SHENT, "you will be _shent_" (N105,_c, et passim_), blamed. SHROUD CELL (M17,_c_),? privy place, such as the crypt of a church: shrouds are properly places under ground: the meaning is that Mankind has met Mercy privately. SIDE, see Aloft. SIDE-GOWN, "his _side-gown_ may be sold" (M29,_d_), long gown: cf. "side-sleeves" = long sleeves. There are examples enough in Nares. SI DIDERO (M20,_d_), _i.e._ "I'll pay you back with profit" (E.E.T.S. ed.). SIGHING, "weeping, _sighing_, and sobbing" (M32,_d_), the _sythynge_ of the original seems worth recording. SIKER, "_siker_ thyself, man!" (N51,_b_), secure, make all safe, assure "Now be we duchesses both I and ye, And _sikerde_ to the regals of Athenes, And both hereafter likely to be queenes." --Chaucer, _Legend of Ariadne_. SIKERNESS, "In one is _sikerness_" (N55,_b_), certainty, security, sureness: see previous entry. SILVER HOOK (IP345,_d_), a bribe. SINDONS, "the _sindons_ in which were wrapped the chalices" (R221,_d_), a wrapper of cotton or linen. "There were found a book and a letter, both written in fine parchment, and wrapped in _sindons_ of linen."--_Bacon._ SINGULAR, "my sing'lar solace" (M36,_c_)--"my ... _singular_ recreatory" (M39,_a_), unique: in original _singler_ and _synguler_ respectively. "Some villain, ay, and _singular_ in his art." --Shakespeare, _Cymbeline_ (1605), iii. 4. SIR WILL--SIR WILLIAM OF TRENTRAM (JE356,_b_; 357,_a_): see Trentham. SLEET, "I will not _sleet_ my love to greet" (WS172,_c_), neglect. SLEIGHT (_passim_), art, skill, dexterity, expertness: generic in both a good and bad sense. SLIPED, "_sliped_ down to the hard knee" (N77,_c_), sloped: note the rhyme with "striped." SLIPPER, "A _slipper_ sugar-mouthed whorecop" (R212,_c_), "the ground be _slipper_ and sliding" (JE363,_d_), slippery. "I know they _bee slipper_ that I have to do wyth, and there is no holde of them."--Barnes, _Workes_ (1573), p. 283. SLITHER, "make you to _slither_" (M7,_c_), slide, glide: still dialectical. SLOUTHY, see Flouthy. SMATTERING, "a _smattering_ face" (M27,_b_),? a wanton face: cf. _smoterlich_ = wanton; also _smorterest place_ (N95,_a_), _place_ being considered as a misprint for "piece." "We wyll have cousynge Besse also, And two or thre proper wenchis mo, Ryght feyr and _smotter_ of face."-- _Four Elements_, Anon. Pl., 1 Ser. (E.E.D.S.), 22,_b_. SMORTEREST, "the _smorterest_ place" (N95,_a_): see previous entry. SMOULT, "gay, _smoult_ smirking whorecop" (R214,_b_), smooth. SOCKET, "his wife's _socket_" (M8,_c_), _vulva_. SONDE, "God ... send us of His _sonde_" (M24,_b_), message, dispensation. "Fyve yeer and more, as liked Cristes _sonde_, Er that hir schip approched unto londe."