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  • siff wire
    <Black>; sieve wire <Eleu.> [cf. W Car, sieve wire idem; SIFF sieve] n. wire mesh, as used to screen windows.
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  • siffer
    [cf. OED sifter sieve] n. a sieve. <Inagua, Mayag.>
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  • sifer
    See CIPHER.
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  • side lamp
    n. lamp on a bedside table: This side-lamp could work, but the stand broke (Andros). <Black>
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  • side
    [Car.; cf. also Haitian bó côté; endroit; ki bó où TDKF; "This may in part be a loan-translation: cf. Twi
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  • side
    [Car.; cf. also Haitian bó côté; endroit; ki bó où TDKF; "This may in part be a loan-translation: cf. Twi
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  • sick
    n. 1. [W Car.; OED idem obs.→1799] a sick person.  2. [Scots idem CSD] sickness: 1918 All his sick broke
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  • sich
    [OED obs. or dial.; also US dial. ADD] adj. such: 1918 You sich a greedy man (Parsons 16). <Black>
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  • shy-go.
    See SHAGGO.
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  • shuffle
     v.i. [W Car.; cf. OED, to shift about hesitatingly obs.→1697] to move along the floor on one's belly. <Black>  —v.t. [
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