| appearing | The action of coming in sight, appearance; the action of formally coming before a tribunal, etc.; an appearance. | 1375 | Go To Quotation |
| asidely | Indirectly. | 1375 | Go To Quotation |
| assaying | The action of trying or proving; trial. | 1375 | Go To Quotation |
| austerely | In an austere manner; with harshness; sternly, strictly, severely; grimly; rigorously, abstinently. | 1375 | Go To Quotation |
| avent | refl. and intr. To come out or escape into the open air; fig. to escape from confinement. | 1375 | Go To Quotation |
| avoid | To make void or of no effect; to refute, disprove. In Law, to defeat (a pleading);… | 1375 | Go To Quotation |
| a-work | At work, in activity; esp. in phr. to set a work. | 1375 | Go To Quotation |
| bailieship | Stewardship. lit. and fig. Obs. | 1375 | Go To Quotation |
| bargain | intr. To treat with any one as to the terms which one party is to give, and the other… | 1375 | Go To Quotation |
| bekenning | Knowledge, acquaintance. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| bettering | The action of making better or improving; amelioration, amendment, improvement. | 1375 | Go To Quotation |
| blabberer | One who blabbers. | 1375 | Go To Quotation |
| blabbering | Inarticulate, imperfect or foolish speaking; babble. | 1375 | Go To Quotation |
| bleating | That bleats; also fig. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| blowing | A bloom or blossom: also fig. (obs.). | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| boasting | Ostentatious or vainglorious speaking. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| boiling | The action of bubbling up under the influence of heat; ebullition. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| bonairness | Gentleness, mildness, courtesy. | 1375 | Go To Quotation |
| bottle | A vessel with a narrow neck for holding liquids, now usually made of glass; originally of leather. | 1375 | Go To Quotation |
| builder | One who builds; the erector of a building. spec. One who ‘builds’ clothes; a tailor (see build… | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| canonizing | Admission into the calendar of saints. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| captious | Apt to catch at faults or take exception to actions; disposed to find fault, cavil… | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| civilian | A practitioner of Roman civil law, or of any of the various legal systems or… | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| clearing | The action of clear v., in various senses: brightening; clarifying; elucidation; exculpation, etc. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| cleek | To lay hold of and draw suddenly to oneself, as with a hook or crook: to snatch. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| colewort | Originally, a general name for any plant of the cabbage kind, genus Brassica (of… | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| comessation | Feasting, banqueting, ‘riotous eating’ (Blount). | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| commonty | A community; a commonwealth. Obs. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| conditionly | = conditionally adv. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| crease | intr. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| crookedness | fig. Deviation from rectitude; moral obliquity; perversity, etc.: see crooked adj. 3. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| crooking | The action of the verb crook v.; bending from the straight line; a bend, curve, curvature. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| curiosity | In a blamable sense: The disposition to inquire too minutely into anything; undue or inquisitive desire to know or learn. Obs. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| current | That which runs or flows, a stream; spec. a portion of a body of water, or of air, etc. moving in a definite direction. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| cut | Severed or detached by cutting; lopped off. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| cutting | | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| dablet | A little devil, an imp. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| difform | trans. To bring out of conformity or agreement: the opposite of conform v. 2. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| diffusely | In many words, verbosely, copiously; fully, at large: the opposite of concisely. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| dispenser | A steward of a household. arch. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| disposing | The action of making ready or inclined; preparation; disposition, inclination: see dispose v. 5 6. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| disquatte | trans. To break asunder, smash; to violate (a truce). | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| disuse | To make a wrong use of; to misuse, abuse. Obs. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| ditching | The making and repairing of ditches. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| dop | intr. To descend or sink suddenly into water or the like, to plump or ‘pop’ down; to dive. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| doubly | In a double or twofold manner or degree; in two ways, or twice as much. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| dromed | = dromedary n. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| dyscrase | trans. To affect with a dyscrasy; to distemper, disorder. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| eagle | The name commonly given to any of the larger Diurnal Birds-of-prey which are not… | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| ensample | To authorize by example; also, to set forth as an example. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| ensiege | trans. To besiege. Also fig. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| equivocation | The using (a word) in more than one sense; ambiguity or uncertainty of meaning in… | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| expressly | With distinct enunciation (obs.). | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| fable | To tell fictitious tales, speak fiction, romance. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| fage | absol. or intr. To coax, flatter, toady; to speak coaxingly to. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| ferrer | A worker in iron; a smith. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| figurally | By way of a figure, figuratively. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| foltish | Foolish, besotted, silly. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| forger | A maker or framer (of something material or immaterial); an author or creator. Now only… | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| frantic | A person who is frantic or frenzied; a ‘lunatic’; a delirious patient. Obs. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| furbish | trans. To remove rust from (a weapon, armour, etc.); to brighten by rubbing, polish, burnish. Also with up. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| grammarian | One versed in the knowledge of grammar, or of language generally; a philologist… | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| gree | To come into accord or harmony; to come to terms with (a person), on, upon (a matter); to make an agreement. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| gurl | intr. To rumble, growl; (of the wind) to roar, howl. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| hearty | Full of courage; courageous, bold (obs.). In later use coloured by senses A. 4 A.… | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| hedging | The action of the verb hedge v.; the construction or repair of hedges. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| hierarchy | Each of the three divisions of angels, every one comprising three orders, in the… | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| hydropsy | Dropsy. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| impertinent | Not appertaining or belonging (to); unconnected, unrelated; inconsonant. ? Obs. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| improbity | Persistency, perseverance. Obs. or nonce-use. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| inasmuch | In so far as, to such a degree as, in proportion as, according as. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| indivisible | Not divisible; incapable of being divided (actually, or in thought); incapable of… | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| infamous | of things. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| interpret | To give a particular explanation of; to expound or take in a specified manner. Also… | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| jealousness | The quality of being jealous; jealousy; suspicion. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| juggling | the practice of trickery or deception. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| kneeler | A person who kneels, esp. in reverence; spec. (in 16–17th c.) one who received the Lord's Supper kneeling. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| largerly | More largely. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| leapful | A basketful. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| little-what | A small portion or quantity (of); somewhat. Also a little what (advb.): in some degree, somewhat. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| locusta | A locust. Obs. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| scrawl | intr. To spread the limbs abroad in a sprawling manner; to gesticulate. Obs. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| simonian | A simoniac, simonist. Obs. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| sophister | = sophist n. 3. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| sort | of a (certain) sort, of a certain kind, etc. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| sprenge | Sprinkling. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| stretching | The action or an act of the verb. Also with advs., forth, out. | 1375 | Go To Quotation |
| sufficience | The quality or condition of being sufficient or enough; sufficient supply, means, or resources. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| suffie | intr. To suffice. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| suingly | Accordingly, consequently. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| tilling | That tills or cultivates land. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| treat | The action or an act of treating, or discussing terms; parley, negotiation; agreement; treaty. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| undermining | The action of digging under, excavating, eroding, etc. Also in fig. contexts. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| unholden | Not kept; unobserved. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| unknow | trans. Not to know (something); to fail to recognize or perceive. Also absol. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| unordinal | Not reduced to order; unregulated. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| unpower | Want of power; inability; weakness; helplessness. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| unsensible | = insensible adj. 1. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| untrueful | Untruthful, false. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| varying | The action of the verb, in various senses. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| volume | A collection of written or printed sheets bound together so as to form a book; a tome. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| wagger | intr. To wander, have no settled abode. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
