| abduce | trans. = abduct v. 2a. Now chiefly U.S. | 1537 | Go To Quotation |
| advowsante | = advowson n.; (also) a document granting this. | 1539 | Go To Quotation |
| affidavit | A written statement, formally confirmed by oath or affirmation, for use as evidence in court… | 1515 | Go To Quotation |
| altry | Alteration, adjustment. | 1527 | Go To Quotation |
| amit | To lose. (Rarely with of.) | 1525 | Go To Quotation |
| amplect | To embrace, clasp; = amplex v. | 1525 | Go To Quotation |
| anear | To draw near, or approach to. Obs. | 1534 | Go To Quotation |
| angelot | A French gold coin struck by Louis XI, bearing the image of St. Michael with the dragon… | 1525 | Go To Quotation |
| apostil | A marginal note, comment, or annotation. | 1527 | Go To Quotation |
| astringe | trans. To bind morally or legally; to put under obligation or necessity; to oblige. Obs. | 1523 | Go To Quotation |
| attemptate | esp. A violent or criminal attempt; an attack, assault, outrage, raid, incursion. (So French attentat.) | 1524 | Go To Quotation |
| avell | To pull or tear away, pull up. | 1530 | Go To Quotation |
| bawn | A fortified enclosure, enceinte, or circumvallation; the fortified court or outwork of a castle. | 1537 | Go To Quotation |
| bodrag(e | A hostile incursion, a raid. | 1537 | Go To Quotation |
| bog | A bugbear, a source of dread. to take bog: to boggle v. 1 2. Cf. boggle n. 1. | 1527 | Go To Quotation |
| bog | trans. To provoke. | 1546 | Go To Quotation |
| brave | To treat with bravado; to challenge, defy. | 1546 | Go To Quotation |
| bravish | Somewhat brave or defiant. | 1538 | Go To Quotation |
| bravity | = bravery n. (in various senses). | 1546 | Go To Quotation |
| brogue | An escheat; a cheat, fraud, trick. | 1537 | Go To Quotation |
| bruslery | Disturbance. | 1546 | Go To Quotation |
| cafard | A hypocrite, an impostor. Obs. | 1539 | Go To Quotation |
| callidity | Craftiness, cunning. | 1524 | Go To Quotation |
| carity | Dearness, dearth. | 1530 | Go To Quotation |
| citatorial | = citatory adj. | 1529 | Go To Quotation |
| coifed | Wearing or provided with a coif; having a covering resembling a coif. | 1520 | Go To Quotation |
| confine | intr. To have a common boundary or frontier with; to border on, be adjacent to. (Said of… | 1523 | Go To Quotation |
| consecute | trans. To follow with success, overtake, attain, gain. | 1536 | Go To Quotation |
| countermure | Mil. A wall raised within or behind another wall as a reserve defence, in case of its being breached. | 1524 | Go To Quotation |
| cruent | Bloody; fig. cruel. | 1524 | Go To Quotation |
| debellation | The action of vanquishing or reducing by force of arms; conquest, subjugation. | 1526 | Go To Quotation |
| dedition | Giving up, yielding, surrender. | 1523 | Go To Quotation |
| derob | trans. To rob, plunder. | 1546 | Go To Quotation |
| devast | trans. To lay waste, devastate v. | 1537 | Go To Quotation |
| dilucidate | trans. To make clear or plain; to elucidate. | 1538 | Go To Quotation |
| diminutely | In a diminished manner or form; incompletely. | 1521 | Go To Quotation |
| disaffy | trans. To put out of relations of affiance: defy v. 1. | 1546 | Go To Quotation |
| discrepant | Exhibiting difference, dissimilarity or want of harmony; different, discordant, inharmonious, inconsistent. Const. from, †to. | 1524 | Go To Quotation |
| disgross | fig. (unless misread for disqwss, discuss n.). | 1546 | Go To Quotation |
| don | A donation, gift. | 1524 | Go To Quotation |
| drib | intr. To fall in drops; fig., to go on little by little. | 1523 | Go To Quotation |
| drumslade | A drum, or some form of drum. | 1527 | Go To Quotation |
| enjeopard | trans. To put in jeopardy, jeopardize, endanger. | 1523 | Go To Quotation |
| enterparle | intr. To talk mutually, confer. | 1536 | Go To Quotation |
| esclarish | trans. To make clear or bright; to bring to light; to render illustrious. | 1546 | Go To Quotation |
| escorse | trans. To skin, flay. In quot. 1546 fig. | 1546 | Go To Quotation |
| exility | Shrunken or attenuated condition, smallness in number or size; thinness, slenderness, meagreness. | 1528 | Go To Quotation |
| fardredeal | ? Advantage. | 1521 | Go To Quotation |
| festin(e) | = festino n. | 1520 | Go To Quotation |
| fiant | A warrant addressed to the Irish Chancery for a grant under the Great Seal. By Spenser used transf. | 1534 | Go To Quotation |
| fleece | To pluck or shear (the wool) from a sheep. Hence fig. to obtain by unjust or unfair means.… | 1537 | Go To Quotation |
| fornent | Right opposite to, over against; facing. | 1524 | Go To Quotation |
| forsar(y | A galley-slave. | 1546 | Go To Quotation |
| frask | A trick. | 1524 | Go To Quotation |
| fretish | trans. To chill, benumb. Only in pass. | 1523 | Go To Quotation |
| fumishing | The excrement (of a deer). Cf. fumet n. | 1527 | Go To Quotation |
| fussefall | Prostration before a sovereign. | 1547 | Go To Quotation |
| galliass | A heavy, low-built vessel, larger than a galley, impelled both by sail and oars, chiefly employed in war. | 1544 | Go To Quotation |
| galloglass | One of a particular class of soldiers or retainers formerly maintained by Irish chiefs. | 1515 | Go To Quotation |
| garron | A small and inferior kind of horse bred and used chiefly in Ireland and Scotland. | 1540 | Go To Quotation |
| gartie | ‘A ransom for felony’ (?). | 1533 | Go To Quotation |
| grate | Pleasing, agreeable, acceptable. | 1523 | Go To Quotation |
| grave | Of persons: Having weight or importance; influential, respected. (Sometimes used as an… | 1541 | Go To Quotation |
| gravous | Grave. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| hab | In hab or nab, have or not have. | 1546 | Go To Quotation |
| handlock | A shackle for the hands; a manacle, a handcuff. | 1532 | Go To Quotation |
| hut | Mil. A wooden structure for the temporary housing of troops. (App. the earlier use.) | 1545 | Go To Quotation |
| illate | trans. To bring upon, occasion, cause. | 1533 | Go To Quotation |
| imbrate | trans. To defile, sully, pollute. | 1542 | Go To Quotation |
| impone | trans. To place or set upon something; to impose. | 1529 | Go To Quotation |
| importunance | (?) Grievousness, gravity, seriousness. | 1546 | Go To Quotation |
| impostumation | = impostume n. 1 2. | 1524 | Go To Quotation |
| incuss | trans. To strike in, impress; to strike (terror, etc.) into the mind; to inspire a person with (some feeling). | 1527 | Go To Quotation |
| indelayed | Not delayed or put off; immediate. | 1523 | Go To Quotation |
| infeasible | Incapable of being accomplished or carried out; impracticable, impossible. | 1533 | Go To Quotation |
| inhabile | trans. To render or declare unfit; to disqualify, disable. | 1534 | Go To Quotation |
| intercur | intr. To run, come, or pass between persons or things. | 1527 | Go To Quotation |
| intromeddle | To interfere, intermeddle. | 1524 | Go To Quotation |
| inusitate | Unwonted, unusual, out of use. | 1546 | Go To Quotation |
| ken | = kenning n. 4b. Obs. | 1545 | Go To Quotation |
| kernaugh | An Irish (or Highland) kern. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| lator | The bearer (of a letter). | 1529 | Go To Quotation |
| leisureless | Having no leisure. | 1536 | Go To Quotation |
| lesserness | The quality or condition of being lesser. | 1540 | Go To Quotation |
| leviation | The levying of a tax; quasi- concr. a tax. | 1538 | Go To Quotation |
| limoneer | A horse which is attached to the shafts of a vehicle. | 1524 | Go To Quotation |
| lyam-hound | A bloodhound. | 1527 | Go To Quotation |
| maintenantly | = maintenant adv. | 1528 | Go To Quotation |
| marchland | Land comprising the marches of a country; a border territory or district. | 1536 | Go To Quotation |
| munite | trans. To fortify, strengthen, protect. Freq. in pass. | 1533 | Go To Quotation |
| obstrict | Morally bound or obliged. | 1527 | Go To Quotation |
| ortolan | A gardener. Obs. rare. | 1526 | Go To Quotation |
| package | The action of packing goods, etc.; spec. (now hist.) the privilege of overseeing the… | 1510 | Go To Quotation |
| palp | trans. To touch, feel; to handle gently; to caress. Also fig.: †to cajole, flatter (obs.). Also intr. | 1534 | Go To Quotation |
| parclose | trans. To enclose; esp. to fence in or shut off with a parclose (parclose n. 1a). | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| parclosing | Conclusion. | 1538 | Go To Quotation |
| periclitate | Used as past participle: exposed to peril, endangered. | 1525 | Go To Quotation |
| periclitation | The action of exposing a person or thing to danger; the condition of being exposed to danger; danger, hazard, etc. | 1527 | Go To Quotation |
| pingle | A fierce contest or fight; contention, open disagreement. Obs. | 1543 | Go To Quotation |
| post scriptum | = postscript n. 1. Also as adv. | 1523 | Go To Quotation |
| pourparle | trans. To conduct preliminary negotiations about. | 1534 | Go To Quotation |
| preclose | trans. = foreclose v. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| preferrer | A person who presents a matter for consideration; a person who submits or promotes a measure. Obs. | 1536 | Go To Quotation |
| presidiate | Garrisoned. | 1543 | Go To Quotation |
| prodige | trans. To squander. | 1538 | Go To Quotation |
| profund | trans. To spend (money) lavishly. Also (lit.): to pour out. | 1527 | Go To Quotation |
| pronept | A great-niece. | 1543 | Go To Quotation |
| proniece | A great-niece; = pronept n. | 1542 | Go To Quotation |
| protract | Extension or prolongation of time; delay, procrastination. Only in protract of time. Obs. | 1536 | Go To Quotation |
| pursuiter | A person who pursues (in various senses of the verb); = pursuer n. Also in extended use. U.S. in later use. | 1542 | Go To Quotation |
| rake | intr. Of a ship, its hull, timbers, etc.: to have a rake at bow or stern. Also in extended use. Now rare. | 1514 | Go To Quotation |
| recrease | intr. To grow or increase again. | 1521 | Go To Quotation |
| redub | trans. To repair or restore (something damaged). | 1522 | Go To Quotation |
| redubbing | The action of redub v. | 1527 | Go To Quotation |
| relevavith | That which is left or given up; the remains of a thing; remainder, residue. Also fig. Cf. relief n. 1. | 1546 | Go To Quotation |
| resarce | trans. To patch up, mend. | 1524 | Go To Quotation |
| rescounter | An encounter, meeting, esp. a hostile or competitive one. Cf. recounter n. 2a, rencounter n. 1. Obs. | 1543 | Go To Quotation |
| rescounter | intr. To meet with an enemy. Cf. recounter v. 2a, rencounter v. 1. | 1543 | Go To Quotation |
| resolutely | In a positive manner; with certainty; definitely. Obs. | 1540 | Go To Quotation |
| resuscitate | Revived, restored to life. | 1520 | Go To Quotation |
| rotmaster | The commander of a small detachment of soldiers. Cf. rot n. | 1523 | Go To Quotation |
| sakre | Some kind of sea-going vessel. | 1546 | Go To Quotation |
| saliner | A salt-maker. | 1543 | Go To Quotation |
| sally | A place whence a sally may be made; a sally-port. Obs. | 1542 | Go To Quotation |
| sanjak | In the former Turkish Empire, one of the administrative districts into which an eyalet or vilayet was divided. | 1537 | Go To Quotation |
| scontre | intr. = encounter v. 1. | 1545 | Go To Quotation |
| scoring | The action of the verb score v. in various senses; an instance of this. | 1546 | Go To Quotation |
| scoutette | = schout n. | 1534 | Go To Quotation |
| sennachie | In Ireland and the Scottish Highlands: One professionally occupied in the study and… | 1534 | Go To Quotation |
| sheat | A pig under a year old. | 1534 | Go To Quotation |
| simoniacre | Simoniacal. | 1534 | Go To Quotation |
| sineth | = since adv. prep. conj. | 1542 | Go To Quotation |
| skeg | = skeck n. | 1542 | Go To Quotation |
| slack | To cease to go on with, or prosecute, in a vigorous and energetic manner; to allow to fall… | 1520 | Go To Quotation |
| slauntiagh | A pledge or surety. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| slot-hound | A sleuth-hound. | 1537 | Go To Quotation |
| snub | An act or instance of snubbing; a remark or action intended to repress or rebuke a person. | 1555 | Go To Quotation |
| somler | A butler. | 1543 | Go To Quotation |
| squarewise | After the fashion of a carpenter's square; at right angles, rectangularly. Obs. | 1546 | Go To Quotation |
| staffette | A mounted courier. | 1545 | Go To Quotation |
| staffier | ‘A lacquey, that attends the stirrup’ (Blount Glossogr., 1674); a footman. Chiefly with reference to Italy. | 1532 | Go To Quotation |
| stance | A standing-place, station, position. | 1532 | Go To Quotation |
| stare | An Italian measure of grain, etc., corresponding to the bushel, but varying according… | 1540 | Go To Quotation |
| stripy | Having, marked with, or suggestive of stripes or bands of colour. | 1513 | Go To Quotation |
| subleve | trans. To give assistance to; to succour, relieve. | 1542 | Go To Quotation |
| success | To happen. | 1545 | Go To Quotation |
| surseance | (A) cessation or suspension (of hostilities). | 1523 | Go To Quotation |
| Swiss | (Pl. the Swiss; †formerly the Swisses.) A native or an inhabitant of Switzerland. | 1515 | Go To Quotation |
| tangling | The action of tangle v.; complicated or confused intertwining; complication; †contention. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| tanist | The successor apparent to a Celtic chief, usually the most vigorous adult of his… | 1538 | Go To Quotation |
| tarde | trans. To retard, delay. | 1524 | Go To Quotation |
| tentik | Aphetic form of attentik, authentic adj. n., duly qualified, trustworthy. | 1534 | Go To Quotation |
| termon | Anciently in Ireland, Land belonging to, or forming the precinct or liberties of… | 1533 | Go To Quotation |
| thralled | Made a thrall, enslaved, held in bondage; also transf. thrall-like, servile. | 1527 | Go To Quotation |
| tot | The word tot or letter T written against an item in an account to indicate that… | 1529 | Go To Quotation |
| tradiment | Treachery, perfidy, treason. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| triad | A group or set of three (persons, things, words, attributes, etc.); three collectively or in connection. | 1546 | Go To Quotation |
| troop | A body of soldiers. | 1545 | Go To Quotation |
| trutinate | trans. To weigh in the balances; also fig. to weigh mentally, consider, estimate. | 1528 | Go To Quotation |
| unabsoiled | Unsettled. | 1521 | Go To Quotation |
| uncertitude | = incertitude n. | 1555 | Go To Quotation |
| unchaghe | A foolish or wanton woman. | 1534 | Go To Quotation |
| uncoacted | Not compelled or constrained. | 1545 | Go To Quotation |
| unfeasible | (un- prefix 7 5b.) | 1527 | Go To Quotation |
| upsight | View, inspection. | 1515 | Go To Quotation |
| vague | A prank or trick. Only in pl. | 1523 | Go To Quotation |
| varvel | A metal ring (freq. of silver with the owner's name engraved on it) attached to the end… | 1537 | Go To Quotation |
| vegetive | Of or relating to vegetables or plants; characteristic of vegetables or plants; = vegetative adj. 4. Obs. | 1526 | Go To Quotation |
| venlin | A company (of soldiers). | 1541 | Go To Quotation |
| vince | intr. To win the day, be victorious. | 1530 | Go To Quotation |
| vivers | Food, provisions, victuals, eatables. | 1536 | Go To Quotation |
| voye | Way. | 1541 | Go To Quotation |
| wad | Origin and sense obscure: only in proverbial phrase, app. meaning ‘in that course there is danger’. | 1524 | Go To Quotation |
| walte | Variant of vult n. Sc. Obs. | 1524 | Go To Quotation |
| zabra | A small vessel used off the coasts of Spain and Portugal. | 1523 | Go To Quotation |
