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conclusion, top, height, fulnesse, consummation, perfection of things. Chevaux de somme. Sumpter-horses, or Carriers horses. Somme toute. In briefe, to conclude. Servir à sac, & à somme. To hold by vile, or drudging seruices; to be bound, by his tenure, to till his Landlords ground; to inne his corne and hay; to carrie his wine, and wood, &c.

Sommé: m. ée: f. Summed; summarily reckoned; also, summoned, or vouched; also, topped, furnished or coueuered at the top with; also, come, or growne, to it full height; whence; Les pennes d'un faulcon toutes sommées. Full summed, full growne; and; Teste de cerf sommée; C'est quand le cerf a tout ce qu'il doit porter. Sommeil: m. Sleepe; also, a slumbering.

Sommeillant: m. ante: f. Sleeping; sleepie.

Sommeillard: m. arde: f. Sleepie, drowsie, sluggish; negligent, slothfull, heauie-headed.

Sommeiller: m. A Butler.

Sommeiller. To sleepe; to slumber.

Sommeilleux: m. euse: f. Sleepie, drowsie, sluggish, heauie-headed, full of sleepinesse, much giuen to sleeping.

Sommelerie: f. A Butterie.

Sommer. To summe, reckon, or cast vp; to bring to a head, or conclusion; to make a summarie, or collection of; to fill vp to the top; also, to summon, denounce; giue notice of; and to vouch, call vpon, challenge warrantie of. Tant travaille, & tracasse l'homme, qu'en fin il se rompt, ou somme: Prov. A man so long doth toyle and swinke, till vnder his owne charge he sinke.

Sommet: m. The top, cop, height, or highest part of a thing; and hence, the ridge, or the roofe of a house; &, the crowne, or noddle of the head.

Sommette: f. A little summe, or summarie.

Sommier: m. A Sumpter-horse; (and generally any toyling, and load-carrying, drudge, or groome;) also, the peece of timber called a Summer; also, the Sound-boord of an Organ; also, a Trussing-hoope; the double hoope which is next aboue the head-hoope of a peece of caske, and which, being directly ouer the Croes, doth beare more stresse then all the rest of the hoopes. Sommiers. Be also, double hoopes; or hoopes put vpon the hoopes of a vessell, to strengthen them, and to indure, in carriage, all rushes without breaking them; also, the Ensigne-bearers of a marching Armie; tearmed so to put a difference betweene their toyle, and th' ease enioyed by the Roman Ensignes, who neuer held their Colours but when they were, or were set, in a readinesse to fight.

Sommission: f. A submission, an humbling.

Sommiste: m. A Summist; an imitator, or vnderstander, of Thomas Aquinas his summes.

Sommité: f. as Sommet; or, a Summitie, or highnesse.

Somnifique: com. Sleepe-causing. Morelle somnifique. Deathes hearbe, sleepie or deadlie Nightshade.

Somption: f. A taking, a receiuing.

Somptüaire: com. Sumptuarie, of or belonging to cost, breeding or bringing in expence.

Somptuëusement Sumptuously, costly, expensiuely, gorgeously, excessiuely.

Somptuëux: m. ëuse: f. Sumptuous, costlie, expensiue, gorgeous, magnificent, prodigall, excessiue.

Somptuosité: f. Sumptuousnesse, costlinesse, huge ex-*

*pence, prodigalitie, superfluitie, excessiueneße.

Son: m. Branne; (and thence) also, the scurfe, or little scales in the head, &c, called Dandarfe. Son gras. Pollard; or, branne that hath some small quantitie of meale among it. Son sec. Looke Sec. Son: m. A sound; voyce, noyse, dinne; tune, musicke, melodie. Son esclatant. A great crash, clash, crack, or creaking, a violent clap, a resounding bounce or thumpe. C'est le son des cloches. (Said of a thing that may with ease be diuersified, or altered seuerall wayes.) Son: m. sa: f. His, hers, belonging vnto him or her.

Sonde: f. A Mariners sounding plummet; also, a squirt, or siringe; and, an instrument whereby virginitie is tried. Aller tousiours la sonde en main. To proceed aduisedly, to goe warily to worke.

Sonder. To sound, proue, trie, feele, search the depth, or bottome of.

Sondre. The Linden tree; Looke Soudre. Songe: m. A dreame. Songes sont mensonges: Prov. Dreames are delusions. De sot homme sot songe: Prov. A foolish man hath foolish dreames.

Songé: m. ée: f. Dreamed.

Songeant. Dreaming, or in a sleepie vision.

Songeard: m. A continuall dreamer, or a dreaming fellow.

Songeard: m. arde: f. Dreaming, of or in a dreame.

Songe-creux: m. One that's in his dumps, or in a brown studie; also, a dreaming, sleepie, or heauie-headed gull.

Songe-malice: m. An imaginer of mischiefe, a continuall plotter of villanies.

Songer. To dreame; also, to speake dreamingly; also, to plot, contriue, deuise, inuent; imagine. Songer creux. To muse exceedingly, meditate seriously, thinke verie much vpon. Tousiours truye songe bran: &, Truye ne songe qu'ordure: Prov. Looke Truye. Songeur: m. A dreamer. Vous me logez (ou vous me mettez bien) chez Guillot le songeur. You make me search all the corners of my wit; you driue me into a great dumpe, or a great studie.

Songner. Looke Soigner. Songneusement. Carefully, thoughtfully.

Sonnaille: f. A little bell; and particularly, the bell hung about the necke of a Weather, or heard-beast.

Sonnaillerie: f. A tinkling, or the tingling of a little bell.

Sonnaillier: m. ere: f. Carrying a bell; whence; Mouton sonnaillier. A Bell-weather.

Sonnalier. The same.

Sonner. To sound, noise, tune, ring, resound; to ting as a bell, strike as a clocke, chinke or gingle as money; also, to call. Sonner les sings; &, sonner la tuile; Looke vnder Sing, & Tuile. Sonnerie: f. A sounding, tuning, ringing, resounding; a tinging, chinking, gingling.

Sonnet: m. A sonnet, or canzonet, a song (most commonly) of 14 verses.

Sonnette: f. A little bell, Antham bell, Sans or sacring bell; any small tinging bell; as the bell about the necke of a Bell-weather, &c; whence, Moutō à la sonnette.