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SHARKED - snatched up, as a shark does his prey

SHEEN - brilliancy

SHEER - pure, clear

SHENT - rebuked, blamed

SHERIFF'S-POST - a post at the door of a sheriff

SHIVE - slice

SHOT - the reckoning at an ale-house

SHOUGHS - shaggy dogs

SHOULDERED - plunged

SHOVEL-BOARD - game played with sliding metal pieces

SHREWD - mischievous

SHRIFT - confession

SHRIVE - to confess

SHRIVING-TIME - time for confession

SHROUD - to enshroud oneself, cover oneself up

SIDE-SLEEVES - loose hanging sleeves

SIEGE - seat; rank; excrement

SIGHT - an aperture in a helmet

SIGHTLESS - invisible

SIGN - to give an omen

SILLY - simple, rustic

SIMULAR - counterfeit, feigned

SINGLE - feeble

SIR - a title applied to a bachelor of arts at the

SITH - since

SITHENCE - since

SIZES - allowances

SKAINS-MATES - scapegraces

SKILL - to be of importance

SKILLESS - ignorant

SKIMBLE-SKAMBLE - rambling, disjointed

SKINKER - a drawer of liquor

SKIRR - to scour

SLACK - slacken

SLAVE - to turn to slavish uses

SLEAVE - floss-silk

SLEDDED - sledged

SLEIDED - untwisted, raw, applied to silk

SLEIGHTS - artifices

SLIPPER - slippery

SLIPS - a kind of noose, or leash

SLIVER - to slice

SLIVER - a slice

SLOPS - loose breeches

SLUBBER - to slur over

SMIRCHED - smeared, soiled

SMOOTH - to flatter

SMOOTHED - flattered, fawned upon

SNEAP - taunt, sarcasm

SNEAPED - pinched

SNECK-UP - go hang!

SNUFF - anger; to take offence

SOFTLY - gently

SOIL - spot, taint

SOLICIT - solicitation

SOLIDARE - a small coin

SOLVE - solution

SOMETIMES - formerly

SOOTH - truth

SOOTH - true

SOREL - a buck of the third year

SORRIEST - most sorrowful

SORRY - sorrowful, dismal

SORT - a company

SORT - to choose

SOT - fool

SOUL-FEARING - soul-terrifying

SOWL - to lug, drag

SOWTER - name of a dog

SPECIALLY - a special contract

SPED - settled, done for

SPEED - fortune

SPERR - to bolt, fasten

SPIAL - spy

SPILL - to destroy

SPILTH - spilling

SPLEEN - the bodily organ; fiery temper; haste; impulse

SPRAG - quick

SPRING - shoot, bud

SPRINGHALT - stringhalt, a disease of horses

SPRITED - haunted

SPURS - roots of trees

SQUANDERED - scattered

SQUARE - to quarrel

SQUARE - the front part of a woman's dress, stomacher

SQUARE - equitable

SQUARER - quarreller

SQUASH - an unripe peascod

SQUIER - a square or rule

SQUINY - to squint

STAGGERS - a disease in cattle, attended by giddiness, hence, giddiness

STAIN - to disfigure

STALE - a decoy

STALE - to make stale

STAND UPON - to be incumbent on

STANIEL - an inferior kind of hawk

STARK - stiff

STARKLY - stiffly

STATE - a canopied chair

STATION - attitude

STATIST - a statesman

STATUA - a statue

STATUE - image, picture

STATUTE - security, obligation

STATUTE-CAPS - woollen caps worn by citizens

STAY - a cheque

STEAD - to profit

STEELED - set or fixed

STERNAGE - steerage, course

STICKLER - an arbitrator in combats

STIGMATIC - a deformed person

STIGMATICAL - deformed

STILL - constant

STILL - constantly

STILLY - softly

STINT - to stop

STITHY - a smith's forge

STITHY - to forge

STOCCADO - a stoccata, or thrust in fencing

STOCK - a stocking

STOMACH - courage, stubbornness; angry temper; inclination

STONE-BOW - a cross-bow for throwing stones

STOUP - a cup

STOUT - strong, healthy

STOVER - fodder

STRACHY - A word of doubtful meaning

STRAIGHT - immediately

STRAIN - lineage

STRAITED - straitened

STRANGE - foreign

STRANGENESS - coyness, reserve

STRANGER - foreigner

STRAPPADO - a kind of punishment

STRICTURE - strictness

STROSSERS - trowsers

STUCK - a thrust of a sword

STUCK IN - corruption of stoccata

STUFF - baggage

STUFFED - filled, stored

STY - to lodge as in a sty

SUBSCRIBE - to yield

SUCCESS - issue, consequence

SUCCESSIVE - succeeding

SUCCESSIVELY - in succession

SUDDEN - hasty, rash

SUDDENLY - hastily

SUFFERANCE - suffering

SUGGEST - to tempt, entice

SUGGESTION - temptation, enticement

SUITED - dressed

SULLEN - doleful, melancholy

SUMPTER - a horse that carries provisions on a journey

SUPPOSE - a trick, imposition

SUPPOSED - counterfeit

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