Agriculture -- England; Conduct of life; Home economics, Rural
Sacke, _s._ sack, 10/26.
Sadelclothe, _s._ saddlecloth, 142/2.
Sacrament, _s._ sacrament, 145/7.
Salesman, _s._ seller, 134/29.
Salomon, Solomon, 157/8, 169/14, 31.
Salue, _v._ salve, anoint, 18/35.
Sandiuer, _s._ scoria of glass, _note_ to 46/3. “_Suin de verre_,
sandever, the fatty substance floating on glasse when it is
red-hot in the furnace, and which being cold is as hard as
stone, yet brittle and easily broken;” Cotgrave.
Sandy, _adj._ sandy (said of colour), 68/74.
Sappe-tyme, _s._ sap-time, 133/22.
Sauegarde, _s._ safeguard, 18/32, 123/37; saue-garde, 35/8.
Scab, _s._ sore place, sore, 42/5; scabbe (in horses), 116/2.
Scabbed, afflicted with scab, 18/8, 42/1.
Scaffolde, _s._ support of a rick, to keep it off the ground, 32/6.
Scape, 2 _pr. s. subj._ escape, 148/43.
Scarce, _adj._ sparing, stingy, 150/2.
Scaresdale, Scardale, a hundred of Derbyshire, 17/21.
Sclatte, _s._ slate, 122/38.
Scote, _s._ privy part of a colt, 101/2. See _colt-evil_, explained
in Markham’s Husbandry, b. i. c. 32. Cf. _sheath_ in Wright.
Scyences, _s. pl._ scions, suckers, 140/2. “_Sciens_ of cherry-trees;”
W. Lawson, Orchard and Garden, 1648, p. 122. See note.
Seame, _used as equivalent to_ a quarter (of beans), _note_ to 12/13.
Sede-forowe, _s._ seed-furrow, 4/37.
Selander, _s._ a disease in the bend of a horse’s leg, 95/1.
Selden, _adv._ seldom, 54/29.
Semeth, _v. impers._ appears; me semeth, it appears to me, 34/12.
Seneca, 161/9.
Senewes, _s. pl._ sinews, 75/3.
Sere, _imp. s._ sear, 63/7.
Serewe, _s._ a disease in a horse’s leg, on the inner side, 96/1.
Serue, _v._ to feed animals, 146/20.
Sethe, _v._ boil, 44/5; _imp. s._ 55/18.
Sette, _v._ to plant, 129/1; _pp._ set, 129/20.
Settes, _pl._ slips set in the ground to grow, cuttings, 124/10.
Seuer, _v._ sever, separate, 53/2.
Seueral, _adj._ several, separate, 6/6.
Seueraltye, in, _phr._ separately, 123/28.
Shaken, _adj._ full of cracks in the wood, 132/11.
Shakyll, _s._ shackle, 15/13.
Shap, _s._ privy part of a mare, 68/22.
Sharbeame, _s._ the wooden frame to which the share of a plough is
fixed, 2/10; sharebeame, 3/3.
Share, _s._ ploughshare, 3/6.
Share-hogges, _s. pl._ yearling sheep that have been once shorn, 53/4.
Shede, _imp. s._ part, 42/4; sheede, _v._ to part, 110/2.
Shedynge, _s._ spilling, 35/9, 70/46.
Shefe, _s._ sheaf, 28/6.
Sheldbrede, _s._ shield-board, 2/23; 3/4, 25. See note to 3/1. And see
below.
Sheldbredth, _s._ the same as _sheldbrede_, 2/17, 23. The form
_bredth_ is corrupt, by confusion of _brede_ (= breadth) with
_brede_ (= board).
Sheparde, _s._ shepherd, 18/24.
Shepe-flekes, _s. pl._ hurdles for sheep, 10/35.
Shepehoke, _s._ sheep-hook, 41/12.
Sherde, _s._ a breach, 141/36.
Shere, _v._ to reap, 26/2, 146/85; shorne, _pp._ 26/3.
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