A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 15Dodsley, Robert
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A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 15
Dodsley, Robert
English drama
Ruinate, _to destroy_, _to ruin_, viii. 158, 184;
xi. 480;
_ruined_, xiv. 103
Rumney (wine), i. 24
Rumple, _to play wantonly_, viii. 389
Runagate, _renegade_, ix. 267
Ruth, _pity_, i. 256;
vii. 30;
_cruelty_, xiv. 138
Ruthful, _piteous_, v. 127
Rutter, _trooper_, v. 265
Sa, _so_, xii. 507
Sacket, xi. 340
Sacrament, "by God's sacrament," iii. 34
Sacrament (by Gog's), iii. 180
Sacring, _consecrating_, x. 235
Sad, _adj. sober_, _serious_, i. 20;
iv. 137
Sadder, _slower_, iii. 132
Sadly, _seriously_, iii. 78;
vii. 39
Sadness, _seriousness_, _sobriety of conduct_, i. 187;
iii. 124
Safe-conduct, i. 375
Safeguard, _to protect_, ix. 565;
x. 212
Sained, _blessed_, i. 261
Saker, _a gun_, xi. 325
Salacious, xiv. 344
Sale, _hall_, i. 243;
_shall_, vi. 71
Sallet, _a sort of helmet_, i. 396;
_sallad_, i. 397
Same, "in same," _together_, i. 245, 247
Sampler, v. 259
Sanctimonious, _holy_, x. 128
Sandry, _sundry_, vi. 74
Sanguine, _ruddy_, iv. 80
Sanguineous, _ruddy_, i. 54
Sans, _without_, i. 26;
xi. 104
Sate, _to satisfy_, xiv. 337
Sauce-box, _an impudent fellow_, x. 509;
xi. 536;
xv. 68
Saunce-bell, _a bell rung at different parts of the mass-service_, x. 422
Saunt, _term used in card-playing_, ix. 387
Savour, _smell_, i. 20;
_to feel_, _experience_, i. 294;
_to smack_, xi. 454
Saw, _proverb_, xiii. 8
Sawl, _soul_, vi. 77
Saws, _sayings_, i. 20
Saxes, _note_, xii. 287
Sayn, _to say_, xii. 242
Saysmatic, _schismatic_, vi. 71
Scab, _term of abuse_, xii. 313
Scale, _ladder_, x. 139
Scaledrake, _sheldrake_, xiv. 290
Scamble, _to scramble_, x. 244
Scant, _scarcely_, i. 78
Scape, _to escape_, i. 163
Scaped, _escaped_, i. 41
Scapethrift, viii. 138
Scarbabe, _a scarecrow_, ix. 268
Scath, _harm_, ii. 249
Scathe, _harm_, _to hurt_, _injure_, v. 327;
viii. 152;
ix. 21;
xv. 145
Sciotherical, _belonging to a sundial_, xi. 326
Sconce, _head_, x. 300;
xiv. 304
Scot and lot, xii. 251
Scouting (= scutting), _mucking_, _messing_, ix. 154
Scrag, _a scraggy, lean person_, xiv. 164
Screeking, _screeching_, ix. 341
Screw'd, _shrewd_, _supercilious_ (?), xiv. 351
Screwed, _shrewd_, xiv. 282
Scrine, _a desk_, iii. 141
Scrubbed, _scrubby_, _shaggy_, xii. 323
Scud, _to run away_, vii. 321;
viii. 292
Se, _seat_, i. 244
Sear, _a term in falconry_, xi. 341
Search, _try_, _prove_, i. 199;
xiii. 389
Secretness, _secresy_, i. 85
Sector, _executor_, iii. 105
Secure, _confident_, v. 167;
vii. 180
Seducement, _seduction_, xiii. 213
Seech, _to seek_, i. 268;
i. 406
Seely, _blessed_, i. 267;
_happy_, ix. 216
Seeming, _apparent_, xi. 457
Seeth, _to boil_, ii. 171
Seethe, _to boil_, i. 162;
ix. 490;
xiii. 25
Segs, _sedyes_, v. 213
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