| a- | Attached to the past participle and occasionally to other parts of the verb; = y- prefix… | 1275 | Go To Quotation |
| abrood | Of a hen or other bird: on its brood or eggs; hatching eggs; breeding young. Also fig.… | 1275 | Go To Quotation |
| accord | With reference to people: agreement, harmony, reconciliation; an instance of this. | 1275 | Go To Quotation |
| adin | trans. To deafen; = din v. 2. | 1275 | Go To Quotation |
| adwole | In error, erroneously, mistakenly. | 1275 | Go To Quotation |
| afoled | Made foolish; infatuated. | 1275 | Go To Quotation |
| agramed | Angered, enraged. Also: vexed, troubled, grieved. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| agrille | trans. To provoke (someone); to offend, annoy. Cf. grill v. 1. | 1275 | Go To Quotation |
| alamed | Paralysed, lame. | 1275 | Go To Quotation |
| amiss | Erroneously, in a way that goes astray of, or misses its object. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| arghth | = arghness n. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| aschewele | To scare, frighten away. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| atrout | intr. To rush away, escape (with dat. = from). | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| atshoot | intr. To shoot away (with dat. = from). | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| a-will | At one's will, to one's pleasure or satisfaction. | 1274 | Go To Quotation |
| awrath | trans. (and refl.) To make angry, enrage. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| ban | In feudal usage: The gathering of the (French) king's vassals for war; the whole body of… | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| bedde | A bedfellow. | 1250 | Go To Quotation |
| bedtime | The hour or time for going to bed. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| begrown | Grown over with, covered with a growth. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| behem | trans. To hem round. lit. and fig. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| belike | To make like; to simulate. | 1275 | Go To Quotation |
| beseemed | Having an appearance (of such a kind), appearing, looking; = beseen besee v.; esp. in well-beseemed… | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| bihede | To guard against. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| bitight | Clad, attired. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| biwait | intr. To look about or out, be circumspect. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| blench | A trick, stratagem. to do or make a blenk or blench: to play a trick. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| boldhead | Boldness, audacity. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| bondman | = bond n. 2. Obs. exc. Hist. | 1250 | Go To Quotation |
| broad | trans. To broaden, spread abroad, expand. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| carter | One who drives a cart. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| certes | Of a truth, of a certainty, certainly, assuredly. Used to confirm a statement. (‘An… | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| chaterestre | A female chatterer. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| chatter | The chattering of certain birds; also of apes, etc.: see the vb. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| chattering | The action expressed by the verb chatter v. (in its various senses). | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| clack | intr. To chatter, prate, talk loquaciously. Said of chattering birds and human beings. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| clench | trans. To fix securely, make fast, as with nails, bolts, or the like; to secure (a nail or… | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| clout | Clot of earth, clod. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| coal-black | As black as coal; dead black. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| cockering | | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| cog | One of a series of teeth or similar projections on the circumference of a wheel, or the side… | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| condut | A kind of song or carol. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| cremp | trans. To contract, restrain. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| cuckold | A derisive name for the husband of an unfaithful wife. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| dahet | In the construction dahet have, dathet have: = May (he, etc.) have misfortune! a mischief, curse, damnation be to… | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| daylight | The time of daylight, the day-time; spec. the time when daylight appears, day-break, as in before or at daylight. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| eve | = evening n. lit. and fig. poet. or rhetorical. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| falcon | Ornithol. One of a family of the smaller diurnal birds of prey, characterized by a… | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| fit | An adversary of equal power; one's ‘match’. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| foȝ | Fitness; in phr. = German mit fug und recht. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| fold | A similar configuration in animal and vegetable structures. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| foliot | ? Foolish matter. Obs. rare. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| forban | trans. To banish. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| forcremp | ? intr. for refl. To cramp oneself up. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| gabbing | Lying, falsehood, a lie. Obs. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| galegale | A noisy fellow; a ‘sing-song’. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| giddily | In a giddy manner (see the senses of the adj.); †insanely, madly, foolishly… | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| goodhead | = goodness n. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| hatch | intr. To bring forth young birds from the egg by incubation. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| heme | ? A man; ? a householder. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| hip | intr. To hop; now north. to hop on one foot. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| hollow | Having a hole or cavity inside; having an empty space in the interior; opp. to solid. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| hook | trans. To make hook-like or hooked; to bend, crook, incurve. rare. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| hue | intr. To shout, make an outcry; spec. in hunting, and now in the Cornish sea fisheries. Cf. huer n. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| huing | Shouting, hooting; spec. the rousing of a deer from its lair, or driving it with shouts… | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| i-duȝe | Profitable, advantageous. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| i-grede | Crying, clamour. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| i-hold | Place of shelter or abode; hold. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| i-lete | Manner, bearing. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| i-schire | trans. To tell, say, speak. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| i-warness | Watchfulness, vigilance, wariness. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| i-wende | ? Contrivances. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| knar | A rugged rock or stone. Now dial. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| lawfulness | The quality of being lawful; legality; respect for law. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| lech | A look, glance. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| leer | Empty. Also, clear of. Of a burden: Useless. Obs. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| louring | The action of lour v., frowning, scowling, sullenness. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| lug | A long stick or pole; the branch or limb of a tree. (See also log n. 1d.) | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| mash | trans. To beat into a soft mass; to crush, pound, or smash to a pulp; to squash. Also with up. | 1275 | Go To Quotation |
| minged | Mixed; mingled; adulterated, blended; disturbed, confused. Also as n. | 1275 | Go To Quotation |
| misreke | intr. To go astray. | 1275 | Go To Quotation |
| misremp | intr. To go wrong, make a mistake. | 1275 | Go To Quotation |
| mis-start | intr. To start off wrong. | 1275 | Go To Quotation |
| miste | intr. = miss v. | 1275 | Go To Quotation |
| misyenge | intr. To go astray; to miss the mark. | 1275 | Go To Quotation |
| morning | Originally: the time of the approach or beginning of ‘morn’; the period around sunrise.… | 1275 | Go To Quotation |
| ne | After a comparative adjective or adverb, introducing the second member of a comparison: = than conj. 1. Cf. nor conj. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| nightingale | A small reddish-brown migratory thrush, Luscinia megarhynchos, of western Europe… | 1275 | Go To Quotation |
| oftene | trans. To irritate. | 1275 | Go To Quotation |
| ope | That is open, not closed (esp. of an eye, door, or window); (also) revealed… | 1275 | Go To Quotation |
| opely | Openly. | 1275 | Go To Quotation |
| other side | on the other side (formerly on other side, on that other side): on the other hand. Obs. | 1275 | Go To Quotation |
| out | Situated on or forming an outside or external surface; external, exterior. Now rare. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| outlet | A place or opening at which something escapes or is released; a means of issue; a way out… | 1275 | Go To Quotation |
| overlong | For too long a time; for an excessively long time. | 1275 | Go To Quotation |
| over-quat | trans. (refl.). To overfill or glut oneself. | 1275 | Go To Quotation |
| paint | trans. To represent (an object, scene, etc.) or portray (a person or thing) on a surface, using paint or other colouring matter. | 1275 | Go To Quotation |
| pinnock | Any of several small songbirds; esp. (a) the dunnock, Prunella modularis; (b) the blue tit, Parus caeruleus. | 1275 | Go To Quotation |
| piping | The utterance or production of a shrill sound; a shrill sound, cry, complaint, etc. | 1275 | Go To Quotation |
| plea | Controversy, debate, contention, strife; a quarrel. Now Sc. | 1275 | Go To Quotation |
| plead | intr. To contend in debate; to wrangle, argue with or against. Also trans. with it. Obs. | 1275 | Go To Quotation |
| pleading | Litigation, disputation; an instance of this, esp. a lawsuit, an action. Obs. | 1275 | Go To Quotation |
| quash | trans. To bring to nothing; to crush; to destroy; to put down or suppress completely; to… | 1275 | Go To Quotation |
| reke | To go, proceed, make one's way, esp. rapidly or in haste; to run. Cf. misreke v. | 1275 | Go To Quotation |
| room-house | A privy. | 1275 | Go To Quotation |
| scritch | intr. To utter a loud cry, screech, shriek. | 1274 | Go To Quotation |
| shewel | A scarecrow. Also Hunting, something hung up or set up to keep a deer from entering… | 1250 | Go To Quotation |
| shrew | A wicked, evil-disposed, or malignant man; a mischievous or vexatious person; a rascal, villain. | 1250 | Go To Quotation |
| shritch | intr. To shriek, screech. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| sickerhead | Assurance, certainty. | 1250 | Go To Quotation |
| skent | trans. To entertain, amuse. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| slit | In clothing; †sometimes in specific senses, as the opening in the front of a shirt, a pocket, etc. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| snepe | Foolish, silly. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| sooty | Foul or dirty with soot; covered or smeared with soot; full of soot. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| spale | Sparing; respite or rest. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| span | trans. To allure, entice, or draw away (a person). | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| spousing | The action of the vb. in various senses; marriage, matrimony, wedlock; espousal, betrothal. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| springe | A snare for catching small game, esp. birds. | 1250 | Go To Quotation |
| stable | A building fitted with stalls, loose-boxes, rack and manger and harness appliances… | 1250 | Go To Quotation |
| strind | (Sense obscure; ? corrupt.) | 1250 | Go To Quotation |
| stump | intr. To stumble over a tree-stump or other obstacle. Also, to walk stumblingly (in quot. 1430 – 40 fig.). Obs. | 1250 | Go To Quotation |
| therebeside | By the side of that; next to that; near by. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| therefrom | From that; from that place; away from there. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| to-bune | trans. To beat severely, thrash, thump; to pelt. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| to-slit | trans. To slit open, split. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| toze | trans. To pull asunder; to separate or unravel the fibres of; to comb or card (wool, etc.); = tease v. 1. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| unlede | Unhappy, miserable; wicked, evil; dreadful. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| unlength | Shortness. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| unmethe | Unequal; unfair; ungentle. | 1275 | Go To Quotation |
| unrightfulness | The quality of being unrightful. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| unsod | = unsodden adj. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| upbring | trans. To bring up or forth; fig. to utter. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| whip | To flap violently with the wings. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| woodwall | A singing bird: in early quots. of uncertain identity, but prob. (as later) the… | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| writeling | Trilling or warbling (of the nightingale). | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| yelling | The action of the verb yell v.; esp. the uttering of a sharp loud cry of rage, agony, etc. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| yhende | near, at hand. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| yoll | intr. To cry aloud, howl; = yawl v. 1a. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| yomere | Sorrowfully, dolefully. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
