SA - repeated, incites to sudden action
SACRIFICIAL - reverent, as words used in religious worship
SACRING-BELL - a bell rung at mass
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 (1) - to cut short, to spare
SCANT (2) - to put, to reduce; to limit
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 seek; to probe; to penetrate
SEATED - fixed, confirmed
SECT - party, faction; rank, class of people
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 - active in service
SERVILE - subject to
SETEBOS - the name of a fiend
SETTER - one who decoys people who are to be robbed
SEVERAL - land which is not common but appropriated
SHAME - to be ashamed
SHAME - modesty
SHARDS - shreds, broken fragments of pottery
SHARDS - the sheaths of the wings of insects; patch of dung; fragment of pottery
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
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 (1) - dark-complexioned
SWARTH (2) - heap
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