| acast | trans. To cast down, throw down, cast away or off; to overcome. Now only as past participle: downcast, dejected. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| adraw | trans. To pull or draw out (also forth, back, etc.). | 1125 | Go To Quotation |
| basin | A circular vessel of greater width than depth, with sloping or curving sides, used… | 1220 | Go To Quotation |
| beholding | The action of looking at; contemplation, sight. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| betime | intr. To betide. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| bimong | Among. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| blindling | Blind-wise, blindly, heedlessly. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| bloman | A black man. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| bond | abstr. Confinement, imprisonment, custody. (In later times only in pl.) arch. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| boten | intr. To become better; to amend or recover health, be healed. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| breve | trans. (and absol.) To set down in writing; to indite, compose, write (a matter). | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| burd | A poetic word for ‘woman, lady’; the female counterpart of berne n.; in later use chiefly… | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| change | trans. To make (a thing) other than it was; to render different, alter, modify, transmute. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| chapel | gen. A sanctuary or place of Christian worship, not the church of a parish or the… | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| cheer | Phrases. to change cheer: to change countenance, as the effect of anger, fear, shame, etc. to make… | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| copen | trans. To desire eagerly, long for. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| craven | Vanquished, defeated; or, perh., confessing himself vanquished. Obs. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| cringe | To contract the muscles of the body, usually involuntarily; to shrink into a bent… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| drivel | A drudge, a servant doing menial work; a ‘kitchen-knave’. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| dust | trans. To cast forcibly or violently, fling, dash. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| earthman | A person who lives on earth as opposed to heaven. Obs. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| egede | Foolish, silly, ridiculous. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| fairlec | Fairness, beauty. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| fennilich | Dirty, filthy, miry. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| ferlac | Fear, terror. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| fike | intr. To flatter, fawn, act or speak deceitfully. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| freewoman | A woman who is (personally or politically) free; esp. a woman who is not a slave. Cf. freeman n. 1. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| frist | intr. To delay, grant respite. Also to frist it. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| gameful | Full of pleasure or enjoyment; enjoyable; (also) joyful, glad. Obs. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| gent | Of women and children: Graceful, elegant, pretty. Before Spenser chiefly in poetical phrases, gent and small, fair and gent, etc. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| glist | intr. To glisten. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| grandam | = grandmother n. 1. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| gravestone | A stone coffin. Obs. rare. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| grisle | Horror; terror. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| gro | An evil spirit. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| harshly | In a harsh or disagreeably rough manner; roughly, rudely, discordantly, unpleasantly, severely, unfeelingly, etc.: see the adj. | 1480 | Go To Quotation |
| hath | Perh.: scornful. | 1480 | Go To Quotation |
| heanling | A base, abject, or humble person. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| hearing | The action of actively giving ear, listening (e.g. to a lecture, sermon… | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| heaven gate | The gate at the entrance to heaven. Freq. in pl. esp. in early use. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| i-horned | Horned. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| impute | trans. To bring (a fault or the like) into the reckoning against; to lay to the charge… | 1480 | Go To Quotation |
| keenship | Keenness, boldness, fierceness. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| knurned | = knurred adj. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| lait | intr. To flash, gleam, lighten. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| lastless | Blameless. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| low | To a low point, position, or posture; also, along a low course, in a low direction. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| makeless | Without an equal; matchless, peerless. Now arch. and regional. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| mightful | Mighty, powerful; endowed with divine or kingly power; †efficacious (obs.). | 1125 | Go To Quotation |
| mind | With dative of person: in, or present to, a person's thoughts or mind. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| misbelieved | Holding a wrong belief or false religion; heretical; infidel, heathen. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| mother bairn | A man. Obs. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| nebshaft | Countenance, face. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| no | Accompanied by other negatives, with overall negative force (sometimes with more emphasis… | 1125 | Go To Quotation |
| Old English | The English language of an earlier period; (now) spec. the language in use until around 1150. Cf. Middle English n. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| pineful | Full of suffering; painful, distressing; tormented. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| poustie | Power; spiritual power; might; authority. See also liege poustie n. | 1250 | Go To Quotation |
| prince | A (male) sovereign ruler; a monarch, a king. Now chiefly arch. and hist., or in rhetorical use. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| quave | intr. To quake, shake, tremble. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| rand | trans. To cut or tear into strips. Cf. rand n. 2. Obs. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| redewise | Wise in counsel. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| rod | A stick or bundle of twigs used as an instrument of punishment, esp. for a child. Cf. cane n.… | 1125 | Go To Quotation |
| ruefully | In a manner that excites sorrow or compassion; pitiably, lamentably. Now literary. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| Ruffin | (The name of) a devil or fiend. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| ruthful | Full of compassion or pity; compassionate; merciful. Also as n. (with the with pl.… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| savour | A quality or characteristic likened to a smell or aroma, esp. in extended metaphors. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| seal | To mark by a seal as reserved for a particular destination. Chiefly fig., esp. in certain… | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| semblant | A person's outward aspect or appearance. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| sickerlaik | Certainty. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| sly | Of persons: Adept or skilful in artifice or craft; using cunning or insidious means… | 1199 | Go To Quotation |
| smatch | Taste, smack, flavour; †also, the sense of taste. | 1199 | Go To Quotation |
| smother | To suffocate with smoke. | 1199 | Go To Quotation |
| smothering | Of smoke, etc.: Stifling, suffocating. | 1199 | Go To Quotation |
| snarche | intr. To become scorched; to frizzle. | 1199 | Go To Quotation |
| soft | To allay, abate, or assuage the heat, intensity, or pain of (an injury, sore, etc.). Also with double accusative. | 1199 | Go To Quotation |
| sparkle | To issue, to fly or spring out or forth, in sparkles or small particles. Also fig. | 1199 | Go To Quotation |
| spetewil | (Of uncertain origin and meaning.) | 1199 | Go To Quotation |
| starred | Of the heavens, the sky, etc.: Studded with stars, starry. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| suty | Foul (lit. and fig.). | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| talk | To convey or exchange ideas, thoughts, information, etc. by means of speech… | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| temple | The flattened region on each side of the (human) forehead. (Chiefly in pl.) | 1310 | Go To Quotation |
| tevel | intr. ? To talk, converse; or perh. rather, To discuss, argue, contend in words. Obs. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| threst | intr. To press (in, out, together, etc.); to push one's way; to crowd; = thrust v. 3a. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| thwart-over | Athwart over; across one side to the other of. (Also in quot. 1450 in thurte (= a-thwart) over.) Obs. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| totter | Tottering, shaky, unstable, insecure. | 1480 | Go To Quotation |
| tug | intr. To pull sportively, struggle amorously. Obs. rare. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| un- | to dishonour. | 1199 | Go To Quotation |
| ungainly | Threateningly, terribly. Obs. | 1199 | Go To Quotation |
| unmarred | (un- prefix 8.) | 1199 | Go To Quotation |
| unofserved | = undeserved adj. 1. | 1199 | Go To Quotation |
| unseen | Not seen previously or hitherto; esp. †unfamiliar, strange, unknown. | 1199 | Go To Quotation |
| unwight | An evil being or spirit; a fiend or monster; spec. the devil. | 1199 | Go To Quotation |
| up- | | 1199 | Go To Quotation |
| vie | An account of the life of a saint. Obs. | 1199 | Go To Quotation |
| wane | A dwelling-place, residence, house (freq. of religious communities, etc.). Often pl.… | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| warrant | A protector, defender. Obs. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| whereto | To what end? for what purpose? for what reason? wherefore? what..for? Obs. exc. arch. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| wrother-heal | With dative (noun or pronoun) of person, etc. | 1199 | Go To Quotation |
| yerd | trans. To beat with a rod. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
