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 ALMONDBURY AND HUDDERSFIELD. 125 Soft-heid {gL 8auft-hi*h*d), the ordinary word for a fool, or block- head. Sole (gL soal), earth ; soil. Peculiar as being the reverse of the ordin- ary usage, for had the word really been ao/e, it would in all proba- bility have been called soil. Some do call it soil. Possibly sole may be used only by persons who think soil is as contrary to good usage as hoil. The sole of a shoe is constantly called soil. Soon (pronounced sooin). W. S., going late to his work, met his employer, who said, * Tha' art varry lat to-day, William.' He answered, 'Well, maister, Au'U tak* care to be sooin enough to- neeght ; we munna haV two lats i' one day.' S08S (gl. sos), to sit down plumply or quickly. ' Soss ye daan.' Also, to drink off. A man will soss up his beer before he stops. S088, sh. A person is hit straight in the stomach with a soss ; falls plump on the ground with a soss ; a wet dish-dout goes down with a soss. Sough (pronounced 8uff)y to tire of. When men tire of doing a thing they sough on it, t. e. show weak-heartedness. Sough (pronounced soaf), the Willow : here called the Palm-tree. Sow (pronounced sad ; gl, saa*h*), a drain. Sow (pronounced sda)^ vh. to drain. Sower (spelling doubtful ; pronounced soar, or sore), the black matter which accumulates in a hole where refuse water is thrown. Sower-hoil is the hole in question. [_8ower = sewer ; from the verb sow, also sew, to drain. — ^W. W. S.] Spadger^ a sparrow. Spadille, or Spedille (accent on last syllable), a smooth, tapering, round stick, about ten inches long, with a straight axis, used to stretch the screed of a widow's cap in the process of getting it up after washing. Span, spun ; past tense of to spin, Spane {gl, spain), to wean (a child). A man after five days of drunkenness, when he was recovering, said he was * spaining off.* Spanghew (so spelt by HalL, and so pronounced at Lepton; but spankhew as I heard it pronounced), a verb to express a peculiar process adopted to torture birds, young animals, &o., fully described oy Hall. ; exhibited to me by a native, but unnecessary to be explained here. Sparge, to point or plaster the inside of a chimney. Spattle, spittle.