Shinny’s weel aneuf if shins wer’ seàf.”—Old saying.

Sinsyne, S, since then.

“She charm’d my heart an’ aye sinsyne,

I canna think o’ onie ither.”

Song—O’er the Muir.

Skeich, S, shy, distant.

“Maggie coost her heid fu’ heich,

Look’d asklent an’ unco skeich.”

Burns. Duncan Gray.

Skirl, S, scream.