Glossary 19
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1 Saʼ, n. salve
Sab, v. and n. sob
Sacrifeece, n. sacrifice
Sad-breid, n. heavy, or unleavened bread
Sair, a. sore, grievous
Sairs, n. injuries
Sairs, v. serves, accomplishes
Sal, v. shall
Sanna, v. shall not
Sauf, v. save
Saul, n. soul
Saunt, n. saint
Saut, n. and a. salt
Sautan, n. Satan
Sawed, v. sowed
Sawn, v. sown
Sax, a. six
Scaum, n. haze
Scaur, n. precipitous bank
Schaw, v. show
Schew, v. [sheu] sew
Schute, v. push
Scouther, n. and v. scorch; a scorching
Screed, n. a writing; a hasty epistle; anything torn off
Scunner, v. and n. loathe, disgust
Seil, v. strain; filter
Sel, pr. self
Sellie, a. selfish
Serʼ, v. serve
Serʼin, v. serving
Servitor, n. servant, waiter
Shamʼt, v. ashamed
Shapit, v. formed
Shear, v. reap with a sickle
Sheelin, n. hut
Sheugh, n. (gutt.) trench; grave
Shoon, n. shoes
Shoother, n. [shooʼther: hard th] shoulder
Shucken, v. shaken
Shure, v. did shear (or reap)
Sib, a. related by blood
Sibness, n. consanguinity
Sic, siccan, siclike, adv. such
Siccar, a. secure, firm
Siccarlie, adv. strongly, securely, sternly
Sich, n. (gutt.) sigh
Siller, n. silver, money
Silly, a. weak in body or mind
Silliness, n. weakness, especially of the body
Simmer-warm, a. lukewarm
Sinder, v. divide, separate
Sindry, adv. asunder
Sirss, n. (soft s) sirs
Skail, v. scatter; spill; disperse
Skaith, v. and n. (soft th) injure; injury
Skeelie, a. skilful
Skellied, a. oblique, squinting
Skirlin, v. screaming
Skreigh, v. and n. (gutt) shriek
Sleeperie, a. sleepy
Slippit, v. slipped
Slockened, v. slaked, quenched
Slype, v. slide
Smack, n. a small decked, or partially decked vessel
Smoored, v. smothered
Snapper, v. stumble
Sned, v. snip off
Snod, v. trim, put in order
Sonsie, a. well-conditioned, sensible, pleasant
Sneck, n. latch
Snell, a. sharp; biting
Soom, v. swim
Soopit, v. swept
Sooth, n. truth
Sornin, v. “sponging”
Soud, v. should
Sough, n. (gutt.) whisper; echo; sound
Sounʼ, n. [soon] sound
Sowp, n. a mouthful; a small quantity
Sowther, v. solder
Spate, n. freshet; flood
Speel, v. climb
Speir, v. enquire
Speirin, v. questioning
Speldrin, n. a fish split and dried
Sperflʼt, v. scattered wastefully
Spreid, v. spread
Spuein, v. and n. vomiting
Stance, n. site; standing-place
Stanerie, a. stony
Starn, n. star
Stauners-by, n. by-standers
Staw, v. stole
Steive, stieve, a. robust, strong
Steively, adv. strongly
Steek, v. fasten; stitch
Stegh, v. (gutt.) to fill to satiety
Stellʼd, v. set fast
Sterk, a. bold, unflinching
Stibble, n. stubble
Stirk, n. young ox; steer
Stog, v. and n. puncture
Stotter, stoiter, v. stumble
Stounʼ, n. sudden pain
Stour, n. flying dust; strife
Stouthrief, n. robbery with violence
Stowp, stoup, n. vessel for holding liquids
Stramash, n. disturbance; broil
Straucht, a. (gutt.) straight
Strett, a. narrow; n. difficulty
Strickly, adv. strictly
Strinkle, v. sprinkle; strew
Strucken, v. struck
Suddaintie, n. a sudden occasion
Suner, a. sooner
Sumph, n. a “soft,” or weak-minded man
Sut, sutten, v. set or sit
Swappit, v. thrown or clapped together
Swarf, v. faint
Swech, n. (gutt.) trumpet
Swee, n. swing, lurch
Sweir, a. reluctant
Swither, v. hesitate
Synd, v. rinse, cleanse
Syne, adv. soon; since
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Translated by Rev William Wye Smith. Published in Paisley, Scotland in 1904.