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 270 Snuff. ^^To be snuff," affronted. Polwhele. See Sniffy. Soas. This curious word is often used, and in various ways. It appears to be a wheedling or coaxing expression, as ^' Woll'ee, soas ^ " i.e., Now will you? "Do'ee, soas," i.e., Come now, do; and so on. It may be compared with the word Ko or Co- Q.V. (Neighbour, friend, companion. U.J.T.) (In Celtic Cornish mar sose, if thou art. (?) Pryce.) Soaked. Bread not baked enough is said to be not well soaked. Sodger. A red-herring. Soldier. Sog. A sleep. A nap, drowsiness, numbness. " IVe just had a bit of a sog." It is a Celtic Cornish word. Sog. To doze, to have a short sleep. Soggy. Quaggy? nioist, marshy. In Celtic Cornish sog means, moist, wet. SoUer^ or Sailer. (Pryce, Corn, vocab. solarium vel solmm. From the Latin.) In Celtic Cornish it is soler, meaning, a ground room, an entry, a gallery, a stage of boards in a mine ; or sel, a foundation, base, or groundwork. " A sailer in a mine is a stage or gallery of boards for men to stand on and roll away broken stuff in wheel-barrows There is also another kind of sailer in an adit, being boards laid hollow on its bottom, by means of which air is conveyed under feet to the workmen In a foot-way shaft the sailer is the floor for a ladder to rest upon." Pryce,