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Si-ngan-fu, ancient capital of China, vi. 265, 504
Singing in church, vii. 265
Sinol on Harrison Weir's book on cats, v. 515
Sinonimia, Puttenham on, xii. 464
Sinton (G. S.) on " I sit on a rock," vii. 328
Sinton (J.) on ' Albania, a Poem,' i. 209. Hamilto
(Alexander), x. 248 Sir, as a prefix, iii. 145 Sir John, sixteenth century nickname for priest, iv
534 ; v. 97
Sirdar, its pronunciation, iii. 164, 234 Sirr (H.) on Ashburnham House, Westminster, vii 125. Brummell family, ii. 94. Burrington (Major) vi. 472. Callings of various persons, ii. 324 Columbaria, vii. 116. Cooke (George), i. 171 Ewing (W.), ii. 168. Field - names, ii. 352 Royer's ' Colonie Frangaise en Prusse,' i. 367 Whiteway (Mrs. Martha), ii. 147. Sirr (W White way), i. 67
Sirr (William Whiteway), his biography, i. 67 Sirvente or sirventes, Provengal word, v. 374 Sister churches, iii. 48, 115, 173 Sisters, two with same name, ii. 145 ; vii. 436 ; three
married at once, ii. 246, 453 ; iii. 217 Sitsyllt family. See Cecil family. Sive (Queen), her identity, xi. 67, 156 " Six-shilling beer," its meaning, iv. 128 Sixteenth-century ecclesiastical terms, vi. 188, 275
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Sjambok, its meaning and etymology, iv. 456 Skarratt (T. C.) on Skerratt = Carleton, x. 448 Skaits=skates, v. 374 Skat, German card game, iv. 317; v. 12 Skeat (Prof. W. W.), his < Concise Dictionary,' 1901, notes on, x. 83, 221, 356, 461 : xi. 43, 141, 235, 377
Skeat (Prof. W. W.) on short a v. Italian a, i. 285 "A mache and a horseshoe are both alike," vi. 294. Ackerley surname, i. 176. "Acreware," iii. 190. Alamains, meaning of, vi. 212. Aldersgate, its etymology, i. 333 j ii. 10. Anglo-Saxon speech, iv. 94, 296, 547; v. 320. Argh, place-name termina- tion, v. 97. Ascetic, its derivation, i. 418. Ash, place-name, xii. 373. Authors of quotations wanted, vi. 259. Barracks, iii. 3. Bath apple, i. 317, 435. Batsueins, its etymology, v. 384. Baulk : Balk, ii. 377. Bayswater and bayard, i. 55. Beer: bur, x. 416. "Bernardus non vidit omnia," v. 441. 'Bisclavret,' xii. 46. Boer, its etymology, v. 191. Bungay, place-name, x. 273. Butty, its etymology, vi. 496 ; vii. 51. Carant or corant, x. 415. Carlyle's 'Past and Present,' xi. 158. Cavatina, xii. 276. Celtic words, iii. 258. Century, the new, v. 84. Chaucer, passages in, vi. 434, 518 ; vii. 95, 238, 257. Chaucerian quotation, xi. 378. Choys, its spelling, v. 443. Coal folk-lore, iv. 508. Cold Harbour, i. 457. Combination, arithmetical term, vii. 17. Con- trast, 1344 and 1898. ii. 525. " Corn-bote " in Barbour's 'Bruce,' x. 115. County nicknames, iv. 17. Cow-rake, its meaning, iii. 236. Cowslip, its local names, iii. 138. Creak, vi. 105. Crex = white bullace, i. 117. D for th in Middle English, x. 321. Date wanted, vii. 96. Decade, in French calendar, iii. 253. " Dressed up to the nines," i. 57. Dude, its pronunciation, vii. 15. Dukes, the, stablemen's
term, v. 92. Dyddian'r Cwn, iv. 277. Elizabethan
poem, xi. 13. English, its antiquity, ii. 261.
English accent v. etymology, vi. 267. Epitaphs,
iii. 192. Etymology and whist, vii. 23. Euchre,
xii. 484. Fetch, iv. 545. Filbert, ix. 177. Flag,
the British, v. 457; vi. 17. "Flea in the ear,"
xii. 67. Folks, xi. 470. Foresteal: forestall, xii.
371. Frabbed, its meaning, vii. 53. Galingall,
plant-name, iii. 257. Gallimaufry, its etymology,
vi. 4.08 ; vii. 36. Gambaleery, its meaning, iii. 237.
Gavel and shieling, their etymologies, v. 85, 271.
Ghost- words, ii. 341, 406, 485 ; iii. 2. Gillery, its
meaning, ii. 312. Gleek, an old card game, x. 4.
Goal and gaol, vi. 290. Gothic spaurds, v. 345.
Goudhurst, in Kent, i. 374, 472 Grammatical
usage, v. 360, 421. Greek pronunciation, ix. 475.
" Green-eyed monster," v. 65. Grosvenor manu-
scripts, v. 424. -Halgh termination, ii. 115. Haw-
thorn, xii. 334, 472. Help : " To help," followed
by an infinitive, vi. 30. Hernsew, Heron, their ety-
mology,!. 354; ii. 4, 293. Honi, its spelling, ii. 366.
Housen, its etymology, iv. 278. Hoy, iv. 53.
-Ington termination, iii. 314. Innes=de Insula,
iii. 335. Janissary, its etymology, iv. 14. " Jeber's
cooks," vii. 238. Jibba, its etymology, ii. 282.
Keats : sloth, xi. 232, 277. Key and kay,
iii. 371. King's Weigh House, xi. 272. "La
fe endrycza al sobieran ben," v. 421. Lair and
lairage, i. 176. Latin quotation, xi. 14. Lease,
terms in ancient, v. 344. Letters, Old English,
i. 258; ii. 336. License or licence, iii. 333.
' Lifetime's Work,' v. 2. Lion, its etymology, ii.
146. Lord's Prayer in the twelfth century, x. 496.
Ludgersall, x. 376. Macabaa, a kind of snuff, vi.
234. Magerful, its meaning, vi. 278. Maize, its
native country, xi. 409. Margiowlet, its etymology,
vi. 275. Marsouin, iv. 257, 352. Maundeville
(Sir John) on orange peel, v. 321. May- water, its
meaning, vii. 276. Mazame, its etymology, vi. 206.
Mend the fire, iv. 488. Merry, prefix to place-
names, i. 277. Messuage, origin of the word, v.
411. Minutes and seconds, iii. 71. Mole, iv. 377.
Mollond, its meaning, iii. 190. Morning " betuix
midday and nicht," ii. 152. Mug : To mug, xii.
57. News, its derivation, vi. 188. A'g, its pro-
nunciation, x. 266. Nimmet, iv. 506. " No deaf
nuts" v. 400. Oof, its origin, iv. 166, 314.
Orsidue, iv. 330. Outlander, iv. 465. Owl, xi. 517.
Owl-light, xi. 452. Palmer, its meaning, vii. 52.
Papaw, its origin, v. 32. Pa wky= cunning, crafty,
vi. 498. Pay, East Anglian pronunciation, i. 178.
Peas, pease, and peasen, iii. 95. Peat, its etymo-
logy, iii. 483 ; iv. 113. Peckham Rye, i. 33.
Petar or petard, x. 312. Petigrewe, its etymology,
v. 172. " Pig-a-back," ii. 497. Piggin, its etymo-
logy, ii. 85 ; iii. 157. Pillow-ber, xi. 393. Pine-
apple, its etymology, v. 402. Pitched battle, vii.
32. Poem, early English, iii. 295. Poldavy, xii.
104. Popple, xi. 117. Pronunciation, xii. 392.
Rat-rime, its meaning, iii. 395. Recchelees, its
meaning, vi. 463. Rhyme, its etymology, i. 344.
Richard I [.: Froissart, xii. 508. Rotten Row, its
derivation, i. 372 ; ii. 17. Rounds or rungs, ii. 430,
530 j iii. 116, 295. Rue, its meaning, vi. 245.
Rummer, its etymology, iii. 77. Saints in Lindsay's
