An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

2. To breathe high in sleep, S. B.

Teut. soeff-en, spirare; A. S. seof-ian, to moan.

3. To whistle in a low tone, S. A.
Ferguson.
4. To con over a tune on an instrument.
Ramsay.

Souf, Souff, s.
1. A disturbed sleep, S. B.
2. High breathing in sleep, S. B.
3. Low whistle, S.
Gl. Shirr.
4. Strain, humour, S.

To SOUFF, v. n. To strike, S. B.

Isl. sweip-a, percutere.

SOUKS, SOUKIES, s. pl. The flower of red clover, S., from being sucked by children.

SOULDER CRAB, the cancer bernardus.
Sibbald.

SOULE, s. A swivel.
V. [Sule].
Lyndsay.

SOUM, SOWME, s. The relative proportion of cattle or sheep to pasture, or vice versa, S.
1. A soum of sheep, five sheep, in some places ten, S.
Stat. Acc.
2. A soum of grass, as much as will pasture one cow, or five sheep, S.
Acts Ja. VI.