shower o his best love, I, 476, J 4: share, or cut, of his best loaf.

showing-horne, II, 437, 78: shoeing-horn, a pun on the beggar’s horn, whether as a means of sponging liquor, or of helping one to take in drink.

showne, pret., III, 37, 84: showed.

showr, shower, shouir, I, 68, 32; II, 105, 3; III, 385, 5; 386, 7: throe, paroxysm of pain.

shradds, III, 91, 1: coppices (Halliwell, perhaps conjecturally). The equivalent shard, he says, is in Yorkshire an opening in a wood. (A. S. scréadian, cut, dock?)

shrewde, shrewed, a term of vituperation; originally, cursed. thou art a shrewed dettour, III, 61, 104; thou arte a shrewde hynde, III, 64, 164: perhaps ironical (devilish pretty). shrewde wyle, III, 65, 181: clever.

shroggs, III, 93, 28: rods, wands (serving for prickes, marks).

shryuë, III, 70, 287: sheriff. See screfe.

shuder, IV, 493, 8: shoulder. See shouther.

shule, v., IV, 207, 20: shovel. See shooled.