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Stithied, forged at the furnace.

Stithy, a smith's shop.

Sorel, a deer during his third year. Stoccata, a stab.

Sorry, sorrowful.

Sort, to happen to agree.

Sort, the lot.

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Stock, a stocking.

Stomach, pride.

Stone-bow, a cross bow.

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Sperr, to shut up, defend by bars. Sudden, violent.

Speculation, sight.

Speculative, seeing.

Sped, the fate decided.

Speed, event.

Spill, to destroy.

Spotted, wicked.

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Sprag, apt to learn, alert.

Sprightly, ghostly.

Springhalt, a disease of horses.

Spurs, the greater roots of trees.
Square, to quarrel.
Squarer, a quarreller.

Squash, an immature peascod.
Squiney, to look asquint.
Squire, a rule or square.
Stage, to place conspicuously.

Stale, a decoy for birds.

Stannyel, a hawk, or stallion.
Star, a scar.

Stark, stiff.

Starred, destined.

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Sweeting, an apple.

Sweltered, weltered.

Swift, ready.

Swinge-bucklers, riotous fellows.

Swoop, the descent of a bird of

prey.
Swounded, swooned.

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Tawny coat, the dress of an appa-
Taxation, censure, satire.
Tear a cat, to bluster.
Teen, grief, trouble.

Temper, to mould.

Temperance, temperature.
Tend, attend.

Tender, to regard with affection.
Tent, to take up residence, to search.
Tercel, the male hawk.

Terms, the phraseology of courts.
Tested, attested, brought to the test.
Testerned, gratified with a tester,
or sixpence.

Tetchy, touchy, peevish.

Tire, to fasten.

Tire, to be idly employed on.
Tired, adorned.

Tire-valiant, a head-dress.
Tirra-lirra, the song of the lark.
Toged, habited.
Tokened, spotted.
Tolling, taking toll.
Topless, supreme.
Topple, to stumble.
Touches, features.
Toward, in readiness.
Toys, whims, humors.
Toze, to unravel.
Trade, established custom.
Tradition, traditional usages.
Trail, scent left by game.
Traitress, a term of endearment.
Trammel, to catch.

Tranect, a ferry or sluice.
Translate, to transform.
Trash, to check.
Traverse, to march.
Traversed, across.

Tray-trip, a game at draughts.
Treachers, traitors.
Trenched, carved.
Trick, peculiarity of feature.
Trick, to press out.
Tricking, dress.
Tricksy, adroit.

Tether, a string by which any ani- Trigon, Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius,

mal is fastened.

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[in the Zodiac.

Trip, to defeat.
Triple, one of three.
Triumphs, revels.
Trojan, cant term for thief.
Trol-my-dames, the game of nine
Troll, to sing trippingly. [holes.
Trossers, trousers.

Trot, a term of contempt.
Trow, to imagine.
Truly-good, or turlupin, a gipsy.
Trundle-tail, a dog.
Trusted, thrusted.

Try conclusions, try experiments.
Tub-fast, the sweating process in
the venereal disease.

Tucket, or tucket sonnuance, a
flourish on a trumpet.
Tup, a ram.

Tup, to cover an ewe.
Turre, to whisper.

Turlygood, or Turlupin, a gipsy.
Twangling-jack, a scurvy musician.

Twicken-bottle, a wickered bottle.
Twigging, wickered.

Tything, a district.

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Unbolt, to explain.
Unbolted, coarse.

Unbonneted, without dignities.
Unbookish, unlearned.
Unbreathed, unpractised. [hunting.
Uncape, to dig out, a term in fox-
Uncharged, unattacked.
Unclew, to unwind.
Uncoined, unrefined, unadorned.
Unconfirmed, unpractised in world-
Uncurrent, irregular. [ly craft.
Undercraft, to wear beneath the
Under-skinker, a tapster. [crest.
Understand, stand under.
Undertaker, the defender of an-
other's quarrel.
Underwrite, to subscribe, to obey.
Uneath, scarcely.

Unexpressive, inexpressible.
Unfair, to deprive of beauty.
Ungenitured, without genitals.
Unhaired, youthful.

Unhappy, unlucky, mischievous.
Unhoused, free from domestic cares
Unhouselled, without having the

sacrament.

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Vain, lying.

[to look.

Valance, fringed with a beard.
Vanity, illusion.

Vantage, opportunity, advantage.
Vantbrace, armor for the arm.
Varlet, a servant.

Vast, waste, dreary.
Vaunt, the avant, the fore-part.
Vaward, the fore-part.
Velure, velvet.
Venetian, admittance.
Vent, rumor.

Ventiges, holes of a flute.
Verbal, verbose.

Verify, to bear witness
Venew, a bout (in fencing).
Vengeance, mischief.
Veneys, hits.

Veronese, a ship from Verona.
Versing, writing verses.
Very, immediate.

Via, a cant phrase of exultation.
Vice, the fool of the old moralities.
Vice, grasp.
Vie, to brag.
Viewless, invisible.

[vant.

Villain, a worthless fellow, a ser-
Vild, vile.

Violenteth, rageth.

Virginal, a kind of spinnet.
Virtue, valor.

Virtuous, healthy.

Virtuous, well-bred.

Vixen, or Fixen, a female fox.

Vizament, advisement.

Vox, tone of voice.

Unmastered, licentious.

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Unready, undrest.

Unrest, disquiet.

Waft, to beckon.

Unquestionable, averse to conver-

Unrespective, inconsiderate.

Unrough, beardless.

Unsisting, unresisting, unfeeling.

Unsmirched, undefiled.
Unsquared, unadapted.
Unstanched, incontinent.
Untempering, not softening.
Untented not probed, virulent.

W.

Wage, to combat.

Wages, is equal to.

Waist, that part of a ship between
the quarter-deck and the fore-
Waist, the middle. [castle.

Walk, a district in a forest.
Wanned, pale.

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Wise woman, a witch, a fortune-
Wish, to recommend.

Wit, to know.

Witch, to bewitch.

Withy, judicious, cunning.
Wits, senses.

Wittol, knowing, conscious of.
Wittol, a contented cuckold.
Woe, to be sorry.

Woman, to affect deeply.
Woman-tired, henpecked.
Wondered, able to perform wonders
Wood, crazy, frantic.

Wooden thing, awkward business.
World to see, wonderful. [forester.
Woodman, an attendant on the
Woolward, wearing wool.
Work, fortification.

Workings, thoughts.
Worm, a serpent.

Worth, wealth.

Worship, dignity.

Wreak, to revenge; resentment.
Wrest, an instrument for tuning

the harp.

Wrested, obtained by force.
Wretch, a term of fondness.
Writ, writing.

[ces.

Write, to pronounce confidently.
Writhled, wrinkled.

Wry, to deviate.

Whiffler, an officer in processions. Wrong, hurt.

Whiles, until.

Whinidst, mouldy.

Whip, the crack, the best.

Whipstock, the carter's whip.
Whirring, hurrying.
Whist, being silent.

White, the white mark in the target.
White-death, the green sickness.
Whiting-time, bleaching time.
Whitsters, linen bleachers.
Whittle, a pocket-knife.

Whooping, measure and reckoning.

Wide, remote from.
Wilderness, wildness.

Will, wilfulness.

Wimple, a hood or veil,

Winchester Goose, a strumpet.
Winking-gates, gates hastily closed
from fear of danger.

Wroth, misfortune.

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