| 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 |
| bass | The Common Perch (Perca fluviatilis), or an allied freshwater species. | 1000 | 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 |
| berard | A viper. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| besmear | trans. To smear over or about; to cover the surface generally or largely with any… | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| besnow | trans. To snow on; to cover or whiten with, or as with, snow; also fig. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| bespar | trans. To shut in; to lock up. | 1099 | 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 |
| bindbalk | A tie-beam. | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| bit | A leathern bottle or flask; the uterus or womb; a fire-bucket. | 1000 | 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 |
| bloom | ‘A mass of iron after having undergone the first hammering.’ Weale. spec. An ingot of… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| boil | A hard inflamed suppurating tumour; a furuncle. | 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-reeve | A governor of a town or city; esp. the official who before the Norman Conquest… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| boroughship | A township; the fact of constituting a borough or township. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| bourtree | The Elder-tree (Sambucus nigra). attrib., as in bourtree-berry, bourtree-bush; bourtree-gun n.… | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| bow-net | A kind of trap used for lobsters, crayfish, etc., consisting now of a cylinder… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| brame | A brier or bramble. | 1425 | 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 |
| brewern | A brewhouse. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| bride | A woman at her marriage; a woman just about to be married or very recently married. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| brier | A prickly, thorny bush or shrub in general; formerly including the bramble, but now usually confined to wild rose bushes. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| brisket | The breast of an animal, the part immediately covering the breast-bone. Also, as a joint of meat. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| brock | ? = Latin ophiomachus (Vulgate Lev. xi. 22), a kind of locust: cf. bruke n. Only Old English. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| brust | A bristle. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| budde | An insect; ? a beetle of some kind: cf. boud n., weevil. | 1199 | Go To Quotation |
| buffylle | A leather bottle. | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| bugle | The English name of the plants belonging to the genus Ajuga, esp. the common species A. reptans… | 1265 | Go To Quotation |
| bullhead | A small freshwater fish with a large head (Aspidophorus cataphractes); the Miller's Thumb. | 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 |
| butt | A buttock. Chiefly dial. and colloq. in U.S. | 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 |
| 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 |
| caboche | A fish; the Bull-head, or Miller's Thumb. | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| cade | A pet lamb. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| cambrel | A bent piece of wood or iron used by butchers to hang carcases of animals on. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| cammock | A crooked staff, a crook; esp. a stick or club with a crooked head, used in games to drive… | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| camomile | The name of a Composite plant, Anthemis nobilis, an aromatic creeping herb, found on… | 1265 | Go To Quotation |
| can | A vessel for holding liquids; formerly used of vessels of various materials, shapes… | 999 | 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 |
| chaff | A collective term for the husks of corn or other grain separated by threshing or winnowing. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| chapiter | Archit. The capital of a column. (Still an occasional equivalent of capital n.) | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| charlock | Popular name of Sinapis arvensis or Field Mustard (family Cruciferæ); but applied also… | 999 | 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 |
| chervil | A garden pot-herb (Anthriscus Cerefolium, formerly Chærophyllum sativum, family Umbelliferæ)… | 749 | Go To Quotation |
| chest | Strife, contention, quarrelling. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| chevin | A fish, the chub n. | 1450 | 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 |
| chin-bone | The jaw-bone. | 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 |
| chrismatory | The vessel containing the chrism or consecrated oil; in R.C. Church, a case… | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| chrismere | = chrismal n., chrismatory n. adj. | 1450 | 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 |
| chyde | Obs. rare. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| chynge | perh. = chink n. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| clapwype | A carrot or ? parsnip. | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| clay | A stiff viscous earth found, in many varieties, in beds or other deposits near the surface… | 1000 | 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 |
| colle | A cask, wine-vessel, tub. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| colmow | A kind of sea-gull. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| comfrey | The English name of Symphytum officinale (family Boraginaceæ), a tall plant, common on… | 1265 | Go To Quotation |
| corn-house | An ancient name for a granary. Obs. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| corn-tree | = cornel-tree n. at cornel n. Compounds. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| cotton | Cloth or other fabric made of cotton; in pl. cotton fabrics, also cotton clothes or garments. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| coventre | ? Error for coyentre, coyntre: see coyn n. Obs., quince. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| crab | The common name for decapod crustaceous animals of the tribe Brachyura; applied especially… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| crab | The wild apple tree of northern Europe, the original of the common apple (Pyrus malus). | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| crab-tree | The wild apple-tree. | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| craftily | Skilfully, cleverly: see crafty adj. 2. arch. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| craftless | Without craft, unskilled in any art; without cunning. | 1000 | 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 |
| croke | Core of a fruit; refuse, dross. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| culverfoot | Dove's-foot, a small species of wild Geranium. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| cup | A small open vessel for liquids, usually of hemispherical or hemi-spheroidal shape, with… | 1000 | 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 |
| dare | = dace n. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| dasiberd | A stupid fellow, dullard, simpleton. | 1401 | Go To Quotation |
| defouler | One who defouls. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| dey | A woman having charge of a dairy and things pertaining to it; in early use, also, with… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| dibble | An instrument used to make holes in the ground for seeds, bulbs, or young plants. In… | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| diking | The action of making a dike; the construction of dikes (in various senses of the n.). | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| distaff | A cleft staff about 3 feet long, on which, in the ancient mode of spinning, wool or… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| dorcake | A kind of cracknel. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| dovehouse | A house for doves; a dovecot. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| dragant | A gum; = tragacanth n. Also called gum dragon, and formerly adragant n. | 1265 | 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 |
| drone | The male of the honey-bee. It is a non-worker, its function being to impregnate the queen-bee. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| dross | The scum, recrement, or extraneous matter thrown off from metals in the process of melting. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| dung | Excrementitious and decayed matter employed to fertilize the soil; manure. | 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 |
| edocke | Some broad-leaved water-plant; ? the Clote or Yellow Water-lily (Nuphar lutea). | 1000 | 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 |
| 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 |
| false | Of things, esp. of metal, money, jewels: Counterfeit, spurious. Of a document: Forged. | 1000 | 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 |
| 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 |
| fire-house | A house with a fireplace in it, as distinguished from the out-buildings. Obs.… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| fire-pan | A pan or receptacle for holding or carrying fire, e.g. a brazier, a chafing dish, a portable grate. | 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 |
| fleshmonger | A butcher. Obs. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| flexpeng | ? A gudgeon. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| foot-meal | Step by step. (In quot. preceded by by.) | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| forefinger | The finger next the thumb: also called the first or index finger. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| forehead | That part of the face which reaches upward from the eyebrows to the natural line of… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| foreship | The fore part of a ship or vessel; the prow. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| fore-tooth | One of the front teeth. rare in sing. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| forkin | ? A baker's shovel. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| forrot | intr. To rot away, putrefy. | 899 | Go To Quotation |
| fosterling | A foster-child, nursling. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| frumberdling | A youth. | 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 |
| garnwindle | | 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 |
| girse | A saddle-girth; = girth n. 1. | 1418 | Go To Quotation |
| gitterner | A player on the gittern. | 1301 | Go To Quotation |
| glide | some kind of worm or snake. | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| glise | intr. To glitter, shine. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| gloaming | Evening twilight. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| glowbard | A glow-worm. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| goldfinch | A well-known bright-coloured singing-bird (Carduelis elegans) of the family Fringillidæ, with a patch of yellow on its wings. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| goose-flesh | The flesh of a goose. | 1425 | 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 |
| 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 |
| grind | intr. Of the sun, etc.: To set, go down. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| gripple | Griping, niggardly, usurious. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| grost | obs. variant of gorst, gorse n. | 1400 | 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 |
| halter | A rope, cord, or strap with a noose or head-stall, by which horses or cattle are led or fastened up. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| halterer | A halter-maker. | 1425 | 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 |
| harrower | One who harrows land. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| hatching | The action of hatch v. in its various senses. Also, that which is hatched, a brood. | 1400 | 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 |
| haymaker | A man or woman employed in making hay; esp. one engaged in lifting, tossing, and spreading the hay after it is mown. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| haysugge | The hedge-sparrow. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| hazel-tree | The hazel, Corylus Avellana. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| headless | Without a head; having no head; deprived of the head, beheaded. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| head-man | Chief man, chief, leader. In various contextual applications. | 1000 | 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 |
| hemp | An annual herbaceous plant, Cannabis sativa, N.O. Urticaceæ, a native of Western and… | 999 | 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 |
| hild | To strip off (the skin). | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| hillwort | An old name of Pennyroyal (or ? of Wild Thyme). | 1000 | 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 |
| hogsty | A pigsty. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| holleke | A species of Allium or onion: according to 16th c. writers, the Chibol, Cibol, or… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| holly | A plant of the genus Ilex; orig. and esp. the common European holly, I. Aquifolium… | 1150 | 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 |
| horseheal | A tall strong composite plant, with very large yellow flowers; Elecampane (Inula Helenium). | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| hose | Obs. sing. | 1099 | Go To Quotation |
| houve | A covering for the head; a turban, a coif; a cap, a skull-cap; the quilted skull-cap worn… | 1000 | 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 |
| 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 |
| idem | The same word, name, title, author, etc., as mentioned before: used to… | 1020 | Go To Quotation |
| infare | An entrance, entry, way in. Obs. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| iron-grey | Of the grey colour of freshly broken iron, or of dark hair when ‘turning grey’. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| ironworker | One who works in iron; one engaged at ironworks. | 1400 | 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 |
| kittling | The action of kittle v.; tickling (lit. and fig.). | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| knee-pan | The bone in front of the knee-joint; the patella, knee-cap. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| lapwing | A well-known bird of the plover family, Vanellus vulgaris or cristatus, common in… | 1050 | 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 |
| lavender | The plant Lavandula vera (family Labiatæ), a small shrub with small pale… | 1265 | Go To Quotation |
| lease | Pasture; pasturage; meadow-land; common. (Cf. cow-lease n., ewe-lease n., horse-lease n.) | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| leather | Consisting or made of leather, or of a material resembling it. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| leathern | Consisting or made of leather. leathern convenience, leathern conveniency: a circumlocution… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| leechdom | A medicine, remedy. | 899 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| limpet | A gasteropod mollusc of the genus Patella, having an open tent-shaped shell and… | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| lineshark | | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| lip | Either of the two fleshy structures which in man and other animals form the edges of… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| listing | Selvage; list; border; the material of which the list of cloth is composed. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| litherly | Idly, lazily. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| loathless | Harmless, innocent. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| lobster | A large marine stalk-eyed ten-footed long-tailed crustacean of the genus Homarus, much… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| luce | The pike (Esox lucius), esp. when full grown. | 1400 | 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 |
| lure | Loss, either the action or process of losing, or what is lost; destruction, perdition. Also to bring to lure, to lie in lure. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| mammer | intr. To stammer, mutter; to vacillate, waver, be undecided. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| mancowe | A type of ape or monkey (unidentified). | 1499 | 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 |
| maul | Freq. in pl. (sometimes with sing. concord). A mallow, esp. the common mallow, Malva sylvestris. Cf. mallow n., maw n. | 1424 | 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 |
| milker | A person who milks a cow, etc. In early use perh. also: a seller of milk. | 1499 | 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 |
| modyngstrete | = middenstead n. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| mouse-ear | Now usually in full mouse-ear hawkweed. A dwarf Eurasian hawkweed, Pilosella officinarum… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| nat | A mat, esp. one used in a church. Obs. (in later use Eng. regional (north. and east.)). | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| navelwort | Any of various plants having a feature likened to a navel; spec. (a)… | 1450 | 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 |
| orache | Any of numerous succulent inconspicuous-flowered plants of the genus Atriplex, of… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| packhorse | A horse used for carrying packs of goods or belongings. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| parmenter | A tailor; (app. also, in quot. 1450) a furrier. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| pasteth | A pasty; a pastry. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| pearmain | A variety of pear; (app.) = warden n. Obs. | 1424 | 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 |
| pipe-maker | A maker, carver, or manufacturer of pipes (in various senses). | 1450 | 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 |
| pot ear | A pot handle. | 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 |
| rattle | Any of several plants of the related genera Rhinanthus and Pedicularis (family Orobanchaceae… | 1020 | Go To Quotation |
| redbreast | The European robin, Erithacus rubecula. Cf. later robin redbreast n. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| red spot | Med. Originally: any small red lesion of the skin (as a macule, papule, etc.), esp.… | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| reed-sparrow | Any of several European songbirds that frequent reed beds: (a) (more fully greater reed-sparrow… | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| rennet | = colostrum n. Obs. rare. | 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 |
| rush bush | A clump or tuft of rushes. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| salster | A female salter. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| salt-cote | A salt-house. | 1425 | 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 |
| sausage | In the original use, a quantity of finely chopped pork, beef, or other meat, spiced… | 1400 | 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 |
| saw | A saying; discourse; speech. Obs. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| sawsykylle | The heliotrope. | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| scroll | A roll of paper or parchment, usually one with writing upon it. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| scruff | A scabby or scaly condition of the skin; = scurf n. 1. Obs. | 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-horse | The walrus. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| sea-snail | A name for various marine gasteropods. | 1000 | 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 |
| sea-ware | Seaweed; esp. coarse, large seaweed thrown up on the shore by the sea, and used as manure, etc. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| seelihead | Happiness. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| senvy | The mustard plant: see mustard n. 2. | 1265 | Go To Quotation |
| shackle | sing. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| shag | Rough matted hair, wool, etc. rare or arch. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| shallow | A freshwater fish, the rudd n. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| shaver | One who shaves with a razor. | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| sheepcot | = sheepcote n. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| sheep-hook | A shepherd's crook. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| sheep-louse | A louse, Trichodectes sphærocephalus, which infests the wool of sheep. Also = sheep-tick n. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| sheep-tick | A horny, bristly, wingless fly, Melophagus ovinus, which infests sheep, embedding its head… | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| shill | intr. To resound; to sound loudly. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| shipe | Wages; reward. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| shipwright | A man employed in the construction of ships. | 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 |
| shorn | Shaven, tonsured. | 1050 | 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 |
| sickle | An agricultural implement similar in form and use to a reaping-hook, but… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| sieve-maker | One who makes sieves. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| silkworm | The caterpillar of the mulberry-feeding moth Bombyx (or Sericaria) mori, orig. a… | 1000 | 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 |
| sixfold | Consisting of six together; comprising six things, kinds, etc.; also, six times as great or as numerous; sextuple. | 999 | 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 |
| slot | A muddy place; mud. | 1499 | 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 |
| smit | trans. To stain or mark in some way; to colour or tinge; to smut. Also in fig. context. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| smock | A woman's undergarment; a shift or chemise. Now arch. or dial. (common down to 18th cent.). | 999 | 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 |
| snivel | Mucus collected in, or issuing from, the nose. | 1400 | 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 |
| sotship | Foolishness, folly. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| sourness | The quality of being physically sour; acidity, tartness. | 1050 | 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 |
| speech-house | A hall, room, or building set apart for speech, conference, etc.; a court-house; †a monastic parlour. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| spelt | A species of grain (Triticum spelta) related to wheat, formerly much cultivated in… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| spewing | The action of the verb in various senses; vomiting; an instance or occasion of this. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| spink | One or other of the finches; esp. the chaffinch. | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| spirling | The smelt, Osmerus eperlanus. | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| sprote | A shoot, sprout, twig, rod. Obs. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| staff-sword | A sword-stick. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| stair | An ascending series or ‘flight’ of steps leading from one level to another, esp. from one… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| stanmarch | The umbelliferous plant Smyrnium Olusatrum, also called alexanders and horse-parsley. | 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 |
| stitling | Corrupt form of stickling n. a stickleback. | 1425 | 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 |
| strick | A bundle of broken hemp, flax, jute, etc. for heckling. Cf. strike n. 2. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| strick | trans. To strike off (corn, etc.) level with the brim of the measure. | 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 |
| summonder | Variant of summoner n., assimilated to prec. | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| surgyon | Error for sojourner n. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| surmounting | The action of the verb surmount v.; also, something that surmounts. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| swealed | Scorched, singed; (of a sheep) roasted whole in the skin. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| swingling | Giddiness, dizziness, vertigo. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| taborner | By-form of taborer n., a drummer. | 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 | trans. To convert (skin or hide) into leather by steeping in an infusion of an astringent… | 1000 | 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 |
| tapon | A peg in a drinking-vessel, a pin; = peg n. 2b, pin n. 1f. | 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 |
| teaseler | One whose occupation is to teasel cloth. | 1400 | 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 |
| thaw | The melting of ice and snow after a frost; the condition of the weather caused by the… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| theeker | A thatcher; in early use, a roofer of houses. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| thick | intr. To become thick, in various senses; = thicken v. Now dial. or arch. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| thoft | A rower's bench; = thwart n. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| thrash | trans. | 849 | 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 |
| 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 |
| thurrock | The bilge of a ship. Also fig. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| toad | A tailless amphibian of the genus Bufo; primarily the common European species Bufo vulgaris;… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| tolner | A toll-taker, tax-gatherer, publican; = toller n. 1. | 1050 | 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 |
| trap | A contrivance set for catching game or noxious animals; a gin, snare, pitfall: cf. mantrap n.… | 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 |
| turnbroach | = turnspit n. 2 3 Also attrib. or adj. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| twick | trans. and absol. To pull sharply or suddenly; to twitch. | 999 | 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 |
| unbury | trans. To disinter; to take out of the ground again. | 1400 | 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 |
| unsack | trans. To take out of a sack. Also fig. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| unsele | Unfortunate, wretched. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| unshamefast | Of persons, the mind, heart, etc. | 1099 | 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 |
| 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 |
| warlock | Apparently applied like charlock n. (q.v.) to various field-weeds of the N.O. Cruciferæ… | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| warpfat | ? =, (warping-fat n., warping-trough n. at warping n. 3). | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| water-mouse | The water-vole, Arvicola amphibius. | 1499 | 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 |
| wax-maker | A maker of wax or of wax candles. ? Obs. | 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 |
| webbe | A male weaver. | 1100 | 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 |
| whelk | A pustule, pimple; = wheal n. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| whitethorn | The common hawthorn, Cratægus Oxyacantha: so called from the lighter colour of its bark… | 1265 | Go To Quotation |
| wild-fire | A name for erysipelas and various inflammatory eruptive diseases, esp. those in which… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| wild goose | Any wild bird of the goose kind; an undomesticated goose; in Britain usually the… | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| wild oat | A tall grass with long twisted awns, Avena fatua, resembling the cultivated oat (of which… | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| willow-tree | = willow n. 1; cf. also 1d, 2(e). | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| winding | An object that winds or is wound round; a coil or coiled object; †a curved, circular… | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| windle | trans. To winnow. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| windlestraw | A dry thin withered stalk of grass, such as is left standing after the flower or seed is shed. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| wine-pot | A ‘pot’ or flagon for holding wine. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| wolf's-fist | The puffball, Lycoperdon Bovista. Also used as a term of abuse. | 1265 | 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 |
| woodship | Madness; = woodness n. | 1000 | 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 |
| 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 | Originally, spun fibre, as of cotton, silk, wool, flax; now, usually, fibre spun and… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| yarn-winder | An apparatus for winding yarn, as a yarn-reel or a yarn-spooler. | 1400 | 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 |
| yelt | A young sow. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| ygronde | ground. | 1000 | 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 |
