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Show SI S St1'L1QuUosE. }a(/'. [from filigua, Latin, aving a pod or capfula St'Liquous All the tetrapetalous fi[l.it(':/L plants are alkalefArbuthuot cente [yeolc, Saxon. StLk. n / 1. The thread of the wor that turns af terwards te a butterfly The worms were hallow'd that did breed the fi/k And it was dyed in mummy Conferv'd of maidens hearts which the fkilfu Shakefpeare's Othello 2, The ftuff made of the worms thread Let not the creaking of fhoes, or ruftling of /ilks Shakefpeare betray thy poor heart to woman He caufed the fhore to be covered with Perfia Knolles JSilk for him to tread upon Without the worm, in Perfian fi/ks we fhine Waller S1"LKEN. adj. [from fik. 1. Made of filk Their counfel turns to pafiion, which befor Would give preceptial medicine to rage Now will we revel it With filken coats, and caps, and golden rings. Shak Wettin 2. Soft weeps, and words addrefs'd feem tears dif folv'd the borders of her filken veil Milton tender Full many a lady fair, in court full of Beholding them, h m f{:cretly envide And wifh'd that two fuch fans, fo fi/ken {oft And golden fair, her love would her provide Spenfer All the youth of England are on fire And filken dalliance in the wardrobe lies Shakefp. Henry V For then the hills with pleafing fhades are crown'd And fleeps are fweeter on the filken ground. Dryd Drefs up virtue in all the beauties of oratory and you will find the wild paflions of men too vio fent to be reftrained by fuch mil guage and fi/ken lan Watt on the Mind 3. Drefled in filk And fleth his fpirit in a warlike foil Mocking the air with colours idly fpread probably derive fro ¢fil, in old Englith, winegar; ¢fil a bouc winegar for the mouth, vinegar made plea fant.] - Curd vinegar mad by milkin upo SiLkME'RCER. #. [ [ filk and mercer.] dealer in filk Sivkwea'veRr . [0 [ filk and aweaver. One whofe trade is to weave filken manufactures True Englifh hate your monfieurs paltry arts For you are all fi/k-aveavers in your hearts. Dryd ‘The Chinefe are ingenious fi/k-wveavers. Watts St'LxworwM. n. [ [ filk and worm. worm that {pins filk Th Grafshoppers eat up the green of whole coyntries and filk-woryms devour leaves fwiftly Bacon's Natural Hiftory Broad were the banners, and of fnowy hue fi/k-woorm never drew St'Lky. adj. [from filk. 1. Made of filk 2. Soft; pliant Dryden She trips to milk the fand-red cow Where, for fome fturdy foot-ball fwain Harbour more craft, and more corrypter ends Than twenty filky ducking obfervant Shak, K. Lear That ftretch their duties nicely Stie, n /. [ryl, Saxon; fueil, French Jille, Dutch.] The timber or ftone at th foot of the door The farmer's goofe Grown fat with corn, and fitting ftill Can fcarce get,o'er the barn-doo fil Wotton A feaft By fome rich farmer's wife and fifter dreft Might be refembled to a fick man's dream Where all ideas huddling run fo faft St'vriny. adw. [from filly. manner; fimply; foolifhly I wonde Did till we lov' But fuck'd o Or flumber'd w We are caugh I Suwift piteou intiv a fill L'Efrange 'tis a decen Dryden S1'LrLinEss. #. /. [from f#/ly.] Simplicity weaknefs ; harmlefs folly The fillinefs of the perfon does not derogate fro the dignity of his characer L Eftrange S1'LLy adj [felig, German Skinner. 1. Harmlefs; innocent; inoffenfive; plain artlefs 2. Weak ; helplefs In Qumber ,cIPo's'd hc:;?::f}:,‘:;;fn"'m bark was toffed fore I do at length defcry the happy thore Spenfer to throw off Savift Such parts of writings as are ftupid or fi/ly, falf or miftaken, fhould become fubjets of occafiona criticifm Watts He is the companion of the fillieft people i their moft /i/ly pleafure; he is ready for every impertinent entertainment and diverfion n. / [perhap Law from yeliz happy, and heopz, the head.] The membrane that covers the head of the feetus Great conceits are raifed of the membranous co vering called the fillybszv, fometimes found abou the heads of children upon their birth Brown's Vulgar Errours 7 / Mud Several trecs of oa below the moor, nea covered by inundation e'urth exaggerated upo S1'LvaN. adj full of woods flime and fir ftand in firm eart Thorny, in all probabilit and the £'z and moorif them Hale [from filva, Lat. Woody {\ppr:;trs z\buvcz and groves for cver green [reolpen Saxon LR Putmy filver cup in the fack's mouth Ge el se l he The Jilver-fhafted goddefs of the pace Pope 1lrrfl 2. White like filver pi k. Of all the race of Silver-winged flie Was none more favourable, nor more fai 7. i 5 Old Salifbury, thame to thy filver hair, Thou mad mifleader of thy brain-f ck fo:h Shak The great in honour are not always wife Nor judgment under_filver treffes lics Sandys Others on filver lakes and rivers bath' " Mil 3. Having a pale luftre So fweet a kifs the golden fun gives no To thofe frefh morning drops upon the rofe, As thy eye-beams, when their freth rays hag {mot i The night of dew that on my cheeks down floy Nor fhines the filver moon one half fo bright Through the tranfparent bofom of the deep As doth thy face through tears of mine light Shakefpeare 4. Soft of voice This phrafe is Italian voce argenting noife Of their fweet inftruments were wont to found An th' hollow hills, from which their floer voices ‘Were wont redoubled echoes to rebound Did now rebound with nought but rueful cries And yelling fkrieks thrown up into the fkies, §pe 7o S1'LVER. @, @, [from the noun. 1. To cover fuperficially with filver Dryd filver Waits's Logick Shakefpear Silver'd o'er, and fo was this The fplendour of filver is more pleafing to fome an eyes than that of gold; as in cloth of flver Sfilvered rapiers .~ Bao . Silvering will fully and canker more thantlM _ Inge gA gilder fhewed me a ring flvered over wit mercurial fumes, which he was then to reftore its native yellow By 2. To adorn with mild luftre Here retir'd, the finking billows flee And fmiling calmnefs filver'd o'er the deep. Po SI'LVERBEATER . /. [/iver and bm One that foliates filver 4ic Silverbeaters chufe the fineft coin, as thatW f 9 "~is-maft extenfive under the hammer. . SI'LVERLING. m /i A filvercom A thoufand vines, at a thoufand fil"{"l'"gf.' 2 be for briars and thorns [[amb,_‘éfi'_ SULvERLY. adv. [from filver.] W appearance of filver Let me wipe off this honourable de That filverly doth progrefs on thy cheeks St'LVvERSMITH . [ [filver and./'".l One that works in filver Demetrius afi/fvaj}niib, made {hrines for Diande St #. / A V u b [acan gare, Latin.] A plant S1'LVERWEED, 7. /s [argenting plant "Sha .' Lat A 1. Silver is a white and hard metal, next i weight to gold chce had the huntrefs Dia ;;'éfi;.';;'?fliflf ¥air filver-thafted queen for ever chafte 5;; S'LVERTHISTLE Betwixt two rows of rocks, a filvan fcen SULver. . / Dutch. . © There be fools alive, I wis The meaneft fubje&ts cenfure the a®ions of th greateft prince; the fl/ieff fervants, of the wifef mafter Temple I have no difcontent at living here 3 befides wha arifes from a filly fpirit of liberty, which I refolv Sr'LuyHow filyer it is my love that calls upon my name How filwer fweet found lovers tongues by night! Like fofteft mufick to attending cars Shakd After long ftorms In dread of death and dangerous difmay With which my St celay. ‘Their downy breaft much what thou and ? were we not wean'd till then childifh pleafures fi//ily in the feven {leepers den? Donre as fil/ily as the bird in the net Do, do, look fi//ily, good colonel melancholy after an abfolute defeat SiLT Thefe kinds of knaves, in plainnefs Pallas Than Clarion Joan takes her feat rubb'd pail, and no Milton Shakefpeare's King Fobn And hardly waddles forth mor Perhaps their loves, or elfe their theep Was that did their /iy thoughts fo bufy keep A cocker'd, filken wanton, brave our fields A purer web th It feem 3. Foolith; witlefs Shall a beardlefs boy And find no check labubs are commonly drunk through {pout, out of a jug with a large belly That fillabubs come firft, and foups the laft. King Fetter {trong madnefs in a filken thread Charm ach with air, and agony with words. Shak 2. Any thing of foft fplendayr nius omits it. Henfhaw, whom Skinner 3. Money made o S ' VER, adj follows, deduces it from the Dutch fulle, 1. Made of filver a pipe, and duyck, a paunch ; becaufe fil Joan ftrokes a fillabub or twain Men counfel and give comfort to that grie Which they themfelves not reel 5 but tatting it Sh Sy'vrarvus. n /i [This word has exercifed the etymologifts. Minfheww think it corrupted from Jwillingbubbles. Fu SILVERY 'Yy NR 'r‘li L |