Part 20 (2/2)

Spawl _v._ to scale away _s._ a scale broken off from the surface of a stone

Speard _s._ spade

Spine _s._ the sward or surface of the ground; the fat on the surface of a joint of meat

Spinnick _s._ Spinnicking _adj._ a person every way diminutive

Spittle _v._ to dig lightly between crops

Splat _s._ a row of pins as sold in paper

Sprack, Spree, Spry _adj._ nimble, alert, active

Sprackles _s. pl._ spectacles

Sprank _v._ to sprinkle with water. Spranker, Sprenker _s._ a watering-pot

Spreathed _adj._ said of skin harsh and dry with cold, but not chapped

Spried, Spreed _adj._ chapped with cold

Spounce _v._ to spatter with water

Spuddle _v._ to be uselessly or triflingly busy

Spur _v._ to spread abroad or scatter, as manure over a field (Lat.

_spargere_)

Squail _v._ to throw a short stick at anything. Squailer _s._ the stick used in squirrel hunting

Squails _s._ nine-pins

Squap _v._ to sit down without any employment

Squatch _s._ a c.h.i.n.k or narrow clift

Squelstring _adj._ sultry

Squinny _v._ to squint ”Dost thou squinny at me?” (Shak. King Lear)

Squittee _v._ to squirt

Squoace, or Squss _v._ to truck or exchange

Staddle _s._ foundation of a rick of hay or corn, a mark left by a hayc.o.c.k, or anything allowed to remain too long in one place

Stag _s._ a castrated bull

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