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Reluctant, P. L. vi. 58. unwilling, acting with re

pugnance

To remark, S. A. 1309. to distinguish, to point out, to mark

To repeal, P. L. vii. 59. to abrogate, to revoke. In the same sense as the law is said to be repealed when an end is put to all the force and effect of it : so, when doubts are at an end, they may be. said to be repealed

Reprobate, P. L. i. 697. lost to virtue, lost to grace, abandoned

Reptile, P. L. vii. 388. an animal that creeps upon many feet

To retain, P. L. ix. 601. to confine

Rheum, P. L. xi. 488. a thin watery matter oozing through the glands, chiefly about the mouth

Rhomb, a figure of four sides, which, being converted into one of three, makes a wedge, P. R. iii. 309

Rubied, red as a ruby

Ruin, P. L. i. 46. falling with violence and precipitation

To ruin, P. L. vi. 868. to fall down with ruin and precipitation

Russet, P. rustic

Ruth, P. pity, mercy, tenderness, sorrow for the misery of another

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Sable, P. L. ii. 962. black. A sable is a creature whose skin is of the greater price the blacker it is

Sad, P. L. vi. 541. sour or sullen, serious or in

earnest

Sadly, P. soberly, seriously

Sagacious, P. L. x. 281. quick of scent
Saphir, a precious stone of a blue colour

Saw, P. a maxim, a saying, a sentence, a proverb

Scape, P. R. ii. 189. a loose act of vice or lewd

ness

To scathe, P. L. i. 613. to damage, to hurt, to waste, to destroy

Sciential, P. L. ix. 837. producing science or knowledge

Scrannel, P. vile, worthless, grating to the sound Scull, P. L. vii. 402. a shoal or vast multitude of fish

To sdeign, P. L. iv. 50. to disdain

Sensible, P. L. ii. 278. the sense; the adjective used for a substantive

Seneshal, P. L. ix. 38. one who had, in great houses, the care of feasts or domestic ceremonies; a steward

Sere, P. L. x. 1071. dry, withered; from the Greek ξηρός

Serenate, P. L. iv. 769. music or songs with which

ladies are entertained by their lovers in the night

To serry, P. L. i. 548. vi. 599. to press close, to drive hard together, to link and clasp together; from the French serrer, to lock, to shut close Servitude, P. L. xii. 132. servants; the abstract for the concrete

Sewer, P. L. ix. 38. an officer who serves up a feast

Sextile, P. L. x. 659. a position or aspect of two planets when at sixty degrees distant, or at the distance of two signs from one another

To shatter, P. L. x. 1066. to shake or break in pieces, to break so as to scatter the parts

Sheen, brightness, splendour

Sheen, or sheeny, bright, glittering, showy
Sheer, clean, quick, at once

Shifter, P. one who plays tricks, a man of artifice
Shoon, P. shoes

Sideral, P. L. x. 693. starry, astral

Sirocco, P. L. x. 706. the south-east or Syrian wind

Sky-tinctur'd, P. L. v. 285. sky-coloured, dyed in grain, to express beauty and durableness

Smouldring, P. burning and smoking without

vent

Soldan, P. L. i. 764. a Sultan, the Emperor of

the Turks

Solitary, P. L. vi. 139. single
Sooth, truth. In sooth, indeed

Sooth, P. true, faithful, pleasing, delightful
Sord, P. L. xi. 433. turf, grassy ground
Soul, P. L. v. 197. an intelligent being, any crea-
ture that has life besides man

Speculation, P. L. xii. 589. a watching on a tower or high place, thence a discovery

Squat, P. L. iv. 800. cowering, close to the ground

To stand, P. L. viii. 3. to remain, to continue Station of a planet, P. L. vii..563. a term of art, when the planet appears neither to go backwards nor forwards, but to stand still, and keep the same place in its orbit

Statist, P. L. iv. 354. a statesman, a politician To subscribe, P. L. xi. 182. to assent, to agree to. Subscribere, literally signifies to underwrite, thence to agree to

Substance, P. a being subsisting in and by itself

Success, P. L. ii. 9. vi. 161. for ill success.

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imports the termination of any affair happy or unhappy; but without any epithet it is commonly taken for good success

Succinct, P. L. iii. 643. ready, prepared; the metaphorical sense of the word. Literally it signifies girded, or tucked up

Suffusion, P. L. iii. 26. that which is suffused or spread

To sum, P. L. vii. 421. P. R. i. 14. to have fea

thers full grown, or to their full strength; to

want nothing of the sum of its feathers. A term in falconry

Superior, free from emotion or concern, unconquered

To supplant, P. L. x. 513. to trip up one's heels, to overthrow; from the Latin supplanto, a planto pedis subtus emota

Swart, black, gloomy, malignant. Swart star, P. the dog-star

To swerve, P. L. vi. 386, to wander out of its place, to deviate, to rove; by analogy, to bend, to ply

To swinge, P. to move as a lash.

the word is not now in use

In this sense

To swink, P. to overlabour, to work, to tire, to fatigue

Sylvan, a wood-god, or satyr、

Symphony, concert of instruments, harmony of

mingled sounds

Syrtis, P. L. ii. 939. a quicksand, a bog

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To tangle, to insnare, to intrap, to be intangled Tangle, a knot of things mingled in one another Tassel'd, P. adorned with tassels

To ted, P. L. ix. 450. to lay grass newly mown in rows for drying

To tempest, P. L. vii. 412. (from the Italian tempestare), to disturb as by a tempest

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