peas. Supposed to be derived from 
Span. Roncesvalles, a town at the 
foot of the Pyrenees, where gigantic 
bones of old heroes were pretended 
to be shown-; hence the name was 
applied to anything of a size larger 
than usual. 
Runnagate, 77/17, runaway. ‘‘ White- 
livered runagate.” — Shakspere, 
Richard III. iv. 4. 
Runt-wood, page 78, foot-note 3, s. 
stumps of underwood. ‘‘ Neither 
young poles nor old vzz2¢s are suit- 
able for building.” — Holland. 
Rydgis, 16/9, s. £2. ridges. 
Ss. 
Sad, 17/12, adj. disappointed, vexed. 
Saddle, 35/37, s. the saddle, riding. 
We still say ‘‘a saddle horse,” ‘a 
cart horse,” meaning a horse for 
riding or carting. 
Saile, 113/23, s. sail, beare low saile= 
to live humbly or economically. 
“© Than bear so dow a sail, to strike 
to thee.”—Shakspere, 3 Hen. VI. 
v. I. Cf. also 3 Henry VI. iii. 3. 
Sallets, 40/1, s. A/. salads. 
Sallow, 22/26, s. a species of willow. 
A.S. salig. 
Salue, 4/2, s. ointment, salve. 
Sampire, 40/6, s. samphire. Crzthmum 
marinum.—Gerard’s Herball, 1633. 
“ Half way down, 
Hangs one that gathers samphive, 
dreadful trade.”’ 
Shakspere, Lear, iv. 6. 
Saver, 10/10, s. scent, inkling. 
Sauer, 77/3, s. a person to look after 
and see that things are not wasted. 
Sauerie, 39/35, s. savoury. Fr. savorée. 
Lat. satureja. 
Sauerlie, 9/3, adj. frugal, gained by 
saving. 
Sauin, 45/22, s. savin. 
dina, Linn. 
Sawsie, 113/35, aay. saucy, impudent. 
Saxefrage, 44/13, s. saxifrage. Lat. 
saxifraga, from saxum, a rock, and 
Jrango, to break, being supposed 
to disintegrate the rocks, in the 
crevices of which it grows, and 
thence to dissolve stone in the 
bladder. Called in Scotland 7z71- 
stane, which has the same meaning. 
Scaberd, 102/2, s. scabbard. 
Funiperus sa- 
Glossary. 
Scamble, 51/7, v. scramble for. 
Scant, 56/52, adj. scarce, wanting. 
Scant, 113/24, adv. scarcely. So in 
Bacon’s ‘* Table of Coulers,” I. 
‘*The Epicure that will scan in- 
dure the Stoic to be insight of him.” 
Cf. also Romeo and Juliet, i. 2. 
Scanted, ii. 14, aaj. limited, stinted, 
grudged. Cf. also note to 51/15. 
Scape, 97/1, v. escape, get off. 
Scare, 56/13, v. zm. drive away. 
Scotch, 33/17, v. pr. ¢. cut, hew. 
Scoutwatch, 10/19, s. watch, guard. 
Scowles, 10/23, v. Zr. ¢. scowls, frowns, 
is ill-tempered. 
Scrall, 49¢, v. pr. ¢. crawl. ‘To scrall, 
stir, wzotito.”—Coles’ Lat. Dict. 
‘*And the river shall scva/ with 
frogs.” —Wiclif, Exodus viii. 3. 
Scrauling, 49/9, Az. Z. crawling. 
Scruplenes, page 4, s. scruples, scrupu- 
lousness. Lat. scrupulus, a little 
stone such as may get into a travel- 
ler’s shoe and distress him; hence, 
a source of doubt or distress. 
Sea holie, 40/17, s. sea-hulfer, sea-holm ; 
a plant of the genus Eryngium (LZ. 
maritimum). A.S. hulfer, holly. 
Sealed, 17/18, aaj. certified, stamped. 
Seame, 21/2, s. a quarter of corn. A.S. 
SCAM. 
Secresie, 9/20, s. secrets, private con- 
cerns. 
Sedge collars, 17/12, s. A/. collars made 
of sedge or reeds. 
Seede, 51/12, v. obtain seed from. 
Seede cake, 90/7, ‘‘a festival so called 
at the end of wheat-sowing in Essex 
and Suffolk, when the village is to 
be treated with seed cakes, pasties, 
etc.” — Warton. 
Seeith, 19/41, v. zmp. boil. 
Seeke, 10/24, v. seek, ‘‘ their dinners 
to seeke” =their dinners have to be 
sought, z.e. are lacking. 
Seelie, 48/21, adj. silly, simple. 
silig. O.L. Ger. salig. 
Seene, 95/1, adj. practised, experienced. 
“Tts a schoolmaster 
”? 
AS. 
Well seez in music. 
Shakspere, Taming of Shrew, i. 2. 
Seene, 106/16, v. pf. ¢. appeared. Lat. 
visus est. 
Seeth, 78/5, v. zp. boil. 
Seeue, 17/3, s. sieve, sifter. 
Seggons, 85/6, s. #2. poor labourers. 
“* Seo-head, a blockhead.”—Craven 
