SMAIK, _sb._ a coward. Sat. P., 39, 175; Lyndsay, 425, 1320, and 434, 1562. O.N. _smöykr_, adj. timid, M.L.G. _smeker_ means "a flatterer," besides the vowel, as well as the final _r_ of the L.G. word, is against a L.G. origin of the Sco. word. The Sco. _ai_ indicates an original diphthong. Cp. Cu. _smaik_ applied to a small boy, or any small being. SNAPE-DIKE, _sb._ an enclosure. Jamieson, Ayr. Cp. O.N. _snap_, a pasture for cattle, especially a winter pasture (Haldorson), _snapa_, vb. to nibble, M.E. _snaipen_. The vowel in the Sco. word proves an original open _a_, hence it is from the vb. _snapa_. O.N. _snap_, sb. would have given _snăp_. Our word is _snēp._ SNIB, SNEB, _vb._ to snub, check, reprove. Sat., P., 33, 18; L.L., 3387. Dan. _snibbe_, M.E. _snibben_. Eng. _snub_ and M.E. _snubben_ correspond to O.N. _snubba_ with original unumlauted vowel. SNITE, _vb._ to blow the nose, to snuff a candle. Jamieson. O.N. _snýta_, Norse _snyta_, used exactly the same way, Dan. _snyde_. Sw. _snute_ and M.L.G. _snuten_ have unumlauted vowel which would have given _snoot_, _snowt_, or _snoit_ in Sco. SOCK, _vb._ to examine, investigate. Fergusson, 169. Probably from O.N. _sækja_, to seek, Norse _söka_, _sökja_, Dan. _söge_ since O. Nhb. _sæca_ later became _sēca_ and developed as W.S. _sécan._ SOLANDE, _sb._ a soland goose. Dalr., I, 25, 1. O.N. _súla_ + _n_ (Skeat). The _d_ is epenthetic. The _n_ is the post-positive definite article, a peculiarly Scand. characteristic. SOP, _sb._ a round, compact body. Bruce, III, 47. O.N. _soppr_, a ball (Skeat), Norse _sopp_, id. Cp. Cu. _sop_, "a milk- maid's cushion for the head." SOUM, _sb._ The rope or chain a plow is drawn by. Dunbar, III, 126, 21. O.N. _saumr_, a seam, trace. In Bruce, X, 180, _hede- soyme_, sb. the trace. SOYM, _sb._ trace of a cart. Bruce, X, 233. From O.N. _saumr_, a seam (Skeat), Norse _saum_, Dan. _söm_. For _oy_ in place of _ou_, as we should expect, cp. _gowk_ and _goilk_, _lowp_ and _loip_, etc., and the Norse _laupa_ and _loipa_. SPAE, SPA, _vb._ to prophesy. Douglas, II, 142, 2; II, 2; Burns, 37, 2, 2. O.N. _spá_, to prophesy, Norse _spaa_, Dan. _spaa_, id. Cp. _spaamand_, _spaafolk_, and Sco. _spaeman_, _spaefolk_, _spaewife_. SPAY, SPE, _sb._ prophecy, omen, augury. Dalr., II, 5, 8; Isaiah, XLVII, 12. O.N. _spá_, a prophecy. _Vǫluspá_, the vala's prophecy, M.E. _spa_. SPAEQUEAN, _sb._ fortune teller, spaewife. Isaiah, XLVII. O.N. _spákona_, a woman who spaes. The compound may, however, be Sco. SPALE, _sb._ lath, chip, splinter. R.R., 1979; Burns, 132, 114. Norse _spela_, _spila_, _speil_, a splinter, a chip, also _spol_. O.N. _spölr_, a rail, bar, lattice work, sometimes means "a short piece of anything." Cu. _speal_. The O.E. word is _speld._ Cp. Fr. _espalier_.