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Safreté. Looke Saffreté. Safrette. Looke Saffrette. Sagapen, & Sagapene, & Sagapin. The gumme, or hardned and gummie iuice, of the bruised, cut, or broken root of Ferula, or Fennel-gyant.

Sage: com. Sage, wise, discreet, aduised, vnderstanding. Elle est bien sage. She is verie honest. ¶Orlean. Faire sage de. To informe, certifie, let to wit, giue to vnderstand. Chascun est sage apres le coup: Prov. An after-wit is euerie bodies wit; any man can tell, after a blow giuen, how it might haue beene auoided. En defaut de sage monte vn fol en chaire: Prov. A foole, for want of better, doth step vp and preach; vndertakes the businesse; vndergoes the charge. Femme sage, & de façon de peu remplit sa maison: Pro. Looke Femme. Fols sont sages quand ils se taisent: Pro. Fooles are held wise as long as they are silent. Il n'est si sage qui ne folie aucunes-fois: Prov. The wisest man doth sometimes play the foole. Le plus sage se taist: Pro. The wisest sayes the least. Les plus sages faillent souvent en beau chemin: Prov. The wisest often erre in plainest matters. On revient sage des iours: Pro. In time one gets experience. Vn fol advise bien vn sage: Pro. A foole may sometimes giue the wise aduise.

Sagemener. Looke Sacmenter. Sagement. Sagely, wisely, discreetly, aduisedly.

Sageraut. Wise, warie, discreet, well aduised, of great experience.

Sagesse: f. Sageneße, wisedome, knowledge, discretion,vnderstanding. Dens de sens, & de sagesse. The tenne iaw-teeth. Mortier de sagesse. Looke Mortier. Voila vne belle sagesse. That was a worthie wise act; the verie creame of Apolloes braine-panne. Mieux vaut vne once de fortune qu'un livre de sagesse: Pro. An ounce of lucke excells a pound of wit.

Saget: m. ette: f. Prettie and sage, indifferently wise.

Sagette: f. An arrow, or shaft; also, the Ditch-weed called, Arrow-head, or water-Archer.

Sagetté: m. ée: f. Shot, pierced, or transfixed with arrowes.

Sagetter: To hit, strike, pierce, transfix, or shoot through with arrowes.

Saggotter. To ioult, rudely to shog or shake.

Sagitale: Looke Sagittale. Sagitelle: f. The Launcet wherewith a Surgeon openeth veines, and impostumes.

Sagittaire: m. An Archer, Bowman, Shooter; and hence, the heauenlie Archer, or Signe Sagittarius. Sagittale. Commissure sagittale. The seame which runnes along on the top of the head, and distinguishes the right side of it from the left.

Sagmenter. Looke Sacmenter. Sagnie: f. A bundle of the slender staulkes of sea-graße, or of other sea-weedes, wrapped close together, and throwne, by the working of the sea, vpon the shore. ¶Langued. Sagoin, & Sagouin. A little Marmoset; and thence, a little crackrope, slip-string, knauish wag, vnhappie lad.

Sahuc: m. A Sallow tree, the Goats Willow tree.

Saïe. Looke Saye.

Saiffe: f. The Dace, or Dare fish.

Saigné: m. ée: f. Blouded, let bloud.

Saignée: f. Phlebotomie, bloud-letting; also, Dogs-grasse, Couch-grasse, Quitch-grasse. Selon la jambe la saignée: Prov. Let bloud according to the bodies fullneße, or strength; subiects, or tenants would not be drawne too dry.

Saigner. To bleed; also, to let bloud. Saigner du nez. His heart to faint, or fayle him; cowardly to flinch, fearefully to quayle, at; to clap his tayle betweene his legs, to set vp his crauen feathers (for much bleeding cooles the heart, and he thats cold at the heart must needs be fearefull.) Saigner la terre. To till, or breake vp ground in an vnfit season, as in a verie hard frost. Ie vous saigneray d'une autre veine. J will see what you can say in other matters; J will try, or put you to it, another way.

Saigneux: m. euse: f. Bloudie, full of bloud.

Sailleur: m. A leaper, iumper, &c; as Saulteur. Sailli. Gone out, issued forth; also, leaped on.

Saillicoque. Looke Salecoque. Saillie: f. A sallie, eruption, violent issue, or breaking out vpon; also, a leape, sault, bound, skip, iert; also, an eminence, iutting, or bearing out beyond others; any disordinate excesse, or excessiue out-standing. Saillie de maison. Any out-iutting roome, or part thereof; and particularly, an open gallerie, or terrace made without the wall, or hanging ouer it. Saillie de S. Mathurin. An odde, foolish, humorous, mad, giddie, fantasticall tricke. Saillie d'un os. A Processe; that part of it which, like a knob in a tree, stands out beyond the rest. Saillie d'une pierre precieuse. The imboßement of an enchaced pretious stone. Il a fait vne saillie. He hath runne too much riot; he hath made a foule fault; he was ill ouerseene, or too farre carried by hast, choller, passion, foolish or haire-braind affection. Il a les plus plaisantes saillies du monde. He vses the prettiest, oddest, and most extrauagant digressions that ever J heard.

Saillier: m. A sallie, eruption, digression, extrauagant flying out.

Saillir. To goe out, issue forth; appeare aboue, stand out beyond, others; also, to leape, iumpe, bound, skip, hop; also, to ride, or leape one another, as the male doth the female.

Sain: m. Seame; the tallow, fat, or grease of a Hog, or of a rauenous wild beast.

Sain: m. aine: f. Sound, whole, wholesome, healthfull, safe, in good plight, in good liking. Il se plaind de saine teste. He is troubled with store of good things; he complaines of ease. Hardiment parle teste saine: Prov. The wise, honest, or guiltleße, boldly speake.

Sainct: m. A Saint; a (canonized) holie man.
  Sainct de quaresine. One that liues strictly or deuoutly in Lent, and loosely or prophanely the whole yeare after; also, one that hides himselfe, or is no where to be found.
  Oublier Dieu parmy tous les saincts. To forget God amongst All-hallowes; amidst many trifling, to neglect his chiefest, occasions.
  Le sainct de la ville n'est point oré: Prov. Men least respect their owne, or that they are vsed to; our well-knowne patrons are the least implored.