SAY, authority, influence, sway. "She has all the say." SCABY, SCABIE, mean, paltry, shabby. Lat. scabies. SCAD, to scald.-SCADDING OF PEAS, a custom in the North of boiling the common grey peas in the pods, in a green state, and eating them with butter and salt. The company often pelt each other with the swads, or husks; and the entertainment is sometimes in consequence called peas and sport. Grose mentions that a bean, shell and all, is put into one of the pea-pods; and that whoever gets this bean is to be first married. Dr. Jamieson views this custom as having the same origin as the King of Bane, in Scotland. SCALE, to spread abroad, to separate, to divide. Sax. scylan. cr I shall tell you A pretty tale; it may be, you have heard it; But, since it serves my purpose, I will venture Nearly all the commentators have mistaken the meaning of to scale't. I am quite satisfied that it was the author's intention to have the tale spread a little more minutely; or, as Horne Tooke better expresses it, to have it divided into more particulars and degrees; told more circumstantially and at length. If Archdeacon Nares, to borrow his own language, will weigh as in scales, to estimate aright," Mr. Lambe's observations on this passage, and on the means of acquiring a competent knowledge of the old English tongue (Notes on the Battle of Floddon), I entertain a hope that the learned author of the elaborate and valuable Glossary may not be indisposed to alter, in more respects than one, the article, To SCALE, in a future edition. SCALE, to disperse. The church is scaled; so is a school. It is a very common expression, in this sense, in the neighbourhood of Alnwick. Hence, to SCALE LAND, to break up clots of manure, mole hills, &c., and to spread them about the field. SCALE, also means, to shed, to spill, to scatter. SCALE-DISH, a thin dish used in the dairy for skimming milk. LI SCALLIONS, a punishment among boys-a good drubbing. SCAM, SCAUM, to bespatter, to stain, to discolour. SCAMP, a mean rascal, a fellow devoid of honour and principle. Properly a runaway; from Ital. scampare. SCANTISH, Scarce.-SCANTLY, scarcely. SCAR, SKAR, a bare and broken rock on the side of a mountain, or in the high bank of a river. Su.-Got. skær, rupes. SCARN, dung of cattle. Su.-Got. skarn, stercus. Sax. scearn. Dan. skarn. SCART, v. to scratch.-SCART, s. a scratch. See SCRAT. SCATHE, loss, spoil, damage. Pure Saxon. Dan. skade. SCATTER-BRAINED, weak, giddy, thoughtless, light-headed. SCONCE, a seat at one side of the fire-place in the old large open chimney-a short partition near the fire upon which all the bright utensils in a cottage are suspended. An amateur of the Italian language derives the word from sconnessa [seggia], an insulated or separate seat. I should prefer Germ. schanze, a defence, a screen. SCONCE, a beating about the head-sometimes the head itself. SCOOTER, a syringe. Shooter, perhaps, would be more correct. Sc. skyter, from skyte, to eject forcibly. SCOTCH AND ENGLISH, an amusement similar to STEALYCLOTHES; which see. The game seems evidently to have had its origin and name from the inroads of the Scotch and English in "times of old"-the language used on the occasion, consisting, in a great measure, of the terms of reproach common among the Borderers during their pilfering warfare. SCOTCH-FIDDLE, a musical instrument of a peculiar nature; for an amusing description of which I refer the reader to the new edit. of the Crav. Gloss. vo. Fiddle. SCOTCH-MIST, a small soaking rain-such as will wet an Englishman to the skin. Scotch mists, like Scotchmen, are proverbial for their penetration. SCOUT, a high rock, or large projecting ridge. Sax. sceotan, to shoot out. SCOWDER, to mismanage any thing in cooking, to scorch it. Grose has scourder'd, overheated with working; perhaps only a figurative sense of the word. V. Jamieson. SCRAB, a wild apple-the crab.-SCRAB-TREE, a crab-tree. SCRAFFLE, v. to scramble, to climb up by the help of the hands. Wey hinny, says aw, we've a Shot-Tower see hee, That biv it ye might scraffle to Heaven; And if on Saint Nicholas' ye once cus an ee, Ye'd crack on't as lang as ye're livin. Song, Canny Newçassel. SCRAFFLE, s. a scramble, or eager contest for any thing. SCRAFFLE, to be assiduously industrious, to struggle.-SCRAFFLING, working hard to obtain a livelihood. SCRANCH, to grind any hard or crackling substance between the teeth. Dut. schrantsen. Dr. Johnson says, the Scots retain it. So do the people in the North of England. SCRANCHUM, thin wafery gingerbread; so called from the sound when eaten-scranched. SCRANNY, thin, meagre. Su.-Got. skrinn, macer, gracilis. Dan. skranten, weak, sickly, infirm. SCRAT, SCRAUT, v. to scratch. Anglo-Norman, escrat. Swed. kratsa.-SCRAT, s. a scratch-the itch. Welsh, crach, scabies; and Ir. scraw, scurf, seem allied. SCRAT, an hermaphrodite. Sax. scritta. V. Todd's Johnson. SCREED, a rent or tear-a shred or fragment. Sax. screade. Teut. schroode.-SCREED, is also used for a border; as, a capscreed. SCRIBE, to write. Lat. scribere.-SCRIBE OF A PEN, a letter. SCRIMMAGE, a battle, an argument, an overthrow-a skirmish. The word was formerly written skaramouche. SCRIMP, v. to spare, to scant. Teut. krimpen, contrahere.SCRIMP, a. short, scanty, little. SCROG, a stunted bush or shrub. Sax. scrob, frutex.-SCROGGY, full of old stunted trees or bushes. SCROUNGE, OF SCRUNGE, to crowd, to squeeze. See SKREENGE. SCRUDGE, v. to crowd thickly together, to squeeze.—-SCRUDGE, s. a crowd, a squeeze. On the laying of the foundation-stone of the New Library of the Literary and Philosophical Society, by the Duke of Sussex, in 1822, there was the greatest scrudge ever remembered in Newcastle. SCRUFF, Scurf. A transposition of letters very common. See SCRANNY. SCUDDICK, the lowest measure of value. Perhaps from sceat, sceata, a small coin among the Saxons; or from some other denomination of money. SCUFF, the hinder part of the neck. V. Wilb.skuff. SCUG, to hide, to shade. See SKUG. SCUM, to strike a person on the mouth. A low word. SCUMFISH, to smother, to suffocate with smoke. Wood embers, the snuffing of a candle, sulphur, &c. have scumfishing effluvia in close rooms. Ital. sconfiggere, to discomfit. SCUNNER, to feel disgust, to loathe-to shy, as a horse in har ness. It is also, figuratively, applied to a man whose courage is not at "the sticking place." Sax. scunian, to fear, to abhor, to shun. SEAR, s. autumn-the time of the drying and withering of leaves. Sax. searian, to nip, or dry.-SEAR, a. dry, of a yellow hue; opposed to green. I have liv'd long enough; my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf.-Macbeth. Dr. Johnson and some other of the commentators object to way of life, and wish to substitute May; but I must confess that I am not convinced by their arguments. SEAVE, a rush.--SEAVY, overgrown with rushes. Seavy ground." 66 SECK, the Northern word for a sack. "A seck of flour." KITE. "Aw seed it." SEED, Saw. Universal among the vulgar. lum. The term often occurs in old inventories of household furniture. SEEK, sick. Sax. seoc. Old Eng. seke, as used by Chaucer. SEEKENING, sickening, the period of confinement at child-birth. SEER, several, divers. Su.-Got. saer, an adverb denoting separation. Ihre. They are gone seer ways.” SEER, for sure. This is also the pronunciation of Aberdeenshire. SEE-SAW, a sort of swing-from its reciprocating motion. Fr. ci-ça. V. Brand s Pop. Antiq., Vol. II., p. 304. SEESTAH, Seest thou. Also so pronounced in Aberdeenshire. SEG, a sedge; according to the Saxon form-secg. "Segge or star. Carix." Prompt. Parv. SEG, SEGG, a bull castrated when full grown. V. Jamieson. SEG, v. to hang heavily down. Sax. sigan, to sag, or swag. SEGGING, the heavy laborious walking of a person of unwieldy corpulence. "What a segging gait he has." SEGKITE, or SAGKITE, a term applied to a young person who is overgrown and not easily satisfied with food. From seg and kite. SELL, pronoun, self-used in compounds of mysell, hissell, hersell, yoursell. Plural sells, for selves. SEMMANT, slender, weak, thin, supple, active. SEMPLE, ordinary, vulgar—simple; applied to a person of ignoble birth. "Gentle and semple”—high and low. SEN, SIN, SYNE, since. V. Jam. sen.-SEN-SYNE, SIN-SYNE, since then. "Its lang syne, sen he left us.” SENG, shelter; as the seng of a hedge. Dan. seng, a bed. SESS-POOL, an excavation in the ground for receiving foul water. I do not find the word in any Dictionary, though it is in use by architects. V. Laing's Custom House Plans. Sus-pool occurs in Forster on Atmospheric Phænomena. Perhaps it is sous-pool-pool below the surface; or it may have been adopted from Lat. cedo, cessi, &c. to settle down. SET, disposal. "She has made a pretty set of herself.” SET, a permanent deflection, or settling of a railway or machinery. SET, to propel, to push forward; as setting a keel. Also, to |