| ameled | Enamelled. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| amoret | A sweetheart, an amorous girl; a paramour. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| annexed | Joined together without subordination of one to the other; united, conjoined, knit. Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| aslope | In a position or direction between vertical and horizontal, i.e. that of a body slipping… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| augment | intr. To become greater in size, amount, degree, intensity, etc.; to increase, grow, swell. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| Augustin(e | A member of the monastic order named after St. Augustine. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| avaunt | Forward, to the front. Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| awry | to look awry: to look askance v. or asquint adv. adj. (Cf. the senses under these words.) | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| baggingly | With a side glance, with a leer or ogle. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| baste | To stitch through (the folds of a doublet, contents of a bag or cushion), so as to keep them in place, to quilt (obs.). | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| baude | Joyous, gay. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| beggarly | suppliantly, entreatingly. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| bel-accoil | Kindly greeting, welcome. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| bougeron | A sodomite. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| cameline | orig. A kind of stuff made (or supposed to be made) of camel's hair: cf. camlet n. Also the trade name of a modern fabric. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| Charybdis | A dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily (now Calofaro), opposite the Italian rock… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| chastelain | The governor or keeper of a castle; = castellan n. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| chevesaile | The collar of a coat, gown, or other garment; in the 14th c. often richly ornamented.… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| chideress | A female chider or brawler. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| chinchy | Niggard, stingy. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| churlishly | In a churlish manner; rudely, coarsely, harshly, roughly; with niggardliness. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| clapper | A rabbit-burrow; also applied to a place constructed for keeping tame rabbits. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| clipsi | Under eclipse, dark. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| clove | Short form of cloven adj., formerly frequent, still occas. in verse; rarely as adj. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| consequence | A thing or circumstance which follows as an effect or result from something preceding. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| constablery | The office of a constable; constableship. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| constrainaunce | Constraint. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| content | Having one's desires bounded by what one has (though that may be less than one could… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| contune | A variant of continue v. of obscure formation, frequent in 14–15th c. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| cordelier | A Franciscan friar of the strict rule: so called from the knotted cord which they wear round the waist. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| corporal | Of or belonging to the human body; bodily. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| coupe-gorge | A cut-throat. Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| covertly | In a concealed manner; secretly, privately. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| crownet | = coronet n. 1 2. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| damning | The action of the verb damn v., q.v.; condemnation; damnation. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| daunting | The action of the verb daunt v.; vanquishing; taming; caressing; discouragement, intimidation. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| deceiving | The action of the verb deceive v.; deception. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| decoped | Cut in figures; slashed; cf. coup v. 1. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| delitous | Delightful. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| demonstrable | occas. = Evident, apparent (obs.). | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| demurely | In a demure manner; gravely, modestly, meekly, quietly; with a gravity, meekness, or modesty that is affected or unnatural. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| deviant | Deviating; divergent. spec. Deviating from normal social, etc., standards or behaviour. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| devoid | With of: Empty, void, destitute (of some attribute); entirely without or… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| diaper | trans. To diversify the surface or ground of (anything) with a small uniform… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| dine | The act of dining; dinner. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| disagreeable | Not in agreement; characterized by difference or incongruity; disagreeing, discordant, at variance. Const. to, with. Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| disrulily | In an unruly manner. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| distoned | Rendered out of tone or tune; inharmonious. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| dolorous | Causing, attended by, or affected with physical pain; painful; severe, acute. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| doubtable | That may be doubted; doubtful, uncertain, questionable, dubitable. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| efters | Early misreading for estre n. | 1532 | Go To Quotation |
| embattle | trans. To furnish (a building, wall, etc.) with battlements. Also fig. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| enfaunce | Childhood. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| engrieve | trans. To cause grief or pain to; to annoy, hurt, vex. Also absol. To do harm, be troublesome. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| enlangoured | Languid, pale. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| ensign | A military or naval standard; a banner, flag. In the Royal Navy pronounced /ˈɛns(ə)n/. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| equipollence | Logic. An equivalence between two or more propositions. Cf. equipollent adj. 3c. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| establishing | The action of establish v. in its various senses. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| exploit | trans. To accomplish, achieve, execute, perform; to fight (a battle). Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| fallen | That has come down or dropped from a high position. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| farce | trans. To paint (the face). | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| fere | To provide with a consort; to mate. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| floweret | A small flower. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| flowering | Flourishing, vigorous; that is in one's bloom or prime. flowering age, flowering life… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| fluter | One who plays on the flute; a flute-player. Now rare; replaced by flutist n. or flautist n. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| foot | intr. To move the foot, step, or tread to measure or music; to dance. Esp. in phr. to foot it. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| foxery | The character, manners, or behaviour of a fox; wiliness, cunning. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| fresh | To refresh, recruit, strengthen; also, to increase. Also with up. | 1365 | Go To Quotation |
| frowning | The action of frown v.; an instance of the same. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| fur | A trimming or lining for a garment, made of the dressed coat of certain animals (as… | 1365 | Go To Quotation |
| gipe | A tunic, smock-frock, cassock. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| guerdon | A reward, requital, or recompense. | 1365 | Go To Quotation |
| guiled | Full of guile; treacherous. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| habit | intr. To dwell, abide, reside, sojourn. Obs. | 1365 | Go To Quotation |
| hamper | to entangle, encumber, or embarrass, with obstacles or difficulties. (Now the common use.) | 1365 | Go To Quotation |
| hautainly | Boldly, courageously. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| haviour | The fact of having; possession; a possession, property; estate, substance, wealth. Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| henceforwards | = henceforward adv. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| hornpipe | An obsolete wind instrument. Said to have been so called from having the bell and… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| hulster | trans. To hide. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| importune | Troublesome, burdensome; vexatious; grievous, heavy, severe, exacting. Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| indigent | spec. Lacking the necessaries of life; in needy circumstances; characterized by… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| infance | = infancy n. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| jacounce | The jacinth or hyacinth (precious stone). | 1365 | Go To Quotation |
| jargon | intr. To warble, twitter, chatter. Obs. from 15th to 19th c.: see jargon n. 1. | 1365 | Go To Quotation |
| knop | trans. To furnish or adorn with knops; to stud. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| lambskin | The same dressed and used for clothing, for ornamentation of dress, for mats, etc.… | 1365 | Go To Quotation |
| legge | trans. To alleviate. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| lightsome | Not weighed down by care, pain, or sorrow; light-hearted, cheerful, merry; also, enlivening, entertaining. | 1365 | Go To Quotation |
| loyalty | Faithful adherence to one's promise, oath, word of honour, etc.; †conjugal faithfulness, fidelity. †Also in phrase by my loyalty. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| loyn | A length (of cord); a leash for a hawk. Also fig. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| lozenge | A plane rectilineal figure, having four equal sides and two acute and two obtuse angles… | 1365 | Go To Quotation |
| Sack-friar | A member of a mendicant order of the 13th and early 14th c., called ‘Fratres de… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| sailour | A dancer. | 1365 | Go To Quotation |
| samite | A rich silk fabric worn in the Middle Ages, sometimes interwoven with gold. Also, †a garment… | 1365 | Go To Quotation |
| Sarsenish | Saracenic; in Old English n., a Saracen. | 1365 | Go To Quotation |
| satin | A silk fabric with a glossy surface on one side, produced by a method of weaving by… | 1365 | Go To Quotation |
| scutcheon | = escutcheon n. 1. Formerly often scutcheon of arms. | 1365 | Go To Quotation |
| seemlihead | The condition of being seemly; seemliness. | 1365 | Go To Quotation |
| semblance | The appearance or outward aspect of a person or thing. | 1365 | Go To Quotation |
| shutting | In trans. senses of the verb; closing, fastening up, drawing together, etc. | 1365 | Go To Quotation |
| slick | Of skin, hair, etc.: Smooth, glossy, sleek. Also, of a surface: slippery (chiefly U.S.). | 1365 | Go To Quotation |
| slitter | trans. To cut (a garment) with ornamental slits. | 1365 | Go To Quotation |
| snort | intr. Of the nose: To turn up, as in sniffing. | 1365 | Go To Quotation |
| spitous | = despitous adj. | 1365 | Go To Quotation |
| squirely | In the manner of or befitting a squire. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| squirrel | One or other of various species of slender, graceful, agile rodents (characterized by a… | 1365 | Go To Quotation |
| strained | Of conduct, demeanour, gestures, etc.: produced under compulsion or by… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| suckeny | A smock. | 1365 | Go To Quotation |
| tallager | One who assessed or collected tallage; a tax-gatherer. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| tassel | trans. To furnish or adorn with or as with a tassel or tassels. | 1365 | Go To Quotation |
| tatter | | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| terin | The siskin. | 1365 | Go To Quotation |
| thick-set | Composed of individuals or parts arranged in close order; thickly studded or planted (with something). | 1365 | Go To Quotation |
| thread | trans. To pass one end of a thread through the eye of (a needle) in order to use it in… | 1365 | Go To Quotation |
| timbester | A female performer on the timbrel. | 1365 | Go To Quotation |
| tissue | A rich kind of cloth, often interwoven with gold or silver. Obs. exc. Hist. | 1365 | Go To Quotation |
| tress | trans. To arrange (hair) in tresses. | 1365 | Go To Quotation |
| tretis | Well-proportioned, neat, graceful, handsome. | 1365 | Go To Quotation |
| truant | intr. To play the vagabond or rogue. Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| Turk | General attrib.: = Turkish adj. | 1365 | Go To Quotation |
| unclosed | Not enclosed or shut in; unenclosed. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| uncounselled | (un- prefix 8.) | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| ungreen | (un- prefix 7: cf. Old English ungréne, Dutch ongroen, Middle High German ungrüene.) | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| unreleased | (un- prefix 8.) | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| updress | (up- prefix 3a.) | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| vendable | = vendible adj. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| vermeil | Of a bright scarlet or red colour; vermilion. Chiefly poet. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| villainous | Churlish, ill-bred, unmannerly. Obs. rare. | 1365 | Go To Quotation |
| villainsly | = villainly adv., villainously adv. | 1365 | Go To Quotation |
| volage | Giddy, foolish; fickle, inconstant. (In later literary use reintroduced from mod. French.) Also in comb. volage-brained. | 1365 | Go To Quotation |
| vounde | (Meaning obscure.) | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| water-side | The side or brink of water; the bank or margin of the sea, or of a river, stream, or lake. | 1365 | Go To Quotation |
| well(-)arrayed | | 1365 | Go To Quotation |
| well begone | Well-contented, cheerful, joyous. | 1365 | Go To Quotation |
| well beseen | Good-looking, of good appearance; well appointed or apparelled; well furnished with; versed or accomplished in. | 1365 | Go To Quotation |
| well(-)fed | | 1365 | Go To Quotation |
| well-heling | Good concealment (in quot. 1400 a personification). | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| well-liking | In good condition and of lusty appearance; thriving, healthy, plump. arch. | 1365 | Go To Quotation |
| wyndre | trans. To trim, deck, or embellish (oneself, the brows, etc.). | 1365 | Go To Quotation |
