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 Serpentaire masle des Officines. Snakeweed, Britannica, Bistort.  Grande serpentaire. Great Dragons or Dragonwort; the ordinarie Dragonwort.  Petite serpentaire. Small Dragons; an hearbe like Wake-Robin in all points saue it spots, which are white.

Serpentant: m. ante: f. Crankling, wrigling, wigling, crooking, winding, making many turnes.

Serpente: f. A Serpent.  Faire la serpente. as Serpenter. Serpenté. Wrigled, cranckled, wrythed, turned or wound in and out.

Serpenteau: m. A little serpent.

Serpenter. To wrigle, wagle, cranckle, wrythe, turne or wind often in and out.

Serpentin: m. The vpper part of some Limbecks, made long, and wreathed like a serpent; also, the cocke of an Harquebuze.

Serpentin: m. ine: f. Of a serpent, like a serpent, long and wreathed as a serpent.  Ail serpentin. Snakes Garlick, wild Garlick.  Marbre serpentin. A darke-greene Marble, full of light-greene spots.  Pierre serpentine. Looke Pierre. Serpentine: f. A kind of Limbecke, or, as Serpentin; also, as Serpentaire; also, the Artillerie called a Serpentine, or Basiliskoe.  Petite serpentine. Small Dragons; also, Cucko-pint, Wake-Robin, Calues-foot.

Serper. To tow a ship off ground, or set her afloat by a great hooke, or ankor fastened vnto another ship thats vnder sayle.  Serper l'ancre. To weigh ankor.

Serpette: f. A Vine-knife, or Gardeners knife; a verie small hedging, or lopping, bill.

Serpigine: f. A redneße of the skin, accompanied with pushes, and wheales.

Serpiller. To packe vp in Canuas, &c; also, to gleane after Grape-gatherers, or cut away from the Vine all the grapes they haue left behind them.

Serpillere: f. A Sarpler, or Sarp cloth; a piece of course Canuas to packe vp things in; also, the course Canuas apron of a Grocer, Chaundler, Painter, Dawber, &c.

Serpillette: f. A small Vine-hooke, or Gardeners hooked knife.

Serpillon. as Serpette. Serpillonnette. as Serpillette; or a verie small one.

Serpolet: m. Running Time, wild Time, creeping Time, mother of Time, Puliall mountaine, our Ladies Bed-*straw.  Serpolet sauvage. Wild creeping Time; of two kinds, the one bearing a white, the other a red flower: (Gerard shewes vs no fewer then six kinds of Serpillum, all which as he calls wild Times (though with some small, and different additions) so many hold (sayes Mathiolus) that euerie Serpolet is wild:) Some also tearme Water-mint, and others Balsamint, Serpolet sauvage. Serquify: m. The delicate root of the hearbe Goats-*beard.

Serrail: m. The Pallace wherein the great Turke mueth vp his concubines.  Serrail d'un huis. The boult of a doore.

Serran: m. A certaine fish thats like, but somewhat lesse then, the sea-Pearch; and hath, as it, two stones in his head; called thus about Marseille. Serrant: m. A Greene-finch.

Serrant: m. ante: f. Shutting, or locking, vp.

Serratan. Looke Serran. Serratil: m. ile: f. Closing, or shutting vp close together.

Serre: f. A Hawkes tallon; also, a strait, or narrow pinch; also, a saw; also, the wild Fitch.  Serres. A Hawkes tallons; also, wild Fitches; also, the thicke boords whereby the inside of the Varengues of a ship are fastened, and held in.  Tenir en serre. To restraine, or hold in subiection.

Serre: com. Close; whence, Tenir serre; to hold himselfe close, to restraine, or keepe in, himselfe.

Serré: m. ée: f. Closed, compacted, contracted, thrust vp together, clapped or put neere vnto; restrained; straitned; hard wrung or pressed; fast locked, shut or bound vp.  Serré de douleurs. Whose heart is shrunk, or oppreßed, with griefe.

Serré. (In stead of Serrément; whence,) Dormir fort serré. To sleepe verie soundly.

Serre. (Of the Verbe Serrer;) the word whereby souldiors are warned to close themselues, or draw neere together.

Serrecropiere. Le Ieu de ser. The close-buttock play; lecherie.

Serre-front: m. A head-band, forhead-band, or forhead-cloth.

Serremént: m. A closing, compacting, pressing, hard-thrusting together; a contracting; vp-shutting, restraining.

Serrément. Closely, straitly, narrowly, neere one to another, contractedly, restrainedly, in a little roome.

Serre-nappe: f. A cabinet, roome, or chest for the keeking of table-linnen; also, the basket whereinto it is put vp at the taking away.

Serre-poignet: m. A griping close-fist, a couetous or close-handed wretch.

Serrer. To close, compact, thrust hard, bind fast, force or presse neere together; to locke, shut or put vp, hold or keepe strait; restraine; contract.  Se serrer. To goe all on a rucke, or gather himselfe vp close together.  Serrer le bouton à. To restraine or keepe short, to hold a strict or hard hand ouer.  Serrer les ordures. To sweepe together all the scattered filth of a floore.  Serrer prés. To presse mightily, vrge very much, driue vnto a narrow strait, pinch, or plunge; pursue verie neere; also, to be most earnest with, or instant vpon.  Qui sçait l'art serre la boutique; &, Qui ne sçait l'art serre la boutique: Pro. Looke Boutique. Serres. as vnder Serre. Serre-teste: f. A border of Goldsmiths worke, &c, worne by gentlewomen vpon their coifes, or hoods.

Serreure. Looke Serrure. Serriette: f. The hearbe Sauorie.

Serrure: f. A locke.  Remuer les serrures. To play the Polypragmon, or busie companion.  Contre coignée serrure ne peut: Prov. No lockes hold out against an yron axe; an armed violence forceth any thing.

Serrurerie: f. The trade of a Lock-smith; a making of locks.

Serrurier: m. A Lock-smith.

Sert: m. The first course, or seruice at Table.

Serte: f. A kind of flat-bottomed boat vsed in old time.