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GLOSSARY 



Spayard, spayde, spayer, 

 spycard, the stag in his third 

 year, App. 



Spaynel, spaniel, 1 19 



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. esta?ic, 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, estoraie, 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, 1 18, 1 56 



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 



