a sconce better than he.’  This
  explanation seems to me to make Thomas’s remark a very characteristic
  one.”  See Grose’s Classical Dictionary of the vulgar tongue.)
Scottish witch
Scythians
Sentronell ( = centinel)
Seven deadly sinnes, pageant of
Shakespeare imitated; his use of the word road ("This Doll Tearsheet
  should be some road”) illustrated; mentioned in Captain Underwit
Sharpe, play at. (Cf. Swetnam the Woman Hater, 1620, sig.  G. 3:—­
   “But cunning Cupid forecast me to recoile: 
   For when he plaid at sharpe I had the foyle.”)
Shellain
Sherryes
Ship, the great
Shipwreck by land
Shirley, James, author of Captain Underwit; quoted
Shoulder pack’t
Shrovetide, hens thrashed at
Shrove Tuesday, riotous conduct of apprentices on
Sib
Signeor No
Sister awake! close not your eyes!
Sister’s thread
Sleep, wayward thoughts (See Appendix)
Slug
Smell-feast
Snaphance
Sowse
Spanish fig
Sparabiles
Spend
Spenser, imitated
Spurne-point
Stafford’s lawe
Stand on poynts
Standage
Stavesucre ( = staves-acre)
Steccadoes ( = stoccadoes, thrusts in fencing)
Stewd prunes
Stigmaticke
Stoope
Striker
Strive curtesies ( = stand upon ceremony)
Suds, in the
Suetonius, quoted
Sure
Surreverence

Tacitus, quoted
Take me with you
Take in
Tarleton
Tarriers
Tell Tale, the, (MS. play)
Tent
Termagant
The Fryer was in the—­(See Appendix)
Three Cranes
Thumb, to bite the
Ticktacks
Tickle minikin ( = play on the fiddle)
Timeless ( = untimely)
Tobacco (price of)
Toot
Totter
Totter’d
Traind band
Transportation of ordnance
Trevants. (Trevant is a corruption of Germ.  Traban = guard.)
Trewe ( = honest)
Tripennies
Trondling
Trouses
True man
Trundle bed
Trunk-hose
Tub-hunter ( = parasite)
Turnops
Two Noble Ladyes. (The plot is partly founded on Calderon’s
  Magico Prodigioso.)

Uncouth
Unicorn’s horn
Unreadie
Upper stage
Ure

Varlet
Vaunt-currying
Venetian
Verjuice made by stamping crab-apples
Vie
Vild
Virgil, quoted
Virginal
Virginall Jacks

Warning-peece
Wax, limbes mad[e] out of
Webster’s White Devil, allusion to
Welshmen proud of their gentility
Wet finger
What make you here?
What thing is Love?
Whifflers
Whisht
White sonne
Whytinge mopp
Widgeing
Wildfowl ("Cut up wildfowl”—­a slang expression)
Wilding
Windmills at Finsbury (See Stow’s Survey, b. iii, p. 70, ed. 1720.)
Wit without money
Woad, patents for planting of ("Woad is an herbe brought from the
  parts of Tolouse in France, and from Spaine, much used and very
  necessary in the dying of wollen cloath.”—­Cowell’s Interpreter.)
Woman Hater, the
Wonning
Woodcock ( = simpleton)