| aclumsid | Made clumsy or unable to grasp; benumbed, paralysed. Cf. clumse v., acumble v. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| again-stander | A person who withstands; a resister, an adversary. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| alarging | Enlargement, increase; (in quot.) spec. the spreading or growth of trees. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| alienation | Estrangement; the state of being estranged or alienated. Also with from, †of. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| allegoric | = allegorical adj. | 1395 | Go To Quotation |
| anagogic | Of or pertaining to anagoge; mystical, spiritualized. | 1388 | Go To Quotation |
| appairer | He who or that which impairs. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| appairing | The action of injuriously affecting or impairing; weakening, deterioration, damage. | 1388 | Go To Quotation |
| appairment | impairment n., injury, damage. | 1388 | Go To Quotation |
| astonying | = astonishing n., astonishment n.; see their senses. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| barbaric | A barbarian. Obs. rare. | 1388 | Go To Quotation |
| bemow | trans. To mock, mock at, lit. with grimaces. | 1388 | Go To Quotation |
| beshrewing | Used by Purvey to translate refrenantem of the Vulgate. ? Turning awry. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| beweeper | One who beweeps. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| biblet | ? A book, or ? library. | 1388 | Go To Quotation |
| biwlappe | = bewrap v. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| boon | The stalk of flax or hemp after the fibre has been removed; the stalks of cow-parsnip and other umbelliferous plants. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| bourdful | Full of jesting or sport; jocose, sportive. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| broadness | lit. (Now mostly superseded by breadth.) | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| broiderer | One who works embroidery; an embroiderer. | 1388 | Go To Quotation |
| bug | An object of terror, usually an imaginary one; a bugbear, hobgoblin, bogy; a scarecrow. to swear by… | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| caladrie | Wyclif's adaptation of the Charadrius of the Vulgate, Χαραδριός of the Septuagint. The… | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| calfless | Having no calf (n.). | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| cankering | That cankers (in various senses); corroding, corrupting; spreading harmfully and insidiously. Now chiefly fig. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| canonized | Placed in the canon; sainted; consecrated, beatified, deified. canonized epistles n. cf. canonical adj. 3. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| cardue | A thistle. | 1388 | Go To Quotation |
| changeability | Capability of being changed. | 1388 | Go To Quotation |
| cheek-tooth | A molar tooth or grinder. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| cherogril | The coney n. of the English Bible of 1611; a small gregarious quadruped (Hyrax syriacus) of Palestine. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| chich | The older name of the chick-pea n., the seed of Cicer arietinum. Sometimes also applied… | 1388 | Go To Quotation |
| child-bearing | The bringing forth of a child; parturition. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| chooseress | A female chooser. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| cirogrille | The Syrian Hyrax or ‘coney’ of the O.Test.: see cherogril n.; taken by mediæval writers to… | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| citole | A stringed instrument of music much mentioned in 13–15th c.; originally the same… | 1388 | Go To Quotation |
| colling | Embracing, hugging. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| compendious | Containing the substance within small compass, concise, succinct, summary… | 1388 | Go To Quotation |
| concubinage | The cohabiting of a man and a woman who are not legally married; the practice of… | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| conjector | One who conjectures; a soothsayer, diviner, guesser; cf. conject v. 1 2. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| copulative | Serving to couple or connect; spec. in Grammar applied to conjunctions… | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| cor | A Hebrew and Phœnician measure of capacity, the same that was in earlier times… | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| coronation | The action of crowning; the ceremony of investing a sovereign, or the consort of a… | 1388 | Go To Quotation |
| craw | The crop (crop n. 1) of birds or insects. | 1388 | Go To Quotation |
| crazing | concr. A crack, cleft, chink. Obs. | 1388 | Go To Quotation |
| credence | The mental action of believing or accepting as true; belief. to give credence to: to… | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| danceress | A female dancer. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| debted | Of things: Owed, due. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| delf | An excavation in or under the earth, where stone, coal, or other mineral is dug; a quarry… | 1388 | Go To Quotation |
| departingly | In a divided manner; separately. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| Deuteronomy | The name or title of the fifth book of the Pentateuch, which contains a repetition… | 1388 | Go To Quotation |
| dilection | Love, affection: almost always, spiritual or Christian love, or the love of God to man or of man to God; cf. charity n. 1. | 1388 | Go To Quotation |
| dipper | in U.S. A species of duck, Bucephala albeola, the buffle. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| diseaseful | Fraught with discomfort, trouble, or annoyance; troublesome. Obs. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| doer | One who does; one who performs some act or deed; an actor, agent. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| doggish | Having or indicating a doglike disposition or character; malicious… | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| doggy | Having the bad qualities attributed to a dog; malicious, spiteful; despicable, contemptible. Obs. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| dowel | A headless pin, peg, or bolt, of wood, metal, or other material, serving to fasten… | 1388 | Go To Quotation |
| English | To translate (a book, passage, etc.) into English; to give the English equivalent for (a… | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| enhancer | gen. One who, or that which, enhances. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| Ephesian | An inhabitant of Ephesus. | 1388 | Go To Quotation |
| equivoque | = equivocal adj. in various senses. Obs. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| expounder | One who expounds; an expositor. Occasionally transf. of a thing: That which serves to expound. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| faithfulness | Exact correspondence to an original or to fact. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| fase | The passover. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| favourably | With favour or kindness; graciously, indulgently. | 1388 | Go To Quotation |
| figarde | = pygarg n. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| forecasting | The action of forecast v. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| foreguess | trans. To guess beforehand; to forecast, anticipate, conjecture. Const. with simple obj. or with obj. clause. Also absol. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| forgetful | Apt, inclined, or liable to forget; having a bad memory. Also, that forgets: const. of. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| fouled | In various senses of the vb. fouled anchor n. = ‘foul anchor’ (see foul adj. 18b). | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| fraud | To withhold (something) fraudulently. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| gathered | Collected, brought together; culled, picked. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| gendrure | Engendering, begetting. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| glistening | That glistens. lit. and fig. | 1388 | Go To Quotation |
| goatskin | The skin of a goat, esp. one used for a garment, a wine-bottle, etc. | 1388 | Go To Quotation |
| guilefulness | The quality of being guileful; deceitfulness; treachery. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| habitable | Suitable for habitation or as a human abode; fit to live in, inhabitable; also absol. the habitable globe (cf. Greek οἰκουμένη). | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| haunting | That haunts, in various senses of the vb. | 1388 | Go To Quotation |
| headly | In a heady manner; impetuously; precipitately; headily. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| henceforward | From this time forward; henceforth. | 1388 | Go To Quotation |
| hish | intr. A by-form of hiss v. | 1388 | Go To Quotation |
| historial | Belonging to or of the nature of history; historical, historic. | 1395 | Go To Quotation |
| horse-litter | A litter hung on poles, carried between two horses, one in front and the other behind. | 1388 | Go To Quotation |
| hox | trans. To hough, to hamstring. | 1388 | Go To Quotation |
| humbleness | Meekness, lowliness, humility. | 1388 | Go To Quotation |
| imaginary | Existing only in imagination or fancy; having no real existence; not real or actual.… | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| incensing | The action of incense v.; a perfuming with, or offering of, incense; censing. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| inhabiter | One who inhabits, an inhabitant; †also (in 16–17th c.) a colonist. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| innest | Most inward, inmost. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| inwardness | The inner part or region; pl. Inward parts, entrails (rendering Latin viscera; in quots. only fig.: see bowel n. 3). Obs. | 1388 | Go To Quotation |
| irefulness | The condition of being ireful; wrathfulness. | 1388 | Go To Quotation |
| jealously | Zealously, eagerly. Obs. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| Jewess | A female Jew; a Jewish woman. | 1388 | Go To Quotation |
| knocker | One who or that which knocks; esp. one who knocks at a door in order to gain admittance; also = knocker-down at 5. | 1388 | Go To Quotation |
| lare | ? A seagull. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| lateful | Late in season. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| leg-harness | Armour for the leg. | 1388 | Go To Quotation |
| letted | Hindered, impeded. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| likingly | In a probable manner; probably. | 1388 | Go To Quotation |
| lintel | A horizontal piece of timber, stone, etc. placed over a door, window, or other opening to discharge the superincumbent weight. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| Maccabee | Usu. in pl. A member or supporter of a Jewish family, most notably Judas Maccabaeus, which… | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| meddler | A practitioner or perpetrator of something. Obs. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| mesh | Any of the open spaces or interstices between the threads or cords of a net. Later also… | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| miseaseness | Trouble, affliction. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| mother city | The city of one's birth or upbringing; one's home city. Cf. mother n. 4c. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| mourner | A person who mourns, laments, or grieves; spec. one who mourns the death of a friend or… | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| neighbouress | A female neighbour. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| nourisher | A person who or thing which nourishes, nurses, or fosters something. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| offending | The action of offending (offend v.); offence, transgression; the (esp. habitual) commission… | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| onement | Physical union or oneness. Obs. rare. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| onliness | The fact or condition of being alone; solitariness, solitude. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| Ophir | fine gold from Ophir, which in Old Testament times was exported to Judah. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| oppressor | A person who oppresses another person or group; esp. one who persecutes or harasses with… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| outermore | Outer; external, outward. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| overstretch | trans. To stretch (something) too much, or beyond its proper length or degree. Also… | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| pairer | A person who corrupts or harms something. | 1408 | Go To Quotation |
| plane tree | = plane n. 1. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| plastered | Covered with or made of builder's plaster. Also (chiefly U.S.): (of land, crops, etc.) treated with plaster of Paris. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| poisoning | The action of poison v.; an instance or the effect of this; the fact of being poisoned. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| polluted | Defiled, made impure or unclean, profane; tainted, sinful. Now esp.: (of the air… | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| porphyrio | †An aquatic bird referred to by classical authors; the bird with which this is… | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| postil | A marginal note or comment, esp. on a biblical text. | 1395 | Go To Quotation |
| postillator | A commentator, annotator, expositor; = postiller n. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| present tense | Grammar. A tense expressing an action now going on or habitually performed, or a… | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| printer | A signet, a seal for impressing or printing on wax. Cf. print n. 1a. Obs. rare. | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| proffering | The action of putting forward or presenting something for acceptance; an offer, an… | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| prone | In relation to something considered to be negative or harmful. | 1408 | Go To Quotation |
| propitiation | The action of propitiating someone; appeasement, conciliation; atonement, expiation; an instance of this. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| punching | The action of punch v.; an instance of this. | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| religiousty | Religiousness; religious life. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| revocate | Recalled; restored. | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| rhamn | Any of various thorny shrubs, mostly of the family Rhamnaceae; esp.… | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| roarer | A person who or thing which roars. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| ropemaker | A person who makes ropes; a roper. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| rushingly | In a rushing manner; rapidly; with great speed or force. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| sarpe | A pruning hook. | 1388 | Go To Quotation |
| scar | The trace of a healed wound, sore, or burn; = cicatrix n. 1. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| scattered | Of a flock, tribe, company of persons, troops, etc.: Disunited and dispersed; disorganized; also, spread out in all directions. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| scrabroun | | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| Second Coming | Theol. More fully Second Coming of Christ. The prophesied return of Christ to earth at the Last Judgement; = Parousia n. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| servantess | A female servant. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| shapeliness | The condition of being shapely. | 1388 | Go To Quotation |
| shouldering | concr. Something which projects or supports as a shoulder. †Also = epaulement n. | 1388 | Go To Quotation |
| shride | trans. To lop or prune (trees). Chiefly in vbl._n., concr. = prunings, loppings. Cf. shroud v. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| singster | A singer. | 1388 | Go To Quotation |
| sled | A drag used for the transport of heavy goods, etc., = sledge n. 2. | 1388 | Go To Quotation |
| snot | trans. To snuff (a candle). | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| snuff | To remove by snuffing. Obs. | 1430 | Go To Quotation |
| sonless | Having no son; destitute of a son or sons. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| souring | A substance which renders sour or acid; spec. leaven, lemon-juice, or vinegar. Also fig. Now chiefly dial. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| speel | A splinter or strip of wood, iron, etc. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| spewing | That spews, in senses of the vb. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| splinder | A splinter. Chiefly in phr. in or into splinders. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| stainer | One whose employment is staining; one who colours wood, etc. with pigments which… | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| stamper | One who stamps with the feet; †one who treads (grapes). Also with out (cf. stamp v. 3d). | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| Stellio | = stellion n. Now only Zool. as generic name. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| stut | intr. To stutter. | 1388 | Go To Quotation |
| stutting | = stuttering adj. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| suadible | That may be easily persuaded; = suasible adj. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| suddenty | = suddenness n. 1; occas. an instance of this, an unexpected attack. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| suitly | Fittingly, suitably. | 1388 | Go To Quotation |
| Syric | Syriac. | 1388 | Go To Quotation |
| threescore | Three times twenty; sixty. (Formerly sometimes written in Roman numerals, iij xx.) | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| tiffle | trans. To dress up, adorn, deck or trick out (in a trifling or time-wasting way). Obs. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| tingle | intr. Said of the ears: To be affected with a ringing or thrilling sensation at the hearing of anything. Cf. ring v. 12. | 1388 | Go To Quotation |
| tramp | intr. To tread or walk with a firm, heavy, resonant step; to stamp. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| tucker | One whose occupation is the fulling and dressing of cloth; a fuller; a cloth-finisher. Obs.… | 1388 | Go To Quotation |
| unclipped | Of hair, wings, etc., or with reference to these. | 1388 | Go To Quotation |
| uncomprehensible | = incomprehensible adj. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| uncorrigible | (un- prefix 7 5b.) | 1419 | Go To Quotation |
| uncredible | = incredible adj. 1. (Common 1550 – 1650.) | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| undefoulingness | (un- prefix 12.) | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| undermaster | A subordinate instructor; esp. in schools, a master or teacher below the head-master. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| undersetting | A support or prop; a supporting or sustaining structure. Also fig. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| undestroyable | (un- prefix 7b.) | 1419 | Go To Quotation |
| undoer | An expounder, interpreter. Obs. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| unfaithfulness | Lack of faith; infidelity. Obs. | 1388 | Go To Quotation |
| unhelped | (un- prefix 8.) | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| unhospitality | Inhospitality. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| unmannerly | Of persons: Devoid of manners; impolite; behaving rudely or discourteously. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| unmeasurably | Without measure or moderation; immoderately, unrestrainedly. Obs. | 1419 | Go To Quotation |
| unordain | (un- prefix 3.) | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| unpartable | (un- prefix 7b. Cf. impartible adj.) | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| unpeacible | = unpeaceable adj. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| unpliable | Unyielding, obstinate, stubborn. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| unrepentance | (un- prefix 12 5b.) | 1410 | Go To Quotation |
| unreverent | Of actions, conduct, etc. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| unshamefastness | (un- prefix 12) | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| unshoed | = unshod adj. Also transf. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| unsightable | (un- prefix 7b.) | 1419 | Go To Quotation |
| untemperate | = intemperate adj. 2. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| untempter | (un- prefix 12.) | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| unwareness | Unwariness, incautiousness. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| unweeting | Ignorance. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| unwlap | trans. To free or release from a covering. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| upraiser | One who raises up. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| vainly | In a vain or futile manner; without advantage, profit, or success; to no effect or… | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| verb | Grammar. That part of speech by which an assertion is made, or which serves to connect a subject with a predicate. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| vicaried | (App. a mistranslation of medieval Latin vicariātus vicariate n.) | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| vility | Vileness of character or conduct; moral degradation or baseness. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| wailster | A female wailer. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| weller | A caster or founder (of metal). | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| well-governor | One who governs well. | 1388 | Go To Quotation |
| wortworm | A caterpillar that feeds on worts or cabbages. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
