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
Sink and cise, _terms used in card-playing_, iii. 346
Sinksanker, _a cardsharper_, viii. 192
Sipers (= Cyprus), _a white stuff of which veils were made_, i. 350
Sir, _a gentleman_, xi. 463
Sisterne, _sisters_, xii. 242
Sistren, _sisters_, i. 226, 227
Sith, _since_, i. 13, 16, 268;
iii. 282;
x. 115
Sithence, _since_, iv. 336
Sitten, _sat_, xi. 520
Skald, _a term of abuse_, _a scabby or shabby fellow_, iii. 216, 217
Skein, _a knife_, x. 229
Skene, _a dagger_, ix. 337
Skill, _knowledge_, i. 7;
_to help_, iii. 178;
_to matter_, iii. 311;
_matter consequence_, iv. 128
Skiuker, _drawer_, _tapster_, _a pourer out of wine_, viii. 426;
x. 252
Skipjack, _a dwarf_, iii. 312;
vi. 179
Skirret, x. 126
Slab, _to lap up_, ii. 215
Slack, _late_, ii. 245
Slake, _to assuage_, _to soften_, i. 202;
iii. 30
Slampambs, _craft_, iii. 39
Slav'd, _enslaved_, x. 116;
xiv. 437
Slaver, _to slobber_, viii. 60;
x. 539
Slavering, _slobbering_, vii. 300;
x. 499
Sle, _to slay_, i. 257;
ii. 251;
iii. 147
Sleight, _craft_, _deceit_, i. 82;
_prudence_, iii. 27
Sleightly, _slyly_, ii. 243
Sleights (of hand), x. 208
Slick, _sleek_, _soft_, xiv. 58
Slidder, _slippery_, i. 213
Slide, _to go astray_, ii. 100
Slight, _weak_, x. 73
'Slight (= God's light), _an oath_, xi. 125;
xiii. 235
Slim, _frail_, _feeble_, i. 288
Slip, _false coin_, x. 197
Slopped, _lapped up_, iii. 193
Slops, _breeches_, x. 345;
xi. 67
Slot, _note_, xiv. 520
Slouch, _a lout_, xi. 282
Slouches, _slutches_, _dirty fellows_, i. 416
Slough, _slew_, i. 235
Sloughing hot cockles, ix. 102
Slubber, _to obscure_, iv. 374
Smack, _to taste_, ii. 230
Small, i. 10
Smattering, _talking_, i. 211
Smick-smack, ii. 85
Smit, _smitten_, i. 41
Smock-satyr, _woman-hater_, xiv. 277
Smolder, _to smother_, iii. 243
Smug, _trim_, _nice_, _neat_, iv. 183;
ix. 326;
x. 473;
_to adorn_, xi. 532;
_pleasantly_, xii. 327
'Snails, _an oath_, xiii. 7, 37
Sneaksbill, _one who doesn't pay his score_, xii. 258
Sneap'd, _rebuked_, x. 428
Snick-up, ix. 285
Snigs, xii. 257, 259
Snip, _a snap_, x. 346
Snipsnap, iii. 332
Snudge, _a mean fellow_, iv. 314;
_a miser_, viii. 83
Snudge-snout, ix. 232
Snuff pepper, _to feel offended_, xiii. 166
Snyb, _to snub_, _reprove_, xii. 240
So, _provided_, i. 63
Soaker, _drinker_, xii. 334
Soap, "soap-ashes," i. 31
Soar, _a young hawk_, xi. 360
Sod, _boiled_, i. 25
Sodden, _boiled_, i. 34
Sodometry, _Sodomy_, ii. 65
Soldan, _sultan_, i. 31
Solf, _to call over the notes of a tune_, i. 71
Solicitancy, _solicitation_, xiv. 291
Somedele, _somewhat_, xii. 241
Sometime among, _sometimes_, _at intervals_, i. 7
Sonde, _message_, xv. 421
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