Sech, such. Set by, valued. 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; Som'ers, somewhere. Sot, firm; sotter, firmer. 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. 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. 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. 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 Eneas goes to hell, 135. supposed by some, 135. Alligator, a decent one conjec- Alphonso the Sixth of Portu- gal, tyrannical act of, 160. Anglo-Saxondom, its idea, carried to perfection, 35. whom best reported, ib. Appian, an Alexandrian, not Ararat, ignorance of foreign "American Citizen," new com- Arcadian background, 139. post so called, 137. American Eagle, a source of - wrongly classed, 79-long Amos, cited, 60. Anakim, that they formerly Aristophanes, 59. Arms, profession of, once es- Arnold, 67. Astor, Jacob, a rich man, 123. Astræa, nineteenth century |