Rick-rack. This is only used of the weather, as “rick-rack weather,” that is, stormy, boisterous weather, and far stronger in meaning than the more common phrase, “cazalty weather.” It is evidently from the Old-English _réc_, vapoury, cloudy weather, and well serves to explain the meaning of Shakspeare’s “rack,” a cloud, in the well-known passage in the _Tempest_ (Act iv. sc. 1), which has given rise to so much controversy. Miss Gurney (_Transactions of the Philological Society_, 1855, p. 35), notices that “rack” is used in Norfolk for mist driven by the wind. Ronge, To. To kick, or play, said of horses. Rubble, To. To remove the gravel, which is deposited throughout the Forest in a thick layer over the beds of clay or marl. The gravel itself is called “the rubblin.” Rue. A row, or hedgerow. _See_ chap. v. p. 56. In the Forest some of the embankments, near which perhaps the Kelts and West-Saxons lived, are called Rew- and Row-ditch. I have, too, heard of attics being called “lanes,” possibly having reference to the “ruelle” by which the space between the curtains was formerly called. Rug-stick, also called a Lug-stick. A bar in the chimney, on which “the cotterel,” or “iron scale,” or “crane,” as it is also called, to which the kettle or pot is fastened, hangs. We find the word still used in America as the “ridge-pole” of the house, which helps us at once to the derivation. Scale, or squoyle. _See_ chap. xvi. p. 182. Scull, A.(From the Old-English _scylan_, and so, literally, a division). A drove, or herd, or pack of low people, always used in an opprobrious sense. It is properly applied to fish, especially the grey mullet which visits the coast in the autumn, and so metaphorically to beggars who go in companies. Milton uses the word “——sculls that oft Bank the mid sea.” _Paradise Lost_, Book vii. Shakspeare, too, speaks of “scaled sculls” (_Troilus and Cressida_, Act v. sc. 5). The expression “school of whales,” which we so often find in Arctic and whaling voyages is nothing but this word slightly altered. According to Miss Gurney’s Glossary of Norfolk words (_Transactions of the Philological Society_, 1855), the word “school” is applied to herrings on the south-eastern coast. Juliana Berners, in the _Boke of St. Albans_, curiously enough says that we should speak of “a sculke of foxes, and a sculle of frerys.”—Quoted in Müller’s _Science of Language_, p. 61. Setty. Eggs are said to be “setty” when they are sat upon. Shammock, To. To slouch. “A shammocking man” means an idle, good-for-nothing person. Applied also to animals. “A shammocking dog,” means almost a thievish, stealing dog, thus showing how the word is akin to shamble, scamble, which last verb also signifies to obtain any thing by false means. Shear, after-, The. The second crop of grass. Called in the Midland Counties “the eddish,” and also the “latter-math,” or “after-math.”