| abiding | The action of waiting at a certain point; stopping, pausing, hesitation; a pause, delay. Cf. abide v. 2a. Obs. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| abominable | Of a thing. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| aboutstanding | A circumstance. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| abundance | An overflowing quantity or amount (of something); a large quantity; plenty. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| accumbering | The fact of being overwhelmed or oppressed; distress, vexation. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| active | Of a way or style of life: characterized by outward action rather than inward… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| admeasure | trans. To keep (something) within proper limits; to moderate, temper; (in later use) to… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| admeasured | That is or has been admeasured (in various senses of the verb); measured… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| admonish | trans. To exhort or urge (a person) to do something, esp. as a duty or obligation; to tell… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| adoption | The action or practice of legally or informally taking a person into any relationship; esp.… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| adversary | The Devil, Satan, regarded as the enemy of mankind. See also old adversary at old adj.… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| advocate | Christian Church. A person or agent believed to intercede between God and sinners; spec. Christ or the Virgin Mary. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| agenbite | Remorse. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| aginning | A beginning. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| agraithing | Decoration, ornamentation. In pl.: embellishments; clothing, dress. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| agrass | Of corn: in the blade stage of growth. Cf. in the grass at grass n. 4a. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| allow | trans. To laud, praise, commend. Obs. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| almoner | A person who gives alms to the poor, esp. generously; an almsgiver; a benefactor. Now rare except as an extended use of sense 2a. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| ambition | The ardent (in early usage, inordinate) desire to rise to high position, or to… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| anferme | = affirm v. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| anliken | intr. To be or become like, resemble. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| anvenom | To envenom, to poison. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| apeluchier | To pick faults, to carp. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| apostate | One who abjures or forsakes his religious faith, or abandons his moral allegiance; a pervert. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| appropre | To assign as private property or possession to; to set apart for a special purpose; spec.… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| arbitress | One who settles disputes, a mediatress. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| ardently | In an ardent manner; with great eagerness or keen desire; passionately, earnestly, zealously. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| arghness | Cowardice, pusillanimity, timidity. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| aright-half | On the right side. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| arising | Rising from a seat, from bed, from the dead; rising of the sun. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| arrear | In time past. Obs. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| asp | A small, venomous, hooded serpent, found in Egypt and Libya; the Naja Haje. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| assailing | The action of attacking, assault. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| astone | trans. To stun; to strike senseless with a blow, or partially senseless with a loud… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| astony | trans. = astone v.; to stun, paralyse, astound, amaze. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| asum | To consummate, complete. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| atame | To tame, subdue. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| atreet | At one draught, continuously; straight off, distinctly. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| atwiting | Reproaching; reproach, taunt. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| avowed | Acknowledged, owned, plainly declared. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| awreaking | Revenge. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| ay | = Ah! O! (Now the common northern exclamation of surprise, invocation, earnestness.) | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| ayenbite | Remorse. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| aymont | = adamant n. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| basilicock | = basilisk n. 1. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| becharm | trans. To charm, to fascinate; to hold by a charm or spell. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| beclipping | Embrace. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| bedew | fig. To perfuse with any influence figured as like dew in its operation. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| beflatter | Intensive of flatter n. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| beknowing | Knowledge. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| beknowledge | Acknowledgement, confession. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| belong | intr. To go along with, or accompany, as an adjunct, function, or duty; to be… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| berob | To rob. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| beseeing | Circumspection, consideration. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| bestirring | Movement, motion, emotion. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| bethinking | The action of thinking, considering, reflecting, or remembering. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| biting | That causes pain or smart; keen, pungent. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| bitterhead | = bitterness n. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| blander | A flatterer. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| blaspheme | intr. To utter profane or impious words, talk profanely. Const. against (in Wyclif also in, upon). | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| bleach | Pale = bleak adj. 1. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| bleche | trans. To wound, hurt, injure. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| blevindeliche | Perseveringly. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| bonairly | Courteously; meekly. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| boterel | A toad. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| bougre | A heretic. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| brother-german | A brother through both parents; a ‘whole’ brother. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| buckle | A rim of metal, with a hinged tongue carrying one or more spikes, for securing a belt… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| bugger | (With capital initial). A heretic: the name was particularly applied to the Albigenses. Obs. exc. Hist. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| bunt | trans. To sift (meal). | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| burgessy | = burgess-ship n. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| burningly | fig. With ardour; hotly; ardently; eagerly. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| busyful | Elaborate, ornate. Cf. busy adj. 8. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| busyhead | The state or quality of being busy (in various senses); preoccupation, concern. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| butchery | A slaughter-house, shambles; a butcher's shop or stall; also attrib. (Now chiefly applied… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| buysine | A trumpet. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| cardinal | (Latin virtutes cardinales): in scholastic philosophy, justice, prudence… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| casting | with adverbs. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| cerceaus | A French word from the source (Somme le Roi) translated in Ayenbite misleadingly printed as… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| chaffer | intr. To trade, buy and sell, deal in merchandise; to traffic. Obs. exc. as in 1b. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| chamberer | A female servant who cleans and cares for the bedrooms of a house, a chambermaid… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| chameleon | A saurian reptile of the genus Chamæleo, family Chamæleonidæ, small… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| changing | That changes (intr.); undergoing alteration; varying, inconstant; that changes colour. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| charitable | Showing Christian charity or the love of God and man. Obs. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| charmeress | A female charmer. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| chastely | In a chaste manner; purely, continently. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| chenaille | Canaille, rabble. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| childheady | Childish. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| choleric | Of persons: Having choler n. adj. as the predominant humour; of bilious ‘complexion’, or temperament; bilious. Obs. exc. Hist. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| cleaving | fig. Abiding, lasting, persistent. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| cleavingly | In a cleaving manner. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| clive | To climb. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| cloisterer | One who dwells in a cloister; a monk or nun. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| clum | Silence, quiet. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| comparer | In the following, represents the French infinitive. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| comparison | trans. To liken; = compare v. 1. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| compassion | Suffering together with another, participation in suffering; fellow-feeling, sympathy. Obs. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| complexion | Bodily habit or constitution (orig. supposed to be constituted by the ‘humours’). Obs. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| condescend | refl. (The earliest instance.) Obs. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| conduit | An artificial channel or pipe for the conveyance of water or other liquids; an aqueduct… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| consentment | The action of consenting, consent. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| constance | Steadfastness, firmness, resolution, faithfulness, fidelity; = constancy n. 1 2. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| cornardy | Folly. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| corrupt | Corrupted, depraved, spoiled. Obs. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| corvée | A day's work of unpaid labour due by a vassal to his feudal lord; the whole forced… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| costious | Costly, expensive. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| couch | A frame or structure, with what is spread over it (or simply a layer of some soft… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| counterfeited | Deformed, misshapen; of monstrous form; = counterfeit adj. 4. Obs. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| crammel | ? A small crumb, a grain. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| crete | = cradle n. i. Obs. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| culver-house | A pigeon-house, a dove-cote. Also fig. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| curiously | With careful art, skilfully, elaborately, exquisitely, cunningly. arch. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| defail | to defail of: to lack, want. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| deny | = deanery n. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| detraction | The action of detracting from a person's merit or reputation; the utterance of what… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| difference | In current constructions. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| dighting | The action of the verb dight v., in various senses: putting in order… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| diligence | Careful attention, heedfulness, caution. to do or have diligence, to take care, take… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| diligent | Of persons: ‘Constant in application, persevering in endeavour, assiduous’… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| diligently | With steady application; assiduously, industriously; not idly or lazily; †with dispatch. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| discordance | The fact of being discordant; disagreement, want of concord. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| disordeine | (Cf. disordinate adj. 1.) | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| dispender | One that expends; a dispenser; an almoner; a steward; = dispensator n. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| distemper | trans. To temper improperly by undue mixture of elements; to disturb or derange the due proportion of (elements, humours, etc.). | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| distemperance | gen. Improper proportioning or mingling (of elements). | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| disturbing | The action of the verb disturb v.; disturbance. (Now only gerundial.) | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| diverse | trans. To render diverse or different; to vary, change, diversify. (Also refl. = intr.) | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| divine | A diviner, soothsayer, augur; a prophet, seer. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| dorlot | ‘The head-dress of network, sometimes enriched with jewels, worn in the middle ages by ladies.’ Fairholt Costume (1860) 437. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| drawth | A treatise; = Latin tractus. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| drunk | fig. = Intoxicated. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| echo | A repetition of sounds, which is produced by the reflexion of the sound-waves due… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| elephant | A huge quadruped of the Pachydermate order, having long curving ivory tusks, and… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| endaunture | ? Taming, breaking in. (But the passage is nonsense, the translator not having understood his original.) | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| engrin | trans. To ensnare. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| enoughbote | Satisfaction for an injury. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| enoughly | Sufficiently. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| entremess | Something served between the courses at a banquet; also fig. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| erege | A heretic. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| espying | The action of espy v. In Wyclif, lying in wait; a snare. Also attrib. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| everlasting | Lasting for ever; infinite in future duration; endless; = eternal adj. 3. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| falser | A falsifier, forger, counterfeiter. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| fanc | Mud. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| fander | A tempter. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| fellhead | = fellness n. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| fiance | Confidence, trust. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| fie | trans. To trust; also refl. = French se fier. Const. in. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| fine | trans. To make fine or pure; to purify from extraneous or impure matter; to clarify… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| firely | Ardently, with fierce eagerness. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| flatter | = flatterer n. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| flinder | A moth or butterfly. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| folding | | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| foleant | As present participle: playing the fool. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| folebayrie | | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| fortin | Strong. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| fulfilling | The action of fulfil v. in various senses; an instance of this; also concr. that which… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| fulfilling | That fulfils, in senses of the vb.; †hence, complementary or suitable to (obs.). | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| generally | In a general sense or manner; in general terms; without reference to individuals… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| gentilesse | The quality of being gentle; courtesy, politeness, good breeding; an instance of… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| gentility | Gentle birth; honourable extraction; the fact of belonging to a family of gentle blood.… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| gild | trans. To cover entirely or partially with a thin layer of gold, either laid on in the… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| glue | fig. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| gluttonly | Greedily. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| God's-penny | A small sum paid as earnest-money on striking a bargain, esp. on concluding a purchase… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| good-doer | One who does good; a benefactor. (Now commonly a doer of good.) | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| granting | The action of grant v. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| grinding | The action of grind v., in various senses. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| grunny | Obs. Variant of groin v. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| guessing | The action of guess v.; an instance of this, a conjecture, prognostication. without guessing: beyond estimation, incalculably. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| Hail Mary | The angelic salutation (cf. Luke i. 58) = Latin Ave Maria. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| hardiesse | Hardihood, boldness. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| harrow | A cry of distress or alarm; a call for succour. to cry harrow (on any one): to… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| hearkener | One who listens or gives ear; a listener. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| hearth | = hearing n. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| hern | = hers pron. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| hern | = theirs pron. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| hideously | In a hideous manner: see the adj. The sense ranges from ‘horribly, dreadfully… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| honestly | In an honourable or respectful manner, honourably, worthily, respectably; in a seemly or becoming manner; decently. Obs. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| hosing | The providing with hose; concr. material for hose, hose collectively. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| humour | Any fluid or juice of an animal or plant, either natural or morbid. (Chiefly in mediæval physiology; now rare or arch.) | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| hundredaghte | Hundredth; hundredfold. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| hyena | A carnivorous quadruped of a family Hyænidæ allied to the Dog-tribe, though in… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| imagination | The power or capacity to form internal images or ideas of objects and situations… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| impairment | The action of impairing, or fact of being impaired; deterioration; injurious lessening or weakening. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| ingnel | Quick, swift. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| ingoing | A going in or entering; entrance; passage or way in. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| ingratitude | Want or absence of gratitude; indisposition to acknowledge or reciprocate benefits received; unthankfulness; ungratefulness. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| inhonest | Dishonourable, disgraceful, shameful; indecent, vile. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| inhonestly | Dishonourably, shamefully, indecently, discreditably. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| innocence | Freedom from sin, guilt, or moral wrong in general; the state of being untainted with, or unacquainted with, evil; moral purity. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| innumerable | With singular n.; now only with host, multitude, and similar collectives. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| jess | A short strap of leather, silk, or other material, fastened round each of the legs of a… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| juelet | A plaything, a toy. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| known | That has become an object of knowledge; that is or has been apprehended… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| laund | An open space among woods, a glade (= Latin saltus); untilled ground, pasture. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| laver | transf. and fig. The baptismal font; the spiritual ‘washing’ of baptism; in wider… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| lazar | A poor and diseased person, usually one afflicted with a loathsome disease; esp. a leper. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| leaser | A gleaner. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| leaven | A substance which is added to dough to produce fermentation; spec. a quantity of… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| level | An instrument which indicates a line parallel to the plane of the horizon, used in… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| lickster | A female who licks; used to translate Old French lecheresse, fem. of lecheor lecher n. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| lighthead | Lightness, folly, levity; an instance of this. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| liking | Phr. in liking: likely to (do something). | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| Lokes | Whitsunday. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| longayne | A filthy place. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| looker | One who looks after or has charge of anything (e.g. †children, cattle, land, a farm… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| luxury | Lasciviousness, lust; pl. lusts. Obs. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| magnanimity | Well-founded high regard for oneself manifesting as generosity of spirit and equanimity in… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| magnificence | Perseverance, fortitude; one of the ‘cardinal virtues’ recognized in scholastic ethics. Obs. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| maim | Originally: a lasting wound or bodily injury. Subsequently: an injury to the body which… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| maimed | Of a person, limb, etc.: mutilated, crippled, injured. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| market-making | gen. Trading, buying and selling, marketing. Obs. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| marrish | trans. To marry. Freq. in pass. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| martyrement | Intense suffering. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| mean | Occupying a middle or intermediate place in sequential order or spatial position. Obs. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| meanness | Communion, fellowship. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| meantime | During or within the time intervening between a particular period or event and a… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| measure | To regulate, moderate, restrain (now used only of words, speech, etc.). Also refl. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| melancholian | A melancholiac. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| merciful | Having or exercising mercy; characterized by mercy; compassionate. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| messing | Feasting, banqueting. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| metels | A dream, a vision. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| meting | The action of mete v.; an instance of this. Obs. | 1350 | Go To Quotation |
| middle state | An intermediate state or situation, esp. in relation to a person's life. Obs. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| midtholing | Compassion. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| minister | trans. To dispense or administer (a sacrament, Holy Communion, etc.). Obs. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| misbelieving | The refusal or inability to accept something as true; misbelief; an instance of this. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| misdoer | A wrongdoer, offender, malefactor. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| misfall | A mishap, misfortune; adversity. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| misfall | intr. Of an event or impers.: to happen unfortunately, turn out badly (with to or with… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| missayer | A slanderer; an abusive person. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| missaying | Slander, defamation, insult; an insult, a slanderous or vilifying remark. Obs. (arch. and poet. in later use). | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| mis-serve | trans. To serve badly or unfaithfully; to do a disservice to; to mistreat. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| murderer | A person who murders another; a person guilty of murder. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| muse | intr. To be absorbed in thought; to meditate in silence; to ponder. Usu. with about, †in, of, on, over, upon. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| naught | trans. To refrain from, to shun. Cf. nought v. 1. Obs. rare. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| neshhead | Softness, esp. of texture or composition. | 1350 | Go To Quotation |
| newhead | A new thing. rare. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| nighle | trans. To draw near, approach. Also intr. with to. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| notary | A person officially authorized to perform certain legal formalities, such as drawing… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| nourish | A person responsible for the care or upbringing of a child; esp. a wet nurse… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| nourishing | That nourishes something; giving or affording nourishment; sustaining. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| novice | An inexperienced person; a person who is new to the circumstances in which he or she is placed; a beginner, a learner. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| oneing | The action of one v.; an instance of this; union, fusion; unity, peace. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| opinion | As a count noun: a view held about a particular issue; a judgement formed or a… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| ordenely | In an ordered or orderly manner; according to rule; in proper order. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| ordinee | Ordered, regulated; orderly, regular. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| outcasting | An offshoot. Obs. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| outnim | Except, except for. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| outnome | Except for. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| overcoming | The action of overcome v.; victory; a conquering; an overpowering; an overmastering. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| overdoing | The action of overdo v.; an instance of this. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| overling | A person who is over others; a superior. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| overly | Supreme. Obs. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| overmaistrie | trans. = overmaster v. 1. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| overween | intr. To have excessively or unreasonably high expectations; to be conceited… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| overweener | A person who overweens; one who thinks too highly of something; an arrogant, conceited, or presumptuous person. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| overweening | Excessively or unreasonably high expectation or opinion of oneself… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| overweening | Of a person, etc.: having unreasonably high expectations or an excessively high… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| papelard | A flattering parasite; a sycophant; a hypocrite. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| passing | Of time, or things bound or measured by time: that passes away or elapses; that is in… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| passingly | In passing, cursorily. Formerly also: †for a moment, temporarily (obs.). | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| patrimony | The estate or property belonging by ancient right to an institution, corporation… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| patroillart | Confused or muddled language. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| paying | Pleasing, indulgence; a pleasurable thing. Obs. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| peaceable | Of a person, animal, etc.: inclined to or in favour of peace; avoiding or inclined… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| pearl | The pupil or the lens of the eye. Also fig. Obs. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| pedaile | The common people; the populace. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| peregrinage | In early use: a pilgrimage. In later use: a journey; travels. Cf. peregrination n. 2. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| perfectly | To the fullest degree or extent, in full measure; comprehensively, fully, utterly. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| perilously | Causing or involving peril; terribly; dangerously. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| perseverance | The fact, process, condition, or quality of persevering; constant persistence in a… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| perseverant | Of a person, disposition, etc.: steadfast, persistent, persevering. Also in extended use: repetitive, frequent. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| perseverantly | In a persevering manner; persistently; continually. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| Pharisen | A Pharisee. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| phlegmatic | A person in whose body there is an excess of phlegm; a person with the… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| plainer | Law. = complainant n. 1. Obs. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| plenteously | Abundantly, copiously, plentifully; in plenty; in large amounts; generously, liberally. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| plentily | Plentifully; greatly; in large amounts or great supply. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| poorhead | The state or fact of being poor; poverty (lit. and fig.). | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| poring | The action of pore v. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| poss | A long wooden post, esp. one used as a vertical support in building (cf. post n. 1). Also in fig. context. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| present | Beside, before, with, or in the same place as the person who or thing which is the… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| prestly | Readily; quickly; promptly, immediately. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| preterite | Occurring or existing previously; past, bygone, former. Now arch. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| prew | Brave, valiant, or gallant; full of prowess. Also: proud, haughty. Cf. preux chevalier n. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| principally | In the chief or first place; above all; pre-eminently. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| prodigality | Wasteful expenditure of one's material resources, esp. money; reckless extravagance; (also) a wasteful or extravagant act. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| profess | Professed; that has made a profession, that has taken religious vows. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| propose | intr. Originally: to form an intention or design. Later more generally: to propose a… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| proudful | Full of pride; very proud. Also (Eng. regional) as adverb. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| prow | Good, worthy; valiant, brave, gallant. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| prudence | The ability to recognize and follow the most suitable or sensible course of action; good… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| punish | trans. To cause (an offender) to suffer for an offence, esp. a transgression of a legal… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| purveying | Preparation, arrangement, management; = purveyance n. 3; (also) provision or precaution again (an eventuality, etc.). Obs. rare. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| purveyor | A person who procures, provides, or supplies something; spec. a person whose business… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| quarrel | A ground or occasion of complaint with (also against, †to) a person, leading to… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| quarteus | A French word from the source (Somme le Roi) translated in Ayenbite misleadingly printed… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| quedehead | = quedeship n. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| quell | intr. To well out, flow. Also with up. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| quitting | The action of quit v. (in various senses); an instance of this. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| rebel | To resist, oppose, or be disobedient to, a higher authority. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| recording | Remembrance, recollection; meditation. Obs. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| recray | trans. To tire or wear out. Chiefly in pa. pple. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| reder | An adviser, counsellor. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| reform | intr. To renew something. Also trans. Obs. rare. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| refu | A refuge. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| renay | A person who has renounced his or her faith; an apostate. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| renoirie | Apostasy. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| resemble | trans. To be like, to have a likeness or similarity to, to have some feature or property… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| restful | Characterized by, or of the nature of, rest or repose; having a quiet and soothing quality; free from strife or disturbance. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| reward | in (the) (also to the) reward of: in comparison with. Obs. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| riotous | Chiefly Sc. Troublesome; difficult. Obs. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| rishew | A dish of finely chopped or ground fruit or meat mixed with spices, herbs, etc., formed… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| salamander | A lizard-like animal supposed to live in, or to be able to endure, fire. Now only allusive. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| sanguinian | Having the sanguine temperament. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| scalled | = scald adj. scalled-head = scald head n. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| sendre | trans. To purify. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| shameness | Shamefacedness, modesty. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| shore | trans. To prop, support with a prop. Often with up. Also fig. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| shorthead | Shortness, brevity. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| shriver | One who shrives, a confessor. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| shut-purse | The ‘shutter of purses’: the title of the demon of miserliness. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| simoniac | One who practises simony; a buyer or seller of benefices, ecclesiastical preferments… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| simplesse | = simpleness n. 1. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| simulation | The action or practice of simulating, with intent to deceive; false pretence, deceitful profession. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| siren | An imaginary species of serpent. Obs. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| slewful | Slothful. Obs. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| sluice | A structure of wood or masonry, a dam or embankment, for impounding the water of… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| smack | trans. Of persons: To perceive by the sense of taste. †Also fig., to experience; to suspect. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| smally | In or into small or minute pieces, fragments, etc.; finely, minutely. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| smooth | To make smooth, plausible, or specious. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| sneg | A snail. Cf. snag n. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| soberly | With moderation in respect of natural appetites; temperately. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| softhead | Softness; gentleness; delicacy. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| soignous | Careful, heedful. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| soothsayer | One who speaks the truth; a truthful or veracious person. Obs. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| sophistry | Specious but fallacious reasoning; employment of arguments which are intentionally deceptive. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| sour | trans. Of leaven: To cause fermentation in (dough, etc.). | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| southdeacon | = subdeacon n. 1a. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| speakman | An advocate or spokesman. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| spender | A steward. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| sperring | (Meaning obscure.) | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| spider | One or other of the arachnids belonging to the insectivorous order Araneidæ, many species… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| spiritually | In a spiritual manner; in or as to the spirit; as regards or in respect of spiritual… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| spotty | Full of, marked with, spots; spotted. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| steevely | Firmly, unyieldingly. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| stillhead | Quietness. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| subprior | A prior's assistant and deputy. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| substantial | Of food, a meal, etc.: ample and nourishing; (in some contexts) large and heavy. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| subtlehead | The quality of being subtle (in various senses); subtlety. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| subtly | With cunning or guile; so as to deceive; craftily; treacherously; insidiously. Obs. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| suspicious | Open to, deserving of, or exciting suspicion; that is or should be an object… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| swallowing | Tasting, sense of taste: see swallow v. 2. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| swifthead | Swiftness. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| swinker | One who swinks; a toiler, labourer. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| taverner | One who keeps a tavern; a tavern-keeper. arch. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| terrestre | = terrestrial adj.; chiefly in phr. paradise terrestre earthly paradise, the Garden of Eden. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| tholing | That tholes; enduring; patient. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| thonneliche | In that case: = then adv. 4. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| thoughless | Nevertheless. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| threapen | To threaten (trans. and intr.). Obs. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| top | Above, beyond, more than. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| trussing | The action of the verb truss v., in various senses. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| twist | intr. To divide into branches; to branch. Obs. rare. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| undelve | trans. To dig up. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| undone | Brought to decay or ruin; ruined, destroyed. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| unjoin | trans. To detach from being joined; to disjoin, sever, separate. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| unknowingly | Without knowledge, ignorantly; unintentionally. Also const. to (a person). | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| unlusthead | = unlust n. 3. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| unoning | Disunion, discord. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| unpay | trans. To displease. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| unsew | trans. To undo the sewing of (a garment, etc.); to remove the stitches from. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| unspeaking | Unspeakable, ineffable. Obs. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| unwone | trans. = unwont v. a. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| unworth | Lack of merit or desert. Obs. rare. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| unworthness | Contempt, scorn. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| van | trans. To winnow with a fan. ? Obs. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| vendonging | The vintage. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| vilehead | Vileness. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| was | What was; something past. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| weepingly | In a weeping manner. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| whereout | Out of which, out from which (in various senses: see out adv. and out of prep.). | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| whereup | = whereupon adv. 2 3b Obs. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| whited | Covered or coated with white; spec. (a) plastered over with white, whitewashed, as… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| wilhede | Will. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| wisehede | Wisdom. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| withdraught | Withdrawal. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| workful | Active, operative. Obs. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| worshiphead | Dignity, rank. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| worshiply | Honourable. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| ybake(n | baked. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| ybede | asked for. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| yborȝe | aved. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| ycarked | loaded, burdened. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| ycomparisoned | | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| yconceyued | | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| ycontined | contained. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| ydamned | obs. pa. pple. of damn v. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| ydept | dipped. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| ydolve | undermined; buried. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| ydoubled | doubled. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| ydred | (also ydreddyd, ydrad, ydraded), pa. pple. of dread v. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| ydubbed | dubbed. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| yelper | A boaster. Obs. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| yexiled | exiled. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| yfaired | made clean or pure. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| yfloured | having flowers. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| ygiled | beguiled. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| ygon(e | Middle English pa. pples. of go v. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| ygra(u)nted | granted. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| ygurd | girt. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| yharmed | harmed. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| yhert | hardened. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| yhuited | whitened. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| yhy(e)alde | Middle English (Kentish) pa. pple. of hold v. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| yielder | One who has to pay, i.e. owes, something; a debtor. Obs. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| yielding | Owing, indebted: cf. yielder n. 1, yielding n. 1. Obs. rare. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| ylerned | learnt. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| ylet | let, allowed, left, etc. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| ylik(e)ned | likened. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| yloȝed | subjected, humbled. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| yloked | looked, observed, etc. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| yporchaced | Purchased. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| yquenct | Middle English pa. pple. of quench v. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| yrauissed | Ravished, carried away. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| yspend(ed | Spent. (In some quots. as past participle.) | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| yssored | Middle English pa. pples. of shore v., shoot v., shride v., shrive v., shrine v. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| ytemperit | Middle English pa. pples. of temper v., tempt v. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| yued | Middle English pa. pple. of feed v. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| yuo | an enemy. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| ywryȝeliche | Secretly. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| yzen(e)ȝed | Middle English pa. pples. of sin v., set v. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
