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 272 Common Sorrel, and it was quite as good as some ■ kinds of Ehubarb. Some mention is made of this plant in the Flora Medica, where it is said, "The leaves are refrigerent and diuretic, and taken in large quantities as food will be found of consid- erable efficacy. In some parts of France it is culti- vated as an edible vegetable, and the natives of Werm eland, on the confines of Sweden, in seasons of great scarcity, form it into bread, and that it is not unsalutary.'' Souse. To fall, sit, or bump suddenly down. ^^Down he came, souse." Sow-pig, or Grammar-sow. The wood-louse. Sowdling. Burly, ungainly. M.A.c. Soyl. ^ seal. The sea calf. Carew. Spading. Cutting turf in large thin slices with a great cross-handled spade. Spal, or Spale. A fine for lost time, or absence from work. Amercement. Forfeiture. It is spal in Celtic Cornish. Spaliard. A pickman ; a working tinner. Fryce. Spalier, or Spalyer. Espalier. Spalled, or Spaaled. Fined for absence or lost time in working. Spalliers, or Spadiards. Miners so called from their spades. (Spalliers, Polwhele.)