_Saccaring_, etc., 95. Sacring, consecrating. The sacring bell is
the bell rung at the time of consecrating and elevating the host.
_Safeguard_, 51. A skirt or outside petticoat worn when riding.
_Scantling_, 358. Dimension. Nautical; is properly dimensions of
timber when reduced to its proper size, but sometimes the piece so
reduced.
_Scot free_, 71. Primarily, free from charge; secondarily, from
punishment.
_Seelie_, 35. Harmless, thence simple.
_Severall_, 527. Separate.
_Shepens_, 88. Stalls for cows. Some say also for sheep.
_Shouldered_, _A_ vi. v. Here, supported, as when one shoulders
another for that purpose.
_Shrewdly_, 79. Maliciously or keenly.
_Sinewes_, 47, 241. Probably from the want of knowledge of anatomy,
this was used both for our sinews, but more generally, I think,
for nerves. We find it, certainly in this, and, I think, in both
senses, in Batman, or rather _Trevisa upon Barth._, and for nerves
in medical writers, as in Boord, and in the translation of Vigo. In
248, where “marrow” precedes, it is most probably = nerves. Wier in
the same passage has “a nervis”.
_Sir John_, 265, etc. See note.
_Sithens_, 458. Since.
_Skils not, it_, 335. It matters not.
_So._ Frequently used where we use as.
_Sock a corpse_, 42, 124. To sew a corpse in its winding sheet.
Kentish.
_Sort_, 374. Set, or company.
_Spie him_, 46. Spy him out.
_Spoil a witch_, 269. Injure a witch.
_Square_, 410. Used for an unequal-sided parallelogram ▯.
_Sterne_, _A_ iii. Used, as not unfrequently then, for helm.
_Sterven._ Punished by any means, though not intentionally killed.
_Starved up_, 124, is used for starved to death.
_Straught_, 144. Our distraught.
_Strumpet_, 145. Used as a term of reproach without reference to
its sexual sense. So he uses incestuous.
_Success_, 196, 197, 272. Event or sequel, whether bad or good.
Hence we still speak of “good success”.
_Suffocate_, 223. Qy., to choke with weeds.
_Suffrages_, 434, 444. Du Cange (8). Prayers by which the help of
God is implored.