_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
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