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_snod_, trim. _snool_, subjugate by tyrannical means. _sole_, sill. _sorn_, to "sponge" upon; used by Galt for to loiter. _sosherie_, social intercourse. _sough_, murmur. _spae_, _v._ forecast. _spean_, _v._ wean. _speat_, flood. _speer_, _speir_, inquire. _spunk_, spark. _staincher_, stanchion. _stang_, a pole; to "ride the stang" was to be subjected to a form of mob justice by which the patient was borne shoulder-high astride a pole. _steek_, stitch, fasten. _stock_ (bed-stock), the fore-part of a bed. _stoure_, dust in motion. _straemash_, disturbance. _stravaig_, _v._ stroll. _swanky_, strapping young countryman (Brockett). _swatch_, sample. _swee_, a chimney crane for suspending a pot over the fire (Jamieson). _swither_, _v._ to be reluctant, hesitate; _n_. reluctance, hesitation, indecision. _syne_, then. _Tack_, lease. _taigle_, hinder, delay. _tawnle_, bonfire. _temming_, a coarse thin woollen cloth. _tent_, heed. _thacket_, thatched. _thole_, endure. _throng_, _adj._ busy. _thumbikins_, thumbscrews. _tirl at the pin_, old-fashioned mode of intimating desire of admission to a house. _tod_, _tod lowrie_, fox. _tolbooth_, a municipal building including a jail. _toom_, empty. _toop_, a ram. _toupie_ (French), toupet. _trance_, paved passage. _trintle_, _v._ roll. _trone_, a public weighing-machine standing in a market-place. _Unco_, _adj._ extraordinary, remarkable; _n._ remarkable object. _Virl_, ring (as those which bind a fishing-rod); frill. _vivers_, provisions. _vogie_, vain, complacent. _Wae_, grieved. _waff_, feeble, worn out. _warrandice_, warrant. _warsle_, wrestle. _wastage_, a place of desolation (J.). _wastrie_, waste. _waught_, a large draught. _wean_, child. _whin_, furze. _Whigamore_, sometimes derived from "whig," a word used in the West for urging on horses, and hence applied as a nickname to a political party. The expedition of the Covenanters under Eglinton to Edinburgh was known as the Whigamore Raid. _whumple_, overturn, reverse. _willease_, valise. _willy-wa_, palaver, wheedle. _wise, v._ entice, incline. _wud_, wild. _wuddy_,
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