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. _Reck_, to heed. _Rede_, counsel, to counsel, to discourse. _Red-peats_, burning turfs. _Red-wat-shod_, walking in blood over the shoe-tops. _Red-wud_, stark mad. _Ree_, half drunk, fuddled; _a ree yaud_, a wild horse. _Reek_, smoke. _Reekin'_, smoking. _Reekit_, smoked, smoky. _Reestit_, stood restive; stunted, withered. _Remead_, remedy. _Requite_, requited. _Restricked_, restricted. _Rew_, to smile, look affectionately, tenderly. _Rickles_, shocks of corn, stooks. _Riddle_, instrument for purifying corn. _Rief-randies_, men who take the property of others, accompanied by violence and rude words. _Rig_, a ridge. _Rin_, to run, to melt; _rinnin'_, running. _Rink_, the course of the stones, a term in curling on ice. _Rip_, a handful of unthreshed corn. _Ripples_, pains in the back and loins, sounds which usher in death. _Ripplin-kame_, instrument for dressing flax. _Riskit_, a noise like the tearing of roots. _Rockin'_, a denomination for a friendly visit. In former times young women met with their distaffs during the winter evenings, to sing, and spin, and be merry; these were called "rockings." _Roke_, distaff. _Rood_, stands likewise for the plural, roods. _Roon_, a shred, the selvage of woollen cloth. _Roose_, to praise, to commend. _Roun'_, round, in the circle of neighbourhood. _Roupet_, hoarse, as with a cold. _Row_, to roll, to rap, to roll as water. _Row't_, rolled, wrapped. _Rowte_, to low, to bellow. _Rowth_, plenty. _Rowtin'_, lowing. _Rozet_, rosin. _Rumble-gumption_, rough commonsense. _Run-deils_, downright devils. _Rung_, a cudgel. _Runt_, the stem of colewort or cabbage. _Runkled_, wrinkled. _Ruth_, a woman's name, the book so called, sorrow. _Ryke_, reach. S. _Sae_, so. _Saft_, soft. _Sair_, to serve, a sore; _sairie_, sorrowful. _Sairly_, sorely. _Sair't_, served. _Sark_, a shirt. _Sarkit_, provided in shirts. _Saugh_, willow. _Saugh-woodies_, withies, made of willows, now supplanted by ropes and chains. _Saul_, soul. _Saumont_, salmon. _Saunt, sauntet_, saint; to varnish. _Saut_, salt. _Saw_, to sow. _Sawin'_, sowing. _Sax_, six. _Scaud_, to scald. _Scauld_, to scold. _Scaur_, apt to be scared; a precipitous bank of earth which the stream has washed red. _Scawl_,
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