper name for the cat in the Beast Epic of the of toads, found in water in Middle Ages. In Caxton's Eeynard the Fox, printed spawn stagnant in a clots like 1481, chapter is devoted to the doings of tyhert the or masses bunches of grapes. catte ; and more than a century later the English dra- s. small : matists frequently refer to Tybert prince of cats. Ben TAET, Teat, A quantity, a tuft Johnson uses the term tiberts for cats and in ; Romeo syn. pickle, wee pickle. V. Tait, Tate. and Juliet Shakespeare makes Mercutio speak of Tybalt ' ' " An' tent them duly e'en and morn, as more than prince of cats, and addresses him as Wi' taels o' an' ripps o' corn. of cats." V. hay, "good king Folk-Etymology, pp. 383-4, Bums, Death of Poor Mailie. Dyce's Gloss. Shakespeare. TAIGSUM, TiQSUM, adj. Hindersome, very s. in TABUIRIE, Town-drummer, or, com- : tedious, wearisome short for taiglesum : mon parlance, the drum. Gloss. Orcadian Sketch Book. " tigsum, Hes ordanit the tabuirie to pas throw the towne s. smith's discharging the inhabitants of Lainrik, Peibillis, or TAINGS, Tayngs, Tongs, tongs to be Peddert, ressavitt within this towne be any per- or pincers. V. Tangs. soune." Burgh Recs. Glasgow, i. 227, Rec, Soc. "Forceps, tayngs" ; Duncan's App. Etym., 1595, ed. Peddert is here a mistake for Jeddert, an old name Small, E. D. S. for Jedburgh. When the magistrates, or indeed wished V. a. any person, To TAIS, To stretch, extend, direct ; to send a notice the the drum or public through town, to bend a bow or set a the bell was i.e. the hence, cross-bow, sent, , town-drummer with his drum, or the bellman with his bell. In the smaller towns ail or generally to make a weapon ready for (Sup.) F 2