RUE, or REw, to repent. Sax. hreowian.-RUE-BARGAIN, a bargain repented of, something given to be off an agree

ment.

RUG, to pull roughly. Teut. rucken, detrahere.-RUGGING AND RIVING, pulling and tearing.

RUM, a common North country word for any thing odd or queer a comical person, for instance, being called a rum stick. May not Dr. Johnson's rum parson be what is called a hackney parson, and come from Germ. rum, which is from herum, about, as herum laufer is a vagabond? Herum parson or rum parson may, therefore, be a vagabond parson. RUM-GUMPTIOUS, forward and pompous. V. Crav. Gloss. RUMBUSTICAL, rude, noisy, overbearing.

RUINATED, reduced to ruin, ruinous. Pegge erroneously considered this word as peculiar to Londoners. RULE-O'-THUMB, no rule at all-guess work.

RUNG, a spoke, the step or round of a ladder. Mo.-Got. hrung, virga. It is also a name for a cudgel.

RUNNEL, pollard wood. Perhaps from running up apace. RUNT, a Scotch ox-also a jocular designation for a person of a strong though low stature. "A runt of a fellow."Germ. rind, an ox or cow; but figuratively, a dull-pated, stupid fellow.

RUSH-BEARING, a rural feast or wake, now become nearly obsolete. See Crav. Gloss. and Brand's Pop. Antiq. vol. i.

p. 436. RUTTLING, a noise occasioned by a difficulty in breathing.—

Teut. rotelen, murmurare. The dead ruttle, a particular kind of noise made in respiring by a person in the extremity of sickness, is still considered in the North as an omen of death. Levinus Lemnius (Occult Miracles of Nature, lib. ii. ch. 15.) is very learned on this subject.

RUZE, to extol, to boast, to magnify in narration. Isl. rausa, multa effutire. Cornish, rôs, bragging. Hence, perhaps, roozer a great untruth.

S

SACKLESS, simple, weak, helpless, innocent. Dr. Willan considers that this epithet must have originated after the introduction of the favourite beverage, sack and sugar; but the word may evidently be traced to Sax. sacleas, quietus. Isl. saklaus, innocens.

SAD, heavy; particularly applied to bread when the yeast has had no effect.

SAFE, a. sure, certain. "He's safe to be hanged."
SAFE, s. a place of security. "An iron safe."

SAIM, SAME, hog's-fat, goose-grease. Welsh, saim, grease.—
Fr. sain-doux, lard. Shakspeare and other writers use

seam.

SAINT CUTHBERT'S DUCK, the cider duck; or great black and white duck. Anas mollissima.-Linnæus. These birds are found on the largest of the Fern Islands on the Northumberland coast, which is the only place in England where they are known to breed. The feathers are remarkably soft and of great value. The popular name is obviously connected with the celebrated Saint Cuthbert ; who, regardless of all earthly pomp and vanity, resigned an episcopal, for an hermitical life-retiring to this desert isle, where he died.

SAINT SWITHIN'S DAY (the 15th of July). The old superstition that if it rain on this day, not one of the next forty will be wholly without, is not yet eradicated. V. Brand's Pop. Antiq. vol. i. p. 271, and Nares' Gloss.

SAIRY, poor, pitiable, helpless. Sax, sari, sarig.

SALLY, to move or run from side to side; as is customary with the persons on board of a ship after she is launched. SAMCAST, two ridges ploughed together. Dur. Referrible to Germ. sammeln, to gather, zusammen, together. SAMPLETH, a sampler. V. Suff. Words. The author is mistaken in thinking them not still worked.

SANDGATE-CITY, a burlesque name for Sandgate, Newcastle; a place of great antiquity, but described by a local poet as The devil's besom sure,

With which oft times he sweeps the floor;
The air's with glass-house smoke infected,
Confusion of all kinds collected.

SANDGATE-RATTLE, a peculiar step in vulgar dancing, consisting of a violent and very quick beating of the toes on the floor.

SANDGATE-RING, a particular mode of lighting a tobacco pipe. SANG, a song. Pure Saxon.

SANG! MY SANGS! frequent exclamations, sometimes equivalent to indeed, but generally implying a threat. "My sangs! but aw will gee y'it."

SAPSCULL, a foolish fellow, a blockhead.

SARE, sore, painful. Sax. sar.

Su.-Got. saar.

SARE, very much, greatly. Germ. sehr.

"He's sare afflicted."

SARK, a shirt. Sax. syrc.

"It's sare worn."

Su.-Got. særk. V. Jam.

SARMENT, a sermon. "We'd a good sarment the day.”

SARTIN, sure, positive.-SARTINLY, certainly.

SATTLE, to settle. This vulgar pronunciation is conformable to the Saxon origin of the word. Peirs Ploughman uses sahtle.

SAUCE, insolence of speech, impertinence. Sauciness. "Don't

SAUGH, SAFF, the sallow; a species of willow. Fr. saule. SAUL, the soul. Pure Saxon; and the ancient mode of writing the word.

SAUL, the solid substance in the inside of a covered button. Fr. saoul, soul, a filling.

SAUT, SOTE, salt. Sax. sealt. In the pronunciation of many of the provincial dialects of the North, the sound of the l is omitted.

SAVELICK, an excrescence from the brier, placed by boys in their coat cuffs, as a charm, to prevent a flogging.

SAW, to sow. Mo.-Got. saian.

Germ. säen.

SAY, authority, influence, sway.

SCABY, SCABIE, shabby, mean.

Su.-Got. saa.

Sax. sawan.

"She has all the say.”

"A scaby fellow."

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. It is sometimes called, in consequence, peas and sport. SCALE, to spread, to disperse. V. Jam. skail.

I shall tell you

A pretty tale; it may be, you have heard it;
But, since it serves my purpose, I will venture
To scale't a little more.

Shak. Coriolanus.

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 or diffused a little more, though some of the hearers might have heard it. If Archdeacon Nares 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-LAND, to break up clots of manure, and to spread them and other loose materials about the field.

SCALE-DISH, a thin dish for skimming milk.

SCALLIONS, a punishment among boys. To catch the scallion tails, is to get a good drubbing.

SCAMP, a mean rascal, a fellow devoid of honour or principle. SCAMPER, to run off. Fr. escamper. Ital. scampare. Teut. schampen, to slip aside.

SCANTISH, scarce.—SCANTLY, scarcely.

SCAPE-GRACE, a term of reproach—a graceless fellow.
SCAR, a bare and broken place on the side of a mountain, or
in the high bank of a river. Su.-Got. skær, rupes.
SCARN, SHARN, cow-dung. See Cow-SHAREN.

SCATHE, loss, spoil, damage. Pure Saxon. Used by Chaucer, Spenser, and Shakspeare.

SCATTER-BRAINED, light-headed. "A Scatter-brain'd body." 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. SCONCE, a beating about the head-sometimes the head itself. SCOOTER, a syringe. See SWIRT.

SCOTCH MIST, a small soaking rain-such, however, as will wet an Englishman to the skin.

SCOUT, a high rock. V. Todd's John.

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. Jam.