The dictionary of syr Thomas Eliot knyght

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• SI, yf, although, I wolde god.
• Si dijs placet, If god wyl, or on goddis name: a worde spoken eyther in dys∣dayne, or in mockage, for any thynge not well doone. Etiam latini, si dijs placet, hoc biennio, magistri dicendi extiterunt, Ye and also the latines, on goddis name, haue ben these two yeres maisters of eloquence. Quinetiam, si diis placet, nephas aiunt, con∣sulem plebeiū fieri, They say also, on god∣dis name, that it is vnleful for a communer to be made Consul.
• Si sapis, yf thou be wyse.
• Siambis, an Ile in the brytysshe occean see, on the northe parte.
• Sibaris, an old towne .xii. miles from Rome. Also a citie in Calabria▪ sometyme it is ta∣ken for delycate and wanton lyuynge.
• Sibariticus, ca, cum, wanton or delycate.
• Sibi, to hym.
• Sibilo, are, to whystell.
• Sibilus, a whystlynge.
• Sibilla, a woman prophete, of the whyche were eyght, as Varro writeth.
• Sic, so, in lykewyse, accordyngly, so lightly. Mirabar hoc, si sic abiret, I wolde haue meruayled, if that it shoulde haue passed soo lyghtly.
• Sibus, a sharpe wytted felowe.
• Sic ago, so am I wont to do.
• Sic sum, suche a one am I.
• Sica, a shorte sworde.
• Sicambri, the people of Nasson, and Hessen in Germanye.
• Sicani, a people in Spayne.
• Sicania, a countrey in the Ile of Sicile.
• Sicarius, a murdrer.
• Sica••eus, a, um, drye of nature.
• Siccesco, scere, to drye.
• Siccine, of that facion, in suche facion.
• Siccine tu illam? Siccine nos habes ludibrio omnes? Wylte thou handelle her of that

• fasshyon? Wylte thou in suche fasshyon moc••e vs all.
• Siccitas & Siccitudo, drythe.
• Sicco, care, to drye or be dryed.
• Siccus, ca, cum, drye, wythered.
• Sicera, all maner of drynke made of corne or frutes.
• Sicileo, cilui, cilire, to cut agayne that whi∣che was not wel cut afore, proprely grasse in a medowe.
• Sicilia, the Ile of Sicile.
• Siciliences, people dwellyng in Sicile, whi∣che were borne els where.
• Sicilis, lidis, of Sicile.
• Sicilides Musae, the Musis of Sicile.
• Sicilisso, are, to speake the language of Si∣cile.
• Siciliqua, uel Sicilicus, a poyse or wayght, wayinge two drammes: and is the fourth parte of an vnce.
• Sicilites, the heed of a Iauelyn.
• Siclus, the ounce of the iewes, which is the fourth part of our ounce.
• Sicinnium, a kynde of daunsynge, wherein they that daunsed dyd synge, as they doo in Christmasse, whan they synge Carolles: and as maydens do nowe vse to doo in the streates.
• Sicubi, wheresoeuer.
• Siculi, men of Sicile.
• Siculum mare, the se by Sicile.
• Sicundé, of any place.
• Sicut & Sicuti, as, lyke as.
• Sicyonia, an Ile in the se of Aegeum.
• Sideratio, a sickenesse, which in suche wyse taketh some part of a mannes body, that it sodaynly becometh drye, so that he felith it not, women do cal it takynge, or benum∣mynge.
• Sideratus, he that is so taken in any membre or part of his body, that he can not feele it or stere-it, the homely people calleth be∣nummed.
• Siderites, an herbe, which groweth on ty∣les and olde walles.
• Sidereus, a, um, of the sterres.
• Sideror, ari, to be blasted, or taken, that a man maye not stere or moue his membres.
• Sido, dis, sedi, sidere, to settyll.
• Sidon, a citie in Phenicia.
• Sidonius, a, um, of that citie.
• Sidus, a numbre of sterres gathered, which do make a sygne or celestiall figure: some∣tyme it is taken for one sterre.
• Sifilare, to whystell.
• Sifilator, oris, a whystler.
• Sigaeum, a great mountaygne in the see by Troye.
• Sigillaria opera, warkes wherein were set small ymages.
• Sigillatim, one after another.
• Sigillo, are, to seale, sometyme to close or shut.
• Sigillum, a lytle ymage.
• Sigma, tis, a lytle table.
• Signaculum, a seale.
• Signatorius anulus, a signet.
• Signatus, ta, tum, notable.
• Signa infesta, Standardes and baners ad∣uaunced in batayle, in marchinge againste enemyes.
• Signia, a citie in Campania.
• Signa coelestia, the twelue signes, by the whiche the sonne and other planettes doo passe.
• Signifer, he that beareth standard or baner in a felde.
• Significo, ficare, to signifye or gyue know∣ledge.
• Signinum opus, a warke made with shelles and mortar, or tyles and mortar.
• Signo, are, to make a signe, to signe or seale, to signifie or shewe by a signe or token, to wryte.
• Signum, a signe, token, or marke, a miracle.
• Signa, be alsoo ymages of metall, stone, or woode.
• Silanius, an hyghe hill in Irlande.
• Silatum, brekefast.
• Sila, an helmet.
• Silenta loca, quiete places, wherein is no noyse.
• Silentium, sylence, quietnesse.
• Silenus, the foster father of Bacchus.
• Sileo, lui, lere, to kepe sylence, to speake nothinge.
• Siler, a kynde of wythy growing in water: it is also a ryuer in the royaulme of Naples.
• Silesco, scere, to be in silence, or quyete.
• Silex, silicis, a flynt stone.
• Silicatus, ta, tum, made with flynt stones.
• Silicernius, & Silicernium, a certayne pud∣dynge, eaten onely at the tyme of funeral∣les, some doo take it for a feaste or dyner made at the funeralles or termēt of a man or woman.
• Senem silicernium, is named of Terence for an olde Cryppel, redy to haue suche a dy∣ner made for him.
• Siliceus, a, um, of a flynt stone.
• Silicia, siue Silicula, an herbe called Fenu∣greke.
• Siligo, ginis, a grayne called Rye.
• Siligineus, a, um, of Rye.
• Siliqua, the huske or codde of any thinge, also a certayne fruyt in Italy, which is in length of a mannes fyngar, and brode, & somewhat hooked, the wayght of sixe of

• them made a poyse called Scrupulus, a scru¦ple: wherof thre do make a dramme. It is now called a Characte, and is vsed among fynars of golde and syluer, and also coy∣ners in the fynynge and alayinge therof.
• Siliquastrum, an herbe.
• Siliquor, quaris, quari, to growe in huske or codde.
• Silura, a chuntraye in the more Britayne.
• Silo, onis, he which hath great browes.
• Silosontis chlamis, is spoken in a prouerbe of hym, whiche bostith hym selfe of ryche garmentes.
• Silus, a camoysed nose, or a nose whiche is tourned vpwarde.
• Silphion, an herbe.
• Silu••us, a fissh called a Stourgeon.
• Simia, & Simius, an Ape.
• Simila, fyne mele of corne.
• ...Similago, ginis, idem.
• Simillimus, a, um, moste lyke.
• Similitas, lykenesse.
• Similiter, lykewyse, also.
• Similis, le, lyke.
• Simil••is habent labra lactucas, a prouerbe applyed to theym, whiche beinge of lyke yll condicions, be matched togither, as a lewde seruaunt with an yll master, an vn∣ruly people to a negligent gouernour, a shrewde wife to a frowarde husbonde &c. Lyke master lyke man. Lyke will to lyke.
• Similitudo, dinis, lykenesse.
• Similo, are, to be lyke.
• Simitu, pro simul, togither.
• Simiolus, a lytle ape.
• Simois, oentos, a ryuer by Troye.
• Simonia, Symony, that is to saye, ambitiō in spirituall thinges.
• Simplariae, symple thinges or of lytle value.
• Simplares, they which doo weare hostinge harneyse.
• Simplex, plicis, that is not double, syncere or playne, without deceipt.
• Simplicitas, playnesse.
• Simpliciter, playnly.
• Simplicitus for simpliciter.
• Simplus, a, um, sengle in numbre, one only.
• Simpulum, a chalice or cup of erth, wher∣with they sacrifyced in the olde tyme be∣fore that golde and siluer were in great e∣stimacion It is of Varro taken for a cruet with a Pipe, out of the which wyne came droppynge by lytle and lytle.
• Simpuuium, a vessell of tree.
• Simul, togyther with other, moreouer also.
• Simul ac, simul at{que}, as soone as, inconti∣nent as.
• Simulachrum, an ymage of a manne or wo∣man.
• Simulo, are, to indeuour, to be lyke to one, also to fayne.
• Simultas, aris, pryuy displeasure or hatered, with dissemblynge countenaunce.
• Simulatio, fantasye, also dissimulation.
• Simulator, he that dissembleth.
• Simulter, for Similiter.
• Simulto, tare, to be at varyance with one, to hate one pryuyly.
• Simus, a, um, flat.
• Sin, or els, if not.
• Sinapi, & Sinapis, Senuy sede, wherof mu∣starde is made.
• Sinapium, mustarde.
• Sinapodes, people in Affrike, whiche do go as they crept.
• Sinarum Regio, a countraye beyonde the lyne equinoctiall.
• Sinciput, the forepart of the hedde.
• Sindo, donis, a fyne lynen cloth.
• Sine, withoute.
• Sine vt veniat, let him come.
• Sine fraude mea, my right saued.
• Singillatim, to euery one, or of euery ouche, one after another.
• Singularis, re, synguler, excellēt, one with∣out any mo.
• Singulariter, singulerly, onely.
• Singulatim, euery thinge by it selfe.
• Singultio, tire, to yexe.
• Singultiens, he that hath the yexe.
• Singultiens gallina, a clockinge hen.
• Singultus, tus, yexinge.
• Singulus, a, um, euerych.
• Sinistra, the lefthande, sometyme it sygnifi∣eth, contrary to prosperouse.
• Sino, sini, sinere, to suffre.
• Sinope, pes, a cite in the contray of Pontus.
• Sinopis, pidis, a redde stone, communely called Sinoper.
• Sinistre, vnhappely, vnfortunatly.
• Sinistrorsum, on the lefthande.
• Sinuessa, a citie in Campania.
• Sinuo, are, to tourne or winde in the fourme of a serpent, makinge holowe bosomes or furrowes: it is also applyed to garmentes that are pleyghted or gathered vp: also to streames of Ryuers, which do in runnyng make dyuerse tournynges. also to bankes which haue holow creekes or bosomes.
• Sinuosus, a, um, that which hath many tur∣nynges and wyndynges.
• Sinus, us, a bosome. also the tournynges or holownesse of water bankes: somtyme the holownesse of eyen: sometyme a sayle. also a cuppe for wyne: also nettes. sometyme a sayle, whan the wynde fylleth it.
• Siparium, a courtayne.
• Siphones, the pypes of a Cundyt.
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• Siqua, for si aliqua, if any.
• Sipontum, a citie in Apulia.
• Sipontinus, a, um, of that citie.
• Siquide, for bycause. also if.
• ...Siremps, for similis res ipsa.
• Siren, & Sirena, a meremayden.
• Siri, pittes, wherin corne was layde to be preseruyd.
• Sirius, a Sterre, whiche ryseth the .viii. Calendis of Iune.
• Sirpea, mattes, or other thinges made of russhes.
• Sirpices, were instrumētes made with teeth lyke to a sawe, which beinge drawen with oxen, plucked vppe by the rootes flagges and greate weedes, which grewe in me∣dowes.
• Sirpiculae falces, hookes, wherewith vynes are cut.
• Sirpo, are, to bynde, or wynde with russhes or osyars, or other lyke thinge.
• Sirpus, a russhe. Nodū in Sirpo quaeris, thou fyndest difficultie or doubt, where there is none. Sirpi, be also warkes or verses, which be very harde to be vnderstande.
• Sirpiculum, a lytell basket.
• Sisamum, a maner of poulce or corne.
• Siser, a delicate roote to be eaten, whiche some men do suppose to be redde Carettes.
• Sisara, & Sisarum, an herbe growynge in Euboea, the flower wherof is moost plea∣saunt to bees. it is also called Erica.
• Sisto, ere, to make to tarye or stande styll, to retayne or kepe backe, to appere, as a mā doeth beinge sued in the lawe.
• Sistas te, appiere thou.
• Ore sistere. Eminor, interminor{que}, ne quis mihi obstiterit obuiam, nam qui-obstirerit, ore sistet. I threten, and I menace, that no man let me of my way, for whosoeuer let∣teth me, shall kisse the grounde.
• Sistere uadimonium, to bringe in suerty.
• Sistrum, an instrument lyke a horne, whi∣che was vsed in battayle, in the stede of a trumpet.
• Sisyphus, was a great thefe, whiche was slayne by Theseus, of whom it is fayned, that in hell he tourneth a stone vppe to a great hill, but whan it is at the toppe, it falleth downe agayne, and remeueth his labour.
• Sitanius panis, bred of newe wheate.
• Sitarchia, a bagge, or gardeuiandes, wher∣in meat is put.
• Sithonia, a countraye in Macedonia vppon the se syde.
• Siticen, he that dyd blowe in a trumpet whā men were buryed.
• Sitio, tire, to thyrst or be a thirst.
• Sitiens, he that is a thirst.
• Situlus barbatus, a lytle skyllet.
• Sitella, a lytle potte, wherinto lottes were putte.
• Sitibundus, a, um, very thursty.
• Siticulosus, he that is allwaye a thirst.
• Sitis, thirst, or desire to drinke.
• Situla, & Sirella, a lytle cofer, wherin lottes were put, at the chesinge of officers: also a buckat to drawe water.
• Situs, ta, tum, put or set.
• Situs, tus, fylthynesse gathered of moysture, by lacke of klensinge. also of sluttisshnesse. also the settynge or standinge of a place, which is now called the syte or situatiō of a maner or countraye.

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