SAIT, sb. session, court.  Dunbar, 79, 41.  O.N. s[’ae]ti, seat,
    sitting, Norse saete, id.  See Skeat under seat.

SAUCHT, adj. reconciled, also at ease, undisturbed, tranquil. 
    Bruce, N, 300; Douglas, II, 91, 22.  O.E. saht, borrowed from
    O.N.  See Kluge, P.G.(2)I, 934.  For discussion of O.E.
    seht and sehtian see Steenstrup, 181-182.  In Howlate, III,
    16, sacht vb. pret., made peace.

SAY, sb. a milk-pail, also tub.  Jamieson, Dumfries.  O.N. sar,
    a large cask, Norse saa, a pail, a water-bucket, a wooden
    tub, Dan. saa, vandsaa, waterpail, Sw. sa, id.

SCAIT, sb. the skate fish.  Dunbar, 261, 9.  O.N. skata, Norse
    skata, the skate, M.E. scate.  Ir. scat, sgat, id., is
    a loan-word from O.N. (Cp.  Craigie, p. 163).  O.N. sk becomes
    quite regularly sg in Ir. and Gael.  Cp. also sgeir <
    skar.  Cu. skeatt exhibits regular i-fracture from older
    a.

SCAITH, SCATH, vb. to injure.  Bruce, IV, 363; XII, 392; R. R.,
    1323.  Not from O. Nhb. sceethetha, but from O.N. skaetha, Norse
    skade, with which the vowel corresponds.

SCAR, sb. a precipitous bank of earth, a bare place on the side of
    a steep hill, a cliff.  Ramsay, II, 205; Burns, 10, 11.  Also
    written skard, scair, scaur.  O.N. sker, a skerry, an
    isolated rock in the sea.  Norse skjaer, a projecting cliff,
    a bank of rocky ground, Dan. skjaer, skaer, a rock in the
    water near the land, Sw. skaer, M.E. sker, scerre.  Cp. 
    Cu. skerr, a precipice.  The fundamental idea is “something
    cut apart, standing by itself.”  Root the same as in the Norse
    skera, to cut, Eng. shear and shore, sea-shore. Cp.
    the O.E. vb. scorian cited by Sweet.

SCARTH, sb. the cormorant.  Dunbar, T.M.W., 92; F., 194; Douglas,
    I, 46, 15.  O.N. skarfr, Norse skarv, cormorant.  Shetland,
    scarf.

SCHOIR, sb. a threat, menace.  Bruce, VI, 621; Gol. and Gaw., 103. 
    B-S. derive from O. Sw. skorra, O.N. skera.

SCOL, vb. to wish one health, an expression used in drinking, just
    as the Norse skaal is used.  Montg.  S., 69, 13.  O.N. skal,
    Norse skaal, a drinking cup.  Cp.  Sco. skull, a goblet. 
    Ir.-Gael. scala, sgaile, a beaker, is a Norse loan-word
    (Craigie).

SCOUG, scog, vb. to shelter.  M.W., 20, 19; Isaiah, XVIII, 6.  O.N.
    skuggi, shade, Norse skugge, to shade, Sw. skugga, sb.,
    Dan. skygge, to shade.  Spelled scug also in Sco.