| ache | Any of several plants of the family Apiaceae (Umbelliferae); esp. celery, Apium graveolens… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| adrelwurt | The plant feverfew, Tanacetum parthenium. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| bannut | A walnut; but in an early vocabulary applied to the filbert. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| beest | The first milk drawn from a mammal, especially a cow, after parturition. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| beme | intr. To blow on a trumpet. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| bend | A riband, fillet, strap, band, used for ornament or as part of a dress; a… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| besnow | trans. To snow on; to cover or whiten with, or as with, snow; also fig. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| betony | prop. A plant (Stachys betonica) of the Labiate order, having spiked purple flowers… | 1274 | Go To Quotation |
| bill | The horny beak n. of certain birds, especially when slender, flattened, or weak. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| bitch | The female of the dog. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| blay | The name of a small fish, the bleak. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| bleach | Whiteness, paleness. Obs. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| blind-worm | A reptile (Anguis fragilis) also called Slow-worm. (Formerly applied also to the Adder.) | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| bloodwort | Any of various plants having red roots or foliage, or (esp. formerly) used medicinally… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| bloom | ‘A mass of iron after having undergone the first hammering.’ Weale. spec. An ingot of… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| bolt | An arrow; especially one of the stouter and shorter kind with blunt or thickened head… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| bone-wort | A name given, on account of their supposed bone-healing properties, to several different… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| book-hoard | A repository for books or documents. (An exclusively Old English word which was treated… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| bore | trans. To pierce, perforate, make a hole in or through; in mod. use esp. to pierce by means… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| borough | A fortress, castle, or citadel. Obs. (Unequivocal instances of this sense are rare, even… | 820 | Go To Quotation |
| borough-man | In some Yorkshire boroughs: A burgage tenant, borough-holder n. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| borough-reeve | A governor of a town or city; esp. the official who before the Norman Conquest… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| bow-net | A kind of trap used for lobsters, crayfish, etc., consisting now of a cylinder… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| box | gradually extended (since 1700) to include cases of larger size, made to hold… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| brander | A gridiron. See also brandise n., brandiron n., brandreth n. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| brandise | A trivet; perhaps used also in the other senses of brander n., brandiron n. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| brawdster | A woman (or man) who embroiders. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| breastbone | The thin flat bone running down the front of the thorax, and articulated by cartilages with the ribs; the sternum. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| brede | Roast meat. Obs. (but cf. sweetbread n.) | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| bridely | Nuptial, bridal. | 1099 | Go To Quotation |
| brine | Water saturated, or strongly impregnated, with salt; salt water. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| brock | ? = Latin ophiomachus (Vulgate Lev. xi. 22), a kind of locust: cf. bruke n. Only Old English. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| browdster | An embroiderer. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| brust | A bristle. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| buffylle | A leather bottle. | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| buggeress | A female bugger. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| bun | A hollow stem, esp. of an umbelliferous plant; a kex. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| burier | a grave-digger; also dead-burier. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| burne | = brinie n. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| burnisher | One who burnishes. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| butt | One of the parallel divisions of a ploughed field contained between two parallel… | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| butterfly | An insect belonging to any of those diurnal species of lepidoptera, or scaly-winged… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| byre | A cow-house. Perh. in Old English times, more generally, ‘a shed’. to muck the byre (Sc.)… | 799 | Go To Quotation |
| by-sybbe | Related, a relative. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| byword | A proverb, proverbial saying. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| caball | A horse. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| can | A vessel for holding liquids; formerly used of vessels of various materials, shapes… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| candle-wick | The wick of a candle. Also attrib. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| cap | A cloak with a hood; a cape or cope. (But prob. cappa here is really Latin, and not Old English.) | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| capon | A castrated cock. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| carder | One who cards wool, etc.; one who attends to a carding machine. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| cardoun | A thistle. | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| carelessness | The quality or state of being void of care, or of taking no care; freedom from trouble or… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| casule | = chasuble n. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| catmint | A labiate plant, Nepeta Cataria, a native of Britain and the continent of Europe… | 1265 | Go To Quotation |
| cawel | Cabbage, cole, kale. Also in comb., cawel-hert n. Obs. a name applied to the hare. cawel-wurm n. Obs. a caterpillar, kaleworm. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| chafer | A name given to certain beetles, now chiefly the cockchafer n. and rose chafer n.; used… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| chaff | A collective term for the husks of corn or other grain separated by threshing or winnowing. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| chavender | The same as chevin n., the chub (fish). | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| cheek-bone | The bone of the lower jaw, the jaw-bone. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| cheese | A substance used as food, consisting of the curd of milk (coagulated by rennet) separated… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| chevin | A fish, the chub n. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| chewing | The action of the vb. to chew v.; mastication. Also fig. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| chin | The part of the face below the under-lip formed by the prominent extremity of the lower jaw. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| chip | The share-beam of a plough; also, perh., (like Latin dentalis) the share itself. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| chrismator | = chrismatory n. | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| churl | A male human being, a man; esp. ‘man’ as correlative to ‘wife’, husband. (In Middle English mingled with other senses.) | 799 | Go To Quotation |
| churn | A vessel or machine for making butter, in which cream or milk is shaken, beaten, and broken… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| churn-staff | A staff or rod used for agitating or ‘dashing’ the cream or milk in a standing churn. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| chyde | Obs. rare. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| chynge | perh. = chink n. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| citiner | = citizen n. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| clapwype | A carrot or ? parsnip. | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| clean | Often in specific (contextual) senses: e.g. to clear arable land of weeds, esp. of the… | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| cleaning | attrib. and Comb., as cleaning-machine, cleaning-mill, cleaning-shed, cleaning-sieve. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| cleaving | The action of cleave v.; splitting. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| coalmouse | A bird, Parus ater; also called coal (or cole) titmouse. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| cobble | A water-worn rounded stone, esp. of the size suitable for paving. In earlier times often identified in use with pebble. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| cock | Cockle, shell-fish. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| colmow | A kind of sea-gull. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| combmaker | One whose business is to make combs; a comb-cutter. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| comfrey | The English name of Symphytum officinale (family Boraginaceæ), a tall plant, common on… | 1265 | Go To Quotation |
| cosser | A dealer; a broker; a ‘horse-corser’. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| coulter | The iron blade fixed in front of the share in a plough; it makes a vertical cut in the… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| councillor | of the council of state of a sovereign or ruler: cf. privy counsellor n. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| coventre | ? Error for coyentre, coyntre: see coyn n. Obs., quince. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| crab | The wild apple tree of northern Europe, the original of the common apple (Pyrus malus). | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| cradle | A little bed or cot for an infant: properly, one mounted on rockers, but often extended… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| craftily | Skilfully, cleverly: see crafty adj. 2. arch. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| craftly | Craftily, skilfully, cunningly. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| crane | A large grallatorial bird of the family Gruidæ, characterized by very long legs, neck… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| crap | Applied locally to various weeds growing among corn, as Darnel, Rye-grass, Charlock. | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| croche | A pastoral staff, crook, crosier. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| croke | Core of a fruit; refuse, dross. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| crumb | Crooked. | 1099 | Go To Quotation |
| culverfoot | Dove's-foot, a small species of wild Geranium. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| cupper | = cup-bearer n. Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| cutter | A hair-cutter. Obs. | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| cuttle | A cephalopod of the genus Sepia or family Sepiidæ, esp. the common cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| cuve | A cask, vat. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| daisy | The common name of Bellis perennis, family Compositæ, a familiar and favourite flower… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| deadly | In a way that causes death; mortally, fatally; to death. Obs. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| dealer | One who divides, distributes, delivers. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| defouler | One who defouls. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| dibble | An instrument used to make holes in the ground for seeds, bulbs, or young plants. In… | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| diker | One who digs ditches or trenches. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| diking | The action of making a dike; the construction of dikes (in various senses of the n.). | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| dodder | The common name of the genus Cuscuta, family Convolvulaceæ, comprising slender… | 1265 | Go To Quotation |
| dorcake | A kind of cracknel. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| dormouse | A small rodent of a family intermediate between the squirrels and the mice; esp.… | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| dovecot | A house for doves or pigeons; usually placed at a height above the ground, with openings… | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| dovehouse | A house for doves; a dovecot. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| drasty | Dreggy; fig. vile, worthless, ‘rubbishy’. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| dray-net | = drag-net n. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| dresser | Comb., as dresser-window; dresser-board n. Obs. the board or table of a dresser. dresser-knife n.… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| drite | intr. To void or drop excrement; to stool. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| drivel | intr. To let saliva or mucus flow from the mouth or nose, as young children and idiots do; to slaver, dribble. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| driver | gen. One who drives (in various senses: see the verb). | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| dud | †An article of clothing, a coarse cloak (obs.). Usually (now always) pl. = Clothes. (slang or colloq. depreciatory or humorous). | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| dung | Excrementitious and decayed matter employed to fertilize the soil; manure. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| dye | Colour or hue produced by, or as by, dyeing; tinge, hue. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| earwig | An insect, Forficula auricularia, so called from the notion that it penetrates into the head through the ear. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| edipol | Any common asseveration. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| eel | Used (both in popular and in scientific language) as the name of the… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| elbow | The outer part of the joint between the fore and the upper arm. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| eldmother | A grandmother. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| elmawes | | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| elp | = elephant n. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| elvat | An oil-vessel, an ampulla: see ampulla n. 2. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| elven | Obs. Originally, a female elf, but in later use applied to both sexes. | 1099 | Go To Quotation |
| eresop | App. = Ear-wax: see quots. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| este | daintily, luxuriously. | 849 | Go To Quotation |
| euphrasy | Bot. A plant, Euphrasia officinalis (family Scrophulariaceæ), formerly held in high repute… | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| eyesalve | Ointment for the eyes. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| fallowing | The action or operation of ploughing and breaking up land; an instance of this. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| faverole | A name of various plants: see quots. | 1265 | Go To Quotation |
| feather-bed | A bed stuffed with feathers. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| felt | A kind of cloth or stuff made of wool, or of wool and fur or hair, fulled or wrought into… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| feverfew | dial. The Erythræa Centaurium. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| fewtrer | A felt-maker, a worker in felt. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| fiddler | One who plays on the fiddle; esp. one who does so for hire. fiddler's fare, fiddler's money… | 1099 | Go To Quotation |
| fiddlestick | The bow strung with horsehair with which the fiddle is played. the devil rides on a fiddle-stick: = here's a fine commotion. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| fieldfare | A large migratory thrush, Turdus pilaris, with a grey head and rump and chestnut back… | 1020 | Go To Quotation |
| fiendly | Hostile, unfriendly. Obs. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| finkle | = fennel n. 1. | 1265 | Go To Quotation |
| fire-house | A house with a fireplace in it, as distinguished from the out-buildings. Obs.… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| fire-shovel | A shovel for placing coals on a fire or for removing coal or ashes. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| fire-stone | A popular name for iron pyrites. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| first | The inward roof or ceiling of a chamber; also, a ridge-pole; = first-piece at Compounds. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| fleawort | A name given to various plants. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| flesh house | A place where meat is killed or sold; a butcher's shop; shambles. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| forefinger | The finger next the thumb: also called the first or index finger. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| foreship | The fore part of a ship or vessel; the prow. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| foster-child | A child as related to persons who have reared it as their own, or (esp. in Ireland… | 1199 | Go To Quotation |
| fosterling | A foster-child, nursling. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| fueller | One who or that which supplies fuel for fires. Also, the domestic who makes the fires, and fig. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| gagrill | Some insect or reptile. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| gangway | A road, thoroughfare, or passage of any kind; rarely, a ‘lane’ opened through a crowd. Obs. exc. dial. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| garnwindle | | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| gavelot | A javelin or casting-spear. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| gill | trans. To gut or clean (fish). †Formerly also, to eviscerate (beasts) (cf. quor. 14.. giller n.). | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| giller | One who guts or cleans fish. †Formerly also, one who eviscerates beasts. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| girse | A saddle-girth; = girth n. 1. | 1418 | Go To Quotation |
| glide | some kind of worm or snake. | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| glise | intr. To glitter, shine. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| glowbard | A glow-worm. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| goat-buck | A he-goat. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| gold | (see quot. 1882). ¶Sometimes used by early writers to render Latin intuba or cichorea (endive or chicory). | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| goose-flesh | The flesh of a goose. | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| gooseherd | One who tends a flock of geese. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| goshawk | A large short-winged hawk (Astur palumbarius, and other species). | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| gosling | A young goose. | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| gozzard | = gooseherd n. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| graffed | = grafted adj. a. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| grapoud | = crapaud n. 2. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| grate | = grater n. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| grate | trans. To scrape, file, abrade; to rub harshly, scarify, excoriate. Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| grave | A graven image. | 1100 | Go To Quotation |
| grey goose | The greylag goose. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| greyhound | A variety of dog used in the chase, characterized by its long slender body, and long legs… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| grin | trans. To catch in a noose; to snare, ensnare; to choke, strangle. | 849 | Go To Quotation |
| gripple | Griping, niggardly, usurious. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| grost | obs. variant of gorst, gorse n. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| ground-stone | A foundation-stone. Chiefly Sc. and fig. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| growing | That grows, in senses of the vb. (Also with up.) growing pay, growing wages (see quot. 1867). | 899 | Go To Quotation |
| grundel | A fish; = groundling n. 1. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| gudgeon | A small European fresh-water fish (Gobio fluviatilis), much used for bait. | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| haft | A handle; esp. that of a cutting or piercing instrument, as a dagger, knife, sickle, etc. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| halterer | A halter-maker. | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| ham | That part of the leg at the back of the knee; the hollow or bend of the knee. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| hand-barrow | A flat, rectangular frame of transverse bars, having shafts or ‘trams’ before and behind, by which it is carried. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| handbrede | = handbreadth n. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| hand-hammer | A hammer that is used in one hand; the smith's working hammer, as distinguished from the two-handed sledge-hammer, etc. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| hand-staff | A staff-like handle; spec. that part of a flail by which it is held. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| hand-wrist | The wrist or joint of the hand. Now dial. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| harefoot | A plant; = hare's-foot n. 1 ? Obs. | 1265 | Go To Quotation |
| hatel | Full of hatred; malignant, hostile; severe, cruel; fierce, bitter. | 849 | Go To Quotation |
| haw | The fruit of the hawthorn. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| hay-house | A building in which hay is stored, a hay-barn; spec. a structure having a roof… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| hayrick | A haystack. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| haystack | A stack or large pile of hay built in the open air, of regular form and finished off with… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| haysugge | The hedge-sparrow. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| hazel-tree | The hazel, Corylus Avellana. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| head-cloth | A cloth or covering for the head; in pl. the pieces composing a head-dress. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| heckle | An instrument for combing or scutching flax or hemp; = hackle n. 1. | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| hekemose | A bird: prob. the Titmouse. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| hem | The border or edging of a piece of cloth or article of apparel. In earlier times including a fringe or other marginal trimming. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| hemming | The skin or hide of a deer's shank; a rough shoe or brogue made from this. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| hemp | An annual herbaceous plant, Cannabis sativa, N.O. Urticaceæ, a native of Western and… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| henbane | The common name of the annual plant Hyoscyamus niger, a native of Europe and… | 1265 | Go To Quotation |
| henbell | Earlier name of henbane n. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| herb Robert | The English name for a common wild species of Crane's-bill or Geranium (G. Robertianum)… | 1265 | Go To Quotation |
| hereaway | Away in this direction; in this quarter or neighbourhood, hereabouts. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| hild | To strip off (the skin). | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| hind | The female of the deer, esp. of the red deer; spec. a female deer in and after its third year. | 899 | Go To Quotation |
| hinderyeap | Cunning, deceitful. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| hindheal | A plant: see quots. | 1265 | Go To Quotation |
| hoarness | The quality of being hoar or hoary; hoariness. | 899 | Go To Quotation |
| hoarse | Of persons and animals, or of the vocal organs. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| hoarseness | The quality or condition of being hoarse. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| holl | A hollow place; a cave, den; a hole n. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| holleke | A species of Allium or onion: according to 16th c. writers, the Chibol, Cibol, or… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| hollyhock | orig. The Marsh Mallow, Althæa officinalis (in medieval Latin ibiscum malva, bis malva… | 1265 | Go To Quotation |
| holste | An old name of some bird. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| honeysuckle | A name for the flowers of clover, esp. the common red clover; also applied to other flowers yielding honey. Obs. exc. dial. | 1265 | Go To Quotation |
| horner | One who blows or winds a horn. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| horse-comb | An instrument for combing the hair of horses; a curry-comb. | 1099 | Go To Quotation |
| horse-mint | ‘A name applied generally to the wild mints’ (Britten and Holland), esp. Mentha sylvestris and M. aquatica. | 1265 | Go To Quotation |
| hose | Obs. sing. | 1099 | Go To Quotation |
| hound's-berry | The Black Bryony, Tamus communis. | 1265 | Go To Quotation |
| huck | intr. To higgle in trading; to haggle over a bargain; to chaffer, bargain. Also fig. To haggle over terms, to stickle. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| hucker | A petty dealer; one who bargains or haggles. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| hull | The shell, pod, or husk of pease and beans; the outer covering or rind of any fruit or seed. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| hulwort | The name of a plant. | 1265 | Go To Quotation |
| hunt | intr. To go in pursuit of wild animals or game; to engage in the chase. Also of animals: To pursue their prey. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| hymnal | A collection of hymns for use in divine worship; a hymn-book. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| idem | The same word, name, title, author, etc., as mentioned before: used to… | 1020 | Go To Quotation |
| iron-grey | Of the grey colour of freshly broken iron, or of dark hair when ‘turning grey’. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| juncade | = junket n. 2. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| jutty | intr. To project, jut, esp. as part of a building, or as a pier or breakwater. arch. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| kempt | Of hair or wool: Combed. Also with advs., as well-kempt, etc. Cf. unkempt adj. Also transf. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| kitchen | That room or part of a house in which food is cooked; a place fitted with the… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| kittle | trans. To tickle (in physical sense). | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| knee-pan | The bone in front of the knee-joint; the patella, knee-cap. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| lath | A thin narrow strip of wood used to form a groundwork upon which to fasten the slates or tiles… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| leaching | The action of leach v. Also leaching out. | 899 | Go To Quotation |
| leathern | Consisting or made of leather. leathern convenience, leathern conveniency: a circumlocution… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| leech | One of the aquatic blood-sucking worms belonging to the order Hirudinea: the ordinary… | 899 | Go To Quotation |
| leechdom | A medicine, remedy. | 899 | Go To Quotation |
| leeching | The action of leech v.; healing, medical treatment. a or in leeching: under medical treatment. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| lemeke | (See brooklime n.) | 1265 | Go To Quotation |
| lend | spec. To grant the possession and use of (money) for a fixed charge; to let out at interest. | 899 | Go To Quotation |
| lender | One who lends; esp. one who makes a business of lending money at interest. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| lenend | A lender, usurer. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| leveret | A young hare, strictly one in its first year. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| levin | intr. To lighten, emit flashes of light or lightning. Also trans. with cognate object. | 1301 | Go To Quotation |
| libber | A gelder. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| limb-meal | Limb from limb, limb by limb; piecemeal. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| lime-pot | A pot to contain lime or birdlime; a vessel of lime to pour upon assailants in a fight (Hist.);… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| liming | Gluing or cementing together. In quot. fig. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| lip | Either of the two fleshy structures which in man and other animals form the edges of… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| litherly | Idly, lazily. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| loam | Clay, clayey earth, mud; occas. ‘earth’ or ‘clay’ as the material of the human body. Obs. | 725 | Go To Quotation |
| luller | One who lulls; ? a woman who chants spells, a witch. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| lung | Each of the two respiratory organs in man and most vertebrate animals, placed within the… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| maim | A maimed person. Now only with the: maimed people as a class (cf. maimed n.). | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| mammer | intr. To stammer, mutter; to vacillate, waver, be undecided. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| mammering | A stammering or muttering. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| martret | A polecat. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| matrass | A bolt or quarrel for a crossbow (see also quot. 1867). | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| mawk | A maggot; a grub. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| mealing | The action of grinding something to meal or powder. Now chiefly in compounds; see 2. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| melder | A quantity of grain or meal, spec. a quantity of meal ground at one time. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| mercurial | Any of the plants called mercury; esp. French Mercury, Mercurialis annua. Cf. mercury n. 10. Obs. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| migraine | A severe headache which characteristically affects only one side of the head and… | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| milfoil | The common Eurasian yarrow, Achillea millefolium. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| milker | The milt (milt n. 2) of a fish. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| milk thistle | Any of various plants of the family Asteraceae (Compositae) with a milky juice; esp. (a)… | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| milk-vessel | A container for holding milk. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| mint | A small insect; a mite. Brit. regional in later use. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| modyngstrete | = middenstead n. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| mowel | A grey mullet; = mugil n. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| mulberry | Any of various mostly tropical and subtropical trees composing the genus Morus (family Moraceae… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| newt | Any of various small urodele amphibians of the family Salamandridae, having a slender body… | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| noddle | The back of the head. Obs. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| oarlock | = rowlock n. In early use: †an oar-hole (obs.). | 1020 | Go To Quotation |
| osprey | A large, long-winged, dark brown and white bird of prey, Pandion haliaetus (the only member… | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| packhorse | A horse used for carrying packs of goods or belongings. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| pantyr | A pantry. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| parmenter | A tailor; (app. also, in quot. 1450) a furrier. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| passionar | = passionary n. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| peppergrass | An (unidentified) plant. Obs. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| perry | A precious stone, a jewel; a pearl. Also fig. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| pintle | The penis of a man or a male animal. In later use regional and colloq. | 1020 | Go To Quotation |
| pittel | A bird of prey (of uncertain identity). Cf. puttock n. | 1020 | Go To Quotation |
| plumer | A bird; (perh.) a bird that is fully fledged. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| plumster | A plumber. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| pomace | Cider. Obs. rare. Cf. pomade n. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| posset | A drink made from hot milk curdled with ale, wine, or other liquor, flavoured with… | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| pritchel | Any of various sharp-pointed instruments or tools for prodding, cutting, making holes, etc. Now chiefly Eng. regional. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| punt | A flat-bottomed shallow boat, square at both ends; (now chiefly) spec. a long narrow boat… | 1020 | Go To Quotation |
| purrell | A transverse stripe or bar made by one or a number of coloured weft threads in a web of cloth. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| quarrenden | More fully Devonshire quarrenden. A variety of dessert apple with early ripening… | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| queror | An enquirer, a person who asks. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| rack | A parrel or parrel-rope; cf. parrel n. | 1020 | Go To Quotation |
| rattle | Any of several plants of the related genera Rhinanthus and Pedicularis (family Orobanchaceae… | 1020 | Go To Quotation |
| red spot | Med. Originally: any small red lesion of the skin (as a macule, papule, etc.), esp.… | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| rennet | = colostrum n. Obs. rare. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| ribbing-skin | = ribskin n. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| ridel | intr. To make a fold or pleat in cloth. Cf. rideled adj. 1. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| ringworm | Fungal infection of the keratinized layer of the skin or of the hair or nails, in… | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| ripple-stock | = ripple-comb n. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| salt-cote | A salt-house. | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| salter | A manufacturer of or dealer in salt; also spec. = drysalter n., as in the title of one… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| saltfat | A salt-cellar. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| salt-house | A building in which salt is made or stored. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| sand-bed | A bed, layer or stratum of sand. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| sand-blind | Half-blind, dim-sighted, purblind. Also fig. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| sarabrase | variant of sabras n. Obs., an infusion. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| sausage | In the original use, a quantity of finely chopped pork, beef, or other meat, spiced… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| sauserling | A sausage. | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| saw | A cutting tool consisting of a plate (or, in some forms, a band or a tube) of… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| sawsykylle | The heliotrope. | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| scrat | A hermaphrodite. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| scroll | A roll of paper or parchment, usually one with writing upon it. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| scuttle | A dish, trencher, platter. Obs. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| sea-coal | In Old English: Jet. Obs. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| sea-maw | = seamew n. | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| sea-thief | A pirate, a sea-rover. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| sea-thistle | The sea-holly, Eryngium maritimum. | 1265 | Go To Quotation |
| seave | A rush; also, a rushlight. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| seelihead | Happiness. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| senvy | The mustard plant: see mustard n. 2. | 1265 | Go To Quotation |
| setter | gen. One who sets something specified or contextually implied. Often as the second element… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| shackle | sing. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| shag | Rough matted hair, wool, etc. rare or arch. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| shagged | Having or covered with shaggy hair; rough with hair. Chiefly said of animals. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| shallow | A freshwater fish, the rudd n. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| sheepcot | = sheepcote n. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| sheep-hook | A shepherd's crook. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| shill | intr. To resound; to sound loudly. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| shin | The front part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle; the front or sharp edge of the shank-bone. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| shin-bone | The bone of the shin; the tibia. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| shoat | A fish resembling the trout, but smaller, found in Devon and Cornwall. (See also quots. 1865 1894.) | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| shred | A fragment cut or broken off; a strip; a scrap. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| shroud | A garment; an article of clothing; sing. and pl. (one's) clothes, clothing, habiliments. Obs. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| Shroveday | Shrove Tuesday. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| sieve-maker | One who makes sieves. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| silversmith | A worker in silver; one who makes silverware. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| silver wire | Wire made from silver. Also with a and pl. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| sleepwort | (See quots.) | 1265 | Go To Quotation |
| slime | Soft glutinous mud; alluvial ooze; viscous matter deposited or collected on stones, etc. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| slow-worm | A small harmless scincoid lizard, Anguis fragilis, native to most parts of Europe; the blindworm. | 899 | Go To Quotation |
| smack | A taste or flavour; the distinctive or peculiar taste of something, or a special flavour distinguishable from this. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| smatchcock | A spitchcock. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| smeek | intr. To emit smoke; to reek; to send out or give off steam or vapour. Also in fig. context. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| smit | trans. To stain or mark in some way; to colour or tinge; to smut. Also in fig. context. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| snitel(s | = sniter n. 1. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| sniting | The action of the verb; a blowing or wiping of the nose or beak; the snuffing of a candle. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| snode | A piece or bit (of bread or other food); a morsel. | 1150 | Go To Quotation |
| sogbote | (? Error for cogbote, cog n. Compounds.) | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| sojourner | One who sojourns; a temporary resident. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| southwort | = southernwort n. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| sparrow-hawk | A species of hawk (Accipiter nisus) which preys on small birds, common in the British… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| spar-stone | Gypsum; plaster. Obs. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| spattle | intr. and trans. To spit. Also with out. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| spattling | Spitting; spittle. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| spaudeler | A piece of armour protecting the shoulder; a shoulder plate. | 1301 | Go To Quotation |
| speld | A flake or particle of fire; a spark. Also with of. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| spelt | A species of grain (Triticum spelta) related to wheat, formerly much cultivated in… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| spelt | A thin piece of wood or metal; spec. a board of a book (Old English), a toe- or heel-plate (dial.). | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| spicket | A spigot. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| spirling | The smelt, Osmerus eperlanus. | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| stabler | A stable-keeper. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| staff-sword | A sword-stick. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| stay | Naut. A large rope used to support a mast, and leading from its head down to some other… | 1099 | Go To Quotation |
| stean | A vessel for liquids (or, in later use, for bread, meat, fish, etc.), usually made of… | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| stepdaughter | A daughter, by a former marriage, of one's husband or wife. | 849 | Go To Quotation |
| stern | trans. and intr. To steer, govern. Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| stiper | A prop. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| stirk | A young bullock or heifer, usually between one and two years old. | 800 | Go To Quotation |
| stirrup | A contrivance suspended from the side of a saddle to serve as a support for the foot of… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| stitchwort | A name for Stellaria Holostea. Also a book-name for the genus. | 1265 | Go To Quotation |
| stone-axe | A two-edged axe used for hewing stone. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| stook | = shock n. 1. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| stout | A gadfly, horse-fly; also applied to a gnat. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| stoven | A sapling, shoot from the stump of a tree. Also fig. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| strapple | A covering for the lower part of the leg, forming the complementary part of… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| strawberry | The ‘fruit’ (popularly so called) of any species of the genus Fragaria, a… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| strawberry leaf | The leaf of the strawberry plant. Also, †the plant itself (obs.). Also attrib. | 1265 | Go To Quotation |
| strick | A bundle of broken hemp, flax, jute, etc. for heckling. Cf. strike n. 2. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| strickle | A straight piece of wood with which surplus grain is struck off level with the rim of… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| stritch | = strickle n. 1. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| strop | A band, thong; a loop or noose of leather, etc. Obs. (Cf. strap n. 1) | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| stud | †In early use gen., a wooden post of any kind, an upright prop or support (obs.).… | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| studdle | A post. Obs. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| styan | = sty n. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| stybill | Some kind of axe. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| sub-cellarer | An assistant to the cellarer in a convent or monastery, typically supervising the provision of food and drink; an under-cellarer. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| swathe | gen. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| swealed | Scorched, singed; (of a sheep) roasted whole in the skin. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| swenge | trans. To shake, shatter. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| swiller | One who swills dishes; a scullion. Obs. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| swindle | Local variant of swingle n. Also in Comb. swyndilland n. = swingle-hand n. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| swingling | Giddiness, dizziness, vertigo. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| symphoner | A player on the ‘symphony’ (symphony n. 1). | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| tabern | An obsolete doublet of the word tavern n., variously used in the senses ‘shop, tavern, cellar, cupboard’. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| tache | A contrivance for fastening two parts together; a fibula, a clasp, a buckle, a hook and eye… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| tackling | Arms, weapons, instruments; also fig., esp. in phr. to stand or stick to one's tackling… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| tadpole | The larva of a frog, toad, or other batrachian, from the time it leaves the egg until it… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| tan-house | A building in which tanning is carried on. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| tape | A narrow woven strip of stout linen, cotton, silk, or other textile, used as a string… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| tapet | A piece of figured cloth used as a hanging, table-cover, carpet, or the like. | 899 | Go To Quotation |
| tap-hose | A strainer placed over the tap-hole in a mash-tub or the like, to prevent any solid matter from passing into or through the tap. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| tapper | One who taps casks or draws liquor; a tavern-keeper; = tapster n. 2. Obs. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| tasker | spec. One who threshes corn with a flail, as task-work n. or piece-work: see quot. 1792. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| teasel | A plant of the genus Dipsacus, comprising herbs with prickly leaves and flower-heads; esp.… | 1265 | Go To Quotation |
| ted | trans. To spread out, scatter, or strew abroad (new-mown grass) for drying. Also absol. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| tenon | A projection fashioned on the end or side of a piece of wood or other material, to fit… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| tetterwose | The Common Germander, Teucrium Chamædrys. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| tharfling | Unleavened bread or loaf; also attrib. Unleavened. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| thick | intr. To become thick, in various senses; = thicken v. Now dial. or arch. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| thirl | To make a hole in (the earth); to excavate. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| thoft | A rower's bench; = thwart n. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| three-leaf | A species of orchid (? Habenaria) with three root-leaves. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| three-leaved | Having three leaves, or leaves consisting each of three leaflets; trifoliate. three-leaved grass… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| threshel | A flail. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| thripple | A movable framework fitted upon a cart, so as to project in every direction beyond its… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| throck | In full plough-throck: The share-beam; = plough-head n. 1. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| through-shine | Through which light shines; transparent, translucent. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| thunwang | The temple (of the head). | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| thyvel | A bush, a thicket. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| tink | trans. To mend, solder, rivet (rarely, to make) pots and pans, as a tinker. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| tonal | A book containing a summary of the rules governing ecclesiastical music, with examples.… | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| top | The highest point or part of anything; perh. originally a pointed or peaked summit, an… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| topple | ? A crest, tuft: cf. topping n. 2a. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| to-shake | trans. To shake to pieces, shake asunder; to disperse or destroy by shaking. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| travis | A framework or railed enclosure in which restive horses are put to be shod; a smith's shoeing shed; = trave n. 2. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| treadle | A step or stair. Obs. rare. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| trindle | trans. To make round, to round. (only Old English.) | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| tropary | = troper n. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| try | A sieve or sifting screen. Obs. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| turnbroach | = turnspit n. 2 3 Also attrib. or adj. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| tylyester | An enchantress, sorceress. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| tymburnar | A player on a timbrel. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| ulm-tree | An elm-tree. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| umbles | The edible inward parts of an animal, usually of a deer. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| unbury | trans. To disinter; to take out of the ground again. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| uneared | Unploughed, untilled. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| unmerry | (Old English unmyrge: see un- prefix 7.) | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| unripe | Of death: Untimely, premature. Obs. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| unsele | Unfortunate, wretched. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| untemed | Untamed. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| unthewful | Unmannerly; unseemly. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| vampey | = vamp n. 1. | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| van | A winnowing basket or shovel; = fan n. 1a. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| varewort | A plant of doubtful identity. | 1265 | Go To Quotation |
| velderude | = herb John n. 1. | 1265 | Go To Quotation |
| ville | Variants of fille n., chervil. Obs. | 1265 | Go To Quotation |
| vinnied | Mouldy. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| vinny | intr. To become mouldy. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| virl | A band of metal, ivory, or bone, placed round the end or some other part of a piece of… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| wainwright | A wagon-builder. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| waled | Striped. open-waled, having an open texture. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| walnut | The nut of the common walnut-tree, Juglans regia, consisting of a two-lobed seed… | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| wanlasour | A hunting servant whose duty is to intercept and turn back the game; a driver. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| waribreed | In Old English some kind of ulcer or eruption; in 16–18th c. = warble n. 2. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| warpfat | ? =, (warping-fat n., warping-trough n. at warping n. 3). | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| water-sop | Bread soaked in water. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| wax-kernel | A hard glandular swelling in the neck or armpit or under the jaw. Also called waxen-kernel n., waxing kernel n. at waxing adj. c. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| wayless | Having no way or road. Chiefly of a country, region, etc.: Trackless, pathless. | 1100 | Go To Quotation |
| waywort | the pimpernel. | 1265 | Go To Quotation |
| web-beam | The roller in a loom on which the web is wound as it is woven. | 1100 | Go To Quotation |
| webster | as the designation of a woman. | 1100 | Go To Quotation |
| weeding | The action or process of freeing (land, a crop, etc.) from weeds. | 1100 | Go To Quotation |
| wevesterte | The wagtail. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| whiting | A gadoid fish of the genus Merlangus, esp. M. vulgaris, a small fish with pearly… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| whitten | More fully, whitten-tree. A name for the water elder or wild guelder-rose (Viburnum opulus)… | 1100 | Go To Quotation |
| wild goose | Any wild bird of the goose kind; an undomesticated goose; in Britain usually the… | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| windle | trans. To winnow. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| wine-pot | A ‘pot’ or flagon for holding wine. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| wood-brown | The herb bugle, Ajuga reptans, in reference to the brownish tint of the leaves. Obs. | 1265 | Go To Quotation |
| woodcock | A migratory bird, Scolopax rusticula, allied to the snipe, common in Europe and… | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| wooder | = woodman n. 2. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| woodwose | A wild man of the woods; a satyr, faun; a person dressed to represent such a being in a pageant. Cf. wild man n. | 1099 | Go To Quotation |
| woodyer | = woodman n. 2. | 1099 | Go To Quotation |
| woolding | concr. A wrapping, swathing (in first quot. glossing Latin pero a rustic boot); esp. Naut.… | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| workhouse | A house, shop, or room in which work is regularly performed; a workshop or factory. Obs. or Hist. | 1099 | Go To Quotation |
| wrestler | One who wrestles; esp. one who practises or is skilled in the art of wrestling, as an athlete. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| wrong | A rib of a ship or other vessel; also, a floor-timber of a ship. (Cf. rung n. 4) Obs. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| wymalve | = wymote n. (Cf. vimaue n.) | 1265 | Go To Quotation |
| yarn-winder | An apparatus for winding yarn, as a yarn-reel or a yarn-spooler. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| yearly | Every year, once a year, year by year, annually. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| yeld | Of an animal: Barren; that has missed having her young, or is not old enough to bear. | 1099 | Go To Quotation |
| yexing | The action of yex v.; †sobbing (obs.); (most freq.) hiccuping. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| ygronde | ground. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| yhu(y)red | hired. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| yoke | trans. To put a yoke on (a pair of draught-animals, etc.); to couple with a yoke. Also with up (? Colonial). | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| young woman | A woman who is young; one in early womanhood. | 1099 | Go To Quotation |
| zedoary | The aromatic tuberous root of one or more species of Curcuma (N.O. Zingiberaceæ), of… | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
