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
C. 234.
Strayt, B. 880, 1199.
{Strech, Streche,} stretch, A. 843, 971; B. 905.
Stremande, shining, A. 115. See extract under the word _Staren_.
Strenkle, scatter, B. 307.
Strenþe, strength, B. 1155, 1430.
Streny, strain, toil, labour, A. 551.
Streȝt, strait, A. 691; C. 234. Cf. streght, T. B. 351.
Stronde = strand, stream, river, A. 152; C. 254, 311.
“Midward þat land a wel springes,
Þat rennes out wit four _strandes_,
Fflummes farand in fer landes.”
--(Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii. fol. 7b.)
“Quen thai war passed over _strand_,
And raght apon þe toiþer land,
Witte yee þat þai war ful gladd.” --(_Ibid._, fol. 46a.)
Strot = strut, contest, chiding, A. 353, 848.
“O pride bicums unbuxumnes,
Strif and _strutt_ and frawardnes.”
--(The Seven Deadly Sins, in Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii.)
Stroþe, bold, fierce (?), A. 115.
Strye, destroy, B. 307, 1768; _stryed_, B. 1018.
Stryf, A. 248.
Stryke, pass, go, A. 1125. A.S. _strican_.
Strynde = strond, stream, C. 311.
Stryuande, striving, C. 311.
Stud = stede, place, B. 389, 1334.
Sturnen, strong, B. 1402.
{Styf, Styffe,} strong, A. 779; C. 234; _styfest_, strongest, B. 255.
Styfly, fast, firmly, B. 352, 1652.
Styke = stryke, walk, go (?), A. 1186.
Stykked, fixed, placed, B. 583. See _Steke_.
Stylle, secret, A. 20; B. 589, 706; quiet, B. 1203; quietly, B. 486.
See T. B. 1778.
“State from þe slyth kyng _styllé_ by night.” --(T. B. 988.)
Stylle, secretly, B. 806, 1778.
Styngande, stinging, B. 225.
Stynkande, stinking, B. 1018.
Stynst, a mistake for stynt, stop, A. 353.
Stynt, stop, B. 225, 381, 1261; stopped, C. 73. A.S. _stintan_.
Styry, stir, move, B. 403, 1720.
Stysteȝ = stynteȝ, stops, B. 359.
Styȝe, path, C. 402. A.S. _stíg_.
Styȝe, ascend, climb, B. 389. A.S. _stígan_, to ascend.
Styȝtle, place, order, fix, B. 90; C. 402. A.S. _stihtan_, to arrange,
dispose. See T. B. 1997.
“Unstithe for to stire or _stightill_ the Realme.” --(T. B. 117.)
Sued, followed, B. 681.
{Suffer, Suffre,} A. 554.
Suffraunce, endurance, patience, C. 3, 529.
Suffyse, A. 135.
{Sulp, Sulpe,} defile, pollute, B. 15, 550, 1130, 1135. O.E. _sulwe_,
to defile, soil. M.H.D. _be-sulwen_. O.N. _söla_, to pollute. Prov.
Ger. _sulpern_, unclean, to defile. The word _sulp_ (_solp_) occurs
in the Romance of K. Alexander, ed. Stevenson, but the editor
renders it “_to swallow_”!
“Oure inward enmys ilkane we inwardly drepis,
That is to say alle the sin, at _solp_ may ȝe (the ?) saule.”
--(K. Alex. p. 146.)
Sulpande, defiling, A. 726.
Sumkyn, of some kind, A. 619.
Sumoun, to summon, A. 539.
Sum quat, some sort of, B. 627.
Sum-while, formerly, C. 57.
Sunderlupes, severally, C. 12.
Suppe, B. 108; C. 151.
Supplantor, A. 440.
Sure, A. 1089.
Sum, one, “_al & sum_,” one and all, A. 584.
Surely, B. 1643; C. 315.
Sustnaunce, B. 340.
Sute (?) A.
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