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ALMOXDBUET AND HUPDERSFIELD. 1L9 Shuttle-board, a battledore. Sbuttle-featber, a shuttlecock. Sbuttl*ee, i. e. shuttle e'e, or eye, the name of a coal-pit at Grange Moor, in the occupatioBL of one who had made some capital by weav- ing, or through the ahuUle-eye. Sic, or Sich {gl, sik, or sich), such. So mich for much. Side, pronounced saud. Side, to put away ; to set aside. Sidebye, aside. To put sidebye is to set aside. Sidewires, a balk or beam in a roof, part of the way down, passing from end to end, used for laying the spars on. Sight, pronounced seet. Sight, a large number or quantity. ' There's a seei o* cottages theer naa.* Sile (pronounced mul a strainer for milk made of fine wire in which hairs and other refuse are left. SeiU occurs in H^ri of Midlothian, Vol. i. 226. Sile (pronounced savl), to strain. Sin, since. Singlet (pronounced dnglU), See Cinglel Ilj is stated by Hallir well that a doublet is a nnglet lined. Sip, Sap, Say, a ' nominy ' used by boys when whistle manufacturing, during the beatine of the wetted bark of the mountain ash with a clasp-knife handle. The wetting is to make the bark slip off easily tc form the case of the whistle. The complete ' nominy ' is ' Sip, sap, say, 8if, sap, say, Lig in a nettle bed. While May day.' Sipe (pronounced saup), said of water or other liquids flowing slowly through earth, &c., or through a leaky cask or tap. Used in the Heart of Midlothian, but there spelt seip, p. 316. Sipings (pronounced aavpins), same as * strippings ' of a cow Siss, to hiss {gl, sis). Skalamonnt, to kick about (in bed). Skalamonnt, sh. A lad fond of climbing is called ' a regular skala- mount.* Skear'd, frightened, &c. Hardly seems to be scared, for that is pro- nounced scard. Doubtful whether it is a local foim.