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See Skean. Drayton.

A little dell or valley; a flat piece of low, moist ground. [Obs.] Drayton.

A narrow channel of water. [R.] The Celtic Sea, called oftentimes the Sleeve. Drayton.

In a slovenly, or hurried and imperfect, manner. [Low] Drayton.

The qualities and practices of a slut; sluttishness; slatternlines. Drayton.

Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton.

Splendid. Drayton.

Spleenish. [Obs.] Drayton.

To spurt or shoot in a scattering manner. [Obs.] Drayton.

. . "I must stalk," said he. Bacon. One underneath his horse, to get a shoot doth stalk. Drayton.

A kind of high rustic shoe. [Obs.] Drayton. A startuppe, or clownish shoe. Spenser.

as disputants. [Obs.] Which [question] violently they pursue, Nor stickled would they be. Drayton.

Abounding in streams, or in water. "The streamful tide." Drayton.

of liquor or broth; a little taken with the lips; a sip. Tom Thumb had got a little sup. Drayton.

Excellent in an uncommon degree; very excellent. Drayton.

To reckon; to compute; to suppose; to impute. [Obs.] Drayton.

Abounding in surges; surgy. "Tossing the surgeful tides." Drayton.

To welter; to soak. [Obs.] Drayton.

To pass with pomp; to sweep. [Obs.] Drayton.

is by a synecdochical kind of speech, or by a poetical liberty, in using one for another. Drayton.