Stayvel, or Stayver, S and C, to walk in a listless manner. “Ther was hundreds o’ fwoke _stayvelan_ aboot.” _Ritson._ The Borrowdale Letter. Stoore, S and C, dust. “This day the kirk kicks up a _stoore_.” _Burns._ The Ordination. “The Bible ligs _stoory_ abeun the door heid.” _Anderson._ Caleb Crosby. Stound, S and C, ache or pang. “An’ aye the _stound_, the deidly wound. Cam frae her e’en sae lovely blue.” _Burns._ A waefu’ gate yestreen. “It _stoundit_ sare, an’ sare it swell’d.” _Relph._ After Theocritus. Straddel’t, C, brought to a stand. “I think oald P—— was varra nār _straddel’t_ iv his sarmon.” Heard at the door of a Wesleyan chapel after service. Sumph, S and C, a fool. “An’ onie _sumph_ that keeps up spite, In conscience I abhor him.” _Rev. J. Skinner._ Tullochgorum. “I sit like a _sumph_, nea mair mysel’.” _Anderson._ Barbary Bell. Swap, S and C, exchange. “I trowe we _swappit_ for the worse, Ga’e the boot an’ better horse.” Song—Carle an’ the King come. “Lal Sim’s geane an’ _swapp’d_ the black cowt.” _Anderson._ Nichol the Newsmonger. Swat, C, sit down, squat. “Come, Cuddy, _swat_ an’ tak’ a whiff.” _Anderson._ The Cram. Sweir, S, loath, unwilling. “Forsooth they cried, anither gill. For _sweir_ we’re aye to gang awa’.” _Mac Phail._ Song. T. Taggelt, C, a scamp. “He mud know they wor o’ arrant _taggelts_ an’ taistrels.” _Rev. T. Clarke._ Johnny Shippard. Taistrel, C, a good for nothing. “Yae son proved a _taistrel_ an’ brak up i’ Lunnon.” _Anderson._ The Twee Auld Men. Taws, S, a strap of thick leather slit into several tails; an implement of punishment in Scottish schools. “Never use the _taws_ when a gloom ’ill do the turn.” Proverb. Tawtie, or Tawtit, S, roughly matted (applied to hair or wool). “Nae _tautit_ tyke, though ne’er sae duddy.” _Burns._ The Twa Dogs. Teem, C; Toom, S, empty, pour out. “About her lank and all o’er-_teemed_ loins.” Hamlet. “And there _toom_ thy brock skin bag.” Ballad—The Fray of Suport. Teul, C and S, a bad one (probably from devil).