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 In the same sense as the law is said to be repealed when an end is put to all the force and effect of it : so, when doubts are at an end, they may be. said to be repealed Reprobate, P. L. i. 697.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 S 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 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 Shifter, P. one who plays tricks, a man of artifice 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, P. true, faithful, pleasing, delightful 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. It 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 T 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 R |