| acountering | The action of acounter v.; combat, battle. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| aside | To one side; out of the way, away. | 1330 | Go To Quotation |
| becover | To cover over. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| beehive | A receptacle used as a home for bees; usually made of thick straw work in the shape of a… | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| bendel | Heraldry. A little bend; = bendlet n. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| bewreak | trans. To avenge; to give vent in action to (incensed feelings). Cf. awreak v. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| blank | White (obs., and chiefly in specific uses, e.g. blank plumb white lead, blank falcon… | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| blazon | Heraldry. A shield in heraldry; armorial bearings, coat of arms; a banner bearing the… | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| boastful | Of words or actions: Full of boasting. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| bombance | Ostentation, pride. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| boon | Good, goodly. Obs. (in 17th c.) | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| bote | Some kind of tool. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| bounden | = bound adj., in literal senses: Made fast by tie, band, or bar; tied, fastened, clamped. Obs. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| brace | To clasp, fasten up tightly, gird: sometimes with a reference to one or other of the senses of brace n. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| brandellet | | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| campeson | Variant of gambeson n., Obs., a stuffed doublet worn beneath the armour. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| carpenter | ‘An artificer in wood’ (Johnson); as distinguished from a joiner, cabinet-maker, etc.… | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| chap | trans. (with off). To chop off. Obs. or dial. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| clung | Drawn together, shrunk, or shrivelled, by the action of heat, cold, hunger, thirst, disease, etc. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| cog | A kind of ship of earlier times; broadly built, with roundish prow and stern. Supposed… | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| commoner | A member of the community having civic rights; a burgess, citizen; spec. a member of the general body of a town-council. Obs. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| companiable | Sociable, friendly, companionable. | 1326 | Go To Quotation |
| coronal | A circlet of gold round a helmet. Cf. circle n. 10b. Obs. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| costret | = costrel n. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| counter | trans. To meet. Obs. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| covey | Perh. = convey n., convoy n. (but of earlier date). | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| crayer | A small trading vessel formerly used. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| crest | The apex or ‘cone’ of a helmet; hence, a helmet or head-piece. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| deray | Used for deraign v. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| devoid | To vacate; to leave. Obs. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| dimming | The action of the verb dim v., q.v. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| dun | intr. To sound, ring with sound, resound; = din v. 1. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| ensoigne | Excuse, delay: only in phr. without ensoigne. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| escaping | The action of escape v. Also attrib. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| favel | As the proper name of a fallow-coloured horse. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| feat | Fitting, suitable, proper. Const. for, to. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| fencible | Of a person: Capable of making defence; fit and liable to be called on for defensive military service. Chiefly Sc. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| fetlock | That part of a horse's leg where the tuft of hair grows behind the pastern-joint; the tuft itself. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| flagel | = flageolet n. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| fraught | Of a vessel: Laden. Also full fraught. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| furney | trans. To procure. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| glout | intr. To look sullen, frown, scowl. Const. at, upon. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| groot | Mud, soil, earth. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| heave ho | A cry of sailors in heaving the anchor up, etc.; also used as the burden of a song. with heave and… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| insame | Together, in company. (In late use often a mere expletive.) | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| i-sling | trans. To sling. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| jousting | The action of the verb joust v.; fighting or tilting on horseback with a lance; spec. a tournament. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| lift | The quantity or weight that can be lifted at one time. spec. of paper. Also Sc. a large quantity. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| losard | = losel n. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| mate-griffon | A type of siege-tower, probably of larger than normal size, used by Richard I. | 1330 | Go To Quotation |
| mine | To dig or tunnel under the foundations of a wall, fort, etc., so as to cause its collapse… | 1330 | Go To Quotation |
| musard | A dreamer, a fool, an idler; a wretch. | 1330 | Go To Quotation |
| nation | A large aggregate of communities and individuals united by factors such as… | 1330 | Go To Quotation |
| outray | To go beyond or exceed bounds; to stray; to break away from a certain place, or… | 1330 | Go To Quotation |
| parel | A body of troops; a martial array. | 1330 | Go To Quotation |
| peage | A toll paid for passing through a place or country; = pedage n. | 1448 | Go To Quotation |
| peck | trans. to peck mood: to become angry, incensed, or enraged. Obs. | 1330 | Go To Quotation |
| Picard | A native or inhabitant of the northern French region of Picardy. | 1330 | Go To Quotation |
| plain | Full or complete in number, size, extent, etc.; esp. (of a council, assembly, etc.) fully attended, in full session. | 1330 | Go To Quotation |
| quitement | = quite adv. 1. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| roin | intr. To growl, roar. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| saler | A salt-cellar. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| sea-coast | The land adjacent to the sea; = coast n. 4. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| shoal | A place where the water is of little depth; a shallow; a sand-bank or bar. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| skrike | A shrill cry, a screech; = screak n. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| slender | Of persons (or animals), their bodies, etc.: Not stout or fleshy; slim, spare.… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| stave | ? The stem of a ship. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| sun-shining | = sunshine n. (lit. and fig.). | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| tailard | One with a tail. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| targe | Tarrying, delay. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| tern | A group of three stanzas. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| top-castle | An embattled platform at the head of a ship's masts, from which missiles were discharged: later called also top (top n. 9). | 1336 | Go To Quotation |
| Tournois | n. Money or a coin of Tours: see quots. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| trap | trans. To adorn (a horse, mule, or the like) with trappings; to caparison. (Chiefly in pa. pple.… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| trapped | Protected or adorned with trappings. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| trapper | A covering put over a horse or other beast of burden, made of metal or leather for… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| trestle | A support for something, consisting of a short horizontal beam or bar with diverging… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| unwax | intr. To grow or become less; to decrease. Also fig. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| unwinly | Unpleasantly; sadly, sorrowfully. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| vassal | In the feudal system, one holding lands from a superior on conditions of homage and… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| weffe | A blow or cut. (Cf. waff n. 3.) | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| yloved | Middle English pa. pple. of love v. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
