- Resh, rush.
- Revelee, the réveille.
- Rile, to trouble.
- Riled, angry;
- disturbed, as the sediment in any liquid.
- Riz, risen.
- Row, a long row to hoe, a difficult task.
- Rugged, robust.
- Row-de-dow, troublesome talk.
S.
- Sarse, abuse, impertinence.
- Sartin, certain.
- Saxon, sacristan, sexton.
- Scaliest, worst.
- Scringe, cringe.
- Scrouge, to crowd.
- Sech, such.
- Set by, valued.
- Shakes, great, of considerable consequence.
- Shappoes, chapeaux, cocked-hats.
- Sheer, share.
- Shet, shut.
- Shine, a fancy or liking, also written shindy.
- Shut, shirt.
- Skeered, scared.
- Skeeter, mosquito.
- Skooting, running or moving swiftly.
- Slarterin', slaughtering.
- 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.
- Soffies, sofas.
- Sogerin', soldiering;
- a barbarous amusement common among men in the savage state.
- Som'ers, somewhere.
- So 'st, so as that.
- Sot, set, obstinate, resolute.
- Spiles, spoils; objects of political ambition.
- 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.
- Suckle, circle.
- Sutthin', something.
- Suttin, certain.
- Swan, to swear.
T.
- Take on, to sorrow.
- Talents, talons.
- Taters, potatoes.
- Tell, till.
- Tetch, touch.
- Tetch tu, to be able;
- used always after a negative in this sense.
- Tollable, tolerable.
- Toot, used derisively for playing on any wind instrument.
- Thru, through.
- 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.
- 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.
U.
- Ugly, ill-tempered, intractable.
- Uncle Sam, United States;
- the largest boaster of liberty and owner of slaves.
- Unrizzest, applied to dough or bread;
- heavy, most unrisen, or most incapable of rising.
V.
- V spot, a five-dollar bill.
- Vally, value.