| acre-dale | A method of letting land in small portions of about one acre each; land apportioned in… | 1592 | Go To Quotation |
| adherer | A person who adheres to a person or thing; an adherent. | 1561 | Go To Quotation |
| admiralship | Performance of the role or functions of an admiral; (also) the qualities… | 1561 | Go To Quotation |
| Almanie | attrib. Designating goods originating in Germany. | 1564 | Go To Quotation |
| design | A plan or scheme conceived in the mind and intended for subsequent execution… | 1565 | Go To Quotation |
| dog-head | Part of the lock of a gun; the cock. | 1601 | Go To Quotation |
| drugget | A heavy cloth of wool, or of a mixture of wool and silk or wool and linen, used… | 1564 | Go To Quotation |
| liferentrix | A woman who enjoys a liferent. | 1585 | Go To Quotation |
| lowland | Of, pertaining to, or inhabiting low land or a level district; occas. pertaining to the ‘nether regions’. | 1567 | Go To Quotation |
| mangler | A person who mangles something (in various senses of the verb). | 1561 | Go To Quotation |
| manyment | Management. | 1567 | Go To Quotation |
| meeting-place | A place in which a meeting occurs. | 1553 | Go To Quotation |
| misfavourer | A person who holds another in disfavour, an ill-wisher. | 1547 | Go To Quotation |
| misregard | trans. To have no regard for; to despise, disregard. | 1582 | Go To Quotation |
| mora | Sc. Law. Undue delay in the assertion of a claim, etc. Also in in mora and mora and taciturnity. | 1569 | Go To Quotation |
| morsing | The action of priming (a gun). Usu. attrib., esp. in morsing-horn, morsing powder. morsing-hole n. a touch hole. | 1552 | Go To Quotation |
| muller | trans. To provide with an ornamental moulding, facing, or frame. | 1578 | Go To Quotation |
| munition | To supply with munitions. | 1579 | Go To Quotation |
| mutilating | The action of mutilate v.; mutilation. | 1562 | Go To Quotation |
| nether clerk | Misreading (see quot. 1567), associating ‘nether’ with ‘clerk’ as an attributive… | 1567 | Go To Quotation |
| non-obedience | Failure or refusal to obey. | 1582 | Go To Quotation |
| nutriture | Fostering; careful rearing or upbringing. Obs. | 1567 | Go To Quotation |
| obviate | To meet and dispose of; to circumvent, do away with, remove (a difficulty, need, etc.);… | 1567 | Go To Quotation |
| office-bearer | A person who holds office; an official, an officer. | 1593 | Go To Quotation |
| overlooking | The action of overlook v.; an instance of this. | 1565 | Go To Quotation |
| pistolet | A small firearm; = pistol n. 1. Now rare. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| pistolor | = liard n. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| plainstones | Flagstones; the flagged pavement or sidewalk of a street; (also) any open, flagged area in a town or city. | 1611 | Go To Quotation |
| plenished | Furnished, stocked, or filled. | 1586 | Go To Quotation |
| poindage | = poundage n. 1. | 1576 | Go To Quotation |
| poindlar | = poinder n. | 1583 | Go To Quotation |
| poindlaw | = poundlaw n. | 1553 | Go To Quotation |
| portery | Citizenship or burghership in a Flemish or Dutch city; (also) the rights and privileges of such a citizen or burgher. | 1565 | Go To Quotation |
| post-stage | Esp. in the 17th cent.: a stopping place, station, or stage on a post road, to which the… | 1642 | Go To Quotation |
| powder flask | A case for carrying gunpowder, formerly usually of horn, later of leather or metal, usually… | 1552 | Go To Quotation |
| preconceived | Conceived or imagined beforehand; anticipated in thought; (now esp. of an idea or… | 1580 | Go To Quotation |
| pro rata | In the appropriate or specified proportion; proportionally. | 1575 | Go To Quotation |
| quink | A kind of goose (or duck), variously identified with the greylag, Anser anser, the… | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| ranforce | trans. To strengthen, fortify. | 1547 | Go To Quotation |
| recapacitate | trans. To make (esp. legally) capable again; to re-enable. | 1686 | Go To Quotation |
| receptation | Reception or admission into a place or role; an instance of this. | 1574 | Go To Quotation |
| reciprocous | = reciprocal adj. | 1567 | Go To Quotation |
| recusator | Designating an exception (exception n. 4a) made in objecting to a judge on the grounds that he is partial or incompetent. | 1561 | Go To Quotation |
| referrance | Reference. | 1583 | Go To Quotation |
| referring | That refers; that makes a reference or referral. | 1572 | Go To Quotation |
| rehabilitate | orig. Sc. To restore (a person) to former privileges, status, possessions, etc., by… | 1580 | Go To Quotation |
| relevancy | Sc. Law. The fact of a defence, claim, etc., being legally sufficient, adequate, or pertinent; an instance of this. | 1561 | Go To Quotation |
| reliable | Of a person, information, etc.: able to be trusted; in which reliance or confidence may be placed; trustworthy, safe, sure. | 1569 | Go To Quotation |
| replait | trans. To remit (a person) to a court or judge, esp. for a second or further time; to refer for retrial. Cf. resplait v. | 1561 | Go To Quotation |
| reponing | The action or process of reponing a person or thing (in various senses). | 1599 | Go To Quotation |
| review | trans. Law. To subject (a decree, act, judgment, etc.) to examination or revision, esp. by a higher court or authority. | 1573 | Go To Quotation |
| reviewing | The action of review v. (in various senses). Also: an instance of this; a review. | 1573 | Go To Quotation |
| room | To install. Obs. rare. | 1567 | Go To Quotation |
| rout | The brent goose, Branta bernicla. Cf. rood goose n., rot-goose n., road-goose n. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| scantiness | The quality or fact of being scanty. | 1567 | Go To Quotation |
| searchery | That which is characteristic of the duty or office of a searcher n. (sense 2a). letters of… | 1566 | Go To Quotation |
| sederunt | a volume containing the record of a sederunt, a minute-book. | 1619 | Go To Quotation |
| simpliciter | Simply, absolutely, unconditionally; without any condition or consideration. | 1545 | Go To Quotation |
| sorn | trans. To trouble or harass by exacting free quarters and maintenance; to live upon. Obs. | 1563 | Go To Quotation |
| stake | trans. To supply the needs of; to stock or furnish sufficiently with something. | 1547 | Go To Quotation |
| stanchel | = stanchion n. | 1586 | Go To Quotation |
| steadful | Serviceable. | 1585 | Go To Quotation |
| stentor | An assessor of taxes, a stentmaster n. | 1574 | Go To Quotation |
| subcommissioner | A subordinate commissioner (in various senses); esp. a person serving as deputy or assistant to a commissioner. | 1629 | Go To Quotation |
| summarly | = summarily adv. | 1564 | Go To Quotation |
| surpriser | One who or that which surprises; †a capturer. | 1584 | Go To Quotation |
| surreptitiously | By ‘surreption’: see surreptitious adj. 1. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| tenementer | The holder of a tenement; a lease-holder or tenant. frank-tenementer = freeholder n. | 1574 | Go To Quotation |
| testamentar | = testamentary adj. 1 2. testament-testamentar: see testament n. 2. | 1546 | Go To Quotation |
| third hand | In adv. phr. at (†the) third hand: from a second middleman or intermediary; at the second remove from the original source. | 1553 | Go To Quotation |
| thrawardness | Frowardness, perversity, ‘thrawnness’. | 1567 | Go To Quotation |
| thumbikins | With pl. and sing. concord. = thumb-screw n. 2. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| ticket | A minute quantity or part. | 1634 | Go To Quotation |
| toile | Cloth; in quot. 1575, cloth or canvas used for painting on. Obs. rare. | 1561 | Go To Quotation |
| toust | An impost, rate levied, tax. | 1574 | Go To Quotation |
| transact | intr. To carry through negotiations; to have dealings, do business; to treat; also, to manage or settle affairs. Now rare. | 1584 | Go To Quotation |
| transferring | The action of the verb transfer v.; transference. | 1573 | Go To Quotation |
| transportable | Capable of being transported. | 1582 | Go To Quotation |
| unaccusable | (un- prefix 7b. Cf. late Latin inaccūsābilis, French inaccusable.) | 1582 | Go To Quotation |
| unannulled | (un- prefix 8.) | 1579 | Go To Quotation |
| unattempting | Unenterprising. | 1585 | Go To Quotation |
| uncellared | (un- prefix 8.) | 1564 | Go To Quotation |
| unconsulted | Uncounselled, unadvised. Obs. | 1567 | Go To Quotation |
| unconvalesced | (un- prefix 8.) | 1590 | Go To Quotation |
| uncustom | An improper or illegal tax. | 1569 | Go To Quotation |
| undemolished | (un- prefix 8.) | 1571 | Go To Quotation |
| undeparting | (un- prefix 10.) | 1581 | Go To Quotation |
| under-receiver | (under- prefix 3a(a).) | 1579 | Go To Quotation |
| undersubscribe | intr. To subscribe to a document. | 1565 | Go To Quotation |
| unentering | (un- prefix 5d 10.) | 1583 | Go To Quotation |
| unfreed | (un- prefix 8.) | 1565 | Go To Quotation |
| unhabit | Uninhabited. | 1580 | Go To Quotation |
| unhumanly | (un- prefix 11 5b.) | 1586 | Go To Quotation |
| unintromitted | (un- prefix 8.) | 1563 | Go To Quotation |
| unlossed | Not unloaded; undischarged. | 1580 | Go To Quotation |
| unoffending | (un- prefix 10 5b.) | 1569 | Go To Quotation |
| unreconciliate | Unreconciled. | 1588 | Go To Quotation |
| unredeemable | (un- prefix 7b 5b.) | 1584 | Go To Quotation |
| unredressed | (un- prefix 8a 8c.) | 1563 | Go To Quotation |
| unreduced | Sc. Not annulled or repealed. Obs. | 1572 | Go To Quotation |
| unremedied | (un- prefix 8) | 1563 | Go To Quotation |
| unresident | (un- prefix 7.) | 1574 | Go To Quotation |
| unreturned | Not having returned or come back. | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| unruinated | = unruined adj. | 1566 | Go To Quotation |
| unseeking | (un- prefix 5d 10.) | 1583 | Go To Quotation |
| unsighted | Unexamined; unperceived, unseen. | 1584 | Go To Quotation |
| unsigneted | (un- prefix 8.) | 1585 | Go To Quotation |
| unsuffering | Not permitting or enduring. rare. | 1568 | Go To Quotation |
| untaking | Not receptive; not attractive. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| unupright | (un- prefix 7.) | 1585 | Go To Quotation |
| uplifter | Sc. A collector (of rents, etc.). Obs. | 1585 | Go To Quotation |
| valid | Good or adequate in law; possessing legal authority or force; legally binding or efficacious. | 1571 | Go To Quotation |
| validate | Valid, validated. | 1586 | Go To Quotation |