| aguiled | Beguiled, deceived. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| amethyst | A precious stone of a clear purple or bluish violet colour, of different degrees… | 1290 | Go To Quotation |
| amove | intr. | 1280 | Go To Quotation |
| anapped | Sleepy. | 1305 | Go To Quotation |
| anteyn | A by-form of anthem n. | 1305 | Go To Quotation |
| approach | trans. To come near to. | 1305 | Go To Quotation |
| arithmetic | The science of numbers; the art of computation by figures. | 1305 | Go To Quotation |
| arraign | trans. To call (a person) to account, or to answer for himself; to interrogate, examine. Obs. | 1360 | Go To Quotation |
| athirst | Suffering from, or oppressed by, thirst; thirsty. | 1305 | Go To Quotation |
| avoirdupois | Merchandise sold by weight. Obs. (1600.) | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| bagful | As much as a bag will contain. | 1305 | Go To Quotation |
| baillie | The jurisdiction, authority, charge, or office of a bailie n. or bailiff n., in… | 1305 | Go To Quotation |
| barehead | = bare-headed adj. adv. | 1320 | Go To Quotation |
| because | Followed by that or why: For the reason that. (Formerly for was sometimes prefixed.) arch.… | 1305 | Go To Quotation |
| bein | Pleasant, genial, kindly; ‘nice.’ (Latin amœnus, almus, benignus.) Obs. | 1199 | Go To Quotation |
| bent | A place covered with grass, as opposed to a wood; a bare field, a grassy… | 1360 | Go To Quotation |
| blandish | trans. To flatter gently by kind words or affectionate actions, to coax; to act… | 1305 | Go To Quotation |
| blandishing | Blandishment, flattery. | 1305 | Go To Quotation |
| blear | intr. To have watery or inflamed eyes, to be blear-eyed. (Said also of an albino.) Obs. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| bloat | ? Soft with moisture (or ? livid, pale). Obs. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| bob | To strike with the fist, to pommel, buffet. Obs. | 1280 | Go To Quotation |
| bordel | A house of prostitution, a brothel. | 1305 | Go To Quotation |
| bound | With inf.: Compelled, obliged; under necessity (esp. logical or moral); fated, certain… | 1360 | Go To Quotation |
| bouse | intr. To drink; to drink to excess or for enjoyment or goodfellowship; to swill, guzzle, tipple. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| bower-maid | A chamber-maid; a lady in waiting. | 1308 | Go To Quotation |
| brag | Arrogant or boastful language (in earlier examples usually in phrase brag and boast);… | 1360 | Go To Quotation |
| buxom | With to: To yield to, obey. | 1305 | Go To Quotation |
| byse | Some kind of (? brown) fur, much used in the 15th c. for trimming gowns, etc. | 1280 | Go To Quotation |
| caple | A horse: in Middle English chiefly poetical; now only dial. | 1290 | Go To Quotation |
| chalandre | Middle English form of calander calandra n. Forms, a Mediterranean species of lark, Alauda calandra… | 1305 | Go To Quotation |
| chalcedony | A precious (or semi-precious) stone, which in its various tints is largely used in… | 1305 | Go To Quotation |
| chaser | A horse trained for steeple-chasing. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| chilce | Childishness, childness. | 1199 | Go To Quotation |
| chorister | of a church choir; now spec. a choir-boy. Also, a choir-leader (U.S.). | 1360 | Go To Quotation |
| chough | A bird of the crow family; formerly applied somewhat widely to all the smaller… | 1305 | Go To Quotation |
| clumse | intr. To be or become stiff or numb with cold. | 1360 | Go To Quotation |
| collock | A tub, or similar vessel; now, dial. a large pail. | 1310 | Go To Quotation |
| commonly | After a fashion or in a way common to all; in common; generally, universally. Obs. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| conger | A large species of eel living in salt water and attaining a length of from six to ten feet… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| consonant | Applied to the letters (solely or chiefly). | 1308 | Go To Quotation |
| continually | In a continual way; always, incessantly, constantly, perpetually, all the time; i.e.… | 1305 | Go To Quotation |
| cough | intr. To expel the air from the lungs with a more or less violent effort and… | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| counter | A round piece of metal, ivory, or other material, formerly used in performing arithmetical operations. Obs. | 1310 | Go To Quotation |
| countryman | A man of a (specified or indicated) country or district (country n. 2 3); a native… | 1305 | Go To Quotation |
| coverchief | A handkerchief. | 1305 | Go To Quotation |
| craftful | skilfully. | 1308 | Go To Quotation |
| craftilich | Skilful, skilfully wrought. | 1308 | Go To Quotation |
| cucking-stool | An instrument of punishment formerly in use for scolds, disorderly women… | 1308 | Go To Quotation |
| cumble | intr. To be or become benumbed. | 1280 | Go To Quotation |
| death-throe | The agony of death, the death-struggle; also fig. | 1305 | Go To Quotation |
| deface | fig. (of things immaterial). | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| defade | intr. To lose freshness or fairness; to fade away. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| degrade | trans. To reduce from a higher to a lower rank, to depose from (†of) a position of honour or estimation. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| deliver | Free, at liberty. Obs. | 1305 | Go To Quotation |
| dim | intr. To grow or become dim; to lose brightness or clearness. lit. and fig. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| dirt | Ordure; = excrement n. 2b. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| discipline | intr. (for refl.). To chastise oneself. Obs. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| disobedient | Withholding obedience; refusing or failing to obey; neglectful or not observant… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| dite | trans. To compose or put in words (a set speech, poem, or writing); to indite. (Also absol.) | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| ditty | A composition intended to be set to music and sung; a song, lay; now, a short simple… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| divinity | The science of divine things; the science that deals with the nature and attributes of… | 1305 | Go To Quotation |
| doing | The action of the verb do v.; action, proceeding, conduct; performance or execution of… | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| doubtous | Fraught with terror; fearful, dreadful, terrible. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| drapery | Cloth or textile fabrics collectively. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| drawing | gen. The action of the verb draw v. in its various senses: the imparting of motion or… | 1305 | Go To Quotation |
| dute | Shortened form of dedute, deduit n., enjoyment, pleasure. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| eirmonger | A dealer in eggs. | 1305 | Go To Quotation |
| element | Used as a general name for earth, water, air, and fire; originally in sense 1, to which… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| embrace | To entwine, encircle, surround; to clasp, enclose. lit. and fig. | 1360 | Go To Quotation |
| envy | The feeling of mortification and ill-will occasioned by the contemplation of… | 1280 | Go To Quotation |
| erewhile | A while before, some time ago, formerly. | 1305 | Go To Quotation |
| execution | spec. The infliction of capital punishment; the putting (a person) to death in pursuance… | 1360 | Go To Quotation |
| executor | A person appointed by a testator to execute or carry into effect his will after… | 1280 | Go To Quotation |
| falc | App. some plant. | 1310 | Go To Quotation |
| fantasy | A spectral apparition, phantom; an illusory appearance. Obs. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| feature | Make, form, fashion, shape; proportions, esp. of the body; a particular example of this. Obs. exc. arch. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| flare | To spread out (hair); to display in an expanded form. Also with out. Obs. | 1550 | Go To Quotation |
| flouren | Made of flour. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| forfaint | Very faint. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| forsaken | Deserted, left solitary or desolate. | 1305 | Go To Quotation |
| forseek | trans. To seek thoroughly, seek out. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| fortravail | trans. To exhaust with labour. | 1305 | Go To Quotation |
| frow | Hastily. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| gaff | An iron hook; a staff or stick armed with this. Now only dial. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| ghastly | †In early use: Causing terror, terrible (obs.). In mod. use (cf. 2): Suggestive of the… | 1305 | Go To Quotation |
| goodman | = good man. Sometimes used as a vague title of dignity or a respectful form of address. Obs. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| grisful | Horrible; terrible. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| guillemin | A hermit of the order founded in the 12th c. by disciples of St. William. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| hair-lace | A string or tie for binding the hair; a fillet, headband; also, a fillet in Archit. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| haras | An enclosure or establishment in which horses and mares are kept for breeding; hence, †a stud, breed, or race of horses (obs.). | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| harboury | Shelter, lodging, harbourage; = harbour n. 1. In quot. 1487, military encampment. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| harlotry | Buffoonery, jesting; ribaldry, scurrility, scurrilous talk; obscene talk or behaviour. Obs. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| hatchel | An instrument for combing flax or hemp; = hackle n., heckle n. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| heed | Esp. in phr. to take (†nim) heed. | 1305 | Go To Quotation |
| helply | Affording help; helpful, serviceable. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| hepatite | An early name for a precious stone (hepatitis gemma Pliny) said to resemble the liver in some respect. | 1305 | Go To Quotation |
| holy bread | In post-Reformation times, The bread provided for the Eucharist. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| horsehair | A mass or collection of such hair. | 1305 | Go To Quotation |
| jolly | In high spirits; exhilarated, joyful; †glad of or pleased at something. Chiefly pred. | 1305 | Go To Quotation |
| joyous | Const. of or with clause. Obs. | 1305 | Go To Quotation |
| lap | trans. To coil, fold, wrap (a garment, or anything supple). Const. about, in, †on, †over, round… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| larder | A room or closet in which meat (? orig. bacon) and other provisions are stored. | 1305 | Go To Quotation |
| lectern | A reading- or singing-desk in a church, esp. that from which the lessons are read; made… | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| likeful | Pleasing, acceptable, agreeable. | 1305 | Go To Quotation |
| liking | ‘In condition’; healthy, plump; in a specified condition (e.g. well, ill liking). Of a soil: Rich. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| loreless | Without learning or knowledge. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| lustiness | Vigour, robustness; †energy, activity. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| lusting | The action of the verb lust v. in its various senses. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| lustless | Without vigour or energy: = listless adj. Obs. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| madam | A form of respectful or polite address (substituted for the name) originally used by… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| maze | Delirium; delusion; disappointment. Obs. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| milth | Merciful, kind. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| ordainer | A person who puts or keeps things in order; a manager, director; a ruler. Obs. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| outchamber | An outer room, an antechamber. | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| outsay | To utter (something); to say or name out loud. Obs. | 1250 | Go To Quotation |
| overbring | trans. To bring over or across. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| porture | Bearing, demeanour, behaviour. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| purse-bearer | The bearer or carrier of a purse; a person who has been given charge of money belonging… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| ringing | The act of causing a bell or resonant object to sound. Also in various extended uses. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| scion | spec. A slip for grafting, a graft. | 1305 | Go To Quotation |
| serpent | The serpent, ‘more subtil than any beast of the field’, that tempted Eve (Gen. iii.… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| sleet | Snow which has been partially thawed by falling through an atmosphere of a temperature… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| sneipe | intr. ? To become pinched. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| snob | intr. To sob. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| snurp | intr. To become shrivelled or wrinkled. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| some one | Some person, somebody. someone else, used pregnantly to mean ‘a rival for the… | 1305 | Go To Quotation |
| swage | bodily injury or pain, swelling, etc. | 1305 | Go To Quotation |
| swollen | Increased in bulk, as by internal pressure; distended, filled out; esp.… | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| thank you | A phrase used in courteous acknowledgement of a favour or service. thank you for nothing… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| tithing | Payment of tithes. Cf. tithe v. 2. | 1305 | Go To Quotation |
| top | intr. To fight, struggle, strive. Obs. | 1305 | Go To Quotation |
| trifle | intr. To say what is untrue, to jest in order to cheat, mock, amuse, or make sport. Obs. | 1305 | Go To Quotation |
| tripe | With a and pl. as an individual thing. Now rare. (Usually plural.) | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| try | Choice, excellent, good; = tried adj. 2. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| twitch | intr. To pull or pluck sharply or forcibly; to give a sharp pull or jerk (at something); to tug. Also fig. | 1305 | Go To Quotation |
| unbegotten | Ungenerated. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| unlike | Unevenly, unequally; in a higher or lower degree. Obs. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| unlustily | Slothfully, idly; weakly; unwillingly. | 1360 | Go To Quotation |
| unpared | Of fruit: Not having the skin pared off. | 1305 | Go To Quotation |
| unreasonability | (un- prefix 12; cf. unreasonable adj.) | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| vise | trans. To devise, contrive, make. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| vowel | A sound produced by the vibrations of the vocal cords; a letter or character representing such a sound (as a, e, i, etc.). | 1308 | Go To Quotation |
| woolsack | A large package or bale of wool. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| wrick | intr. To move (jerkily or unsteadily) from side to side. | 1305 | Go To Quotation |
| wringer | An exactor, extortioner; an oppressor. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| ylaid | Middle English pa. pples. of lay v. | 1200 | Go To Quotation |
| yselþe | Variant of i-selth n.: success. | 1200 | Go To Quotation |
