Early English Alliterative Poems: in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century
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Early English Alliterative Poems: in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century
English poetry -- Middle English, 1100-1500
See State Papers, i. 295.
Rysed, rose, B. 1778.
Ryth, a hound, mastiff, B. 1543. A.S. _riththa_, a mastiff.
Ryȝt, right, A. 622.
Ryȝtwys, righteous, right, A. 675; C. 490.
Ryȝtwysly, aright, A. 709.
{Sacrafyce, Sacrefyce,} B. 510, 1447; C. 239.
{Sad, Sade, Sadde,} sad, staid, solemn, A. 211, 887; B. 595; long,
B. 1286; bitter, B. 525.
Sadele, saddle, B. 1213.
Sadly, soundly, heavily, C. 442.
Saf, safe, secure, A. 672.
Saf, save, except, B. 1749.
{Saffer, Safyre,} sapphire, A. 1002; B. 1469.
Sage, B. 1576.
Saghe = saw, word, A. 226. See _Saw_.
Sake, fault, A. 800; C. 84. A.S. _sacu_.
Sakerfyse, sacrifice, A. 1064; B. 507.
Sakleȝ = sakeless, innocent, faultless, B. 716. Sc. _sackless_. O.N.
_saklaus_, innocent. See _Sake_.
Sakred, hallowed, B. 1139.
Sale, hall, palace, B. 120, 1260, 1722. A.S. _sal_. T. B. 1657.
Samen, _adv._ together, at once, A. 518; B. 400, 468; _adj._ B. 985.
O.N. _saman_.
Samen, to consort with, B. 870. A.S. _samnian_, to assemble, collect.
Samne, assemble, B. 53.
Samned, assembled, B. 126, 361.
Samnes (_imp._ of _samne_), C. 385.
Sample, example, A. 499; B. 1326.
Sapyence, wisdom, B. 1626.
Sardiner, sardine stone, B. 1469.
Sardonyse, sardonyx, A. 1006.
Sarre (_comp._ of _sare_), sorer, more painful, B. 1195; _superl._
_sarrest_, B. 1078.
Sattle, settle, C. 409. N.Prov.E. _sattle_.
{Sau, Saue,} = saw, word, B. 1545.
Sauce, B. 823.
Saudan, sultan, B. 1323.
{Saule, Sawle,} soul, A. 461; B. 290; C. 325.
Saundyuer, sandever, glass-gall, B. 1036.
Sauter, psalter, A. 677.
Sauteray, psaltery, B. 1516.
Saue, A. 666.
Sauer, _vb._ savour, B. 825.
Sauerly, savourly, sweet, A. 226.
{Sauor, Savour,} B. 510, 995, 1447; C. 275.
Sauyté, safety, B. 489.
{Saw, Sawe,} word, A. 278; B. 109. A.S. _sagu_.
Sayde = sadde, stedfast, B. 470.
Saym, fat, grease, C. 275. Prov.E. _saim_, seam, lard. W. _saim_.
Sayned, blessed, B. 746. A.S. _senian_. Ger. _segnen_, to bless.
“Swa sal I _saine_ þe in lif mine,
Sic benedicam te in vita mea,
And sal lift mi handes in name thine,
Et in nomine tuo levabo manus meas.” --(Psalm lxii. 5.)
Saynt, A. 835.
{Saȝ, Saȝe,} word, B. 1599, 1737. See _Saw_.
Saȝ, saw, A. 1021.
{Saȝt, Saȝte,} reconciliation, A. 1201; _adj._ at peace, A. 52. A.S.
_saht_, peace; _saht_, reconciled; _sahtlian_, to reconcile.
Saȝtled, appeased, reconciled, B. 230, 1139.
Saȝtled, settled, restored, B. 445; became calm, C. 232.
Saȝtlyng, reconciliation, peace, B. 490, 1795.
Saȝttel, to be calm, patient, C. 529.
Scale, A. 1005.
Scape, escape, B. 62, 529, 928; C. 155.
Scarre = scare, _vb._ be frightened, B. 598, 838; scatter, B. 1784.
N.Prov.E. _skair_, wild, timid. S.Sax. _skerren_, to terrify.
Scaþe, harm, ruin, wrong, sin, B. 21, 196, 569, 600, 1148.
Scaþe, to break, destroy, B. 1776. A.S. _scethan_, to injure, hurt,
harm. _Sceththe_, injury, loss, guilt.
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