| abaft | Chiefly Naut. To or towards the rear; backward. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| aha | Expressing triumph, satisfaction, realization, discovery, or (now rarely) mockery or irony. Cf. ah int. 3 4 ha int. 1b. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| airt | A quarter of the heavens; a point of the compass; a direction. Hence more generally: a quarter, a locality. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| ande | To breathe, blow. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| anywhat | Indefinite compound of what (cf. somewhat n.): anything. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| anywhere | In any place. The indefinite compound of where. Formerly written separately. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| ashen | Made of the wood of the ash. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| attaint | To convict, prove guilty. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| axle-tree | The fixed bar or beam of wood, etc., on the rounded ends of which the opposite wheels of… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| bailey | The external wall enclosing the outer court, and forming the first line of defence, of… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| bairnheid | Childhood, infancy. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| bandon | refl. To give oneself up; = abandon v. 3. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| banning | Prohibition. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| bar | To make fast (a door, etc.) by a bar or bars fixed across it; to fasten up or close (a place) with bars. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| barge | A small sea-going vessel with sails: used spec. for one next in size above the balinger n.… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| bate | Contention, strife, discord. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| battle | trans. To fortify or furnish with battlements. (Usually in passive: cf. battled adj.) | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| benedight | Blessed. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| benumb | | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| beserve | trans. To serve diligently. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| bestial | A collective term for domestic animals, especially of the bovine kind, kept for food or… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| beta | The second letter of the Greek alphabet, Β, β. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| bisweligh | To swallow up. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| bithret(t | Menaced, threatened. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| blessedhead | Blessedness, beatitude. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| blue | Blue colour. (It may have a plural.) | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| bobet | A blow with the fist, a cuff. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| bouche | A hump, swelling. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| boughtling | One bought or ransomed. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| brast | Northern form of burst v. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| brathly | Impetuously; furiously, violently. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| bray | intr. To cry out, to utter a loud harsh cry; esp. of grief or pain. Obs. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| break | An act of breaking; breakage, fracture. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| breek | Formerly in singular. Obs. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| bremely | Fierce, furious. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| bricoun | A knave. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| brotherhood | The relation of a brother, or of brothers mutually; fraternal tie. Also in spiritual sense. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| bude | trans. impers. With object and bare infinitive. It behoved, was obligatory upon, was… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| burly | Stately, dignified, of noble or imposing presence or appearance. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| burning | The condition of being on fire; the action of sending up flames; hence concr. flame. Cf. 5b. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| butward | Striving, using influence; busied about, going. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| caitifhede | Vileness, baseness, wickedness. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| caitifty | Captivity. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| Cantica | The Song of Songs (in the Vulgate Canticum Canticorum). Cf. Canticles (at canticle n.) | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| cark | trans. To load, burden; also, to charge or impose as a charge upon. Obs. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| carl | esp. A bondman, a villein; cf. churl n. Obs. (after 1500 blending with prec.) | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| cast | fig. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| casting | intr. Of bees: Swarming. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| centenier | A centurion. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| chaft | The jaw, chap; usually in pl. (Chiefly north., and since 17th c. only dial.) | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| char | A chariot, car: a cart, wagon. Later examples show the French word char used… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| charm | orig. The chanting or recitation of a verse supposed to possess magic power or… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| chasting | Chastening, castigation. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| chastise | To inflict punishment or suffering upon, with a view to amendment; also simply, to… | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| chess | A game of skill played by two persons, on a chequered board divided into sixty-four… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| chrisom | = chrism v. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| cider | Formerly used in Biblical passages, or allusions to them, alongside of ciser, cisar, cyser… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| circumcise | trans. To cut off the foreskin or prepuce of (males); chiefly as a religious rite of Jews and Muslims. Also in Surg. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| claim | to claim quit, also to quit claim (a person or thing): to proclaim quit or released; to… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| clarity | Glory, divine lustre. Obs. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| clead | = clothe v. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| cleading | Clothing, apparel. Sc. and north. Eng. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| clenge | trans. To cleanse, make clean (lit. and fig.). | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| closterer | = cloisterer n. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| comenable | Corrupt form of convenable adj., covenable adj., due, convenient, suitable. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| commanding | The action of command v.; a command, order, injunction. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| compass | Designing, skilful devising, ingenuity; passing into the bad sense of craft, subtilty… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| compassing | A devising, planning; a device, design, artifice, contrivance. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| conception | The action of conceiving, or fact of being conceived, in the womb. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| conclude | To overcome in argument; to confute, ‘shut up’; to convince. Obs. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| concluse | trans. To overcome in argument, confute. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| conclusion | A judgement or statement arrived at by any reasoning process; an inference, deduction, induction. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| concord | Agreement between persons; concurrence in feeling and opinion; harmony, accord. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| conrey | Equipment, outfit. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| consent | Voluntary agreement to or acquiescence in what another proposes or desires; compliance, concurrence, permission. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| consenting | Agreeing or giving consent (to a proposal or course of action; formerly, also, to an opinion). | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| convey | trans. To go along with (any one) on his way for the sake of company; to accompany in… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| cord | trans. To bring to agreement, reconcile; = accord v. 1. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| corner-stone | fig. (esp. in reference to its function in consolidating the building.) | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| corrupt | To render morally unsound or ‘rotten’; to destroy the moral purity or chastity of; to… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| courser | A runner; one who runs in a race, a racer. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| coverlid | = coverlet n. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| covetous | Having an ardent or excessive desire of (or †for) anything; eagerly desirous to do, have, or be. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| cross | trans. To crucify. Obs. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| crot | A particle, bit, atom, individual piece. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| crucify | trans. To put to death by nailing or otherwise fastening to a cross; an ancient mode… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| cruelness | The quality of being cruel; cruelty. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| cumber | pass. To be overwhelmed and held fast, as in a slough. Obs. (Cf. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol.… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| curn | pl. Grain, corn-crops. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| customhead | Customary practice, custom, habit. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| daintily | In a dainty manner; with delicate attention to the palate, personal comfort, etc. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| darken | To grow or become dark, said esp. of the coming on of night. (Sometimes with down.) | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| daunting | That daunts: intimidating, etc.; see the verb. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| deceive | To be or prove false to, play false, deal treacherously with; to betray. Obs. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| delayance | Delaying, delay. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| derfly | Grievous, terrible, dreadful; = derf adj. 3. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| descend | fig. said of immaterial agents, influences, etc. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| discord | intr. Of persons: To disagree, ‘differ’; to be at variance, to quarrel; also, to dissent from. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| disour | A (professional) story-teller; a reciter of ‘gestes’; a jester. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| dispend | other things. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| diverseness | The quality or state of being diverse; difference, diversity, variety. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| downfall | Fall from high estate, ruin. (The current use.) | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| downheld | A downward slope, declivity, decline, descent (lit. and fig.). | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| dream | with cognate or pronominal obj.; sometimes with simple obj. = dream of. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| drenkle | trans. To submerge, drown. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| drown | To sink and perish (as a ship); to suffer extinction or destruction by deluge or inundation. Obs. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| drowned | Killed by submersion in water. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| duck | To plunge (a person or thing) momentarily in, into, or under water or other liquid. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| dump | trans. To cast or fling down forcibly, to plunge down. Obs. (exc. as in 2). | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| each-where | Everywhere, in every part, on every side. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| eggment | Incitement, instigation. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| elded | That has grown old, inveterate. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| elding | Fuel. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| emidward | Variant of amidward prep. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| entendant | In attendance. = attendant adj. 1 2. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| entrail | collect. The intestines or internal parts generally; the ‘inside’. Obs. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| error | The condition of erring in opinion; the holding of mistaken notions or beliefs; an… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| evil-willing | quasi- n. An ill-wisher, enemy. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| exchange | trans. = change v. 6. Also to exchange into = change v. 6b. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| exile | intr. To be in exile; = Latin exsulare. rare. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| extortion | The action or practice of extorting or wresting anything, esp. money, from a person by force… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| faggot | for use as fuel. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| fainness | The quality or state of being fain; eagerness, gladness. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| faith | Confidence, reliance, trust (in the ability, goodness, etc., of a person; in the efficacy… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| faithful | Of persons, their actions, etc.: Full of or characterized by faith n. (sense A. 3); believing. Obs. exc. absol.: see A. 7. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| far-about | By far, very much (dial.). | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| fardel | A bundle, a little pack; a parcel. Also collect. Occas. in pl. Baggage (of a company of men). | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| fashion | Make, build, shape. Hence, in wider sense, visible characteristics, appearance. Said… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| fasting-day | = fast-day n. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| fell | Of animals and men, their actions and attributes: Fierce, savage; cruel… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| felling | ? concr. A clearing. Obs. (If this be the sense, the word in quot. 1300 is due… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| felly | Fiercely, cruelly, harshly; with deadly malignity or destructive effect. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| felonly | In a ‘felon’ manner, wickedly; fiercely, bitterly, cruelly, severely, also in weaker sense, grievously. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| fern | A huge quantity or number. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| feud | Active hatred or enmity, hostility, ill-will. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| figer | A fig-tree. Also figer-tree. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| fighter | One who fights; occas. a fighting man, a warrior. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| file | A worthless person (male or female); a rascal. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| fine | Of superior quality, choice of its kind. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| fleeing | The action of flee v. in various senses. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| flipper | A flippant and unreliable person. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| flowering | (See quot. 1867). | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| following | That comes after or next in order or in time; succeeding, subsequent, ensuing. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| foolish | Fool-like, wanting in sense or judgement. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| forblend | trans. To confound. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| forbuy | To gain over; to bribe. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| forbysening | The action of forbysen v.; concr. an example, symbol, type. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| force | Physical strength, might, or vigour, as an attribute of living beings (occas. of liquor). Rarely in pl. (= French forces). Obs. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| force | trans. To use violence to; to violate, ravish (a woman). | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| forchase | To tire with chasing or running. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| fordill | trans. To soothe. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| forefather | An ancestor, a progenitor. Chiefly pl. forefathers' day (U.S.): the anniversary of the… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| forel | A case or box (obs.). | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| forelook | trans. To look at or see ahead or beforehand, foresee; to watch over. Also refl. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| forespeak | intr. To speak beforehand; chiefly, to utter predictions, prophesy. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| forfeit | A misdeed, crime, offence, transgression; hence, wilful injury. Also with of… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| forferly | trans. To astonish greatly. (Only in pa. pple.) | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| forge | trans. To make, fashion, frame, or construct (any material thing); = fabricate v. 1. Obs.… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| fork | Of the tongue [after French fourcher]: To stumble, trip. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| forking | The action of fork v. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| formad | Driven mad, frantic. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| formenge | trans. To confound, trouble. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| former | One who forms or gives form to something; a maker, creator, fashioner, framer. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| forthbirth | = forbirth n. b. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| fortoggle | trans. To distract. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| four-foot | = four-footed adj. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| four-square | Having four equal sides; square. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| frowardly | In a froward manner; perversely; adversely. (Now chiefly arch. in Biblical phrases.) | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| gaincall | A calling out against; a counter-prayer, opposition. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| gainsay | trans. To deny. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| gate | ? The action of watching or lying in wait; a watch; an ambush. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| gesine | Childbed. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| gest | pl. Notable deeds or actions, exploits (later also sing., a deed, exploit); esp. the deeds of… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| glee | intr. To look asquint; to have a cast in one or both eyes. Also, to look with one eye (see quot. 1866). | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| goddot | God knows. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| going | That goes (in various senses); departing; current; working. A going concern: one… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| gracious | Characterized by or endowed with divine grace, godly, righteous, pious, regenerate. Obs. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| gravel | Sand. quick gravel: quicksand. gravel of gold, golden gravel: see golden adj. 3. Obs. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| greff(e | A graving instrument, a style. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| griddled | Only in griddled frost, hoar frost. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| grief | Grievous, grave; troublesome, oppressive; (of armour) ? formidable. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| grieved | Irritated, incensed, made angry. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| gris | A kind of grey fur. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| grise | Terrible; fearful. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| groin | transf. Of persons: To grumble, murmur. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| hack | Variously applied to agricultural tools of the mattock, hoe, and pick-axe type. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| hag | A break, gap, or chasm (in a crag or cliff). Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| hairy | Having much hair; clothed with hair; hirsute. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| harsh | Disagreeably hard and rough to the touch; coarse in texture; rugged. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| hated | Regarded with hatred, greatly disliked. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| hateful | Full of hate, cherishing hatred, malignant. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| having | That has or possesses; possessing property. (Now rare or Obs. exc. as participle.) | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| heathenhead | = heathendom n. 2. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| hers | = theirs pron. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| hert | obs. f. art, inflection of be v. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| heven | intr. To take vengeance. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| high gate | = highway n., high street n. Hence frequent in street- and place-names, esp. in the North. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| hindwin | The fundament or anus. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| hirpled | Contracted, wrinkled. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| hithertill | = hitherto adv. adj. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| hoast | A cough. In some English dialects used only of cattle. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| holihead | Holiness. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| horse-skin | The skin of a horse; leather made of a horse's skin. Also attrib. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| hot | A large basket or pannier for carrying earth, sand, lime, manure, etc. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| howgate | In direct and indirect questions: In what way; how. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| howsomever | Although; = however adv. 1c. Obs. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| illfare | The condition of faring or ‘getting on’ badly; infelicity; adversity; the opposite of welfare.… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| ill will | Evil or hostile feeling or intention towards another; malevolence, malice, enmity, dislike. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| inlike | < alike adj., arising perh. from confusing i- of ilike, iliche, with in. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| in mids | In the middle or midst of; amidst. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| interval | The period of time between two events, actions, etc., or between two parts of… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| ireful | Full of ire; angry, wrathful. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| ironness | The quality of ‘iron’; in quot. 1400, ? the fact of being clad in iron; in quot. 1803, physical strength and hardiness. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| ithandly | Assiduously, diligently; constantly, continually. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| jangle | To talk excessively or noisily; to chatter, babble, prate; said also of birds.… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| jest | A notable deed or action; an exploit. Obs. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| jollity | Merrymaking, festivity, revelry; pl., Festivities, festive dissipations or enjoyments. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| jugglery | The art or practice of a juggler; †minstrelsy, play; pretended magic or witchcraft; conjuring, legerdemain. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| kerchief | A cloth used to cover the head, formerly a woman's head-dress. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| kingship | The office and dignity of a king; the fact of being king; reign. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| kirkman | A member of the clergy; (in later use) spec. a clergyman of the Kirk or Church of Scotland. Cf. churchman n. 2a. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| lardiner | = larder n. 1 north. and Sc. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| lasting | The action of last v.; continuance, duration, permanence. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| leal | Of persons, etc. land of the leal: see land n. 1b. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| leally | Loyally, faithfully, truly. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| ledge | = allege v. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| lily-flower | The flower of the (white) lily; occas. the heraldic fleur-de-lis. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| linger | intr. To dwell, abide, stay (in a place). Obs. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| lite | intr. To expect, wait, delay. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| loathsomeness | The quality or condition of being loathsome, whether in a physical or moral sense. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| lovelily | In a loving or friendly manner; kindly, graciously. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| lump | A compact mass of no particular shape; a shapeless piece or mass; often with… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| mansworn | Forsworn, perjured. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| many-where | In many places. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| maybe | Possibly; perhaps. Occas. with dependent that -clause. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| meeth | Gentle, courteous, modest. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| midwoman | A midwife. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| mightiful | = mightful adj. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| mirken | intr. To become dark and gloomy; to grow murky. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| misdeedy | Doing wrong, sinful. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| mishonour | Dishonour. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| mismay | trans. To trouble, disturb; to perturb. Chiefly refl. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| mistad | In a sorry state. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| mistaking | The action of mistake v.; misunderstanding, misconception; †wrongdoing (obs.); an instance of this. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| mistroth | Disbelief, unbelief; unfaithfulness. Cf. mistruth n. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| moneyer | A money changer, a moneylender. Now arch. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| mould | A woolly, furry, or staining growth now recognized as consisting of fungus, such as… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| moulden | = mouldy adj. 1a. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| multiplying | Becoming more numerous, causing something to become more numerous… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| murkly | Darkly; obscurely. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| muster | trans. To show, show forth, display, exhibit; to report, tell, explain. Sometimes with clause as object. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| natatory | A pool; a place to swim. rare. Now hist. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| naunt | An aunt. Also used as a term of respect or familiarity to any elderly woman, not necessarily indicating a familial relationship. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| needways | As a matter of necessity; necessarily, inevitably. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| neverless | = nevertheless adv. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| newborn | That was born recently; newly brought forth. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| nite | Denial. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| niter | A person who denies or disowns another. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| noint | trans. = anoint v. Now poet. and Caribbean. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| nointing | An act of anointing. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| nother-where | Nowhere. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| no way | In no way or manner; not at all; by no means. Also sometimes in negative contexts: anyway, in any case. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| nunciation | The action of announcing; annunciation. | 1460 | Go To Quotation |
| nut-brown | Of hair or complexion, or of (the skin of) an animal. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| oncall | The act of invoking something; an invocation. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| ouerwhere | Anywhere; = owhere adv. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| outneme | Remarkable, exceptional, extraordinary. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| outrake | Excess, intemperance; violence; a wrong or injury. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| outwander | intr. To wander out or away; to stray. Also Biol. (of a cell): to migrate outwards into surrounding tissues. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| overlong | Of too great length or duration; too long, excessively long. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| overlook | To look upon from above; to survey; to view openly. Freq. in pass. Also fig. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| overmastery | Supreme authority, sovereignty, dominance. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| overrise | trans. To rise over or above (a certain level, object, etc.); to rise above so as to submerge. Now rare. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| overrunner | A broad or general examination. Cf. overrun v. 2. Obs. rare. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| oversight | All-encompassing sight. Obs. rare. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| pantener | Either a scribal or later editorial misreading of pautener n. adj. Cf. pantoner n. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| pithy | Full of strength or vigour; vigorous, powerful, strong; substantial. Now rare (chiefly Sc. in later use). | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| plaintful | Full of complaint or lamentation; plaintive, mournful; (in early use also) †occasioning grief, lamentable (obs.). | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| plighty | Responsible; guilty. Also as n.: guilty people collectively. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| poisoned | Affected, made ill, or killed by poison; (of a wound, etc.) infected. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| poke | trans. To put in a bag or pocket. Also with up: to stash away in a bag or pocket; to… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| postel | A postern, a small gate. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| precession | An advance, a procession. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| pres | Prob.: praise. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| priceful | Valuable, expensive; (also) †worthy (obs.). | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| puchersome | Of uncertain meaning; perh.: difficult, troublesome; devilish. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| quain | trans. To bemoan, bewail. Also intr.: to lament. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| quaintance | = acquaintance n. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| raiser-up | A person who raises someone or something up, in various senses; (in later use esp.) a helper, rescuer, or restorer. Usu. with of. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| ransomer | A person who ransoms someone or something, a person who pays a ransom; a redeemer, spec. (now freq. with capital initial) Christ. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| recklesslaik | Recklessness, carelessness. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| rehearsing | The action of rehearse v. (in various senses); an instance of this. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| renaying | The action of renouncing or abjuring something, esp. one's faith, God, etc.; (also) an instance of this. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| restaurance | Restitution; reparation. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| reverse | trans. (refl.). To put on vestments. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| rift | The action of tearing, splitting, or rending. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| ro | trans. (refl.). To rest oneself, be at peace. Obs. rare. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| rochen | Of the nature of rock. Cf. roche n. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| rog | intr. To shake; to move to and fro. Now rare. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| roid | Lacking in culture or sophistication; uncivilized, wild; (also) lacking in… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| rooting | A firm hold or attachment by means of roots. Formerly also: †a root; roots collectively (obs.). Now chiefly fig. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| ruffle | To destroy the smoothness or evenness of; to spoil the regular or neat arrangement of… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| sacrilege | The crime or sin of stealing or misappropriating what is consecrated to God's… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| saintuaire | Sanctuary. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| sake | Aphetic form of forsake v. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| salted | Cured, preserved, or pickled with salt. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| samenward | Together. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| saver | A person who saves, preserves, or rescues another from danger, harm, etc.; a saviour, a preserver. Cf. lifesaver n. 1. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| saving | Theol. That preserves a person or soul from damnation; that offers redemption from sin. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| scape | An act of escaping; = escape n. arch. Now chiefly in hairbreadth scape, after… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| scarceness | Niggardliness, stinginess. Of soil: infertility. Obs. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| scogh | A wood. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| scour | fig. Also with over, up (cf. ‘polish up’). Now rare or Obs. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| sculd | A parting. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| sea-foam | Foam of the sea. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| season | The time of year when a plant flourishes, when it blooms or bears fruit, etc. (See also 15b.) | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| seeding | The production of seed. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| sendman | An envoy, messenger. Cf. sand-man n. at sand n. Compounds, sandesman n. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| serekin(s | Of several kinds. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| seresith | Several times. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| sermoning | Preaching; also, a sermon. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| shamefully | In a manner that causes shame or disgrace; with indignity; disgracefully. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| shipping | in phrases: to do shipping, dight shipping, put to shipping, to put on board; to take (†one's)… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| shove | An act of shoving; a strong thrust or push to move a body away from the agent. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| shurn | trans. To avoid, shun. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| sicer | Intoxicating liquor, strong drink. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| siquare | Period or point of time; moment. Chiefly in phr. in that siquare. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| site | intr. To grieve. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| skail | trans. To scatter or disperse (a thing or collection of things). | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| skip | To raise oneself off the ground by a light and graceful movement; to spring or leap… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| slake | The act of slacking or slackening in some respect; an instance of this. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| slight | Smooth; glossy; sleek. Obs. exc. dial. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| slough | The outer or scarf skin periodically cast or shed by a snake, adder, or similar… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| smile | Of persons: To give to the features or face a look expressive of pleasure or amusement, or of amused disdain, scorn, etc. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| snobberly | Snubbingly. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| snow-drift | A heap or mass of snow driven together, or piled up, by the action of the wind. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| soberness | In respect of the appetites. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| sogate | In this or that manner; in such wise; so, thus. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| soign | trans. To excuse or exculpate for transgression, etc.; to essoin. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| sorcery | The use of magic or enchantment; the practice of magic arts; witchcraft. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| sore | trans. To make sore, in various senses; to give (physical or mental) pain to; †to wound. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| sough | A boggy or swampy place; a small pool. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| sought | Sickness, illness, disease. In later use spec. a disease of sheep or other animals. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| specery | Spicery. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| specify | intr. To speak or make relation of some matter fully or in detail. Obs. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| spell | To read (a book, etc.) letter by letter; to peruse, or make out, slowly or with difficulty. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| spence | A steward. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| sphere | The apparent outward limit of space, conceived as a hollow globe enclosing (and at… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| spousal | In vbl. phrases, as to break or spill spousal, to be unfaithful to the marriage vow… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| spurn | A stroke with the foot; a kick. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| spy | To make observations (now spec. with a spy-glass); to keep watch; to be on the look out. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| square | An implement or tool for determining, measuring, or setting out right angles, or for… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| square | Having an equilateral rectangular section. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| squeal | Of persons. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| squealing | That utters or emits squeals; screaming. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| stableness | The quality or condition of being stable: = stability n. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| stair | trans. To thrust (a person) through; to thrust (a weapon, etc.) into a person or thing. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| steckle | The bar of a door. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| stem | intr. ? To debate with oneself. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| stithly | Strongly, stoutly, valiantly, severely, etc. (see the senses of stith adj.). | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| stound | trans. To stun as with a blow; to stupefy, benumb; to stupefy with astonishment, bewilder. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| stour | Phrases. stiff, stith, strong in stour; also rarely good, fast, bold in stour. Obs. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| strand | Line of descent, pedigree; offspring, descendants: = strain n. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| strinkling | The action of the verb. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| stun | trans. To deprive of consciousness or of power of motion by a blow, a fall, or the like. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| sudden | Of actions, feelings: Unpremeditated, done without forethought. Obs. or arch. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| sum | trans. To find the sum or total number or amount of; to add together; to reckon or count… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| sunny | Characterized by or full of sunshine; in or during which the sun shines: esp. of a day, weather, or the like. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| surely | Certainly, assuredly, undoubtedly. Often with less emphasis, as a mere intensive: Truly, verily, indeed. | 1375 | Go To Quotation |
| sweat | Hard work; violent or strenuous exertion; labour, toil; pains, trouble. arch. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| sweep | trans. To remove, clear away, off (etc.) with a broom or brush, or in a similar way… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| sweering | Sloth, negligence. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| sweet | That which is sweet to the taste; something having a sweet taste. Chiefly poet. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| tablement | Archit. A projecting horizontal course or moulding; = table n. 21a. Also: a foundation, a basement. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| talking | The action of the verb talk v.; speaking, discoursing. Also (colloq.), talking to, a… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| taste | The sense of touch, feeling (with the hands, etc.); the act of touching, touch. Obs. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| tau | A mark of the shape of the letter T, a St. Anthony's cross; a figure of this as a… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| telling | The action of relating, making known, or saying; relation; communication, conversation (now dial.). | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| tent | Attention, heed, care; nearly always in the phrases give tent, to give heed, pay attention (obs.… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| tha-kin | those kind (of): see tho pron. adj. and kin n. 6. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| themselves | Standing in apposition to the pronoun they (rarely them), or with a n., or adj. used subst. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| thereinto | Into that place, matter, condition, etc. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| therewithal | That being said or done; = therewith adv. 2c. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| thewedly | In a well-mannered way; virtuously. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| thir | = these pron. adj. II. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| thrinfald | = threefold adj.; triple, treble. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| thriven | Advanced in growth, grown; grown up. Now only in comb., as ill-thriven (Sc. ill-three'n). | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| through-stone | A horizontal grave-stone or slab over a tomb: = through n. 3. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| thus-gate | In this way; thus. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| tilward | In the direction of, toward. (In first quot. = to prep.) | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| tining | The action of losing, loss; †destruction. between the tining and the winning: said of being… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| tit | trans. To pull forcibly, to tug; to snatch. Also intr. to pull at. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| titter | More readily, more willingly, sooner, rather. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| to | The Middle English shortened northern forms tā, tān for take n., taken, with the ā rounded… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| to-draught | A place that people draw to; a resort. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| tone | as pron. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| toomsome | Leisurely, free from haste. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| tother | The second (of two or more): cf. other adv. 3 (Cf. German der andere.) Obs. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| tourelle | A turret. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| to-whiles | = to-while adv.; whilst. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| trail | The train of a robe or other garment. Obs. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| traistful | Inspiring confidence, encouraging, comforting. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| traistly | Faithfully, trustily. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| traistness | Faithfulness, trustiness. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| traisty | Faithful, trusty. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| trattle | intr. and trans. To talk idly; to chatter, gossip. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| treasonful | Full of treason; treasonous; treacherous. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| tregetour | One who works magic or plays tricks by sleight of hand; a conjurer; a juggler; hence, a trickster, a deceiver. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| trest | Confident, sure: = traist adj. 2. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| triflery | False, feigned, vain, or idle speech or action. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| trot | A gait of a quadruped, originally of a horse, between walking and running, in which the… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| trothly | Faithfully, loyally. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| trower | A believer. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| turtle-dove | A dove of the genus Turtur, esp. the common European species T. communis, noted for… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| ugly | Of events, times, etc.: Dreadful, terrible. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| umlay | trans. To surround. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| umset | trans. To surround, invest. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| umstound | Sometimes. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| unbeast | A wild beast; a monster; a ravenous or vile animal. Also transf. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| unboden | Uninvited; unbidden. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| unclead | trans. To unclothe, undress. Also refl. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| uncover | fig. To disclose, lay bare, make known. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| undeemous | Unexampled, unparalleled, extraordinary, remarkable. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| understand | Understanding; knowledge. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| undying | That does not die; immortal. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| unease | Want or lack of ease; discomfort; uneasiness. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| unfelon | (un- prefix 7.) | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| unfreely | Not beautiful. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| ungladness | Want of gladness (†or good spirits). | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| unhard | Soft. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| unhid | Not hid; unconcealed. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| unked | Not made known or revealed; unknown, unfamiliar, strange. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| unkenned | Unknown; strange. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| unknowledge | Unacknowledgement. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| unlame | †Wholly free. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| unlawful | Contrary to law; prohibited by law; illegal. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| unleal | Unfaithful, disloyal, dishonest, false. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| unlewty | Disloyalty. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| unmeetly | Immoderately, excessively. Obs. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| unpeace | Absence of peace; dissension, strife. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| unpraise | trans. To dispraise. | 1375 | Go To Quotation |
| unquit | Unrequited; not repaid. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| unreken | Uneasy; unpleasant; rough. | 1310 | Go To Quotation |
| unruthfully | = unruefully adv. | 1375 | Go To Quotation |
| unto | In (a specified course or direction, lit. or fig.). Cf. to prep. 2c 2e. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| unvised | Unadvised. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| unweal | Unhappiness; distress. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| unwealth | Lack of prosperity. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| unwielded | Made feeble. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| unwieldly | Impotent; weak; = unwieldy adj. 1. Obs. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| unwily | Not wily, artful, or cunning; †simple, silly. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| unwitterness | Uncertainty. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| unwroken | = unwreaked adj. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| uplook | (up- prefix 3a. Cf. uplooking adj.) | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| upraise | To raise by laudation; to extol. Obs. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| uprise | Resurrection. Obs. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| uprise | intr. To rise to one's feet; to assume a standing posture. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| upsty | Ascension (of Christ). | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| vail | With other subjects. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| vain | Devoid of real value, worth, or significance; idle, unprofitable, useless, worthless… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| vainglory | Glory that is vain, empty, or worthless; inordinate or unwarranted pride in… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| vair | A fur obtained from a variety of squirrel with grey back and white belly, much used in the… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| vale | Const. of (the distinctive name of the vale). | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| verony | = veronique n. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| vicar | Applied to persons, etc., as earthly representatives of God or Christ; also to Christ or… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| virginity | Of persons of either sex (or without special limitation of sex). | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| voisour | Vaulting. | 1375 | Go To Quotation |
| waiming | Lamentation. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| waiting | Entertainment, feasting. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| wandering | Of the mind, thoughts, desires, etc.: Aimless passing from object to object. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| wansome | Miserable, unhappy. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| wanting | Const. to (†formerly also simple dative) | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| warnish | trans. To warn or inform beforehand. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| wasting | The action of laying waste; devastation. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| waterfowl | Any bird that frequents the water, or inhabits the margin of lakes, rivers, seas, etc.; in… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| waterlade | A channel for water, an aqueduct. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| weakness | The quality or condition of being weak, in any sense of the adj.; deficiency of strength, power, or force. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| were | A condition of trouble or distress. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| whelm | intr. To overturn, capsize. Obs. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| whereunder | Under which. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| whomsome | The objective case of whosome pron.: = whomsoever pron. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| wickedhead | Wickedness, iniquity; pl. wicked acts or doings. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| wide | Width, breadth. Obs. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| willing | in attrib. use, preceding the n. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| willy | Willing, eager. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| wilsome | Wilful, obstinate, stubborn. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| winding-cloth | = winding-sheet n. 1. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| witness | with simple obj. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| woeful | Of times, places, occurrences, etc.: Fraught with woe, affliction, or misery; miserable. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| wond | Hesitation. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| wont | Habitual or customary usage, custom, habit. use and wont: see use n. 7b; of (†in) wont, customary, usual. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| worldish | Of or belonging to this world; characteristic of the world, worldly. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| worshiply | = worshipfully adv. (in various senses). | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| wreak | Pain or punishment inflicted in return for an injury, wrong, offence, etc.; hurt or harm… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| wrenk | trans. To turn aside, to divert from oneself. (Cf. wrench v. 4b.) | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| wrongfulness | The state, quality, or character of being wrong or wrongful; absence of right, equity, or justice; wrongness. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| wrongously | Without good ground or justification; for no sufficient cause or reason; undeservedly. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| wrothly | Angry, violent. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| yonder | At or in that place; there; usually implying that the object spoken of is at some… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| zizany | An injurious weed among corn; also fig.; = tare n. 3 1b. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
