| beken | trans. To make known, to declare, to show. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| bemean | trans. To mean, signify, import. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| bid | = Must (by moral obligation, logical or natural necessity). | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| big | Of a person or animal: strong, sturdy, mighty; stout-hearted, courageous. Cf. rich adj. 1. Obs. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| bihalven | trans. To surround on all sides. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| bise | A keen dry N. or NNE. wind, prevalent in Switzerland and the neighbouring parts of France, Germany, and Italy. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| blacken | intr. To become or grow black, to darken. Also fig. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| blayk(e | Yellow. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| bleyke | Pale. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| bloat | Blowte, bloute: ? Soft, soft-bodied, flabby, pulpy; passing into ‘puffy, puffed, swollen’. Obs. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| boulder-stone | A rounded water-worn stone larger than a pebble, a cobble-stone (= boulder n. 1). Also, in later use, = boulder n. 2. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| browis | = brewis n., in both senses. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| but | ‘Putting’ the stone. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| butt | A name applied variously in different places to kinds of flat fish, as sole, fluke, plaice, turbot, etc. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| cart-load | The load which a cart can carry. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| cavenard | Perhaps the same as caynard n. (? error for cayenard). | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| chinch | Niggardly, sparing, penurious, parsimonious, miserly. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| cierge | A wax candle or taper, esp. a large wax candle used in religious ceremonies. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| clap | trans. To strike, hit, knock, beat, with sounding blows. Obs. or arch. (To clap a dish (quot. 1670): cf. clap-dish n.) | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| clary | A sweet liquor consisting of a mixture of wine, clarified honey, and various spices, as… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| coup | trans. To buy; fig. to abye, pay for, suffer for. Obs. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| creek | A narrow recess or inlet in the coastline of the sea, or the tidal estuary of a river… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| dam | Lord; as a prefix = Sir, Master. Cf. dan n. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| deus | The French interjectional deus!, ohi! deus, God!, ah God! occasionally retained in… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| ding | intr. (or absol.) To deal heavy blows; to knock, hammer, thump. Obs. (or ? north. dial.) | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| door-tree | = door-post n., door-bar n. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| drake | The male of the duck, and of birds of the duck kind. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| dread | Afraid, frightened, terrified. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| dwelling | Delaying, delay; tarrying. Obs. | 1330 | Go To Quotation |
| erthe | To dwell. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| fallow | A piece of ploughed land; also collect. ploughed land in general, arable land. Obs. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| fetter | trans. To bind with or as with fetters; to chain, fasten, shackle. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| firren | Made of fir. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| flawn | A kind of custard or cheese-cake, made in various ways. Also, a pancake. Prov. as flat as a flawn. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| frie | trans. To blame. Cf. freeless adj. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| givel | trans. To heap up. Only in pa. pple. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| gowl | intr. To howl, yell, cry bitterly or threateningly; also, to whine. Said of men and animals. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| grange | An establishment where farming is carried on; †also, rarely, a group of such places, a… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| grote | trans. and intr. To bewail; = greet v. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| hazard | A game at dice in which the chances are complicated by a number of arbitrary rules. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| hendelaik | Courtesy, civility. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| hose | trans. To furnish or provide with hose. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| joying | The action of joy v.; rejoicing; enjoyment. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| kask | Active, vigorous. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| keeling | A cod-fish. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| keft | Bought, paid for: = abought, pa. pple. of abye v. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| lad | A serving-man, attendant; a man of low birth and position; a varlet. Obs. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| lame | trans. To make lame; to cripple. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| levin | Lightning; a flash of lightning; also, any bright light or flame. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| ling | A long slender gadoid fish, Molva vulgaris or Lota molva, inhabiting the seas of… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| lith | People, subjects, vassals. Only in alliterative phrases. (Cf. lede n. 1b.) | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| lithe | A calm, lull; fig. respite. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| litten | trans. To diminish. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| love-drury | Love; courtship: = druery n. 1. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| lurk | intr. To hide oneself; to lie in ambush; to remain furtively or unobserved about one… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| mackerel | Any of various fast-swimming pelagic fishes of the family Scombridae, several of which… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| malison | A curse, a malediction. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| mill-house | A building in which milling or grinding is carried on; a building (esp. a dwelling… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| misgo | intr. To go wrong in conduct or action; to make a mistake. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| mixed | Foul, polluted. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| moonlight | The light of the moon; the moon's radiance. Also fig. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| murk night | The darkest part of the night; (also more generally) the darkness of night. Also fig. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| never kins | No kind of. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| nieve | A clenched hand, a fist. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| nightertale | Night-time, the night. Esp. in by (also on, with, etc.) nightertale: by night, during the night. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| nook | A corner of a thing regarded as a separate portion; a piece, a fragment; a part. Eng. regional in later use. Now rare. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| onfrest | trans. To delay or put off (a journey). | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| outbid | trans. To summon out, to muster (an army) for war. Obs. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| outrage | Mad, passionate, violent, or disorderly behaviour; confusion caused by… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| page | A boy, a youth. Obs. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| pannier | A basket; esp. a large basket for carrying foodstuffs or other commodities. Now chiefly: spec.… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| par | trans. To enclose, confine; to shut up in an enclosure; to pen. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| pell | intr. To hurry, rush. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| plaice | A European flatfish of shallow seas, Pleuronectes platessa (family Pleuronectidae), which… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| poke | A bag, now esp. a paper bag; a small sack; (Sc.) †a beggar's bundle (obs.). Also: a… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| prangle | trans. To press tightly; to pinch. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| pulk | A small pool, especially of standing water; a small pond or water-pit; a shallow well or tank; a puddle, a plash; a small lake. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| put | A throw of a stone or other heavy weight. Now only in Athletics: an act of putting the shot, a throw of the shot. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| quest | A will, a testament; a bequest, a legacy. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| reign | intr. To continue, persist; esp. to continue in a particular condition, or course of action. Also with forth. Obs. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| rig | The back or spine of a person or animal. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| rip | A wicker basket or pannier, esp. one used for carrying fish. Cf. plough-rip n. at plough n. 2. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| rit | To cut or pierce with a sharp instrument; to tear; to scratch. In later use: spec. to slit (a sheep's ear). Now rare. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| romance | Without article. Obs. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| rosier | A rose tree, a rosebush. Also: a branch of such a tree or bush. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| rouncy | A horse, esp. one used for riding; a steed. Also fig. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| rout | intr. Of a person: to cry out; to roar, bellow; to shout. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| scabbed | Of animals. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| schulle | A plaice. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| segge | ? A cuttle-fish. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| sembling | gen. The action of the verb. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| shotship | A party or assembly paying ‘shot’ or pecuniary contribution or reckoning. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| shoulder | trans. To push against (a person or thing) with the shoulder; (of a crowd) to push… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| shoulder-blade | Each of the two flat triangular bones articulated with the humerus, and lying over the ribs… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| siking | = sighing n. 1. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| sleng | trans. To sling, throw, cast. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| smart | = smartly adv. (in various senses). | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| sobbing | The action of giving vent to sobs; the sound produced by this. Also freq. in pl. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| soe | A large tub. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| sour | Bitterly, dearly; severely. Obs. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| span-new | Of things, esp. clothes. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| spark | intr. To emit or give forth a spark or sparks; to sparkle; spec. in Electr., to produce or… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| stack | A pile, heap or group of things, esp. such a pile or heap with its constituents arranged in an orderly fashion. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| stalworthy | = stalworth adj. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| star | A name given locally to various coarse seaside grasses and sedges, as Psamma arenaria and Carex arenaria. Also star-grass. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| stith | = stithy n. 1. Obs. exc. north. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| strangle | trans. In wider sense: To kill by stoppage of breath; to smother, suffocate, choke. Now rare. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| stry | A hag, beldam. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| sturgeon | A large fish of the family Acipenseridæ, having an elongated, almost cylindrical, body… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| tait | Cheerful, lively, active, nimble. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| talevace | A large shield or buckler, properly of wood. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| tar | trans. To smear or cover with tar. Also absol. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| tharn | trans. To be without; to want, lack, need; to be deprived of, to lose. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| theregain | Against or in opposition to that. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| therne | A girl, maid, young woman. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| thornback | The common ray or skate (Raia clavata) of British seas, used as food, distinguished… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| thoroughly | In a way that penetrates or goes through; right through, quite through. Obs. rare. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| tirve | trans. To roll or pull back, or pluck off (the covering, clothes, skin, etc. from a… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| to-crush | intr. To be crushed, to break to pieces under pressure. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| to-frush | trans. To smash or break to pieces; also, to drive violently into something as with a blow or blows. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| to-tuse | trans. To pull asunder; to dishevel. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| tumbrel | A kind of fish. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| turbot | A large flat fish (Rhombus maximus or Psetta maxima), having a wide scaleless body… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| umbego | trans. To go around, to encircle; to surround with something. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| unclothe | trans. To divest (a person) of clothing; to undress; to strip. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| unkevel | trans. To ungag. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| wassail | intr. To ‘keep wassail’; to sit carousing and health-drinking. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| wastel | Bread made of the finest flour; a cake or loaf of this bread. (See note s.v. treat n. 2.) | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| withsit | trans. To oppose, resist, withstand. Also, to prevent; to ward off. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| wro | A nook or corner; a retired or sheltered spot. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| wrobber | An informer. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
