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 Sergeantise: f. Looke Sergentise. Sergent: m. A Sergeant, Officer, Catchpole, Pursuyuant, Apparitor; also (in old French) a footman, or souldior that serues on foot.  Sergent d'armes. A Sergeant at Armes; one of those which wait on the King.  Sergent bastonnier. An ordinarie Sergeant, or Catchpole in an incorporate Towne.  Sergent blavier. as Sergent Messier, ou Messilier. Sergens à cheval. Were, in old time, certaine horse-*men inferior to Les Escuyers, and seruing for pay in the warres: Now they are officers that ride through all the villages, and fields of the Ressort, or Baillage, whereto they belong; therein arresting, and doing such other offices, as are performed by the Sergents à pied within the principall towne, and the liberties thereof.  Sergent chevaucheur. A certaine officer in forrests.  Sergens dangereux. Looke Dangereux. Sergent de l'espée. Doit tenir les veuës, bailler les assignations, faire les semonces & les commandemens des assises, & faire tenir ce qu'y est iugé, & delivrer par droict les Namps qui sont prins, & iusticier à l'espée & aux armes les malfaicteurs, & fugitifs. ¶Ragueau. Sergent feodé, fieffé, ou du fief. An hereditarie Sergeant; hath some kind of Iurisdiction for the recouerie of the Cens, Rents, Duties, Customes, Royalties, or feodall Rights, belonging to the Lord of the Seigniorie wherein he resides; and may nominate, and appoint one vnder-Sergeant (and in some places more) to assist, and attend him.  Sergent fermier. One that hath farmed the office of a Sergeant (which he is forbidden to doe by the Law.)  Sergens forestiers. Officers that may of themselues arrest the persons, and seize the goods, of such as wast, or make hauocke of the Kings woods: Of these there are two sorts; Les ordinaires, whose walkes are limited; & les traversiers, which raunge all ouer the forrest; Looke Traversier. Sergent franc. Looke vnder Franc. Sergents à masse d'argent. Sergeants of the Mace: Ce sont Huissers de la Chambre du Conseil, ou Audience, en Hainaut. Sergent messier, ou messilier. An officer that lookes vnto Corne-grounds, and Vineyards, vntill haruest, and Vintage be fully past.  Sergens à pied. The ordinarie Sergeants of a good towne, within which, or the liberties thereof (and not elsewhere) they may arrest, &c, and are to reside.  Sergent prairier. An officer that keeps, and looks vnto, medowes, for the preseruation of the hay, and grasse thereof.  Sergent de querelle. Qui servoit au faict des duels, ou pour les differents des parties: (But this officer is now out of date.)  Sergent traversier. Looke Traversier. Sergent à verge. An ordinarie Catchpole in a good Towne; also, a royall Vsher, or Sergent, who arresting, &c, within his circuit, ought to carrie in his hand a rod, or small Mace, and therewith to touch him whom he doth arrest.

Sergentaillerie: f. La ser. Sergeants, Offices, Catchpoles; or a companie of them.

Sergenter. To arrest, attache, or summon; to play the Sergeant any way.

Sergenterie: f. A Sergeantship; the office, place, or dutie of a Sergeant; also (in the customes of Normandie) a kind of fief without Court, or Jurisdiction; or, that seruice which, in our Law, is tearmed Grand, or Petit Sergeantie. Sergentie, & Sergentise. as Sergenterie (in the former sence.) Seri: m. ie: f. Quiet, mild, calme, still; faire, cleere.

Seriau. The same; whence, Car le iour est seriau. The Burden of a certaine Christmas Caroll. ¶Rab. Serie: f. The eue of a holie day; also, the euening, or euening-tide.

Seriens: m. (An old word;) souldiors that serued on foot.

Serieusement. Seriously, verie earnestly.

Serin: m. A little singing bird of a light-greene colour, and verie like the Canarie bird other waies; whence; Serin de Canarie. The Canarie bird.

Serin: m. ine: f. Silkie; also, as Serein. Seringue: f. A Siringe, or Squirt.

Seringuement: m. A squirting; an iniecting, or spurting of liquor by a Siringe.

Seringuer. To squirt.

Seriphie: f. Sea-Wormewood, called, by some of our countrey women, garden Cypreße.

Serment: m. An oath; also, as Sarment. Serment de calomnie; &, ser. de fidelité. See Calomnie, & Fidelité. Par mon serment. By my truth, by the faith J owe to God; or, by the oath J haue taken.

Sermenteux. Looke Sarmenteux. Sermon: m. A Sermon, or preaching; an Harang, or Oration, made vnto the people.

Sermonner. To preach, to make a Sermon.

Sermonneur: m. A Sermon-maker, a Preacher.

Sermontain: m. Siler Mountaine, bastard Loueage.

Serosité: f. Serositie; the waterishnesse, or thinner parts of the maße of bloud (answering to whay in milke) which floates vpon it after it hath beene let out of a veine; also, the wheyish, or waterish moisture drawne by the kidneyes from all parts of the bodie, and after some concoction tearmed, Vrine.

Serourge: m. A brother in law; one that hath married a mans owne, or his wiues, sister.

Serpaut: m. Marriage-good; the apparrell, beds, coffers, vessell, cattell, or other household-stuffe, or moueables whatsoeuer, giuen in marriage with a sonne, daughter, or cousin.

Serpe: f. Looke Sarpe. Serpé: m. ée: f. Towed off ground, set afloat, as a ship by an anchor, or great hooke; also, weighed, as an anchor.

Serpeger. To wind, or crankle in and out; to waue, waggle, wrigle, writhe, or to goe wauing, &c, like a serpent.

Serpeillere. Looke Serpillere. Serpent: m. A Serpent; a venomous, or poisonous (and footlesse) vermine; also, the male Lamprey.  Serpent cornu. The Serpent Cerastes, or the horned serpent; See Cornu. Serpent marin. The sea serpent, resembles a Congar, but hath a sharper beake, or nose, wherewith he suddainely hides himselfe in the sand.  Ail de serpent. Wild Garlick, Snakes Garlick.  Herbe aux serpens. Vipers hearbe, Snakes Bugloße.  Il faut tirer le serpent du buisson par la main d'autruy: Pro. He that will safely liue, must shift off dangers to others; or, dangers cannot be surmounted without helpe.

Serpentaire: f. The hearbe Dragons, or Dragonwort. Serpentaire aquatique, ou d'eau. Water Dragons, water Dragonwort.