| abate | Diminution, reduction (of a quality, etc.); an instance of this. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| advancer | A forward-pointing branch of a deer's antlers; spec. each of those on the front edge of the… | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| aggresteyne | A form of pruritis affecting the tails of hawks, giving rise to self-mutilation. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| agrum | A disease affecting hawks, apparently characterized by the discharge of fluid from the… | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| aitch-bone | In various animals, esp. cattle: the part of the pelvis forming the bone of the buttock… | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| allay | An act of putting hounds onto a scent; spec. the release of a small set of hounds after the… | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| angulated | Made to have angles, cornered. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| avant-lay | The laying on of fresh hounds to intercept a deer already chased by others. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| barry | (A field) Divided horizontally into a number of equal parts by bars of two colours arranged alternately. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| bastardy | The condition of a bastard, illegitimate birth. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| bating | The action of beating the wings, and (spec. in Falconry) fluttering off the fist or perch. | 1456 | Go To Quotation |
| bawtere | (See quot. 1486.) | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| bebally | Said of a shield: = party per pale at pale n. 6b, i.e. divided into two parts by a vertical line. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| bender | An instrument for bending; a pair of pliers. | 1496 | Go To Quotation |
| bendly | Heraldry. Bend-wise. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| bendy | Of a shield: Divided diagonally into an even number (usually six) of equal… | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| berry | A (rabbit's) burrow. Hence, the spec. name for a company of rabbits. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| bewet | A ring or slip of leather for attaching the bell to a hawk's leg. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| bezanty | Charged with or formed of bezants. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| bially | (See quots.) | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| bleach | Hence, in the old ‘Compaynys of beestys [etc.]’ the term for, A company of sutors. Obs. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| bleak | A small river-fish, called also the Blay (Leuciscus alburnus); and scientifically the… | 1496 | Go To Quotation |
| blister | intr. To be or become covered with blisters. | 1496 | Go To Quotation |
| blobbed | Affected with pimples or swellings. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| bow-string | The string of a bow; also fig. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| brailed | perh. a ringed worm | 1496 | Go To Quotation |
| brusk | An obsolete name for the colour tawny or orange. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| butter | trans. To smear or spread with butter. Also, To cook or dish up with butter (see buttered adj. 2). | 1496 | Go To Quotation |
| carpentaries | perh. pl. of carpentarie, -ary, as a variant form of carpenter n.; perh. for carpentaris, pl. of form carpentar: see -ar suffix. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| centry | | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| cere | The naked wax-like membrane at the base of the beak in certain birds, in which the… | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| cete | A ‘company’ of badgers. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| checky | Heraldry. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| chequered | Marked like a chess-board; hence, having a pattern of various colours in more or less geometrical arrangement. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| chub | A river fish (Cyprinus or Leuciscus cephalus) of the Carp family (Cyprinidæ), also… | 1496 | Go To Quotation |
| claurie | Of one colour. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| cockshoot | | 1496 | Go To Quotation |
| cod-worm | A caddis-worm; = cod-bait n. | 1496 | Go To Quotation |
| colded | Seized with a cold (dial.). | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| conate | = coned adj. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| cone | Heraldry. Each of the angular divisions of a shield formed by a number of lines (e.g.… | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| coned | Heraldry. ? Having an apex or point; pointed. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| conely | Cone-wise; apically; (meeting) in one apical point. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| countenance | intr. To assume a particular demeanour, behaviour, or aspect; to behave, pretend, or make (as if…). Obs. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| counter-fessed | Barry and divided pale-wise, the half bars being of alternate tinctures. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| counterly | Of the shield, etc.: Divided into two parts of different tinctures. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| counter-trevis | Of a charge: Divided into two parts of different tinctures. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| covetousness | Strong or inordinate desire (of). Obs. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| creep | Hawking. See quot. 1486. Obs. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| crinet | Falconry. In pl. The small hair-like feathers which grow about the cere (cere n.) of a hawk. Obs. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| cropped | Having a crop. Chiefly in comb., as full-cropped. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| cross-crosslet | A cross having the extremity of each arm in the form of a small cross. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| elk | The largest existing animal of the deer kind (Alces malchis), inhabiting large portions… | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| elynel | | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| embowelled | That has the bowels full. Obs. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| enchase | Chase; hunting. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| encrown | trans. To put a crown on (any one); to crown. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| endently | = indented adj. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| enew | trans. Of a hawk: To drive (a fowl) into the water. refl. Of a fowl: To plunge in the… | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| engislet | | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| engraded | (See quot.) | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| engrailing | The action of the verb engrail v. Also concr. an engrailed edge. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| enlure | trans. To entice (a hawk) by a lure; hence fig. to draw on, entice; also absol. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| enseam | That which is enseamed or cleansed away; superfluous fat; scourings. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| enseel | trans. To stitch up the eyelids of (a hawk). | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| ensered | Furnished with ‘seres’ (defined in Bk. St. Albans as ‘the skin on the legs’). | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| enterpen | (See quots.) | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| erased | (see quot. 1486). Obs. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| escompesall | | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| espelers | Snags or dentelations on the hinder edge of the palm or broad upper part of a buck's horn; = spiller n. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| exalting | The action of exalt v.; in quot. concr. †= exaltation n. 1c. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| eyas | A young hawk taken from the nest for the purpose of training, or one whose training is incomplete. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| fag | Something that hangs loose; a flap. In quot. 1486 attrib. See also fag-end n. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| fallera | (See quots.) | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| fen | intr. Of certain animals: To void dung. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| ferrule | trans. To fit or furnish with a ferrule. | 1496 | Go To Quotation |
| fessely | = Party per fesse; see fesse n. b. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| fessey | Of a coat of arms: Containing a fesse. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| figetive | = fitched adj. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| filander | In pl., Thread-like intestinal worms causing a disease in hawks; the disease so caused. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| fimbriate | trans. To finish or decorate with a border of any kind. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| fimbriated | Heraldry. Of a bearing: Bordered with a narrow band or edge. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| fixable | Capable of being fixed: in various senses of the vb. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| fixal | (See quots.) | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| fixily | App. = fitché adj. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| flag | pl. The quill-feathers of a bird's wing; in quot. 1486 the cubital or secondary feathers of a hawk's wing. Also attrib. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| flourishingly | In the shape of a flower (obs.). | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| forcher | The hindermost part of a deer's nombles or entrails. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| fostal | The track of a hare. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| fretly | = counter-fessed adj. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| froshell | The furcula of a bird. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| full-summed | Falconry. Of a hawk or its wings: In full plumage. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| fumay | intr. Of certain animals, esp. the hare: To evacuate excrement. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| fusil | A bearing in the form of an elongated lozenge; understood to have been originally a representation of a spindle covered with tow. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| gammon | The ham or haunch of a swine. Also transf. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| gerately | (See quots.) | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| gereri | (See quots.; the two explanations in 1486 do not agree.) | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| gleetous | fig. ? Sticky, ensnaring. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| gobonated | = gobony adj. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| goring | An alleged name for a company of butchers. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| gradately | By degrees; spec. in Heraldry (cf. engraded adj., engrailed adj.). | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| gritty | Of a field: Composed equally of a metal and a colour. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| hemule | A roebuck of the third year. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| hierarch | Having rule in holy things, or among the holy ones: applied to certain orders of angels. Obs. (Cf. hierarchy n. 1.) | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| imbordure | trans. To encompass with a border; spec. Heraldry to furnish with a bordure of the… | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| incarry | trans. To carry or convey in; to mingle, mix. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| indeterminable | Incapable of being limited or bounded in respect of range, number, etc. Obs. rare. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| innebulated | Having an outline resembling clouds; = nebuly adj. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| invecked | Bordered by or consisting (as an edge) of a series of small convex lobes (see quot. 1610). Chiefly in Heraldry. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| inveigh | trans. To carry in, introduce. Obs. rare. Cf. invecked adj. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| irrased | = indented adj. 2 (Cf. erased adj. 2a 2b.) | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| jurier | One who has taken an oath; a juror or juryman. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| laced | Lessened, diminished. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| larbar | A lean, withered, or worn out person. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| leisurely | At leisure, without haste; with deliberate or leisurely motion or action. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| lentally | (See quots.) | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| lessed | (See quot. 1486.) | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| loin | trans. The technical term for ‘to carve’ (a sole). | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| louper | Some kind of artificial fly. | 1496 | Go To Quotation |
| masculated | = mascly adj. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| maunch | A charge representing a sleeve, esp. a medieval hanging sleeve. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| maze | The form (form n. 21a) of a hare; = meuse n. 2. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| merd | Dung, excrement; a piece of excrement, a turd. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| misdieting | Improper feeding or eating. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| misintending | Perh.: lack of care, inattention. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| narel | A nostril. Cf. nare n. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| nebulated | = nebuly adj. 1. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| note | The uropygial gland of a bird, which secretes the oil used for preening. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| nourishable | Capable of affording nourishment; nourishing, nutritious. Obs. | 1496 | Go To Quotation |
| ogle | A representation of a cannonball. Cf. ogress n. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| partited | Divided into parts. double partited adj. Obs. (of a cross used as a charge) having each arm doubled. Cf. tripartited adj. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| pattée | Of a cross: (formerly) †having splayed ends (obs.); (subsequently) having limbs which… | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| peep | A flock of chickens. hist. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| pen | intr. To develop feathers; to become fledged. Obs. rare. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| perforated | Heraldry. Of a charge: pierced with a hole or holes. Cf. pierced adj. 2. Obs. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| pheon | Heraldry. A charge in the form of a broad barbed arrow or arrowhead, or of the head of… | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| pitchable | Able to be pitched (in various senses); (in quot. 1486) = fitché adj. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| pizzle | The penis of an animal, esp. a bull. Now chiefly Austral. and N.Z. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| plumby | Of a cloudy or leaden colour. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| pluming | The action of plume v. (in various senses). | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| plymme | intr. Of a hawk: to pluck or tear at the feathers of its prey; = plume v. 2a. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| pressure | Rennet, esp. as food for a hawk. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| puppy | A small dog kept as a lady's pet or plaything; a lapdog. Obs. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| quadrate | Any of several types of design of arms (see quots.); spec. a cross or other ordinary having a rectangle or square in the centre. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| queach | A dense growth of bushes; a thicket. Also (in quots. 1726, 1825): a patch of untillable land characterized by such thickets. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| rake | A herd (of colts). Cf. rag n. 10. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| rate | The spleen. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| redly | Red, reddish. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| reesed | Rancid. Cf. reasty adj., reested adj. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| refrained | Of a hawk: affected with a head cold. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| reprick | intr. Of a hare: to make a track in the opposite direction. Cf. prick v. 7a. Obs. rare. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| re-proffer | intr. Of a deer: to proffer (proffer v. 4b), or make as if to move, again. Obs. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| resore | intr. Of a hare: to traverse open ground again; to double back. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| restrial | Of a shield: having dividing bands which extend to or include the point. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| retriever | A dog used in hunting to flush out or set up game, or to find game for a second time. Also fig. Cf. retrieve v. 1b. Obs. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| rye | intr. To fish in some special manner. | 1496 | Go To Quotation |
| sarcel | A pinion feather of a hawk's wing. Also sarcel feather. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| semitune | = semitone n. 1. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| sentre | = pile n. 4. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| sentry | = pily adj. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| single | Falconry. The middle or outer claw on the foot of a hawk or falcon. Now only arch. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| sonore | Sonorous. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| sore | intr. Of the hare: To traverse open ground. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| spleyer | (Meaning obscure.) | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| spun | Of wool, silk, or other material; also spec. of normally rigid materials, as glass. Comb.… | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| spyccard | (Origin and meaning obscure. Cf. spittard n.) | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| staining | That stains, in senses of the verb. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| staker | One who drives in a stake; one who uses a stake. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| successary | A successor. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| swoly | Oppressively hot, sultry. Also adv. | 1496 | Go To Quotation |
| talent | trans. To fill with desire; = entalent v. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| talented | Heraldry. = bezanty adj. Obs. rare. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| tandy | ? obs. form of tawny adj. n. | 1496 | Go To Quotation |
| taper | Diminishing gradually in breadth or thickness towards one extremity (originally… | 1496 | Go To Quotation |
| tercel-gentle | The male of the falcon. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| terminal | Heraldry. (See quots.) Obs. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| thronely | Pertaining to the throne; applied to certain ranks of angels: see quots., and cf. throne n. 7. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| torteau | Heraldry. A roundle gules; the specific name of a small red circular figure charged upon… | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| tortlet | A little cake of bread. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| tract | Heraldry: (a) = tressure n.; (b) = track n. 7. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| transmuted | Heraldry. Of a charge on a field of two tinctures: Having the tinctures of the field reversed; = counterchanged adj. Obs. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| triangled | Three-cornered, triangular. Obs. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| truncate | trans. To shorten or diminish by cutting off a part; to cut short; to maim, mutilate. Also fig. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| truncated | Heraldry. Of a cross or tree: Having the arms or boughs cut off, so as not to extend… | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| trundle-tail | A dog with a curly tail; a low-bred dog, a cur. Also attrib. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| tusk | trans. The technical expression for: To carve (a barbel). Obs. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| umber | = grayling n. | 1496 | Go To Quotation |
| umbrated | Indicated or drawn in a faint or shadowy manner. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| umbration | Heraldry. A faintly outlined figure; = adumbration n. 4. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| unaged | Not of age. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| unbrewing | A fanciful name for a ‘company’ (of carvers). | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| undated | Heraldry. = undee adj., wavy adj. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| unflourished | (un- prefix 8.) | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| unfret | trans. To unbind, untie. | 1496 | Go To Quotation |
| unsprayed | Not furnished with sprays or branches. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| urine | In Hawking: (see quots.). | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| vairy | Heraldry. Of a coat, charge, etc.: Varied or variegated with two or more colours… | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| vauntlay | The releasing or setting on of a relay of hounds before the other pursuing hounds have passed; the relay of hounds so released. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| wing | trans. To carve (a quail or partridge). Obs. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
