Chaucer's Works, Volume 6 — Introduction, Glossary, and Indexes

by Geoffrey Chaucer

Saylours, pl. dancers (who leap in dancing), R. 770. 'Sailleor, Sailleur, sauteur, danseur'; Godefroy.

Scabbe, s. scab, R. 553; a disease of sheep, C 358.

Scaffold, s. A 2533, 3384.

Scalded, pp. burnt, A 3853.

Scale, s. scale, or rather, double scale, for measuring both by umbra recta and umbra versa, A. i. 12. 2.

Scales, pl. scales of fish, 5. 189.

Scalle, s. scab, 8. 3. See scalle in Stratmann.

Scalled, pp. having the scall, scaly, scabby, scurfy, A 627.

Scantitee, s. scantiness, I 431.

Scantnesse, s. scarcity, I 420; scantiness, I 414.