The Gentle Shepherd: A Pastoral ComedyRamsay, Allan
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The Gentle Shepherd: A Pastoral Comedy
Ramsay, Allan
Scottish drama -- 18th century
_Sae_, so.
_Saebiens_, seeing it is, since.
_Saft_, soft.
_Sair_, or _sare_, sore.
_Sakeless_, or _saikless_, guiltless, innocent, free.
_Sald_, sold.
_Sall_, shall; like _soud_ for should.
_Samen_, same.
_Sang_, song.
_Sark_, a shirt.
_Saugh_, a willow or sallow tree.
_Saul_, soul.
_Saw_, an old saying, or proverbial expression.
_Sawn_, sown.
_Sax_, six.
_Scad_, or _scawd_, scald.
_Scart_, to scratch.
_Scrimp_, narrow, straitened, little.
_Sell_, self.
_Sey_, to try.
_Shaw_, a wood or forest.
_To Shaw_, to show.
_Shellycoat_, a goblin, a spirit who resides in the waters.
_Sheveling-gabit_, having a distorted mouth.
_Shoon_, shoes.
_Shore_, to threaten.
_Sic_, such.
_Siccan_, such kind of.
_Siller_, silver.
_Simmer_, summer.
_Sindle_, or _sinle_, seldom.
_Singand_, singing.
_Sinsyne_, since that time; lang _sinsyne_, long ago.
_Skair_, share.
_Skaith_, hurt, damage, loss.
_Skelf_, shelf.
_Skelp_, to run; to flog the buttocks.
_Skiff_, to move smoothly along.
_Slaw_, slow.
_Sled_, sledge, sleigh.
_Slee_, sly.
_Slid_, smooth, cunning, slippery; as, "he's a _slid_ loun."
_Sma_, small.
_Smoor_, to smother.
_Snaw_, snow.
_Snood_, the band for tying up a woman's hair.
_Snool_, to dispirit by chiding, hard labour, and the like; also, a
pitiful grovelling slave.
_Sonsy_, happy, fortunate, lucky; sometimes used for large and lusty;
plump, thriving.
_Sorn_, to spunge, or hang on others for maintenance.
_Sough_, the sound of wind among trees, or of one sleeping.
_Spae_, to foretell or divine. _Spaemen_ prophets, augurs.
_Spain_, to wean from the breast.
_Spait_, or _spate_, a torrent, flood, or inundation.
_Speer_, to ask, inquire.
_Spill_, to spoil, abuse.
_Spraings_, stripes of different colours.
_Spring_, a tune on a musical instrument.
_Sta_, stall.
_Stane_, stone; a weight of 16 lbs.
_Stang_, did sting, to sting.
_Stap_, stop.
_Starns_, the stars.
_Staw_, stole.
_Steek_, to shut, close.
_Stegh_, to cram.
_Stend_, or _sten_, to move with a hasty long pace; to spring.
_Stent_, to stretch or extend; to limit or stint.
_Stock-and-horn_, a shepherd's pipe, made by inserting a reed pierced
like a flute into a cow's horn; the mouth-piece is like that of a
hautboy.
_Stown_, stolen.
_Strae_, straw.
_Strak_, struck.
_Strapan_, clever, tall, handsome.
_Sung_, singed.
_Swat_, did sweat.
_Swith_, quickly.
_Syne_, afterwards, then; since.
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