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GLOSSARY 



Spa YARD, SPAY DE, SPAYER, 



SPYCARD, the Stag in his third 



year, App. 

 Spaynel, spaniel, 119 

 Speies, spires, young wood, 157 

 Spires, spoyes, stalks, young 



wood ; thick spires means 



thick wood, 65, 118 

 Spitous, despiteful, 115 

 Spraintes, spraytyng, excre- 

 ments of the otter, 73, 139 

 Springol, springald, spring- 

 old, springall, siege engine 



to throw stones or balks of 



timber, 23 

 Stable, stablys, Fr. establie, 



a post or station of huntsmen 



and hounds, 188 

 Staggart, the stag in his fourth 



year, 29, 131 

 Stalk, to go softly, creep, 



"Stalk the deer full still" 



(used by John Lydgate, about 



1430) 

 Stall, to corner, to bring to 



bay, to stand still, 153 

 Stanc, stank, stanges, 



STANGKES, Fr. estanc^ pool, 



tank, pond, 32, 72 

 Steppis, steps, footprint of 



deer, 73, 137 

 Stere, stir, 91 

 Stert, stirt, start 

 Stinte, stynte, to stop, to 



blow a stint — i.e. to stop or 



check the hounds, a false scent, 



check, 19, 165 

 Stone-bow, Fr. arc- à-pierre., a 



kind of crossbow 

 Stoonys, stones, 143 

 Stordy, estordie, giddy, 116 

 Stoupen, stoop 

 Strake, to blow, 178 

 Strangle, straggle, 188 

 Stranling, stranlyn, squirrel 

 Stratere, straighter 

 Str AUGHT, straight, 128 



Strenge, strength, strong- 

 hold, thick woods, 16, 118, 156 



Strengeste, strongest 



Strepid, to strip 



Streynour, strainer 



Streynt, strain, progeny or 

 breed 



Stripid, stripped, term to de- 

 note skinning of hare, wild 

 boar, and wolf, App. 



Stroke, strake, or stuke, 

 to sound a note on a hunting- 

 horn, 52 



Strong, said of woods and 

 coverts, thick, dense, 25 



Sue, to seek, to hunt, 161 



SUERS, followers 



Suet, the fat of the red-deer 

 and fallow-deer 



Suete, sweet, 19 



SUGRE, sugar 



Surantler, a tine, generally 

 the bay 



Sur-ROYAL, the surroyal tine, 28 



Sure batyd (of hounds' feet), 

 battered, bruised from over 

 running, 98 



SUSRIAL, surroyal tine 



Stynt, at fault ; to stop 



Suyte, suite, following 



SwEF, a hunting cry, meaning 

 gently or softly, 182 



Swerde, sword, 1 1 



SwoOR, swore 



SwooT, swote, sweat 



Sylvestres, beasts of venery — 

 i.e. red-deer, hare, boar, and 

 wolf, App. 



Synnes, sins, 7 



Synowes, synewes, sinews 



Sythes, times 



Tacches, habits, also spots, 



markings, 121 

 Taloun, talon, heel, 130, 131 

 Tawed, a kind of tanning, pre- 

 paration of white leathers, 63 



