Ringan Gilhaize, or, The Covenanters Part 45

_Rackses_, andirons.

_raised_, delirious.

_ree_, half-drunk.

_reek_, smoke.

_redde_, rede, counsel.

_rig_, ridge (of ploughed land).

_rones_, external waterducts of a building.

_rug_, _v._ pull roughly.

_runkle_, crumple.

_Scad_, gleam, reflection.

_sch.o.r.e_, a man of high rank.

_scog_, _v._ hide.

_scomfisht_, discomfited.

_scowther_, scorch.

_scrog_, a stunted shrub.

_shavling-gabbit_, shavling mouthed, a shavling being a carpenter's tool of the plane order. Having a mouth which emits sounds like those made in planing.

_sicker_, certain.

_siver_, sewer.

_skail_, _skayl_, disperse.

_skelf_, shelf.

_skirr_, scour.

_sklinter_, _v._ splinter.

_skreigh_, cry.

_sleekit_, deceitful.

_slocken_, slake.

_smeddam_, spirit.

_sneck_, bolt.

_snell_, keen.

_snod_, trim.

_snool_, subjugate by tyrannical means.

_sole_, sill.

_sorn_, to "sponge" upon; used by Galt for to loiter.

_sosherie_, social intercourse.

_sough_, murmur.

_spae_, _v._ forecast.

_spean_, _v._ wean.

_speat_, flood.

_speer_, _speir_, inquire.

_s.p.u.n.k_, spark.

_staincher_, stanchion.

_stang_, a pole; to "ride the stang" was to be subjected to a form of mob justice by which the patient was borne shoulder-high astride a pole.

_steek_, st.i.tch, fasten.

_stock_ (bed-stock), the fore-part of a bed.

_stoure_, dust in motion.

_straemash_, disturbance.

_stravaig_, _v._ stroll.

_sw.a.n.ky_, strapping young countryman (Brockett).

_swatch_, sample.

_swee_, a chimney crane for suspending a pot over the fire (Jamieson).

_swither_, _v._ to be reluctant, hesitate; _n_. reluctance, hesitation, indecision.