| accoutrement | In pl. Items of apparel; (more generally) additional pieces of dress or equipment, trappings; (Mil.… | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| adhering | The action or process of adhering to a person or thing (in various senses of the verb); adherence. Also: an instance of this. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| afflige | trans. = afflict v. 1a. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| amplitude | Excellence, dignity, grandeur, splendour. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| animadvertence | A calling of the attention; a warning. Obs. rare. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| Antarctic Circle | A circle on the celestial sphere corresponding to the geographic Antarctic Circle (sense 2)… | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| antecestre | Ancestor, predecessor. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| anticipate | Anticipated. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| appearing | Specially apparent, conspicuous. Obs. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| astuce | Astuteness. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| astuce | Astute. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| auditur(e | Scottish form of auditory n. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| axis | The imaginary straight line about which a body (e.g. the earth or other planet)… | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| barbarian | etymologically, A foreigner, one whose language and customs differ from the speaker's. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| baton | A staff or stick used as a weapon, sometimes also of iron or iron-tipped; a club… | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| berse | A small species of ordnance, formerly often used at sea. = base n. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| bourreau | An executioner, hangman, or torturer. Chiefly fig. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| brangle | A kind of dance; = French branle, branle n., bransle n., brantle n. (Only Sc.) | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| buffoon | A pantomime dance. Sc. Obs. rare. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| buller | To make a noise, to roar, to bellow. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| caliginous | Misty, dim, murky; obscure, dark; also fig. (Now arch.) | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| calumniator | One who calumniates; a slanderer. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| camovyne | = camomile n. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| circuit | trans. To go, pass, move, or travel round; to make the circuit of, compass about. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| civilist | An expert in or student of civil law (chiefly civil law n. 1); a practitioner of this; spec.… | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| claes | Sc. and north. dial. form of clothes n. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| coagulate | To condense as vapour. Obs. rare. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| confected | Compounded of a number of ingredients, made into a confection, etc.; constructed, made up. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| conjurator | One joined with others by an oath; a fellow-conspirator. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| contigue | = contiguous adj. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| corn-pipe | A rustic musical instrument made of a stalk of corn. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| cot-house | A small cottage; spec. in Scotland, the house of a cottar. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| courtician | = courtesan n. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| crackling | (Sc.): bags for holding explosives in old naval warfare. Obs. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| crepusculine | Pertaining to twilight; illuminated by twilight, dim, dusky. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| crout | intr. To make abrupt croaking or murmuring noises; to coo as a dove. Rarely trans. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| decadence | The process of falling away or declining (from a prior state of excellence… | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| dechay | By-form of decay v. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| deess | A goddess. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| defluxion | A flowing or running down. Obs. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| demolition | fig. Destruction, overthrow. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| disnatural | trans. or intr. To make or become unnatural; to brutalize. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| disreasonable | Devoid of reason, unreasonable, groundless. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| distillant | Distilling. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| effirm | trans. To assert (the existence of). | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| escarmouche | trans. To skirmish with; to engage. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| excepting | (quasi- prep.) The pr. pple. of the vb. used absol.: = ‘If one excepts’. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| excrement | fig. (When the notion is that of ‘superfluous outgrowth’, this is sometimes… | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| exerce | Exercise. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| extendant | Heraldry. Having the wings expanded; = displayed adj. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| facileness | The quality of being facile (in various senses); (in early use) ready compliance… | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| fantasticness | = fantasticalness n. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| Favonius | The west wind, Zephyr. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| finitive | ? = finical adj. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| float-whey | ‘Those parts of the curd left in whey, which, when it is boiled, float on the top’ (Jamieson). | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| folliful | Full of folly or foolishness. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| garruling | The action of chattering or talking volubly. In quot. 1550, of a bird. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| gazophile | A treasury, storehouse (in fig. sense). | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| geometrial | Geometrical. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| germ | An initial stage or state from which something may develop; a source, a beginning. Also… | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| head-stick | An ancient piece of artillery. Obs. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| heroic | Of actions, qualities, etc. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| humid | Slightly wet as with steam, suspended vapour, or mist; moist, damp. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| imbecile | In general sense: weak, feeble; esp. feeble of body, physically weak or impotent. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| incivil | Not of the rank of a free citizen. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| incredule | as n. An incredulous person. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| indigete | A deified hero regarded as a patron deity of his country. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| indole | Guileless. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| inexorbitant | | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| infang | Abbrev. of infangthief n. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| invectively | In an invective manner; with inveighing or denunciation. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| invictissime | Most unconquered. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| jargle | intr. To utter a harsh or shrill sound; to chatter, jar. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| jurisconsultor | = jurisconsult n. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| leeward | absol. or quasi- n. = lee n. 2a 2b In phrases on, upon, to (the) leeward (of). | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| lofted | (Sc. and north. dial.) Having one or more stories above the ground floor. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| longinquity | Long distance; remoteness. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| long-tailed | Of words: Having a long termination. †Also applied to a long-winded speech. jocular. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| low | The action of lowing; the ordinary sound uttered by an ox or cow. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| lustrant | Lustrous; fig. illustrious. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| malversation | Corrupt behaviour in a commission, office, employment, or position of trust; an instance of this. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| meridian circle | = meridian n. 3a 3b 3c. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| misteous | Misty; obscure. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| monologue | A long speech by one actor in a play, film, or broadcast programme. Also: a scene in a… | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| moo | intr. Of a cow or other bovine animal: to make its characteristic deep resonant vocal… | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| neicher | intr. To neigh, whinny; (also, in extended use) to snigger. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| nonny-no | A refrain, esp. one with no definite meaning. Obs. rare. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| odoriferant | That has or emits a smell; odoriferous, odorous. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| oratorly | Oratorically. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| outfang | = outfangthief n. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| perspection | Contemplation, regard; scrutiny, inspection. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| philippic | Of the nature of a bitter attack, denunciation, or invective; that is a philippic (sense… | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| praetoral | = praetorian adj. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| privitate | A secret matter or business; = privity n. 1b. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| reprime | trans. To restrain, curb. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| rouping | The action of roup v. 1a. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| sack | The action of sack v.; sackage, plundering; esp. in phr. to put to sack, to put to or unto the sack (obs.). | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| salutifere | Salutiferous. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| skreigh | A shriek or screech; a loud shrill cry or scream. Also fig. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| sophistic | Of persons: Given to the use or exercise of sophistry. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| soucy | = solsecle n. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| sourkit | Some form of sour milk or cream. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| spacier | intr. To walk or stroll. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| stendle | intr. To leap or bound frequently. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| stravaig | intr. To wander about aimlessly. Also in general literary use, and occas. trans. with road as obj. | 1801 | Go To Quotation |
| studding sail | A sail set beyond the leeches of any of the principal sails during a fair wind. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| suffocation | In full suffocation of the womb, matrix, mother (see mother n. 8b), suffocation of the bairn's bed… | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| summer solstice | The time at which the sun reaches the summer tropic, i.e. in the northern hemisphere, the… | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| superb | Of a building, monument, etc.: of noble proportions or appearance; magnificent, imposing. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| temerare | = temerarious adj. 1. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| thirl | trans. = furl v. 1. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| tick-tack | An imitation of a reduplicated or alternating ticking sound, esp. that made by a clock (see tick… | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| timid | Showing a lack of courage or confidence; easily frightened; fearful, timorous; (in somewhat weaker use) reluctant; shy. Also fig. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| tissu | Woven. (Const. as pa. pple.) | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| topinel | app. = topping-lift at topping n. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| trachle | trans. To bedraggle, dishevel; to disorder, injure, or befoul by trampling. (Chiefly in pa. pple.) | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| tresgressor | Altered form of transgressor n., with French tres- = Latin trans-, as in trespass. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| tripla | Triple proportion between one note and another; triple time or rhythm. Also attrib. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| tropaeum | = trophy n. (Now only Antiq., in lit. sense.) | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| unbaken | = unbaked adj. 1. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| unconsumed | (un- prefix 8 5b.) | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| ungreat | Small. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| unhuman | Of actions, etc. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| unmelted | (un- prefix 8.) | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| unmountable | (un- prefix 7b.) | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| unmown | (un- prefix 8b.) | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| vaticinar | A vaticinator or prophet. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| veyra | (See quot. 1550.) | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| water-lily | The common name for many aquatic plants with large flowers, belonging to the family Nymphæaceæ.… | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| windward | Phr. to (the) windward (also formerly with other preps.): to the windward side or direction. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |