Glossary. 
Glossary. Cf. Segger, Chester 
Plays, il. 51- 
Sell, 118/21, s. cell, abbey. 
Semsters, 86/7, s. /. needlewomen, 
seamstresses. A.S. seamestre. 
Seruice-trees, 34/24, s. f/. more cor- 
rectly spelt Servzse-tree, from Lat. 
cervisia, its fruit having from ancient 
times been used for making a fer- 
mented liquor, a kind of beer. 
Seruiture, 99/1, s. servant, attendant. 
Set, 86/25, uv. zp. plant round, set. 
Set, 35/45, s. the young shoots. 
Setteth, 10/60, wv. gr. ¢. risks. ‘‘ Setteth 
his soule upon sixe or on seauen”’ 
= ‘‘risks his soul on the cast of a 
dies? 
Seuer, 15/40, v. zmp. separate, sort. 
Seuerall, title, adj. inclosed land, di- 
vided into fields by fences. L. Lat. 
separalts. 
Sewe, 15/17, v. cmp. drain. Cf. sewer. 
Welsh, sych, dry. Cf. Lat. szccus. 
See Pegge’s Kenticisms. 
Shackles, 17/21, s. p/. shackles. A.S. 
scacul. Dutch, schakel, a link of a 
chain. 
Shack time, 16/30, s. the time during 
which the shaken-out grain remains 
on the ground after harvest. 
*¢ Shack, Norfolk, a general com- 
mon for hogs, from the end of 
harvest till seed time. To go at 
Shack, to go at large.” — Coles’ 
Dict. 1676. Brockett’s Glossary 
gives: ‘* Shack, shak, to shed, or 
shake, as corn in harvest. Then 
shack-fork, a shake-fork.” ‘‘ Shack- 
zne-time, the season when malt is 
ripe.””—Kersey’s Eng. Dict. 1715. 
Wedgwood (Eng. Etym.) says: 
‘*Shack is the shaken grain remain- 
ing on the ground when the glean- 
ing is over, the fallen mast (Forby). 
Hence to shack, to turn pigs or 
poultry into the stubble field to 
feed on the scattered grain. Shack, 
liberty of winter pasturage, when 
the cattle are allowed to rove over 
the tillage land.” Forby gives 
** Shack, sb. the acorns or mast 
under the trees.” Compare the 
provincial ‘‘ Shucks,” the pods or 
shells from which peas have been 
Shaken, or, as itis frequently called, 
“¢ shook.” 
Share, 62/1, v. shear. 
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Shares, 17/10, s. plough shares. 
Sharing, 17/16, adj. shearing. 
Shaue, 17/6, s. spokeshave. 
Sheawd, 102/7, 4. shown, displayed. 
Shed, 57/7, v. lose the grains of corn. 
Sheepebiter, 64/17, s. a thief, lit. a 
wolf, a cant phrase. See Halli- 
well, s.v. 
Shent, 57/45, gf. ruined, disgraced. 
A.S. scendan. 
Shere, 3/7, s. shire, county. A.S. scéze. 
Shift, 9/39, v. manage, fare. 
Shift, 104/1, s. excuse, makeshift. 
Shifting, 95/5, ad. changing, often re- 
moving. 
Shifting, 10/27, 10/33, w. 
cheating, acting shiftingly. 
Shiftingly, 9/26, adv. by tricks or mean 
shifts. 
Shock, 56/20, s. a certain number of 
bundles or sheaves of corn (in some 
parts twelve). ‘‘ A shocke of wheate, 
meta tritict.” —Withal’s Dict. 1608. 
Shock, 47/10, v. zp. collect into shocks 
or heaps of twelve sheaves. 
Shod, 17/6, AP. tired. 
Sholue, 17/1, s. shovel. 
Shoo, 102/2, s. /. shoes. 
shoe, pl. sceoz. 
Shot, 113/40, s. expense, reckoning. 
Showreth out, 14/3, v. px. ¢. is showery, 
rainy weather. 
Shreaw, 16/17, s. thief, rascal, 67/24, s. 
shrew, scold. See Shrew. 
Shred pies, 31/3, s. A/. mince pies, the 
meat being cut up into shreds. A.S. 
screadan, small pieces. “‘ No matter 
for plomb-porridge or shrid pies.” 
—Sheppard’s Epigrams, 1651. 
Shrew, 64*/6, s. scold. ‘* Shrewe, 
pravus. Schrewyd, pravatus, de- 
pravatus.”—Prompt. Parv. 
Shroftide, 90/3, s. Shrove Tuesday, the 
day before the first day of Lent. 
Shrouing, 90/3, s. to be merry, prob- 
ably derived from the sports and 
merriment of Shrovetide. See 
Halliwell, s.v. Shrove. 
Shut, v. 51/5, shoot, throw; 37/13, 
shoot out, spring up. 
Sieth, 35/25, s. scythe. A.S. s¢de. 
Siethes, 39/39, s. pl. chives, spelt in 
Hollyband’s Dict. 1593, szeves, from 
Fr. cive, Allium fissile, L. 
Sirops, 91/3, s. A/. sirups. 
Siszers, 17/4, s. scissors. 
Sithe, 17/14, s. scythe. 
trickery, 
A.S. sceo, a 
