ker _s._ a court card
'Sim t' I it seems to me
Simlin _s._ a kind of fine cake intended for toasts
Sin, Sine _conj._ since, because
Sinegar _s._ the plant stocks
Singlegus _s._ the orchis
Skag _s._ a rent, tear, wound
Skenter, Skinter _adj._ relaxed, as applied to oxen
Skiff-handed _adj._ awkward
Skiffle _s._ as to make a skiffle, to make a mess of any business
Skiffling _s._ the act of whittling a stick
Skilly _s._ oatmeal porridge
Skimps _s._ the scales and refuse of flax
Skimmerton-riding _s._ the effigy of a man or woman unfaithful to
marriage vows carried about on a pole accompanied by rough music from
cows'-horns and frying-pans. Formerly it consisted of two persons riding
on a horse back to back, with _ladles_ and _marrow-bones_ in hand, and
was intended to ridicule a hen-pecked husband
Skir _v._ skim, mow lightly, as thistles
Skir-devil _s._ a black martin, swift
Skirrings _s._ hay made in pasture lands from the long grass left by the
cattle
Skitty _s._ a water-rail
Skitty-vamps _s._ laced half boots
Skred, Skride _v._ to stride
Slat, Slate _v._ to split, crack, crumble
Slate _s._ a sheep-run. Slated _adj._ accustomed to, contented
Slerib _s._ a spare rib of pork
Sley for "as lief," ex. I would sley do it as not
Sliden, Slidder, Slither _v._ to slide
Sliver _s._ a thin slice
Slock _v._ to encourage the servants of other people to pilfer
Slooen _adj._ of sloe, ex. A slooen tree
Slop _adj._ loose (Dutch _slap_)
Slope _v.n._ to decay, rot, as pears and potatoes
Srnitch, Smit, Smeech _s._ smut, or fine dust
Snag _s._ a tooth standing alone; a small sloe
Snag-blowth _s._ the blossom of the black-thorn
Snake-leaves _s._ ferns
Snap-jack _s._ stitch-wort (stellaria holostea)
Snare _s._ the gut or string stretched tightly across the lower head of
a drum
Snell, or Snull _s._ a short thick stick about 4 inches long, called a
"cat," used in the game called cat and dog
Sneyd _s._ the crooked handle of a scythe
Snicker, Snigger _v._ to laugh in an insulting way
Snoach _v._ to snuffle, to speak through the nose
Snoffer _s._ a sweetheart (Dutch _snoffen_, to sigh)
Snool _v._ to smear anything by rubbing the nose and mouth over it
(Dutch _snavel_, a snout)
Snop _s._ a sharp blow
Soce, Zuez _s. pl. voc._ friends (Query _socii_)
Sog, or Sug _s._ a morass. Soggy _adj._ boggy; also
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