Chapter 17

140/1.Plyenge,pres. pt.bending,24/14.Pockes,s. pl.pocks, pustules, a disease in sheep,49/1.Pole,12/5.SeePerche.Polerd wheat,s.coarse wheat, pollard wheat,34/23. So called because it hasno awns: topollis to clip, etc.SeePollard.Poleyn,s. pl.poultry, fowls,146/21.Pollard, short-horned, said of a ram,noteto37/6.SeePolerd.Pommes, pumice,142/4; pomis,100/6.Ponch,s.punch,139/9.Pondre,v.to ponder, consider,153/28.Poores,s. pl.pores,70/26.Popeler,s.poplar,130/5.Potte,s.pot; good for the potte, good for boiling,146/35.Pottell,s.a pottle, two quarts,44/8.Potycarye,s.an apothecary,120/8.Pouertee,s.poverty,147/15.Pourpose,v.purpose, intend,27/19.Poynte,s.a tagged lace,142/5.Practyue,s.practice,4/29; practiue,141/21.Predication,s.preaching,154/19.Prefixe,v.to fix beforehand,157/7.Processe,s.relation, story, tale,2/29,120/13; in processe, in course of time,127/8.Profe,s.proof,161/24.Proferre,v.to put into, insert,138/13.Profytablest,adj. superl.most profitable,37/5.Promesse,s.promise,157/16, 21.Propertie,s.method,12/17.Prouander,s.provender,23/11.Proued,pp.tried,141/22, 23.Prycke-eared,pp.with sharply pointed erect ears,77/1. Cf. the phr. ‘toprick upone’s ears.’Pulled,pp.gathered,146/41.Pursy,s.short-windedness (in a horse),84/1. SeePursyin my Etym. Dict.Pursynes,s.short-windedness,87/4.Put,v.push,70/42.Pygges,s. pl.pigs,146/89.Pyke,v.pick,35/3.Pykforke,s.pitchfork,5/6,25/4.Pyl,v.to peel,134/23;imp. s.134/11.SeePill.Pylate, Pilate,166/26.Pyllynge,s.strip of bark,136/22.Pymples,s. pl.pimples,49/2,93/3.Pyn-awgur,s.a boring-tool for making holes for pins or pegs, probably a gimlet as distinguished from arest-awgur,5/32.Pynder,s.the petty officer of a manor, whose duty it was to impound all strange cattle straying on the common,148/25, 39.Pynfolde,s.pound,148/26.Pynte,s.pint,58/31.Pypes,s. pl.hollow stalks,70/9.Pyrre-stocke,s.a pear-stock,137/10.Pysell,s.pizzle,56/7.Pytchers,s. pl.pitchers,141/68.Quicke,adj.alive; waxe quicke, become alive,91/5.Quikens,s. pl.live things,55/16.Quiteth,pr. s.requites, repays,14/13.Quyche,s.couch-grass,14/17.Quyche-hey,s.hay of couch-grass,25/21.Quycke,adj.alive,102/4.Quycke,s.quicke, sensitive part,115/2.Quycke-sande,s.quicksand,128/24.Quyckeset,v.make quickset hedges,123/8.Quycksettes,s. pl.quickset hedges,124/3.Rache,s.a streak or mark on a horse’s forehead (misprintedrathein ed. 1534),68/64. See the spellingratchin thenote to the line. ‘Raitch, a white line in a horse’s face;Yorksh.’—Wright.SeeRase.Radel-marke,s.a mark made on sheep with ruddle, or red ochre,52/5.Raine,s.gutter, water-course, furrow between ridges,13/7; rayne,7/20. SeeReanin Wright, and below.Ranke,adj.rank, strong,10/10,12/20; fertile,17/29.Ranknes,s.abundance, repletion,101/1.Rapes,s. pl.turnips,20/9. O. F.rabe,rave, ‘a rape or turnep’; Cotgrave.Rase,s.streak, mark,73/1.SeeRache.Ratch.SeeRache.Rate,s.rate,121/12.Rathe,s.an error, (in ed. 1534) forrache,68/64.SeeRache.Rather,adv. compar.sooner, quicker, easier,46/3,66/22,133/5.Rathes,s. pl.frames of wood placed on a cart to make it broader, for carrying hay,5/22. (Also calledraves.)Raunsome,s.ransom,148/28.Raye,pr. s. subj.have diarrhœa,41/1. “Iberay, I fyle ones clothes with spottes of myer, properly aboute the skyrtes,ie crotte;” Palsgrave.Rayment,s.raiment, apparel,151/9.Rayne, furrow,7/20.SeeRaine.Reane,s.gutter; furrow between the ridges of ploughed land to take off the water,21/15;33/6, 8, 10.SeeRaine.Recheles,adj.reckless,7/8.Red wheate, a kind of wheat,34/35.Rede,s.reed,27/21.Reduce,v.bring back, turn,7/15.Redy,adj.dressed,146/8. Seenote.Reed,pp.shaken in a sieve, so that the chaff collects to one place,36/3. “Ree, to pass corn through a sieve for the purpose of cleaning it from chaff;” Wright. See E.D.S. Gloss. B. 16, p. 89.Reed,adj.red,49/1,55/2,102/3.Reedwaxe,s.red wax, sealing-wax,142/4.Regum primo, in the first Book of Kings (Samuel),165/52.Reke,s.rick,29/13,32/5. A.S.hreác.Relent,v.to melt,44/16.Remytte,v.to leave,7/14;pr. s.1p.I pass over,prol.27. Seenote.Ren ryot,phr.to run riot,148/38.Renne,v.to run,138/20; renneth,pr. s.runs,54/11; rennynge,pres. pt.running,44/6.Rennynge,s.running,85/2.Reparation,s.repair,5/8.Repes,s. pl.handfuls (of corn, also of beans, etc.),29/4, 7. “Repe, a handful of corn;” Wright. Allied to E.reap.Repeyled,pp.rippled,146/41.Reproued,pp.reprobate,144/8.Rere,v.rear, rise,16/6.Reson,s.reason; of reson, of course,12/33.Rest,s.a plough-rest,3/4, 22. Seenote to3/1.Rest-awgur,s.perhaps a boring-tool, the head of whichrestsagainst a support (?),5/33. Or, more likely, forwrest-augur, one which resembles a centre-bit, and iswrestedround (?).Rest-balke,pr. s. subj.2p.make a rest-balk,16/31. See below.Reste-balkes,s. pl.ridges of land between furrows,4/4.Retayle,imp. s.sell by retail,134/1.Rideled,pp.sifted,146/51.Ridge-bone,s.back-bone,60/12.Ripeled,pp.rippled, stripped,146/51.Role,v.roll,15/50.Ronges,s. pl.steps of ladders, rungs,134/10.Ronne,v.to run,41/14. (Perhaps a misprint forrenne, q.v.)Rote,s.root,127/7; rotes,pl.91/5,129/10.Rounde,adj.in a rounded form,33/16.Rowme,s.room,26/8,131/10.Ruddiest,a better reading forrudeste; seenoteto34/38.SeeRudeste.Ruddyer,adj. compar.redder,48/11.Rudeste,adj. sup.ruddiest, reddest,34/38.SeeRuddiest.Rut,s.rutting,37/17.Ry,s.rye,8/14.Rychesse,s.riches,156/1.Rydge,s.ridge,7/20.SeeRygge.Rygge,s.ridge; holowe rygge, the hollow between two ridges,17/11.Rygge,v.ridge,9/7; rygged,pp.ridged, in ridges,13/2.Ryggynge,s.edging,13/3.Ryghtuousenes,s.justice,157/36.Ryghtwysly,adv.righteously,156/32.Ryngbone,s.a disease on a horse’s foot, above the hoof,98/1.Rysen-vppon,s.a disease; lit. ‘risen upon,’ swollen up,61/1.Ryppon, Ripon,17/22,79/11.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,noteto46/3. “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, 2pr. 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. Seecolt-evil, explained in Markham’s Husbandry, b. i. c. 32. Cf.sheathin Wright.Scyences,s. pl.scions, suckers,140/2. “Sciensof cherry-trees;” W. Lawson, Orchard and Garden, 1648, p. 122. Seenote.Seame,used as equivalent toa quarter (of beans),noteto12/13.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. Seenote to3/1. And see below.Sheldbredth,s.the same assheldbrede,2/17, 23. The formbredthis corrupt, by confusion ofbrede(= breadth) withbrede(= 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.Sherers,s. pl.reapers,27/3; sheep-shearers,52/1.Sheres,s. pl.shears,41/12.Shertes,s. pl.shirts,146/45.Sheryffe,s.sheriff,148/40.Shete,s.a sheet,122/15.Shethe,s.plough-sheath,2/23,3/29. Seenote to3/1, and seePloughe-shethe.Sheydes,s. pl.partings,44/17.SeeShede.Shifted,pp.moved,141/43.Shoke,v.to place sheaves together in rows, to shock,31/2.Sholynges,s. pl.shovellings, i.e. road-scrapings,17/30. Seenoteto16/29–35.Shorte-pasturned,pp.having a short pastern,75/2.Shote,s.shot,151/20.Shotes,s. pl.(put forSlotes),15/8.SeeSlote.Shotte,pp.shot up, grown,21/19.Shouell,s.shovel,5/33,17/14.Shough,s.shock, rough hair on a horse’s foot,114/3.Showed,pp.shoed,142/6.Showynge,s.shoeing,109/4.Shoyng-horne,s.shoe-horn,142/1.Shrede,v.to cut off the smaller branches of a tree,132/1; shred,pp.having the smaller branches cut off,133/2.Shuld,pt. s.would,128/34.Sicle,s.sickle,27/14; syckle,28/4.Sith,s.scythe,23/15.Skal,s.a scall or scab,94/4.Skeyggs,s. pl.rough oats,noteto14/15. Doubtless so called from the long awns; cf. Icel.skegg, a beard, Dan.skjæg, a beard, barb, awn. Cf. E.shaggy.Skorfe,s.scurf,116/2.Skyppes,s. pl.baskets,166/21. Usuallyskeps.Slake,v.to extinguish,169/14.Slaue,v.to bend down,133/15 (where it seems to mean tear by breaking down); to bend,133/6; to slant,127/15, 32. Cf. “Islyuedowne, I fall downe sodaynly;” Palsgrave. See below.Slauynges,s. pl.slips, scions,130/5. Cf.slive, a slip,slive, to slice,slift, a scion of a plant for propagation, not cut, but pulled off at a joint; Wright. “Islyuea floure from his braunche or stalke;” Palsgrave.Slecketh,pr. s.extinguishes,169/13.SeeSlake.Sleues,s. pl.sleeves (but in what sense is uncertain),5/6.Slote,s.rod, thin piece of wood, cross-piece of a harrow,15/11. Aslotorsloteis, properly, a thin flat bar. See Ray, Gloss. B. 15. See below.Slote,s.slit? (apparently the same asslytin3/17),4/15. The usual sense ofslotis ‘bar.’ See above.Sloted,pp.furnished withslotesor bars,15/24.Slote-wedges,s. pl.wedges fixed in theslote,4/14. SeeSlote (= slit?).Small,s.small part, calf of the leg,15/8.Smockes,s. pl.women’s shifts,146/45.Socle,imp. s.suckle, cause to suckle,38/4; give suck,146/10.Socket,s.socket, fitted end,3/47; means of fastening on,21/8.Sodeinly,adv.suddenly,2/24.Soke,v.suck,2/13.Somer,s.rail or support,5/22. Cf.Bressomer; also “somers, the rails of a cart;” Wright. Seesumpterin my Etym. Dict.Sommersetshyre, Somersetshire,2/9.Sonne,s.sun,9/5;speltson,146/54.Soo,conj.so, provided that,43/4.Sophystycallye,adv.sophistically, ambiguously,68/46.Sorance,s.sore, injury, disease,6/29,89/1; soraunce,80/1,119/1.Sought,s.57/13.SeeLonge soughte.Souketh,pr. s.sucks,39/11.Souper,s.supper,146/12.Souse,s.pickle, brine,121/15.Sowen,pp.sown,12/33, 35;141/42.Sowes,s. pl.sows,121/9.Spade-graffe,s.the depth to which a spade will dig, about a foot,124/33.Spauen,s.spavin, a kind of lameness,106/1. Also, the place where spavin appears,107/4.Spauen-place,s.place where a horse is subject to spavin,118/3.Spere,s.spear,142/2.Sperewort,s.spear-wort, a grass,54/3. “Flamulais the herbe whiche we cal in englisheSperewurteorSpergrasse;” Turner’s Names of Herbes. It is the lesser spear-wort,Ranunculus Flammula, as the greater spear-wort, orRanunculus Lingua, is of larger growth. SeeSpeerwortyin Pegge, Gloss. B. 6.Spinner,s.a spider,noteto54/22. (In Shakespeare.)Splent,s.disease in a horse’s leg,96/1;97/1.Splente,imp. s.furnish with splents or laths,122/9. See below.Splentes,s. pl.laths,122/10.Spokes,s. pl.spokes of a wheel,5/9.Spon,pp.spun,146/42.Spores,s. pl.spurs,142/2.Sporte,s.sport,153/18.Sprede,v.spread,10/38.Sprot-barley,s.sprout-barley, a kind of barley,13/19.

140/1.Plyenge,pres. pt.bending,24/14.Pockes,s. pl.pocks, pustules, a disease in sheep,49/1.Pole,12/5.SeePerche.Polerd wheat,s.coarse wheat, pollard wheat,34/23. So called because it hasno awns: topollis to clip, etc.SeePollard.Poleyn,s. pl.poultry, fowls,146/21.Pollard, short-horned, said of a ram,noteto37/6.SeePolerd.Pommes, pumice,142/4; pomis,100/6.Ponch,s.punch,139/9.Pondre,v.to ponder, consider,153/28.Poores,s. pl.pores,70/26.Popeler,s.poplar,130/5.Potte,s.pot; good for the potte, good for boiling,146/35.Pottell,s.a pottle, two quarts,44/8.Potycarye,s.an apothecary,120/8.Pouertee,s.poverty,147/15.Pourpose,v.purpose, intend,27/19.Poynte,s.a tagged lace,142/5.Practyue,s.practice,4/29; practiue,141/21.Predication,s.preaching,154/19.Prefixe,v.to fix beforehand,157/7.Processe,s.relation, story, tale,2/29,120/13; in processe, in course of time,127/8.Profe,s.proof,161/24.Proferre,v.to put into, insert,138/13.Profytablest,adj. superl.most profitable,37/5.Promesse,s.promise,157/16, 21.Propertie,s.method,12/17.Prouander,s.provender,23/11.Proued,pp.tried,141/22, 23.Prycke-eared,pp.with sharply pointed erect ears,77/1. Cf. the phr. ‘toprick upone’s ears.’Pulled,pp.gathered,146/41.Pursy,s.short-windedness (in a horse),84/1. SeePursyin my Etym. Dict.Pursynes,s.short-windedness,87/4.Put,v.push,70/42.Pygges,s. pl.pigs,146/89.Pyke,v.pick,35/3.Pykforke,s.pitchfork,5/6,25/4.Pyl,v.to peel,134/23;imp. s.134/11.SeePill.Pylate, Pilate,166/26.Pyllynge,s.strip of bark,136/22.Pymples,s. pl.pimples,49/2,93/3.Pyn-awgur,s.a boring-tool for making holes for pins or pegs, probably a gimlet as distinguished from arest-awgur,5/32.Pynder,s.the petty officer of a manor, whose duty it was to impound all strange cattle straying on the common,148/25, 39.Pynfolde,s.pound,148/26.Pynte,s.pint,58/31.Pypes,s. pl.hollow stalks,70/9.Pyrre-stocke,s.a pear-stock,137/10.Pysell,s.pizzle,56/7.Pytchers,s. pl.pitchers,141/68.Quicke,adj.alive; waxe quicke, become alive,91/5.Quikens,s. pl.live things,55/16.Quiteth,pr. s.requites, repays,14/13.Quyche,s.couch-grass,14/17.Quyche-hey,s.hay of couch-grass,25/21.Quycke,adj.alive,102/4.Quycke,s.quicke, sensitive part,115/2.Quycke-sande,s.quicksand,128/24.Quyckeset,v.make quickset hedges,123/8.Quycksettes,s. pl.quickset hedges,124/3.Rache,s.a streak or mark on a horse’s forehead (misprintedrathein ed. 1534),68/64. See the spellingratchin thenote to the line. ‘Raitch, a white line in a horse’s face;Yorksh.’—Wright.SeeRase.Radel-marke,s.a mark made on sheep with ruddle, or red ochre,52/5.Raine,s.gutter, water-course, furrow between ridges,13/7; rayne,7/20. SeeReanin Wright, and below.Ranke,adj.rank, strong,10/10,12/20; fertile,17/29.Ranknes,s.abundance, repletion,101/1.Rapes,s. pl.turnips,20/9. O. F.rabe,rave, ‘a rape or turnep’; Cotgrave.Rase,s.streak, mark,73/1.SeeRache.Ratch.SeeRache.Rate,s.rate,121/12.Rathe,s.an error, (in ed. 1534) forrache,68/64.SeeRache.Rather,adv. compar.sooner, quicker, easier,46/3,66/22,133/5.Rathes,s. pl.frames of wood placed on a cart to make it broader, for carrying hay,5/22. (Also calledraves.)Raunsome,s.ransom,148/28.Raye,pr. s. subj.have diarrhœa,41/1. “Iberay, I fyle ones clothes with spottes of myer, properly aboute the skyrtes,ie crotte;” Palsgrave.Rayment,s.raiment, apparel,151/9.Rayne, furrow,7/20.SeeRaine.Reane,s.gutter; furrow between the ridges of ploughed land to take off the water,21/15;33/6, 8, 10.SeeRaine.Recheles,adj.reckless,7/8.Red wheate, a kind of wheat,34/35.Rede,s.reed,27/21.Reduce,v.bring back, turn,7/15.Redy,adj.dressed,146/8. Seenote.Reed,pp.shaken in a sieve, so that the chaff collects to one place,36/3. “Ree, to pass corn through a sieve for the purpose of cleaning it from chaff;” Wright. See E.D.S. Gloss. B. 16, p. 89.Reed,adj.red,49/1,55/2,102/3.Reedwaxe,s.red wax, sealing-wax,142/4.Regum primo, in the first Book of Kings (Samuel),165/52.Reke,s.rick,29/13,32/5. A.S.hreác.Relent,v.to melt,44/16.Remytte,v.to leave,7/14;pr. s.1p.I pass over,prol.27. Seenote.Ren ryot,phr.to run riot,148/38.Renne,v.to run,138/20; renneth,pr. s.runs,54/11; rennynge,pres. pt.running,44/6.Rennynge,s.running,85/2.Reparation,s.repair,5/8.Repes,s. pl.handfuls (of corn, also of beans, etc.),29/4, 7. “Repe, a handful of corn;” Wright. Allied to E.reap.Repeyled,pp.rippled,146/41.Reproued,pp.reprobate,144/8.Rere,v.rear, rise,16/6.Reson,s.reason; of reson, of course,12/33.Rest,s.a plough-rest,3/4, 22. Seenote to3/1.Rest-awgur,s.perhaps a boring-tool, the head of whichrestsagainst a support (?),5/33. Or, more likely, forwrest-augur, one which resembles a centre-bit, and iswrestedround (?).Rest-balke,pr. s. subj.2p.make a rest-balk,16/31. See below.Reste-balkes,s. pl.ridges of land between furrows,4/4.Retayle,imp. s.sell by retail,134/1.Rideled,pp.sifted,146/51.Ridge-bone,s.back-bone,60/12.Ripeled,pp.rippled, stripped,146/51.Role,v.roll,15/50.Ronges,s. pl.steps of ladders, rungs,134/10.Ronne,v.to run,41/14. (Perhaps a misprint forrenne, q.v.)Rote,s.root,127/7; rotes,pl.91/5,129/10.Rounde,adj.in a rounded form,33/16.Rowme,s.room,26/8,131/10.Ruddiest,a better reading forrudeste; seenoteto34/38.SeeRudeste.Ruddyer,adj. compar.redder,48/11.Rudeste,adj. sup.ruddiest, reddest,34/38.SeeRuddiest.Rut,s.rutting,37/17.Ry,s.rye,8/14.Rychesse,s.riches,156/1.Rydge,s.ridge,7/20.SeeRygge.Rygge,s.ridge; holowe rygge, the hollow between two ridges,17/11.Rygge,v.ridge,9/7; rygged,pp.ridged, in ridges,13/2.Ryggynge,s.edging,13/3.Ryghtuousenes,s.justice,157/36.Ryghtwysly,adv.righteously,156/32.Ryngbone,s.a disease on a horse’s foot, above the hoof,98/1.Rysen-vppon,s.a disease; lit. ‘risen upon,’ swollen up,61/1.Ryppon, Ripon,17/22,79/11.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,noteto46/3. “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, 2pr. 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. Seecolt-evil, explained in Markham’s Husbandry, b. i. c. 32. Cf.sheathin Wright.Scyences,s. pl.scions, suckers,140/2. “Sciensof cherry-trees;” W. Lawson, Orchard and Garden, 1648, p. 122. Seenote.Seame,used as equivalent toa quarter (of beans),noteto12/13.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. Seenote to3/1. And see below.Sheldbredth,s.the same assheldbrede,2/17, 23. The formbredthis corrupt, by confusion ofbrede(= breadth) withbrede(= 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.Sherers,s. pl.reapers,27/3; sheep-shearers,52/1.Sheres,s. pl.shears,41/12.Shertes,s. pl.shirts,146/45.Sheryffe,s.sheriff,148/40.Shete,s.a sheet,122/15.Shethe,s.plough-sheath,2/23,3/29. Seenote to3/1, and seePloughe-shethe.Sheydes,s. pl.partings,44/17.SeeShede.Shifted,pp.moved,141/43.Shoke,v.to place sheaves together in rows, to shock,31/2.Sholynges,s. pl.shovellings, i.e. road-scrapings,17/30. Seenoteto16/29–35.Shorte-pasturned,pp.having a short pastern,75/2.Shote,s.shot,151/20.Shotes,s. pl.(put forSlotes),15/8.SeeSlote.Shotte,pp.shot up, grown,21/19.Shouell,s.shovel,5/33,17/14.Shough,s.shock, rough hair on a horse’s foot,114/3.Showed,pp.shoed,142/6.Showynge,s.shoeing,109/4.Shoyng-horne,s.shoe-horn,142/1.Shrede,v.to cut off the smaller branches of a tree,132/1; shred,pp.having the smaller branches cut off,133/2.Shuld,pt. s.would,128/34.Sicle,s.sickle,27/14; syckle,28/4.Sith,s.scythe,23/15.Skal,s.a scall or scab,94/4.Skeyggs,s. pl.rough oats,noteto14/15. Doubtless so called from the long awns; cf. Icel.skegg, a beard, Dan.skjæg, a beard, barb, awn. Cf. E.shaggy.Skorfe,s.scurf,116/2.Skyppes,s. pl.baskets,166/21. Usuallyskeps.Slake,v.to extinguish,169/14.Slaue,v.to bend down,133/15 (where it seems to mean tear by breaking down); to bend,133/6; to slant,127/15, 32. Cf. “Islyuedowne, I fall downe sodaynly;” Palsgrave. See below.Slauynges,s. pl.slips, scions,130/5. Cf.slive, a slip,slive, to slice,slift, a scion of a plant for propagation, not cut, but pulled off at a joint; Wright. “Islyuea floure from his braunche or stalke;” Palsgrave.Slecketh,pr. s.extinguishes,169/13.SeeSlake.Sleues,s. pl.sleeves (but in what sense is uncertain),5/6.Slote,s.rod, thin piece of wood, cross-piece of a harrow,15/11. Aslotorsloteis, properly, a thin flat bar. See Ray, Gloss. B. 15. See below.Slote,s.slit? (apparently the same asslytin3/17),4/15. The usual sense ofslotis ‘bar.’ See above.Sloted,pp.furnished withslotesor bars,15/24.Slote-wedges,s. pl.wedges fixed in theslote,4/14. SeeSlote (= slit?).Small,s.small part, calf of the leg,15/8.Smockes,s. pl.women’s shifts,146/45.Socle,imp. s.suckle, cause to suckle,38/4; give suck,146/10.Socket,s.socket, fitted end,3/47; means of fastening on,21/8.Sodeinly,adv.suddenly,2/24.Soke,v.suck,2/13.Somer,s.rail or support,5/22. Cf.Bressomer; also “somers, the rails of a cart;” Wright. Seesumpterin my Etym. Dict.Sommersetshyre, Somersetshire,2/9.Sonne,s.sun,9/5;speltson,146/54.Soo,conj.so, provided that,43/4.Sophystycallye,adv.sophistically, ambiguously,68/46.Sorance,s.sore, injury, disease,6/29,89/1; soraunce,80/1,119/1.Sought,s.57/13.SeeLonge soughte.Souketh,pr. s.sucks,39/11.Souper,s.supper,146/12.Souse,s.pickle, brine,121/15.Sowen,pp.sown,12/33, 35;141/42.Sowes,s. pl.sows,121/9.Spade-graffe,s.the depth to which a spade will dig, about a foot,124/33.Spauen,s.spavin, a kind of lameness,106/1. Also, the place where spavin appears,107/4.Spauen-place,s.place where a horse is subject to spavin,118/3.Spere,s.spear,142/2.Sperewort,s.spear-wort, a grass,54/3. “Flamulais the herbe whiche we cal in englisheSperewurteorSpergrasse;” Turner’s Names of Herbes. It is the lesser spear-wort,Ranunculus Flammula, as the greater spear-wort, orRanunculus Lingua, is of larger growth. SeeSpeerwortyin Pegge, Gloss. B. 6.Spinner,s.a spider,noteto54/22. (In Shakespeare.)Splent,s.disease in a horse’s leg,96/1;97/1.Splente,imp. s.furnish with splents or laths,122/9. See below.Splentes,s. pl.laths,122/10.Spokes,s. pl.spokes of a wheel,5/9.Spon,pp.spun,146/42.Spores,s. pl.spurs,142/2.Sporte,s.sport,153/18.Sprede,v.spread,10/38.Sprot-barley,s.sprout-barley, a kind of barley,13/19.


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