SOWTER, cobbler.

SPAGYRICA, chemistry according to the teachings of Paracelsus.

Spar, bar.

Speak, make known, proclaim.

Speculation, power of sight.

Sped, to have fared well, prospered.

Speece, species.

Spight, anger, rancour.

Spinner, spider.

SPINSTRY, lewd person.

Spittle, hospital, lazar-house.

Spleen, considered the seat of the emotions.

Spleen, caprice, humour, mood.

SPRUNT, spruce.

Spurge, foam.

Spur-Ryal, gold coin worth 15s.

Squire, square, measure; “by the—­,” exactly.

Staggering, wavering, hesitating.

Stain, disparagement, disgrace.

Stale, decoy, or cover, stalking-horse.

Stale, make cheap, common.

Stalk, approach stealthily or under cover.

Stall, forestall.

Standard, suit.

Staple, market, emporium.

Stark, downright.

Starting-holes, loopholes of escape.

State, dignity; canopied chair of state; estate.

STATUMINATE, support vines by poles or stakes; used by Pliny (Gifford).

Stay, gag.

Stay, await; detain.

Stickler, second or umpire.

Stigmatise, mark, brand.

Still, continual(ly), constant(ly).

Stinkard, stinking fellow.

Stint, stop.

STIPTIC, astringent.

STOCCATA, thrust in fencing.

Stock-fish, salted and dried fish.

Stomach, pride, valour.

Stomach, resent.

Stoop, swoop down as a hawk.

Stop, fill, stuff.

Stopple, stopper.

STOTE, stoat, weasel.

Stoup, stoop, swoop=bow.

Straight, straightway.

STRAMAZOUN (Ital. stramazzone), a down blow, as opposed to the thrust.

Strange, like a stranger, unfamiliar.

Strangeness, distance of behaviour.

Streights, or BERMUDAS, labyrinth of alleys and courts in the Strand.

STRIGONIUM, Grau in Hungary, taken from the Turks in 1597.

Strike, balance (accounts).

Stringhalt, disease of horses.

Stroker, smoother, flatterer.

STROOK, p.p. of “strike.”

STRUMMEL-patched, strummel is glossed in dialect dicts. as “a long, loose and dishevelled head of hair.”

Studies, studious efforts.

Style, title; pointed instrument used for writing on wax tablets.

Subtle, fine, delicate, thin; smooth, soft.