SCOOR.—(Rhyming with "moor.")
To cut lightly across as with the skin of pork for roasting. Vide Scotch.
Twenty pounds weight.
SCOTCH.—To score. Vide Scoor.
SCOUR.—To purge.
Diarrhœa in cattle and sheep.
SCRAAYPE.—An arrangement for the destruction of birds in severe weather. Scraaypes are of two kinds, the first is an old door supported by a stick under which corn is placed and the stick being pulled by a long string the door falls on the birds. The second is made by placing corn where snow has been swept away, and the birds, when congregated, are shot in numbers, being enfiladed along the scraaype.
SCRABBLE.—To move out the hands as if to reach something.
To make clutchings with the hands.
SCRAG.—A piece of tough and shrivelled meat.
SCRIMMAGE.—A harmless fight, arising hastily, conducted confusedly, and soon at an end.
SCROOP—To make a noise, as with a gate turning on rusty hinges.
Scroopettin' is the noise made when anything scroops.
SCROW.—Angry looking; perhaps related to "scrowl."
SCROWGE.—To squeeze; to huddle together.
SCRUFF.—The hair on the back of the neck.
SCRUMP.—To bite with a noise.
The crackling of pork.
SCRUNCH.—To crush between the teeth.