| acclaim | trans. Sc. and Eng. regional. To lay claim to, to claim. Obs. | 1330 | Go To Quotation |
| adite | trans. To put down in written words; = indite v. 4. | 1330 | Go To Quotation |
| Askapart | Name of a race of hardy warriors living in or near Arabia; also of a giant said to… | 1320 | Go To Quotation |
| atene | To irritate, vex, annoy. | 1320 | Go To Quotation |
| begallow | trans. To frighten or terrify. | 1320 | Go To Quotation |
| bewhape | trans. To bewilder, amaze, confound utterly. | 1320 | Go To Quotation |
| button | As a type of anything of very small value. | 1320 | Go To Quotation |
| cordement | Agreement, reconcilation. | 1320 | Go To Quotation |
| crestel | ? = crest n. | 1320 | Go To Quotation |
| defendant | Used as pres. pple. Defending; him self defendaunt = in his own defence. Obs. | 1320 | Go To Quotation |
| doceamur | Sweetheart. | 1320 | Go To Quotation |
| don | intr. To resound, ring with sound; = din v. 1. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| door-bar | A bar of wood, iron, etc. put across a door to secure it. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| dought | Doughty, valiant, mighty. | 1320 | Go To Quotation |
| faint | Faintness. Obs. | 1320 | Go To Quotation |
| flacket | A flask, bottle, or vessel; now applied in dial. use to a barrel-shaped vessel for holding liquor. | 1320 | Go To Quotation |
| flat | A blow, buffet. | 1320 | Go To Quotation |
| fraught | The cargo or lading of a ship: = freight n. 2. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| fray | trans. To affect with fear, make afraid, frighten. Cf. affray v. 1a. Obs. exc. poet. | 1301 | Go To Quotation |
| gainly | Proper, suitable, becoming. Obs. exc. Sc. dial. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| garible | ? A flourish in music. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| glace | Of weapons: To glance off, to slip, to fail in giving a direct blow; also, to glide, pass easily through. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| greet | Weeping, lamentation; also, a cry of sorrow. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| grim | Grimness, fury, rage. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| groin | The snout, esp. of a swine. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| guy | To control or direct (a person or his actions); = guide v. 2 (Said of persons; also of immaterial things.) | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| hackney | A horse of middle size and quality, used for ordinary riding, as distinguished from a… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| hind | Situated behind, in the rear, or at the back; posterior. Usually opposed to fore… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| i-same | Together; in company. | 1320 | Go To Quotation |
| jowl | The external throat or neck when fat or prominent; the pendulous flesh extending from the… | 1320 | Go To Quotation |
| knap | An abrupt stroke or blow; a smart knock. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| knitting | concr. A tie, fastening, knot (lit. and fig.). Obs. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| kove | A variant of cuve n., cask, vat. | 1320 | Go To Quotation |
| label | A narrow band or strip of linen, cloth, etc.; a fillet, ribbon, tassel; the infula of a mitre. | 1320 | Go To Quotation |
| lioness | The female of the lion. | 1301 | Go To Quotation |
| maintain | To uphold, back up, stand by, support the cause of (a person, a party, etc.); to… | 1330 | Go To Quotation |
| maltalent | Ill will, malevolence. Obs. | 1330 | Go To Quotation |
| medle | The fruit of the medlar tree, a medlar. Freq. attrib. in medle-tree. | 1330 | Go To Quotation |
| misguilt | trans. To do (something) wrong or amiss. Also intr. | 1330 | Go To Quotation |
| mispair | App.: despair. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| missing | Not present; not to be found; absent; lost. Freq. predicatively. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| Morglay | The sword belonging to Bevis of Hampton (see quot. 1330). | 1330 | Go To Quotation |
| mort | Dead. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| night-tide | The time of night; night-time. Now arch. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| of-fought | Only in weary of-fought: exhausted with fighting, wearied by battle. Cf. weary adj. 1c. | 1330 | Go To Quotation |
| passant | Passing by or along, going, proceeding; travelling, journeying. Obs. | 1330 | Go To Quotation |
| pick | A spiked staff or stick, esp. (in early use) a pilgrim's staff; a pikestaff. Cf. pike n. 2a. Obs. rare. | 1330 | Go To Quotation |
| prison door | The door of a prison. Also fig. | 1330 | Go To Quotation |
| rabite | An Arabian horse. | 1330 | Go To Quotation |
| railer | = rail n. 2a. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| rankle | Of a wounded or diseased part of the body; also (rarely) of a person. Now rare. | 1330 | Go To Quotation |
| rap | intr. To move with speed; to hasten, rush. Also trans. (refl.). | 1330 | Go To Quotation |
| rein | To tie (a horse) to something by the reins. Also with to. Obs. | 1330 | Go To Quotation |
| renably | Fluently, readily. Now also in weakened sense: well. | 1330 | Go To Quotation |
| renge | = range n. 1. | 1330 | Go To Quotation |
| retreat | A blow; (perh.) a backhanded blow. Obs. rare. | 1330 | Go To Quotation |
| ruthly | Sorrowfully, piteously. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| savageness | The quality or state of being savage; barbarity, ferocity, cruelty; (also) an instance of this; = savagery n. 2. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| shoulder-bone | = shoulder-blade n. | 1320 | Go To Quotation |
| slend | trans. To slice or cut; to split. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| slent | intr. To slip, fall, or glide obliquely; to strike or lie aslant. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| sparkle | To sprinkle, bestrew, or bespatter with (also in) something; to dot thickly. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| sprangle | intr. Of persons or animals: To struggle; to spread out the limbs, to sprawl. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| squetch | Obs. variant of quetch v. | 1330 | Go To Quotation |
| stamp | Some kind of dance-music. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| stepsire | = stepfather n. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| throat-goll | The windpipe, or its upper part close to the epiglottis. (The word appears to have been somewhat vaguely used.) | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| tourney | intr. To take part in a tourney; to contend or engage in a tournament. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| Turkeys | = Turkish adj. | 1301 | Go To Quotation |
| undight | trans. To divest (of clothing, armour, etc.); to disarray, strip. Also refl. and with of. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| unmarked | Having received no mark or impress; left without a mark; having no distinguishing or identificatory mark. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| verity | In various prepositional phrases and constructions used adverbially, freq. with emphatic force, as in (†of) verity. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| vintaine | A company of twenty soldiers, etc. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| whop | trans. To cast, pull out, etc. violently; to take or put suddenly. dial. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| whoreson | prop. The son of a whore, a bastard son; but commonly used as a coarse term of… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
