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Sewer, the person who placed the Shill, reason. WIN. TALE.

dishes in order.

Shard borne, borne on shards or

wings.

Shark up, to pick up without di

stinction.

Shaven Hercules, Samson.
Sheen, shining, bright, gay.
Sheer, pellucid, transparent.
Shent, scolded, roughly treated.
Sherris sack, sherry sack.
Shive, a slice.

Shog, to go off.

Shotten, projected.

Shove groat, a kind of game. Shovel boards, shillings used at the game of shovel-board. MER. WIVES.

Shoughs, a species of dog.

Shoulder clapper, a bailitf.

Shrewd, sometimes for severe, bitter.

Shrift, confession.

Shrive, to call to confession.
Side, purpose or resolution. LEA.
Siege, a stool, or privy, or seat.

TEMP.

Sieve, a common voider. TROIL.

& CRES.

Sightless, unsightly. K. JOHN. Sights, i. e. of steel, the perforat

ed part of the helmet. Single, sometimes for weak, little. Sister, to imitate, or re-echo. Sith, and Sithence, since. Sizes, allowances. LEAR.

Skain's mates, kin's mates.

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Speed, fate or event. WINT.
TALE.
Sperr, to stir.

Spill, to destroy. LEAR.

Spleen, often for hurry, or tumul

tuous 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.
Squincy, to look asquint.
Squire, sometimes for a rule or

square.

Stage, to place conspicuously.

Staged, exhibited.
Staggers, a disorder peculiar to
horses. ALL'S WELL.
Stain, colour or tincture. ALL'S
WELL.

Stale, a decoy to catch birds.

TEMP.

Stannyel, the name of a kind of
hawk; a stallion. TWELF.
NIGHT..
Stark, stiff.

State, sometimes for a chair of

state.

Statists, statesmen.

Statua, statue, sometimes pro

nounced as three syllables. Staves, the wood of the lances. RICH. III.

Stead, to help or befriend. Sternage, the hinder part, close

after. HEN. V.

Stickler, one who stood by to part the combatants; an umpire. TRO. AND CRESS. Stigmatical, marked or stigmatized.

Still, sometimes for constant,

continual.

Stilly, gladly, lowly.
Stinted, stopped. ROM. AND
JUL.

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. Two. GENT. VER.

Stone-bow, a crossbow to shoot

with stones.

Stover, hay made of coarse rank

grass, and used for thatching. TEMP.

Strachy, or thrachy, of Thrace. Strait, narrow, avaricious. K. JOHN.

Straited, put to difficulties. Strange and strangeness, some

times for shy and shyness. Strangle, sometimes for to suppress.

Strawy, straying.

Striker, cant word for a borrower.

HEN. IV. 1st Part.

Stuck, or stock, for stoccata, a

term in fencing.

Stuffed sufficiency, abilities more

than enough.

Submerged, whelmed under water. Subscribe, sometimes to yield or

surrender.

Subtleties, disguised dishes. TEM. Success, sometimes. for succes

sion.

Successive, i. e. title, title to the

succession. TIT. AND. Suggest, sometimes, to tempt, to excite.

Suited, dressed. LEAR.
Sumpter, either the horse, or the

package that conveys necessa-
ries.

Superfluous, overclothed. ALL'S

WELL. living in abundance.
LEAR.

Surceuse, cessation, stop.
Surreigned, over-ridden.

Swart, or Swarth, black or dark brown.

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

Sway, weight or momentum.
JUL. CES.
Sweltered, weltered.
Swinge-bucklers, rakes or rioters.
Swounded, swooned.

T.

Table, the palm of the hand extended, a picture.

Tables, books of ivory for memorandums.

Tabourines, small drums.
Ta'en order, taken measures.
Tag, the vulgar populace. COR.
Taint, corruption or disgrace.
Take, i. e. a house, to go into a
house. CoмM. OF ER.
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 apparitor.

C

Taxation, sometimes for censure

or satire.

Teen, sorrow, grief, or trouble.
TEMP.

Temper, to mould like wax.
Temperance, temperature. TEM.
Tend, sometimes for attend.
Tender, to regard with affection.
Tent, to take up residence.
Tercel, the male hawk.
Terms, the technical language of

courts. MEA. FOR MEA. Tested, attested, genuine. MEA.

FOR MEA.

Testerned, gratified with a tester,

or sixpence. Two GENT. VER.

Tetchy, touchy, peevish, fretful. Tether, a string by which any ani

mal is fastened. Tharborough, third borough, a peace officer. Theorick, theory.

Thews, muscular strength, or appearance of manhood. Thick-pleached, thickly inter

woven.

Thill, or fill, the shafts of a cart

or waggon.

Thin helm, thin covering of hair.

LEAR.

Thought, sometimes for melan

choly.

Thrasonical, insolently boasting; from Thraso, a braggadocio in Terence.

Thread, sometimes for to pass.

Three-pile, rich velvet.

Thrift, a state of prosperity. CYMB.

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.

Tilley-valley! an interjection of contempt.

Time, a ripener. TROIL. AND CRES.

Timeless, untimely.

Timely-parted, i. e. ghost, depart

ed in the course of time and nature.

Tire, to fasten, to fix the talons. Tire valiant, or volant, a kind of headdress.

Tired, sometimes for adorned. Tod, to produce a tod, a certain quantity of wool.

Toged, wearing their habits. Отн.

Tokened, spotted. ANT. & CLE. Tolling, taking toll. HEN. IV. 2d Part.

Tomboy, a masculine, forward girl.

Too much, any sum, ever so
much. TEMP.
Topless, supreme, sovereign.
Topple, to tumble.

Touches, the features, the trait.
Toward and towards, sometimes,

instead of readiness.

Toys, sometimes for whims, Trol-my-dames, trou-madame, the

freaks.

Toze, to unravel, to close ex

amine.

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. MER. OF VEN.

Translate, sometimes for to change or transform. Trash, to cut away the superfluities, or to check; a phrase in gardening and 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.

Trebles, to make thrice. TEMP.
Trenched, cut or carved. Fr.
Trick, sometimes for a peculiarity
of feature.
Trick, to dress out.

Tricksy, clever, adroit. TEMP. Trigon, Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius.

Trip, to defeat, or disappoint. Triple, for third, or one of the

three. ANT. AND CLEO. Triumphs, sometimes for shows, masks, revels.

game of nine holes.

Troll, to sing trippingly. TEMP. Trossers, probably for trowsers, or

a kind of breeches.

Trot, a familiar address to a man.
Trow, to imagine, or conceive;
I trow.

True, sometimes for honest.
Trundle-tail, a species of dog.
Trusted, for thrusted. MAC.
Try conclusions, try experiments.
Tub-fast, the sweating process in
the venereal disorder.
Tucket, toccata, a flourish on a
trumpet. Ital.

Tupped, lien with; from tup, a

ram.

Turlygood, for Turlupin, a naked beggar.

Turquoise, a species of precious stone, supposed endued with extraordinary virtues. Twangling Jack, a paltry musician. Twiggen-bottle, a wickered bottle. Tyed, limited, or circumscribed. HEN. VIII.

V.

Vail, sometimes to cast down, to let fall down.

Valenced, fringed with a beard. Validity, sometimes for value. Vanity, an illusion. TEMP. Vantage, opportunity. CYMB. Vantbrace, armour for the arm. Fr.

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