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 Signer. To signe, subscribe; marke, brand, set his stampe on, or hand vnto; also, to note; also, to skarre; also, to beckon vnto, or by signes to bid one approach.  Se signer. To blesse, or crosse himselfe; to make the signe of the Crosse on some part of himselfe.  Signer de son sang. To signe with his bloud; to aßure the truth of his promises, or words, by most vehement, faithfull, or effectuall demonstrations.

Signet: m. A signet, seale, stampe, marke.  Signet de Salamon. Salamons seale, Scala cæli, White-root, or White-wort.

Signeur: m. A signer, subscriber; marker, brander; stamper; also, a croßer, or bleßer.

Signifiance: f. A signification, or signifying; a declaring, a betokening; also, an argument, signe, or token of.

Significance. as Signifiance. Signification: f. A signification, sence, meaning; a declaration, aduertisement, information.

Signifier. To signifie, betoken, shew, note, meane; to declare, denounce, warne, aduertise, informe.  Haine de prince signifie mort d'homme: Prov. A Princes hate portends the bane of man.

Silence: m. Silence, peace-holding; stillneße, quietnesse; also, a deauelineße, or solitarinesse.

Silenes. Boxes in Apothecaries shops painted on the outside, with diuers odde figures.

Silentiaire: m. A silenciarie, a patron or patterne of silence.

Silentieux: m. euse: f. Verie silent, full of silence, most quiet, husht, or still; that vseth to speake but little; where no noyse at all is vsed.

Siler. The hearbe Seseli, Seseleos, Hartwort; some also call Spert, or the Osier Withie so.  Siler de Candie. Hartwort of Candia.  Siler de Montagne. Siler Mountaine, bastard Loueage.

Sili. A yellow earth (found in gold and siluer mines) whereof, being burnt, Painters make a kind of Vermillion.

Siliquastre: m. Guinnie Pepper, Calecut, or Indian Pepper; also, as Guainier. Silique: f. The huske, or cod of Beanes, Pease, &c; and particularly, the Carob, or Carob Beane cod, the fruit of the Carob tree; also, a poise, among Phisitions, &c, comming to foure graines.

Siller les yeux. To seele, or sow vp, the eye-lids; (& thence also) to hoodwinke, blind, keepe in darknesse, depriue of sight; also, to winke, as when one lookes vpon the Sunne.

Sillon: m. as Seillon; also, a glimpse, or small light.

Silure: m. The rauening sheat fish, or Whall of the riuer.

Simagrée: f. A wry mouth, or filthie face, the countenance of a Ieaster, or Clowne in a Play, made to prouoke laughter; also, a soure countenance, crabbed visage, vinegar face put on; sorrow dissembled, affliction counterfeited; any hipocriticall shew, looke, or behauior.

Simbolizer. Looke Symbolizer. Sime. Looke Cime, or Simme. Sime. La partie sime du foye. The massie part of the liuer, that which hath no manner of hollownesse in it.

Simier de boeuf. Looke Cimier.

Similaire: com. Similar; like, resembling. Parties similaires. Parts (of the bodie) of one substance, and which, although diuided, retaine the name of the whole.

Similitude: f. A similitude, comparison; likenesse, resemblance.

Simiotique. Medecine sim. That part of Phisicke which intreats of the significant markes of what is past, and what is to come, as well in regard of health, as of sicknesse.

Simme: f. The top, or tuft on the top, of a tree; the cop, ridge, or height of a mountaine, &c.

Simmetrie: f. Simmetrie, the iust, and mutuall proportion of euerie part in respect of the whole.

Simmiste: m. A Secretarie, or priuie Counsellor.

Simoniaque: com. A Simonist; one that selleth, or buyeth Church preferments, &c.

Simonie: f. Simonie; the buying, or selling of spirituall functions, or preferments.

Simple. A simple in Phisicke, a Phisicall drug; also, a single in dauncing.

Simple: com. Simple; single, pure, meere, vnmixt, vncompounded, of one sort, of it selfe; also, plaine, round, blunt, sincere, vnfained; harmelesse, innocent, without welt or gard; shallow, vnskilfull, ignorant, foolish; also, rude, homelie, meane, base.  Simple donation. An absolute gift; a thing thats giuen without any respect other then of the donees good.  Simple gagerie. A bare distraining, without carrying away of the distreße.  Simple heritier. An heire by discent, not by legacie or testament.  Simples plaids, ou querelles. Sleight suites, or controuersies; À la difference des demandes, & procez d'importance, & criminels. Simple vendtion. À la difference de celle qui est faicte sous faculté de rachapt; ou de celle qui est faicte sans eschange. Benefice à simple tonsure. The place of a Prebend, or Cannon; a Benefice without the charge of soules.  Default simple, ou pur. An absolute, or meere default; S'obtient par le demandeur contre le defendeur, & par l'appellant contre l'intimé. Amende simple. The ordinarie, or accustomed amerciament of 5 solz, or 7 solz 6 deniers. Hommage simple. Looke Hommage. Simplement. Simply, singly, purely, meerely, without mixture; plainely, roundly, bluntly, vnfainedly; harmelesly, innocently; shallowly, vnskilfully; rudely, meanely, basely.

Simpler. To cousin, cunnie, gull, deceiue, beguile.

Simplesse: f. Looke Simplicité. Simplette: f. A little, simple, or homelie wench; one that is apt to beleeue, and thereby soone deceiued.

Simpliciste. as Simpliste. Simplicité: f. Simplicitie, singlenesse, sleightnesse; plainenesse, bluntneße, rudeneße, homelinesse, harmelesnesse; follie, shallownesse, vnskilfullneße, ignorance.

Simpliste: m. A Simplist, or Herbalist; one that vnderstands, or profeßes to vnderstand, the nature of simples, or plants, of drugs.

Simploce: f. The ending, and beginning of two (next-adioyning) verses with one word.

Simulachre: m. The image, picture, or counterfeit of a man or woman; the figure, semblance, resemblance, likenesse, forme, or proportion of any thing represented.