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Sech, such.

Set by, valued.
Shakes, great, of considerable

consequence. Shappoes, chapeaux, cocked hats. Sheer, share. Shet, shut.

Shiver-de-freeze, chevaux de frise. Fr. Shut, shirt.

Sixty; "to goalong like sixty," i.e., at a good rate, briskly. Skeer, to scare, or frighten. Skeeter, mosquito. Skooting, running or moving swiftly.

Skunk, a small but very objectionable animal;-the term is used figuratively in America for a mean man. Slarterin', slaughtering. Slick, to brighten up, or polish. Slick, sharp, clever, quick. Slim, contemptible.

Snaked, crawled like a snake;
but to snake any one out is
to track him to his hiding-
place; to snake a thing out
is to snatch it out.
Snakes; "to wake snakes,"
to create a disturbance.
Soffies, sofas.
Sogerin', soldiering; a barba-
rous amusement common
among men in the savage
state.

Som'ers, somewhere.
So'st, so as that.

Sot, firm; sotter, firmer.
Sot, set, obstinate, resolute.

Spiles, spoils; objects of political ambition.

Spout, to preach, or lecture. Spout o' invention, the mouth. Spry, active.

Staddles, stout stakes driven into the salt marshes, on which the hay-ricks are set, and thus raised out of the reach of high tides. Streaked, uncomfortable, discomfited.

Stuffy, old fashioned, peculiar. Suckle, circle.

Sure enuf, sure enough, really, actually

Sutthin, something.
Suttin', certain.

Swarth, swath, the line of grass mowed.

Swon, to swear; "I swon (or I swow) he did it," i.e., I swear, &c. Swow, to swear.

T.

Tackle, to take. Take on, to sorrow. Talents, talons. Tarnal, tarnation,-euphemism for damnable, &c. Tater patch, vulgar equivalent for a person's grounds,estate, or abode. Taters, potatoes. Tell, till. Tetch, touch.

Tetch tu, to be able; used always after a negative in this sense.

Thru, through.

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Thunder, political principles, oratorical copyright, party

ism. Thunder; "by Thunder," a species of soft swearing common in the U. S. Thundering, a euphemism common in New England, for the profane English expression devilish. Perhaps derived from the belief, common formerly, that thunder was caused by the Prince of the Air, for some of whose accomplishments consult Cotton Mather. To-hum (to home), at home. Tollable, tolerable. Toot, used derisively for playing on any wind instrument. True grit, genuine, of the right quality,-not counterfeit. Tu, to, too; commonly has

this sound when used emphatically, or at the end of a sentence. At other times

it has the sound of t in tough, as Ware ye goin' tu? Goin' ta Boston.

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Yaller, yellow. Yeller, yellow.

Y.

Yellers, a disease of peach-trees.

Z.

Zack, Ole, a second Washington, an antislavery slaveholder, a humane buyer and seller of men and women, a Christian hero generally.

INDE X.

A.

A. B., information wanted
concerning, 106.
Adam, eldest son of, respected,
33.

Eneas goes to hell, 135.
Æolus, a seller of money, as is

supposed by some, 135.
Eschylus, a saying of, 79,
note.

Alligator, a decent one conjec-
tured to be, in some sort,
humane, 156.

Alphonso the Sixth of Portu-

gal, tyrannical act of, 160.
Ambrose, Saint, excellent (but
rationalistic) sentiment of,
61.

Anglo-Saxondom, its idea,
what, 46.
Anglo-Saxon mask, 46.
Anglo-Saxon race, 41.
Anglo-Saxon verse, by whom

carried to perfection, 35.
Antonius, a speech of, 65-by

whom best reported, ib.
Apocalypse, beast in, magnetic
to theologians, 114.
Apollo, confessed mortal by
his own oracle, 114.
Apollyon, his tragedies, popu-
lar, 102.

Appian, an Alexandrian, not
equal to Shakspeare as an
orator, 65.

Ararat, ignorance of foreign
tongues is an, 81.

"American Citizen," new com- Arcadian background, 139.

post so called, 137.

American Eagle, a source of
inspiration, 71 hitherto

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wrongly classed, 79-long
bill of, 80.

Amos, cited, 60.

Anakim, that they formerly
existed, shown, 161.
Angels, providentially speak
French, 48-conjectured to
be skilled in all tongues,
49.

Aristophanes, 59.

Arms, profession of, once es-
teemed especially that of
gentlemen, 33,

Arnold, 67.
Ashland, 140.

Astor, Jacob, a rich man,

123.

Astræa, nineteenth century
forsaken by, 136.
Athenians, ancient, an institu-
tion of, 66.

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