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 92 ANTRIM AND DOWN GLOSSARY. Skite, (1) sb. a teim of contempt ; an empty, conceited fellow. (2) sb, a sharp slap or blow. (3) V, to slap. Bkiyer, sb, a skewer. Skiver the goose, sb, a boy^' game. Two persons are trussed some- what like fowls : they then hop about on their * hunkers,* each trying to upset the other. Skull, V. ' To shdl cattle,' to cut off their horns close to the head. Skulled, adj Same as Honied or Polled. Applied to cattle which haye been subjected to the cruel operation of haying their horns sawr^ off close to the skulL Skyble, sb, a thin person. Slabby, adj. sloppy ; muddy. * Slobby wet clay.* Slaek, adj, neglectful; remiss. Slaok lime, v. to put water on quick lime. Slack spun, adj, said of a person who is half a fool. The same kind of person is said * to haye only eleyen cuts to the hank/ or ' he is not all there,' or * he wants a square of being round,' &c. Slap, (1) sb, a gap or passage through a hedge for occasional use. It is closed by filling up the opening with branches, &c. (2) sb, a lai^e quantity. * A whole dap of money.' Slater, tn* Slate-Butter, sb, the wood-louse, Onisais, and seyeral of the allied si>ecies of crustaceans. Slatf, sb, pi. The laths of a Venetian blind and the laths of a bed- stead are called slaU,^ Blattering, v. going about like a slattern. Slavers, sb, pL water flowing from the mouth. Slay hook, sb. a small implement used by weayers ; in slang, a term for a dried herring. Sleeoh, sb, fluyiatile or marine silt ; sea-wrack growing on mud banks^ Sleech grass, sb, Zostera manna. Sleek, Slake, sb, a smear ; a streak of dirt. Sleekit, adj, cunning ; underhand ; hypocriticaL Sleep in, v. to lie too long in the morning, so as to be late for work. Slep, V. slept. * A'ye slep noan.* Slenstor, v. to flatter. Slever, sb. saliya. Sliggaun, sb. the pearl-bearing fresh-water mussel, Anodon cygnea. Slinge, V. to sneak about.