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 Sesterce: m. The fourth part of the (auncient) Romane pennie, worth about three halfe pence farthing of our money.

Sesterée de terre. The fourth part of a Saumée; a measure for land, somewhat lesse then the ordinarie Arpent. Sestier. Looke Septier. Sestine: f. A Sestine, or stanzo of six verses.

Sete. The Quitter-bone; A round, and hard swelling vpon the Cornet (betweene the heele, and quarter) of a horses foot.

Setier: m. Bristlie, rough, harsh.

Seton: m. A rowell; or the rowelling, or roping of a bruised, or strained horse.

Setton. The same; also, as Section. Setule. Looke Sete. Seu: m. An Elder tree.

Seve: f. The sap, iuyce, or moisture of plants; also, the bleeding of a Vine.

Seueil: m. The threshold of a doore.

Severe: com. Seuere, austere, sterne; graue; rigorous; rough, sharpe, hard; pitilesse, vntractable, inexorable.

Severement. Seuerely, sternely, rigorously; sharpely, vntractably, inexorably.

Severité: f. Seueritie, sharpnesse, rigor, austeritie, sternnesse, fiercenesse, vntractablenesse; grauitie.

Severonde: f. The eaue, eauing, or easing of a house.

Seveux: m. euse: f. Sappie, iuicie, full of naturall moisture.

Seuil: m. The threshold of a doore.

Sevir. To rage, or be mad at; to be extreamely angred, fierce, eager; to torment extreamely, deale most cruelly with; to tyrannize ouer.

Seul: m. seule: f. Sole, single, onely, alone, onely one; meere; singular, seuerall, by it selfe.  Homme seul est viande aux loups: Prov. The lonelie man becomes a prey to wolues.  Fortune ne vient seule: Prov. One misfortune hales on another.  Haste ne vient seule: Pro. Looke Haste. Mieux vaut estre seul que mal accompagné: Pro. Better alone then in ill companie.

Seule: f. A threshold; also, a groundsill; or, the peece of timber which compasses the bottome of a roome.

Seulement. Solely, onely, but, but onely, by it selfe, alone.

Seulet: m. ette: f. Sole, alone, solitarie, priuate, singular, apart from others.

Seulle. La seulle d'une chartée de foing. As much (meddow) ground as will beare a load of Hay.

Seur: m. An Elder tree; also, a kind of Net, or Engine to catch fish with.

Seur: f. A sister; Looke Soeur. Seur: m. eure: f. Sure, safe, sicker, secure, out of danger; fast, aßured, certaine; trustie, loyall, faithfull.  Chiens seurs. Sure-hunting dogs; those that sticke to their owne, or old, game; those that runne, or hunt their owne.  Avoir la main seure. Looke Main. Seurant. Weaning.

Seurat. Of Elders; whence, Vinaigre seurat. Elder vineger.

Seure: com. Sowre, sharpe, tart.

Seuré: m. ée: f. Weaned from sucke.

Seurer. To weane.

Seureté: f. Suretie, safetie, securitie, sureneße; also, a suretie, or securitie. En seureté dort qui n'a que perdre: Pro. Securely sleepes he that hath nought to loose.  Il n'est pas en seureté à qui ne mescheut oncques: Prov. He that hath had no ill lucke is in danger.

Sevronde. Looke Severonde. Seurté. Looke Seureté. Sexagenaire: com. Threescore yeares old.

Sexe: m. A sex, or kind.

Sextaire: m. An auncient Romane measure, containing somewhat more then our pint.

Sexte: f. The third quarter, or sixt houre of the artificiall day, being about noone all the yeare long; also, a sixt, or proportion of six, in Musicke, &c.

Sextement. Sixtly.

Sexterce, & Sexterée. as Sesterée. Sextier. Looke Septier. Sextule: f. A weight of foure scruples, or the sixt part of an ounce.

Seyé: m. ée: f. Reaped, or cut, as corne.

Seyer le bled. To reape, or cut downe corne.

Seyette: f. Serge, or Say.

Seyeur: m. A reaper.

Seynale. as Salvatelle. Seyeux: m. euse: f. Silkie, full of silke.

Sezain: m. The toll, or fee thats due for grinding; also, as Seizain. Seze. Sixteene.

Seziesme: m. A sixteenth; a sixteenth part.  Vn sezieme d'aulne. Three ynches, and (as our Neale of the yard) the least diuision of the French ell, and the least measure for cloth.

Seziesme: com. The sixteenth in ranke, number, &c.

Shilirhoïque. Goutte sh. A kind of cold Gowt.

Si. (Sometimes a Substantiue; whence,) Par tel si que. On condition that.  Il n'a nul si. He is perfect, without fault or defect, no want or error can be found in him, no blemish or deformitie about him.

Si. An Aduerbe, vsed single, and in answere to a negatiue demaund, or speech; whence to, Vous n'avez pas faict celà; they answer, si; yes forsooth haue J, or yes that J haue; In which sence it hath sometimes also the companie of other words; as in answer to one that tells them, you cannot, or will not doe that, or it will neuer be; they say, Vous verrez que si; you shall see that I can or will, or, that it will fall out &c.

Si. Jn the beginning of a speech now and then implies, (among some auncient Authors) a kind of certaintie, or of resolution; as, si advint en ce iour mesme que le heraut arriva; Surely it happened the verie same day whereon the herald arriued: Si voy qu'il nous faudra avoir bataille. J see for certaine that we must fight.

Si. (Ordinarily signifies) if, if so be that, whether; (and) so, in sort, as, euen as: And preceding a Verbe, it imports (many times) a commaund, forcing, or threatning, and before faut, a necessitie; as in the two Examples following. Si cheminerez vous. You shall walke whether you will or no; or, walke when I bid you; or, you had best walke. Si faut il faire cela. That must needes be done, or, you must of necessitie doe it. Si que. Whereby, so as, in sort that. Si non que. Sauing that, but that. Il avoit vn bel esprit, & si estoit de mauvaise grace. He had an excellent wit, and yet, &c.