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HAMPSHIBE GLOSSABT. 79 Serve [surv], v. a. (1) To make; to treat. Ex.'* We maun iierve him same as t'other one.' We must do to it as to the other one, viz. a eate or post, or articles of furniture. — ^N. H. (2) To leed animals. See Sar. — J. Betty [set'i], adj, I^ggs are said to be setiy when they are sat upon. — Wise, New Forest. Sew [sen], adj, Arjf spoken of cows. Ex. *To go sew' (of a cow) is to go dry. — Cooper. Sewent [seu'ent], adj. smooth^ as a field of com. — J. See Suant. Shacket [shak-ut], eh. a fair load of hay or straw. — K H. Shackety [shak'uti], adj. out of iepair.>^K H. Shackle [shaki], sh. a withy ring for securing hurdles to the stakes. Shade [shaid], sh. ' It has nothing in common with the shadows of the woods, but means either a pool or an open piece of ground, generally on a hill- top, where the cattle in the warm weather collect, or, as the phrase is, '* come to shade" for the sake of the water in the one and the breeze in the other. Thus Ober Shade** means nothing more than Ober pond ; whilst '* Stony-cross Shade " is a mere turfy plot' — Wise, New Forest, p. 181. The word was suggested by the notion of coolness. Shadow-cow fshad'u-kou], sh. a cow whose body is a different colour to its hind and fore-part& — ^Wise, New Forest, p. 185. Shake [shaik], sh. a crack, flaw, or rift in a tree. A woodman's term. — ^W. Shaky [shai*ki], ad}, unsound, as applied to timber having shakes or rifts. * The ti^ on the freestone grow larse, but are what workmen call shakey, and so brittle as ofben to faU to pieces in sawing.' — White's Nai. Hist, of Selbome, Letter L See Shake. Shammook [sham'uk], v. to slouch, to shamble. — Wise, New Forest. Shammocking, pres. part, as adj. shambling ; a skammocking man means an idle, good-for-nothing person : a shammocking dog means almost a thievish, stealing dog. — Wise, New Forest, Shard [shaa'd], sh. (1) A gap in a hedge or bank. Cf. A.S. Sceran, to cut (2) A cup. Ex. * A $?utrd of tea,* a cup of tea. — Wise, New Forest It probably does not mean 'a cup,' but 'a small quantity,' as a bit of meat, a morsel of bread ; so a shard {i, e. a little piece) of tea. — W. H. 0. JSharf [shaarf], sh. the shaft of a cart or carriage. PI. Sliarves, Ex. ' One of them sharves is broke.' Sham-beetle [shaan-bee'tll, sh. dung-beetle. — J. But the word heetle is very rare among the peasantry in Hants. They always call it Bob, with various prefixes. — W. H. C. Sharp [shaap], sh. the shaft of a cart. — Cooper. See Sharf.