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 KAST COIINWALL QLOSSAHY. 99 End, red. Bnmmet) dandriff. Buttling, a gurgling or rattling noise in the windpipe. Sabby, soft, moist, pasty. Sam, Zam, half or imperfectly done. <'A zam oven/' is one half heated, '*Zam-zodden/' means half sodden or parboiled. To leay^ the door  a zam " is to half close it. Sample^ soft and flexible. Sang, 07' Zang, a small sheaf such as lea»er$ (gleaners) make. Soam. To scam a shoe is to twist it out of shape by wearing it wrongly. Scan tie, small iiTeguIar slate, too small to make '^size slate (Delabole). Seat, to split or burst ; to bankrupt. School, Schnle, a body of iish, Carew spells it schoeh. Variously spelt. My silyer scaled skulk about my streams do sweep. Drayton, Polyolbiont Hong xxvi. In BcuiU that oft Bank the mid-sea. — Milton. Sclow, to scratch. Solum, to scratch violently. Scoad, to scatter ; to spill. '' To scond dressing " (manure). Soooe, to exchange or barter. Scollops, the dry residuum after lard is melted out ; an article of food. SooUncks, blocks of refuse or indifferent slate (Delabole). Soonce, brains ; wit. ScOYOy, spotted; mottled. Scranny, a scramble. Scrawed, scorched in the sun, as fish are frequently prepared. '^ A scrawed pilchard." Scrowledt at St, lyes. Treffellcts. Screw, the shrew or field-mouse, Sorex araneus, Scritch, a crutch. Scry, a report of the appearance of a body of fish, such as pilchards on the coasts of East OornwalL Dame Juliana Bemers, in her Treaixse of Fyaahynge with an Angle, says, **the noyse of houndys, the blastes of homys, and the 9cry of fbules." " They hering the ^ry cam and out of eche of the Apere yn hym." — Leland. ir 2