Sleave, coarse, unwrought silk. Slivered, sliced. Soft, í. e. conditions, gentle Sorer, a greater or heavier Sorel, a deer during his third Sort, to choose out. [year. Sorts, different degrees or kinds. Sort and suit, figure and rank. Sot, fool. Fr. Souced gurnet, a gudgeon, a term of reproach. Soud, sweet, or an exclamation denoting weariness. Sowle, to drag down. Sowter, the name of a hound. Spanieled, dogged. Speak parrot, to act childishly and foolishly. Speak holiday, i. e. words, curiously and affectedly chosen. Speculation, for sight." [eyes. Speculative instruments, the Speed, fate or event. Sperr, to stir. Spill, to destroy. Still, sometimes for constant, continual. Stilly, gladly, lowly. Stinted, stopped. Stint, sometimes to stop. Stithied, forged; from stithy an anvil. Stoccata, a thrust or stab. Ital. Stock, sometimes for stocking. Stomach, sometimes for stubborn resolution, pride, or haughtiness. [stones, Stone-bow, a crossbow to shoot Stover, hay made of coarse rank grass, and used for thatching. Strachy, or thrachy, of Thrace. Strait, narrow, avaricious. Straited, put to difficulties. Strange and strangeness, some times for shy and shyness. Strangle, sometimes for to suppress. Strawy, straying. [rower. Striker, cant word for a borStuck, or stock, for stoccata, a term in fencing. Stuffed sufficiency, abilities more than enough. Submerged, whelmed under Suggest, sometimes, to tempt, to excite. Suited, dressed. Sumpter, either the horse or the package that conveys necessaries. Superfluous, overclothed. All's Surcease, cessation, stop. Spleen, often for hurry, or tu- Swart, or swarth,black or dark multuous speed. Spotted, wicked. to horses. Square, sometimes, to quarrel. Stage, to place conspicuously. Stain. colour or tincture. brown. Swashing, imposing, bullying. Swath, the quantity of grass cut down by a single stroke of the scythe. [ers. Sway, weight or momentum. Take, sometimes, to strike with Teen, sorrow, grief, or trouble. Temper, to mould like wax. Temperance, temperature. Tent, to take up residence. woven. hair. Tested, attested, genuine. Testerned, gratified with a testern, or sixpence. Tetchy, touchy, peevish,fretful. Tether, a string by which any animal is fastened. Tharborough, third borough, a peace officer. Theorick, theory. Thews, muscular strength, or appearance of manhood. Thick-pleached, thickly inter[or wagon. Thill, or fill, the shafts of a cart Thin helm, thin covering of [choly. Thought, sometimes for melanThrasonical, insolently boasting; from Thraso, a braggadocío in Terence. Thread, sometimes for to pass. Three-pile, rich velvet. Thrift, a state of prosperity. Thrumbed, made of thrum, the end of the weaver's warp. Tib, a nickname for a wanton. Tickle, sometimes for ticklish. Tickle-brain, the name of a strong liquor. [contempt. Tilley-valley, an interjection of Time, a ripener. Timeless, untimely. Timely-parted, i. e. ghost, departed in the course of time and nature. Tire, to fasten, to fix the talons. Tire valiant, or volant, a kind of head-dress. T'ired, sometimes for adorned. Topless, supreme, sovereign. Trail, the scent left by the passage of the game. Trammel, to catch: tremmel is a species of net. Tranect, probably some kind of ferry, dam, or sluice. Translate, sometimes for to change or transform. Trash, to cut away the superfluities, or to check ; a phrase in hunting. Traverse, an ancient military word of command. Traversed, i. e. arms, arms across. Tray-trip, a kind of game at tables or draughts. Treachers, traitors. Trip, to defeat or disappoint. Triple, for third, or one of the three. Triumphs, sometimes for shows, masks, revels, Trol-my dames, trou-madame, the game of nine holes. Troll, to sing trippingly. Trossers, probably for trowsers, or a kind of breeches. Trot, a familiar address to a (I trow. man. Trow, to imagine or conceive; ments. a ram. Tub-fast, the sweating process Vaunt, the avant, what went Venetian,admittance, a fashion [discourse. Veneys, venews. Vizament, advisement. unction. extreme Unavoided, unavoidable. Weird, prophetic. Welkin, the sky. Welkin-eye, blue eye. Well-a-near, well-a-day, lacka-day. Wend, to go. Westward-hoe, the name of a play acted in Shakspeare's time. Wether, used for ram. Whelked, varied with protube rances; from whelks, p:otuberances, a small shell-fish. Whe'r, often for whether. Where, sometimes for whereas. Whiffler, an officer who walked in processions. Whiles, until. Uneffectual, i. e. fire, shining without heat. Unexpressive, inexpressible. Ungenitured, not having genitals. [ful. Whipstock, the carter's whip. Unhaired, unbearded, youth-Whirring, hurrying away. Unhappy, sometimes for mis- Whist, being silent. chievously waggish, unlucky. Whiting time, bleaching time. Unhoused, free from domestic Whitstirs, bleachers of linen, Whittle, a pocket clasp knife. Whooping, measure and reckoning. cares. Unhouseiled, without having the sacrament. Unmastered, licentious. Un proper, common. Unqualitied, unmanned. Unquestionable, averse to conversation. Unrespective, inconsiderate. Unrest, disquiet. [youths. Unrough youths, beardless Unsisting, unresisting or unfeeling. Uusmirched, clean, not defiled. Unsquared, as stones, unadapted to their purposes. Unstanched, incontinent. Untempering, not softening. Untented, not probed, virulent. Untraded, singular, not in common use. Unvalued, invaluable. Upspring, upstart. Wimpled, hooded, or veiled; from wimple, a hood. Winchester goose, a strumpet the stews were formerly li censed by the bishop of Winchester. Winking-gates, gates hastily closed from fear or danger. Winnowed, sifted, examined. Wis, to know. Wish,sometimes, to recommend or desire. Wits, sometimes for senses. Wittol-cuckold, one who knows himself a cuckold, and is contented. Wo, to be sorry. Use and usance, sometimes for Woolvish, giving an idea of a wolf in sheep's clothing. Woolward, clothed in wool, or rather naked. Worts, the ancient name of all kinds of cabbage. Wage, sometimes, to hire or re-Wot, to know. ward, to fight. Wan'd, probably for waned, tural state. Wassel, a kind of drink, or intemperate drinking. Wassel candle, candle used at feaets. Wreck, resentment. Wrested pomp, pomp obtained Yesty, foaming, frothy. |