SACRIFICIAL reverent, as words used in religious worship

SACRING-BELL the little bell rung at mass to give notice that the elements are consecrated

SAD serious

SADLY seriously

SADNESS seriousness

SAFE to make safe

SAG to hang down

SALT lascivious

SALT taste

SANDED marked with yellow spots

SANS without

SAUCY lascivious

SAW a moral saying

SAY silken

SAY assay, taste, relish

SCAFFOLDAGE the gallery of a theatre

SCALD scurvy, scabby

SCALE to weigh in scales

SCALL a scab, a word of reproach

SCAMBLE to scramble

SCAMEL probably a misprint for sea-mel, sea-mew

SCAN to examine subtly

SCANT to cut short, to spare

SCANT scanty, short scarcely

SCANTLING a small portion

SCAPE to escape

SCAPE a sally

SCATHE injury

SCATHE to injure

SCATHFUL destructive

SCONCE the head

SCOTCH to bruise or cut slightly

SCRIMER a fencer

SCROYLE a scabby fellow

SCULL a shoal of fish

SCURVY scabby; metaph. mean

SEAL to set one's seal to a deed; hence, to confirm

SEAM fat

SEAMY showing the seam or sewing

SEAR scorched, withered

SEAR to stigmatise

SEARCH to probe; hence, to apply a healing remedy

SEATED fixed, confirmed

SECT a slip or scion A political party

SECURELY inconsiderately

SEEL to close

SEELING closing, blinding

SEEMING seemly, becomingly

SEEMING outward manner and appearance

SEEN versed, instructed

SELD seldom

SELF-BOUNTY native goodness

SEMBLABLY alike

SENIORY seniority

SENNET a flourish of trumpets

SEPULCHRE to bury

SEQUESTRATION separation

SERE dry

SERJEANT a bailiff

SERPIGO a cutaneous disease

SERVICEABLE 'serviceable vows,' vows that you will do her service, or be her servant

SETEBOS the name of a fiend

SETTER one who watches travellers to give information to thieves

SEVERAL land which is not common but appropriated

SHAME to be ashamed

SHAME modesty

SHARDS shreds, broken fragments of pottery

SHARDS the wing cases of beetles; hence 'sharded,' and 'shard-borne,'

SHARKED snatched up, as a shark does his prey

SHEEN brilliancy

SHEER pure Unmixed

SHENT rebuked, blamed Hurt

SHERIFF'S-POST a post at the door of a sheriff, to which royal proclamations were fixed

SHIVE slice

SHOT the reckoning at an ale-house

SHOUGHS shaggy dogs

SHOULDERED plunged

SHOVEL-BOARD game played by sliding metal pieces along a board at a mark

SHREWD mischievous

SHRIFT confession Absolution

SHRIVE to confess

SHRIVING-TIME time for confession

SHROUD to enshroud oneself, cover oneself up

SIDE-SLEEVES loose hanging sleeves

SIEGE seat Stool Rank

SIGHT an aperture in a helmet

SIGHTLESS invisible Unsightly

SIGN to give an omen

SILLY simple, rustic

SIMULAR counterfeit, feigned

SINGLE feeble

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

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 (Gower)

SLEIGHTS artifices

SLIPPER slippery

SLIPS a kind of noose, or leash A piece of base money

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 in snuff' is to take offence

SOFTLY gently

SOIL spot, taint

SOLICIT solicitation

SOLIDARE a small coin

SOLVE solution

SOMETIMES formerly

SOOTH truth Conciliation

SOOTH true

SOREL a buck of the third year

SORRIEST most sorrowful

SORRY sorrowful, dismal

SORT a company Rank, condition Lot 'In a sort,' in a manner

SORT to choose to suit To consort

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 violent haste Used of the lightning flash

SPRAG quick

SPRING shoot, bud Beginning

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 horses, attended with giddiness: hence any bewildering distress

STAIN to disfigure

STALE a decoy A gull A prostitute

STALE to make stale, deprive anything of its freshness

STAND UPON to be incumbent on

STANIEL an inferior kind of hawk

STARK stiff

STARKLY stiffly

STATE a canopied chair

STATION attitude Act of standing

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 to stop

STITHY a smith's forge

STITHY to forge

STOCCADO a stoccata, or thrust in fencing

STOCK a stocking

STOMACH courage, stubbornness Appetite, 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 Disposition

STRAITED straitened

STRANGE foreign Coy, reserved Marvellous

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 Material, substance

STUFFED filled, stored

STY to lodge as in a sty

SUBSCRIBE to yield to succumb

SUCCESS issue, consequence Succession

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

SURCEASE to cease

SURCEASE cessation, end

SURPRISE to capture by surprise

SUR-REINED over-worked

SUSPECT suspicion

SUSPIRE to breathe

SWABBER a sweeper of the deck of a ship

SWARTH black

SWARTH quantity of grass cut down by one sweep of the scythe

SWASHER swaggerer

SWASHING dashing, smashing

SWATH The same as 'swarth.'

SWATHLING swaddling

SWAY to move on

SWEAR to adjure

SWEAR OVER to out-swear

SWIFT ready, quick

SWINGE-BUCKLER a bully