Snowball-tree. The double Guelder-rose. Snowballs, its blossoms.—N. & S.W.
Snow-blunt. A slight snowstorm.—N. & S.W. See Blunk.
Snow-in-harvest, or Snow-in-summer. Cerastium tomentosum, L.—S.W.
Snowl. (1) n. A large piece of anything (S.). 'Gie I a good snowl o' bread, mother!'—N. & S.W. *(2) n. The head.—N.W. (Malmesbury.)
Snow-on-the-mountains. (1) Saxifraga granulata, L., White Meadow Saxifrage.—S.W. (2) White Cress.—N. & S.W.
Snuff-rag. A pocket-handkerchief (S.).—N. & S.W. (Lockeridge, &c.) Also used formerly at Clyffe Pypard, N.W.
Sobbled. Soddened, soaked with wet (Village Miners).—N.W.
*Soce. Friends; addressed to the company generally, as 'Well, soce, an' how be ye all to-day?'—N.W. (Malmesbury.) Very rarely heard in Wilts, but common in Dev. and Som. It is probably a relic of Socii, as used by monkish preachers. In the old ghost-story in Jefferies' Goddard Memoir (see Waylen's History of Marlborough, p. 555), the use of the word soas (there spelt source) by one of the characters is alluded to in such a way as to show that it was looked on as a curious peculiarity of his. See W. Somerset Words.
Sod-apple. Epilobium hirsutum, L., Great Hairy Willow-herb, from its smell when crushed.—N.W.
'Willow herb ... country folk call it the sod-apple, and say the leaves crushed in the fingers have something of the scent of apple-pie.'—Great Estate, ch. ii.