| arch | To furnish with an arch or vault. | 1463 | Go To Quotation |
| augmentation | The action or process of augmenting, making greater, or adding to; extension, enlargement. | 1463 | Go To Quotation |
| bead-roll | orig. A list of persons to be specially prayed for. Obs. or arch. | 1504 | Go To Quotation |
| belette | A jewel, an ornament. | 1522 | Go To Quotation |
| bipartite | in Law, of a contract, indenture, etc.: Drawn up in two corresponding parts, one for each party. | 1506 | Go To Quotation |
| boltel | An old name for a plain round moulding; a shaft of a clustered pillar. | 1463 | Go To Quotation |
| botorescle | | 1463 | Go To Quotation |
| brick | to brick up: to build or close up with brickwork. | 1648 | Go To Quotation |
| bullion | A knob or boss of metal; a convex ornament on a book, girdle, harness, or ring. Also attrib. Obs. | 1463 | Go To Quotation |
| capacity | Law. Legal competency or qualification. to be in capacity: to be legally qualified. | 1480 | Go To Quotation |
| confeoffee | = co-feoffee n. | 1480 | Go To Quotation |
| covered | Of base coin: Overlaid or plated (with precious metal). | 1463 | Go To Quotation |
| covertil | The lid (of a cup); = covercle n. 1. | 1463 | Go To Quotation |
| cramp-ring | A ring held to be efficacious against cramp, falling sickness, and the like; esp. one… | 1463 | Go To Quotation |
| cure | = cover n. | 1502 | Go To Quotation |
| cured | Covered, having a cover. | 1463 | Go To Quotation |
| de | a cry from the depths of sorrow, misery, or degradation. | 1463 | Go To Quotation |
| dead man's head | A ‘death's head’; a skull or figure of a skull. | 1557 | Go To Quotation |
| demise | Law. (trans.) To give, grant, convey, or transfer (an estate) by will or by lease. | 1480 | Go To Quotation |
| depardon | trans. To excuse, forgive. | 1501 | Go To Quotation |
| enchase | To adorn with figures in relief, esp. of repoussé-work. Hence in wider sense, to… | 1463 | Go To Quotation |
| executing | The action of execute v. | 1480 | Go To Quotation |
| executrix | A female executor; esp. a woman appointed by a testator to execute his will. | 1502 | Go To Quotation |
| fanon | An embroidered band, corresponding with the stole, but shorter, originally a kind… | 1418 | Go To Quotation |
| fee-simple | An estate in land, etc. belonging to the owner and his heirs for ever, without limitation… | 1463 | Go To Quotation |
| feretrar | The custodian of the shrines. | 1463 | Go To Quotation |
| folded | ? a table with flaps. | 1504 | Go To Quotation |
| frieze | trans. To cover with a nap; = cotton v. 1. Obs. exc. Hist. | 1509 | Go To Quotation |
| friezed | Of cloth: Having a nap; = cottoned adj. 1. | 1509 | Go To Quotation |
| garnish | A set of vessels for table use, esp. of pewter (see quot. 1587). Obs. | 1418 | Go To Quotation |
| gilt | Gilt plate. Obs. rare. | 1492 | Go To Quotation |
| glass case | (as two words). A case with the upper part made chiefly of glass, so that the… | 1649 | Go To Quotation |
| grindle | A narrow ditch or drain. (Cf. grindlet n.) | 1463 | Go To Quotation |
| hammered | Beaten out or shaped with a hammer. | 1522 | Go To Quotation |
| head-place | The residence occupied by the owner of a property containing several messuages; the capital messuage. | 1463 | Go To Quotation |
| hemptery | Hempen fabric. | 1570 | Go To Quotation |
| in-bread | Bread ‘thrown in’; the extra loaf or loaves allowed by a baker in each dozen. Cf. baker's dozen n. at baker n. Compounds. | 1639 | Go To Quotation |
| indebt | Indebted. | 1504 | Go To Quotation |
| intestement | Will; testament. | 1463 | Go To Quotation |
| Jesse | A genealogical tree representing the genealogy of Christ, from ‘the root of Jesse’ (cf.… | 1463 | Go To Quotation |
| kembing | the stock or frame on which the combs were fixed for dressing wool, rippling lint, and breaking flax. | 1418 | Go To Quotation |
| leasing | The action of lease v.; letting out (on lease). Also attrib. | 1521 | Go To Quotation |
| lettage | The action or process of leasing something to a person. | 1530 | Go To Quotation |
| lidless | Without a lid. | 1522 | Go To Quotation |
| molen | Perh.: a Moor. Cf. Morian n. | 1538 | Go To Quotation |
| murrey colour | = murrey n. 1. | 1537 | Go To Quotation |
| mystill | Prob.: = mistle n. | 1463 | Go To Quotation |
| new-build | trans. To build anew, rebuild; (also) to build (something which has not been built before). | 1480 | Go To Quotation |
| performation | The action of performing something; performance, execution; completion, fulfilment. Cf. perform v. 1. | 1504 | Go To Quotation |
| pot hangings | With pl. concord: = pot-clip n. Also: a pair of pot-hooks. | 1521 | Go To Quotation |
| prenticehead | = prenticeship n. | 1463 | Go To Quotation |
| sangrede | A service chanted for the souls of the departed. | 1463 | Go To Quotation |
| sarsenet | A very fine and soft silk material made both plain and twilled, in various colours… | 1463 | Go To Quotation |
| scrayfoot | attrib. in scrayfoot pot, a pot with a tripod support. | 1512 | Go To Quotation |
| spinning-house | A room or building set apart for the purpose of spinning. | 1463 | Go To Quotation |
| thirty-day | A commemoration of a deceased person thirty days after his death: = month's mind n. 1. | 1479 | Go To Quotation |
| thrummed | Covered or decked with thrums; having a nap or shaggy surface; also, fringed. Obs. or dial. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| valance | A piece of drapery attached lengthways to a canopy, altar-cloth, or the like, so as to hang in a vertical position. Also attrib. | 1463 | Go To Quotation |
| violet | Having the colour of violets; of a blue or bluish-purple colour. | 1370 | Go To Quotation |
| woodwork | A piece of work in wood; an article made of wood, or such articles collectively. Obs. | 1650 | Go To Quotation |
