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
Sooth, _true_, i. 20, 66;
_to flatter_, _soften_, iii. 59;
viii. 455,
_to prove_, iv. 258;
_truth_, vii. 287;
ix. 569;
xii. 256
Sophy, _philosophy_, iii. 261
Sops, i. 79
Sorel, _a buck of the third year_, ix. 149
Sort, _set_, _lot_, _company_, i. 405;
ii. 309;
viii. 118, 291;
xiii. 430;
_choose_, v. 164;
_to turn out_, viii. 411;
xiv. 129;
_condition_, _rank_, x. 343
Sossing, _sousing_ (?), iii. 183
Sot, _fool_, ii. 378;
xi. 525
Sothery, _sweet_, i. 376
Sotting, _getting drunk_, xiii. 437
Sound, _to part, sunder_, i. 244;
_swoon_, iii. 107;
vii. 323, 383;
_true_, x. 49
Souse, _soused fish_, _pickled fish_, i. 418;
iii. 356;
_a blow_, ii. 126;
_to beat_, iii. 218;
(a dish of), vi. 291;
ix. 240
Souterly, _snobbish_, iii. 321
Span-counter, xiv. 306
Sparkify, _to make a spark (gallant) of_, xv. 47
Sparkles, _sparks_, xii. 514
Speck-and-span new, xi. 334
Spectatrix, xiii. 513
Spectrum, _a looking-glass_, ix. 221
Speculation, _sight_, xii. 563
Speed, _to prosper_, i. 70;
_to despatch_, xiv. 176;
_success_, i. 135
Spells, x. 207
Spence, _pantry_, i. 35
Spent, _spend_, i. 407
Spere, _to ask_, i. 321
Spettle, iii. 11
Spial, _espial_, vi. 409;
_spy_, viii. 274
Spice, _species_, i. 58
Spill, _to destroy_, i. 119, 270;
iii. 118
Spindleshanks, _legs_, ii. 336
Spital-house, _hospital_, iii. 193
Spitchcock, xii. 236
Spitchcock'd, xii. 239
Spite, _to anger_, ii. 289
Spittle-house, _hospital_, viii. 70
Splayed, _displayed_, i. 147
Splendent, _resplendent_, ix. 310
Spokes, _saws_, _sayings_, vii. 300
Spongeous, _spongy_, ix. 422
Spot, _to defame_, x. 155
Spousail, _marriage_, xii. 241
Spousal, viii. 117
Spreet, _spirit_, iii. 177
Sprent, _sprinkled_, i. 425;
vii. 83;
ix. 267
Spright, _spirit_, vii. 474
Spring, _dance_, viii. 348
Springal, _a young fellow_, _youth_, ix. 271;
x. 366;
xiii. 159
Springe, _a trap_, _snare_, xi. 69
Springed, _ensnared_, xiii. 47
Springes, _traps_, xiv. 352
Sprite, _spirit_, iii. 49
Spriteful, _sprightly_, xi. 126
Sprites, _spirits_, i. 46
Spruce, _finely dressed_, vii. 286
Spun, _to burst out_, ii. 273
Spurt, ii. 291
Spyal, _spy_, viii. 397
Squall, _a squalid thing_, ii. 387;
_a little insignificant fellow_, vi. 199, 200;
_one who squalls_, xiv. 102
Squalms, i. 68
Square, _to adjust_, xi. 564
Squich, _to skip_, ii. 387
Squich'd, _winced_, v. 343
Squirrility, _scurrility_, iv. 62
Squitter-book, viii. 74
Stab (? slab), _to eat up_, ii. 215
Stacker, _to stagger_, i. 270
Stager (= an old stager), _not a newcomer_, xv. 19
Stale, _stole_, i. 171
Stales, _baits_, _allurements_, vii. 137;
viii. 260
Stall, _stole_, i. 160;
_to forestall_, xii. 45
Stalworthy, _brave_, i. 251
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