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 285 Sugary candy. When the boots or shoes creak, they say there is sugary candy in them. Sugary quartz. A very crumbly or pulverulent quartz, closely like white sugar. Sump. Bottom of a mine shaft. (Sumph. Pryce.) Sumpmeil. Men who sink mine shafts. Sumps. Pits made at the bottom of the mine for the water, or for trying in depth beyond the general workings. Borlase. Sunbeams. The air-floating webs of the gossamer spider. Survey. A public sale, an auction. Letting work in a mine. SuSSj or SesS, See Zess. Sus, Latin, a sow. Swabstick. A mining tool. Swaising, or Whazing. Swinging, as of the arms in walking. M.A.c. Swegli, a Saxon word, means, a violent motion, swaying. Swallet. A gulph or chasm. Pryc&. Swap. A gadfly. M.A.c. Swarr. Swathe, " a good swarr of hay." Swealed, or Swailed. In the Cornish dialect, means, scorched and crumpled, as of parchment by heat. Swelt, (Spenser) burnt. Swellack. The redwing. See Whinnard. Suellak in Celtic Cornish. Folwhele.