S

Sae

So.

Saft

Soft.

Sair

To serve; a sore; sairie, sorrowful; sairly, sorely; sair't, served.

Sark

A shirt.

Sarkit

Provided in shirts.

Saugh

Willow.

Saugh-woodies

Withies made of willows, now supplanted by ropes and chains.

Saul

soul.

Saumont

Salmon.

Saunt

Saint.

Saut, Sautit

Salt, Salted.

Saw, Sawin'

To sow, sowing.

Sax

Six.

Scaith

To damage, to injure, injury.

Scaud

To scald.

Scauld, scawl

To scold, a scold.

Scaur

Apt to be scared; a precipitous bank of earth which the stream has washed red.

Scawl

Scolding wife

Scone

A kind of bread.

Sconner

A loathing, to loath.

Scraich and Scriegh

To scream, as a hen or partridge.

Screed

To tear, a rent; screeding, tearing.

Scrieve, Scrieven

To glide softly, gleesomely along, swiftly.

Scrimp

To scant; scrimpet, scanty;

Scroggie

Covered with underwood, bushy.

Seed

Saw, did see.

Seizin'

Seizing.

Sel'

Self; a body's sel', one's self alone.

Sell't

Did sell, sold.

Sen', Sen't

To send, sent, or did send.

Servan'

Servant.

Sets, Sets off

Goes away.

Settlin'

Settling; to get a settlin', to be frightened into quietness.

Shachlet-feet

Ill-shaped.

Shair'd

A shred, a shard.

Shangan

A stick cleft at one end, for pulling the tail of a dog, etc., by way of mischief, or to frighten him away.

Shank-it

Walk it; shanks, legs.

Shaul

Shallow.

Shaver

A humorous wag, a barber.

Shavie

To do an ill turn.

Shaw

To shew; a small wood in a hollow place.

Sheen

Bright, shiny.

Sheep-shank

To think one's self nae sheep-shank: to be conceited.

Sherra-muir

Sheriff-muir, the famous battle of 1715.

Sheugh

A ditch, a trench, a sluice.

Shiel, Shealing

A shed, a shepherds cottage.

Shill

Shrill.

Shog

A shock, a push off at one side.

Shoo

Ill to please.

Shool

A shovel.

Shoon

Shoes.

Shore, Shor'd

To offer, to threaten; offered and threatened.

Shot

One traverse of the shuttle from side to side of the web.

Shouther

The shoulder.

Sic

Such.

Sicker

Sure, steady.

Sidelins

Sideling, slanting.

Silken-snood

A filet of silk, a token of virginity.

Siller

Silver, money, white.

Simmer

Summer.

Sin

A son, since.

Sinsyne

Since then.

Skaith

To damage, to injure, injury.

Skeigh

Proud, nice, saucy, mettled.

Skellum

A noisy, reckless fellow.

Skelp

To strike, to slap; to walk with a smart tripping step, a smart stroke.

Skelpie-limmer

A technical term in female scolding.

Skelpin, Skelpit

Striking, walking rapidly; literally striking the ground.

Skinklin

Thin, gauzy, scaltery, a small portion.

Skirl, Skirling

To cry, to shriek shrilly, shrieking, crying.

Skirl't

Shrieked.

Sklent

Slant, to run aslant, to deviate from truth.

Sklented

Ran, or hit, in an oblique direction.

Skouth

Vent, free action.

Skreigh

A scream, to scream, the first cry uttered by a child.

Skyte

A worthless fellow, to slide rapidly off.

Skyrin

Partly coloured, the checks of the tartan.

Slade

Did slide.

Slae

Sloe.

Slap

A gate, a breach in the fence.

Slaw

Slow.

Slee, Sleest

Sly, slyest.

Sleekit

Sleek, sly.

Sliddery

Slippery.

Slip-shod

Smooth shod.

Sloken

Quench, slake.

Slype, Slypet

To fall over; fell over, with a slow reluctant motion.

Sma'

Small.

Smeddum

Dust, powder, mettle, sense, sagacity.

Smeek

Smoke.

Smiddy

A smithy.

Smirking

Good-natured, winking.

Smoor, Smoored

To smother, smothered.

Smoutie

Smutty, obscene; smooty phiz, sooty aspect.

Smytrie

A numerous collection of small individuals.

Snakin'

Sneering.

Snapper

Mistake, stumble.

Snash

Abuse, Billingsgate, impertinence.

Snaw, Snawie

Snow, to snow, snowy.

Snaw-broo

Melted snow.

Sned

To lop, to cut off.

Sned-besoms

To cut brooms.

Sneeshin

Snuff; sneeshing-mill, a snuff-box.

Snell, Snelly

Bitter, biting; snellest, bitterest.

Snick, or Sneck

The latchet of a door.

Snick-drawing

Trick contriving.

Snirt, Snirtle

Concealed laughter; To breathe through the nostrils in a displeased manner.

Snool

One whose spirit is broken with excessive slavery; To submit tamely, to sneak.

Snoove

To go smoothly and constantly, to sneak.

Snowk, Snowkit

To scent or snuff as a dog, scented, snuffed.

Sodger

A soldier.

Sonsie

Having sweet engaging looks, lucky, jolly.

Soom

To swim.

Sooth

Truth, a petty oath.

Sough

Sound dying on the ear, or a continued sound, like the noise of a high wind.

Souk

To suck, to drink long and enduringly.

Soupe

Milk.

Souple, Soupled

Flexible, swift; suppled.

Souse

Cold

Souter

A shoemaker.

Souther, Sowther

To solder.

Sowens

A dish made of oatmeal -- the seeds of oatmeal soured, etc. boiled up till they make an agreeable pudding.

Sowp

A spoonful, a small quantity of anything liquid.

Sowth

To try over a tune with a low whistle.

Spae

To prophecy, to divine.

Spails

Chips, splinters.

Spairge

To clash, to soil, as with mire.

Spates

Swollen streams.

Spaul

A limb.

Spaviet

Having the spavin.

Speat, Spates

A sweeping torrent after the rain or thaw; sudden floods.

Speel

To climb.

Speer

Call.

Spence

The parlour of a farmhouse of cottage.

Spier

To ask, to enquire; spier't, inquired.

Spinnin-graith

Wheel and roke and lint.

Splatter

To splutter, a splutter

Spleughan

A tobacco pouch.

Splore

A frolic, noise, riot.

Sprachled

Scrambled.

Sprattle

To scramble.

Spreckled

Spotted, speckled.

Spring

A quick tune air in music, a Scottish reel.

Sprit, Spret

A tough-rooted plant, something like rushes, jointed leaves rush.

Sprittie

Full of spirits.

Spunk

Fire, mettle, wit, spark.

Spunkie

Mettlesome, fiery; will o' the wisp or ignis fatuus; the devil.

Spurtle

A stick used in making oatmeal pudding or porridge, a notable Scottish dish.

Squad

A crew or party, a squadron.

Squatter

To flutter in water, as a wild duck, etc.

Squattle

To sprawl in the act of hiding.

Squeel

A scream, a screech, to scream.

Stacher

To stagger.

Stack

A rick of corn, hay, peats.

Staggie

Diminutive of stag.

Staig

A two-year-old horse.

Stalwart

Stately, strong, stout.

Stane

A stone.

Stang

Sting, stung.

Stank

A pool of standing water; slow moving water.

Stan't

To stand, did stand

Stap

Stop, stave.

Stark

Stout, potent.

Startin'

Frighted.

Startle

To run as cattle stung by the gadfly.

Staukin

Stalking, walking disdainfully, walking without an aim.

Staumrel

A block head, half-witted.

Staw

Did, steal, to surfeit.

Stech, Stechin

To cram the belly; cramming.

Steek

To shut, a stitch.

Steer

To molest, to stir.

Steeve

Firm, compacted.

Stell

A still.

Sten, Sten't

To rear as a horse, to stride, to leap suddenly; reared.

Stents

Tribute, dues of any kind.

Stey

Steep; styest, steepest.

Stibble

Stubble: stubble rig, the reaper in harvest who takes the lead.

Stick-an'-stow

Totally, altogether.

Stilt, Stilts

A crutch; to limp, to halt; poles for crossing a river.

Stimpart

The eighth part of a Winchester bushel.

Stirk

A cow or bullock a year old.

Stock

A plant of colewort, cabbages.

Stockin'

Stocking; Throwing the stockin'; When the bride and bridegroom are put into bed, and the candle out, the former throws a stocking at random among the company, and the person whom it falls on is the next that will be married.

Stook, Stooked

A shock of corn, made into shocks.

Stoor

Sounding hollow, strong, and hoarse.

Stot

A young bull or ox.

Stound

Sudden pang of the heart.

Stoop, or Stowp

A kind of high narrow jug, or dish, with a handle, for holding liquids.

Stoure

Dust; More particularly, dust in motion; stourie, dusty.

Stown

Stolen.

Stownlins

By stealth.

Stoyte

The walking of a drunken man, stumble.

Strack

Did strike.

Strae

Straw; to die a fair strae death, to die in bed.

Straik

To stroke; straiket, stroked

Strappan, Strappin'

Tall, handsome, vigorous.

Strath

Low alluvial land, a holm.

Straught

Straight.

Straught on a board.

Die and be stretched on a board.Straight.

Stravagin

Wandering without an aim.

Streek

Stretched, to stretch.

Striddle

To straddle.

Stroan

To spout.

Stroup

The spout.

Strunt

Spirituous liquor of any kind; to walk sturdily, to be affronted.

Studdie

The anvil.

Stuff

Corn or pulse of any kind.

Stumpie

Diminutive of stump; a grub pen.

Sturt

Trouble; to molest.

Styme

A glimmer.

Sucker

Sugar.

Sud

Should.

Sugh, or Sough

The continued rushing noise of wind or water.

Sumph

A pluckless fellow, with little heart or soul.

Suthron

Southern, an old name for the English nation.

Swaird

Sword.

Swall'd

Swelled.

Swank

Jolly.

Swankie, or swanker

A tight strapping young fellow or girl.

Swap

An exchange, to barter.

Swarfed

Swooned.

Swat, Sweatin'

Did sweat, sweating.

Swatch

A sample.

Swats

Drink, good ale, new ale, or wort.

Sweer

Lazy, averse; dead-sweer, extremely averse.

Swingein

To beat, to whip.

Swinke

To labour hard.

Swirl

A curve, an eddying blast or pool, a knot in wood.

Swirlie

Knaggie, full of knots.

Swith

Get away.

Swither

To hesitate in choice, an irresolute wavering, in choice.

Swoor

Swore, did swear.

Syebow

A thick necked onion.

Syne

Since, ago, then.