| acolee | = accolade n. 1. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| apperceivant | Discovering, cognizant. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| assel(e | | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| bourd | intr. To joust, tilt; to engage in a sham fight. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| bourg | Used by historical writers in the earlier sense of town or village under the shadow of… | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| brayt | A cry, yell. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| calion | A flint nodule; a boulder or pebble; often collective. | 1459 | Go To Quotation |
| chaple | A fierce combat or encounter. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| confessed | That has confessed his sins, shriven. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| desirant | Desiring, desirous of. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| despiteously | With bitter ill-will or enmity; spitefully, cruelly, pitilessly, mercilessly. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| discumbrance | = cumbrance n. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| disinherit | trans. To deprive or dispossess of an inheritance; ‘to cut off from an… | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| distrife | Strife, contention. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| disturdison | Stunned or stupefied condition; a state of unconsciousness caused by a blow or the like. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| dolorously | In a dolorous manner; painfully, sorrowfully, dolefully. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| dought | Doughtiness, might, power. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| engendering | The action of engender v., in various senses. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| entraverse | Athwart, crosswise. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| envay(e | An attack. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| envoisies | Gay, lively. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| for-swollen | (fig.) | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| girth | trans. To gird, surround, encompass. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| greatly | Great. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| Hallow-tide | The season of All Saints; the first week of November. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| headily | In a heady manner; headlong, precipitately, hastily, rashly; violently, impetuously; †eagerly. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| inquire | The action, or an act, of inquiring; inquiry. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| interpass | intr. To pass between, to pass from one to another. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| jour | A day. Obs. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| launchant | Darting, leaping. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| listed | Bordered, edged; striped. Also (of colours), arranged in bands or stripes. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| lovemaking | Courtship, wooing; an instance of this. Cf. love n. 3a(a). Now somewhat arch. Also fig. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| maltalentive | Bearing ‘maltalent’; malevolent. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| mangle | To hack, cut, lacerate, or †mutilate (a person or animal) by repeated blows; to reduce… | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| martelaise | Hammering; intense hand-to-hand combat. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| open field | Mil. A battlefield allowing unrestricted passage in all directions, as opposed to a… | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| pantoner | Prob. a scribal error for pautener n. Cf. pantener n. adj. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| paramour | trans. To love. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| pelly melly | = pell-mell adv. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| pleader | A pleading. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| prize | trans. To seize, take, or capture, esp. in war; to confiscate. Obs. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| rotten | intr. To become rotten (lit. and fig.); to rot. Also with off, out, into, etc. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| saisne | = Saxon n. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| short-winded | Short of breath; suffering from or liable to difficulty of breathing; that soon becomes out of breath with any exertion. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| shrike | = shriek n. (In first quot., a shrill note.) | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| skirmery | Skirmishing, fencing. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| spear-point | The point of a spear. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| startling | Capering, prancing. Obs. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| surbate | intr. ? To bear down heavily on. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| sustainment | Means of sustenance or support; esp. = sustenance n. 1a. Obs. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| tortue | = tortuous adj. 1. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| trobellion | Obs. variant of tourbillion n., whirlwind. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| unstuff | trans. To empty (of people). | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| vivier | A fishpond; a tank for storing live fish, etc. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |