Glossary : S
Sab: to sob
Sae: so
Saft: soft
Sair: sore: hard: severe:
strong
Sair: to serve
Sair: sairly: sorely
Sairie: sorrowful: sorry
Sall: shall
Sandy: Sannack: dim of Alexander
Sark: a shirt
Saugh: the willow
Saul: soul
Saumont: sawmont: the salmon
Saunt: saint
Saut: salt
Saut-backets: v backets
Saw: to sow
Sawney: v sandy
Sax: six
Scar: to scare
Scar: v scaur
Scathe: scaith: damage; v skaith
Scaud: to scald
Scaul: scold
Scauld: to scold
Scaur: afraid; apt to be scared
Scaur: a jutting rock or bank of earth
Scho: she
Scone: a soft flour cake
Sconner: disgust
Sconner: sicken
Scraichin: calling hoarsely
Screed: a rip: a rent
Screed: to repeat rapidly: to rattle
Scriechin: screeching
Scriegh: skriegh: v skriegh
Scrievin: careering
Scrimpit: scanty
Scroggie: scroggy: scrubby
Sculdudd'ry: bawdry
See'd: saw
Seisins: freehold possessions
Sel: sel': sell: self
Sell'd: sell't: sold
Semple: simple
Sen': send
Set: to set off; to start
Set: sat
Sets: becomes
Shachl'd: shapeless
Shaird: shred: shard
Shanagan: a cleft stick
Shanna: shall not
Shaul: shallow
Shaver: a funny fellow
Shavie: trick
Shaw: a wood
Shaw: to show
Shearer: a reaper
Sheep-shank: a sheep's trotter; nae sheep-shank bane
= a person of no small
importance
Sheerly: wholly
Sheers: scissors
Sherra-moor: sheriffmuir
Sheugh: a ditch: a furrow; gutter
Sheuk: shook
Shiel: a shed: cottage
Shill: shrill
Shog: a shake
Shool: a shovel
Shoon: shoes
Shore: to offer: to threaten
Short syne: a little while ago
Shouldna: should not
Shouther: showther: shoulder
Shure: shore (did shear)
Sic: such
Siccan: such a
Sicker: steady: certain; sicker score
= strict conditions
Sidelins: sideways
Siller: silver; money in general
Simmer: summer
Sin: son
Sin': since
Sindry: sundry
Singet: singed: shriveled
Sinn: the sun
Sinny: sunny
Skaith: damage
Skeigh: skiegh: skittish
Skellum: a good-for-nothing
Skelp: a slap: a smack
Skelp: to spank; skelpin at it = driving at it
Skelpie-limmer's-face: a technical term in female
scolding (R B)
Skelvy: shelvy
Skiegh: v skeigh
Skinking: watery
Skinklin: glittering
Skirl: to cry or sound shrilly
Sklent: a slant: a turn
Sklent: to slant: to squint:
to cheat
Skouth: scope
Skriech: a scream
Skriegh: to scream: to whinny
Skyrin: flaring
Skyte: squirt: lash
Slade: slid
Slae: the sloe
Slap: a breach in a fence; a gate
Slaw: slow
Slee: sly: ingenious
Sleekit: sleek: crafty
Slidd'ry: slippery
Sloken: to slake
Slypet: slipped
Sma': small
Smeddum: a powder
Smeek: smoke
Smiddy: smithy
Smoor'd: smothered
Smoutie: smutty
Smytrie: a small collection; a litter
Snakin: sneering
Snap smart
Snapper: to stumble
Snash: abuse
Snaw: snow
Snaw-broo: snow-brew (melted snow)
Sned: to lop: to prune
Sneeshin mill: a snuff-box
Snell: bitter: biting
Snick: a latch; snick-drawing = scheming; he weel
a snick can draw = he is
good at cheating
Snirtle: to snigger
Snoods: fillets worn by maids
Snool: to cringe: to snub
Snoove: to go slowly
Snowkit: snuffed
Sodger: soger: a soldier
Sonsie: sonsy: pleasant: good-natured:
jolly
Soom: to swim
Soor: sour
Sough: v sugh
Souk: suck
Soupe: sup: liquid
Souple: supple
Souter: cobbler
Sowens: porridge of oat flour
Sowps: sups
Sowth: to hum or whistle in a low tune
Sowther: to solder
Spae: to foretell
Spails: chips
Spairge: to splash; to spatter
Spak: spoke
Spates: floods
Spavie: the spavin
Spavit: spavined
Spean: to wean
Speat: a flood
Speel: to climb
Speer: spier: to ask
Speet: to spit
Spence: the parlor
Spier v speer
Spleuchan: pouch
Splore: a frolic; a carousal
Sprachl'd: clambered
Sprattle: scramble
Spreckled: speckled
Spring: a quick tune; a dance
Sprittie: full of roots or sprouts (a kind of rush)
Sprush: spruce
Spunk: a match; a spark; fire: spirit
Spunkie: full of spirit
Spunkie: liquor: spirits
Spunkies: jack-o'-lanterns: will-o'-wisps
Spurtle-blade: the pot-stick
Squatter: to flap
Squattle: to squat; to settle
Stacher: to totter
Staggie: dim of staig
Staig: a young horse
Stan': stand
Stane: stone
Stan't: stood
Stang: sting
Stank: a moat; a pond
Stap: to stop
Stapple: a stopper
Stark: strong
Starnies: dim of starn: star
Starns: stars
Startle: to course
Staumrel: half-witted
Staw: a stall
Staw: to surfeit; to sicken
Staw: stole
Stechin: cramming
Steek: a stitch
Steek: to shut; to close
Steek: to shut; to touch: meddle with
Steeve: compact
Stell: a still
Sten: a leap; a spring
Sten't: sprang
Stented: erected; set on high
Stents: assessments: dues
Steyest: steepest
Stibble: stubble
Stibble-rig: chief reaper
Stick-an-stowe: completely
Stilt: limp (with the aid of stilts)
Stimpart: a quarter peck
Stirk: a young bullock
Stock: a plant of cabbage; colewort
Stoited: stumbled
Stoiter'd: staggered
Stoor: harsh: stern
Stoun': pang: throb
Stoure: dust
Stourie: dusty
Stown: stolen
Stownlins: by stealth
Stoyte: to stagger
Strae death: death in bed (i e: on straw)
Staik: to stroke
Strak: struck
Strang: strong
Straught: straight
Straught: to stretch
Streekit: stretched
Striddle: to straddle
Stron't: lanted
Strunt: liquor
Strunt: to swagger
Studdie: an anvil
Stumpie: dim of stump; a worn quill
Sturt: worry: trouble
Sturt: to fret; to vex
Sturtin: frighted: staggered
Styme: the faintest trace
Sucker: sugar
Sud: should
Sugh: sough: sigh: moan:
wail: swish
Sumph: churl
Sune: soon
Suthron: southern
Swaird: sward
Swall'd: swelled
Swank: limber
Swankies: strapping fellows
Swap: exchange
Swapped: swopped: exchanged
Swarf: to swoon
Swat: sweated
Swatch: sample
Swats: new ale
Sweer: v dead-sweer
Swirl: curl
Swirlie: twisted: knaggy
Swith: haste; off and away
Swither: doubt: hesitation
Swoom: swim
Swoor: swore
Sybow: a young union
Syne: since: then
