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 Sentement: m. A feeling; a senting, smelling, venting, winding; tasting, sauouring.

Sentence: f. A sentence, or pithie saying; also, a sentence, decree, iudgement, order, or award of a Court; also, an opinion deliuered, or aduise giuen, in a matter.  De fol Iuge breve sentence: Prov. The foole hath quickly vttered his thoughts; or, the fooles award is giuen in few words.

Sententier. To sentence, adiudge, order, decree, condemne; to giue sentence, deliuer his opinion, pronounce an award.

Sententieusement. Sententiously, pithily, grauely, wisely.

Sententieux: m. euse: f. Sententious, graue, wise, pithie, solide, full of matter, stuffie, instructiue.

Senteur: f. Sent, odor, smelling, sauor.

Sentier: m. A path, or way, of a prettie breadth; whence;  Sentier de Boullenois. Is, by the customes of that place, to be fiue foot broad.  Sentier de Bourgongne. Js to be foure foot, and a halfe.  Sentier de Clermont, & de Vallois. Is, by the customes of those places, to be foure foot broad.

Sentier: m. ere: f. Of, or in, a path.

Sentiment: m. as Sentement. Sentine: f. The sinke of a ship, &c.

Sentine mere. A little Salt-boat, or Barke.

Sentinelle: f. A Sentinell, or Sentrie; a common souldior appointed to stand, and watch in a certaine place.  Sentinelle d'amour. A bawd.  Lever de sentinelle. To relieue, withdraw, or take off, a Sentinell; also, to remoue, or dislodge.

Sentir. To feele; also, to sent, smell, vent, wind; also, to tast or sauor; also, to heare; also, to yeeld a sent, sauor, or tast; or to sent, sauor, or tast, of; to haue a smacke, touch, or spice, of.  Sentir son bien. Cela sent son bien. Thats comelie, seemelie, orderlie, or as it should be.  Sentir vn peu de boire. To be a little cupshotten.  Sentir son Mardi-gras. Cela sent son &c; is verie licentiously handled, or vttered.  Sentir la marée. To looke like a whore.  Sentir la vieille guerre. To be of the old stampe; to vse, or be in, an old fashion.  Sentir sa bonne ville, & sa petite ville. See Ville. Ie me sens de cette cheute. J smart, or am the worse, for, J feele to my paine, or I am yet sencible of, this fall.

Sentive: f. The facultie, vertue, or power of feeling, smelling, &c.

Sentrille: f. A kind of fresh-water fish.

Seoir. To sit; Se seoir. To sit him downe.  Il se peut seoir sans contredit qui se met là ou son hoste luy dit: Prov. He needs not feare to be chidden that sits where he is bidden; (The like is;)  Il se peut bien seoir à table quand le maistre luy commande: Prov. Well may he sit him downe whom he that may sets downe.

Sep: m. The stocke of a Vine; also, as Estallon. Les seps. as Des Ceps. Quand le chou passe le sep le vigneron meurt de soif: Pro. When Cabbages oregrow the Vine, there will be a great dearth of wine.

Separaison: f. as Separation; also, a baulke, or diuision betweene two lands.

Separation: f. A seperation, seuering, sundering, diuision, disiunction, diuorce; a renting, parting, or putting asunder.

Separatoire: m. A seperatorie; the Chizell or Jnstrument wherewith Surgeons cut out the peeces of bones left beeweene the holes which they haue bored with a Trepan.

Separé: m. ée: f. Seperated, seuered.

Separément. Seperately, seuerally, asunder.

Separer. To seperate, seuer, part, sunder, disioyne, diuide, vntwine, diuorce, disunite, put asunder.

Sepe: m. The Seps; a broad-headed, and sharp-mouthed serpent (of many colours, and about two cubites in length) which rots the bodie he bites.

Sepedon. as Sepe. Sepmaine: f. Looke Semaine. Sepmainier: m. as Dommas. Sepmainier: m. ere: f. Weekelie, each weeke, of or in a weeke.

Sept. Seuen.

Septaine: f. The precinct, bounds, or liberties of a Towne; the compasse of ground, or circuit of countrey, subiect vnto the Iurisdiction thereof.

Septante. Seuentie, threescore and tenne.

Septantiesme. The seuentieth.

Septembre. The month of September.  Le flot de Septembre. The great spring-tydes of the Autumne Equinoctiall.  Purée de Septembre. Wine.

Septembrin: m. ine: f. Of, or in, September.  Liqueur septembrine. Wine.

Septenaire: m. A seuenth, a proportion of seuen, the number of seuen.

Septenaire: com. Containing seuen, in, of, or belonging to, seuen.  Par les chainons septenaires. Jn euerie seuenth linke.

Septentrion: m. The North.

Septentrional: m. ale: f. Northerlie, of or in the North.

Septerée: f. A Septier full of; or, as Sesterée. Septiéme, & Septiémement. Looke Septiesme. Septier: m. A certaine Measure; of vse for diuers things, and thereby of diuers sizes; (One, being the least, and vsed by Phisitions, comes but to three ounces in weight.)  Septier d'avoine. The Septier of Oats, containing 21 Boisseaux. Septier de bled. The Septier of corne (viz. Wheat, Rye, or Barlie) containes, in most places, two Mines, or twelue Boisseaux, or the twelfth part of a Muid: In weight it comes to 220 pounds, sayes Nicot; but Vigenere vpon Liuie makes that the weight onely of Rye; and sayes, that the Septier of wheat weighes 240 pounds.  Septier de charbon. Containes 21 Boisseaux. Septier de Moulins. The Septier of Moulins, commeth to 16 Boisseaux. Septier de terre. Is much about the Arpent.  Septier de vin. Containes eight pints.  Demi septier de bled. Containeth six Boisseaux. Demi septier de vin. Is but the halfe of a Chopine, or a quarter of the French pint.

Septiesme. The seuenth.

Septiesmement. Seuenthly.

Septimestre: com. Of seuen monthes, or at seuen monthes end.

Septinaire. Looke Septenaire.

Septique: com. Putrifactiue, rotting inwardly; also,