SOCK, or PLOUGH-SOCK, a plough-share. N.

SOD, a turf. N.

SODS, a canvas pack-saddle stuffed with straw. N. SODDEN, over-boiled. North.

SOFT, foolish. North.

SOFTNET, a foolish fellow. N.

SOIL; to soil milk, to cleanse it; rather to sile it, to cause it to subside; to strain it. Vide SILE. The word SOIL is also used for purging or cleansing the stomachs of horses; green corn or vetches being often given to horses standing in the stable, to soil them.

SOIL, or SOIL-DISH, a straining or cleansing dish.
N.
SOLLER, or SOLAR, an upper chamber or loft
from the Latin SOLARIUM. S.

t;

SOLMAS-LOAF, bread given away on All-Souls day. North.

SOLTCH, a heavy fall. Lanc.

SONCY, lucky, fortunate. N.

SOOLE, or Sowle, any thing eaten with bread. N.

SOON, the evening; a-soon, at even. W.

SORRY, wretched, worthless. North.

SOURS, or SOWERS, onions. Derb. Peak Dial.

Soss, or SESS, a mucky puddle.

pool. N.

Hence sess

SOSSE-BRANGLE, a slatternly lazy wench. S.
SOUGH, a drain. N.

SOUSE, the ear; most properly that of a hog, from its being frequently pickled or soused. N.

SOWINGS, or SEWINGS, oatmeal flummery. N.

SoWLE; to sowle one by the ears. Lincolnshire. To pull by the ears, as dogs pull swine; also to tumble one's clothes, to pull or rumple one about. Exm.

SPACKT, docile, ingenious; a spackt lad or wench. The same as PAT in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

SPALLS, chips; also things cast in one's teeth. Exm.

SPALT, brittle, applied to timber. Norf. and Suff.

SPANCEL, a rope to tie a cow's hinder legs. N. SPANE; to spane a child, to wean it. N. SPAR, to bolt, bar, pin, or shut a door; ab A. S. SPARRAN, obdere, claudere. This word is also used in Norfolk, where they say, SPAR the door, an emis he come; i. e. shut the door, lest he come in.

SPARE, slow. Exm.

SPARE, thin in habit of body; he's a spare

man.

SPARKEY, OF SPARKLED, spotted, sprinkled; a sparkey cow; he sparkled the water all over me. SPARRE; to SPARRE, SPIER, or SPURRE, to ask, enquire, cry at the market: ab A. S. SPRIAN, to search out by the track, or trace, or enquire, or make diligent search.

SPAWT, or SPOWT, a youth. N.

SPEED, a disease among young cattle in the autumn. North.

SPEER, the chimney-post. Chesh. Rear'd against the speer, standing up against the chimney-post. SPEENE, or SPENE, a cow-pass. Kent.

SPELCH, to bruise, as in a mortar. Also to split as SPELCH'D PEAS. Seldom applied to any thing else.

SPELDER, to spell. N.

SPEWRING, a boarded partition. Exm.

SPICE, raisins, plums, figs, and such like fruit. Yorksh. Spice, à SPECIES. Spice-pudding, plumpudding.

SPICE-CAKE, plumb-cake. SPICE-GINGERBREAD does not imply plumbs, but gingerbread that is warm in the mouth.

SPICK AND SPAN NEW, every part new. S. Some derive this from a spear, the head of which was vulgarly called the spike, the handle or staff, the span; so that spick and span new, was both head and staff, that is, the whole weapon, new. SPILL, a spill of money, a sum. N. SPINK, a chaffinch. N.

SPIT-DEEP, the depth of a spade only. Norf. and Suff. North.

SPOLT, wood, grown brittle through dryness. The rafters of the church of Norwich are said to be spolt. Norf.

SPONG, a narrow slip of land. Norf. and Suff.
SPOTE, spittle. Lanc.

SPRAG, lively, active.

SPRAWT, to sprawl and kick. North.

SPREY, spruce, ingenious. Exm.

SPRUNNY, a sweetheart of either sex.

SPRUNT, or SPRINT, a spring in leaping, and the leap itself. Derb.

SPUDLEE; to spudlee, to stir, or spread a thing abroad. Exm.

SPURS, roots of trees. North.

SPURK; to spurk up, to spring, shoot, or rise up briskly. S.

SPURKIT, a peg. Suff.

SPURRINGS, banns of marriage. N.

SPUR-WAY, a bridle-way through any ground, a passage for a horse by right of custom. S.

SQUALE, to throw a stick as at a cock. W.

SQUAT, to bruise or make flat by letting fall; Ac-
TIVE. S.

SQUATTED, splashed with mire or dirt. Kent.
SQUEEG'D, Squeez'd. Middlesex.

SQUELSTRING, sultry, sweltering. Exm.

SQUIRM, to wriggle and twist about briskly, after the manner of an eel; it is usually spoken of that fish. S.

STADDLE, anything that supports another is a staddle.

STADDLE, a mark or impression made on any thing by somewhat lying upon it; so scars or marks of the small-pox are called staddles. Also the bottom of a corn mow or hay-stack is called the staddle. N.

STADLE; to stadle a wood; i. e. in cutting a wood,

to leave at certain distances a sufficient number of young plants to replenish it. Norf.

STAFFE; a staffe of cocks, a pair of cocks. S.

STAG-HEADED; see RANDLE-PIKED.

STAITH, a warehouse on the bank of a navigable river. North. A wharf. North.

STALE, a hurdle. N.

STALE, a handle. North. Pronounced STELE.
STAM-WOOD, the roots of trees, stubbed up. S.
STAM'D, amazed. Norf. and Suff.

STANCHIL, a species of hawk which inhabits rocks and old buildings. North.

STANG, a wooden bar; ab A. S. STANG. This word is still used in some colleges in the university of Cambridge; to stang scholars in Christmas-time being to cause them to ride on a coltstaff, or pole, for missing of chapel. It is used likewise in the East Riding of Yorkshire, for the fourth part of an acre, a rood.

STANG, the preterit of STING.

STANK, a dam, or bank to stop water. S.
STANK, a dyke.

STANSIONS, iron bars that divide a window. N. STARK, stiff, or strongly; as, stark mad, stark nought. C. From the German STARR, strong. STARK, stiff, weary; ab A. S. STERC, STRace, rigidus, durus; Belg. & Dan. STERCK; Teut. STARCK, validus, robustus, firmus. Vide Skin

ner.

STARK, stiff, from too much exercise, or from the rheumatism, &c. North. Fat, when cold, is stark, and so is a corpse. North.

STARKY, dry, shrivelled up my shoes are all starky, (or starkled) owing to their being zet before the vire when wet. Glouc.