Oncques amour, & seigneurie ne se tindrent compagnie: Prov. True loue, and lordlinesse neuer held correspondencie; friendship, and lordship agree not long together. Plein poing de seigneurie vaut cinq sols l'an: Prov. Honour without profit is like a six-pennie rent to one that hath nothing else to liue on.
Seigneurier. To seigniorize, rule, sway, gouerne, domineere, play the Lord, haue power ouer.
Seille: f. A Paile, or Bucket.
Seillon: m. A ridge, or (high) furrow; also, the gutter, or hollow furrow made by a plough in the turning of it vp; also, a butt, or land, consisting of diuers of those ridges, or furrowes; also, the narrow trench, reyne, or furrow, left betweene butt and butt for the drayning thereof.
Seillonné: m. ée: f. Furrowed; made into furrowes, ridges, butts, &c; also, plowed vp, diuided, cut or clouen asunder, as the sea by a ship.
Seillonner. To furrow; to plough, or turne vp into ridges, furrowes; butts; reynes, or narrow trenches; also, to diuide, cut, or cleaue asunder; whence; Seillonner la mer. To sayle; to cut, or part (as a ship vnder sayle) the waues of the sea. Seillonner vne presse de gens. To make a lane, or giue a furious charge, through a close batallion, or preße of people.
Seime de vin. The flower, or coat of wine; the white stuffe that floats on the top of it being in Caske.
Sein: m. The bosome; the lap; also, the inward mind, or thought; the height, or depth of the heart, or affection; also, a gulfe, creeke, nooke, angle or arme of the sea, or of a riuer; and, the turning, or hollownesse of a waterbanke; also, seame, tallow, or suet; also, a freckle, or mole; also, a signe manuell; or as Sing, in the former sences. Cette femme a du sein. This woman wants no dugs, no bulke, no bombast; she is simply vnderlayed.
Seine: f. A verie great and long fish-net called, a Seane; also, a circuit, or compasse.
Seing. Looke Sing. Sejour: m. A lingering, stay, leisure, delay; also, residence, tarriance, a remaining or soiourning in one place; also, a place of residence, or for abode; a place to soiourne, rest, or stay in. Fol de sejour. An idle fellow, one that hath little to doe.
Sejourné. Lingered, soiourned, stayed, remained, resident in a place. Vn homme sejourné. Refreshed by rest, or leisure-taking, and thereby the more fit to returne vnto his former toyle.
Sejourner. To soiourne, tarrie, stay, remaine, be resident in; to pawse, linger, delay, take leisure; to intermit either studie, or other imployment; to make holyday; also, to leaue, let stay, giue leisure vnto.
Seissete: f. A kind of pale-red wheat.
Seizain: m. A quarter of an ounce; or, the 64 part of a pound (weight.)
Seize. Sixteene.
Sel: m. Salt.
Sel alcali, ou alkali. A salt made of the ashes of the hearbe Glassewort, or Saltwort, burned with diuers other hearbes (in lesse quantitie.)
Sel ammoniac, ou armoniac. Salt Ammicke; a medicinable drug resembling stone Allum, and found in long flakes vnder the Cyrenian sand.
Sel gemmé. A transparent, and shining minerall salt,
gotten in Calabria, and Capadocia. Sel Indien, ou d'Inde. The onely sugar, which Dioscorides, and other auncient writers were acquainted with; distilling of it selfe from the canes, like a gumme, in little peeces, and thus tearmed, because resembling gray salt. Sel de Languedoc. White salt, fine salt. Sel de Lezard. A medicinable, and comfortable salt, comming of a Lizard (in Summer) beheaded, bowelled, stuffed with salt, and layed in a shadie place vntill he be dry. Sel marin. Salt made of sea-water; or, our ordinarie gray salt. Sel mineral. as Sel gemmé; (and yet one kind of it, gotten in the Countie of Tirolis, neither shines, nor is transparent, but resembles a reddish Marble.) Sel nitre. Niter; Looke Nitre. Sel de pierre. Salt-peeter; called so by Chymists. Sel de Poictou, & de Ponant. Blacke salt, gray salt. Sel sacerdotal. A powder compounded of two ounces and a halfe of Salt, foure ounces of fine Cynnamon, Ameos, Siler Mountaine, Hysope, wild Marierome, and Penniroyall, of each halfe an ounce; all dryed together; this purges the bodie, consumes flegme, stops the cough, clenses the eyes, sweetens the breath, eases the teeth, appeases headache, preserues youth, and giues vigor to old age (if some Phisitions may be beleeued.) Sel sel. An oyle that commeth from Hearbe-salt, or Sel-alcali, first calcinated, then beaten to powder, and set on a peece of glasse in a moist cellar. Sel viperin. A medicinable salt, made of a liue Viper, ordinarie salt, honey, and dry figges, inclosed, and with fat earth stopped vp, in a new earthen pot, and then baked in a furnace vnto a consistence of coales. Escume de sel. Sea-foame salt; comes of water left by a tempestuous, and foaming sea in the holes of rockes, and there congealed and turned into salt by the Sunne. Fleur de sel. A brackish foame or skumme that floates on the riuer Nilus, and on certaine Lakes; of colour yellow, fat or oylie of consistence, and vnpleasant in tast; the right (for it is often sophisticated with a kind of red earth) cannot be resolued but in oyle; the false one melts, and looses colour, in water. Violet de sel. A certaine rustie colour which tasteth like to La Fleur de sel. Doux de sel. A fresh-man, shallow, vnaduised, of little experience, a nouice, one thats not acquainted with the course of the world. Sans sel. Fresh, vnsauorie, vnseasoned, foolish, idle, without grace. Manger à vn grain de sel. Seeke Manger. Prendre son sel. To take his liquor soundly. C'est vn banquet de diables ou il n'y a point de sel: Pro. The feast that wanteth salt is fit for deuills. Qui envoye chetif à la mer il n'en rapporte poisson, ne sel: Pro. He that imployes a knaue (or a foole) either looses, or gaines but a little.
Selenite. A light, white, and transparent stone, easily cleft into thin flakes, whereof the Arabians, among whom it growes, make their glaße, and glasen windowes.
Selerin. Looke Celerin. Selle: f. A saddle. Cheval entre deux selles. A horse of a middle size.
Selle: f. A stoole, or seat; (any ill fauored, ordinarie, or countrey stoole, of a cheaper sort then the ioyned, or buffet-stoole;) also, a (purgatiue) stoole, or the excrement voided at a stoole.
Selle percée. A chaire of easement, a close-stoole.
