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Sear'd, i 282. old. In the fear, fignifies old age

Seednefs, i. 266. feed time, An old word

To Seel, vi. 264. a term in falconry, to run a filk through the eyelids of a young hawk, and to draw them near together, in order to make the hawk bear a hood

Sequele, a great man's train. A French word

Seffa or Seffey, peace, be quiet.

Shamois, i. 32. young kids

Lat Ceffa

A Shard, vii. 113. a tile, or broken piece of a tile: thence figuratively a scale or fhell upon the back of any creature.

The Shardborn-beetle, means the beetle that is born up by wings hard and glazed like a potsheard

Sharded, fcaled

To Shark up, viii. 88. to pick up in a thievish manner. Fr. Chercher Sheen, clear, bright; fmiling, fhining; alfo brightness, luftre used in the first and laft fenfe by Spencer

To Shend, to blame, to reprove, to rate, to rebuke, to disgrace, to evil-intreat

A Shive, vi. 180, a lice

A Showghe, vi. 261. a rough coated dog, a fhock

Shrift, confeffion. To Shrive, to confefs

A Siege, a feat; alfo, i. 30. the fundament of a man, in which fenfe the French often ufe it; "Mal au ficge; une fiftule au fiege" Sieg'd, ii. 306. placed, feated, fixed

Sizes, vi. 43. certain portions of bread, beer, or other victuals, which in public focieties are fet down to the account of particular persons, A word ttill used in the colleges of the universities

Sized, viii. 125. bedawbed as with size, which is a glewish composition ufed by painters. Ital. Sifa

To Skirr, to fcour about a country

Sleaded or Sleded, viii. 87. carried on a fled or fledge

Slop, wide-knee'd breeches

Slough, an husk, an outward skin.

Smirch'd, ii. 39. fmeared, dawbed, dirtied

To Sneap, to check, to fnub, to rebuke

A Snipe, viii. 211. a diminutive woodcock

Sooth, true or truth, a reality; also iv. 48. adulation, in the fenfe

of the verb to Sooth

To Sowle, vi. 372. to lug or pull

A Sowter, iii. 114. a cobler.

tended as the name of a dog

Lat. Sutor. In this paffage it is in

To Sperre, vii. 265. to bolt, to barricado, or any ways fasten

Spleen is often used for a fudden start, a hafty motion, a momentary quickness

A Spray, a young tender fhoot or branch of a tree

Spurs, the fibres of a root or tree

To Square, to jar, to wrangle or quarrel. For the derivation fee the next word

A Squarer, ii. 3. a fwaggering blade. This word is taken from the

French phrafe, Se quarrer, which fignifies to strut with arms a

kembo, ("anfatus incedere,") an action which denotes a character of an hectoring bragadochio. The French fay, "Les jeuns fanfarons fe quarrent en marchant."

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A Squier, ii. 204. the fame as a fquare

A Stanyel, iii. 114. otherwise called a Ring-tail, a kind of buzzard, or kite

Starkly, i. 306. ftiffly, wearily, foundly

Station, viii. 149. attitude, presence, perfon
A Statist, viii. 181. a statesman. Ital. Statifta
A Stay, iii. 313. a let, a ftop, an impediment
To Stead or Sted, to ferve, to help

Steads, flocks, tools, from whence young flips or fuckers are propa gated

Stickler-like, vii. 355. flicklers where feconds appointed in a duel to fee fair play, who parted the combatants when they thought fit: and this being done by interpofing with a stick, from thence came

the name

Stigmatical, iii, 181, branded with marks of difgrace. Lat. Stigma

ticus

Stint, i. 18. proportion, allotment

A Stithy, an anvil.

To Stithy, to beat upon an anvil Stoccata, viii. 42. a thrust in fencing. An Italian word

A Stole, a robe, a long garment, a mantle, a woman's gown : ufød alfo by Spencer. Lat. Stola

To Suggeft, iv. 6. and 52. to prompt or egg on

Sumpter, vi. 44, a beast which carries neceflaries on a journey Surceafe, vi. 245 this generally fignifies the fufpenfion of any act but in this paffage it stands for the total ceafing after the final ex. ecution of it. Fr. Surfeoir

A Swabber, iii. 97. an inferior officer in a ship, whofe business it is to keep the ship clean

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A Tabourine, vii. 143. a drum. Fr. Tabourin

To Take, to blaft, to firike with infection.

Fr. Attaquer

Tall is very frequently used for eminent, notable, considerable.
Taniere, a hut or cave. A French word

To Tarre on, to provoke, to urge on, as they fet on dogs to fight
A Taffel-gentle, viii. 28. a particular kind of hawk, the male of the
faulcon. In strictness it should be-spelt Tiercel-gentle. Fr. Tier-
celet

Tear-cap, a ranting bully

Tearsheet, a ranting whore
Teen, trouble, grief

Tefted, i. 280. tried, put to the test

A Tether, a long rope with which horfes are tied to confine their feeding to a certain compafs, and prevent their trespassing farther. Thewes, finews, mufcles, bodily ftrength

Thill-horfe, ii 89. the horfe which draws in the fhafts or thill of the Carriage

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Thirdborough, the fame as headborough or constable
Thift, thrift, thriving, fuccefs

Tilth, i, 304. tillage

Tiny, fmal', flender. Lat. Tenuis
Tert, vii. 196. in the wrong.

An old French word

To Toze, iii. 272. to break in pieces, to draw out, or pull afunder, as they do wool, by carding it to make it foft; İt. Tozzare: Thence figuratively, by artful infinuations to draw out the fecrets of a man's thoughts

To Tramell up, vi 245. to fop: A metaphor taken from a tramelnet which is ufed to be put crofs a river from bank to bank, and catches all the fifh that come, fuffering none to pass. Fr. Irmail Trick is a word frequently used for the air, or that peculiarity in a face, voice, or gefture, which diftinguifhes it from others Trickley, dainty, curious, fleight

Trigon, iv. 194 a term in aftrology, when three figns of the fame nature and quality meet in a trine affect

Toll-madam, iii, 250. a game commonly called pigeon-holes Trouffers, iv. 291. a kind of breeches wide and tucked up high, fuch as are fill worn in the robes of the order of the Garter. Fr. Treuffe. But frait trouffers in this paffage has a jefting sense, and means the natural fkin without any breeches.

To Trow, to believe. An old word

To Trufs, is a term in falconry, when a hawk near the ground rai foth a fowl, and foaring upwards with it, feizeth it in the air To Try, i 2 a term in failing. A fhip is faid to try when the hath no more fails abroad but her main-fail, when her tacks are close aboard, the bowlings fet up, and the fheets haled clofe aft, when alfo the helm is tied clofe down to the board, and so she is let lie in the fea

Tub faft, vi. 141.

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Fucket, a prelude or voluntary in mufic, a flourish of inftruments. Ital. Toccata

Turlupins, vi. 38. a new fpecies of gypfies, a fraternity of naked

beggars, that sprang up in the fourteenth century, and ran up anddown Europe

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Umber, a colour used by painters, a dark yellow

Unaneal'd, viii. 106. unprepared. To Anneal or Neal, in its pri mary and proper fenie, is to prepare metals or glafs by the force of fire for the different ufes of the manufacturers in them: andthis is here applied by the author in a figurative sense to a dying perfon; who, when prepared by impreffions of piety, by repent ance, confeffion, abfolution, and other acts of religion, may be faid to be anneal'd for death.- -Mr Pope explains this word by, no knell rung; i. e. without enjoying the benefits of the paffing bell; which used to toll while the perfon lay expiring, and thence was fo called. This fhocking cuftom ftill prevails in fome parts of England

Unanointed, viii. 106. not having received extreme unction. Unbarbed, vi. 356, bare, uncovered. In the times of chivalry, when a horfe was fully armed and accoutred for the encounter, he was faid to be barbed; probably from the old word Barbe, which Chau cer uses for a veil or covering

Unbated, viii. 170. unabated, unblunted

Unbolted, vi. 34. unfifted

Unbraided, iii. 257. unfaded, fresh

Unbreech'd, iii. 211. not yet in breeches, a boy in coats

Uncape, i. 221. a term in fox-hunting, fignifying to dig out the fox

when earth'd

Unchary, iii. 129. careless

Unhoufel'd, viii. 106. without having received the facrament. Houfel is a Saxion word for the eucharift, which feems derived from the Latin Hoftiola

Unneath, hardly, fcarcely

An Urchin, an hedge-hog, which was reckoned among the animals ufed by witches as their familiars: Hence, figuratively, a little unluckly mischievous boy or girl

Ure, i. 264. ufe, practice

Utas or Utis, iv. 188. the eight and last day of a festival, for fo long the great feftivals were accounted to laft, the conclufion being kept with more than ordinary merriment: From the French

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To th' Utterance, vi. 260. to the utmoft, to all extremity. Fr. Outrance. At Utterance, vii. 205. at all extremity

To Vail, to let down, to drop, to stoop

To Van, to winnow, to purge; from the French Vanner; which is derived from the Latin Vannus, Ventilabrum, the fan used for win. nowing the chaff from the corn.

Vantbrace, vii. 284. defenfive amour for the arm. Fr. Avant-bras Vary, vi. 34, variation, change

Vannt-couriers, vi. 48. forerunners. Fr. Avant coureurs

Vaward, the fame as van-guard, the first line of an army: and from thence the forward or leading part of any thing

Velure, ii. 327. velvet. Fr. Velours

Venew, ii. 188. a reft or bout in fencing

A Venige, viii. 144. a vent or paffage for air. Fr. Ventouse
Via! i 205. away! An Italian word

Vice," Vice's dagger," iv. 208. and "Like the old Vice," iii. 140.
This was the name given to a droll figure heretofore much shown
upon our stage, and brought in to play the fool, and make sport.
for the populace. His dress was always a long jerkin, a fool's cap,
with affes ears, and a thin wooden dagger, fuch as is ftill retained.
in the modern figures of Harlequin and Scaramouche. In moral
reprefentations, it was common to bring in the deadly fins, but the
Vice did not affume the perfonages of thefe fins for the Vice was.
always a fool or jefter, and (as Shakespear calls him in the Mer-.
chant of Venice) a merry devil. The name Iniquity was likewife
given to this Vice, on account of his unhappy tricks and rogueries..
Minfhew, and others of our more modern critics, strain hard to
find out the etymology of this word, and fetch it from the Greek..
Probably we need look no farther for it than the old French word
Vis, which fignified the same as Vifage does now: from this in part
came Vifdafe, a word common among them for a fool; which
Menage fays is but a corruption from Vis d'afne, the face or head
of an afs. It may be imagined therefore, that Vifdafe or Vis d'afne,
was the name first given to this foolish theatrical figure; and thas
by vulgar ufe it was fhortened down to plain Vis or Vice
To Vice, iii. 218. to hold faft as with an inftrument called a vice
Vouch, i. 286. the teftimony one man bears for another

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To Wage, to combat with, to enter into conflict with, to encounter. Wared or Wapid, vi 140. mournful, forrowful. Chaucer

To Warp, to contract, to fhrink

night, with a great

The word is com"Health be to you!"

Waffel or Waffaile, the merriment of twelfth bowl carried about from houfe to houfe. pounded of two Saxon words, fignifying, A Waffel candle, iv. 171. is a candle larger than ordinary used at, that ceremony

A Web, iv. 171. a fpot in the eye injurious to the fight,

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Weyward fifters, vi, 236. This word Weyward had anciently the fame finte as Weird, and was the very fame differently spelt; having acquired its larger fignification from the quality and tem

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