to fome holy office. From the French word Sacrer, to confecrate or dedicate to the fervice of God.

SAD is frequently used for grave, fober, ferious.

To SAGG is (properly) to fink on one fide as weights do when they are not balanced by equal weights on the other. A SALLET or SALADE, a helmet. Span. Celada. Fr. Salade.

SALTIER, a term in Heraldy, one of the ordinaries in form of St. Andrew's crofs.

SANDED, of a fandy colour, which is one of the colours belonging to a true blood-hound.

SAN DOMINGO, St Dominick. Span.

SANS, without, a French word.
ASAW, a wife faying, a proverb.

'SAY, Eflay. Fr. Efai.

To SCAN, to canvas, to examine, to weigh and confider well any business.

SCARFED, pieced or joined clofe together; a term used by the hip-builders.

SCATH, harm, mifchief. SCATHFUL, mifchievous.

A SCONCE, a fort, a fortrefs; alfo a man's head.

To SCOTCH, to hack, to bruife, to cruth. Ital. Schiacciare. SCROYLES, the difeafe call'd the King's evil. Fr. Ef

croüelles; here given as a name of contempt and abuse to the men of Angiers; as we fometimes fcurriloufly call men Scabs.

To SCUTCH, to switch, to whip, to fcourge. Ital. Seuticare. SEAM, tallow, fat.

A SEA-MALL, a kind of gull, a bird haunting the fea

coafts.

TO SEEL, a term in falconry, to run a filk though the eyelids of a young hawk, and to draw them near together in order to make the hawk bear a hood.

SESSA OF SESSEY, peace, be quiet. Lat. Cossa.

The

A SHARD, a tile or broken piece of a tile: thence figuratively a fcale or fhell upon the back of any creature. Shard-born beetle means the beetle that is born up by wings hard and glazed like a pot-fheard.

SHARDED, fcaled.

To SHARK UP, to pick up in a thievish manner. Fr. Chercher.

SHEEN, clear, bright; alfo brightnefs, luftre: ufed in both fenfes by Spencer.

To SHEND, to blame, to reprove, to difgrace, to evil-intreat.

A SHIVE, a flice.

A SHOWGHE, a rough coated dog, a fhock.

SHRIFT, confeffion. To SHRIVE, to confefs.

A SIEGE, a feat: alfo the fundament of a man, in which fenfe the French often ufe it; Mal au fiege: une fiftule au fiege.

SIZES, certain portions of bread, beer, or other victuals, which in public focieties are fet down to the account of particular perfons: a word still used in the Colleges of the Universities.

SIZED, bedawbed as with fize, which is a glewish compofition ufed by painters. Ital. Sifa.

TO SKIRR, to fcour about a country.

SLEADED OF SLEDED, carried on a fled or fledge.

SLOP, wide-knee'd breeches.

SLOUGH, an hufk, an outward skin.

SMIRCH'D, fmeared, daubed, dirtied.

TO SNEAP, to check, to fnub, to rebuke.

SOOTH, true or truth: alfo, adulation, in the sense of the verb to footh,

To SowLE, to lug or pull.

A SOWTER, a cobler. Lat. Sutor. In this paffage it is intended as the name of a dog.

TO SPERR, Prol. to Tr. and Cref. to bolt, to barricado, or any way faften.

SPLEEN is often ufed for a fudden ftart, a hafty motion, a momentary quickness.

A SPRAY, a young tender fhoot or branch of a tree.
SPURS, the fibres of a root.

To SQUARE, to jar, to wrangle or quarrel. For the derivation fee the next word.

A SQUARER, a fwaggering blade. This word is taken from the French phrafe, fe quarrer, which fignifies to ftrut with arms a-kembo, (anfatus incedere) an action which denotes a character of an hectoring braggadocio. The French fay, Les jeuns fanfarons fe quarrent en ma:cbant. A SQUIER, the fame as a íquare.

ASTANYEL, otherwife called a Ring-tail, a kind of buzzard, or kite.

STATION, attitude, prefence, perfon.

A STATIST, a ftate fman. Ital. Statifta.
A STAY, alet, a ftop, an impediment.
TO STEAD, or STED, to ferve, to help.

STICKLER-LIKE; Sticklers were feconds appointed in a

duel to fee fair play, who parted the combatants when
they thought fit: and this being done by interpofing with
a ftick, from thence came the name.

STIGMATICAL, branded with marks of difgrace. Lat.
Stigmaticus.

A STITHY, an anvil. TO STITHY, to beat upon an anvil.
STOCCATA, a thruft in fencing; an Italian word.

A STOLE, a robe, a long garment, a mantle, a woman's
gown: ufed alfo by Spencer. Lat. Stola.

To SUGGEST, to prompt or egg on.

SUMPTER, a beaft which carries neceffaries on a journey.
SURCEASE, this generally fignifies the fufpenfion of any

act, but in this paffage it ftands for the total ceafing after
the final execution of it. Fr. Surfeoir.

A SWABBER, an inferior officer in a fhip, whofe business it is to keep the fhip clean.

T.

A TABOURINE, a drum. Fr. Tabourin.

TO TAKE, to blatt, to ftrike with infection. Fr. Attaquer. TALL is very frequently used for eminent, notable, confiderable.

To TARR ON, to provoke, to urge, as they fet on dogs to fight.

ATASSEL-GENTLE, a particular kind of hawk, the male of the faulcon. In trictnefs it should be fpelt Tiercelgentle. Fr. Tiercelet.

TEEN, trouble, grief.

TESTED, tried, put to the teft.

A TETHER, a long rope with which horfes are tied to confine their feeding to a certain compafs, and prevent their trefpaffing further.

THEWES, finews, mufcles, bodily ftrength.

THIRDBOROUGH, the fame as headborough or constable.
THRIFT, thrift, thriving, fuccefs.

TINY, fmail, fender Lat. Tenuis.

To Toze, to break in pieces to draw out, or pull afunder, as they do wool, by carding it to make it foft. Ital. Tozzare: thence figuratively, by artful infinuations to draw out the fecrets of a man's thoughts.

To TRAMELL UP, to ftop; A metaphor taken from a tramel-net which is ufed to be put crofs a river from bank to bank, and catches all the fish that come, fuffering none to país. Fr. Tramail.

TRICK is a word frequently ufed for the air, or that pecu liarity in a face, voice or geiture, which diftinguishes it from others.

TRICKSEY, dainty, curious, fleight.

TRIGON, a term in altrology, when three figns of the fame nature and quality meet in a tribe afpe&.

TROLL-MADAM, a game commonly call'd Pigeon-holes. TROUSSERS, a kind of breeches wide and tucked up high, fuch as are still worn in the robes of the order of the garter, Fr. Treufe: but strait trouffers” in this paffage has a jeft. ing fenfe and means the natural skin without any breeches To TRUSS, is a term in falconry, when a hawk near the ground raiseth a fowl and foaring upward with it feizeth it in the air.

To TRY, a term in failing: a fhip is faid to Try when the hath no more fail abroad but her main-fal, when her tacks are clofe aboard, the bowlings fet up and the sheets haled clufe aft; when alfo the helm is tied clɔfe down tọ the board and fo fhe is let lie in the fea.

TUB-PAST, the ancient difcipline of the fweating-tub and fafting for the cure of the French disease.

TUCKET, a prelude or voluntary in mulick, a flourish of

inftruments. Ita!. Toccata.

TURLURU, a crack-brain, a fool, a Tom of Bedlam: an Italian word.

V.

To VAIL, to let down, to drop, to ftoop.

VANTBRACE, defenfive armour for the arm. Fr. Avant-bra VARY, variation, change.

VAUNT-COURIERS, fore-runners. Fr. Avant coureurs. VAWARD, the fame as van-guard, the first line of an army: and from thence the forward or leading part of any thing. VELURE, velvet, Fr. Velours.

VENEW, a reft or bout in fencing.

A VENTICE, a vent or paffage for air. Fr. Ventoufe.

VIA! away! an Italian word.

VICE, "Vice's dagger," and "Like the old Vice." This was the name given to a droll figure her tofore much shown upon our ftage and brought in to play the fool and make fport for the populace. His drefs was always a long jerkin, a fool's cap with affes-ears and a thin wooden dagger, fuch as is ftill retained in modern figures of Harlequin and Scaramouche. Minshew and others of our more modern criticks strain hard to find out the etymology of this word

and fetch it from the Greek: probably we need look no farther for it than the old French word Vis, which fignified the fame as Vifage does now: From this in part came if dafe a word common among them for a fool, which Menage fays is but a corruption from Vis d'afne the face or head of an afs. It may be imagin'd therefore that Vfdaje or Vis d' afne was the name first given to this foolish theatrical figure,and that by vulgar ufe it was fhorten'd down to plain Visor Vice. To VICE, to hold faft as with an inftrument call'd a vice. UMBER, a colour ufed by painters, a dark yellow. UNANAEAL'D, unprepared. To anneal or neal in its pri mary and proper fenie is to prepare metals or glass by the force of fire for the different ufes of the manufacturers in them and this is here applied by the author in a figurative fenfe to a dying perfon, who when prepared by impreffions of piety, by repentance, confeflion, abfolution, and other acts of religion, may be faid to be anneal'd for death.

UNANOINTED, not having received extreme unction. UNBARBED, bare, uncover'd. In the time of Chivalry when a horfe was fully armed and accoutered for the incounter, he was faid to be barbed; probably from the old word Barbe which Chaucer ufes for a veil or covering. UNBATED, unabated, unblunted.

UNBOLTED, unfifted.

UNBRAIDED, unfaded, fresh.

UNBREECH'D, not yet in breeches, a boy in coats.
UNCHARY, careless.

UNHOUSEL'D, without having received the facrament. Heufel is a Saxon word for the Eucharift, which feems derived from the Latin Hofticla.

UNNEATH, hardly, fcarcely.

An URCHIN, an hedge-hog, which was reckon'd among the animals ufed by witches as their familiars: hence figuratively, a little unlucky mifchievous boy or girl.

UTAS or UTIS, the eighth and last day of a feftival, for fo long the great feftivals were accounted to laft, the conclufion being kept with more than ordinary merriment: from the Fr. Huit.

To th' UTTERANCE, to the utmoft, to all extremity. Fr. à Outrance. At UTT'RANCE, at all extremity.

W.

To WAGE, to combat with, to enter into conflict with, to

encounter.