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Sleave, coarse, unwrought silk.
Sledded, carried on a sledge.
Sleided, untwisted.
Slights, arts.
[ney.
Slip, a counterfeit piece of mo-
Slips, a contrivance in leather,
to start two dogs at the same
time.

Slivered, sliced.
[sers.
Slops, loose breeches or trow-
Stough, the skin which the ser-
pent throws off annually.
Slowed, delayed.
Stubber, to obscure.
Smirched, soiled, obscured.
Sneap, rebuke, check.
Sneck up, a cant phrase, pro-
bably for, go hang yourself.
Snipe, an insignificant fellow.
Snuff sometimes for anger.
Snuff's, dislikes.

Soft, í. e. conditions, gentle
qualities of mind. [proach.
Soil, sometimes, turpitude, re-
Solidares, some species of coin.
Sooth, truth.
[crime.

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

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Suggest, sometimes, to tempt,

to excite. Suited, dressed. Sumpter, either the horse or the package that conveys necessaries.

Superfluous, overclothed. All's
Well. Living in abundance.
Lear.

Surcease, cessation, stop.
Surreigned, overridden.

Spleen, often for hurry, or tu- Swart, or swarth,black or dark

multuous speed.

Spotted, wicked.
Sprag, ready, alert.
Sprighted, haunted.
Springhalt, a disease incident

to horses.

Square, sometimes, to quarrel.
Squarer, a quarrelsome fellow.
Squash, an immature peascod.
Squiney, to look asquint.
Squire, sometimes for a rule or
square.

Stage, to place conspicuously.
Staged, exhibited.
Staggers, a disorder peculiar
to horses.

Stain. colour or tincture.
Stale, a decoy to catch birds.
Stannyel, the name of a kind
of hawk; a stallion.
Stark, stiff.
[state.
State, sometimes for a chair of
Statists, statesmen.
Statua, statue, sometimes pro-
nounced as three syllables.
Staves, the wood of the lances.
Stead, to help or befriend.
Sternage, the hinder part, close
after.
Stickler, one who stood by to
part the combatants, an um
pire.
[matized.
Stigmatical, marked or stig.

brown.

Swashing, imposing, bullying. Swath, the quantity of grass cut down by a single stroke of the scythe.

[ers.

Sway, weight or momentum.
Sweltered, weltered.
Swinge-bucklers, rakes or riot-
Swounded, swooned.
Table, the palm of the hand
extended, a picture.
Tables, books of ivory for me-
morandums.
Tabourines, small drums.
Ta'en orders, taken measures.
Tag, the vulgar populace.
Taint, corruption or disgrace.
Take, i. e. a house, to go into a
house.

Take, sometimes, to strike with
lameness or disease.
Take in, to subdue.
Talent, often for talon.
Tarre, to stimulate, to set on.
Tasked, sometimes for taxed.
Tassel gentle, or tercel-gentle,
a species of hawk.
Tawney coat, the dress of a
summoner or appariter.
Taxation, sometimes for cen-
sure or satire.

Teen, sorrow, grief, or trouble. Temper, to mould like wax.

Temperance, temperature.
Tend, sometimes for attend.
Tender, to regard with affea-
tion.

Tent, to take up residence.
Tercel, the male hawk.
Terms, the technical language
of courts.

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.
Tod, to produce a tod, a cer
tain quantity of wool.
Toged, wearing their habits.
Tokened, spotted.
Tolling, taking toll. [girl.
Tomboy, a masculine, forward
Too much, any sum, ever so
much.

Topless, supreme, sovereign.
Topple, to tumble.
Touches, the features, the trait.
Toward and towards, some-
times, instead of readiness.
Toys, sometimes for whims,
freaks.
[amine.
Toze, to unravel, to close ex-
Trace, sometimes, to follow or
succeed in.

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.
Trenched, cut or carved. Fr.
Trick, sometimes for a pecu-
liarity of feature.
Trick, to dress out.
Tricksy, clever, adroit.
Trigon, Aries, Leo, and Sa-
gittarius

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;
True, sometimes for honest.
Trundle-tail, a species of dog.
Trusted, for thrusted.
Try conclusions, try experi-

ments.

a ram.

Tub-fast, the sweating process
in the venereal disorder.
Tucket, toccata, a flourish on a
trumpet. Ital."
Tupped, lien with; from tup,
[ked beggar.
Turlygood, for turlupin, a na-
Turquoise, a species of precious
stone, supposed to be endued
with extraordinary virtues.
Twangling-Jack, a paltry mu-
sician.
[bottle.
Twiggen-bottle, a wickered
Tyed, limited, or circum-
scribed.
Vail, sometimes to cast down,
to let fall down.
Valenced, fringed with a beard.
Validity, sometimes for value.
Vanity, an illusion.
Vantage, opportunity. [Fr.
Vantbrace, armour for the arm.
Vast, sometimes for waste,
dreary.

Vaunt, the avant, what went
before, or the vanguard.
Vaward, the forepart.
Velure, velvet.

Venetian,admittance, a fashion
admitted from Venice.
Venew, a bout at a fencing
school.

[discourse.

Veneys, venews.
Vent, rumour, materials for
Ventages, the holes of a flute.
Verbal, verbose.
Verify, to hear witness.
Very, sometimes for immediate.
Vice, to draw or persuade.
Vice, a grasp. A mimic.
Vie, a term at cards, to brag.
Violenteth, probably rageth.
Virgin crants, maiden gar-
lands. Ger.
Virginal, a kind of spinnet.
Virginal, belonging to a virgin.
Virtuous, sometimes for salu-
tiferous.

Vizament, advisement.
Umber, a dusky, yellow-co-
loured earth.
Umbered, discoloured.
Unaneled, without

unction.

extreme

Unavoided, unavoidable.

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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.
Wondered, able to perform
wonders.
Wood, crazy.

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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,
decayed, or in the wane.
Wanned, pale, made wan.
Wanton, sometimes for a man
feeble and effeminate.
Wappened, probably, decayed
or diseased.
Ward, defence, a phrase in the
art of defence.
Warder, a guard or sentinel.
Warden, a species of large pear.
Warn, sometimes, to summons.
Warp, to change from the na-

tural state.

Wassel, a kind of drink, or intemperate drinking. Wassel candle, candle used at feaets.

Wreck, resentment.
Wrest, an instrument for draw.
ing up the strings of a harp;
a help.

Wrested pomp, pomp obtained
by violence.
Writhled, wrinkled.
Wrought, workea, agitated.
Wrying, deviating.
Yare, handy, nimble.
Yearn, to grieve or vex.
Yerk, to kick.

Yesty, foaming, frothy.
Zany, a buffoon, a merry An
drew.
[religion
Zealous, pious, influenced by
Zed, a term of contempt. The
letter Z is not in any word
originally Teutonic.

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