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 100 EAST CORNWALL GLOSSARY. Scry is probably connected with the old practice of crying out, oc vociferating on the approach of a schule of nsh. Soud, the hardened crust on a sore. Bcudder, Skitter, to slide ; skate. Soute, an iron plate with which the toe or heel of a shoe is armed. Fr. escttsson. Lat. $nUum, Sea-adders, the vulgar generic name for pipe-fish. Seam, or Zeam, a load of hay ; manure, &c. It means with us no definite quantity, but a cart-load, wag»>n-load, &c. Tusser in speaking of the good crops of barley which he raised at Brentham, says (O^ber^B Htubandrie)y — Five Beam of an acre I truly was paid. Again, in November's Hushandrie, he says — Th' encrease of a seam is a bushel for store. Sea-yem, sea fern ; the coral, Gorgonm verrucosa, Seeoh. The rush of sea waves inundating the streets at high tides. Bond's Hist, of Looes. Seedlip, the wooden basket in which the sower carries his seed. Sense, stop. An exclamation used by boys at marbles, when they want to stop for a moment. (Polperro.) Shammict, a contemptuous epithet applied to a man. Shaimy, the fish, Blennius pholis, Shenakmm, a drink composed of boiled beer, a little rum, moist sugar, and slices of lemon. (Qy. Snack o' rum.) Shiye, to shy, as a horse does. Shiyer, a bar of a gate. Slioali adj, shallow. Shortalus, masses of loose rubbish iu slate quarries which have fallen in, and filled up cracks and rents. Shot, the trout. Carew makes a distinction between the trout and shot, *'The latter," he says, **is in a maner peculiar to Devon and CornwalL In shape and colour he resembleth the Trowts ; howbeit in biggnesse commeth farre behind him." The shoates with which is Tavy fraught. — ^Browne's Brit, Past, Shouell, shovell. Shute, a conduit, or fountain of /filling water. Biff, to sigh. Sives, a small pot-herb of the alliaceous kind. Skeaae, to run along very swiftly. Skeeny, sharp and gusty. " A sheeny wind."