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
Seld, _seldom_, _rare_, iv. 302;
x. 86
Seld-seen, _seldom seen_, _rare_, v. 107
Self, _same_, vi. 376;
x. 139
Seller (= soler), _a room aloft_, i. 157
Sellinger, _St Leger_, ix. 409
Semblant, _appearance_, _pretence_, iii. 6
Sembling, _dissembling_, ii. 251
Sempiternal, _everlasting_, i. 286
Sempster, xi. 210
Send, _sent_, i. 64
Seneschalship, viii. 139
Sens, _since_, iii. 117
Sensibility, _tender feelings_, _sensitiveness_, xv. 207
Sensible, _sensitive_, xi. 15
Sentence, _sense_, i. 10;
_saw_, _saying_, iii. 264
Sent-Loy, _Saint-Loy_, vi. 75
Sepulture, _burial_, ii. 274
Serpently, _serpentlike_, i. 60
Serviceable, _willing to be of service_, ii. 339
Sess, _to assess_, viii. 155
Set-by, _to esteem_, _to prize_, i. 46;
iv. 17
Settles, _benches_, xi. 304
Sever, _to separate_, viii. 86
Several, _separate_, xi. 462
Sew, _pottage_, xii. 507
Sewen, _follow_, i. 248
Shagged, _shaggy_, iv. 279
Shag-hair, _shaggy-haired_, xii. 477
Shagrag, _a beggarly fellow_, xii. 132
Shake, _shaken_, iii. 88
Shamble, _bandy_, ix. 488
Shamefac'd, _modest_, xii. 295, 298
Shamefast, _modest_, iii. 68
Shapen, _made_, i. 247
Sharepenny, _a miser_, ix. 228
Shark, _to rob_, xii. 73
Sharp, _to sharpen_, ix. 422
Shase, _she has_, iii. 221
Shaveling, _a monk_, viii. 301
Shaver, ix. 116
She-chirurgeon, xiv. 399
Sheen, _bright_, vii. 58
Sheer, _clear_, viii. 443
Sheerly, _quite_, ix. 120
Shent, _ruined_, ii. 216;
_injured_ ii. 279;
_punished_ (?), iii. 71
Shewer, _an example_, ii. 388
Shidder, _thither_, xii. 507
Shifts, viii. 138
Shine, _sheen_, _splendour_, vii. 313
Shit, _shut_, i. 183;
ii. 153
Shoot-anchor (= sheet-anchor?), iii. 58
Shope, _ordained_, _provided_, i. 163
Short, "at short and long," _the long and the short of it_, i. 25
Shot, _reckoning_, i. 353
Shot-anchor, _sheet-anchor_ (?), i. 366
Shotlog, xi. 141
Show, _to appear_, x. 120
Shrew, _to curse_ i. 33;
ii. 223;
xv. 426;
_a vicious horse_ (?), viii. 425
Shrewd, _bad_, i. 20, 60, 401;
iii. 346;
viii. 297;
xi. 43;
xii. 142;
_a wicked man_, iii. 241
Shrewdly, _badly_, iii. 131;
xiv. 473
Shrieve, _sheriff_, viii. 146;
x. 344
Shrive, _to confess_, iii. 219
Shroud, _to shelter_, iv. 308;
xi. 484
Shrow, _shrew_, iv. 232;
viii. 302
Sib, _akin_, viii. 124
Sibber, ii. 78
Sickerly, _certainly_, i. 259
Side, _wide_, iv. 118
Sieged, _besieged_, x. 324
Siesta, _note_, xv. 22
Sifflements, _whistlings_, ix. 340
Signet (= sonata), iv. 349
Signiorise, v. 185
Signiorising, _lording it_, v. 220
Signiory, _lordship_, v. 216
Sikerly, _surely_, _truly_, iii. 255;
xii. 241
Silder, _less often_, vii. 46
Simper, ix. 115
Simplitude, _simplicity_, i. 268
Sin, _since_, i. 175;
_since_, xii. 257;
_sinner_, x. 61
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