| abattle | trans. To fortify. Cf. embattle v. 3. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| abet | To encourage or assist (a person) to do something. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| abetment | Chiefly Law. The action or fact of encouraging, instigating, or assisting in a crime or other misdeed. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| abstain | refl. To keep or withhold oneself. Freq. with †of, from. Now rare. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| abushment | Ambushment, ambush. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| acoup | intr. With on. To strike with a weapon. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| aferrom | From afar; from a distance. Cf. afar adv. 1. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| afforce | By force; (also) of necessity; perforce. Cf. of force at force n. 19a. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| affray | The state of being frightened or alarmed; fear, terror. Freq. in in affray. Obs. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| affy | Reliance, trust (in a person). | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| afrayne | trans. To question. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| afront | Face to face, in direct opposition; opposite. Obs. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| ally | A relative, a relation; a kinsman or kinswoman. Now chiefly hist. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| amay | trans. and refl. To dismay. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| amblere | An amble or ambling pace. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| amountance | Amount, total extent. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| ananger | To anger exceedingly. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| anpeyn | refl. To put oneself to trouble, exert oneself, try with all one's might. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| antiquity | generally. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| apart | of motion. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| a-randoun | Violently, headlong, at full speed. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| astray | Out of the right way, away from the proper path, wandering. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| avaling | Descending, descent; declivity. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| avaunting | Boasting, self-glorification, vaunting. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| bale | A large bundle or package of merchandise, originally of more or less rounded shape; now, spec.… | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| barrace | A barrier or outwork in front of a fortress. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| barrier | orig. A palisade or stockade erected to bar the way of an enemy, or defend a gate or passage; an external defence. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| beckoning | The action of beckon v.; = preceding. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| bobance | Boasting, pride, pomp. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| brake | The winch of a crossbow (only in phrase bows of brake); hence a crossbow, ballista, or similar engine. Obs. exc. Hist. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| brushet | Underwood; a small thicket or covert. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| bushment | = ambushment n. 1. arch. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| button | trans. To furnish or adorn with buttons or knobs. (Usually in pa. pple.) | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| byfrap | trans. To beat about, thrash. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| camois | Of the nose: low and concave. Of persons: pug-nosed. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| ceiling | The wooden lining of the roof or walls of a room: panelling; wainscoting. Obs. Cf. ceil v. 2. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| chaussure | A general term for anything worn on the feet; shoes, boots, etc. (In quot. 1380 = hose of mail.) | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| chevachee | An expedition on horseback; a raid, campaign. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| coinage | The right of coining money. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| colourless | Of a person, or a person's complexion: lacking healthy colour; pale, pallid, wan. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| costrel | A vessel for holding or carrying wine or other liquid; a large bottle with an ear or ears… | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| cousin-german | The son or daughter of (one's) uncle or aunt; (one's) first cousin; = cousin n. 2. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| crested | Furnished, topped, or adorned with a crest; wearing or having a crest. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| curled | Formed into curls or ringlets, as hair. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| deeful | Variant of, or error for delful, doleful adj. n. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| demean | Of middle position, middle-class, middling. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| discolour | trans. To alter the proper or natural colour of; esp. to make of a duller, less pleasing… | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| discovert | Uncovered, exposed, unprotected. Obs. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| doggedly | In negative sense: cruelly, maliciously, spitefully. Obs. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| douce | Sweet, pleasant. (A well-known epithet of France, from Chanson de Roland onwards.) Obs. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| 'em | Originally the unstressed form of hem n., dat. and accus. 3rd pers. pl. The emphatic form… | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| embattle | To fortify (a building, town, etc.). Cf. embattle v.; in many passages it is impossible to say which verb is intended. Also fig. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| embrowd | trans. To embroider. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| en- | | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| enchase | trans. To drive away, banish; to hunt, pursue. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| endlonges | = endlong prep. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| engineer | A constructor of military engines; a person who designs and constructs military works… | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| enpayn | refl. To put oneself to pains; to exert oneself. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| entain | trans. To overtake, affect = attain v. 5. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| fale | App. = ‘comrade, fellow’. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| falsart | A bill-hook. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| feer | Bold, fierce; proud. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| fertee | Fierceness. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| fieldward | to the fieldward: in the direction of a field or the fields. Cf. fieldwards n. Obs. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| foin | trans. To thrust at, stab, pierce, prick. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| forche | In pl. Gallows. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| freckled | Spotted; dappled; variegated. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| gap | A breach in a wall or hedge, as the result of violence or natural decay. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| genouillere | A flexible piece of armour for covering the knees, with joints like those of a lobster. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| giantess | A she-giant; a woman of abnormal bulk and height. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| glister | intr. To sparkle; to glitter; to be brilliant. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| gonel | A long gown, worn over armour. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| hemen | Dative. To them. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| hugeness | The quality or condition of being huge; extraordinary greatness of bulk; immensity, vastness. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| humble | refl. To render oneself humble; to assume a humble attitude; to do obeisance, bow. arch. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| humily | = humbly adv. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| imagine | trans. To conceive in the mind as a thing to be performed; to devise, plot, plan.… | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| jambeau | A piece of armour for the leg; pl. leggings; a pair of jambes. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| jeu de dames | Esp. in French contexts: the game of draughts. Cf. dam n. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| knack | A sharp sounding blow, stroke, or rap. Cf. knap n. 1. Obs. rare. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| knal | A stroke, knock, esp. on the head. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| liverance | The action or process of setting free; deliverance, liberation, release. Cf. deliverance n.… | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| lyance | A group of persons related to or allied with another; = alliance n. 2a. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| malfeasor | An evildoer, a malefactor. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| marvel | trans. (impers.). me marvels: ‘it is a wonder or marvel to me’; ‘I marvel’ (in… | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| mass | trans. To form or gather into a mass; to collect, arrange, or bring together in masses; to… | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| mate | A companion, fellow, comrade, friend; a fellow worker or business partner. Also fig. Now chiefly colloq. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| may | trans. To dismay. Also intr.: to be dismayed. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| mew | trans. Of a bird, esp. a hawk: to moult or shed (its feathers). Formerly also in pass., with the bird as subject. Freq. fig. Obs. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| mewed | Of a hawk: that has moulted (this being taken as a measure of maturity). Later (occas.) of feathers: that have been shed. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| misbreyde | An offence or misdeed; wrongdoing. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| open-hair | Having the hair uncovered; bareheaded. Cf. open adj. 6. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| outstart | intr. To rush out suddenly, to spring or jump out; to protrude or project. Also occas. trans.: to go beyond. Now rare. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| out-taken | With simple prepositional object. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| pane | A section of a wall or fence, as the length between two posts, buttresses, angles, etc. Obs. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| pennon | A long narrow triangular or swallow-tailed flag, usually attached to the head of a lance… | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| perron | A large block or other stone structure, with or without steps, used as a platform, the base… | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| plunge | trans. To thrust, throw, or drop into or in a liquid, penetrable substance, deep pit, container, etc.; to immerse, to submerge. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| prance | To dance, gambol, caper. Now freq. with adverbial complement. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| rancour | Deep-rooted and bitter ill feeling; resentment or animosity, esp. of long standing; an instance of this. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| rape | Quickly, hastily, swiftly. In later use arch. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| ray | To arrange, dispose; to prepare, deal with. Obs. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| receiver | An official appointed by a government, landowner, etc., to receive tolls, rents, or… | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| recoiling | The action of recoil v. (in various senses); an instance of this. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| recommand | To commend to (also unto) God or his protection; = recommend v. 2c. Also refl. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| recueil | trans. To gather together, collect. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| refet | Nourished, fed, fattened. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| regnee | A kingdom. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| rely | trans. (refl.) To come together for a second or subsequent time; to rally. Obs. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| remove | intr. Of a person or animal: to go away from a place; to leave, to depart; to move to… | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| renayed | That has renounced or abandoned a religious or political belief, principle, or affiliation; apostate; treacherous, disloyal. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| riddel | A curtain; (in later use esp.) one at the end of an altar. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| riverward | With to: the direction leading towards a river. Obs. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| rush | With reference to a person or animal: a sudden run or other quick movement towards… | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| rush | Of a material thing, as water, the wind, etc. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| safety | The state of being protected from or guarded against hurt or injury; freedom from danger. Freq. in in safety. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| scornfully | In a scornful manner. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| scout | A term of contempt applied both to men and women. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| scum | To foam (at the mouth). Obs. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| slent | trans. To strike out; to aim or deliver (a blow); to cast, throw. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| sounding | Swooning, fainting. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| springing | The first appearance, the rise or dawn, of the day, etc. Obs. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| stable | trans. To put (a horse) into a stable, or into a place which is used as a stable. Formerly also with up (rare). Also transf. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| stature | The height of a person in a normal standing position; an instance of this. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| stilp | A post. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| stricken | (For other uses see strike v.) stricken in years (earlier stricken on, in age, in elde)… | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| tabler | A backgammon board; a chessboard. Hence: the game of backgammon (cf. table n. 18). | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| trace | A tress or plait of hair; = tress n. 1 (s.w. Eng.) Obs. (but cf. trace v.). | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| traisement | Betrayal, treachery. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| traitorous | Having the character of, or characteristic of, a traitor; treacherous; perfidious. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| trip | trans. To step or tread on. Obs. rare. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| tristour | Sadness, grief. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| trow | = trewage n., toll. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| trupt | An exclamation expressing contempt. Cf. tprot n. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| uncourtesy | Discourtesy, incivility. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| unleke | trans. To unlock (a door). | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| unmawe | Helpless. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| usance | The usual or customary practice or behaviour of a community; convention, tradition; = usage n. 2. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| usant | Accustomed or wont to do something; addicted to some practice. Cf. use v. 21. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| volentine | collect. Birds, fowls. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| vore | A furrow. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| vowee | Advocate, patron. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| water-gate | A gate (of a town, a castle, etc.) giving access to the water-side. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| worldy | = worldly adj. (esp. in sense 1). | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| ybatrid | | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| ybuld | built. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| ykep(t | Kept. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| ylepe | leapt. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| ylog(g)ed | lodged. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| yrad(e | Read. (In quot. as past participle.) | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| yraft | Middle English pa. pple. of reave v. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| ysondred | Sundered. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
