| 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 |
| ashen | Made of the wood of the ash. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| bairnheid | Childhood, infancy. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| bale | To dance. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| bandon | refl. To give oneself up; = abandon v. 3. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| bark | The rind or outer sheath of the trunk and branches of trees, formed of tissue parallel with the wood. See quot. 1866. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| bark | intr. (with over) To form a bark. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| behie | refl. To hie oneself, make haste. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| benedight | Blessed. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| benison | That blessing which God gives; a giving of blessedness. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| benumb | | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| betorn | Torn about the sides, tattered. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| bithret(t | Menaced, threatened. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| blend(e | = blended adj. Also as past participle. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| blenk | A sudden gleam of light. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| blessedhead | Blessedness, beatitude. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| bobet | A blow with the fist, a cuff. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| bodily | Of the nature of body, corporeal, material, physical; as opposed to spiritual. Obs. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| boldly | Bold-looking. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| bondhead | The condition of a bond or vassal; vassalage; bondage. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| bow | The stock of cattle on a farm, a herd. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| brast | Northern form of burst v. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| brathly | Impetuously; furiously, violently. | 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 |
| breve | A letter of authority; a royal mandate: see brief n. 1. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| bricoun | A knave. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| brighten | intr. To become bright; to be bright, shine. Often with up. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| brixle | Shame, reproach. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| bude | trans. impers. With object and bare infinitive. It behoved, was obligatory upon, was… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| bul | ? Falsehood. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| bulk | intr. ? To beat. | 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 |
| call | A loud vocal utterance or speech, a shout, a cry; a loud vocal address or supplication. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| cark | Charge, burden of responsibility. Obs. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| carl | esp. A bondman, a villein; cf. churl n. Obs. (after 1500 blending with prec.) | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| casting | intr. Of bees: Swarming. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| cavel | A lot (that is cast). Now applied in the Northumberland collieries to the lots which are… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| channel | The hollow bed of running waters; also, the bed of the sea or other body of water. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| char | A chariot, car: a cart, wagon. Later examples show the French word char used… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| chastise | To inflict punishment or suffering upon, with a view to amendment; also simply, to… | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| chastying | Chastising, chastening. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| chess | A game of skill played by two persons, on a chequered board divided into sixty-four… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| chevise | trans. To achieve, perform, accomplish. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| chooseling | A chosen one; one of the elect. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| christening | Conversion to or reception of Christianity; becoming a Christian. Obs. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| church service | The practice or occupation of serving the Church; work or duties carried out for the benefit of the Church. | 1399 | 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 |
| clay-stone | ? Brick. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| clead | = clothe v. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| cleading | Clothing, apparel. Sc. and north. Eng. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| clearness | Brightness, luminousness; splendour, brilliancy; fairness, beauty; fineness of weather. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| clenge | trans. To cleanse, make clean (lit. and fig.). | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| clepe | A call, cry, shout. rare. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| clips(e | An aphetic form of eclipse n., formerly common. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| commanding | The action of command v.; a command, order, injunction. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| compassing | A devising, planning; a device, design, artifice, contrivance. | 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 |
| conjurison | Magical invocation or practice; = conjuration n. 3 4. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| conqueror | One who gains possession of a country, etc., by force of arms; one who subdues or… | 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 |
| conspiration | The action of conspiring; = conspiracy n. 1. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| contrition | fig. The condition of being bruised in heart; sorrow or affliction of mind for some fault… | 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 |
| corban | The treasury of the temple at Jerusalem, where such offerings, when made in money… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| corner-stone | fig. (esp. in reference to its function in consolidating the building.) | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| council-house | A house in which a council meets for deliberation; in Scotland and elsewhere, a common name for a town-hall. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| couple | A man and woman united by love or marriage; a wedded or engaged pair. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| coverance | Recovery, restoration. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| crag | A steep or precipitous rugged rock. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| cratch | Some cutaneous disease attended with itching. | 1299 | 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 |
| crumpled | Bent together by compression, incurved, crooked (esp. of parts of the body bent by malformation or disease). | 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 |
| curtain | A piece of cloth or similar material suspended by the top so as to admit of… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| damn | trans. To pronounce adverse judgement on, affirm to be guilty; to give judicial sentence… | 1299 | 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 |
| deadman | (deadman). = dead man: formerly written and pronounced as one word. (Cf. blindman n.) Obs. exc. in names, as Deadman's Walk. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| debate | Strife, contention, dissension, quarrelling, wrangling; a quarrel. at debate: at strife, at variance. Obs. or arch. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| dempster | A judge. Obs. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| derner | The lintel of a door. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| descend | fig. said of immaterial agents, influences, etc. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| desired | Affected with desire; longing, desirous. Obs. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| devise | something material, as a work of art or a mechanical contrivance. (Formerly including… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| dint | trans. To strike, beat, knock. Obs. | 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 |
| dispend | other things. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| diversly | In divers ways, variously; formerly, Differently, diversely adv. (of which this was… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| doublefold | Twofold, double. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| doughtihead | = doughtiness n. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| doughtily | In a doughty manner; valiantly, stoutly. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| downcast | Geol. = downthrow n. 2. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| dozen | A group or set of twelve. Originally as a n., followed by of, but often with ellipsis of of… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| drenkle | trans. To submerge, drown. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| dreve | intr. To move, proceed, tend. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| drift | The act of driving; propulsion, impulse, impetus. (Now rare or Obs. exc. as in 1b, or 2a.) | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| drooping | Dejected, depressed, dispirited, despondent. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| dwale | A stupefying or soporific drink. Obs. (Prob. in many instances, the juice or infusion of Belladonna: see 2.) | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| dwell | Delay, stay, stoppage. withoute(n dwell: without delay, straightway. Obs. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| earth-bed | Chiefly poet. A grave. Cf. bed n. 4. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| elded | That has grown old, inveterate. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| elding | Fuel. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| emethen | In the mean time. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| enemy | One that cherishes hatred, that wishes or seeks to do ill to another; also in weaker… | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| enent | In various senses of anent prep. adv.: e.g. in the eyes or opinion of = anent prep. 6;… | 1299 | 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 |
| envious | Full of envy, affected or actuated by envy; vexed or discontented at the good fortune… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| evidence | Example, instance (frequent in Gower). Also, to take (an) evidence. Obs. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| excusation | The action of offering an excuse, defence, or apology; also, the condition of being excused, in phrase to have in excusation. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| expound | esp. To interpret, comment upon (Scripture, religious formularies, etc.). Now… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| fable | A fictitious narrative or statement; a story not founded on fact. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| fade | ? Cruel, ? hostile. | 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 |
| faithless | Without belief, confidence, or trust; unbelieving. Const. †of, in. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| falling | In intransitive senses. | 1300 | 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 |
| farnet | A band, company, train of attendants. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| fashion | Make, build, shape. Hence, in wider sense, visible characteristics, appearance. Said… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| fast-day | A day to be observed as a fast. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| feared | Affected with fear, frightened, afraid; timid. Const. of, for, indicating either the cause… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| felonly | In a ‘felon’ manner, wickedly; fiercely, bitterly, cruelly, severely, also in weaker sense, grievously. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| ferdy | Fearful, timid. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| fere | intr. To fall by right, appertain, become, be proper or meet. Const. with dat.; also for, till, to. Chiefly impers. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| ferliful | Fearful, wonderful. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| ferlily | Wonderfully, extraordinarily. | 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 |
| fighter | One who fights; occas. a fighting man, a warrior. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| finding | The action of inventing or devising; a device, invention. Now only with out; formerly also with up. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| fire-slaught | A flash of fire or lightning: lightning. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| fise | = fist-ball n. at fist n. Compounds. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| flairing | Smelling; odorous, scented. | 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 |
| flourish | To thrive, display vigour in, of, with (something specified); also, to abound in, overflow with. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| foison | Inherent vigour or vitality; power, strength, capacity. pl. Resources. Now chiefly Sc. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| following | The action of the verb follow v., in its various uses. Also with advs., as following up. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| fon | A fool. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| forbar | trans. To hinder, obstruct, prevent, prohibit (an action, event, etc.); to withhold (a thing). | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| forbirth | The firstborn. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| forbuy | To gain over; to bribe. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| forby(e | Of motion: Past; close by. Obs. exc. arch. In early use following the obj. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| force | trans. To use violence to; to violate, ravish (a woman). | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| fordill | trans. To soothe. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| fordraw | trans. ? To stretch on the rack, torture. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| forefather | An ancestor, a progenitor. Chiefly pl. forefathers' day (U.S.): the anniversary of the… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| foreleader | One who leads the advance; a chief or principal leader. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| forelook | trans. To look at or see ahead or beforehand, foresee; to watch over. Also refl. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| forenext | ? Next preceding. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| forespeak | intr. To speak beforehand; chiefly, to utter predictions, prophesy. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| foretell | trans. To tell of (an event, etc.) beforehand; to predict, prophesy. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| forethought | A thinking out or contriving beforehand. (crime, evil, etc.) of forethought, premeditated. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| forferly | trans. To astonish greatly. (Only in pa. pple.) | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| fork | Of the tongue [after French fourcher]: To stumble, trip. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| forked | Having a fork or fork-like end; shaped like a fork, bifurcate, branching. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| forking | The action of fork v. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| formad | Driven mad, frantic. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| formel | dial. To bespeak. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| forsmerl | trans. To anoint. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| forthwith | Used for forwith adv. prep. (which is a variant reading in all the passages). | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| fortoggle | trans. To distract. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| fortune | Chance, hap, or luck, regarded as a cause of events and changes in men's affairs.… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| fruiting | The action of fruit v.; the process of bearing fruit. †In early use concr.: Offspring. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| funel | A rope. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| gaincall | A calling out against; a counter-prayer, opposition. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| gest | pl. Notable deeds or actions, exploits (later also sing., a deed, exploit); esp. the deeds of… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| ghostliness | nonce-use. The condition or quality of being a ‘ghostly’ or ecclesiastical person. arch. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| gleg | Quick in perception by any of the senses; esp. quick-eyed, sharp-sighted. Chiefly… | 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 |
| griefful | Painful, sorrowful; †grievous. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| grievance | The infliction of wrong or hardship on a person; injury, oppression; a cause or source of injury. Obs. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| gris | A kind of grey fur. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| halely | Northern and esp. Sc. form of wholly adv., q.v. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| half-hour | (not used with a defining word). | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| hand-band | Covenant made by joining hands; covenanted condition, union, or possession. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| hanging | The action of putting to death on the gallows, etc., or the fact of being so put to death. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| harsh | Disagreeably hard and rough to the touch; coarse in texture; rugged. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| hastity | Hastiness, haste. | 1340 | 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 |
| hazarder | A player at hazard or dice; a dicer, a gamester. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| heugh | A precipitous or hanging descent; a craggy or rugged steep; a precipice, cliff, or… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| hide | (In Middle English use.) The action or an act of hiding; concealment. Obs. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| hight | A promise; a vow. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| ho | An exclamation expressing, according to intonation, surprise, admiration, exultation (often ironical), triumph, taunting. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| holihead | Holiness. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| hone | intr. To delay, tarry, hesitate. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| horse-skin | The skin of a horse; leather made of a horse's skin. Also attrib. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| housebreaker | A person who breaks into a house or other building with intent to commit a crime, esp. a robbery. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| howgate | In direct and indirect questions: In what way; how. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| illfare | The condition of faring or ‘getting on’ badly; infelicity; adversity; the opposite of welfare.… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| incline | To turn in mind, feeling, or action, in a given direction; to apply oneself (to); to… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| income | Coming in, entrance, arrival, advent; beginning (of a period of time, or an action). Now rare. | 1399 | 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 |
| intent | intr. and trans. To intend, purpose. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| interval | The period of time between two events, actions, etc., or between two parts of… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| irregularity | Ecclesiastical (chiefly R.C. Church). Infraction of the rules as to entrance into or… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| ithand | Assiduous, diligent, busy. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| ithandly | Assiduously, diligently; constantly, continually. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| jugglery | The art or practice of a juggler; †minstrelsy, play; pretended magic or witchcraft; conjuring, legerdemain. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| jurisdiction | Administration of justice; exercise of judicial authority, or of the functions of a judge… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| kist | Applied to the ‘ark’ of bulrushes in which Moses was placed; and to Noah's ark. Obs. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| kithing | The action of the verb kithe v., kythe; a making known, telling, showing, manifestation, etc. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| laidly | Offensive, hideous, repulsive. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| last | Continuance, duration. Now rare. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| lasting | The action of last v.; continuance, duration, permanence. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| ledge | = allege v. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| length | trans. To lengthen, prolong. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| lift | trans. To raise into the air from the ground, or to a higher position; to elevate… | 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 |
| lingering | The action of linger v. Also rarely in pl., last remaining traces (of something). | 1399 | 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 |
| lump | A compact mass of no particular shape; a shapeless piece or mass; often with… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| maldathait | As a curse: ‘May he have misfortune!’. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| maledict | Accursed. Also as n.: an accursed person. Cf. maledight adj. n. | 1460 | Go To Quotation |
| maledight | Cursed, accursed. Also as n.: an accursed person, spec. the Devil. Cf. maledict adj. n. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| maledight | trans. (In past tense maledight). To curse. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| mangery | A banquet; a ceremonial feast; a series of festivities. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| mar | Chiefly Sc. A hindrance, an obstruction; spec. a speech impediment. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| marinel | A mariner, a sailor. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| marvel | Marvellous, wonderful; miraculous. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| maybe | Possibly; perhaps. Occas. with dependent that -clause. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| meeth | Gentle, courteous, modest. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| mending | gen. Amendment, correction, improvement; an instance of this. Now rare. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| Merry England | Originally: England characterized by its pleasant landscape, etc. Later (freq. humorous or ironic… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| middlemost | That is in the very middle, or nearest the middle. Now chiefly with reference to position… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| mid-place | A place in the middle. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| mike | A friend. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| mint | Purpose, intention. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| mirthful | Of a person, or a person's demeanour, disposition, etc.: full of mirth; joyful, merry. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| misdeedy | Doing wrong, sinful. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| mishope | Despair; lack of hope or faith. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| misled | Led astray; misguided; †ill-conducted, improper (obs.). | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| misloving | Dispraise, deprecation. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| mistad | In a sorry state. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| mistime | Misfortune; wasted time. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| mistroth | Disbelief, unbelief; unfaithfulness. Cf. mistruth n. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| mistrowing | With pl. concord. With the. Unbelieving people as a class. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| moaning | The action of moan v. (in various senses); an instance of this. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| monstrance | Demonstration, proof. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| mould | A woolly, furry, or staining growth now recognized as consisting of fungus, such as… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| murderment | Murder, slaughter. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| murkful | Full of darkness. | 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 |
| needgates | Necessarily. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| needings | Of necessity, necessarily. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| neverless | = nevertheless adv. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| never where | Nowhere. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| next hand | Nearest at hand; directly following. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| niter | A person who denies or disowns another. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| nithinghead | Meanness, miserliness. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| noint | trans. = anoint v. Now poet. and Caribbean. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| no kin | No kind of, not any, no. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| Normand | = Norman n. 1a. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| oncall | The act of invoking something; an invocation. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| ontinkel | Similar, alike; resembling. to be ontinkel: to resemble (one another). | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| othergates | In another way, otherwise, differently. Also (Sc. and Irish English (north.)): elsewhere. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| outrake | Excess, intemperance; violence; a wrong or injury. | 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 |
| overreach | To reach or extend over or beyond; to rise above. Of a period of time: to extend beyond (a particular point). Also intr. | 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 |
| overshort | Of too short length or duration; too short, excessively short. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| overslip | trans. To pass over without notice; to let slip, let pass; to omit to notice, mention, respond to, etc. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| pantener | Either a scribal or later editorial misreading of pautener n. adj. Cf. pantoner n. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| peaceful | Inclined to or in favour of peace; amicable, pacific, placid; = peaceable adj. 1a. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| pinion | A gable. Formerly also: †a pinnacle (obs.). Cf. pignon 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 |
| plightless | Guiltless, blameless. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| poisoned | Affected, made ill, or killed by poison; (of a wound, etc.) infected. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| postel | A postern, a small gate. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| priesthead | = priesthood n. 1 2. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| prow | intr. To be of advantage; to be profitable or beneficial. With to or indirect object. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| quaintance | = acquaintance n. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| quared | = squared adj. 1a. | 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 |
| ratherest | Soonest. Obs. rare. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| recklesslaik | Recklessness, carelessness. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| rendered | Molten, melted; esp. (of fat) clarified by melting. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| renowned | In predicative use. In later use chiefly with as, for. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| restaurance | Restitution; reparation. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| resusce | trans. To restore (a person) to life. | 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 |
| rift | intr. To split open; to create a rift or rifts; to crack open; (of clouds) to part. Also with apart. Also fig. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| riot | Lewd, vulgar. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| ro | trans. (refl.). To rest oneself, be at peace. Obs. rare. | 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 |
| round | To form into a circle or ball; to make circular or spherical. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| rout | intr. To assemble; to form a gathering, herd, etc.; to gather together. Also: to join or form an armed company. | 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 |
| safeness | The quality or state of being safe (in various senses). See safe adj. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| said | Named or mentioned before. (Also abovesaid, aforesaid qq. v.) | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| saked | Guilty. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| salting | The curing of fish, meat, etc., with salt. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| sampler | An example to be imitated; a model, pattern; an archetype; the original from which a copy is or may be taken. Obs. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| sastange | A pole passed through the two ears of a bucket, to form a handle by which two might carry it. | 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 |
| saying | The action of say v.; utterance, enunciation; recitation. saying-again = again-saying n. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| scarceness | Niggardliness, stinginess. Of soil: infertility. Obs. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| scathel | Injurious, harmful, dangerous. Also absol. as n. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| scogh | A wood. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| scope | intr. To leap, skip. In later use only of horses. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| scoup | intr. To bound, caper, skip. Of an animal: to go with leaps and bounds. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| scripture | The sacred writings of the Old or New Testament, or (more usually) of both together; Holy… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| scubard | in scubardis: secretly, in private. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| sculd | A parting. | 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 |
| seed | To stock with inhabitants. Obs. rare. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| shail | intr. = skail v. 9. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| shapeless | Without shape or form; having no definite or regular shape. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| shapen | Having a shape (of the kind specified by the qualifying word). Obs. exc. in well shapen (somewhat arch.). | 1399 | 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 |
| shurn | trans. To avoid, shun. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| sicer | Intoxicating liquor, strong drink. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| sick-bed | A bed upon which a person lies ill. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| siteful | Sorrowful, mournful, doleful. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| sittingly | In a befitting or becoming manner; fittingly; suitably. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| skail | A dispersal or separation; a scattering. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| skander | trans. To bring into discredit; to slander. | 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 |
| slent | on (the) slent, aslant. Cf. slant n. 3. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| smiling | That smiles; covered with or wearing a smile or smiles. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| soberness | In respect of the appetites. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| sodden | Boiled meat. Obs. | 1375 | Go To Quotation |
| sogate | In this or that manner; in such wise; so, thus. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| soign | Excuse, esp. for wrong-doing or the like. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| soiling | Assoilment, absolution. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| soldier | One who serves in an army for pay; one who takes part in military service or warfare; spec.… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| -some | Representing Old English sum after numerals in the genitive plural: see some pron. 3.… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| son-in-law | A daughter's husband. Also son in the law, son by law. (Cf. son-law n.) | 1399 | 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 |
| sorous | Grievous, distressing. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| sought | Sickness, illness, disease. In later use spec. a disease of sheep or other animals. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| spae | Prediction, prophecy; augury, omen. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| spare | The fact of leaving unhurt or unharmed; sparing; leniency, mercy. In the phrases without spare and to make (no, etc.) spare. Obs. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| speak | The power or faculty of speech. Obs. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| specery | Spicery. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| speedily | In a speedy manner; with speed or celerity; quickly. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| speeding | Success, prosperity, good fortune; the fact of being successful or of attaining one's end. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| sphere | The apparent outward limit of space, conceived as a hollow globe enclosing (and at… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| spitously | = despitously adv. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| spitting | Saliva ejected from the mouth; spittle. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| spouse-breaker | An adulterer. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| squeal | Of persons. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| squealing | That utters or emits squeals; screaming. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| stacker | intr. To totter, reel in one's gait, to stagger. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| stage | A story or floor of a building. | 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 |
| standing | Of a person, an animal, a statue: That keeps an upright stationary position on the feet. †Also rarely of the limb used. Also fig. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| steckle | The bar of a door. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| stoke | trans. To pierce, stab (a person). | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| stound | trans. To stun as with a blow; to stupefy, benumb; to stupefy with astonishment, bewilder. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| stouth | Theft. Often coupled with reif: cf. stouthreif n. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| strinkling | The action of the verb. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| strut | Strife, contention; a quarrel, wrangle, contest. Obs. exc. dial. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| stubble | ? Stoutly-built. stubble boy n. cf. stubbed boy n. at stubbed adj. 2b. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| suchwise | In such a manner. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| sudary | The napkin which was about Christ's head in the tomb; hence, a shroud or winding-sheet. Also attrib. sudary cloth. | 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 |
| surely | Certainly, assuredly, undoubtedly. Often with less emphasis, as a mere intensive: Truly, verily, indeed. | 1375 | Go To Quotation |
| suspect | Const. to (north. dial. till) the person suspecting. (Cf. suspect v. 1b) Obs. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| swaip | A whip, scourge; also, a stroke, blow. | 1399 | 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 |
| taking | The physical act of possessing oneself of anything, of receiving, accepting, and related senses: see take v. 12, etc. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| talking | The action of the verb talk v.; speaking, discoursing. Also (colloq.), talking to, a… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| task | A piece of work imposed, exacted, or undertaken as a duty or the like; originally, a… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| tend | intr. Obs. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| thanehead | Service, servitude; bondage, thraldom. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| theirkin | Their kind of, of their kind. (Cf. tha-kin adj., thiskin adj.) | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| theme | The subject of discourse, discussion, conversation, meditation, or composition; a topic. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| therefro | = therefrom adv. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| thewedly | In a well-mannered way; virtuously. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| thickfold | Thickly together; in great numbers, in crowds. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| thiskin | Of this kind; on thiskin wise, on this wise, in this way. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| threst | Torment, affliction, trouble, hardship. | 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 |
| thro | Stubborn, obstinate, persistent; reluctant to give way, or accede to a request. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| throness | The quality of being ‘thro’; untowardness; obstinacy, reluctance. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| throng | trans. To press or compress violently; to squeeze, crush. Obs. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| thronging | The action of the verb throng v.; pressing; crowding. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| thus-gate | In this way; thus. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| thus-gates | = thus-gate adv. | 1375 | Go To Quotation |
| tilward | In the direction of, toward. (In first quot. = to prep.) | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| tinsel | The losing of something, or the sustaining of harm, damage, or detriment; loss. Obs. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| title | = entitle v. 4. Obs. | 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 and fro | So (in lit. and fig. senses, as above) to or fro, to nor (ne) fro In quot. 1555, neither to nor fro… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| tone | as pron. | 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 |
| traistful | Inspiring confidence, encouraging, comforting. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| traistily | Trustfully, with confidence. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| transfigure | trans. To alter the figure or appearance of; to change in outward appearance; to transform. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| trattle | intr. and trans. To talk idly; to chatter, gossip. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| travailing | The action of travail v.; labouring, toiling; labour of child-bearing; distress, fatigue, etc. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| treget | Jugglery; trickery, deceit. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| trest | Confident, sure: = traist adj. 2. | 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 |
| trowing | The action of the verb trow v.; belief; faith, creed; opinion, notion, idea. to trowing… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| truthhead | Faithfulness, loyalty. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| tumbling | The action of tumble v. in various senses. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| tut | app. a var. of toute n. Obs., buttocks. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| twinling | = twin n. 1. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| umbelay | trans. To beset, surround, encompass. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| umbeset | trans. To surround, encompass, beset. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| umlay | trans. To surround. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| umset | trans. To surround, invest. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| unboden | Uninvited; unbidden. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| unbuxomness | Disobedience; obstinacy. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| uncertain | Not determinate or fixed in point of time or occurrence; that may happen earlier or later. | 1299 | 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 |
| undealt | Undivided. (Old English undǽled.) | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| underheild | Subject. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| understand | Understanding; knowledge. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| unfelon | (un- prefix 7.) | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| unfere | Infirmity, weakness. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| unfreely | Not beautiful. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| unfruiting | Barren. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| unhear | trans. To hear not; to refuse to hear. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| unhid | Not hid; unconcealed. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| unhove | Lack of moderation. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| unkithe | intr. To disappear, vanish. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| unknowledge | Unacknowledgement. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| unknown | Not recognizing, owning, acknowledging, or confessing. Obs. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| unknown | In a state of acknowledgement or confession. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| unlame | †Wholly free. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| unleal | Unfaithful, disloyal, dishonest, false. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| unmeasure | Lack of measure; excess. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| unmeedy | Unrewarded. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| unpraise | trans. To dispraise. | 1375 | Go To Quotation |
| unro | Unrest, disquiet. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| unseeing | Unseen, invisible. Obs. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| unstern | Severe, stern. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| unto | In (a specified course or direction, lit. or fig.). Cf. to prep. 2c 2e. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| unweal | Unhappiness; distress. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| unwide | Narrow, confined. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| unwieldly | Impotent; weak; = unwieldy adj. 1. Obs. | 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 |
| venial | Of sin; spec. in Theol. as opposed to deadly or mortal. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| verony | = veronique n. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| vessel | Any structure designed to float upon and traverse the water for the carriage of persons… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| vowing | The action of the verb in various senses. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| waith | Game for or obtained by hunting; spoil of the chase; also gen. spoil, booty. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| wandering | Of the mind, thoughts, desires, etc.: Aimless passing from object to object. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| wardenship | Guardianship, safe-keeping. rare. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| warn | An intimation or notice of something as about to happen. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| warrantise | Said predicatively of a thing or person that serves as a guarantee or surety. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| warray | transf. and fig. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| weigher | ? One who bears up or supports (a person). | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| weird | trans. To preordain by the decree of fate; esp. in pass. to be destined or divinely appointed to… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| welling | Boiling: said of a liquid, of molten metal, etc.; also of a pot. welling hot, boiling hot. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| weve | A short or quick movement. in little weve, in a moment. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| whatkin | Interrogative or exclamatory: Of what kind; what kind or sort of; what. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| wheresomever | = wherever adv. conj. 2a 2b. | 1399 | 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 |
| wieldness | Command, control, possession. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| wilful | Crafty, wily. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| willy | Willing, eager. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| wilsome | Wilful, obstinate, stubborn. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| winning | Getting of money or wealth; gain, profit; money-making. Obs. as a specific sense. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| wittering | Information, cognizance; mod. dial. a sign, token (cf. witter n. 1), a hint. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| wlatsome | Loathsome, detestable. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| wonders | = wondrous adj. | 1299 | 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 |
| wreak | Pain or punishment inflicted in return for an injury, wrong, offence, etc.; hurt or harm… | 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 |
| 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 |
