Russet, homespun cloth of neutral or reddish-brown colour.

Sack, loose, flowing gown.

Sadly, seriously, with gravity.

Sad(ness), sober, serious(ness).

SAFFI, bailiffs.

St. Thomas A waterings, place in Surrey where criminals were executed.

Saker, small piece of ordnance.

Salt, leap.

Salt, lascivious.

SAMPSUCHINE, sweet marjoram.

Saraband, a slow dance.

SATURNALS, began December 17.

Sauciness, presumption, insolence.

Saucy, bold, impudent, wanton.

Sauna (Lat.), a gesture of contempt.

Savour, perceive; gratify, please; to partake of the nature.

Say, sample.

Say, assay, try.

Scald, word of contempt, implying dirt and disease.

Scallion, shalot, small onion.

SCANDERBAG, “name which the Turks (in allusion to Alexander the Great) gave to the brave Castriot, chief of Albania, with whom they had continual wars.  His romantic life had just been translated” (Gifford).

Scape, escape.

Scarab, beetle.

SCARTOCCIO, fold of paper, cover, cartouch, cartridge.

Sconce, head.

Scope, aim.

Scot and lot, tax, contribution (formerly a parish
assessment).

SCOTOMY, dizziness in the head.

Scour, purge.

SCOURSE, deal, swap.

Scratches, disease of horses.

SCROYLE, mean, rascally fellow.

Scruple, doubt.

Seal, put hand to the giving up of property or rights.

Sealed, stamped as genuine.

Seam-rent, ragged.

Seaming laces, insertion or edging.

Sear up, close by searing, burning.

SEARCED, sifted.

Secretary, able to keep a secret.

Secular, worldly, ordinary, commonplace.

Secure, confident.

SEELIE, happy, blest.

Seisin, legal term:  possession.

SELLARY, lewd person.

Semblably, similarly.

Seminary, a Romish priest educated in a foreign seminary.

Senseless, insensible, without sense or feeling.

Sensibly, perceptibly.

SENSIVE, sensitive.

Sensual, pertaining to the physical or material.

Serene, harmful dew of evening.

SERICON, red tincture.

Servant, lover.

Services, doughty deeds of arms.

Sesterce, Roman copper coin.

Set, stake, wager.

Set up, drill.