Spittle, ii. 282, hospital.
Splene;
on the splene, ii. 46, in haste.
Spole, ii. 198, shoulder.
Sporeles, ii. 9, spurless, without spurs.
Sprente, i. 29, spurted out, sprung out.
Sprite, iii. [132], spirit.
Spurging, ii. 197, drivelling froth.
Spurn, i. 34, a kick.
Spylt, i. 123, spoiled, destroyed.
Squelsh, iii. [295], a blow or bang.
Squyer, ii. 44;
squyere, ii. 44, squire.
Stalworth, ii. 19, stout.
Stalwurthlye, i. 41, stoutly.
Stane, i. 145, stone.
Starke, i. 72, stout, strong.
Startopes, ii. 256, buskins or half boots.
Stean, i. 103, iii. [99], stone.
Stede, ii. 23, place.
Steid, i. 83, iii. [98], steed.
Steill, ii. 131, steel.
Steir, ii. 83, stir.
Stel, ii. 8, steel.
Stele, ii. 46, steal.
Sterne, i. 28, fierce ones.
Sterris, stars.
Sterte, i. 69, 73, start;
sterted, iii. [15], started.
Sterve, ii. 16, die, perish.
Steven, i. 115, iii. [26], voice, sound.
Steven, i. 111, time.
Stint, i. 68, 133, 273, stop, stopped.
Stond, ii. 26, stand.
Stonderes, standers by.
Stonds, i. 44, stands.
Stound, i. 165, hour.
Stounde, i. 48, time;
for awhile, ii. 11.
Stoup, ii. 117, stoop.
Stoup of weir, ii. 115, a pillar of war.
Stour, i. 31, 96;
stower, i. 66, iii. [26];
stowre, i. 49, 74, 168, iii. [14], strong, fierce, stir, fight.
This word is applied in the North to signify dust agitated and put in motion, as by the sweeping of a room, &c. P.
Stown, ii. 69, stolen.
Stra, ii. 24;
strae, ii. 69, iii. [98], straw.
Strake, ii. 117, struck.
Strekene, i. 29, stricken, struck.
Stret, street.
Strick, i. 322, strict.
Strike, stricken.
Stroke, i. 28;
stroken, i. 228, struck.
Strout, iii. [119], strut.
Stude, i. 143, iii. [95], stood.
Styntyde, i. 30, stinted, stayed, stopped.
Styrande, i. 40, stirring.
Styrt, ii. 26, started.
Suar, i. 28, 30, sure.
Suld, ii. 21, should.
Sum, i. 83, 146, ii. 25, some.
Summere, iii. [108], a sumpter horse.
Sumpters, i. 302, horses that carry clothes, furniture, &c.
Sune, soon.
Surmount, iii. [172], surpass.
Suore bi ys chyn, ii. 9, sworn by his chin.
Supprised, i. 124, overpowered.
Suraunce, ii. 49, assurance.
Suthe, ii. 386, soon, quickly.
Swa, ii. 24, so.
Swage, ii. 342, assuage;
swaged, ii. 180, assuaged.
Swapte, i. 29;
swapped, i. 48, struck violently, exchanged blows.
Sware, ii. 12, ii. 361, swearing, oath.
Swarned, ii. 206, climbed.
Swarved, ii. 197, climbed, swarmed.
To swarm, in the midland counties, is to draw oneself up a tree or any other thing, clinging to it with the legs and arms. P.
Swat, i. 29, did sweat.
Swear, sware.
Swearde, ii. 128, sword.
Sweaven, i. 106, ii. 63;
sweven, ii. 56, a dream.
Sweere, iii. [21], neck.
Sweit, iii. [74];
swete, ii. 19, sweet;
sweitly, ii. 212, sweetly.
Swepyls, ii. 25,
"a swepyl is that staff of the flail with which the corn is beaten out. Vulg. a supple (called in the midland counties a swindgell, where the other part is termed the hand-staff)." P.
Swerdes, ii. 8, swords.
Swiche, i. 430, such.
Swith, i. 96, ii. 119, quickly, instantly, at once.
Swound, i. 240, 296, ii. 179, swoon.
Swyke, sigh.
Swynkers, ii. 19, labourers.
Swyppyng, ii. 25, striking fast.
Swyving, ii. 8, wenching, lechery.
Sych, ii. 19, such.
Syd, side;
on sydis shear, i. 25, on all sides.
Syn, ii. 16, since.
Syne, i. 43, ii. 114, iii. [147], then, afterwards.
Syns, since.
Syschemell, ii. 74, Ishmael.
Syth, ii. 38, since.
Syyt, ii. 27, sight.
Taiken, ii. 118, taken.
Tain, iii. [94];
taine, i. 59, taken.
Tane, i. 289, ii. 193, taken.
Tane, iii. [238], the one.
Tarbox, ii. 256, box containing tar for anointing sores in sheep, &c.
Targe, ii. 53, target, shield.
Tauld, ii. 109, told.
Tayne, i. 50, taken.
Te, ii. 7, to;
te-knowe, ii. 11, to know;
te-make, to make.
Te-he, ii. 26, interjection of laughing.
Tear, i. 34, tearing or pulling.
Teene, i. 162, vexation;
i. 284, 291, injury; iii. [194], trouble;
teenefu, i. 147, wrathful.
Teene, i. 77, vex.
Teir, i. 101, tear.
Tene, i. 120, wrath.
Tenebrus, i. 128, dark.
Tent, ii. 83, heed.
Termagaunt, i. 85, 96, the god of the Saracens.
The old French Romancers, who had corrupted Termagant into Tervagant, couple it with the name of Mahomet as constantly as ours; thus in the old Roman de Blanchardin,
"Cy guerpison tuit Apolin,
Et Mahomet et Tervagant."
Hence La Fontaine, with great humour, in his Tale, intitled La Fiancée du Roy de Garbe, says,