Quicken, v.i., to come to life Quiver, adj., nimble, active
Ramaious, adj., (hawking), slow Ravish, v., to snatch Reclaim, n., (hawking}, the calling back of a hawk Refudation, n., a process in which vinegar is poured on lead, distilled off, and again suffered to act on it Relief, n., a dessert Rese, v., to rush on anyone Resolve, v., to loosen, weaken, to dissolve Rheum, n., salt humour Ribbed, adj., beaten with a "rib," in dressing flax Ridge, n., the back bone Riever, n., a violent, robber, a raider Rivelled, adj., wrinkled Rively, adv., wrinkled, shrunk Rodded, adj., separated from tow--"redded" Routs, n., crowds Ruthful, adj., sorrowful
Sad, adj., steadfast, solid Sanguine, adj., blood-like Scarce, adj., sparing, avaricious Seethe, v., to boil Selde, adv., seldom Sele, v., to cover Shamefast, adj., shamefaced Sheltrons, n., palisades Shern, adj., shore Shewer, n., a looking-glass Shingle, n., in roofing, brushwood, or small boards Shipbreach, n., shipwreck Shore, adj., shorn (of the hair) Shrewd, adj., bitter; cf., shrew Silly, adj., blessed, hence innocent, hence simple Sinew, n., a nerve Slubber, v., to do anything carelessly Smirch, v., to soil Sod, adj., stewed Solar, n., an upper floor Solemn, adj., celebrated, earnest Somedeal, adv., somewhat Sometime, adv., once Sooth, n., truth Spanells, n., ropes connecting the fore or hind feet of an animal to impede its movements
Spousehood, n., marriage Spousebreach, n., adultery Spronge, adj., sprinkled Stare, v., to stay Startling, part., leaping and jumping Stint, v., to stop Stint, adj., stopped Straight, adj., confined Straited, adj., narrowed Sty, v., to climb Suspect, adj., in suspicion
Tatch, n., spot Tatched, adj., spotted Tewly, livid Tilth, v., to cultivate Tilth, n., tillage Tofore, prep., before Toll, v., to entice Trow, v., to believe; cf., trust
Unmighty, adj., unable Unneth, adv., hardly Uplandish, adj., rustic Utter, adj., outer
Very, adj., true
Wait, n., a guard Wanhope, n., despair Warily, adv., carefully Ween, v., consider, think Wem, n., blemish, fault Wend, adj., wound up Werish, adj., insipid Whelk, n., a swelling Whet, v., to sharpen Whiche, n., a wicket-gate cf., "wych gate" Wilful, adj., of set purpose Wit, n., a sense; cf "out of his wits" Witty, adj., sensibly Wonder, adj., wondrous Wonderly, adv., wondrously Wood, adj., crazy, frantic Woodness, n., madness Woose, n., fluid Worship, n., reverence, authority Wosen, n., the arteries Wot, v., knew Wrang, adj., injured, wrung Wreak, n., revenge Wreck, v., to revenge Wrecker, n., avenger
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