English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
Sackerson (In the footnote read H_u_nkes for H_a_nkes.)
Salt, sit beneath the
Sarreverence
Scandalum magnatum
Sconce, build a (I supposed that the expression meant "fix a candle in a
candlestick," but I am indebted to Mr. George L. Apperson for the true
explanation. He writes:--"In Dyche's _Dictionary_ (I quote from ed.
1748) is the verb _sconce_, one of the definitions being--'a cant term
for running up a score at an alehouse or tavern'--with which cf.
Goldsmith's Essays (1765), viii, 'He ran into debt with everybody that
would trust him, and none could _build a sconce_ better than he.' This
explanation seems to me to make Thomas's remark a very characteristic
one." See Grose's _Classical Dictionary of the vulgar tongue_.)
Scottish witch
Scythians
Sentronell ( = centinel)
Seven deadly sinnes, pageant of
Shakespeare imitated; his use of the word road ("This Doll Tearsheet
should be some road") illustrated; mentioned in _Captain Underwit_
Sharpe, play at. (Cf. _Swetnam the Woman Hater_, 1620, sig. G. 3:--
"But cunning Cupid forecast me to recoile:
For when he _plaid at sharpe_ I had the foyle.")
Shellain
Sherryes
Ship, the great
Shipwreck by land
Shirley, James, author of _Captain Underwit_; quoted
Shoulder pack't
Shrovetide, hens thrashed at
Shrove Tuesday, riotous conduct of apprentices on
Sib
Signeor No
_Sister awake! close not your eyes!_
Sister's thread
_Sleep, wayward thoughts_ (See _Appendix_)
Slug
Smell-feast
Snaphance
Sowse
Spanish fig
Sparabiles
Spend
Spenser, imitated
Spurne-point
Stafford's lawe
Stand on poynts
Standage
Stavesucre ( = staves-acre)
Steccadoes ( = stoccadoes, thrusts in fencing)
Stewd prunes
Stigmaticke
Stoope
Striker
Strive curtesies ( = stand upon ceremony)
Suds, in the
Suetonius, quoted
Sure
Surreverence
Tacitus, quoted
Take me with you
Take in
Tarleton
Tarriers
_Tell Tale, the_, (MS. play)
Tent
Termagant
_The Fryer was in the_--(See _Appendix_)
Three Cranes
Thumb, to bite the
Ticktacks
Tickle minikin ( = play on the fiddle)
Timeless ( = untimely)
Tobacco (price of)
Toot
Totter
Totter'd
Traind band
Transportation of ordnance
Trevants. (_Trevant_ is a corruption of _Germ. Traban_ = guard.)
Trewe ( = honest)
Tripennies
Trondling
Trouses
True man
Trundle bed
Trunk-hose
Tub-hunter ( = parasite)
Turnops
_Two Noble Ladyes_. (The plot is partly founded on Calderon's
_Magico Prodigioso_.)
Uncouth
Unicorn's horn
Unreadie
Upper stage
Ure
Varlet
Vaunt-currying
Venetian
Verjuice made by stamping crab-apples
Vie
Vild
Virgil, quoted
Virginal
Virginall Jacks
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