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  Attacher la sonnette à l'oreille du chat. as Mettre la campane au chat, vnder Chat. À fol ne faut point de sonnette: Prov. A foole needs neither bell nor bable; his words, and actions quickly will discouer him.

Sonoreux: m. euse: f. Sonorous, lowd, shrill, roring, ringing.

Sont. Messieurs de non sont. Imperfect, or pricklesse men.

Sophie: f. Wisedome; also, the hearbe called Laxwort, Flixwort, or Flixweed; also, the Dace, or Dare-fish.

Sophisme: m. A sophisme, fallacie, tricke of sophistrie; a sophistication; cauill, or quidditie.

Sophiste: m. A Sophister; a cunning, or cauilling disputer.

Sophisterie: f. Sophistrie; a cunning, or captious arguing.

Sophistiqué: m. ée: f. Sophisticated, adulterated, falsified; also, cunningly handled, or cauillingly vttered.

Sophistiquement: m. A sophisticating, adulterating, falsifying.

Sophistiquer. To sophisticate, falsifie, counterfeit, adulterate, corrupt; also, to play the Sophister, dispute subtilly, argue cunningly; to deceiue.

Sophistiquerie: f. Sophistrie, argute cauilling, subtile cunning; also, a sophisticating, adulterating, counterfeiting.

Soporal: m. ale: f. Sleepie, of or in sleepe.

Soporifere: com. Soporiferous, sleepe-procuring.

Soprefin: m. Superfine, thred of gold, or siluer.

Sor. la pipée du sor. The season wherein the weather growes cold.

Sor. Faulcon sor. A soare Hawke. Harenc sor. A red Herring.

Sorbition: f. A supping; also, broth, cale, pottage.

Sorceler. To charme, inchaunt, forspeake, bewitch.

Sorcelerie: f. Sorcerie, charming, inchaunting.

Sorcellage: m. The same.

Sorcier: m. A Sorcerer, Charmer, Inchaunter, Wizard.

Sorciere: f. A Sorceresse, Inchauntresse, Charmereße, Hag, Witch.

Sordide: com. Sordide; foule, filthie, corrupt, stinking, nastie, sluttish; vile, naughtie, base; also, pinching, miserable, miching, nigardlie, close-handed, full of, or giuen to, paultrie dodging.

Sordidement. Filthily, nastily, naughtily; basely, miserably, for (deere) lucres sake.

Soré: m. ée: f. Reeked, made red or sorrell, as a Herring by the smoake.

Sorel: m. The hearbe Sorrell, or Sowre-docke. Sorel du bois. Stubwort, sowre Trefolie, Cucko-meat, Alleluia, wood Sorrell, wood Sowre.

Sorer. To reeke; to drie, or make red (as Herrings) in the smoake.

Sori. Looke Souris. Soriciere: f. A Mousetrap.

Soringue: f. Eele sauce made of fried Onions, and toas-*bread steeped in Pease broth, then strayned with wine, vinegar, Cinnamon, Ginger, and other spices, all put into a pot with the Eeles cut into peeces, and (after a little seasoning with Saffron, and salt) throughly boyled.

Soriser. To Mouse, or hunt Mice like a Cat; also, as Sorer. Sorisseau: m. A little Mouse.

Sorissiere: f. A Mousetrap.

Sorne: f. The euening.

Sorner. To ieast, boord, frumpe, gull, sell bargaines, speake merrily, talke idly.

Sornette: f. A ieast, boord, merrie word, sportfull conceit, pleasant speech; a tale, fib, foist , mockerie, gullerie.

Sornetteux: m. euse: f. Full of ieasts, or pleasant conceits; that loues, or vses to tell merrie tales.

Sororge: m. A brother in law; the husband of a sister.

Sororité: f. Sisterhood.

Sorrat: m. A great, short-snowted, sharpe-toothed, and most rauenous Hound-fish.

Sort: m. A lot, or lotterie; also, fate, lucke, hazard, fortune, chance, casualtie; also, a charme, incantation, or spell; also, the stocke, or principall of money in banke, or at vse.

Sortable: com. Sortable, euen, fit or befitting, sutable, equall, proportionable.

Sortablement. Sortably, fitly, befitting, sutably, proportionably.

Sorte: f. Sort, manner, forme, fashion, kind, qualitie, condition, calling. De sorte que. So that. Chascun demande sa sorte: Prov. Each to his kind, as words to wind.

Sorti: m. ie: f. Issued, gone or burst out; also, deliuered or brought out of; also, furnished, or fitted with. Sorti de fil, & d'aiguille. Fully prouided of all necessaries. Sorti de mauvaise femme. Vnhappily matched, pestered or troubled with an euill wife.

Sortie: f. An issue, egresse, going forth.

Sortilege: m. Witchcraft, or diuination by lots.

Sortir. To issue, sallie, come forth, goe beyond, depart or goe out of; also, to assort, furnish, or fit with; also, to deliuer, or bring, out of. Sortir effect. To succeed, or take effect. Sortir des gonds. To flie off the hindges; to be impatient, violent, ouer vehement, break into outrage or extreame tearmes, forget his duetie or himselfe. Sortir hors de propos. To digresse, wander, extrauagate it, fall from the matter, goe from the purpose. Il ne peut sortir du sac que ce qu'il y a dedans: Prov. You can haue no more of him then there is in him.

Sosmes: m. Vassalls, tenants: ¶Bearnois. Sot: m. A sot, aße, dunce, dullard, blockhead, loggerhead, growtnoll, iobernoll, growthead, ioultheat ]; also, a foole, or vice in a play; and, any fond, vaine, or trifling fellow. Va ailleurs cercher ton sot. Looke for some other to laugh at, I am not the gull you looke for. Le fol est sot quant & quant, mais tout sot n'est pas fol: Prov. The foole is sure ynough a sot, but euery sot's no foole. Quand les febves sont flories, les sots commencent leurs folies: Prov. In Cuckoe-time when Beanes doe flower, the cracke-braind fooles build vp their bower.

Sot: m. sotte: f. Sottish, dull, dunsicall; grosse, absurd, improper; foolish, fond, vaine, friuolous; wanton, lasciuious.
  De sot homme on n'en peut faire vn bon conte: Prov. An asse does nothing worth the speaking of.
  De sot homme sot songe: Prov. The dreames of fops are but meere fopperies.
  Femme sotte se cognoist à la cotte: Prov. The robes that women doe array, their priuate fooleries bewray.