soden (A.S.) 312, _to boil_. _part. pas._ y-soden, 321 sodenes (A.N.) 303, _sub-deans_ softe (A.S.) 1, _warm_ (like the Fr. _doux_) sokene (A.S.) 34, _a district held by tenure of socage_ solas (A.N.) _comfort, solace_ soleyn (A.N.) 240, _one left alone_ solne (A.N.) 102, _to sing by note_ som (A.S.) _pl._ somme, _some_ somone (A.N.) 37, sompne, 62, 209, 408, _to summon_ somonour (A.N.) 31, 51, 75, _a somner_, an officer employed to summon delinquents to appear in ecclesiastical courts, now called _an apparitor_ sonde (A.S.) _mission, sending_ sone (A.S.) _a son_ songewarie (A.N.) 147, 148, _the interpreting of dreams_ sonne (A.S.) _the sun_ sooth (A.S.) _truth_ soothnesse, sothnesse (A.S.) _truth_ sope (A.S.) 254, _a sop_ sope (A.S.) 273, _soap_ soper (A.N.) _supper_ sorwe (A.S.) _sorrow_ sorweful (A.S.) 353, _sorrowful_ soth (A.S.) _true_ sothe (A.S.) _truth_ sotile (A.N.) 184, 186, _to apply one's cunning or penetration_ sotil (A.N.) _pl._ sotile, 294, 297, 319, 372, _clever, cunning, subtile, difficult to conceive or understand_ sotte (A.N.) _a fool_ souke (A.N.) 209, _to suck_ souter (A.S.) 101, 201, _a shoemaker_. +soutere, 494 souteresse (A.S.) 96, _a female shoemaker_ southdene (A.N.) _a subdean_ sowen (A.S.) 274, _to sow_. _pret. s._ sew, 268, 412, _pl._ sewe, 317. _part. pas._ y-sowen, 416 spakliche (A.S.) 353, _hastily_ (?) spede (A.S.) 353, _to haste, to speed_. _pret. s._ spedde, 353 speken, speke (A.S.) _to speak_. _pret. s._ spak spelonke (LAT.) 311, _a cavern_ spences (A.N.) 285, _expense_ spillen (A.S.) (trans.) _to mix, spill, spoil, waste_, 414 (_intransitive_) _to perish_, 303. _part. pas._ y-spilt spire (A.S.) 348, _to look closely into, to inquire_ spores (A.S.) 370, _spurs_ spring (A.S.) 79, _a sprig, rod_ springen (A.S.) _to spring_. _pret. s._ sprong, 277, spronge, 404 stablisse (A.N.) 22, _to establish_ +stappyng (A.S.) 489, _stepping_ stede (A.S.) _pl._ stedes, _a place_ steere (A.S.) 153, _the helm of a ship_ steyen (A.S.) _to arise, mount_. +_pret. s._ steigh, 498, _arose_ stekie (A.S.) 22, _to stick fast_ stele (A.S.), 412, _a handle_ stelen (A.S.) _to steal_. _pret. s._ stale, 268. _pl._ stolen, 405 sterre, _pl._ sterne, 310 (A.S.) _a star_ +styghtle (A.S.) 469, _to establish, confirm_. Explained in the glossary appended to the old edition by _to stay_ +stylle (A.S.) 473, _quietly, with a low voice_ +y-stongen (A.S.) 483, _stabbed, pierced_ stinken (A.S.) _to stink_. _pret. s._ stank, 328. +styncand, 489, _stinking_ stynten (A.S.) 22, 186, _to stop_ stonden, stonde, stande, 354 (A.S.) _to stand_. he stondeth, it stant, 325, he stant, 372, thei stonden. _pret. s._ stood, 204, 247 stoon (A.S.) 328, _a stone_ stotte (A.S.) 411, _an ox of three years old_ stounde (A.S.) 155, _a short space of time_ stoupe (A.S.) 204, _to bend, stoop_. Chaucer, in the first line of the Nonne Preestes Tale, speaks of,--"A pore wydow somdel _stoupe_ in age."