_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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