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 Seau: m. A bucket, or water pale; also, a seale, or signet; also, the chiefe Luminaire (wreathed, or in works) of wax vsed at funeralls.  Seau de nostre Dame. Maries Seale, our Ladies Seale, blacke Brionie, the wild Vine.  Seau de Salamon. Salamons Seale, Scala cœli, White wort, White root.  Seau pendant à double queuë. A seale hanging at a double Labell; also, one that hangs on a Gibbet.  I'y ay bien planté mes seaux. Looke Planté. Sebe. An Onyon: ¶Langued. Sebelline. Martre Sebel. The Sable Martin; the beast whose skinne we call Sables.

Sebeste, ou Sebestin. The Sebesten, or Assyrian plum; a small plumme darke-greene of colour, sweet of tast, and of a slimie or clammie substance.

Sebestier: m. The Sebesten, or Assyrian plumme tree.

Sebille: f. A fashion of woodden bowle vsed in Vintage-time, for the lading, or tunning of new wine, and for the tasting thereof before it be tunned; Looke Sibille. Sebu. The Elder tree.

Sec: m. A drie thing; whence;  Employer le verd, & le sec. To vse or imploy all the meanes he hath; (from them which to make a fire big ynough, lay on wet wood as well as drie.)

Sec: m. seiche: f. Drie, iuycelesse, withered, saplesse, without moisture.  Pierre seiche. A stone laid without morter.  Pique seiche. An vnarmed Pikeman.  Rente seiche. A rent Seck; Looke Rente. Son sec. Course branne; or branne wherein, by extremitie of boulting, not a whit of meale is left.  Suture seiche. A fashion of closing wounds; tearmed thus among Chirurgians, because neither flesh, nor skin is pricked thereby.

A sec. (Aduerbially; whence;) Estre à sec. To be on drie ground; and thence, to be grauelled, or spent in words or meanes; to haue no more to say.  Naviger à sec. Aller aux mas, & aux cordes; Our Mariners say, to spoone.   Tirer les vaisseaux à sec. To tow vessells ashore.

Sec. (Interject.) Ware that: ¶Rab. Secacul. A certain Indian, and Ginger-like root, which eaten (preserued, as euer it is) enables a man vnto venerie: and therefore haue some (erroniously) taken it for the Eringo, and others (as wisely) for the Skirret root.

Seccer. To saw, or cut asunder; to cleaue, diuide, part.

Sechabot: m. The little blacke vermine breeding in puddles, and tearmed a Bulhead.

Seche: f. The Sound, or Cuttle-fish.

Secher. Looke Seicher. Secheron. prez secherons. High, or drie medowes, such as are neither ouerflowed, nor moistened by any riuer, &c.

Sechot: m. A Powt, or Eele-powt.

Secilienne: f. The watering chaine of a Bit.

Seclus: m. use: f. Secluded, kept or shut vp, from; depriued of.

Second: m. A second, or assistant in a single combate.

Second: m onde: f. Second, next after, next vnto the first, inferiour, another.

Seconde: f. The 24 part of a Prime; a verie small weight vsed by Goldsmithes, and Jewellers.

Secondé: m. ée: f. Seconded, followed next, approached neerest vnto; backed, succoured, assisted.

Secondement. Secondly, secondarily, in the secōd place, next after the first. Seconder. To second, follow close or next, approach neerest vnto; also, to backe, helpe, succour, assist.

Secoüé: m. ée: f. Shaken, swung, tossed, ioulted, violently moued or stirred.

Secouëment: m. A shaking, swinging, tossing, ioulting, violent mouing, iogging, stirring.

Secouër. To shake, tosse, ioult, swing, iog, stir vehemently, moue violently.  Vn Cheval qui secouë son homme. A horse that trots dagger out of sheath.

Secouëur: m. A shaker, tosser, swinger, ioulter.

Secourable: com. Succouring, helpfull, comfortable, assisting; readie or willing to releeue.

Secourcer. To plucke or tucke vp the coat, &c, for dagging.

Secourgeon. as Scourgeon. Secourir. To succour, second, releeue, comfort, back, aid, helpe, assist, further.

Secours: m. Succour, a seconding, reliefe, helpe, aid, assistance, comfort, furtherance.  Secours de Lombardie. Seeke Lombardie. Le secours des Venetiens. A restoratiue after death, victualls vpon a full repast; offer of helpe, or libertie, to one thats past the worst, or newly gotten out of prison; Looke Venetien. Secousse: f. A ioult, shog, shocke, shake, swing, tosse; a violent iog or swindge, a sudden pull.  Bailler vne mauvaise secousse à. To giue a terrible iert, or horrible rush; to worke much mischiefe, or doe a mischieuous turne, vnto.

Secret: m A secret, concealement, counsell, mysterie, hidden matter; also, as Muse. Secret de deux secret de Dieu, secret de trois secret de tous: Prov. We onely say, that three may keep counsell when two are away.

Secret: m. ette: f. Secret, inward, priuie, close, hidden, concealed, abstruse, darke, mysticall, vnknowne.

Secretain: m. The Sexton of a Church.

Secretainerie: f. A Sextrie, or Vestrie.

Secretaire: m. A Secretarie, Clerke, Remembrancer; whereof (besides those that belong to inferiour Princes, and Lords) there be many immediate, ordinarie, and houshold seruants vnto the French King; tearmed only, Secretaires, or Secretaires du Roy, and sometimes Secretaires du Roy, & de la maison, & couronne de France, (although in truth they be not Officers of the Crowne:) Of these did Charles the fift institute a Colledge, or Corporation, by the title of, Le College des Clercs, Notaires, & Secretaires du Roy, & de la maison, & Couronne de France: At which time there was but sixtie of them, for the writing of all Patents, and dispatches of the Chauncerie; and their intertainment but six shillings Parisis a day, besides tenne pounds Tour. for their Droict de Manteaux, and some pettie fees out of the Chauncerie: But vpon the increase of businesses Lewis, the eleuenth doubled their number; and Henrie the second, in the yere 1554, raised it vnto two hundred, giuing them 300 l.'' wages, in respect of all fees. In the yeare 1570 Charles the ninth ioyned vnto them fortie more; and Henrie the third, in the yeare 1583, foureteene vnto those, allowing them certaine vailes out of the Chauncerie seale, and 150 l. wages. Henrie the fourth added vnto all these, first 22, then 23, then nine (intertained at 300 l. wages, without any vayles) and in the yeare 1605, twentie six, to whom he assigned 1000 l. a yeare (especially for such of them as attended the finances,) And lastly, in the yeare 1608, he made ten more (which haue''