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_s._ a bristling of the hair Stocky _adj._ short, stumpy Stodge _s._ thick slimy mud _adj._ miry; ex. "Pendummer, where the Devil was stodged in the midst of zummer" Stodged _adj._ stuffed with eating Stool _s._ the stock of a tree cut for underwood Stoor, Storr _v._ to stir, move actively (Dutch _stooren_) Stomachy _adj._ proud, haughty Stout _s._ a gnat-fly Strablet _s._ a long, narrow strip Strame _s._ a streak, mark, trace _v._ to trace (Dutch _stram_) Straw-mote _s._ a bit of straw Strickle _adj._ steep as the roof of a house Strod _s._ a leathern buskin worn by peasants Strout _v._ to strut, stand out stiff "Crowk was his hair, and as gold it shon And strouted as a fan large and brode" (Chaucer, Miller's Tale) Stub-shot _s._ the portion of the trunk of a tree which remains when the tree is not sawn through Stun-pole _s._ a stupid fellow Stwon _s._ stone Stwonen _adj._ Suant _adj._ even, regular, applied to rows of beans or corn; grave as applied to the countenance (Fr. _suivant_) Sull _s._ plough-share (A S _sul_) Suma _s._ a small cup made of blue and white stoneware Surge _v._ and _s._ to bear heavily on, impetuous force Swallow-pears _s._ service-pears, sorb-apples Swather, or Swother _v._ to faint (A S _sweothrian_) Sweem _v._ to swoon. Sweemy, Sweemish _adj._ faint (Dutch _swiim_) Sweet-harty _v._ to court. Sweet-harting _s._ courtship Swile _s._ soil, also Swoil-heap Swill, Swell, Zwell _v._ to swallow Tack _s._ a shelf, bacon-rack. Clavy-tack chimney-piece Taffety _adj._ nice in eating Tallet _s._ the space next the roof in out-houses (Welsh _tavlod_) Tame _v._ to cut, to have the first cut (Fr. _entamer_) Tanbase _s._ unruly behaviour Tan-day _s._ the second day of a fair Tang _s._ to tie; that part of a knife which passes into the haft Tave _v._ to throw the hands about wildly Tavering _adj._ restless in illness Tawl-down _v._ to strike or smooth down a cat's back Teak _s._ a whitlow Teap _s._ a point, peak Teart _adj._ sharp, sour, painful Ted _v._ to turn hay or flax to dry. Ted-pole the pole used for the purpose Teg _s._ a last year's lamb not sheared Teem _v._ to pour out Terrible _adv._ intensitive, ex. Terrible good Thic, Thicky, Thicky-there, Thickumy, Thickumy-there _pron._ that (Ch
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