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rying with them the several key used for closing this hole;
heavenly bodies' (N.E.D.)j 4. 7. 3-2.363
IS STOUP, a drinking vessel (of varying
SPILL, destroy, kill; 4. 5. 20 dimensions); 5. 1. 60; 5. 2.
SPLENITIVE, splenetic, liable to fits 265
of anger; 5. I. 255 STRAIGHT (adv.),,straightway; 2. 2.
SPRINGE, snare, trap; 1. 3. 1155 436; with a quibble on 'straight'
5- 2. 3°4 =narrow, 5. 1. 4
STAINED, dishonoured; 4. 4. 57 STREWMENTS, flowers strewn upon
STALLION, courtesan or male whore a grave (cf. Cymb, 4. 2. 285 'Are
(v. N.E.D. 2 b, 3); 2. 2. 591 strewings fitt'st for graves');
5- 1. 227
STAND ONE UPON, be incumbent
•upon one (cf. Rich. II, 2. 3. 138 STRIKE (vb.). Astrol. term; planets
'It stands your Grace upon to 'in opposition' were supposed to
do him right') 5 5. 2. 63 blast or 'strike' objects beneath
STAR, 'a person's fortune, rank or them; cf. mod. 'moon-struck'
destiny...viewed as determined and Cor. 2. 2. 117-18 'struck
by the stars' (N.E.D., cf. Tw. Corioli like a planet'; 1. I. 162
2
2 2
Nt.z. 5.147)5i«4« 3 > - -Hi STUCK (sb.), thrust, lunge; 4.7.160
STATE (sb.), (i) government; 1. 1. SUBJECT (THE), the people, the
ioij 1. 2. 205 (ii) power, subjects of the realm (coll. sing,
majesty; 2. 2. 515 only found in Shakespeare; cf.
STATION, attitude in standing; Meas. 3. 2. 133 'the greater
3- 4- 5 8 file of the subject'); 1. I. 72;
STATIST, statesman, public official} I «2. 33
5- *• 33 SUN (IN THE). Ref. to proverb
STATUTE, a legal document or bond 'Out of God's blessing into a
in acknowledgment of debt, by warm sun' •=' from an exalted, or
virtue of which 'the creditor honourable, state or occupation
may immediately have execution to a low or ignoble one' (P. L.
upon the debtor's body, land and Carver, v. note); 1. 2. 675 2. 2.
goods,' and which therefore gave 184
him control over his land; SUPERVISE (sb.), the first reading;
5. 1. 102 5. 2. 23
STAY UPON, await; 3. 2. 104 SUPPLIANCE, diversion, lit. that
STICK OFF, show to advantage; which supplies or fills up (a
5. 2. 255 minute); 1. 3. 9
STILL (adv.), invariably, always; SWAGG'RING, blustering, boastful;
1. 1. 118, etc. 1. 4. 9
STITHY, forge; 3. 2. 82 SWEEP MY WAY, clear my path;
STOMACH (sb.), spice of adventure 3. 4. 204
(lit. courage), with a quibble SWEEPSTAKE (adv.), in a clean
upon the physiological sense to sweep, lit. taking all the stakes
suit 'food and diet'; 1. 1. 100 in a game at once. A common
STOP (sb.), a finger-hole in the tube name for a ship in that piratical
of a wind instrument, a metal age (N.E.D.); 4. 5. 14a