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

by Geoffrey Chaucer

Sty, s. pig-sty, D 1829.

Stye, ger. to mount up, B 4. p 6. 258; Styen, ger. to mount, B 3. m 9. 28.

Style (1), s. a stile, a means to get over a barrier by climbing, C 712, F 106. A.S. stigel.

Style (2), s. style, mode of writing, E 18, 41; F 105. Lat. stilus.

Styves, pl. stews, D 1332. Cf. O. F. estuves, 'stews'; Cotgrave. See Stewe.

Styward, s. steward, B 914, F 291; Stywardes, pl. I 753; Stiwárdes, A 579.

Suasioun, s. persuasiveness, B 2. p 1. 29.

Subdekne, s. subdeacon, I 891.

Subgit, adj. subject, B 3. p 2. 77; T. v. 1790; Subget, T. i. 231; I 264; Subgetes, adj. pl. subject, I 634.

Subgit, s. subject, T. ii. 828; Subgits, pl. subjects, B 3. p 8. 11; B 4. p 5. 10; servants, D 1990; Subgets, pl. subjects, B 2528, E 482.