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t, sit beneath the Sarreverence Scandalum magnatum Sconce, build a (I supposed that the expression meant "fix a candle in a candlestick," but I am indebted to Mr. George L. Apperson for the true explanation. He writes:--"In Dyche's _Dictionary_ (I quote from ed. 1748) is the verb _sconce_, one of the definitions being--'a cant term for running up a score at an alehouse or tavern'--with which cf. Goldsmith's Essays (1765), viii, 'He ran into debt with everybody that would trust him, and none could _build a sconce_ better than he.' This explanation seems to me to make Thomas's remark a very characteristic one." See Grose's _Classical Dictionary of the vulgar tongue_.) Scottish witch Scythians Sentronell ( = centinel) Seven deadly sinnes, pageant of Shakespeare imitated; his use of the word road ("This Doll Tearsheet should be some road") illustrated; mentioned in _Captain Underwit_ Sharpe, play at. (Cf. _Swetnam the Woman Hater_, 1620, sig. G. 3:-- "But cunning Cupid forecast me to recoile: For when he _plaid at sharpe_ I had the foyle.") Shellain Sherryes Ship, the great Shipwreck by land Shirley, James, author of _Captain Underwit_; quoted Shoulder pack't Shrovetide, hens thrashed at Shrove Tuesday, riotous conduct of apprentices on Sib Signeor No _Sister awake! close not your eyes!_ Sister's thread _Sleep, wayward thoughts_ (See _Appendix_) Slug Smell-feast Snaphance Sowse Spanish fig Sparabiles Spend Spenser, imitated Spurne-point Stafford's lawe Stand on poynts Standage Stavesucre ( = staves-acre) Steccadoes ( = stoccadoes, thrusts in fencing) Stewd prunes Stigmaticke Stoope Striker Strive curtesies ( = stand upon ceremony) Suds, in the Suetonius, quoted Sure Surreverence Tacitus, quoted Take me with you Take in Tarleton Tarriers _Tell Tale, the_, (MS. play) Tent Termagant _The Fryer was in the_--(See _Appendix_) Three Cranes Thumb, to bite the Ticktacks Tickle minikin ( = play on the fiddle) Timeless ( = untimely) Tobacco (price of) Toot Totter Totter'd Traind band Transportation of ordnance Trevants. (_Trevant_ is a corruption of _Germ. Traban_ = guard.) Trewe ( = honest) Tripennies Trondling Trouses True man Trundle bed Trunk-hose Tub-hunter ( = parasite) Turnops _Two Noble Ladyes_. (The plot is partly founded on Calderon's _Magico Prodigioso_.) Uncouth Unicorn's horn Unreadie Upper stage Ure Varlet Vaunt-currying Venetian
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