GLOSSARY. 369 



Sign unto, v. i. To attest : p. 192, 1. 6. 



Signify, v. t. To indicate : p. 65, 1. 9. 



Similitude, sb. Likeness: p. 70, 1. 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, 1. 29. 



Skill, v.i. To understand, know: p. 66, 1. I. Comp. i Kings v. 6; 

 2 Chr. ii. 7, 8, xxxiv. 12. 



Slug, v. t. To delay, hinder: p. 119, 1. 21. 



Sobriety, sb. Temperance in its widest sense, sobermindedness : p. i&amp;lt;\ 

 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, 11. 18, 27. 



Solidness, sb. Solidity: p. 119, 1. 17. 



So long time. So long : p. 38, 1. 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. a ; p. 122, 1. 29. As it is scene 

 sometime in friars. Essay x. p. 38. 



Soothe, v.t. To flatter: p. 205, I. 23. 



Thou art perjured too, 

 And soothest up greatness. 



Shakespeare, K. John, iii. r. lai. 



Sophister, sb. A sophist : p. 160, 1. 3. 



A subtle traitor needs no sophisler. 



Shakespeare, 2 Hen. VI. v. I. 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 sor/ = in such a manner: p. 224, 1. 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, 1. 23. 



Sparkle, sb. A spark : p. 238, 1. 22 ; p. 254, 1. 21. 



Speak to. To speak of or upon, as a topic : p. 157, 1. 13. 



Speak unto. To speak of, or with reference to : p. 27, 1. 33. 



Specially, adv. Especially: p. 51, 1. 27. 



Speculation, sb. Inquiry, investigation : p. 87, 1. 30 ; p. 125, I. IO. 



Speculative, adj. Inquisitive: p. 24, 1. 26; p. in, 1. 14. 



Spial, sb. A spy : p. So, 11. 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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