Glossary: Snell - Tel'
Snell—severe, keen, cold | Steching—panting, groaning for want of breath |
Snellest—bitterest, most unfortunate | Stinning—standing |
Sneeran—sneering | Stoor—boisterous noise |
Soud—should | Stoup—a kind of high narrow jug or dish, with a handle and lid, for holding liquids, mostly whiskey |
Soun'—sound | Stoupfu—the full of a stoup |
Soon's—soon as | Stoited—stumbled |
Sonsy—lucky, jolly | Streekit—stretched |
Soncler —more jolly | Staucherin—staggering |
Soom—to swim | Stab—a stake |
Sowing-brod—a board upon which weavers mix and beat their dressing or paste | Staps—steps |
Sowins—a dish made of the finest of oatmeal steeped or soured in water and oatmeal seeds | Strang—strong |
Sogers—soldiers | Strae—straw |
Souching—a low mournful sound dying on the ear, like the sighing or moaning of the wind through a wood | Stells—stills |
Sowther—to solder | Stieve, steeve—firm, full |
Spat—spot | Stievely—firmly |
Spate—a flood, inundation | Stenchers—stanchels |
Spale—a spell of words | Spunkie—Will-o'-the-wisp |
Spak—spoke | Spreadan—spreading |
Spavie—the spavin | Squattert—fluttered in water like a wild duck |
Specks—spectacles | Squeels—sereams |
Speel—to climb | Swankie—a strippling, youth |
Speelt—climbed | Swalt—Swelled |
Speeling—climbing | Swirled—whirled |
Speer—to ask, to enquire | Swack—whack, forcible throw |
Speert—asked | Swith—quickly, swift |
Spen—spend | Swither—to hesitate |
Spoulin, spoutan—ejecting | Swearan—swearing |
Span—spun | Sweert, sweer—unwilling, averse to |
Stack—did stick | Syne—then, soon, afterwards |
Stan—stand | Synt—washed |
Stanes—stones | |
Stane dyke—a stone inclosure | Taes—Toes |
Starns—stars | Tafts—cot houses |
Stappet—stopped, filled | Tak—take |
Stap—to fill, to stop | Tanle—bonfire |
Steek—to shut, to silence | Tangs—tongs |
Steekit—shut, closed | Tattert—torn |
Steering—moving, stirring | Tap—top |
Steers—moves, shifts | Tauld—told |
Sten—spring, leap | Tel'—tell it |