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Rabato, an ornament for the neck
Rabbet-sucker, a sucking rabbit.
Race, original disposition, inboru
qualities, a smack or flavour.
Rack, wreck.

Rack, to exaggerate.
Rack, to harass by exactions.
Rack, the fleeting away of the
clouds

Racking, in rapid motion.
Pag, an opprobrious epithet.
Ragged, rugged.

Rake, to cover.

Rank, rate or pace.

Rank, grown up to a great height and strength.

Rapt, rapturously affected.
Rapture, a fit.

Rarely, curiously, happily.

Rascal, applied to lean deer.

Rash, heady, thoughtless, quick,

violent.

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smoky, greasy.

Refell, to refute.
Refer, to reserve to.
Regard, look.

Regiment, government, authority.
Regreet, exchange of salutation.
Reguerdon, recompense, return.
Relative, nearly related, or con-
nected

Remembered, remembering.
Remembrance, admonition.
Remorse,pity, tenderness of heart.
Remotion, removal or remoteness.
Removed, remote, sequestered.
Render, to describe.
Render, a confession, an account.
Renege, to renounce.
Repair, to renovate.
Repeal, to recall.
Reports, reporters.
Reproof, confutation.
Repugn, to resist.
Reputing, boasting of.
Requiem, a mass for the soul of
a person deceased.
Resolve, to be firmly persuaded,
satisfied.

Resolve, to dissolve.
Respect, consideration, caution.
Respective, respectable, respect-
ful, formal.

Respective, cool, considerate.
Respectively, respectfully.
Retailed, handed down.

Retire, to draw back.

Reverb, to reverberate.

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Royalty, nobleness, supreme excellence.

Roynish, mangy or scabby.
Ruddock, the redbreast.

Ruff, the folding of the tops of boots.

Ruffle, to riot, to create disturb

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Right-drawn, drawn in a right | Scamble, to scramble.

cause.

Rigol, a circle.

Ringed, environed, encircled. Ripe, come to the height Rivage, the bank or shore. Rivality, equal rank.

Scan, to examine nicely.

Scant, to be deficient in, to con

tract.

Scantling, measure, proportion Scapes of wit, sallies, irregular

ties.

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me, rummage.

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the cross.

Co squat down

.roguery.

ets, abusive langu

a diadem.

rough, uncerem

1.whispered.
q, whispering

, a country-dan
re, circle.

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nobleness, supre

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Scath, to do an injury.

Scathful, mischievous, destructive.

Scone, a petty fortification.
Sconce, the head.

Scotched, cut slightly.

Scrimens, fencers.

Scrip, a writing, a list.

Scroyles, scabby fellows.

Sculls, great numbers of fishes swimming together. Scutched, whipt, carted.

Seal, to strengthen or complete. Seam, lard.

Sear, to stigmatize, to close. See Sere.

Season, to temper, to infix, to impress.

Seasoned, established or settled
by time.
Seat, throne.

Seated, fixed, firmly placed.
Sect, a cutting in gardening.
Securely, with too great confi-
dence.

Seel, to close up.

Seeling, blinding.

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Shut-up, to conclude.
Sule-sleeves, long sleeves.
Siege, stool, seat, rank.

Sight, the perforated part of a helmet.

Sightless, unsightly.
Sign, to show, to denote.
Silly, simple or rustic.
Silly, sooth, plain, simple truth.
Sincere, honest.
Sinew, strength.

Single, weak, debile, small, void
of duplicity or guile.
Sink-a-pace,cinque-pace,a dance.
Sir, the designation of a parson.
Sir-reverence, a corruption of

save-reverence.

Sith, since.

Seeming, specious, hypocriti- Sithence, thence.

cal.

Seeming, seemly.

Seen versed, practised.
Seld, seldom.

Self-bounty, inherent generosity.
Semblably, in resemblance, alike.
Seniory, seniority.

Sennet, a flourish or sounding.
Sense, reason, natural affection,
feeling, sensual passion.
Sensible, having sensation.
Septentrion, the north.
Sequestration, separation.
Sere or sear, dry.

Sizes, allowances of victuals.
Skains-mates, loose companions.
Skirr, to scout, to ride hastily.
Slack, to neglect.
Slave, to treat as a slave.
Sleave, the ravelled knotty part
of the silk.

Sledded, riding in a sled or sledge
Slights, arts, subtle practices.
Slips, a contrivance of leather, to

start two dogs at the same time. Sliver, to cut a piece or slice. Slops, loose breeches, or trowsers, tawdry dress.

Serjeant, a bailiff or sheriff's of- Slough, the skin which the ser

ficer.

Serpigo, a kind of tetter.
Serve, to fulfil.

Serve, to accompany.
Set, seated.

Setebos, a species of devil.
Several, separated, appropriated.
Sewer, an officer who placed the

dishes on the table. Shame, to disgrace. Shame, modesty. Shard-borne, born by shards or scaly wings. Shards, the wings of a beetle. Shards, broken pots or tiles. Sharked, picked up as a shark collects his prey. Sheen, shining, splendour, lustre. Sheer, pellucid, transparent. Shent, scolded, rebuked, ashamed, disgraced. Shent, to reprove harshly.

pent annually throws off. Slower, more serious. Slubber, to do any thing carelessly, imperfectly, to obscure. Smilingly, with signs of pleasure. Smirched, soiled or obscured. Smoothed, to stroke, to caress, to fondle.

Sneap, to check or rebuke, a rebuke.

Sneaping, nipping.
Sneck-up, a cant-phrase,
hang yourself."
Snuff, hasty anger.
Snuffs, dislikes.

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Soil, spot, turpitude, reproach.
Solely, alone.
Solicit, courtship.
Solicit, to excite.
Soliciting, information.
Solidares, an unknown coin.
Sometimes, formerly.

go

Sound, to declare or publish.
Sound, soundly.

Soul, to pull by the ears.
Souter, perhaps the name of a
hound.

Spanned, measured.
Specialty, particular rights.
Sped, the fate decided.
Speed, event.

Sperr, to shut up, defend by bars, &c.

Spleen, humour, caprice, spirit.

resentment.

Spleen, violent hurry, tumultuous speed.

Spleens, inclination to spitefu! mirth.

Spot, stain or disgrace.
Spotted, wicked.

Sprag, or spackt, apt to learn.
Spread, to stand separately.
Sprighted, haunted.
Sprights, spirits.
Springhalt, a disease incident to
horses.

Springing, blooming, in the
spring of life.
Sprightly, ghostly.
Spurs, the longest and largest
roots of trees.
Square, to quarrel.
Square, regular, equitable, just,
suitable.

Square, compass, comprehen-
sion, or complement.
Squarer, a quarrelsome fellow.
Squash, an immature peascod.
Squiny, to look asquint.
Squire, a square or rule.
Staggers, delirious perturbation.
Stale, a bait or decoy to catch
birds.

Stale, a pretence.
Stale, to allure.

Stand, to withstand, to resist. Standing bowls, bowls elevated on feet.

Stannyal, the common stone hawk.

Star, a scar of that appearance.
Stark, stiff.

Starkly, stiffly.

Starred, destined.

State, a chair with a canopy

over it.

State, standing.

State, official state, dignity.

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States, persons of high rank.
Station, the act of standing.
Statist, statesman.

Statue, a portrait.

Staves, the wood of the lances. Stay, a hinderer, a supporter. Stead, to assist, or help. Sticking-place, the stop in a machine. Sticklers. sidesmen.

arbitrators, judges,

Stigmatical, marked or stigmatized.

Stigmatick, one on whom nature

has set a mark of deformity.
Still, constant or continual.
Stilly, gently, lowly.
Stint, to stop, to retard.
Stith, an anvil.

Stoccata. a thrust or stab with a rapier.

Stock, a term in fencing.
Stock, stocking.

Stomach, passion, pride, stubborn resolution, constancy, resolution.

Stoop, a measure somewhat more than half a gallon.

Stover, a kind of thatch.
Stoup, a kind of flagon.

Suggest, to tempt, to prompt, to
instigate.
Suggestion, hint.
Suggestions, temptations.
Suited, dressed.

Sullen, obstinately troublesome.
Summer-swelling, that which
swells or expands in summer.
Summoners, summoning officers.
Sumpter, a horse that carries ne-
cessaries on a journey.
Superfluous, over-clothed.
Superstitious, serving with super-

stitious attention.

Supposed, counterfeited, imagined.

Sure, safe, out of danger, surely. Sur-reined, over-worked, or ridden.

Suspire, to breathe

Swaggerer, a roaring, fighting fellow.

Swart, or swarth, black, or dark brown.

Swarth, or swath, as much grass or corn as a mower cuts down at one stroke of his scythe. Swashing, noisy, bullying. Swath, the dress of a new-born child..

Strachy, probably some kind of Sway, the whole weight, mo

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Uncharged, unattacked.

Unclew, to draw out, to exhaust. Uncoined, real, unrefined, unadorned.

Unconfirmed, unpractised in the ways of the world.

Under generation, the antipodes Undergo, to be subject to. Under-skinker, a tapster, an un derdrawer.

Undertaker, one who takes upon

himself the quarrel of another Underwrite, to subscribe,to obey Under-wrought, under-worked undetermined.

Undeserving, undeserved.
Unearned, not deserved.
Uneath, scarcely, not easily.
Unexpressive, inexpressible.
Unhappy,mischievously waggish,

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Wassels, meetings of rustic Wimple, a hood or veil.

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Winter-ground, to protect against
the inclemency of winter.
Wis, to know.

Wish, to recommend.
Wit, to know.

Witch, to charm, to bewitch.
Wits, senses.

Wittol, knowing, conscious of.
Witty, judicious, cunning.
Woe, to be sorry.
Woman, to affect suddenly and
deeply.

Woman-tired, he pecked. Wondered, able to perform wonders.

Wood, crazy, frantic.

Woodman, an attendant on the forester.

Woolward, a phrase appro

priated to pilgrims and penitentiaries.

Words, dispute, contention.

Writhled, wrinkled.

Wrongs, the persons who wrong Wrongs, injurious practices Wroth, misfortune.

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