“Her cockermonie _snoddit_ up fu’ sleek, Her haffet locks hung wavin’ owre her cheek.” _Ramsay._ The Gentle Shepherd. “You’re making this road rough!” “Ey, but we’ll mak it _snod_ afoor we’re deun wi’ ’t.” Reply of the road surveyor at Hawkshead. Snowk, C, to snuffle audibly. ”_Snowkin’_ like pigs at a sew.”—Common saying. Snug (as a verb), C, to nestle. “We _snugg’t_ in togidder.”—Ibid. Sonsie, S, comfortable looking, also lucky. “Tall and _sonsie_, frank and free, Lo’ed by a’, an’ dear to me.” _Lady Nairne._ Kind Robin lo’es me. “Whistlin’ maids an’ crawin’ hens are no _sonsie_.“—Proverb. Sorn, S, to live on others, to sponge. “_Sornan_ frae place to place, As scrimp o’ mainners as o’ sense or grace.” _Ramsay._ The Gentle Shepherd. Souch, S, the sound of gentle wind or breath. “Hark how the westlin’ win’ _souchs_ through the reeds.” _Ibid._ Spang-hew, S and C, to fling to the winds. _Spang-hewing_ is a cruel mode practised by school-boys of putting birds, frogs, etc., to death. A stick is laid across a block, the victim placed on one end and the other struck sharply, throwing the poor animal high into the air, killing, and generally, mutilating it. Spats, S and C, abbrev. of spatterdashes—gaiters. “Their stumps, erst used to philabegs, Are dight in _spatterdashes_.” _Ferguson._ Leith Races. Speel, S, climb. “Monie a time, Wi’ you I’ve _speel’d_ the braes o’ rhyme.” _Ferguson._ My Auld Breeks. Speir, S, ask, enquire. “A feul may _speir_ mair questions than a doctor can answer.” Proverb. Spretty, S, covered with Sprett, a kind of coarse grass. “Till _spretty_ knowes wad rair’t an’ risket An’ slypet owre.” _Burns._ The Auld Mare Maggie. Sprogue, C, a pleasure ramble. “I’ve been to t’ top o’ Knock Murton.” “What took ye there?” “I just went for a _sprogue_!” Part of a conversation in Arlecdon. Squab, C, a long low seat with a back. “Sit on t’ _squab_ till I bring ye summat to sup on.”—Said to me once when I reached a farm house exhausted from struggling through a snow storm. Stammer, or Stummer, C, to stumble. “Oft wittingly I _stummer’t_, oft I fell.” _Relph._ Kursty and Peggy. ’Statesman, C, landed proprietor—Estatesman. “It is a bonnie job, if gentlemen an’ gentlemen’s servants is to ower-ride us _steàts fooak_.” Said by an old lady at Coniston after a vestry meeting.