| adoyle | Askew, awry. to look adoyle: to squint. | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| appetitely | With an appetite. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| a-shore | Shore-wise, a-straddle. | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| atterling | A venomous malignant person, a shrew. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| bate | Deduction, diminution, abatement: cf. abate n. 3. Still in north. dial., esp. in comb. | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| bedward | Towards bedtime; just before going to bed. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| behovable | Useful, profitable, advantageous; incumbent. | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| bennet | In herb bennet, name of a species of Avens, Geum urbanum (family Rosaceæ), a… | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| bilgres | A plant: perhaps = bilders n. | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| blasting | Flatulence; breaking of wind. Obs. | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| bought | The bend or loop of a rope, string, or chain; the part between the ends or points… | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| bret | The name of a fish, identified in some places with the Brill, in others with the Turbot; = birt n. | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| brewe | A fowl; ? a kind of snipe. | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| brower | app.: A napkin. | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| brush | trans. To pass a brush briskly across (a surface), so as to sweep off dirt, dust… | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| brushed | Swept or smoothed with a brush; grazed; furnished with a ‘brush’. | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| bustard | Any of various large, heavily built, strong-legged land birds constituting… | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| caprik(e | A kind of wine. | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| catch | A trick. Obs. | 1430 | Go To Quotation |
| chandelew | = chandlery n. | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| checked | Marked with lines crossing at right angles; variegated with different colours in squares or other geometrical figures; chequered. | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| chine | The projecting rim at the heads of casks, etc., formed by the ends of the staves; = chime n. | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| clarifying | The action of prec. vb.; clarification. | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| coequal | Equal with (†to, unto) one another or others; of the same rank, power, importance… | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| comedy | | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| congaudence | Rejoicing together, mutual rejoicing. | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| counterpoint | A quilted cover for a bed; a counterpane n. | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| curtsy | The customary expression of respect by action or gesture; = courtesy n. 8. | 1513 | Go To Quotation |
| detray | To disparage, calumniate; = detract v. 3. | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| dietary | A course of diet prescribed or marked out; a book or treatise prescribing such a course. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| emperial | trans. To give a lordly or magnificent appearance to. | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| enfaunt | A child, a young person. | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| finger | trans. To point at with the finger. Obs. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| frian | | 1500 | Go To Quotation |
| gamelyn | ‘A dainty Italian sauce’ (Cotgrave). Also sauce gamelyn. Cf. cameline n. 2. | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| hooping | The action of hoop v.; crying ‘hoop’. | 1557 | Go To Quotation |
| imbrue | trans. To stain, dirty, defile. Obs. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| imbrued | Stained, dyed, etc., esp. with blood or slaughter: see imbrue v. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| keeping | That keeps, in various senses (see the verb). Esp. of fruit (cf. keep v. 41). | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| knowledged | Known, recognized. (In quot.: with whom one is acquainted.) | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| London | perhaps the same as the Winchester bushel (according to Fitzherbert it was smaller than that used in the north). | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| loop | The doubling or return into itself of a portion of a string, cord, thong, or the like, so… | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| lorelly | Like a ‘lorel’. | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| lumpishly | In a lumpish manner; heavily and clumsily; †dejectedly; stupidly; sluggishly (obs.). | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| marshalling | The action or an act of marshalling someone or something. | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| pike | Perh.: spiced, hot, biting. pike sauce n. a spicy sauce; (fig.) sarcasm, pungent wit. Obs. | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| quarrellous | Quarrelsome, argumentative; litigious; fault-finding. Now chiefly U.S. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| revelling | That revels or is inclined to revel; (also) characterized by revelry. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| selvage | The edge of a piece of woven material finished in such a manner as to prevent the ravelling… | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| skinnery | Skins or furs collectively. rare (hist. in later use). | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| smack | trans. To open or separate (the lips) in such a way as to produce a sharp sound; to do… | 1557 | Go To Quotation |
| squirt | To eject or spirt out water in a jet or slight stream. | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| tampion | A plug for stopping an aperture: e.g. a bung for a cask, etc. Obs. | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| toilous | Full of toil; toilsome. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| torrentine | A kind of fish; perh. trout. | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| transon | trans. To carve (an eel). | 1508 | Go To Quotation |
| uncountable | = unaccountable adj. 2b. Obs. | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| ungright | Ungrudgingly; readily. | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| unscoured | (un- prefix 8. Cf. Swedish oskurad.) | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| unthriftiness | The quality of being unthrifty; thriftlessness, prodigality, wastefulness; †dissoluteness. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| warm water | Water heated to a degree considerably below boiling-point. Also attrib. (with hyphen). | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| well-watered | Plentifully supplied or moistened with water. | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| womblong | With the belly on the ground or along a surface. | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
