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Side, (a.) hanging low. Sc. (Sax.) The long sleeves fashionable in the sixteenth century were called in Scotland, side sleeves. Wide and side, for far and wide, is a common expression in our old

romances.

to trail Side, to wear trailing gowns ? I. 270. note 3. Sigh, (v. a.) saw. I. 198. note 1. Signed, (p.) assigned.

Sike? I. 307. n. 2.

Sine, (adv.) since, afterwards, then.
Singand, (p.) singing. Sc.
Sith, (adv.) since.

Sithes, (n.) times.

to Siyt, (v. a.) to seeth, or boil.

Skayth, (n.) harm.

Sc.

Skirmed, (v. a.) skirmished.
Skuggis, (n.) shadows. Sc.
to Sla, (v. a.) to slay.
to Slo, (v. a.) to slay. Sc.
Smale, (a.) small.

Smaragde, (n.) emerald. (Lat.)

Smotry, (a.) smoky, or smutty.

Snell, (a.) piercing. Sc.

Snellich, (adv.) swiftly. "Teut. snel, celer, acer." Sibbald. See also Hickes's Thesaurus. I. 233.

note m.

Snoke? II. 422. note 3.

So, (c.) as.

Sober, (a.) small, weak. Sc. I. 374. note 1.
Sodroun, (a.) southern; often English. Sc.
Some part, in some degree. Sc.

Sons, (n.) abundance, prosperity. Sibbald derives this word from Teut. sanse, augmentum, prosperitas. Ld. Hailes, in the Bann. Gloss. interprets it hospitality. Qu. from census, Lat? or cens, Fr? Vide I, 233. note 2.

Soote, (a.) sweet.

Sore, (a.) sorrel, yellowish-brown. Sc. "Fr. saure,

sub-rufus." Sibb. Gloss.

Sothe, sooth, (n.) truth.

Soun, (n.) sound.

Sower, (a.) sour. N. B. a dissyllable.

Spangis, (n.) spangles. Sc.

Spate, (n.) foam, a torrent. Sc.

Speak, (n.) speech.

to Speir, (v. a.) to ask. Sc. Vide Leyden's Gloss. to Compl. of Sc.

Spensere, (n.) the dispenser of provisions. (Fr.) to Spreid, (v. a.) to spread. Sc.

Spreit, (n.) spirit.

Sprinkilland, (p.) applied to fish, gliding swiftly with a tremulous motion of their tails. Sc.

Squyer, (n.) a carpenter's square. (Old Fr. esquierre, now equerre.)

Stad, (p.) placed. (Sax. sted.) The noun still remains in English.

Staiff, (n.) a staff. Sc.

Staluu, stalwort, (a.) stout, bold. I. 94.

Stalworder, (a.) bolder, stouter.

Stane, (n.) a stone.

Steaven, (n.) appointment. II. 290. III. 147. note 2.

(Sax.) See Tyrwhitt's Glossary.

Stedes, (n.) places.

Stegh, (v. n.) stood.

to Stek, (v. a.) to bar, to shut.

to Sterfe, (v.) to starve, die. Sc.

Stern, (p.) strewn, built.

Sterne, (n) a star. (Teut. Sax.)

Steven, (n.) voice. (Sax.)

Stinted, (p.) stretched. I. 241. note 4.

Stithe, (n.) an anvil.

Stound, (n.) time.

Stour, (n.) fight, battle. Vide Sibbald.

Stour, (a.) strong, robust, fierce.

Studs, (n.) upright beams.

Subtleties, (n.) ornaments placed on the table at meals, sometimes with mottos.

Sucre, (n.) sugar. (Fr.)

Sulyeart, (a.) sultry. Sc. Bright, glittering, according to Sibbald, from the Irish soilier, rutilus. Swa, (adv.) so.

Swaket, (v. a.) threw. Sc.

Swardit, (p.) turfed. Sc.

Swelten, (v. n.) died. Vide I. 158. (Sax. sweltan, to die, more particularly by a violent death.) to Swick, (v.) to cease.

Swilk, (a.) such. (Sax.)

Swink, (n.) labour. (Sax.)

Swire, (n.) the neck. (Sax.)

Swithe, (adv.) very; quickly. (Sax.)

Swote, (a.) sweet.

to Syle, (v. a.) to deccive. Sc.

Synfan, (n.) a sort of drum. In the orig. symphonier. Syne, (adv.) then, since, afterward. Vide Sibbald. Synopare, (n.) cinnabar. Sc.

Ta, (v. a.) take. Sc.

Tablements? (n.) I. 293.

Tapet, (n.) a carpet.

T.

Targe, (n.) a shield; a sort of mantelet, serving as

a portable rampart.

Teen, (n.) sorrow, grief.

Tetand, (p.) peeping.
Teuch, (a.) tough.
Thai, (pron.) these, those.

Than, (adv.) then.
Thei, the same as Thai.

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Ther, (pron.) that, this.
to Think lang, to be tired. Sc.
Thinkand, (p.) thinking.

Thir, (pron.) these, or those.

to Thirl, (v. a.) to pierce through. (Sax.) hence our thrill and drill.

Tho, (adv.) sometimes then, never though.
Tholien, thole, tholl, (v.) to suffer. (Sax.)
Thore, (adv.) there.

to Thow, (v.) to thaw.
Through-girt, (p.) pierced through.

a Throw, for some time.

Thrye, (adv.) thrice.

Tide, (n.) time. (Sax.)

Till, (prep.) to, sometimes for.

to Till, (v. a.) to approach, to gain.

Tire, (n.) attire? tiara? Vide I.417. note 2.
To-fore, toforrow, (adv. or prep.) before.

To-wyte, (p.) accused. (Sax.)

to Toten, (v. n.) to look.

Toute, (n.) Vide I. 92. n. 2.

Tre, (n.) tree: frequently used for the cross. Treacle, (n.) properly, any sovereign remedy. I. 89. note 8. (Perhaps, a corruption from theriaque. Vide Tyrwhitt's Glossary, v. triacle.) Tremebund, (a.) timorous. Sc. (Lat.) Trewit, (v.) believed.

Trie, (a.) choice. (Fr.)

Truantine, (n.) wandering. (Fr.)

Tryst, (n.) a place of meeting; a station in hunting. Vide Sibbald, and Leyd. Gloss. to C. of Sc.

Twa, (a.) two.

Twissell, (n.) double fruit. II. 183. Turbervile. to Twyn, (v. a.) to separate:

Tyled, (p.) raised.

to Tyne, (v. a.) to lose. “Isl. tyne, perdo. Hence "tinsel, or tynsale, loss." Leyd. Gloss. C. of Sc. Tynt, (p.) lost.

U.

Uniune, (n.) pearl. (Lat. unio.)

Unkempt, (p.) uncombed.

Unneth, unnethes, (adv.) scarcely.

Unperfyt, (a.) imperfect.

Unschet, (v. a.) unshut, opened. Sc.
Up-ilend, (p.) laid up.

Up-warpis, (v.) draws up.

V.

Vecke, (n.) an old woman. (Ital.)

Veir, (n.) a variegated fur.

Verges? (n.) I. 293. note 2.

Vernage wine, wine of Vernon in Touraine.

Verteth, (v. n.) goes to harbour among the fern:

applied to deer.

Villany, (n.) meanness.

Vinettes? I. 293.

Wa, (n.) wo. Sc.

Waile, (n.) choice. Sc.

(Fr.)

W.

to Wait, (v.) to wot, to know. Sc.

Waith, (n.) hunting, (Sax. wæthan, to hunt.)

Waithman, (n.) hunter, outlaw. Sc.

Wak, (a.) moist. Sc. (Teut. See Sibbald's Gloss.)

Walkand, (p.) walking. Sc.

Wallowit, (p.) faded.

Wally, (a.) wavy.

Wanderand, (p.) wandering. Se.

Wanweird, (n.) misfortune.

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