=larofamedlers:= a phrase used generally as equivalent to, It’s none of your business. (Maryland, Penn., Ohio, Arkansas.) The word is a corruption of Lay-over for medlers, a lay-over being a bear-trap consisting of a pit covered with boughs. =light out:= to start on the run, as, He ‘lit’ out for home. =lagniap:= the extra in a bargain, as, Five dollars, and a hat for lagniap. (Louisiana.) =lush:= to drink heavily, to ‘swill.’ =mog:= to move, as, Mog along with you. =mogle:= the same. =main:= very, as, It’s main strange. (Worcester county, Mass.) =mosey.:= to move along with a strut. =move:= motion, as in, Get a move on you. =mealer:= one who takes only meals at a boarding-house. =mind off:= to ward off (flies, etc.). =meet up with:= to meet. (Tennessee.) =peter out:= to dwindle. =pail:= to milk, as, to pail the cow. (Penn.) =possessed:= anything, as, He acted like ‘all possessed.’ =quill:= to write. (_The Writer._) =quill-wheel:= a ‘rattle-trap’ wagon. =ruther:= choice, as, If I had my ruther; also, druther. =ride and tie:= verbal phrase, describing a mode of travel in which one vehicle is used by two sets of people, one riding ahead a given distance and tying the team where the others who have walked will come up to it, the first walking on ahead until overtaken and passed by the second, and so on. (Colorado.) =red up:= to make tidy. =ring off:= to desist or cease talking, technical phrase from the telephone, but passed into common usage. Comp., “saw off.” =rucus:= quarrel, rumpus. =saddy:= thanks, thank you. (Penn.) =saw off:= ‘ring off;’ a short person is said to look ‘sawed off.’ =shet, shut, shed:= rid, as, to get shut of anything. =shear off:= to pour off (water from settlings). (Ohio.) =shapin’s:= young peas and beans—the unfilled pod. (Arkansas.) =should have said:= said, as, He should have said yes, i. e., indeed he said yes. =shin:= to climb, as, to shin up a tree. =shut off:= to make to stop talking, as, Do shut him off. =shebang:= anything run-down, as house, carriage, affairs. =scrooch or scrooge:= to cringe. =skin-away:= a small boy. (Civilized Sac Indians.) =skin:= to run, as, Skin out, i. e., run away. =skid:= to sneak through examinations. (Yale.) =skid:= a sharp-pointed instrument. =skit:= a mild lie. =skads:= great quantities, as, Skads of money, of books, etc.; also = money, as, He hasn’t the skads. =singed cat:= a shrewd ‘rustler,’ of unpretentious appearance. =skulduggery:= knavery. =skip:= to run away, as, Now skip, i. e., Go away from here. =skip:= to leave hastily, as, He skipped the town. =slouch:= a gawky fellow; then anything imperfect, as in the phrase, He’s no slouch, i. e., He is an expert; no slouch of a horse, i. e., a first-rate horse. =sloomiky:= not neat. =slander:= to saunter. =slump:= to fail to meet requirements, as, in examinations. =slumps:= great quantities. (Clark’s Second Hand Catalogue, N. Y.)