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SUPER-SERVICEABLE, 'doing or delicate "haft" or bodily
offering service beyond what frame; hence, womanly,
is desired, officious' gentle' (O.E.D.), easy to
(O.E.D.); 2. 2. 16-17 handle; 2. 4. 167
SUPPORT, (i) uphold; 1. 4. 266; THIN, (a) mod. sense, (£) bald,
(ii) endure; 5. 3. 196 (c) bare; 4. 7. 36
SURFEIT, diseased condition THING, penis (cf. O.E.D.
arising from self-indulgencej •thing", II. e)', 1.5.51
I. 2. 122 THOUGHT-EXECUTING, acting
SUSTAINING, supporting lifej (fkilling), as quick as
4. 4. 6 thought; 3. 2. 4
SWAY (sb.), government, direc- THREE-SUITED, allowed three
tion; 1. 1. 135; 2. 4. 186; suits of clothes ayear; 2.2.14
4. 7. 20 THRILL, pierce, move emotion-
SWAY (vb.), govern; 1. 2. 51 ally; 4. 2. 73
SWEAR, invoke; 1. 1. 160 THRUSTING ON, compulsion; 1,
2. 129
TAINT, decay; 1. 1. 220 THWART, perverse; 1. 4. 284
TAKE UPON (ONE), pretend (to TIME (the), the world; 4. 1. 46
know); 5. 3. 16 TITHING, rural district (orig.
TAKEN, overtaken by harm; 1. containing ten house-
holders); 3. 4. 134
4-331
TAKING, (i) capture; 2. 3. 55 TOAD-SPOTTED, marked with
(ii) blasting, bewitching; 2. spots, like a toad: 'spotted'
4. 160; 3. 4. 58; (iii) accep- has the sense of 'stained,
tance; 4. 6. 29; (iv) 'taking polluted', and the toad is
off'=murder; 5. 1. 65 proverbially venomous;
TAME, 'humbly submissive' hence the word=marked
(K.); 4- 6. 219 with infamy as the toad is
TART (fig.), disagreeable; 4. 2. with spots; 5. 3. 137
TOGETHER, without intermis-
87 sion; 1. 2. 158
TASTE, test; 1. 2. 46 TOM 0' BEDLAM (see Bedlavi)\
TEEM, bear children; 1. 4. 282
TELL, count; 2.4. 53; 3. 2. 91 1. 2. 138-9
TEMPER (sb.), mental balance; TOP (sb.), head; 2. 4. 159
1. 5. 46 TOP (vb.), rise above, surpass;
TEMPER (vb:), moisten (clay, I. 2. 21J 5. 3. 206
etc.) so as to soften it for use j TOUCH, (i) imbue; 2. 4. 272; 5.
•1. 4. 305 3. 231; (ii) concern; 5.1.25
TEMPERANCE, self-control; 4. TOWARD, impending; 2. 1. 10;
7.24 3. 3. 19; 4. 6. 207
TEND UPON, serve; 2. 1. 95" TRADE, job or business (of any
TENDER or, solicitude for; 1. kind); 4. 1. 38
4. 211 TRANSPORT, carry away in a
TENDER-HEFTED, 'set In a passion; 1. 4. 222