_Set_; it becomes, 260; disposed, 120. --"_Set to_;" engage, set about. 110, 145, 179, 235.
_Set-rent_; full rent.
_Shake_; to push aside, push out.
_Shell_ of a balance; the scale. 268.
_Short_; in temper hasty, rash. 153. --"_Shortly_;" forthwith. 249. --"_Short-dated_;" lasting only a short time. 196.
_Shute_; sometimes written _shoot_; to push in, shove back. 20, 29, 158, 163. --"Satan shutes in his teeth," occurs in Rutherford's "Christ Dying."
_Sib_; nearly related to. 106, 212, 245, etc. --"We behoved to be as _sib_ as brethren." Sermon.
_Sicht_, or _sight_, a Verb; to examine narrowly, _q.d._ by close sight. 12. It occurs in Row's "History" often.
_Sicker_; strong. 107.
_Silly_; poor, frail, pitiful. 27, 184.
_Silver_, or _siller_; money. 254.
_Sing_; in the phrase, "_Sing_ dumb," be reduced to silence. 128.
_Singly_; with a single mind. 83.
_Sink_; a common sewer. 272, 276.
_Sit with_; to endure in patient silence. 52, 63. Submit to. 43. Treat with carelessness.
_Skaill_; disperse, scatter. 160, 190, 241, etc.
_Skaith_; harm. 285.
_Skaur._ --See _Scaur_.
_Skink_; formally renounce, or bid farewell to. 85, 88. --In A.S., the Verb is "to give drink;" in German, "_schenken_," to give. It is _q.d._ take leave by giving a present, or by drinking a farewell.
_Slot_; a moveable bolt; bar. 29, 47, 48.
_Sned_; to prune, lop off, make tidy. 298.
_Solacious_; full of cheer, or comfort. 105.
_Soldiers-stately_; in Letter 63. It might have been noticed that old editions make this one word equivalent to "a spirit becoming a soldier;" like Milton's "timely-happy spirits." Joseph Alleine's "Life" has, "holy-taking rhetoric." Others point thus, "Your soldier's stately spirit." So, "_heavenly-wise_." 191.
_Some._ 64, 214. For somewhat.
_Sometimes_; properly "_some-time_;" on former days, once on a time. 28, etc. --In our Version of the Bible, Eph. ii. 3; 1 Pet. iii. 20.
_Soon-saddled_; hasty in temper. 189. --Little time taken to get on the saddle.
_Soul-couper_; a jobber in souls. 330. --See _Coup_.
_Souple_; same as _supple_. 132.
_Spaits._ --See _Speat_.
_Sparing_; niggardly. 222.
_Spark_; to squirt out. 163.
_Sparkle_; to spark out, scatter sparks. 263. --Chaucer speaks of the shepherd seeking his "_sparkeland sheep_," i.e. scattered.
_Speat_, or _spait_; a flood, overflowing stream. 37, 248, 285. (Gaelic, "_speid_"), a river-flood.
_Speed_; to "come speed" is to succeed.
_Speir_, or _speer_; ask questions at. --"_Speer out_," search out by questions. 180.
_Spelk_; to truss, support by splinters. 107, 128. (Saxon word.)
_Spill_; spoil, mar, or injure. 22, 310, etc. --So Ps. lxiii. 9, in Rous' version; a child spoiled by indulgence.
_Spring_; a tune, sprightly air. 181, 182, 214.
_Spunk_; a spark. 215.
_Stalks._ In Letter 17, "to keep the stalks," is the reading of some old editions; but in another Letter, 194, "keep the stakes." If the former, the sense is, "to get only the withered stalks to keep," Song ii. 14 specially; if the latter, "get what they deposited."
_Stand upon_; require the help of. 81.
_Standing drink._ 177.--Like the stirrup-cup handed to a friend as he stood at the door.
_Startle_; ran up and down in excitement, as cattle do in hot weather; act extravagantly. 69, 75, 182, 258.
_Starts._ "At starts;" fitfully. 7, 293. --"_Start to the gate._" --See _Gate_.
_State_; the mode of putting or stating a question. 214, 245, 278, 333, 359. --"_Stated_;" set down. 359.
_Sted_; a place, a foundation for a house, a site. 18. So used by Gawin Douglas. --"_Stedable_," _q.d._ able to furnish a foundation; available, serviceable. 170, 252.
_Stent_; to fix at a certain rate, and no more. 249. In Fullerton's "Turtle Dove:" "He stented twice on the horologue."
_Still_; always, ever. 87, 108, 133, 285. In our metre version of the Psalms it occurs, _e.g._ Ps. ciii. 9, "Keep His anger still."
_Stob_; a stake sharpened at the end. 240.
_Stock of cards_; a pack of. 194.
_Stoop_; to make a stoop is to bow low. 287.
_Stop-hole_; anything to fill up a hole. 239.
_Stot_; a rebound. 249. --"_To keep stots_;" keep pace with, to rebound regularly. 236.
_Stound_; a stroke that suddenly over-powers and produces faintness. 167.
_Stoup_; a stake, post, prop. 84, 196.
_Suit_; urge a suit, woo, solicit. 19, 26, 37, 355, etc.
_Sundry_; separate. 247. --"_Sunder_," part from, the Verb. 264.
_Sure_; surely. 359, etc.
_Suspension_; an act in law, suspending final execution of a sentence. 230.
_Swatter_; to move, or toss about, as a duck in the water. 178. --R. Blair (see "Life" by Row) uses it in a poem,--
"Out of the dreary vale of tears My soul hath _swattered_ out."
Rollock (Lect. xxxviii.): "He swatters and swims."
_Swear one's self bare_; swear that you have given up everything. 285.
_Sweer_; lazy, reluctant. 178, 230, 285.
_Tack_; stitch, hold, tie. 275. Also, possession by lease. 284.
_Tailzie_; a Scotch law term for entail or charter of entail. 32.