Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements)

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Scale (Scand.), 'a hut' (Scot. shieling; Ice. skali); Portinscale, and possibly Shields, Galashiels, Selkirk.

Scar (Scand.), 'a cliff;' Scarborough, the Skerries.

Schloss (Ger.), 'a castle;' as Marienschloss.

Serai (Turk.), 'a palace;' as Bosna-serai or Seraiëvo.

Set (A.S.), 'a seat,' 'a settlement;' Dorset, Somerset, Ambleside, Seidlitz.

Sex, 'Saxons;' as Essex ('East Saxons'), Sussex ('South Saxons').

Sierra (Sp.—L. serra), 'a saw;' or from Ar. sehrah, 'an uncultivated tract.'

Slievh (Ir.; allied to L. clivus, a slope), 'a mountain;' as Slievh Beg.

South, found in Suffolk, Sussex, Southampton, Sutherland, Sutton, Sudbury, Sudley.

Stadt. See Stead.