SIDE SLEEVES.

These are a side that would be glad to have This true which they so seem to fear.

Coriolanus, iv. 6.

SIDE SLEEVES. Hanging sleeves.

Set with pearls down sleeves, side sleeves, and
skirts round underborne with a bluish tinsel.
Much Ado about Nothing, iii. 4.

SIEGE. Seat; bench; chair; rank; sort; kind.
Besides, upon the very siege of justice
Lord Angelo hath to the public ear
Profess'd the contrary. Measure for Measure, iv. 2.
'Tis yet to know,—

Which, when I know that boasting is an honour,
I shall promulgate,-I fetch my life and being
From men of royal siege.

Your sum of parts

Othello, i. 2.

SILLY. slight; rustic.

your offer, and will live with you, Provided that you do no outrages

King John, iii. 1.

Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief.

Macbeth, i. 5.

And pity

I take

SLAB.

To SKIRR. To scour; to scud.

'If they'll do neither, we will come to them, And make them skirr away, as swift as stones Enforced from the old Assyrian slings.

Henry 5, iv. 7. Send out more horses, shirr the country round.

Macbeth, v. 3. SKITTISH. Fickle; changeable; volatile.

Now expectation, tickling skittish spirits,
Sets all on hazard.

Troilus and Cressida, Prologue.
How some men creep in skittish fortune's hall,
While others play the idiots in her eyes!

SKYEY. Ethereal.

Ibid. iii. 3.

SLACK.

SLACK. Slow; remiss; negligent; short.
If you come slack of former services,
You shall do well; the fault of it I'll answer.
King Lear, i. 3.
And, being a woman, I will not be slack
To play my part in Fortune's pageant.

Henry 6, P. 2, i. 2.
Sir, I shall not be slack. Taming of the Shrew, i. 2.

TO SLACK. To neglect; to abate; to lessen.

My father Capulet will have it so;

And I am nothing slow to slack his haste.

Romeo and Juliet, iv. 1. What a beast am I to slack it!

Merry Wives of Windsor, iii. 4. If then they chanc'd to slack you, we could control them.

King Lear, ii. 4.