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ling, lewd. The fundamental sound is ca, implying the notion of hollow and crooked, assonating of course the greek chaō, kyō, kybos, kymbos, kymbazō, and in the same time, kambō, kamptō, gamptō, kampyleuō, kampyliazō, kin to skambos, skimbos, skimbazō, skēptō, skymptō, and to shift, wh. s., perhaps also to amble and jump. This combination will not seem strange, or ridiculous to him, who gathers the general notion of unruled, immoderate, accidental, moving, that results from all those words.

Sap, appeasing, assuaging. WT. 4, 3. Ah. 1, 1.|
From the gr. opos, kin to the germ. Saft, fr.
sève, lat. sebum, it. zuppa, germ. Suppe.
Sapling, sprout, spray. Rc. 3, 4. Tin. 3, 2.
Sarcenet, sarsenet, of tallety, or silk, silken,
TC. 5, 1. It implies somewhat of contemptible,
effeminate. He. 2. ch. Rc. 1, 8. common and
trivial, whence aĦd. 3, 1. sarcenet surety for
oaths opposed to good mouthfilling oath. From
sericum, saracenicum, as is said.
Sarge, a kind of stul. blf. 4, 7. Oldgerm.
Sarge, Sarge, Serg, Sarduch, Sarewat, Sar-
bath, i. e. Wad, cloth, drap of sericum, so
called from the persian race of the Seres, who
cultivated the silkworms;,fr. serge; kin in the
same time to the gr. eiros, erion, erea.
Satchel, packet, bundle, bunch, bag. AL. 2, 7.
Belonging to the germ. Säckel, Seckel, by

saccus.

to Sate, to satiate, coy, glut. O. 1, 8. H. 1, 5.
Kin to the gr. adō, adeō.

Satin, a sort of silk, blid. 1, 2. From seta.
Saucy, impertinent, malaert, frivolous. MD.

5, 1. AW. 4, 4. JC. 1, 3. O. 1, 1. From salsus,
kin to salax. S. salt. Gifford's Ben Jons. V,
445.

Savory, satureia. WT. 4, 3.

Savereverence, apologetical apostrophe, when
a filthy thing was said. RJ.1. Contracted into sa'
reverence, sir or surreverence.
Saw, saying, prophecy. KL. 2, 2. S. Horne
Tooke Div. of P. II, 351.

Say, a species of silk, or satin. Used in an in-
sulting pun blf. 4, 7. From soie, seta; assay,
test, specimen; taste, relish. KL. 5, 3; sup-
posed, agreed. TN. 1, 4. 2, 4. 0. 3, 3.
'Sblood. alld. 1, 2. S. odds.

Scab, scabby, rogue, varlet. bld. 3, 2. TC.
2, 1. MA. 3, 3. TN. 2, 5. Kin to shab, germ.
schaben, gr. kaō, skaptō, lat. scabies.
Scald, scabby, particularly in the head; mean,
shabby, disgusting. MIV. 3, 1. Kin to scall,
to the germ. Schale, Hülle, Schelfe, lat. sili-
qua, gr. skylon, kelyphē, engl. hull, shell,
shoal, shole, scowl, scull. Horne Tooke Div. of
P. II, 285. fr. écaille, écale.

to Scald, to burn with hot liquor, to sear.
TA. 2, 2. KL. 4, 7; Scalded, hot. KJ. 5, 7.
From the ital. scaldare, from calidus.
Scale, bason of balance. MV. 4, 1. AW. 2, 3
Rb. 3, 4. H. 1, 2. RJ. 1, 2; rough coat of
fishes. M. 4, 1. Kin to scald, wh. s.
to Scale, to weigh as in scales, to estimate"
right. Co. 2, 3; to scatter, disperse, separate,
peel off, to bare. MM. 3, 1. S. Horne Tooke
Div. of P. II, 236; to divide particulars and
degrees, to detail, tell more circumstantially
and at length. Co. 1, 1. cf. Horne Tooke Div.
of P. II, 240.

Scalp, skin covering the skull; vizor, mask.
MD. 4; 1.

Scaly, full of scales. bHd. 1, 1.

to Scan, to canvass, weigh, consider. 0.3, 3.
H. 3, 3. M. 3, 4. From scandere.
Scant, scarce, ill supplied, sparing, small.
to Scant, to stint, lessen, spare, cut short.
H. 5, 2. 1, 3; scarcely, hardly. RJ. 1, 2.
MV. 5, 1. MF. 3, 2. 5, 1. AC. 4, 2. TC. 4, 4.
KL. 2, 4. RJ. 1, 2. Belonging to scantle,
lat.
scindere, gr. schazein, schizein, germ. schei-
den, schneiden, gr. skindalmos, chindalmos,
germ. Schindel, fr. échantillon, ital. centel-
lino, scantling, a given portion, or division,
specimen, sample. TC. 1, 3. It is therefore
properly to cut short.

Scape, flight, shift; trick, wanton deviation.
KJ. 3, 4. the thing escaping the sight, con-
cealed, as TL. 107. day night's scapes does
open lay, chiefly works of love and lewdness;
whence WT. 3, 3. some scape, some stair-
work, some trunkwork, some behinddoorwork.
Scar, cicatrice. RJ. 2, 2. AW. 4, 5. Co. 2, 2.
AC. 3, 11. TAn. 5, 3; broken precipice, cliff
of a rock. AW. 4, 2. From the gr. charō,
charaō, kin to carve, scoure, score, gr. keirō,
skarā, skariphō, lat. carpo, germ. scharren,
schürfen, schröpfen, schroff, Schar, oldgerm.
wound, properly carved, cut in, Scharte, fr.
écharre, gr. escharā, ital. sciarrare, fr. écart,
déchirer, germ. Schorf, engl. scurf', gr. skir-
ros, skeiros, skyros, kin again to xeros, xēros,
engl. scrag, and shore, S. also Horne Tooke
Div. of P. II, 173.

Scarecrow, a figure set up to frighten the
crows from the fields. MM. 2, 1. afid. 4, 2.
alif. 1, 4. Scare is kin to the germ. scheren,
schergen, lat. urgere.

to Scarf, to wear loose upon the person, like
a scarf, or silken ornament, tied loosely on,
or hung upon any part of the dress. H. 5, 2;
to cover up, as with a bandage, to veil. M.
3, 1; to decorate with flags, scarfes. MV. 2, 6.
From the fr. écharpe, kin to charpie, from
Scath, hurt, damage, destruction. KJ. 2, 1.
carpere, oldg. scharben, schärben.
blƒ. 2, 4. Rc. 1, 3. Kin to the goth. skathan, boh.
skoda, hebr. schod, oppression by force, ruin,
schadad, to use force, to destroy; schachat,
to Scath, to damage, hurt, injure by violence.
to ruin, germ. Schade, gr. atē.

RJ. 1, 5.

Scent, smell; track, foiling of a deer. TN.2, 5.
Scathful, destructive, pernicious. TN. 5, 1.
to Scent, to smell, spy. H. 1, 5. From sentire.
Schooling, instruction, insinuation. MD. 1, 1.
Scion, swip, sprig, young shot, twig, branch.
WT. 4, 3. Variety of cion, from the gr. kyō,
kyma, germ. Keim.

to Scamble originally to waste, scatter, fumble, and in neutral sense to grow confused, entangled, embroiled; whence it implies generally the notion of confusion, disorder, deforming, random, headlong, haste, precipitation, scramble, (to which Nares makes it equivalent, not supported at least by the etymology) hurry; to Scoff, to rail, flout, jeer. Rb. 3, 2. From as He. 5, 2. I get thee with scambling i. e. in a hurry; whence ib. 1, 1. the scambling and unquiet time i, e. shifting, unruled, hasty; and MA. 5, 1. scumbling boys, misruled, ramb-|

Scogan, Skogan, Scoggin, Henry, a poet in
the gr. skuptein. S. to gleek.
the times of Henry IV, contemporary of Chaucer.
bHd. 3, 2.

Belonging to scrofula.

Scuffle, mixture, medley of fighting men. AC. 1, 1. H. 5, 2. Kin to cuff, gr. kopto, germ. kuffen, perhaps to shuffle, wh. s., hebr. kib, jurgium, germ, keiffen.

to Scold, to rail, to quarrel rudely. cHf. 5, 5. Scroyle, term of contempt, a wretch. KJ. 2, 2. MW. 2, 1. TS. 1, 1. Germ. schelten, kiu to Schuld, engl. guilt. Sconce, round fortification, blockhouse. He. 3, 6; head, pate, skull. Co. 3, 2. H. 5, 1. CE. 1, 2. Kin to the germ. Schanz, it. scanso, scansare, cansare, belonging to the gr. skene, skēnos, germ. Scheune, gr. keō, skeō, skenō, lat. condere, abscondere.

Scope. To give sc. and line used in whalefishery, for to let loose the rope and give free space. alid. 4, 4.

to Scorch, to parch, burn, singe, sear. MW. 1, 3. cf. 2, 6. KJ. 3, 1. Belonging to the pers. chur, fire, zend. shir, shur, sanscr. surga, sura, sun, whence the gr. Seirios, ind. Surtur, the burning world, oldgerm. Schur, fire, whence schüren, Schornstein. Score, twenty yards, in the language of archers. bHd. 3. Kin to scar, wh. s. Cf. Horne Tooke Div. of P. II, 173.

to Scotch, to notch, score, cut in a slight manner. M. 3, 2. Co. 4, 5. Kin to the gr. kottō, kopto, lat. cutio, engl. to cast, cut, catch. Scotch, scar, superficial wound. AC. 4, 7. Scoundrel, pitiful, base fellow. TN. 4, S. Kin to the germ. Schande, perhaps Schandkerl. to Scour, to rub hard. To scour one's way, to speed. WT. 2, 1. whence scouring, leaping TA. 5, 3. Kin to scur, wh. s., to the germ. scheren, pers. schuridan, ital. scorrere. to Scourge, to whip, punish, chastise. KL. 1, 2. Kin to the lat. coriun, gr. chorion, gerrhan, pelt, germ. Schurz, it. correggia, fr. corroie, middlelat. corrigia. S. Dufresne. Scout, spy. alf. 4, 3. From schauen. Horne Tooke Div. II, 142. identifies to send and cast. to Scout, to lowr, observe. TN. 3, 4. to Scowl, to pout. TAn. 2, 5. Rb. 5, 2. Cy.1, 1. Sax. scylian, germ. schielen, kin to the gr. skolios, skaios, lat. scaevus, germ. scheel, schief; a variety of to sculk, lowsax. schulen, to lowr.

to Scalk, to lurk in hiding places; to hide one's self. WT. 1, 2. Variety of to scowl, lowsax. schulen, germ. schielen, kin to the gr. skolios.

Scull, shoal of fishes. TC. 5, 5. Kin to shoal.
S. Horne Tooke Div. of P. II. 235.
Scullion, kitchendrudge. bld. 2, 1. From the
fr. écuelle.

Scum, dregs, dross, of the people. bld. 4, 4. blf. 4, 2. Rc. 5, 3. Germ. Schaum, fr. écume, it. schiuma, kin to foam, gr. kyma, lat. spuma.

Scutcheon, painted heraldry borne in funeral processions. AC. 5, 2. aHd. 5, 1. LL. 5, 2. İtal. scuccione, from the lat. scutum, kin to the gr. skytos, kytos, lat. cutis, germ. Haut; fr. écusson, écu, it. scudo, scudiere, germ. Schutz.

Scylla. Merely on account of curiosity it may be observed, that Steevens at MV. 3, 5. detected, the proverbial words when I shun Scylla, I fall into Charybdis to be taken from Phil. Gualtier de Chatillon's Alexandreïs, 301. Incidis in Scyllam cupiens vitare Charybdin. His Alexandri M. regis Macedonum vita, heroico carmine elegantissime scripta Argentor. per Ren. Beck belonging to the 13th century was exceedingly esteemed. More of this s. in the german journal Charis, Blätter für Kunst, Literat. und Alterthum. N. 6. 7.

Scam, suture, joint, closure; grease, lard, tallow. TC. 2, 8. In this latter meaning it is a variety of saim, sax. seima, germ. Saim, kin to the hebr. schaman, to salve, lat. sumen, gr. demos, fat.

Seamell, called also seamew, a waterfowl, a small and common species of gull, T. 2, 2. Seamy side, the side appertaining to the seam, Sear, state of dryness. M. 5, 3. the wrong side. O. 4, 2.

to

Scrap, fragment, piece. TC. 3, 3. From
to Scrape, to rake, from the gr. grau, aeol.
grauō, graphō, germ. graben, metathetically
engl. carve, sax. screopan, lat. scrobs, kin to
scar, germ. schrapen, scharben; assonating to
perhaps harpo, rapio, rauben. Rb. 4, 3. scrap-
ing fathers are opposed to thriftless sons.
to Scream, to cry, croak, howl. M. 2, 2. But
a variety of to screak, kin to cry, crow, germ.
krahen, schreien, engl. screech, scott. skraik,
scraigh, germ. kreischen, gr. krizein, icel.
skraeki, oldg. Kreide, for fieldcry, goth. grets.
to Screen, to shelter, hide, conceal. H. 3, 4.
From the gr. skiron skieron, lowgerm.
Scheer, shade, whence Schirm, schirmen,
properly to shade, than to skirmish, defend,
ital. schermire, fr. escrimer, to fence, schermo,
defending arm, scaramucciare, fr. escarmoucher,
germ. scharmüzeln, engl. scarmage.
to Screw, to fasten with a screw, (germ. Schrau-
be) to vice. Cy. 2, 2. where it is joined to
riveted, to drive, press, urge. TN. 5, 1. M.
1, 7.

Scrimer, fencer. H. 4, 7. S. to screen.
Scrip, slip of writing, list. MD. 1, 2. AL.3, 2;
a small bag, whence

Scrippage, analogous to baggage. AL. 3, 2.
Scroll, roll, list. MD. 1, 2. Anciently scrow,
fr. écroue, écrouet, kin to screw, germ. Rolle,
lat. rotulus.

Sear, to burn, scald. M. 4, 1. Rc. 4, 1. cHf. 5, 6. Cy. 1, 2; to brand, stigmatize. AW. 2, 1. WT. 2, 1. Gr. seirainein, seirein, xērainein, xeran, therein, germ. dörren, versehren, to barn; of course from xeros, dial. seros, sear, whence shore, gr. theres, summer, therme, warmth, oldlat. formus.

Season, to spice, qualify, mature, ripen. MV. 5, 1. TN. 1, 1. From season, fr. saison, from satio, time of sowing, as the it. stagione from statio, stand of the sun. Kin also to assaisonner, sale condire.

Seat, dwelling place, closure, inclosure. 0. 2, 1.

Secondary, gobetween, meddler. RJ. 5, 2. Seconds, provincial term for the second kind of flour, which is collected after the smaller bran is sifted; therefore baser matter, Steevens at Son. 125.

Sect erroneously for sex. bHd. 2, 4; for section, cutting, or scyon, wherewith it is joined 0. 1, 3. Johuson however conjectures set. Sedgy, rushful. aHd. 1, 3. Sedge, rush (TG. 2, 7. MA. 2, 1. TS. Ind. 2. is, like the gr. schoinos, from schizō, schinō, scheinō. See, seat. KJ. 3, 1. bĦd. 4, 1.

to

4, 8; to set down, to tune lower. O. 2, 1; to set forth, to publish. M. 1, 4; to exalt, praise. MV.3,5; to depart, to move off. aHd. 1, 2.to set off, to embellish by contrast. bild. 1, 2; to discount, deduct, abate. aHd. 5, 1; set the teeth, to gnash, grind. He. 3, 1; to set up, to entice, spar. M. 3, 1; to raise, exalt, Setebos, the supposed deity of Sycorax in T. put in power, cHf. 1, 1. Cf. also rest. 1, 2.

Se ( 167 ) to See, generally for to perceive, as to see music AL. 1, 2. for to hear. A similar permutation of the verbs of senses is in Aeschyl. S. c. Th. 100. (ktypon dedorka). Sophocl. Oed. Tyr. 187. and Alexis with Athen, osmēn idein. Voss. to Seel, to close, or sew up the eyelids of a hawk first taken partially or entirely, by passing a fine thread through them. AC. 4, 12. 5, 2. or a small feather, to which alludes O. 1, 3. 3, 3. Gifford's Ben Jons. IV, 240. Hence metaphorically to close the eyes in any way, to wink, twinkle. M. 3, 1. From the fr. ciller, Iat. cilleo, germ. schielen, by the gr. illein, elein, eilein, eilyein, killein, illos, illainein. Seeming as substautive. bild. 5, 2. Seen in any art, for skilled. TS. 1, 2.

to Seeth, to boil. TA. 4, 3. MD. 5, 1; to urge, be pressing. TC.3, 1. From the gr. zeein, sizein, sax. seothan, germ. sieden.

to Seize, to confiscate, attach. AL. 3, 1; possess.
H. 1, 1.

Seld, seldom. TC. 4, 6. Anciently also sylde.
Six. O. Pl. I, 13.
Selfadmission, selfallowance, selfindulgence.
TC. 2, 3. where it is joined to peculiar will.
Selfcover'd KL. 4, 2. disguised by wickedness
(Johnson). Voss reads fellcover'd, refering it
to the expression of satanical unwomanly
character, that covers her countenance like a
dark cloud. An ingenious conjecture!
Selfmettle, proper force, or zeal. Hh. 1, 1.
TA. 4, 3.

Semblable, like, resembling, interchangeable.
bHd. 5, 1. For likeness it is H. 5, 2. as a spe-
cimen of ridiculous affectation. Kin to the gr.
homalos.

Semblably, like, in a similar manner. aHd. 5, 3.

Setter, limer, bloodhound, greyhound. aHd. 2, 2.

Several, an inclosed pasture, as opposed to an
open field or common, (pascua et campi seor-
sim ab aliis separati, explains Minsheu) S. 137.
LL. 2, 1; individual. WT. 1, 2; particular.
TC. 1, 3.

Sewer, officer who set on
dishes at a feast. M. 1, 7.
escuyer; gutter, channel,
where it is joined to sink.
uscio, lat. exitus.

and removed the From écuyer, old canal. TC. 5, 1. From issue, ital.

Sexton, gravedigger, and sacristan, of which
word it is a corruption. H. 5, 1.
Shackle, fetter, chain for feet. TN. 2, 5.
to Shackle, to fetter, chain. AC. 5, 2. Kin to
soccus, scate, shoe.

to Shadow, to cover with shade, to dim. 0.
4, 1; to hide, conceal, screen. KJ. 3, 1.
Shageared, bristling, hairstaring. M. 4, 2.
bHf. 3, 1. Six O. Pl. 451. however give a hint,
Shale, outer coat of some kind of fruit. He.
to read shaghair'd.
4, 2. Variety of shell, shoal, scull, wh. s. cf.
scald.

Shallow, not deep, shoal, wh. s.; whence MIV.
3, 5. shallow and shelvy are combined; feeble,
simple, foolish, conceitless, narrowheaded.
TG. 4,:2; subst. a sand, flat, shell. MV. 1, 1
JC. 4, 3. Kin to kēleios, kēleos, kēlios, kēlos,
burning, dry, from kaō, kaiō, kauō; and to
skolios, germ. schaal. There assonate also the
it. scoglio, fr. écueil, germ, Schale.

Semblative, resembling. TN. 1, 4. Sennet, senet, synnet, cynet, signet, signate, in the stage directions of the old plays a particular set of notes on the trumpet, or cornet, different from a flourish. Hh. 2, 4. JC. 1, 2. The different spelling depends on misinter-Shambles, slaughterhouse, or rather butcher's pretation of the squinteyed and changeable word, that may likewise be derived from signum, as from sonus, sonare, ital. sonata. Senoys, Siennois, the people of Siena. AW. 1, 2.

Sequence, succession, regular order. KJ. 2, 2.
TA. 5, 3.

Sequent as a substantive. LL. 4, 2.

to Sequester, to separate (properly a thing in controversy from the possession of both parties by a third person). AL. 2, 1. where Schlegel translates verschüchtert, l'oss: abgejagt.

stall. cHf.1, 1. 0.4, 2. From the germ. Schämel, Schemel, lat. scabellum.

Shapeless, uncouth, deformed. LL.5, 2. From shape, kin to the goth. skapan, sax. scapan, sceapan, sceopan, sceppan, scippan, scyppan, germ. schaffen, schöpfen, gr. skeptō. Shard, a fragment of a pot, or tile. H. 5, 1; the hard wingcases of a beetle. AC. 3, 2. Sharded, inclosed in shards. Cy. 3, 2. Shardborne, carried by shards, or wings. M. 3, 2. Kin to scar, wh. s., scharben, engl. carve, and the germ. Scherbe; flem. schaerde, sax. sceard, gr. keramos, from era, earth, eramos.

rouse by dishonest tricks. H. 1, 1. Kin to shirk, fr. escroc, germ. Schurke, perhaps the lat. scurra.

Sequestration, separation, retirement, se- to Shark, to swindle, to get, gather, collect, quester. (0. 3, 4.) Hc. 1, 1. aHf. 2, 5. Sere, dry, withered. CE. 4, 1. H. 2, 2. in which latter passage it is a dry cough, or a defluxion, from serum, as Nares will. S. Douce's Ill. of Sh. II, 230. S. to sear; claw of a bird or beast of prey. From the fr. serve.

Serpigo, a kind of tetter, or dry eruption, or
scab on the skin, ringworm. MM. 3, 1. TC.
2, 3. From serpo, serpigo, gr. herpēs.
Servant, lover. TG. 2, 4.

to Servant, to subdue. Co. 5, 2.
Sessy. KL. 3, 4. 3, 6. TS. Ind. 1. for the fr.
cessez, cease.

to Set abroach, to raise, abet, suborn. bHd.
4, 2.
to set by, to esteem. Malone at H.

Shark, wale. M. 4, 1. Gr. karcharias.
to Shatter, to break in pieces, to damnify,
destroy. H. 2, 1. TAn. 5,3. Variety of to scutter,
sax. scateran, germ. scheitern, kin to the gr.
schizo, skedazo.

She. MM. 4, 2. Voss for she will then, ere't
be long reads they.

Sheaf, gavel, or bundle of corn. TɅn. 5, 3. Germ. Schober, Schaub, holl. schoov, sax. Sceaf, lowsax. Schoof, coarse straw, kin to the germ. Schaft, lat. scapus, gr. skapos, lat. scopae. Horne Tooke Div. of P. I, 255. 'what

is shoved together.' An assonance likewise not altogether improbable in the oscillatory nature of mixed languages, chiefly.

to Sheaf, to bind in sheaves, or gavels, shocks. AL. 3, 2.

to Sheal, to strip the shell. KL. 1, 4. S. shale. Shearman, who shears the woollen cloth in manufacturing it. bHf. 4, 2.

Sheen, sheeny, shining, or s. lustre, bright-
ness. MD. 2, 1. H. 3, 2. From shine, whence
the germ. schön.

Sheepbiter, pursecut. TN. 2, 5. Sheepbiting
MM. 5, 1. With allusion to simplicity, as it

scems.

Sheet, lay, stratum, couch, gush, flatly spread piece. KL. 3, 2. Kin to the gr. cheō, cheio, cheuu, chyō, germ, schütten, schiessen, giessen, Schicht. Hence

to Sheet, to cover with sheets, as of snow AC. 1, 4. of linen. H. 1, 1.

Shelf, board to lay things on, compartment.
RJ. 5, 1. HI. 3, 4. Kin to the gr. kalpë, kaly-
bō, kalyptō, kalyphō, and to the engl. shell,
scale, shallow.

to Shend, to blame, reproach, scold, reprove.
MV.1, 4. TN. 4, 2. Co. 5, 2. TC. 2, 3. H.
3, 2. Germ. schänden, fr. honte, ital. onta.
to Shift, to change, turn. RJ. 1,5; to wrap,
cover; to fly.
Shift, shirt, smock. cHf. 8, 2; pretence, colour,
subterfuge, evasion. AL. 4, 1. denial. TN.
1,5; essay. bld. 2, 2. Kin to the lat. vices,
sanscr. pakscha, celt. faig, goth. wiko, file,
following; lat. sequor, gr. hepomai, hikomai,
hēkō, kiō, germ. schicken; schieben; in the
guttural form Schicht; gr. skēptein, skēmptein,
skiptein, skimptein, skēpein, skambein, ital.
scappo, scampare, schifare, engl. to scamble,
scamper, shuffle, eschew, fr. échapper.
Shiny, clear, bright, luminous. AC. 4, 9.
Skive, anciently sheeve, small lamina, or slice,!
as of bread. TAn. 2, 1. Icel. skifa, from skifi,
to cut, sax. sceafan; kin to shave; germ.

Scheibe, and to

Shiver, fragment, piece. TC. 2, 1. that assonates Schiefer, schieben, schaben, engl. to quave, quaver, quiver, span. quebrar, que

brantur.

to Shiver, to break, or crash in shivers, or
pieces. KL. 4, 6.

Shoal is bat another form of shallow, wh. s.
M.1, 7. where bank and shoal of time. Hh.3, 2.
where depths and shoals of honour.
Shoetye properly a gay ornamental fashion
come from France; then a name for a traveller.
MM. 4, 8.

Shoeing horn, implement for drawing on a
tight shoe; subservient and tractable assistant,
bawd. TC. 5, 1. It implies the allusion to the
cuckoldom.

Shoes of Alcides KJ. 2, 1. often introduced in the old comedies. Steev. at KJ. 1. 1. Theobald's shows therefore is needless.

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to Shove, to push, thrust; advance, go on, pass on, and escape. H. 3, 3. Kin to the germ. schieben. S. to shift.

to Shoulder, to throng, crowd. allf. 4, 1. Rc. 3,7. Sax. scyllan

Horne Tooke Div. of P. II, 241. to cover; kin to the lat. scapula, fr. épaule, engl. shield, shelter, germ. Schild, Schale, Hülle, Hülse.

Shred, tatter, rag. H. 3, 4. where shreds and
patches. Co. 1, 1.

Shrew, formerly applied indifferently to males
TS. 4, 1. Old P. II, 65. and females; also in
a good sense for maid, lass. TN. 1, 3; a con-
tentious, angry, spiteful woman, scold, who
vexes, molests. Kin to the sax. syrwan, to
beguile, sorrow — - Horne Tooke Div. of P. II,
209. the germ. schreien, to cry, the gr
koros, choros, gyros, kyrtos, crooked, wry.
Paronomastically there assonates perhaps the
gr. kore, ion. kurē, dor. kōrē, lass.
to Shrew, beshrew, wh. s., to curse. WT. 1, 2.
Cy. 2, 3.

to Shog off, to move off, to shake. He. 2, 1. 3. of which it seems kin, as of chuck, kick, jog, fr. choquer, sax, scacan. Horne Tooke Div. of P. II, 849.

Shoon, old plural of shoe. bĦƒ. 4, 2. H. 4, 5. to Shoot, to make sprout, spring, grow. AC. 4, 2. Sax. sceotan, scytan, gr. cheein, chyein, ef. sheet, scud, shed, fr. jeter, and the germ.

schossen.

Shrewd, cursed, malicious, wicked. MD. 3, 2.
Shrift, confession to a priest. Re. 3, 4; abso-
KJ. 5, 5; sly. Hh. 5, 2. Rc. 2, 4. JC. 2, 1.
lution consequent upon it. MM. 4, 3; act of
the priest in hearing and absolving. cHf. 3, 2.
The sax. scrift, germ. Schrift, written instruc-
tion of penance,
or absolution given by the
priest. Hence

to Shrive, or shrieve, to confess. CE. 2, 2.
MV. 1, 2. aHf. 1, 2. RJ. 2, 4.

Shriver, coufessor, that administers shrift.
cHf. 3, 2.

Shrimp, dwarf. LL. 5, 2. aHd. 2, 3. allf. 2,3.
Kin to crimp, cramp, crump, crumple, frump,
cringe, shrink, crinkle, germ. rümpfen, krüm-
Shrine, chest of relicks. MV. 2, 7. Cy. 5, 5.
men, schrumpfen.
Shroud, shrowd, winding sheet, shirt of a dead
body. LL. 5, 2. MD. 5, 2. TN. 2, 4. KJ. 4, 1;
rope, cord, tow. KJ. 5, 7. cHf. 5, 4. where
our shrouds and tacklings; shelter, guard,
defence. AC. 3, 11. Kin to shirt, skirt, germ.
Schurz, Schürze, Gurt, Gürtel, sax, gyrdel,
dan. girdel, engl. gird; sax. scrud, cloth,
seridan, vestire. Horne Tooke Div. of P. II,
245. icel. skirta, cambr. crys, hebr. chagar,
chagor.

to Shroud, to conceal, cover. LL. 4, 3. cHf.
4,3; to dress. TC. 2, 3. O. 4, 3.

Shrug, heaving up of shoulders, expressing dislike or aversion. WT. 2, 1. MV. 1, 3. Shudder, shaking, trembling. TA. 4, 3. Germ. Schauder, kin to the gr. kottein, koptein, schütteln, schüttern.

to Shuffle, to shove, move; to mingle as cards, foils. H. 4,7; to shift, escape. H. 3, 3. Cy. 5, 5; to waggle and waver in going. alld. 3, 1; to shuffle off, to dispatch, cast off. H. 3, 1. TN. 3, 3. Kin to shove, shovel, shift, wh. s. germ. schaufeln, lowsax. schüffeln.

to

Shun, to avoid. WT. 5, 8. Cy. 1, 5. Sax. scunian, franc. scuwan, sciuhan, skien, ital.

schifare, engl. eschew, shift, wh. s., germ. scheuen, scheuchen, gr. deidō, deiō, dio, deuō, are all varieties formed by the labial aspiration and n inserted, or omitted. Hence Shy, timorous; cunning. MM. 3, 2. 5, 1. Sickle, sickley, somewhat sick, or disordered, feeble. KL. 2, 4. Deminutive form of sick, germ. siech, kin to fickle.

Side, long, particularly applied to dress. MA.
3, 4. Sax. sid. To carry out one's side, to
obtain one's end, to reach at one's aim. KL.
5, 1.
Siege, seat. MM. 4, 2; rank, estimation. H.
4, 7. 0. 1, 2; stool, discharge of faeces. T.
2, 2. as Gifford's Ben Jons. III, 28. Fr. siège,
gr. hedō, lat. sedeo.

sippen, sax. sipan, germ., saufen, supfen, supen; kin therefore to the gr. opos, germ. Saft, Suppe. engl. sop, sup,

Sir, used as a substantive for gentleman. Cy. 1, 7.

Sire, father. TS. 2, 1. Rb. 3, 4. Rc. 5, 4. Hence to Sire, to get. Cy. 4, 2. Kin to the hebr. sor, bull, as the mythical ruler of the year, symbol of the godman, or the intelligence of man, allruling; whence sur, to be prince, russ. czar, pers, sar, ser, gr. tyrannos.

Sith. MM. 1, 4. MW, 2, 2. TS. 1, 1. cHf. 1, 1. TAn. 4, 3. KL. 2, 4. sithence AW. 1, 3. two of the different forms of since enumerated by Horne Tooke Div. of P. I, 267. and explained by seeing that, seeing as, or because. It corresponds to the gr. entha, enthen, enthende.

LL. 1, 1.

to Sift, to pass through a sieve, to separate by a sieve, to sound, scan. examine. H. 2, 2. to Sit out, to hold out, to continue refractory. Rb. 1, 1. AW. 5, 3. aHf. 3, 1. Sax. siftan, sued. sichtan, gr. seiein, germ. seihen, sichten. Sight for fight is a correction of Pope, MM, 1, 4, rejected by Voss, who in the next line for to do it slander reads do it no sl. as aHd. is

do me no slander, Douglas, I dare fight. Even sight, however, may be justified, chiefly on account of nature, so that it would be: not keeping in view my slack forbearance. Sightless, invisible. M. 1, 5. 7; offensive to sight, unsightly, unpleasing, grim, ugly. KJ. 3, 1.

Sightly, portly (aHd. 1, 3.), proudly. KJ.2, 1.
Signet. See Sennet.

Signior Junio's giant dwarf, Dan Cupid.
LL. 2, 2. (3, 1.). Instead of explaining overar-
tificiously Junio by youth, as Malone did, or
correcting Sig. Julio's, meaning the painter
Giulio Romano, that ridiculously was supposed
to have drawn Cupid in the character of a giant
dwarf, it will best fit to the giant dwarf and
to RJ. 1, 2. TN. 1, 1. to read with Theobald
and Steevens this senior-junior, giant - dwarf,
as denoting the opposite qualities of Cupid.
Silken. S. sarcenet.
Silly, simple, plain. TN. 2, 4. rustic, dull,
foolish, sheepish. KL. 2, 2. cHf. 3, 3; low,
mean. Cy. 5, 3. Kin to seely, and the gr eilas,
(thick, good, dark, as it is explained by He-
sychius) eilys, ilys, olos, tholos, kelainos,
melas. The first signification would be then
dark, used also figuratively. S. cheat WT.
4, 2. a technical term for simple picking pockets,
as Steevens explains.

Silversweet RJ. 2, 2. silvertongued. P. 5.
to Simper, to smile (foolishly). AL, epil. KL.
4, 6 Provincially germ. zumpfen, whence
zümpferlich, probably from the old zofen, to
dress, to serve.

Simular, counterfeited. Cy. 5, 5. KL. 3, 2.
From simulo.

Sin, KJ. 2, 1. is erroneous for son in the verse:
And with her plague, her son.

Sink, channel, cannel. TAn. 3, 2. Co. 1, 1. He.
3, 5.

Sink-a-pace, corrupted for cinque pace. TN. 1, 3.

Sinklo, or Sinklow, John, a player in the company with Burbage, Shakspeare, Condell, Lowin, TS. ind. bHd. and cHf.

Sinned. In KL. 3, 2. I am a man more sinned against than sinning Voss confers Sophocl. Oed. Col. 266. and Aeschyl. Agam. 543.

Sir.

At six and seven, confusedly,, in a state of neglect and hazard. Rb. 2, 2, Probably becanse 6 and 7 are 4 + 2, and 4 + 3, and therefore unselfish numbers.

Size properly that which has measure, law, and proportion; or the due measure, law and proportion itself. Co. 5, 2; portion of bread, or food. KL. 2, 4. Germ. Satz, Gesetz, gr. ethos, ethos, kin to sit, set, gr. hezein. Hence

Sized, framed, H. 3, 2,

gr.

Skain, skean, skein, skayne, a packet, or
knot of thread wound and doubled. TS. 4, 3.
TC. 5, 1. (So it assonates the gr. schoinos,
schoinion); a crooked short sword, or knife
being concealed in the sleeve near the armpit.
S. Burt's Letters from the north of Scotl. II,
119. It is kin therefore in this sense to the
enō, kenō, ktenō, kteinō, ital. scanno.
Skainsmate (s. mate) properly companion,
that bears a long knife, accomplice; and gene-
rally comrade, fellowcompanion, so that, as
in many cases, the one notion of the word is
neglected, or at least modified, although a
low and bad sense is ever preserved, The con-
jectures and explanations of the commentators
and of Douce III. Sh. II, 188. are needless.
Skillet, skellet, little kettle, boiler, or cauldron.
0.1, 3. Fr. escuellete, germ. Schälchen, kin
to scull, skull.

It

to

skills, it signifies, matters, makes a difference; commonly with a negative. TS. 3,2. bHƒ. 3, 1. Gifford's Ben Jons. II, 455. VI, 759. VII, 384. From the sax. scylan, to divide, separate, discern. Horne Tooke Div. of P. II, 238.

Skim, to foam off, like milk, and therefore to nip, sip, MD. 2, 1. S. scum. Skimble scamble (s. scamble) mixt preposterously, arsy versy, unconnected. aHd. 3, 1. to Skin, to cover with skin. H.3, 4. where skin and film. Kin to the gr. skylos.

Skipping, wild, frolick, mad. TN. 1, 5. Kin
to shift, wh. s.

to Skirr, to range, go up and down, to run
swiftly, in various directions, to fly, scamper,
scud, fling, escape. He. 4, 7. M. 5, 3. It seems
but a variety of scour, pers. schuriden, ital.
to Skirt, to border, list, encompass. KL. 1, 1.
scorrere, gr. skiroō, skirtaō.
Kin to shirt. S. shroud.

Skittish, humorous, lunatic. TN. 2, 4. TC. to Sip, to swallow down by little draughts, to 3, 8. Perhaps kin to shift. drink but a little. WT. 4, 8. H. 4, 7. Lowsax. to Skulk. S. sculk.

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