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sans,
without
sapient,
wise
sarcenct,
fine soft silk material
sauce,
over-charge, rebuke
saucy,
insolent, presumptuous, wanton
savagery,
wild growth
savour,
smell, perfume, style, character
saw,
saying, maxim, proverb
say,
finely woven cloth, taste, saying
scab,
rascal, scurvy fellow
scald,
scabby, mean
scale,
weigh
scan,
assess
scandalize,
disgrace
scantling,
specimen, sample
scantly,
slightingly
scape,
escapade, transgression; escape
scarf,
officer’s sash, sling, streamer; blindfold, deck with streamers
scathe,
harm; to injure
schedule,
document
school,
university, instruction, learning; reprimand, discipline
science,
knowledge
scion,
shoot, slip for grafting
sconce,
head, small fort or earthwork
scope,
object, aim, purpose, theme, liberty
score,
notch cut in stock or tally in keeping accounts, account; to notch
scorn,
taunt, insult, object of contempt
scotch,
cut, gash
scour,
hasten
scrimer,
fencer
scrip,
small bag, piece of paper with writing on
scrippage,
contents of scrip
scripture,
writing
scrubbed,
stunted
scruple,
tiny part, doubt, difficulty
scurril,
coarsely abusive
scut,
deer’s tail
scutcheon,
shield with coat of arms; tablet showing armorial bearings of a dead man
seam,
fat, grease
sectary,
dissenter, one who pursues a particular study
secure,
free from care, confident, unsuspicious; make confident or overconfident
securely,
confidently, without suspicion
security,
confidence, overconfidence
seed,
mature, run to seed
seedness,
sowing
seeing,
appearance
seel,
make blind, close (a person’s eyes)
seely,
foolish, innocent, harmless
seen,
skilled
seld,
seldom
self,
one’s own, same
semblable,
similar, like, equal
semblative,
like, resembling
Seneca,
Roman tragic dramatist
sennight,
week
sense,
physical feeling, sensuality, sexual desire, mental apprehension, mind, opinion
senseless,
without feeling or perception, free from sensual sin
sensible,
perceptible, tangible, substantial, having sensation, sensitive, endowed with feeling
sensibly,
having sensation, feelingly
sentence,
sententious saying, maxim
septentrion,
north
sequel,
series
sequent,
succeeding, following
sequester,
separation; to separate
sequestration,
separation, seclusion
sere,
dry, withered
serpigo,
a skin disease
servanted,
subject
service,
what is placed on the table for a meal
setter,
decoy
several,
distinct, different, individual, respective, various
severally,
separately, at different entrances or exits
sewer,
attendant in charge of service at a meal
shadow,
shade; to hide, shelter
shame,
to be ashamed
shard,
piece of broken pottery, patch of cow-dung
shark,
gather hastily together
shaver,
barber, extortioner
shearman,
one who shears woollen cloth
sheaved,
made of straw
sheep-biter,
sneaking rascal
sheep-biting,
sneaking
shent,
blamed, rebuked, reproved
shift,
expedient, resource, trick, set of clothes; for (a) shift, to serve a turn; make (
a
)
shift,
contrive, manage
ship-tire,
kind of head-dress
shive,
slice
shoat,
shallow, sand-bar
shock,
to meet with force
shog,
go, shift
shoot,
shooting movement
shotten,
that has spawned, lean
shoulder-shotten,
having a dislocated shoulder
shove-groat,
shovel-board
shrewd,
wicked, mischievous, bad-tempered, dangerous, evil, difficult
shrewdly,
sharply, grievously, intensely, very much
shrieve,
sheriff
shrift,
confession and absolution, penance
shrill-gorged,
shrill-throated
shrive,
to hear confession and absolve
shroud,
protection, sailropes; shelter, hide
shuffle,
use trickery, smuggle, shift
siege,
seat, rank, turd
sight,
visor
sightless,
unseen, unsightly
silly,
helpless, defenceless
simple,
medicinal herb, single ingredient in a compound
simpleness,
innocence, simplicity, foolishness
simplicity,
ignorance, silliness
simular,
pretended, plausible; counterfeiter
sinfully,
with sins unatoned for
single,
slight, trivial, sincere, simple
singularity,
eccentricity, own person
sinister,
left (hand), unfavourable, unjust
sink,
cause to fall, ruin; sewer, drain
Sinon,
a Greek who by guile persuaded the Trojans to take the Grecians’ wooden horse into Troy
sirrah,
form of address used mainly to inferiors
sith, sithence,
since
size,
allowance
skill,
judgement, reason, ability; to make a difference, matter
skilless,
ignorant
skimble-skamble,
confused, rubbishy
skipper,
flighty youth
skirr,
fly, scour
slab,
half-solid
slander,
ill-repute, disgrace, discredit; bring into disgrace, reproach
slanderous,
shameful, disgraceful
slave,
enslave, make subservient to oneself
sleave,
floss-silk, silk untwisted into line threads
sleeve-hand,
cuff
sleided,
(of silk) floss, untwisted into line threads
sliding,
slip
slip,
unleash
slipper,
shifty
slippery,
unstable, fickle
slipshod,
in slippers
slobbery,
sloppy, slovenly
slops,
wide breeches
slovenly,
nasty, disgusting
slubber,
sully, hurry over
smatch,
taste
smatter,
chatter
smock,
woman’s undergarment, woman
smooth,
flatter, gloss over
smother
suffocating smoke
smug,
trim, spruce
sneap,
snub, pinch with cold
snuff,
resentment
sob,
opportunity for a horse to recover his wind, respite
sod,
steeped, boiled
soiled,
fed with fresh-cut green fodder
soilure,
sullying, defilement
sole,
unique, mere, alone
solely,
alone, entirely
solemnity,
ceremony, festivity
solicit,
urging, entreaty; move, stir, bring something about
sometime,
at some time, sometimes, once, formerly
sonance,
sounding, signal
sonties,
saints
sooth,
truth, flattery
soothe,
humour, flatter
soother,
flatterer
sop,
bread or wafer dipped in wine, etc.
sophister,
one using false arguments
sore,
buck, deer, in its fourth year
sorel,
buck, deer, in its third year
sort,
lot, rank, company, group, way, state; allot, ordain, come about, turn out, be suitable, correspond, adapt, fit, classify, choose, contrive, go in company
sortance,
agreement, suitableness
sound,
utter, proclaim, keep sound
souse,
swoop on, pickle
span-counter,
game in which counters are thrown to lie within a hand’s span
spavin,
disease of horses consisting of swelling of joints, producing lameness
specialty,
special characteristic, possession, special contract under seal
spectacles,
organs of sight
speculation,
watcher, power of seeing, sight, looking on
speculative,
seeing
speed,
fortune, outcome, protection, assistance; to fare (well or ill), turn out, be successful, assist, favour
speeding,
successful, fruitful; lot, outcome, success
spend,
consume, exhaust
sphere,
orbit of a planet, one of the concentric globes supposed to revolve round the earth with a harmonious sound
spherical,
planetary
spial,
spy
spigot,
peg in faucet of a barrel
spill,
destroy
spilth,
spilling
spin,
spurt
spinner,
spider
spinster,
spinner
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