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258 Screech. A short sudden blaze. "Some tarn fuzz for a screech." Screech like a whit-neck. To make a great out- cry. Screed. A scrip, or very small bit. Also a very thin person. "Looking like a screed." Screedle. To cower over the fire. U.J.T. See Gridddle. Screw. The shrew or field mouse. C. ScrifF-SCrafF. Eummage, a lot of trumpery things. Scrimpj or Scrimpy. Scant, scanty, Scrinkt. Screwed. U.J.T. Scrinking, or Scrinked up. Peeping about with (screwed up) half-closed eyes, and puckered mouth. In Celtic Cornish, scryncye, means to snarl, to grin. Scrip. To escape. Careiv. ^^ He will never scrip it." Scritch. A crutch. Scroached^ Scrawed^ or Scrowled. Scorched or broiled, as ^^scroached pilchards." Before being scroached, they are split, half dried, peppered, and salted. Scrolls. See ScoUops. Scrolled. Same as Scroached. Qv. Scrow. See Sclum.