Glossary.
Letter S
- SACRIFICIAL
- reverent, as words used in religious worship
- SACRING-BELL
- the little bell rung at mass to give notice that the elements are consecrated
- SAD
- serious
- SADLY
- seriously
- SADNESS
- seriousness
- SAFE
- to make safe
- SAG
- to hang down
- SALT
- lascivious
- SALT
- taste
- SANDED
- marked with yellow spots
- SANS
- without
- SAUCY
- lascivious
- SAW
- a moral saying
- SAY
- silken
- SAY
- assay, taste, relish
- SCAFFOLDAGE
- the gallery of a theatre
- SCALD
- scurvy, scabby
- SCALE
- to weigh in scales
- SCALL
- a scab, a word of reproach
- SCAMBLE
- to scramble
- SCAMEL
- probably a misprint for sea-mel, sea-mew
- SCAN
- to examine subtly
- SCANT
- to cut short, to spare
- SCANT
- scanty, short
- scarcely
- SCANTLING
- a small portion
- SCAPE
- to escape
- SCAPE
- a sally
- SCATHE
- injury
- SCATHE
- to injure
- SCATHFUL
- destructive
- SCONCE
- the head
- SCOTCH
- to bruise or cut slightly
- SCRIMER
- a fencer
- SCROYLE
- a scabby fellow
- SCULL
- a shoal of fish
- SCURVY
- scabby; metaph. mean
- SEAL
- to set one's seal to a deed; hence, to confirm
- SEAM
- fat
- SEAMY
- showing the seam or sewing
- SEAR
- scorched, withered
- SEAR
- to stigmatise
- SEARCH
- to probe; hence, to apply a healing remedy
- SEATED
- fixed, confirmed
- SECT
- a slip or scion
- A political party
- SECURELY
- inconsiderately
- SEEL
- to close
- SEELING
- closing, blinding
- SEEMING
- seemly, becomingly
- SEEMING
- outward manner and appearance
- SEEN
- versed, instructed
- SELD
- seldom
- SELF-BOUNTY
- native goodness
- SEMBLABLY
- alike
- SENIORY
- seniority
- SENNET
- a flourish of trumpets
- SEPULCHRE
- to bury
- SEQUESTRATION
- separation
- SERE
- dry
- SERJEANT
- a bailiff
- SERPIGO
- a cutaneous disease
- her service, or be her servant
- SETEBOS
- the name of a fiend
- SETTER
- one who watches travellers to give information to thieves
- SEVERAL
- land which is not common but appropriated
- SHAME
- to be ashamed
- SHAME
- modesty
- SHARDS
- shreds, broken fragments of pottery
- SHARDS
- the wing cases of beetles; hence 'sharded,' and 'shard-borne,'
- SHARKED
- snatched up, as a shark does his prey
- SHEEN
- brilliancy
- SHEER
- pure
- Unmixed
- SHENT
- rebuked, blamed
- Hurt
- proclamations were fixed
- SHIVE
- slice
- SHOT
- the reckoning at an ale-house
- SHOUGHS
- shaggy dogs
- SHOULDERED
- plunged
- SHOVEL-BOARD
- game played by sliding metal pieces along a board at a mark
- SHREWD
- mischievous
- SHRIFT
- confession
- Absolution
- SHRIVE
- to confess
- SHRIVING-TIME
- time for confession
- SHROUD
- to enshroud oneself, cover oneself up
- SIDE-SLEEVES
- loose hanging sleeves
- SIEGE
- seat
- Stool
- Rank
- SIGHT
- an aperture in a helmet
- SIGHTLESS
- invisible
- Unsightly
- SIGN
- to give an omen
- SILLY
- simple, rustic
- SIMULAR
- counterfeit, feigned
- SINGLE
- feeble
- SIR
- a title applied to a bachelor of arts at the Universities
- SITH
- since
- SITHENCE
- since
- SIZES
- allowances
- SKAINS-MATES
- scapegraces
- SKILL
- to be of importance
- SKILLESS
- ignorant
- SKIMBLE-SKAMBLE
- rambling, disjointed
- SKINKER
- a drawer of liquor
- SKIRR
- to scour
- SLACK
- slacken
- SLAVE
- to turn to slavish uses
- SLEAVE
- floss-silk
- SLEDDED
- sledged
- SLEIDED
- untwisted, raw, applied to silk
- (Gower)
- SLEIGHTS
- artifices
- SLIPPER
- slippery
- SLIPS
- a kind of noose, or leash
- A piece of base money
- SLIVER
- to slice
- SLIVER
- a slice
- SLOPS
- loose breeches
- SLUBBER
- to slur over
- SMIRCHED
- smeared, soiled
- SMOOTH
- to flatter
- SMOOTHED
- flattered, fawned upon
- SNEAP
- taunt, sarcasm
- SNEAPED
- pinched
- SNECK-UP
- go hang!
- SNUFF
- anger
- 'To take in snuff' is to take offence
- SOFTLY
- gently
- SOIL
- spot, taint
- SOLICIT
- solicitation
- SOLIDARE
- a small coin
- SOLVE
- solution
- SOMETIMES
- formerly
- SOOTH
- truth
- Conciliation