Rexen _s. p._ rushes (A S _rixe_)
Rip _v._ to rate or chide
Riscous applied to bread imperfectly baked
Robin-ridd.i.c.k, or Ruddock _s._ redbreast
Rodd.i.c.ks, Roddocks _s._ ex. Off the roddocks, as a cart off the grooves of the axle
Rode _v.n._ to go out to shoot wild fowl which pa.s.s over head on the wing early at night or in the morning; also applied to the pa.s.sage of the birds themselves, ex. The woodc.o.c.ks" rode
Roe-briar _s._ the large dog-rose briar
Roller, Rawler, Brawler _s._ a bundle of reed, ex. As weak as a rawler
Rompstal _s._ a rude girl
Ronge _v._ to gnaw, to devour (Fr. _ronger_)
Room, Rhume _s._ scurf of the scalp
Root-chains _s._ main plough chains
Roozement _s._ a slip or falling-in of earth
Ropy _adj._ wine or other liquor is ropy when it becomes thick and coagulated; also bread when a kind of second fermentation takes place in warm weather
Rose _v.n._ to drop out from the pod or other seed-vessel when the seeds are over ripe
Rose, Rooze-in _v._ to fall in, as the upper part of a quarry, or well
Round-dock _s._ the common mallow
Rouse-about _adj._ big, unwieldly
Rout _v._ to snore
Rowless _adj._ roofless. A Rowless Tenement an estate without a house
Rowsse _v._ to rush out with a great noise
Rozzim, Rozzums _s._ quaint sayings, low proverb
Ruck _v._ to couch down
"What is mankind more unto you yhold Than is the shepe that rouketh in the fold."
(Chaucer, Knight"s Tale)
Rudderish _adj._ rude, hasty
Ruge _v.n._ to hang in folds, to wrinkle (Lat. _rugae_)
Rungs, Rongs _s. pl._ the rounds of a ladder, also of a chair
Rushen _adj._ made of rushes
Sand-tot _s._ sand-hill
Sape _s._ sap of trees, juice of fruit. Sapey _adj._ as fruit-tart
Sar, Sarve _v._ to earn wages
Scad _s._ a sudden and brief shower
Scamblin _s._ irregular meal
Scarry-whiff _adv._ askew
Scorse, Squoace, Squiss _v._ to exchange, barter
"And there another, that would needsly scorse A costly jewel for a hobby-horse"
(Drayton"s Moon Calf)
Scottle _v._ to cut into pieces wastefully
Scourge-mettle _s._ the instrument with which a boy whips his top
Scovin, Scubbin _s._ the neck and breast of lamb
Scrambed, Shrambed _adj._ deprived of the use of some limb by a nervous contraction of the muscles; benumbed with cold
Scrint _v._ to scorch, singe; also to shrink a good deal in burning, as leather, silk, &c.
Scun _v._ to reproach with the view of exposing to contempt or shame (A S _scunian_, to shun, avoid)
Scurrick, Scurrig _s._ any small coin, a mere atom; ex. I havn"t a scurrick left
Scute _s._ a sum of money, a gratuity, the impress on ancient money, from _scutem_, a shield. So _ecu_, Fr., a crown; shilling, from A S _scild_, a shield. Chaucer uses _shildes_ for ecus, _i.e._, crowns
Seam _s._ a horse-load (A S _seam_)
Seed-lip _s._ a sower"s seed basket
Seem, Zim _v._ to think, to be of opinion; ex. I do zim, or zim t" I
Seltimes _adv._ seldom