Snug. Well, in health, comfortable. 'I be main glad to hire as your missus be so snug [is doing so well] a'ter her confinement.'—N.W.
Sob. To sodden with wet. Cf. Sobbled.—N.W.
*Split-house. A joint tenancy?
'Whereas we ... being inhabitants of the town of Marlborough ... have ... for many years past, fed and depastured our mares and geldings, two to each inhabitant not being certificate men nor split houses, in the said earl's Forest of Savernak, &c.'—1790, Agistment Deed as to Savernake Forest, quoted in Waylen's History of Marlborough, p. 421.
Spray. To splay a sow, when set aside for fattening.—N.W.
*Squailings, Squailens. Ungathered apples.—S.W.
Staid. Add:—Sometimes applied to an old horse or other animal.
*Stars-and-garters. Ornithogalum umbellatum, L., Star of Bethlehem.—N.W. (Heddington.)
Starvation cold. Extremely cold. See Starve.—S.W.