Sejanus: His Fall eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 220 pages of information about Sejanus.

Sejanus: His Fall eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 220 pages of information about Sejanus.

Subtlety (subtility), subtle device.

Suburb, connected with loose living.

SUCCUBAE, demons in form of women.

Suck, extract money from.

Sufferance, suffering.

Summed, term of falconry:  with full-grown plumage.

Super-NEGULUM, topers turned the cup bottom up when it was empty.

Superstitious, over-scrupulous.

Supple, to make pliant.

SURBATE, make sore with walking.

Surcease, cease.

Sur-reverence, save your reverence.

SURVISE, peruse.

SUSCITABILITY, excitability.

Suspect, suspicion.

Suspend, suspect.

Suspended, held over for the present.

Sutler, victualler.

SWAD, clown, boor.

Swath bands, swaddling clothes.

Swinge, beat.

TABERD, emblazoned mantle or tunic worn by knights
and heralds.

Table(S), “pair of—­,” tablets, note-book.

Tabor, small drum.

TABRET, tabor.

Taffeta, silk; “tuft-taffeta,” a more costly silken fabric.

Taint, “—­a staff,” break a lance at tilting in an
unscientific or dishonourable manner.

Take in, capture, subdue.

Take me with you, let me understand you.

Take up, obtain on credit, borrow.

Talent, sum or weight of Greek currency.

Tall, stout, brave.

Tankard-bearers, men employed to fetch water from the conduits.

Tarleton, celebrated comedian and jester.

Tartarous, like a Tartar.

Tavern-token, “to swallow a—­,” get drunk.

Tell, count.

Tell-Troth, truth-teller.

Temper, modify, soften.

Tender, show regard, care for, cherish; manifest.

Tent, “take—­,” take heed.

Terse, swept and polished.

TERTIA, “that portion of an army levied out of one
particular district or division of a country” (Gifford).

Teston, tester, coin worth 6d.

THIRDBOROUGH, constable.

Thread, quality.

THREAVES, droves.

Three-farthings, piece of silver current under Elizabeth.

Three-piled, of finest quality, exaggerated.

Thriftily, carefully.

THRUMS, ends of the weaver’s warp; coarse yarn made from.

Thumb-ring, familiar spirits were supposed capable of being carried about in various ornaments or parts of dress.

TIBICINE, player on the tibia, or pipe.

Tick-Tack, game similar to backgammon.

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