Sech, such.

Set by, valued.

Shakes, great, of considerable

consequence.

Spiles, spoils; objects of political ambition.

Spout, to preach, or lecture. Spout o' invention, the mouth.

hats. Sheer, share.

Shet, shut.

Shiver-de-freeze, chevaux de frise. Fr. Shut, shirt.

Sixty; "to goalong like sixty," i.e., at a good rate, briskly. Skeer, to scare, or frighten. Skeeter, mosquito. Skooting, running or moving swiftly.

Skunk, a small but very objec-
tionable animal;-the term
is used figuratively in Ame-
rica for a mean man.
Slarterin', slaughtering.
Slick, to brighten up, or polish.
Slick, sharp, clever, quick.
Slim, contemptible.
Snaked, crawled like a snake;
but to snake any one out is
to track him to his hiding-
place; to snake a thing out
is to snatch it out.
Snakes; "to wake snakes,"
to create a disturbance.
Soffies, sofas.
Sogerin', soldiering; a barba-
rous amusement common
among men in the savage
state.

Som'ers, somewhere.
So'st, so as that.

Sot, firm; sotter, firmer.
Sot, set, obstinate, resolute.

Staddles, stout stakes driven into the salt marshes, on which the hay-ricks are set, and thus raised out of the reach of high tides. Streaked, uncomfortable, discomfited.

Stuffy, old fashioned, peculiar. Suckle, circle.

Sure enuf, sure enough, really, actually

Sutthin, something.
Suttin', certain.

Swarth, swath, the line of grass mowed.

Swon, to swear; "I swon (or I swow) he did it," i.e., I swear, &c. Swow, to swear.

Thunder, political principles,| oratorical copyright, party

ism. Thunder; "by Thunder," a species of soft swearing common in the U. S. Thundering,

a euphemism common in New England, for the profane English expression devilish. Perhaps derived from the belief, common formerly, that thunder was caused by the

Prince of the Air, for some of whose accomplishments consult Cotton Mather. To-hum (to home), at home. Tollable, tolerable.

Toot, used derisively for play

ing on any wind instrument. True grit, genuine, of the right quality,-not counterfeit. Tu, to, too; commonly has

this sound when used emphatically, or at the end of a sentence. At other times

it has the sound of t in tough, as Ware ye goin' tu? Goin' ta Boston.

Yaller, yellow. Yeller, yellow.

Y.

Yellers, a disease of peach-trees.

Z.

Zack, Ole, a second Washing

ton, an antislavery slaveholder, a humane buyer and seller of men and women, a Christian hero generally.