Glossary. 
Spareth, 10/35, v. a7. ¢. are economical, 
save. 
Spars, 33/16, s. Al. rafters. 
Speedfull, 52/13, a7. useful, profitable. 
Speeding, 2/10, s. progress, success. 
Speered, 84/5, ff. sprouted, a term in 
malting. ‘‘I sfyer as corne dothe 
whan it begynneth to waxe rype, 
Je espie.” —Palsgrave. 
Spent, 15/41, pp. used, consumed. 
Sperage, 40/18, s. asparagus. Lemery 
in his Treatise on Foods, 1704, 
gives as the etymology: ad asper- 
gendo, sprinkling, because ’tis con- 
venient to water them ! 
Spials, 64/12, s. f/. spies. Fr. ier. 
O. Fr. espier, whence our espy, spy. 
Low Lat. espza. 
Spide, 2/9, v. pr. ¢. beheld, saw. 
Spight, 57/13, s. as a spite or grief to. 
Spight, 97/6, v. spite, be unpropitious. 
Spil, 102/6, v. gr. ¢. spoil, ruin. 
Spilled, 50/6, Spilt, 56/54, AP. ruined, 
spoilt. <A.S. spdlan. 
Spring, 48/11, s. young buds of felled 
underwood. 
Spurlings, 12/5, s. £7. smelts. ‘*Spurlin, 
a smelt, Fr. esper/an.”—Skinner. 
Sparling, smelts of the Thames.— 
Brockett’s N. C. Glossary. ‘* First 
a sprat, then a small sparling, then 
a sparling.”—R. Holme, p. 325. 
Squatteth, 16/38, v. gr. ¢. sit or crouch 
down. Welsh yswatzan, to squat, 
lie flat. 
Squier, 10/57, s. squire, gentleman. 
Stadled, 48/8, Ap. ‘‘ tostadle a Wood is 
to leave at certain distances a suffi- 
cient number of young trees to re- 
plenish it.”—T.R. 
Staddles, 47/9, Stadles, 48/9, s. i. 
young growing trees left after cut- 
ting underwood. 
Staid, 2/8, v. pt. ¢. kept, detained. 
Staie, 10/7, s. means of support. 
Staie, 19/40, v. prevent, stop. 
Staied, 60/9, adj. steady, staid. 
Stalfed, 21/11, aa7. stall-fattened. 
Stamp, 18/48, v. zmp. bruise, pound. 
Stands thee upon, 10/39, are suitable, 
proper for. To stand a person ox 
is Zo be incumbent upon him, zz zs 
his duty—Wilbraham, Gloss. of 
Cheshire Words, 1818. 
Star of Bethlehem, 43/34, s. Star of 
Bethlehem. Ovzzthogalum umbel- 
latum, a bulbous plant having a 
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white star-like flower, like pictures 
of the stars that indicated Our 
Lord’s birth. 
Star of Jerusalem, 43/35, s. perhaps 
sunflower orturn-sole. Ital. gzvasole, 
familiarized into Jerusalem. 
Stay, 113/31, s. rest, quiet. 
Steade, 63/3, s. in steade =to advantage. 
*Stede, 19, wv. suffice, profit. 
Steelie, 19/12, aa7. hard, firm. 
Steepe, 46/6, adj. a steepe=steeply. 
Steeres, 36/8, s. #7. oxen in their third 
year. A.S. steor. 
Sterue, 103/4, v. starve, perish. A.S. 
steorfan. 
*Steruelings, 50, »s. //. half-starved 
animals. 
Stick, 16/34, v. zm. to stick boards = 
to arrange them neatly one upon 
another with sticks between.—T.R. 
Still, 33/53, uv. zmp. quiet, stop from 
owing. 
Still, 44/1, v. distill. 
Still, 50/33, s.astill. Lat. s¢2//a, a drop. 
Stinted, 95/4, 4d. appointed, settled. 
Stirre, 77/6, v. move quickly, bestir 
herself. 
Stitchwort, 45/23, s. stitchwort, chick- 
weed, Stellavia media, Linn. 
Stocke gilleflowers, 43/36, s. now 
shortened to stock, from stock, the 
trunk or woody stem of a tree or 
shrub, added to gz//iflower to dis- 
tinguish it from plants of the pink 
tribe, called, from their scent, 
Clove-gilleflowers. 
Stocks, 22/13,.s5. a7. young trees. 
Stoutnesse, 9/9, s. force. 
Stouer, 20/16, s. winter food for cattle, 
fodder from thrashed corn, whether 
straw, chaff, or colder (broken ears 
of corn), from the Old French 
estavoir, estovoir, estouvier, A.N. 
estovers, or estouvoir, which denotes, 
according to Roquefort (Glossaire 
de la langue Romane), ‘provision 
de tout ce qui est nécessaire.’ 
Strangenes, 3/1, s. strangeness. 
Strawforke, 17/1, s. a pitchfork. 
Strawisp, 19/38, s. wisps of straw. 
Streight waies, 1138/8, adv. at once. 
Strike, 16/9, vw. pr. ¢. striking is the 
last ploughing before the seed is 
committed to the earth—M. 
Strike, 17/1, s. a bushel measure. 
“* Robert Webb of Shottre oweth 
me iiijs. ilijd. lent hym in money 
