REFORMADOES, disgraced or disbanded soldiers.
REGULAR ("Tale of a Tub"), regular noun (quibble) (N.E.D.).
RELIGION, "make--of," make a point of, scruple of.
RESOLVE, inform; assure; prepare, make up one's mind; dissolve; come to a decision, be convinced; relax, set at ease.
RESPECTIVE, worthy of respect; regardful, discriminative.
REST, "set up one's--," venture one's all, one's last stake (from game of primero).
RETRIEVE, rediscovery of game once sprung.
RETURNS, ventures sent abroad, for the safe return of which so much money is received.
REVERBERATE, dissolve or blend by reflected heat.
REVERSE, REVERSO, back-handed thrust, etc., in fencing.
RING, "cracked within the--," coins so cracked were unfit for currency.
RONDEL, "a round mark in the score of a public-house" (Nares); roundel.
ROUND, "gentlemen of the--," officers of inferior rank.
ROUND TRUNKS, trunk hose, short loose breeches reaching almost or quite to the knees.
ROVER, arrow used for shooting at a random mark at uncertain distance.
RUDE, RUDENESS, unpolished, rough(ness), coarse(ness).
RUSH, reference to rushes with which the floors were then strewn.
RUSHER, one who strewed the floor with rushes.
RUSSET, homespun cloth of neutral or reddish-brown colour.
ST. THOMAS A WATERINGS, place in Surrey where criminals were executed.
SAVOUR, perceive; gratify, please; to partake of the nature.
SCALD, word of contempt, implying dirt and disease.
SCANDERBAG, "name which the Turks (in allusion to Alexander the Great) gave to the brave Castriot, chief of Albania, with whom they had continual wars. His romantic life had just been translated" (Gifford).
SCARTOCCIO, fold of paper, cover, cartouch, cartridge.
SCOT AND LOT, tax, contribution (formerly a parish assessment).
SEAL, put hand to the giving up of property or rights.
SEMINARY, a Romish priest educated in a foreign seminary.
SENSELESS, insensible, without sense or feeling.
SENSUAL, pertaining to the physical or material.
SEWER, officer who served up the feast, and brought water for the hands of the guests.
SHITTLE, shuttle; "shittle-cock," shuttlecock.
SHOT-CLOG, one only tolerated because he paid the shot (reckoning) for the rest.
SHOVE-GROAT, low kind of gambling amusement, perhaps somewhat of the nature of pitch and toss.