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Sacrificial
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reverent, as words used in religious worship
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Sacring-bell
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the little bell rung at mass to give notice
that the elements are consecrated -
Sad
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serious
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Sadly
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seriously
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Sadness
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seriousness
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Safe
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to make safe
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Sag
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to hang down
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Salt
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lascivious
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Salt
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taste
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Sanded
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marked with yellow spots
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Sans
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without
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Saucy
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lascivious
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Saw
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a moral saying
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Say
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silken
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Say
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assay, taste, relish
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Scaffoldage
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the gallery of a theatre
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Scald
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scurvy, scabby
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Scale
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to weigh in scales
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Scall
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a scab, a word of reproach
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Scamble
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to scramble
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Scamel
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probably a misprint for sea-mel, sea-mew
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Scan
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to examine subtly
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Scant
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to cut short, to spare
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Scant
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scanty, short
scarcely -
Scantling
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a small portion
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Scape
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to escape
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Scape
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a sally
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Scathe
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injury
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Scathe
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to injure
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Scathful
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destructive
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Sconce
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the head
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Scotch
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to bruise or cut slightly
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Scrimer
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a fencer
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Scroyle
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a scabby fellow
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Scull
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a shoal of fish
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Scurvy
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scabby; metaph. mean
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Seal
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to set one's seal to a deed; hence, to confirm
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Seam
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fat
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Seamy
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showing the seam or sewing
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Sear
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scorched, withered
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Sear
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to stigmatise
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Search
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to probe; hence, to apply a healing remedy
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Seated
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fixed, confirmed
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Sect
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a slip or scion
A political party -
Securely
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inconsiderately
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Seel
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to close
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Seeling
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closing, blinding
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Seeming
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seemly, becomingly
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Seeming
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outward manner and appearance
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Seen
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versed, instructed
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Seld
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seldom
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Self-bounty
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native goodness
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Semblably
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alike
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Seniory
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seniority
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Sennet
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a flourish of trumpets
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Sepulchre
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to bury
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Sequestration
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separation
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Sere
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dry
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Serjeant
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a bailiff
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Serpigo
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a cutaneous disease
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Serviceable
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'serviceable vows,' vows that you will do
her service, or be her servant -
Setebos
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the name of a fiend
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Setter
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one who watches travellers to give information
to thieves -
Several
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land which is not common but appropriated
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Shame
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to be ashamed
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Shame
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modesty
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Shards
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shreds, broken fragments of pottery
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Shards
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the wing cases of beetles; hence 'sharded,'
and 'shard-borne,' -
Sharked
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snatched up, as a shark does his prey
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Sheen
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brilliancy
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Sheer
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pure
Unmixed -
Shent
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rebuked, blamed
Hurt -
Sheriff's-post
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a post at the door of a sheriff, to which royal
proclamations were fixed -
Shive
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slice
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Shot
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the reckoning at an ale-house
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Shoughs
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shaggy dogs
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Shouldered
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plunged
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Shovel-board
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game played by sliding metal pieces along
a board at a mark -
Shrewd
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mischievous
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Shrift
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confession
Absolution -
Shrive
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to confess
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Shriving-time
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time for confession
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Shroud
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to enshroud oneself, cover oneself up
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Side-sleeves
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loose hanging sleeves
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Siege
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seat
Stool
Rank -
Sight
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an aperture in a helmet
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Sightless
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invisible
Unsightly -
Sign
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to give an omen
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Silly
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simple, rustic
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Simular
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counterfeit, feigned
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Single
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feeble
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Sir
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a title applied to a bachelor of arts at the
Universities -
Sith
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since
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Sithence
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since
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Sizes
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allowances
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Skains-mates
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scapegraces
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Skill
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to be of importance
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Skilless
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ignorant
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Skimble-skamble
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rambling, disjointed
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Skinker
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a drawer of liquor
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Skirr
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to scour
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Slack
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slacken
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Slave
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to turn to slavish uses
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Sleave
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floss-silk
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Sledded
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sledged
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Sleided
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untwisted, raw, applied to silk, Gower
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Sleights
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artifices
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Slipper
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slippery
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Slips
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a kind of noose, or leash
A piece of base money -
Sliver
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to slice
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Sliver
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a slice
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Slops
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loose breeches
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Slubber
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to slur over
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Smirched
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smeared, soiled
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Smooth
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to flatter
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Smoothed
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flattered, fawned upon
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Sneap
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taunt, sarcasm
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Sneaped
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pinched
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Sneck-up
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go hang!
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Snuff
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anger
'To take in snuff' is to take offence -
Softly
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gently
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Soil
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spot, taint
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Solicit
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solicitation
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Solidare
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a small coin
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Solve
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solution
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Sometimes
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formerly
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Sooth
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truth
Conciliation -
Sooth
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true
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Sorel
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a buck of the third year
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Sorriest
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most sorrowful
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Sorry
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sorrowful, dismal
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Sort
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a company
Rank, condition
Lot
'In a sort,' in a manner -
Sort
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to choose
to suit
To consort -
Sot
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fool
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Soul-fearing
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soul-terrifying
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Sowl
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to lug, drag
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Sowter
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name of a dog
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Specially
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a special contract
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Sped
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settled, done for
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Speed
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fortune
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Sperr
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to bolt, fasten
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Spial
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spy
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Spill
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to destroy
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Spilth
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spilling
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Spleen
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violent haste
Used of the lightning flash -
Sprag
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quick
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Spring
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shoot, bud
Beginning -
Springhalt
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stringhalt, a disease of horses
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Sprited
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haunted
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Spurs
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roots of trees
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Squandered
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scattered
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Square
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to quarrel
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Square
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the front part of a woman's dress, stomacher
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Square
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equitable
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Squarer
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quarreller
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Squash
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an unripe peascod
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Squier
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a square or rule
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Squiny
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to squint
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Staggers
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a disease in horses, attended with giddiness:
hence any bewildering distress -
Stain
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to disfigure
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Stale
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a decoy
A gull
A prostitute -
Stale
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to make stale, deprive anything of its
freshness -
Stand Upon
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to be incumbent on
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Staniel
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an inferior kind of hawk
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Stark
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stiff
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Starkly
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stiffly
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State
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a canopied chair
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Station
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attitude
Act of standing -
Statist
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a statesman
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Statua
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a statue
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Statue
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image, picture
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Statute
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security, obligation
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Statute-caps
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woollen caps worn by citizens
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Stay
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a cheque
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Stead
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to profit
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Steeled
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set or fixed
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Sternage
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steerage, course
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Stickler
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an arbitrator in combats
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Stigmatic
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a deformed person
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Stigmatical
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deformed
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Still
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constant
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Still
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constantly
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Stilly
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softly
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Stint
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to stop
to stop -
Stithy
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a smith's forge
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Stithy
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to forge
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Stoccado
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a stoccata, or thrust in fencing
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Stock
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a stocking
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Stomach
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courage, stubbornness
Appetite, inclination -
Stone-bow
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a cross-bow for throwing stones
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Stoup
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a cup
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Stout
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strong, healthy
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Stover
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fodder
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Strachy
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A word of doubtful meaning
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Straight
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immediately
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Strain
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lineage
Disposition -
Straited
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straitened
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Strange
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foreign
Coy, reserved
Marvellous -
Strangeness
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coyness, reserve
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Stranger
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foreigner
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Strappado
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a kind of punishment
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Stricture
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strictness
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Strossers
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trowsers
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Stuck
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a thrust of a sword
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Stuck In
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corruption of stoccata
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Stuff
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baggage
Material, substance -
Stuffed
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filled, stored
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Sty
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to lodge as in a sty
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Subscribe
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to yield
to succumb -
Success
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issue, consequence
Succession -
Successive
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succeeding
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Successively
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in succession
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Sudden
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hasty, rash
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Suddenly
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hastily
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Sufferance
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suffering
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Suggest
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to tempt, entice
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Suggestion
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temptation, enticement
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Suited
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dressed
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Sullen
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doleful, melancholy
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Sumpter
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a horse that carries provisions on a journey
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Suppose
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a trick, imposition
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Supposed
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counterfeit
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Surcease
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to cease
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Surcease
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cessation, end
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Surprise
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to capture by surprise
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Sur-reined
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over-worked
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Suspect
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suspicion
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Suspire
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to breathe
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Swabber
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a sweeper of the deck of a ship
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Swarth
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black
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Swarth
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quantity of grass cut down by one sweep of the
scythe -
Swasher
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swaggerer
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Swashing
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dashing, smashing
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Swath
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The same as 'swarth.'
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Swathling
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swaddling
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Sway
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to move on
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Swear
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to adjure
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Swear Over
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to out-swear
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Swift
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ready, quick
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Swinge-buckler
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a bully
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