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    • 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

    • Serviceable

    • 'serviceable vows,' vows that you will do
      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

    • Sheriff's-post

    • a post at the door of a sheriff, to which royal
      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

    • Sooth

    • true

    • Sorel

    • a buck of the third year

    • Sorriest

    • most sorrowful

    • Sorry

    • sorrowful, dismal

    • Sort

    • a company
      Rank, condition
      Lot
      'In a sort,' in a manner

    • Sort

    • to choose
      to suit
      To consort

    • Sot

    • fool

    • Soul-fearing

    • soul-terrifying

    • Sowl

    • to lug, drag

    • Sowter

    • name of a dog

    • Specially

    • a special contract

    • Sped

    • settled, done for

    • Speed

    • fortune

    • Sperr

    • to bolt, fasten

    • Spial

    • spy

    • Spill

    • to destroy

    • Spilth

    • spilling

    • Spleen

    • violent haste
      Used of the lightning flash

    • Sprag

    • quick

    • Spring

    • shoot, bud
      Beginning

    • Springhalt

    • stringhalt, a disease of horses

    • Sprited

    • haunted

    • Spurs

    • roots of trees

    • Squandered

    • scattered

    • Square

    • to quarrel

    • Square

    • the front part of a woman's dress, stomacher

    • Square

    • equitable

    • Squarer

    • quarreller

    • Squash

    • an unripe peascod

    • Squier

    • a square or rule

    • Squiny

    • to squint

    • Staggers

    • a disease in horses, attended with giddiness:
      hence any bewildering distress

    • Stain

    • to disfigure

    • Stale

    • a decoy
      A gull
      A prostitute

    • Stale

    • to make stale, deprive anything of its
      freshness

    • Stand Upon

    • to be incumbent on

    • Staniel

    • an inferior kind of hawk

    • Stark

    • stiff

    • Starkly

    • stiffly

    • State

    • a canopied chair

    • Station

    • attitude
      Act of standing

    • Statist

    • a statesman

    • Statua

    • a statue

    • Statue

    • image, picture

    • Statute

    • security, obligation

    • Statute-caps

    • woollen caps worn by citizens

    • Stay

    • a cheque

    • Stead

    • to profit

    • Steeled

    • set or fixed

    • Sternage

    • steerage, course

    • Stickler

    • an arbitrator in combats

    • Stigmatic

    • a deformed person

    • Stigmatical

    • deformed

    • Still

    • constant

    • Still

    • constantly

    • Stilly

    • softly

    • Stint

    • to stop
      to stop

    • Stithy

    • a smith's forge

    • Stithy

    • to forge

    • Stoccado

    • a stoccata, or thrust in fencing

    • Stock

    • a stocking

    • Stomach

    • courage, stubbornness
      Appetite, inclination

    • Stone-bow

    • a cross-bow for throwing stones

    • Stoup

    • a cup

    • Stout

    • strong, healthy

    • Stover

    • fodder

    • Strachy

    • A word of doubtful meaning

    • Straight

    • immediately

    • Strain

    • lineage
      Disposition

    • Straited

    • straitened

    • Strange

    • foreign
      Coy, reserved
      Marvellous

    • Strangeness

    • coyness, reserve

    • Stranger

    • foreigner

    • Strappado

    • a kind of punishment

    • Stricture

    • strictness

    • Strossers

    • trowsers

    • Stuck

    • a thrust of a sword

    • Stuck In

    • corruption of stoccata

    • Stuff

    • baggage
      Material, substance

    • Stuffed

    • filled, stored

    • Sty

    • to lodge as in a sty

    • Subscribe

    • to yield
      to succumb

    • Success

    • issue, consequence
      Succession

    • Successive

    • succeeding

    • Successively

    • in succession

    • Sudden

    • hasty, rash

    • Suddenly

    • hastily

    • Sufferance

    • suffering

    • Suggest

    • to tempt, entice

    • Suggestion

    • temptation, enticement

    • Suited

    • dressed

    • Sullen

    • doleful, melancholy

    • Sumpter

    • a horse that carries provisions on a journey

    • Suppose

    • a trick, imposition

    • Supposed

    • counterfeit

    • Surcease

    • to cease

    • Surcease

    • cessation, end

    • Surprise

    • to capture by surprise

    • Sur-reined

    • over-worked

    • Suspect

    • suspicion

    • Suspire

    • to breathe

    • Swabber

    • a sweeper of the deck of a ship

    • Swarth

    • black

    • Swarth

    • quantity of grass cut down by one sweep of the
      scythe

    • Swasher

    • swaggerer

    • Swashing

    • dashing, smashing

    • Swath

    • The same as 'swarth.'

    • Swathling

    • swaddling

    • Sway

    • to move on

    • Swear

    • to adjure

    • Swear Over

    • to out-swear

    • Swift

    • ready, quick

    • Swinge-buckler

    • a bully