| beauteous | Distinguished by beauty, exceedingly fair in appearance or elegant in form, pleasing to… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| bielding | Protection; shelter. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| bieldly | Of the nature of a shelter. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| blore | A violent blowing, a blast or gust; also fig. stormy breath, bluster. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| blure | = bladder n. 2; blister, swelling. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| borrowed | Taken on loan. borrowed days: in Cheshire, the first eleven days of May, so called because… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| botment | Amendment, remedy. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| bottler | A bottle-maker. Obs. | 1415 | Go To Quotation |
| bounteth | A gift of bounty; gratuity, reward; a gift stipulated for in addition to money wages. Cf. bounty n. 4b. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| bower | A maker of bows; a bowyer. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| brag | A large nail. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| brawl | A brawler, a bravo, a bully. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| brethel | A worthless fellow, good-for-nothing, wretch. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| broo | Broth; liquor; juice, water; = bree n. 2 3. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| cartwright | A carpenter who makes carts. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| casbald | A term of reproach (addressed in places quoted to Mary Magdalene). | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| chat | intr. To talk idly and foolishly; to prate, babble, chatter. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| clink | trans. To clench, rivet, fix or fasten with nails or rivets. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| commother | A name for the relationship of a godmother to the other god-parents and the actual parents… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| cooper | A craftsman who makes and repairs wooden vessels formed of staves and hoops, as casks, buckets, tubs. | 1415 | Go To Quotation |
| coucher | ? A couch-maker, an upholsterer. | 1415 | Go To Quotation |
| craftman | = craftsman n. | 1415 | Go To Quotation |
| custom | trans. To render (a thing) customary or usual, to practise habitually; usually pass. to be customary or usual; = accustom v. 2. | 1394 | Go To Quotation |
| daily | Every day, day by day. Often in a looser sense: Constantly, always, habitually. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| dirdum | Uproar, tumultuous noise or din. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| endeavour | The action of endeavouring; effort, or pains, directed to attain an object; a strenuous attempt or enterprise. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| endeavour | refl. To exert oneself, use effort. Const. to with inf.; (rarely) for, to, with n.; also simply. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| feelsome | Attractive to the feeling or sense; in quot. 1440, = tasty. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| fever | A smith. | 1415 | Go To Quotation |
| flesh-shambles | A place where meat is killed or sold. | 1409 | Go To Quotation |
| fon | To be foolish or infatuated; to act the fool; to become foolish. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| fondling | A ‘fond’ or foolish person. Also transf. of animals. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| freeze | The action of freeze v.; lit. and fig. See also freeze-out n.; freeze-up n. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| furtherance | The fact or state of being furthered or helped forward; the action of helping… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| fuster | A saddle-tree-maker. | 1415 | Go To Quotation |
| gainstand | In northern dialects the pr. pple. was used in 14–15th c. in the phr. not gainstanding = notwithstanding prep. conj. adv. n. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| gaunter | A glover or glove-maker. | 1415 | Go To Quotation |
| girn | intr. To show the teeth in rage, pain, disappointment, etc.; to snarl as a dog… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| gold-beater | One who beats out gold metal into thin plates or gold-leaf. | 1415 | Go To Quotation |
| hairester | A worker in horsehair. | 1415 | Go To Quotation |
| haterell | (?) A garment. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| heinously | In a heinous manner or degree; hatefully, odiously; atrociously, infamously. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| hen-heart | One who has the heart of a hen; a chicken-heart, coward. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| hoine | intr. To whine; to grunt; to murmur, to mutter; = hone v. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| inquiry | The action of seeking, esp. (now always) for truth, knowledge, or… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| leamer | One that flashes or radiates light. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| limbus | Occas. used (as the normal form for English adoption) = limbo n. 1 limbus patrum = ‘the… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| lirt | Deception, trick. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| lotterel | A term of opprobrium: ? Scoundrel. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| mismark | trans. (refl.). To guess wrongly; to be mistaken. Obs. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| miting | A diminutive creature. Freq. as a term of endearment or contempt. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| mobard | A villain, a rascal; a fool. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| mort | trans. To put to death. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| mortise | trans. To fasten or join securely; to fix in or join together closely and firmly; (Joinery)… | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| mumbling | That mumbles (in various senses); consisting of mumbles or mumbling. Also fig. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| myron | App.: a servant, an underling; (derogatory) a good-for-nothing. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| myse | A biting insect such as a gnat or a midge. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| noddle | intr. To deliver blows to the head. With on. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| noter | A writer or recorder of musical notation. Cf. note v. 1. Obs. rare. | 1491 | Go To Quotation |
| obit | Deceased, dead. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| orfever | A goldsmith. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| packald | A pack, a bundle; a burden, a load; a packet. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| papse | A type of game, perh. involving buffets or blows (of the hand). | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| peaching | Originally: †accusation, formal indictment (obs.). Later: the action of informing against someone. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| pessoner | A fishmonger. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| plasmatour | A creator, a shaper; spec. God. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| plenal | Full, complete; plenary. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| rag | trans. To tear, rend (lit. and fig.); (now esp.) to tear so as to leave ragged edges, to make ragged. Now rare. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| rasely | Fiercely, angrily. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| reflair | intr. To emit or spread something (esp. a fragrance) abroad. Of a smell, etc.: to be given out, diffused, or dispersed. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| renke | = reign n. 4. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| respett | Respite; postponement; (sometimes) spec. postponement of legal action, or entitlement… | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| rist | Increase in population. Obs. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| rouk | intr. Perh.: to crouch or huddle so as to speak quietly; cf. ruck v. Only in to rouk and round… | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| roy | intr. Eng. regional (north.) and Sc. To talk nonsense. Obs. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| saggard | ? One who ‘sags’ or hangs helplessly. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| sauntering | (Sense uncertain; possibly not from the existing verb.) Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| sauntrell | Used as a term of contempt. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| sauterell | Variant, possibly erroneous, of sauntrell n. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| scaler | A manufacturer of scales. | 1415 | Go To Quotation |
| scarred | Of a human or animal body or its parts: Bearing scars or traces of wounds or sores. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| seemlity | Seemliness. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| segger | One given to ‘talking’, a boaster, braggart. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| shamously | Shamefully. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| simmon | Cement. (Cf. quots. 1706 1890.) Also attrib. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| skaunce | A jest. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| skelp | A blow, esp. one given with the flat of the hand, or with something having a flat surface… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| someways | = someway adv. 1. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| squin | of squin, obliquely, slantingly. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| tapiter | = tapisser n. Also attrib. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| tarand | Said to have, like the chameleon, the power to ‘change himselfe into the thing he… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| throned | Seated on or as on a throne; enthroned. Also in comb., as heaven-throned. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| tile-maker | A maker of tiles; a workman employed in making tiles. | 1415 | Go To Quotation |
| traitorful | = traitorous adj. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| trase | | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| tristful | Trustworthy: = trustful adj. 1. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| tush | An exclamation of impatient contempt or disparagement. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| unhanged | Not (yet) executed by hanging. (Cf. unhung adj. 2.) | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| unspended | Obs. variant of unspent adj. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| vernant | Flourishing or growing in, or as in, spring. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| verrer | A worker in glass; a glazier. | 1415 | Go To Quotation |
| waff | trans. To put away with a wave of the hand. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| wantrowing | Mistrust, faint belief. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| whop | An act of whopping; a heavy blow or impact; a bump. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| wrathness | Anger. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| yow | An exclamation of vague meaning. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
