| affeerer | = affeeror n. | 1467 | Go To Quotation |
| aforesaid | Stated or mentioned before; aforementioned. Also in non-finite clauses introduced by as. | 1389 | Go To Quotation |
| aggrievance | A grievance (grievance n. 3). Now somewhat rare. | 1389 | Go To Quotation |
| amerce | With simple object. | 1389 | Go To Quotation |
| annunciation | The church festival commemorating that event, observed on the 25th of March; Lady-day. | 1389 | Go To Quotation |
| badger | A trader who buys produce (perh. originally grain) and carries it elsewhere to sell… | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| bitter | One who has charge of a ‘bit’ or fire-bucket; a fireman. | 1467 | Go To Quotation |
| Black Monday | (A name given to) Easter Monday. Now chiefly rare. | 1389 | Go To Quotation |
| bookbinder | One who binds books. | 1389 | Go To Quotation |
| brandiron | A kitchen utensil, commonly a gridiron, but the name is transferred to other articles… | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| brethrendom | = brethrenhood n. | 1481 | Go To Quotation |
| brethrenhood | = brotherhood n.; fraternity. | 1481 | Go To Quotation |
| burgess-ship | The status and privileges of a burgess; the ‘freedom’ of a borough, citizenship. | 1467 | Go To Quotation |
| buttery | A place for storing liquor; but the name was also, from an early period, extended to… | 1389 | Go To Quotation |
| cantor-cope | (Cf. cantel-cope at cantel-cape n.) | 1348 | Go To Quotation |
| capias | A writ or process commanding the officer to take the body of the person named in it, that… | 1467 | Go To Quotation |
| capper | A capmaker. Obs. | 1389 | Go To Quotation |
| casket | A small box or chest for jewels, letters, or other things of value, itself often of valuable material and richly ornamented. | 1467 | Go To Quotation |
| chancely | By chance, accidentally, haply. | 1389 | Go To Quotation |
| chandler | One whose trade it is to make or sell candles. (Also tallow-chandler n., wax-chandler n.) | 1389 | Go To Quotation |
| cliauntor | A client. | 1467 | Go To Quotation |
| common house | = common hall n. 1. | 1467 | Go To Quotation |
| common law | The unwritten law of England, administered by the King's courts, which purports to be… | 1350 | Go To Quotation |
| contentation | Satisfaction of a claim; compensation; payment in satisfaction. Obs. | 1467 | Go To Quotation |
| contributory | That contributes to a common fund; making contribution. | 1467 | Go To Quotation |
| corrigible | Capable of being corrected; rectifiable. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| Crouchmas | The festival of the Invention of the Cross, observed on May 3. | 1389 | Go To Quotation |
| curnock | An obsolete (or nearly obsolete) dry measure formerly used in the West of England… | 1479 | Go To Quotation |
| customary | Law. A written collection of customs (see custom n. 2); a book or document setting… | 1604 | Go To Quotation |
| debite | A deputy, lieutenant. | 1482 | Go To Quotation |
| deceiteous | | 1481 | Go To Quotation |
| demeanant | Dealing, trading. | 1467 | Go To Quotation |
| derogative | Characterized by derogating; tending to derogation. | 1477 | Go To Quotation |
| despisant | despisingly, insolently. | 1389 | Go To Quotation |
| despoiler | One who despoils; a plunderer, spoiler. | 1467 | Go To Quotation |
| detinue | an action at law to recover a personal chattel (or its value) wrongfully detained by the defendant. So writ of detinue. | 1467 | Go To Quotation |
| discommon | to exclude from church fellowship, excommunicate. Obs. | 1478 | Go To Quotation |
| disfranchise | trans. To deprive of the rights and privileges of a free citizen of a borough, city… | 1467 | Go To Quotation |
| dispayre | Impaired condition, disrepair. | 1467 | Go To Quotation |
| disseisin | novel, new, fresh disseisin: disseisin of fresh or recent date. Assise of Novel Disseisin… | 1350 | Go To Quotation |
| distringas | An order of the Chancery Court by which the Bank of England or other public company… | 1467 | Go To Quotation |
| dougher | One who makes dough; a baker. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| elector | spec. In Great Britain and Ireland, one legally qualified to vote in the election of… | 1467 | Go To Quotation |
| empanel | trans. To enter (the names of a jury) on a panel or official list; to enrol or constitute (a body of jurors). | 1487 | Go To Quotation |
| empanelling | The action of empanel v. | 1467 | Go To Quotation |
| enact | That which is enacted, an enactment; also fig. a purpose, resolution. | 1467 | Go To Quotation |
| engross | To buy up wholesale; esp. to buy up the whole stock, or as much as possible, of (a… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| enrol | trans. To write (a name), inscribe the name of (a person) on a roll, list, or register; to make a list of. Also to enrol up. | 1350 | Go To Quotation |
| ensclaundre | trans. To bring scandal upon. | 1389 | Go To Quotation |
| Fastingong | = Shrove Tuesday n. Also Fastingong Eve, Fastingong Tuesday. | 1389 | Go To Quotation |
| festal | Of or pertaining to a feast or festivity. | 1479 | Go To Quotation |
| festival-day | The day on which a festival is held or kept. | 1389 | Go To Quotation |
| fire-hook | (See quot. 1874). | 1467 | Go To Quotation |
| foil | A repulse, defeat in an onset or enterprise; a baffling check. arch. †In early use… | 1478 | Go To Quotation |
| forfeitable | Liable to be forfeited; subject to forfeiture. | 1467 | Go To Quotation |
| guild-brother | A member of a guild. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| hall-house | A house or edifice that is a hall. Obs. | 1467 | Go To Quotation |
| hallier | One who hales or hauls; a hauler. | 1479 | Go To Quotation |
| Hallowmas | The feast of All Hallows or All Saints. Also attrib., as Hallowmas-day, Hallowmas-eve. | 1389 | Go To Quotation |
| hatter | A maker of or dealer in hats. as mad as a hatter: see mad adj. 2f. | 1389 | Go To Quotation |
| holder | One who holds, occupies, possesses, or owns; a tenant, occupier, possessor, owner… | 1350 | Go To Quotation |
| horse-bread | Bread made of beans, bran, etc. for the food of horses. | 1467 | Go To Quotation |
| horse-charge | A horse-load; the load of a pack-horse. | 1350 | Go To Quotation |
| horse-load | A load for a horse; sometimes, a determinate weight: cf. load n. | 1350 | Go To Quotation |
| imprisonment | The action of imprisoning, or fact or condition of being imprisoned; detention in a… | 1389 | Go To Quotation |
| increasement | That by which something is increased; an increment, addition, augmentation; progeny; produce: = increase n. 5 – 7. | 1389 | Go To Quotation |
| inside | The inner side or surface; that side of anything which is within, or nearer to the… | 1504 | Go To Quotation |
| interring | The action of burying; interment, burial. | 1387 | Go To Quotation |
| irrite | Void, of no effect. | 1482 | Go To Quotation |
| knoll | trans. To ring, toll (a bell); = knell v. 2. Also fig. Now arch. and dial. | 1467 | Go To Quotation |
| limner | An illuminator of manuscripts. Hist. | 1389 | Go To Quotation |
| Low Sunday | The Sunday next after Easter Sunday. | 1431 | Go To Quotation |
| mass-penny | An offering of money given for having a mass said, esp. for a person who has died. | 1389 | Go To Quotation |
| miscounsel | trans. To counsel or advise wrongly; to give bad counsel to. | 1389 | Go To Quotation |
| misname | An insulting name. | 1482 | Go To Quotation |
| ob. | A halfpenny (as a sum or a coin). | 1389 | Go To Quotation |
| painted cloth | A cloth or hanging decorated with images or text executed in paint (formerly also embroidered or woven in colours). | 1389 | Go To Quotation |
| paume | Originally: a game resembling tennis, in which opposing players struck a ball with gloved… | 1467 | Go To Quotation |
| peltier | A dealer in animal pelts; = pelterer n. | 1389 | Go To Quotation |
| poise | intr. With complement: to be of a specified weight, to weigh —. Cf. peise v. 3a. Obs. | 1389 | Go To Quotation |
| predicted | Aforementioned. Obs. | 1546 | Go To Quotation |
| recovery | Law. A fine, charge, etc., recovered at law. Cf. fine n. 8. Obs. rare. | 1421 | Go To Quotation |
| relieving | The action of relieve v. (in various senses); an instance of this. | 1389 | Go To Quotation |
| requiem | Esp. R.C. Church. A mass said or sung for the repose of the soul of a dead person. Also… | 1389 | Go To Quotation |
| royalme | A kingdom, realm. | 1389 | Go To Quotation |
| sembly | A gathering of people; an assembly. to do, to make sembly, to meet, to be present at an assembly. | 1389 | Go To Quotation |
| shifting | That shifts or changes position or direction. | 1479 | Go To Quotation |
| shongable | A tax on the making of (a particular kind of) shoes. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| sign | trans. To assign, appoint. | 1389 | Go To Quotation |
| skevin | A steward of a gild. | 1389 | Go To Quotation |
| slip | An artificial slope of stone or other solid material, built or made beside a navigable water to serve as a landing-place. | 1467 | Go To Quotation |
| slock | trans. To entice away; to draw or lead away by some allurement. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| soul candle | In the Christian Church: one of several candles placed about the coffin at a funeral service. Now rare (hist. in later use). | 1389 | Go To Quotation |
| spurrier | A spur-maker. | 1389 | Go To Quotation |
| tallow | A substance consisting of a somewhat hard animal fat (esp. that obtained from the parts… | 1350 | Go To Quotation |
| tanning | The action of the verb tan v.; an instance of this. | 1481 | Go To Quotation |
| tapener | A kind of clothworker; ? a weaver of burel. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| terment | Burial, funeral: = interment n.; also, a funeral service. | 1389 | Go To Quotation |
| thatched | Covered or roofed with thatch. | 1467 | Go To Quotation |
| tile | trans. To cover with tiles; to overlay (a floor or roof) or line (a wall, fire-place, etc.) with tiles; in quot. 1812, to roof. | 1467 | Go To Quotation |
| trent | = trental n. | 1389 | Go To Quotation |
| underwritten | Of words, statements, etc.: Written (out), expressed in writing, below or beneath… | 1389 | Go To Quotation |
| unrepealed | (un- prefix 8.) | 1479 | Go To Quotation |
| unrevoked | Not revoked, recalled, or annulled. | 1479 | Go To Quotation |
| wax-shot | A customary payment made for the maintenance of lights in churches. | 1500 | Go To Quotation |
