GLOSSARY
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- Sully, 28, 81, silly. See silly
- Summonses, 72, summons
- Sumph, 29, 137, a lout, Gael. samph, a clownish fellow, Go. swamms, a sponge, swumfsl. Da. svamp, a sponge, swampig, spongy, A.S. swam, σπόγγος, Lat. fungus, a sponge, Da. sump, a swamp, E. swamp—all from root swim. See swamm
- Sumph, 29, 137, a pool, swamm, swamm-s, a sponge. Go. Both Teut. and class., as sponge, spongy; Da. and Sw. variant sump ident. with Sc. coal-mining term
- Süne, 11, E. soon. Go. sun-s
- Sunno (f.), sunna (m.), 19, 23, Go. sun, Ger. Sonne
- Sunu-s, 18, 247, Go. a son
- Supperfluity, 73
- Sut-is, 11, 28, Go. sweet, Ger. süsz, Du. zoet
- Swei-cruck, 210, sway or swing crook
- Swine-crü, 182, Cu. See crüve
- Syle, 182, a straining sieve, Sw. sîl, a strainer, L.Ger. sielen, to draw off water, E. silt. The l is not radical, cf. Da. and Sc. sie, to filter
- Syme, 181, straw rope for securing thatch. See soum, simmins
- Syne, 13, 20, 56, Sc.; full form, sithen-s (with adv. suff.), sith-then, after that; cf . Ger. seit-dem, A.S. sith, after, is Go. seith-us, late; syne, sin, an early contraction of sithens
- Sype, 172, to ooze, E. sap, A.S. saep, Ger. saft. See seip, sipe
"An' gart his swalled e'en sype
Sant tears that day."
Skinner.
- Syper, 211. See sype
- Syth hyuck, 146, scythe hook
- Swauping, 130, swapping, bartering, Ger. schwappen, to strike, in sense of striking a bargain
- Sweer, 29, 69, 97, 197, 209, unwilling, C. Du. zwaar, A.S. swaer, O.N. svárr, Ger. schwer. Go. swers, heavy, honoured, sweran, to honour, var. of sweer, sweir, swere, swear=sweert, lazy in Jam., rather reluctant, as—
"He was gey sweert tae pairt wi's siller."
(J. B. F.)
- Sweer-kitty, 160, wrestling-game
- Sweer-tree, ditto, 158, 160. See sweer
- Swes, 26, Go. one's own property, cog. with Lat. suus
- Swei, sway, swing, 210
- Swein, 24, Go. swine; or. su-ina, young of the sow
- Swingle-tree, 130, part of plough graith
- Swistar, 18, Go. sister, Ger. Schwester
- Swith, swinth-s, 58, Go. strong, A.S. strong, very much:—
"In the thrang o' stories tellin',
Shakin' hands an' jokin' queer.
Swith, a chap comes on the hallan:
'Mungo, is our Watty here?'"
Alex. Wilson.
- Swounded, 35, Shak. swooned
T
- T slurred bet. vowels, 111; -t(neut.), 44, 45
- T' as def. art. 168—"t' words 'at"—Cu.
- Taal, 222, C. Du., cog. with tell
- Taave, tyaave, 100, 101, Ab. See taw, tew
- Tables, at the Sacrament, 74
- Tackin in, 92, term in stocking-knitting
- Taed, taid, 129, a toad, A.S. and M.E. tade. See spung-taed
- Taepit, taintless, taebetless, tapetless, 87, 138, 139, 151, Fi. manual dexterity. Withless, syn. of thowless. Prob. taipit for to-put
- Tag, 21, 155, var. of taws or ferule, a latchet. Go. tagl=tail, A.S. taegel
- Tagrida, 36, Go. wept, as if teared
- Tahjan, 12, Go. to tear. Go. tiuhan, to tow, tug, A.S. teóhan, teón, to. pull, Ger. Ziehen, Du. touwen, to curry leather, theofa, O.N. to waulk or shrink cloth, E. taw, tew, to curry
- Taihswa, 17, Go. right-handed, Lat. dexter; cf. carrie, left hand, carrie-mittit, Lan.
- Taikns, 53, Go. a miracle, token, cog. Zeichen, so used in Luther's Bible
- Tain-jo, 5, Go. woven basket, hence tine, tooth of a harrow, M.E. "tyndis of harrowis," stag's antlers, cog. tooth
