Browse dictionary
Showing 1-20 of 101 results in 101 entries
1. aver-, comb. form View full entry 1253-1378
...? corn paid as a feudal due or in lieu of service....
2. ban, n.1 View full entry a1250
...A public proclamation or edict; a summons by public proclamation. Chiefly, in early use, a summons to arms....
3. banneret, n. View full entry 1297
...Originally, a knight able and entitled to bring a company of vassals into the field under his own banner, and who ranked next to a baron and above other knights: in this...
4. basket, n. View full entry a1300
...A vessel of wickerwork, made of plaited osiers, cane, rushes, bast, or other materials....
5. beg, v. View full entry ?c1225
...To ask alms or by way of alms....
6. bordage, n.1 View full entry a1300
...The tenure by which a bordar held his cot at the will of his lord; the services due from a bordar. (As an English word only in modern historians.)...
7. † bord-land, n. View full entry c1250
......
8. calendar, n. View full entry c1275
...The system according to which the beginning and length of successive civil years, and the subdivision of the year into its parts, is fixed; as the Babylonian, Jewish, Roman, or Arabic calendar....
9. capital, adj. and n.2 View full entry ?c1225
...Of or relating to the head or top. Obs....
10. cart, n. View full entry ?c1200
...A carriage of any kind; a chariot, car. Obs....
11. cave, n.1 View full entry c1220
...A hollow place opening more or less horizontally under the ground; a cavern, den, habitation in the earth....
12. centurion, n. View full entry c1275
...The commander of a century in the Roman army....
13. chamber, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A room or suite of rooms in a house, typically one allotted to the use of a particular person, a private room; (in later use) esp. a bedroom, typically on...
14. chief, n. View full entry 1297
...lit. The head (of the body). Obs.rare....
15. chivalry, n. View full entry 1297
...collect. Knights or horsemen equipped for battle....
16. chrysoprase, n. View full entry c1275
...The ancient name of a golden-green precious stone, now generally believed to have been a variety of the beryl, or to have included that among other stones of similar appearance. It was...
17. † ciclatoun, n. View full entry a1225
...A precious material much esteemed in the Middle Ages; in the first quot. perhaps ‘scarlet cloth’; in others it is cloth of gold or other rich material. Perh. sometimes, a robe or...
18. coast, n. View full entry a1300
...The side of the body (of men or animals); the part fortified by the ribs. †by my coste: by my side (quot. 1591). Obs....
19. collation, n. View full entry c1200
...A bringing together or collection, esp. of money; a contribution. Obs....
20. commendation, n. View full entry ?c1225
...Giving in charge, entrusting, committal....
