A Dictionary of the First or Oldest Words in the English Language: From the Semi-Saxon Period of A.D. 1250 to 1300Coleridge, Herbert
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A Dictionary of the First or Oldest Words in the English Language: From the Semi-Saxon Period of A.D. 1250 to 1300
Coleridge, Herbert
English language -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Saufe. See Safe
Sauhting, _sb._ == peace, reconciliation? Wright’s L. P. p. 23
Saut, _sb._ == leap. RG. 564. Fr. sault, saillir
Savage, _adj._ Alys. 2088. Fr. sauvage. Ital. selvaggio. Lat. silva
Save, _adv._ [sauvé, sauf]. 434, 435 B.
---- _v. a._ RG. 449, 519, 550
Savour, _sb._ Wright’s L. P. p. 87
Saw, _sb._ == saying, opinion. Wright’s L. P. pp. 31, 47; [saye]. O. and
N. 1036
Sax, _sb._ == short sword. RG. 125. AS. seax
Say, _sb._ == silk. RG. 390. Fr. saie. Lat. sagum
Say, _v. a._ pres. ‘segge.’ RG. 501; plur. ‘segeth.’ RG. 502; pret.
‘seyde.’ RG. 390; ‘sede.’ RG. 418; part, ‘ysaid.’ RG. 11; ‘ysed.’ RG. 420
Saygyng, _sb._ == omens as to land, air, &c. Alys. 61
Saylyng, _sb._ == assailing. Alys. 7392, 676
Scab, _sb._ [shabbe]. Pol. S. 239. AS. sceabb
Scabbard, [scaubert]. RG. 273. ON. skálpr. Dut. schabbe, Kil. Connected
with ‘sheath,’ and the AS. scǽð, scádan
Scabbed, _adj._ HD. 2449
Scald, _v. a._ Marg. 59. Ps. cxx. 6
Scaldand, _sb._ == a torrent. Ps. cxxv. 4; cxxiii. 5. Probably formed in
imitation of ‘torrent,’ from ‘torreo,’ and AS. ‘byrna,’ a burn, or brook,
from ‘byrnan’
Scalding, _adj._ == hot. Ps. lxxxii. 10
Scalp, _sb._ Ps. vii. 17. ON. skálpr, a sheath
Scape, _v. n._ == escape. Pol. S. 152
Scarce, _adj._ RG. 334. Fr. escars. Lat. excarpere
Scarcely, _adv._ == in small quantities. Alys. 1012
Scarcity, _sb._ Alys. 5495
Scarlet, _sb._ Alys. 6376
Scathe, _sb._ == harm. HD. 1352. AS. sceáðan
Scathing, _sb._ Ps. cv. 30
Scatter, _v. a._ Ps. xvii. 15; xxxiv. 16; part. ‘stakered,’ by a
metathesis in Ps. cxl. 7. AS. scateran
Scenche, _sb._ == a cup. M. Ode, st. 167. AS. scenc
Sceptre, _sb._ Alys. 6716
Schamel, _sb._ == footstool. Ps. xcviii. 5. AS. scamel. Lat. scamnum
Schamil, == shambles, _q. v._
Schare, _sb._ == penis. Fr. Sci. 322. AS. scaru. ‘Schere’ is given as the
translation of ‘pubes’ in Wright’s Vocabb. p. 246
Schede, _vb._ == separate. O. and N. 197. AS. sceádan
Schef, _sb._ == creature. Rel. Ant. ii. p. 177
Schenche, _v. a._ == destroy. Alys. 4482. AS. scénan
Schenche, _v. a._ == pour out. Alys. 7581. Rel. Ant. i. 113. AS. scencan
Schenlon, _sb._ == rascal, vile person. Rel. Ant. ii. p. 211. Probably a
corruption of Dut. schelm
Schille. See Shrill
Schinde, _sb._ == shingle, rafter. Rel. Ant. ii. p. 176. Dutch schindel
Schoningnes, _sb._ == awe. Ps. xxxiv. 26. Formed from ‘shun’
School, _sb._ 152 B.
Schulle, _sb._ == some fish, resembling a sole in flavour, according to
Sir T. Browne. See N. and Q., 2nd ser. vi. 382; vii. p. 79, 135. It may be
derived from the Swed. skolla, a plaice, ON. skolli, a fox. Cf. Gr.
ἀλωπεκίας, and Lat. vulpes marina, and Sylvester’s Sea-Fox, p. 97. In
Wright’s Vocabb., p. 254, among the Nomina Piscium Marinorum we find the
entries ‘Hec solia, a sole,’ and ‘Hec testa, a schylle;’ showing clearly
that the ‘schylle’ was not the same as the sole, and that it was some sort
of flatfish, probably the plaice
Scion, _sb._ == stem, stock. Cok. 72. Fr. cion
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