dragge.--Prompt. Parv. See Dredge and Mestlen.
N.
Nads, 17/9, _s._ an adze.
Naile, 17/8, _s._ nails.
Nall, 17/4, _s._ an awl.
Naughtie, 53/20, _adj._ useless, unfit.
Naughtly, 10/4, _adv._ by unfair or improper means.
Nauewes, 41/6, _s. pl._ wild navew. _Brassica napus_, L. Fr. _naveau_,
from _napellus_, dimin. of _napus_ = the rape.
*Nawlt, 32, ? _nawt_, nothing.
Neat, 50/28, _s._ cattle. A.S. _neât_, horned cattle.
Neatherd, 63/2, _s._ herdsman, the man who attends to the cattle.
Needams shore, 97/5. "A punning proverb recorded in Ray; and signifying
that waste and extravagance bring a man to want or need."--Mavor.
Needfullie, 9/15, _adv._ necessarily.
Ne forte, 23/10, Latin, lest by chance.
Nep, 39/24, _s._ cat mint, a contraction from the Lat. _nepeta_.
Nest, 11/6, _v._ nestle, settle.
*Nestling, 41, _v._ harbouring, supporting.
Nettie, 68/1, _adj._ natty, neat. O. Fr. _net_, from Lat. _nitidus_.
Nice, 102/1, _adj._ careful, particular.
Nick, 98/4, _v._ cut, notch.
Nie, 16/4, _adj._ near, convenient.
Nips, 114/5, _s. pl._ pinches.
Niggerly, 27/4, _adj._ niggardly, miserly. Icel. _hnöggr_, sparing,
miserly. Cf. Ger. _knicker_, a niggard.
Nittes, 21/23, _s. pl._ the eggs of a louse or other insects. A.S.
_hnitu_.
Noble, 16/16, _s._ noble, a gold coin of the value of 6_s._ 8_d._
Noddies, 18/20, Nodie, 98/4, _s. pl._ simpletons, fools.
"Ere you come hither, proove I was somebody,
The king delighted in me, now I am a _noddy_."
--Damon and Pythias, i. 174.
Noe, 7/4, _s._ Noah.
Noiance, 16/8, _s._ injury, trouble.
Noie, 52/15, _v. pr. t._ are injurious, noxious.
Noieth, 57/13, _v. pr. t._ suffer harm or injury.
Noisome, 10/8, _adj._ injurious, damaging.
Norfolk wiles, 114/18, "Essex miles, Suffolk stiles, Norfolk wiles,
many men beguiles."--Old East Anglian saw. See note E500.
Nowles, 36/17, _s. pl._ the hillocks, little mounds. A. S. cnoll,
_cacumen_. "Nolle, _idem quod_ nodul."--Prompt. Parv.
Noy, 53/15, _v._ hurt, are injurious. See Noie.
Noyer, 13/2, _s._ one that hurts or injures.
Nurteth, 20/28, _v. pr. t._ poke or push with the horns.? connected
with Fr. _nuire_, Lat. _nocere_. Halliwell quotes from Gawayne _nirt_ =
a cut, hurt.
Nurture, 10/57, _s._ training.
O.
Of, 106/12, _prep._ through, in consequence of.
Of, 106/2, _prep._ out of, from.
Of, 19/22, _prep._ after.
Of, 64*/4, _prep._ with, by means of.
Ofcorne, 86/5, _s._ offal or waste corn.
Office, 99/2, _s._ duty. Lat. _officium_.
Oke, 19/31, _s._ oaks. A.S. _Æc_.
Ope gap, 16/36, hedge or fence breakers.
Open, 16/38, _v._ bark, open his mouth.
Opprest, 19/29, _pp._ troubled, laden.
Opte, 114/22, _v. pt. t._ opened.
*Or and, 18, before. Cf. Er an.
Orach or Arach, 39/26, _s._ Orach. _Atriplex sativa alba. Atriplex
sativa purpurea_.--Gerard's Herball, ed. 1633.
Orderlie, 9/8, _adv._ in due order.
Orengis, 40/4_a, s. pl._ oranges. Arabic, _nârandj_. L. Lat. _arantia_,
from its first title, _pomum aurantium_, golden apple.
Otemell, 46/26, _s._ oatmeal. A.S. _âta_, oat, and _mæl_, meal.
Otes, 46/13, _s. pl._ oats.
Othing, 94/6, one thing.
Out, 16/17, _adv._ outdoor, open air.
Ouercome, 53/4, _v._ manage, keep up with.
Ouerly, 23/21, _adv._ all over.
Over reaching, 2/11, cheating, deceiving.
Ouerthwart, 46/9, _prep._ across. A.S. _oferþweorh_. O. Eng. _outhwar,
thweorh_. O. Norse, _thwert_.
Ox bowes, 17/10, _s. pl._ the bow of wood which goes round the neck of
an ox.
Oxboy, 63/15, _s._ the boy who attends to the cattle.
Oxteeme, 17/10, _s._ team of oxen.
Oxyokes, 17/10, _s. pl._ yokes for oxen.
P.
Pad, 17/21, _s._ padlock.
Paggles, 43/25, _s. pl._ cowslip, primrose, paigles. In Suffolk the
_Cuckoo flower_. See note E232.
Paier, 17/13, _s._ pair, couple.
Paine, 3/1, _s._ pains, trouble.
Painfull, 77/15, _adj._ painstaking, careful.
Painfull, 2/13, _adj._ full of trouble, requiring care.
Painted, 5/3, _pp._ adorned; the _sermo ornatus_ of Cicero.
Paltrie, 57/30, _adj._ poor, worthless.
Panel, 17/5, _s._ a pannier. A _pannel_ and _ped_ have this difference:
the one is much shorter than the other, and raised before and behind,
and serves for smaller burdens; the other is longer and made for
Burdens of Corn. These are fastened with a leathern Girt called a
Wantye.--T.R.
Parasites, 10/27, _s. pl._ flatterers, hangers on.
Pare, 2/7, _v._ injure, damage, impair.
Pared, 46/4, _pp._ cleaned and cleared of all superfluous roots.
Partition, page 2, _s._ division.
Pas, 48/6, _v. pr. t._ care. "As for these silken-coated staves, I
_pass_ not."--Shakspere, 2 Henry VI. iv. 2.
Pask, 46/2, _s._ Easter. Lat. _Pascha_.
Passeth, 102/3, _v. pr. t._ think, reflect. See Pas.
Pasties, 90/7, _s. pl._ pies.
Patch, 51/32, _s._ originally a fool, jester, here = the farm labourer.
Ital. _pazzo_, which Florio ("New Worlde of Wordes") defines as
"foolish, fond, mad, rash, doting, rauing or simple. Also a foole, a
gull, an idiot, a mad man, a naturall." By some, however, it is derived
from the _patched_ or motley coat of the jester.
Patches, 53/2, _s. pl._ places where the shearer has cut the skin of
the sheep, wounds.
Pates, 63/9, _s. pl._ persons.
Pauncies, 43/24, _s._ pansies, heartsease. "There's _pansies_, that's
for thoughts."--Shakspere, Hamlet, iv. 5.
Pay, 77/11, _v._ pay home = give a strong, sharp blow.
Peake, 67/27, _v._ to look thin or sickly, "Dwindle, _peak_ and
pine."--Shakspere, Macbeth, i. 3.
Pearch, 87/5, _v._ perch, roost.
Peasebolt, 18/38, _s._ "pease in the Hawm or Straw."--T.R.
Peaseetch, 19/5, _s._ the aftermath of a crop of peas. See Etch.
Peasefed, 18/27, _adj._ fed on peas.
Peason, 53/9, _s. pl._ pease.
"Prick _peason_ and beanes, if thy garden be dry,
At change of the moone, and in beautiful skye."
--Almanack, 1615.
Peccantem, 35/28. See note E178.
Peck, 17/12, _s._ a peck measure.
Ped, 17/5, _s._ a pannier, a large capacious basket, in which fowls,
eggs, fish, etc., are hawked about the country. Peder, a small farmer
(Lincoln), "Pedde, idem quod panere, _calathus_."--Prompt. Parv.
"Pedder, _revolus, negociator_."--Cathol. Anglic. See also Halliwell,
sub. voc.
Peeces, 2/7, _s._ pieces, in parts.
Peele, 75/6, _v._ strip. "_Peler_. To bauld, or pull the haire off;
also to pill, pare, barke, unrinde, unskin."--Cotgrave.
Peeler, 35/51, _s._ an impoverisher.
Peeling, 33/51, _s._ impoverishing.
Pelfe, 55/1, _s._ apparatus, implements.
Peneriall, 39/29, _s._ penny-royal. _Mentha pulegium_, from Lat.
_puleium regium_, through Dutch _poley_, in the old Herbals called
_puliol royal_; its Latin name being derived from its supposed efficacy
in destroying _fleas_ (_pulices_). See Pliny (b. xx. cap. 54).
Penie, 2/13, _s._ penny, money.
Penurie, 9/6, _s._ destitution, want.
Perareplums, 34/18, _s. pl._ some variety of plum either lost or
unknown (if not a misprint).
Perceley, 39/28, _s._ parsley. A.S. _peterselige_. Lat. _petroselinum_.
Percer, 17/6, _s._ a piercer, gimlet.
Perie, 18/48, _s._ perry.
Perle, 96/28, _s._ pearl, jewel, ornament.
Perseneps, 41/8, _s. pl._ parsnips. Spelt in the old herbals _Pasnep_
and _Pastnip_, from Lat. _pastinaca_.
Pester, 48/14, _v._ overcrowd with stock, abbreviated from O. Fr.
_empestrer_ = to entangle the feet or legs, to embarrass, from Fr.
_pasturon_, L. Lat. _pastorium_, a fetter by which horses are prevented
from wandering in the pastures.
Pestring, 53/11, _v._ being in the way or troublesome. "_Empestrer_, to
pester, intricate, intangle, trouble, incomber."--Cotgrave.
Petigree, 114/11, _s._ pedigree, genealogy.
Pewter, 85/11, _s._ pewter vessels.
Philip and Jacob, 51/1. The feast of Saints Philip and James, 1st May.
Phraies, 114/8, _s._ phrase, language.
Pickle, 56/17, _s._ condition, state.
Piddling, 63/48, _v._ "going about pretending to work but doing little
or nothing, as after illness a man is said to go _piddling_ about,
though as yet unable to do much."--Halliwell.
Pie, 53/3, _s._ magpie.
Piggen, 16/14, _s._ pigeons.
Pike, 17/15, _s._ a pitching fork with two or three prongs for cocking
corn not put into sheaves.
Pilch, 15/39, _v. pr. t._ pilfer. See also Filchers.
Pilcrowe, page 2, _s._ the mark ¶. "Pylcrafte in a booke,
_asteriskus_."--Prompt. Parv.
Pilferie, 9/4, _s._ theft, fraud. O. Fr. _pelfrer_, to plunder.
Pinched, 10/30, _pp._ in straitened circumstances, in need or want.
Pinching, 9/6, _adj._ extreme, pressing.
Pinching, 97/3, _s._ economy.
Pinwood, 17/20, _s._ pegwood, _i.e._ wood that does not split, for
making wooden pins or pegs of.
Pionées, 45/16, _s._ pl. The peony. _Pæonia corallina_. The seeds of
this plant were used as a spice, and also as a medicine. See note in
Liber Albus, p. 351.
Pismier, 111, _s._ ant.
Pitch and pay, 114/24, pay ready money.
Placing, 56/32, _v._ arranging, stacking.
Plagards, 114/6, _s. pl._ commissions, instruments.
Planked, 17/2, _pp._ boarded.
Plantine, 44/10, _s._ Plantain. The Water-plantain was formerly
regarded as a specific against hydrophobia: from _planta_, sole of the
foot, from the shape of the leaf.
Plash, 36/15, _v. imp._ lower and narrow a broad-spread hedge by
partially cutting off the branches and entwining them with those left
behind. "_Plesser_, to plash, fould, to bow, or plait young branches
one within another; also to thicken a hedge, or cover a walke, by
plashing."--Cotgrave. In 36/15 it means to _pleach_ down a hedge over
the burrow, so as to protect it.
Pleasure, 7/6, _v._ to please.
Plight, 16/34, _s._ condition.
Plot, 9/7, _s._ piece of ground, farm.
Plot, 12/1, _s._ plan, rule.
Plough Monday, 90/2. The Monday next after Twelfth Day. See note E452.
Ploughstaff, 17/11, _s._ an instrument like a paddle for cleaning a
plough, or clearing it of weeds, stalks, etc.
Plowmeat, 47/12, _s._ food made of corn.
Plowwrite, 58/5, _s._ plough wright.
Plump, 19/41, _v. imp._ throw in.
Pod, 17/6, _s._ "a box or old leather bottle nailed to the side of the
cart to hold necessary implements, or perhaps grease."--Mavor. Cf. Ped.
Poke, 16/3, _s._ a bag, sack, "buy a pig in a poke" = to buy without
seeing what one is buying.
Poling, 35/45, _s._ supporting with poles.
Pollard, 19/16, _s._ a mixture of bran and meal.
Pollenger, 35/13, _s._ pollard trees, brushwood.
Pompions, 41/7, _s. pl._ pumpkins. Fr. _pompon_.
Poppie, 45/17, _s._ poppy. A.S. _papig_.
Poret, 39/31, _s._ a scallion; a leek or small onion. O. Fr. _porette_.
Lat. _porrum_; called _Porrectes_ in the Forme of Cury, p. 41.
Porkling, 19/34, _s._ young swine. Cf. _Bulchin_, q.v.
Posie, 97/1, _s._ a poetical inscription. Udal writes it _poisee_.
"There was a superscription or _poisee_ written on the toppe of the
crosse."--St. Luke, c. 23.
Pot, 15/43, _s._ the pot for cooking purposes.
Pottage, 76/2, _s._ pottage, soup. Fr. _potage_.
Pottle, 21/12, _s._ a pottle, a measure of two quarts.
Pouch, 62/16, _s._ pocket, purse. A.S. _pocca_.
Poucheth, 35/46, _v. pr. t._ pockets.
Pound, 114/21, _v._ fight, beat.
*Powlinges, 66, _s. pl._ the branches or shoots of pollard trees.
Still called _Pollengers_.
Practise, 73/13, _s._ practice, experience.
Practisie, 9/5, _s._ conduct, practices.
Praies, 114/18, _s._ praise.
Prating, 64/27, _s._ talking, chattering.
Pray, 114/25, _s._ prey, booty, plunder.
Preferment, 10/57, _s._ advancement, assistance.
Prentise, 92/4, _s._ apprenticeship, business.
Prentiships, 60, _s. pl._ periods of seven years, that being the
duration of an apprenticeship, or 'prenticeship.
Prest, 56/43, _adj._ ready.
Prest, 63/7, _adj._ neat, tidy. Tusser Redivivus says, "An old word for
Neat or Tight; I suppose comes from women being _strait-laced_." Ital.
_presto_. O. Fr. _prest_, Fr. _prêt_.
Prest, 49/8, _pp._ pressed. Fr. _presser_.
Pretie, 86/7, _adj._ pretty, dainty. A.S. _prætig_.
Preuenting, 10/62, _pr. p._ anticipating. Lat. _prevenire_, to go
before.
Price, 114/16, _s._ renown, high estimation. Lat. _pretium_.
Pricketh, 77/22, _v. pr. t._ makes proud or puffs up.
Pricking, 67/16, _v._ embroidering, doing fancy work.
Pride, 19/12, _s._ excessive richness. "The ground having his _pride_
abated in the first crop"--G. Markham.
Prie, 35/15, _s._ privet.
Prim, 15/42, _s._ another name for the "privet;" called also "primwort."
Prime, 14/3, _s._ the time of the new moon, as change is the time of
the full moon.
Prime grass, 35/18, _s._ earliest grass. See footnote 10, p. 84.
Priuie, 10/12, _adj._ aware, acquainted.
Priuie, 15/42, _s._ privet. _Ligustrum vulgare_.
Procureth, 64/3, _v. pr. t._ contrives, brings about.
Promooters, 64/11, _s. pl._ informers.
Prooue, 46/1, _v. imp._ try, have some experience of.
*Prouision, 4, foresight. Lat. _providere_.
*Pullein, 37, Pullen, 87/5, _s. pl._ poultry, fowls. "Pullayne,
poullane, _poullaille_."--Palsgrave. See also Pulter.
Pullet, 63/16, _s._ chicken.
Pulter, 21/9, _s._ fowl keeper or breeder. "_Poullailler, m._ a poulter
or keeper of pullaine."--Cotgrave.
Pultrie, 21/9, _s._ poultry.
Purkey Wheat, 19/17, maize.
Purloiners, 10/54, _s. pl._ thieves, pilferers. Spelt "_pro_loiners" in
edit. of 1577.
Purse penniles, 10/28, _adj._ a purse without a penny, empty pursed.
Purslane, 40/10, _s._ water purslane. _Portulaca domestica_.--Gerard's
Herball, ed. 1633. From _porcellus_, a little pig; the plant being a
favourite food of swine.
Put to, 10/30, _v._ place.
Puttocks, 38/33, _s. pl._ kites, hawks. "Puttok, bryd,
_milvus_."--Prompt. Parv. In 99/3 the meaning is, voracious fellows.
Q.
Quaile, 15/34, _v._ fail.
Quaile, 91/6, _s._ be shaken.
Quamier, 33/56, _s._ quagmire, bog. O. Eng. quavemire.
Queenes gilleflowers, 43/27, _s._ the Dame's Violet, also called
Rogue's or Winter gilliflower. _Hesperis matronalis_, L.
Queere, 114/6, _s._ choir. "Queere, _chorus_."--Cath. Anglicum.
Quickset, 18/33, _s._ quickset hedge.
Quick setted, 35/45, _pp._ enclosed with a quickset hedge.
Quieter, 63/22, _adv._ more easily, quietly.
Quight, 115/2, _adv._ completely, entirely.
Quite, 15/7, _v. pr. t._ requite, repay.
R.
Rabetstock, 17/20, _s._ a rabbet-plane, a joiner's tool for cutting
rabbets.
Rable, 22/17, _s._ crowd, number.
Rage, 114/35, _adj._ wild, dissipated.
Raise, 9/16, _v._ stir up.
Rampions, 40/12, _s._ rampion, _rapuntium_.--Gerard's Herball.
Ranke, 53/17, _adj._ strong, rank.
Ranker, 10/6, _s._ ill-feeling, quarrelling.
Raskabilia, 10/54, _s._ packs of rascals. Cf. Mid. Eng. _rascaille_.
"Rascalye, or symple puple, _plebs_."--Prompt. Parv.
Ratling, 19/34, _s._ the rattle.
Rawing, 16/25, _s._ the aftermath of a Meadow Water.--T.R. "Raweyne,
hey, _fenum serotinum_."--Prompt. Parv. See also Rowen.
Reame, 3/3, _s._ kingdom, country. O. Fr. _realme, reaume_.
Reasnable, 10/14, _adj._ fair, equitable, reasonable.
Reastie, 20/2, _adj._ rusty, rancid. "Reest as flesche,
_rancidus_."--Prompt. Parv. "I _reast_, I waxe ill of taste, as
bacon."--Palsgrave. See Wedgwood, s.v. Reasty.
Recken, 10/43, _v._ to compute, count.
Redele, page 3, _s._ riddle. "Rydel or probleme, _enigma_."--Prompt.
Parv. A.S. _rǽdelse_.
Reeded, 51/5, _pp._ thatched with reeds.
Reeding, 2/10, _s._ reading, study. A.S. _rédan_.
Reeke, 10/24, _v._ smoke. A.S. _rêcan_.
Refraine, 48/1, _v._ stop, prevent.
Rehersed, 45/1, _pp._ mentioned, named. Fr. _rehercer_, properly to go
over again like a harrow (Fr. _herce_) over a ploughed field.
Reisons, 34/21, _s. pl._ currants. "Raysouns of Corante."--Pegge's
Forme of Cury, ed. 1780, p. 16.
Relent, 23/11, _v._ become soft.
Rendrit, 24, _v._ = render it, _i.e._ return, requite it.
Rent, 55/7, _pp._ torn, plucked.
Rept, 18/43, _pp._ reaped, gained.
Resdue, 48/19, _s._ residue, remainder. Fr. _résidu_. Lat. _residuum_.
Respe, 15/27, Respies, 44/12, _s._ Raspberries.
Respit, 70/4, _s._ rest, respite.
Restfull, 106/2, _adj._ full of rest, resting.
Retcheles, 10/23, _adj._ reckless, careless. A.S. _recceleas_.
Reuengement, 9/18, _s._ revenge.
Rew, 45/18, _s._ rue.
Rife, 98/1, _adj._ abundant, common.
Rifle, 17/14, _s._ "a rifle or ruffle is no more than a bent stick
standing on the butt of a sithe-handle."--T.R. Now called a _bale_.
Rigging, 16/37, _pr. p._ making free with, knocking about.
Rigs, 15/37, _v. pr. t._ make free with.
Ringle, 33/54, _v. imp._ ring, put rings through the snouts.
Ringling, 16/32, _v._ ringing of swine to prevent their tearing up the
ground.
Riping, 37/7, ripening.
Rikes, 53/10, _s. pl._ ricks. A.S. _hreac_, a heap.
Rise, 40/5_a_, _s._ rice.
Rishes, 75/6, _s. pl._ rushes. A.S. _risce_. Lat. _ruscum_.
Riuet, 19/16, _s._ bearded wheat. "Dog-wheat, a bearded species, called
in Mark-lane, _rivets_."--Forby.
Rode, 57/36, _s._ harbour.
Roinish, 102/1, _adj._ mean, rough, coarse. Fr. _rogneux_. "The roynish
clown."--Shakspere, As You Like It, ii. 2.
Roister like, 98/3, blustering. "They ruffle and _roist_ it out."
Harrison's Eng. ed. F. J. Furnivall, New Shakspere Soc. Pt. I, p.
77. "This is the very _royster_ that gagg'd and bound me, Sir."--The
Reformation, 1673.
Rokat, 40/13, _s._ garden rocket. Fr. _roquette. Eruca
sativa_.--Gerard's Herball, ed. 1633.
Roong, 15/29, _pp._ have rings put through their noses to prevent them
from tearing up the ground.
Roperipe, 92/3, _s._ one old enough to be flogged. "Deserving of
hanging."--Howell, 1660.
Roste, 63/19, _s._ rule the roste = domineer, have the sway. According
to Richardson equivalent to "_rule the roost_," an expression of which
every farm yard would supply an explanation.
Rottenly, 18/11, _adj._ rich, crumbly.
Roule, 17/8, _s._ a rule, measure.
Roules, 10/54, _v._ roll in, bring in.
Rowe, 36/12, _s._ row, a rowe = in a row.
Rowen, 57/25, aftermath of mown meadows. "_Rowen_ is a field kept up
till after Michaelmas, that the corn left on the ground may sprout into
green."--Bailey's Dict. See Rawing above, and Rawings in Ray's Gloss.
Rowleth, 46/15, _v. pr. t._ roll. O. Fr. _roler_, Ger. _rollen_, from
Lat. _rotulare_.
Rubstone, 17/14, _s._ a sandstone for a scythe. "The rub or buckle
stone which husbandmen doo occupie in the whetting of their
sithes."--Harrison, Description of England, Pt. 2, p. 64.
Rudenes, 2/9, _s._ want of refinement, plainness, homeliness.
Ruffen, 98/3, _s._ ruffian, scoundrel.
Runciuall peas, 41/9, _s. pl._ marrow-fat peas. Supposed to be derived
from Span. _Roncesvalles_, a town at the foot of the Pyrenees, where
gigantic bones of old heroes were pretended to be shown; hence the name
was applied to anything of a size larger than usual.
Runnagate, 77/17, runaway. "White-livered _runagate_."--Shakspere,
Richard III. iv. 4.
Runt-wood, page 84, footnote 8, _s._ stumps of underwood. "Neither
young poles nor old runts are suitable for building."--Holland.
Rydgis, 16/9, _s. pl._ ridges.
S.
Sad, 17/12, _adj._ disappointed, vexed.
Saddle, 35/37, _s._ the saddle, riding. We still say "a saddle horse,"
"a cart horse," meaning a horse for riding or carting.
Saile, 114/23, _s._ sail, beare low saile = to live humbly
or economically. "Than bear so _low a sail_, to strike to
thee."--Shakspere, 3 Hen. VI. v. 1. Cf. also 3 Henry VI. iii. 3.
Sallets, 40/1, _s. pl._ salads.
Sallow, 22/26, _s._ a species of willow. A.S. _salig_.
Salue, 4/2, _s._ ointment, salve.
Sampire, 40/6, _s._ samphire. _Crithmum marinum_.--Gerard's Herball,
1633.
"Half way down,
Hangs one that gathers _samphire_, dreadful trade."
--Shakspere, Lear, iv. 6.
Sauer, 10/10, _s._ scent, inkling.
Sauer, 77/3, a person to look after and see that things are not wasted.
Sauerie, 39/35, _s._ savoury. Fr. _savorée_. Lat. _satureja_.
Sauerlie, 9/3, _adj._ frugal, gained by saving.
Sauin, 45/22, _s._ savin. _Juniperus sabina_, Linn.
Sawsie, 114/35, _adj._ saucy, impudent.
Saxefrage, 44/13, _s._ saxifrage. Lat. _saxifraga_, from _saxum_, a
rock, and _frango_, to break, being supposed to disintegrate the rocks,
in the crevices of which it grows, and thence to dissolve stone in the
bladder. Called in Scotland _Thirlstane_, which has the same meaning.
Scaberd, 102/2, _s._ scabbard.
Scamble, 51/7, _v._ scramble for.
Scant, 56/52, _adj._ scarce, wanting.
Scant, 114/24, _adv._ scarcely. So in Bacon's "Table of Coulers," I.
"The Epicure that will _scant_ indure the Stoic to be in sight of him."
Cf. also Romeo and Juliet, i. 2.
Scanted, 2/14, _adj._ limited, stinted, grudged. Cf. also note E317.
Scape, 97/1, _v._ escape, get off.
Scare, 56/13, _v. imp._ drive away.
Scotch, 33/17, _v. pr. t._ cut, hew.
Scoutwatch, 10/19, _s._ watch, guard.
Scowles, 10/23, _v. pr. t._ scowls, frowns, is ill-tempered.
Scrall, 49/_c, v. pr. t._ crawl. "To scrall, stir, _motito_"--Coles'
Lat. Dict. "And the river shall _scral_ with frogs."--Wiclif, Exodus
viii. 3.
Scrauling, 49/9, _pr. p._ crawling.
Scruplenes, page 4, _s._ scruples, scrupulousness. Lat. _scrupulus_, a
little stone such as may get into a traveller's shoe and distress him;
hence, a source of doubt or distress.
Sea holie, 40/17, _s._ sea-hulfer, sea-holm; a plant of the genus
_Eryngium_ (_E. maritimum_). A.S. _hulfer_, holly.
Sealed, 17/18, _adj._ certified, stamped.
Seame, 21/2, _s._ a quarter of corn. A.S. _seam_.
Secresie, 9/20, _s._ secrets, private concerns.
Sedge collars, 17/12, _s. pl._ collars made of sedge or reeds.
Seede, 51/12, _v._ obtain seed from.
Seede cake, 90/7, "a festival so called at the end of wheat-sowing in
Essex and Suffolk, when the village is to be treated with seed cakes,
pasties, etc."--Warton.
Seeith, 19/41, _v. imp._ boil.
Seeke, 10/24, _v._ seek, "their dinners to seeke" = their dinners have
to be sought, i.e. are lacking.
Seelie, 48/21, _adj._ silly, simple. A.S. _sælig_. O. L. Ger. _salig_.
Seene, 95/1, _adj._ practised, experienced.
"Its a schoolmaster
Well _seen_ in music."
--Shakspere, Taming of Shrew, i. 2.
Seene, 106/16, _v. pt. t._ appeared. Lat. _visus est_.
Seeth, 78/5, _v. imp._ boil.
Seeue, 17/3, _s._ sieve, sifter.
Seggons, 85/6, _s. pl._ poor labourers. "_Seg-head_, a
blockhead."--Craven Cf. _Segger_, Chester Plays, ii. 51.
Sell, 114/21, _s._ cell, abbey.
Semsters, 86/7, _s. pl_ needlewomen, seamstresses. A.S. _seamestre_.
Seruice-trees, 34/24, _s. pl._ more correctly spelt _Servise-tree_,
from Lat. _cervisia_, its fruit having from ancient times been used for
making a fermented liquor, a kind of beer.
Seruiture, 99/1, _s._ servant, attendant.
Set, 36/25, _v. imp._ plant round, set.
Set, 35/45, _s._ the young shoots.
Setteth, 10/60, _v. pr. t._ risks. "Setteth his soule upon sixe or on
seauen" = "risks his soul on the cast of a die."
Seuer, 15/40, _v. imp._ separate, sort.
Seuerall, title, _adj._ inclosed land, divided into fields by fences.
L. Lat. _separalis_.
Sewe, 15/17, _v. imp._ drain. Cf. sewer. Welsh, _sych_, dry. Cf. Lat.
_siccus_. See Pegge's Kenticisms.
Shackles, 17/21, _s. pl._ shackles. A.S. _scacul_. Dutch, _schakel_, a
link of a chain.
Shack time, 16/30, _s._ the time during which the shaken-out grain
remains on the ground after harvest. "_Shack_, Norfolk, a general
common for hogs, from the end of harvest till seed time. To go at
_shack_, to go at large."--Coles' Dict. 1676. Brockett's Glossary
gives: "_Shack, shak,_ to shed, or shake, as corn in harvest. Then
_shack-fork_, a shake-fork." "_Shacking-time_, the season when malt is
ripe."--Kersey's Eng. Dict. 1715. Wedgwood (Eng. Etym.) says: "Shack
is the shaken grain remaining on the ground when the gleaning is over,
the fallen mast (Forby). Hence to _shack_, to turn pigs or poultry into
the stubble field to feed on the scattered grain. _Shack_, liberty of
winter pasturage, when the cattle are allowed to rove over the tillage
land." Forby gives "_Shack_, sb. the acorns or mast under the trees."
Compare the provincial "Shucks," the pods or shells from which peas
have been _shaken_, or, as it is frequently called, "_shook_."
Share, 52/1, _v._ shear.
Shares, 17/10, _s._ plough shares.
Sharing, 17/16, _adj._ shearing.
Shaue, 17/6, _s._ spokeshave.
Sheawd, 102/7, _pp._ shown, displayed.