GLOSSARY, 369 
Sign unto, v.t. To attest: p. 192, 1. 6. 
Signify, v.¢. To indicate: p. 65, |. 9. 
Similitude, sb. Likeness: p. 70, l. 26; p. 215, 1. 16. Comparison: 
p- 87, 1. 10; p. 147, 1. 32. 
Simples, sb. Herbs: p. 80, 1. 17. 
Sincereness, sb. Sincerity: p. 195, |. 29. 
Skill, v.i. To understand, know: p. 66, 1. 1. Comp. 1 Kings v. 6; 
2 Chr. ii. 7, 8, xxxiv. 12. 
Slug, v.t. To delay, hinder: p. 119, |. a1. 
Sobriety, sb. Temperance in its widest sense, sobermindedness: p. 10, 
1.7; p. 44, 1 14; p. 216, 1. 8. 
Softest, adj. Most effeminate: p. 195, I. 25. 
Softness, sb, Effeminacy: p. 16, 1. 9. 
Solemn, adj. Grave, decorous: p. 235, ll. 18, 27. 
Solidness, sb. Solidity: p. 119, 1. 17. 
So long time. So long: p. 38, |. 23. 
Solute, adj. Free, unfettered: p. 259, 1. 4; p. 260, 1. 33. 
Some, used with a singular, p. 194, 1. 8 
Sometime, adv. Sometimes: p. 20,1. 2; p.122,1. 29. ‘As it is seene 
sometime in friars.’ Essay x. p. 38. 
Soothe, v.4. To flatter: p. 205, |. 23. 
‘Thou art perjured too, 
And soothest up greatness.’ 
Shakespeare, K, John, iii, 1, 121. 
Sophister, sb. A sophist: p. 160, l. 3. 
‘A subtle traitor needs no sophister.’ 
Shakespeare, 2 Hen. VI, v. 1. 191. 
Sorcery, sb. Fortune-telling by casting lots: p. 87, 1. 24. 
Sort, sb. A class of persons: p. 29, 1. 10; p. 163, 1. 6 
‘ The shallowest thick-skin of that barren sort.’ 
Shakespeare, Mid. N.’s Dr. iii. 2, 13. 
‘In sort?=in such a manner: p. 224, |. 3; p. 255, 1. 21. 
Sort, v.i. To agree: p. 14,1. 12; p. 234, 1.18. ‘A frend may speak, 
as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person,’ Essay xxvii. 
p- 115. 
Sortable, adj. Agreeable, suitable: p. 58, 1. 20, 
Sounding, adj, That which merely gives forth a sound; and so, meta- 
phorically, hollow, unsubstantial: p. 7, 1. 27. 
Spacious, adj. Widely extended: p. 67, 1. 33. Not used now of coun- 
tries, 
Spake. Spoke; past tense of ‘speak’: p. 64, l. 23. 
Sparkle, sb. A spark: p. 238, 1. 22; p. 254, 1. 24. 
Speak to. To speak of or upon, as atopic: p. 157, 1. 13. 
Speak unto. ‘To speak of, or with reference to: p. 27, 1. 33. 
Specially, adv. Especially: p. 51, |. 27. 
Speculation, sb. Inquiry, investigation: p, 87, 1. 30; p. 125, 1. To. 
Speculative, adj. Inquisitive: p. 24,1. 26; p. 111, 1. 14. 
Spial, sb. A spy: p. 80, ll. 24, 26. ‘But yet their trust towards them, 
hath rather beene as to good spialls, and good whisperers; then good 
magistrates, and officers.’ Essay xliv. p. 179. 
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