Sa, so, 3322, 3406.
Dan. _saa_.
Saade, said, 698.
Salust, saluted, 546, 919, 1553, 2749.
Ch. _salewe_.
Salosing, salutation, 1309.
Sar, sorely, 1660.
Sauch, saw, 817, 1219, 1225.
A.S. _ic seáh_, from _seón_.
Schawin, shewn, 2387.
Schent, disgraced, ruined, 1880.
A.S. _scendan_; Dan. _skiænde_.
Schrewit, accursed, 1945.
Scilla, the name of a bird, also called Ciris, 2483.
----“plumis in avem mutata vocatur
Ciris, et a tonso est hoc nomen adepta capillo.”
--(Ovid, Met. viii. 150.)
Screwis, shrews, ill-natured persons, 1053.
More often used of males than females in old authors.
Sedulis, letters, 142.
R. _cedule_.
Sege, a seat, 2258.
Fr. _siége_.
Semble, a warlike assembly, hostile gathering, 988, 2206.
Semblit, assembled, 845.
G. _sammeln_; from Goth. _sama_, _samana_.
Semblyng, encountering, 2951.
See _Assemble_.
Sen, since, 709, 800, etc.
Sen at, since that. In Piers Plowman we find _syn_.
Septure, sceptre, 666.
Sere, several, various, 594, 731, 746.
“Su-G. _sær_, adv. denoting separation.” J. Cf. Lat. _se-_.
Sess, to cease, 14, etc.
Fr. _cesser_.
Set, although.
Sew, to follow up, seek, 2326.
R. _suir_; Fr. _suivre_.
Sew, to follow up, go, proceed, 3145.
Sewyt, 2614.
Shauyth, shewith, 412.
Sice, such, 2115.
Scotch, _sic_.
Snybbyth, snubs, checks, 3387.
Comp. D. _sneb_, a beak; _snebbig_, snappish.
Sobing, sobbing, moaning, 2658.
{ Socht, Soght, } sought to go; and hence, made his (or their) way,
proceeded, went, 2619, 3179, 3357, 3428.
Sought one, advanced upon, attacked, 3149, 3311.
Sought to, made his way to, 3130.
A.S. _sécan_, past tense _ic sóhte_, to seek, approach, go towards.
Sor, sorrow, anxiety, 74.
A.S. _sorh_; Goth. _saúrga_.
Sort, lot, fate, 26.
Fr. _sort_.
Sound, to be consonant with, 149.
See Gloss. to Tyrwhitt’s Chaucer.
Lat. _sonare_.
Soundith, 1811. “So the puple soundith,” so the opinion of the
people tends.
“As fer as _souneth_ into honestee.”
(Chaucer: _Monkes Prologue_.)
Soundith, tend, 1943;
tends, 149.
Sown, sound, 1035.
Fr. _son_.
Sownis, sounds, 772, 3436.
Spent, fastened, clasped, 2809.
A.S. _spannan_, to clasp, join. Comp. Dan. _spænde_, to stretch,
span, buckle together.
{ Spere, Spir, } sphere, 6, 170;
speris, spheres, circuits, 24.
Spere, to inquire, 1170.
A.S. _spirian_, to track. Cf. G. _spur_.
Sperithis, spear’s, 810.
Spill, to destroy, ruin, 1990.
A.S. _spillan_.
Spreit, spirit, 81, 364.
Stak, 226. J. gives “to the steeks, _completely_;” and this is the
sense here.
See Jamieson: s.v. “Steik.” Halliwell gives _stake_, to block up;
also _steck_, a stopping place (cf. Shakespeare’s
_sticking-place_, Macb. i. vii. l. 60). In the N. of France it
is said of one killed or severely wounded, _il a eu son
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