| absentee | A landowner who resides abroad or at a distance from his or her estate; (formerly… | 1537 | Go To Quotation |
| acetometer | An instrument for measuring the strength of vinegar or acetic acid, typically by measurement of its density; = acetimeter n. | 1818 | Go To Quotation |
| address | trans. (chiefly in pass.). To direct (a written communication) to a specific person… | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| affile | trans. (chiefly in pass.). To file (a document, case, claim, etc.), esp. in a specified place or with a specified body. | 1512 | Go To Quotation |
| allottable | Capable of being allotted or apportioned. | 1812 | Go To Quotation |
| amount | in quantity. | 1710 | Go To Quotation |
| anil | The indigo dye. | 1581 | Go To Quotation |
| annates | The first-fruits, or entire revenue of one year, paid to the Pope by bishops… | 1534 | Go To Quotation |
| arranging | Of a debtor: that makes an arrangement with his creditors. | 1920 | Go To Quotation |
| assedation | A letting out on lease, a lease. | 1457 | Go To Quotation |
| atteal | A species of duck of the Orkney and Shetland Isles, identified by some with the Widgeon. | 1600 | Go To Quotation |
| authorizing | The giving of authority; sanctioning. | 1523 | Go To Quotation |
| averrable | Capable of being averred, asserted, or declared. | 1562 | Go To Quotation |
| avowant | In Law, A challenger; a person making cognizance, or admitting that he distrained… | 1529 | Go To Quotation |
| bailable | Of persons: Entitled to be released on bail. | 1554 | Go To Quotation |
| bailiffwick | The office of a bailiff; = bailiffship n. | 1509 | Go To Quotation |
| bailing | A releasing on bail. | 1542 | Go To Quotation |
| balk | To signify to fishing-boats the direction taken by the shoals of herrings or pilchards… | 1603 | Go To Quotation |
| balking | The guiding of fishing-boats by shouting or signalling from a height. | 1603 | Go To Quotation |
| bandon | Of cloth: To shrink unevenly, so that tight inelastic ‘bands’ occur here and there across the piece. | 1552 | Go To Quotation |
| bandy | Marked with bands; cf. band n. 10b | 1552 | Go To Quotation |
| bank | A seat of justice; = bench n. Bank Royal: King's Bench. Common Bank: Common Pleas. (Cf. also banco n.) arch. or Obs. | 1275 | Go To Quotation |
| bank holiday | A day on which banks are legally closed, so as to afford a holiday to those employed… | 1871 | Go To Quotation |
| barbery | The barber's art or craft; shaving. | 1540 | Go To Quotation |
| barbing | Shaving, hairdressing; clipping. Obs. | 1485 | Go To Quotation |
| bard | In early Lowland Scottish used for: A strolling musician or minstrel (into which… | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| barrelled | Packed or stored in barrels; stowed away or enclosed in a barrel. | 1494 | Go To Quotation |
| barrelling | The action or process of packing or storing in barrels. | 1570 | Go To Quotation |
| bartery | Traffic by exchange, barter; = bartering n. | 1570 | Go To Quotation |
| bashron(e | ‘A kettle.’ Halliwell. | 1660 | Go To Quotation |
| bay | Baize; originally a fabric of a finer lighter texture than now, the manufacture of… | 1581 | Go To Quotation |
| bearding | The action of cutting off the beard, e.g. the inferior parts of a fleece. Cf. beard v. 2. Obs. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| behovably | Usefully, profitably, advantageously, advisably. | 1512 | Go To Quotation |
| beneficially | Beneficently, liberally, bountifully. Obs. | 1530 | Go To Quotation |
| blockhouse | In later use: An edifice of one or (formerly) more storeys, constructed chiefly of timber, loop-holed and embrasured for firing. | 1512 | Go To Quotation |
| blockwood | Obs. name of logwood n. | 1581 | Go To Quotation |
| bona fide | In good faith, with sincerity; genuinely. | 1542 | Go To Quotation |
| bone | trans. To deprive of the bone; to take out the bones, e.g. from meat, fish, etc.; also fig. | 1494 | Go To Quotation |
| boning | The removing of bones from meat, fish, etc. | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| bouge | A species of trout. | 1705 | Go To Quotation |
| boultel | A kind of cloth specially prepared for sifting; a sieve (= bolter n. 2); hence degree… | 1266 | Go To Quotation |
| bounding | The action of forming or marking a limit of, or setting up a boundary to. Also with out. | 1543 | Go To Quotation |
| bountines | Bounteousness. | 1512 | Go To Quotation |
| bowling | Playing at bowls; the action of rolling a bowl or other round body. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| bracery | Embracery, corruption. | 1540 | Go To Quotation |
| braye | A military outwork; a mound or bank defended by palisades and watchtowers. false braye… | 1512 | Go To Quotation |
| breadth | Measure or distance from side to side of a surface; width, extent across. Also fig. | 1523 | Go To Quotation |
| breeze | Small cinders and cinder-dust, used in burning bricks, etc.; small coke and coke-dust. | 1726 | Go To Quotation |
| buck-stall | A large net for catching deer. | 1503 | Go To Quotation |
| bullion | ? Melting-house or mint; but the 16th c. legal antiquaries understood it as ‘place… | 1336 | Go To Quotation |
| bunk | A plant (or root) yielding a drug. | 1660 | Go To Quotation |
| burglarily | After the manner of burglary; burglariously. | 1533 | Go To Quotation |
| burglarly | After the manner of a burglar. | 1532 | Go To Quotation |
| burglary | The crime of breaking (formerly by night) into a house with intent to commit felony.… | 1532 | Go To Quotation |
| burlap | Originally perhaps a sort of holland; now a coarse canvas made of jute or hemp, used… | 1695 | Go To Quotation |
| butt | A cask for fish, fruit, etc., of a capacity varying according to the contents and locality. Obs. | 1423 | Go To Quotation |
| butt | The thicker or hinder part of a hide or skin, as horse-butts, calf-butts, kip-butts, shoe-butts;… | 1661 | Go To Quotation |
| bynny-pepper | A kind of pepper. | 1603 | Go To Quotation |
| calendar | trans. To register in a calendar or list; to register, record. | 1487 | Go To Quotation |
| calender | One who calenders cloth; a calenderer. Obs. | 1513 | Go To Quotation |
| calenderer | One whose business it is to calender cloth, etc. | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| cancellation | The action of cancel v.: the crossing out or obliteration of writing, the suppression of a… | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| cannoneer | An artilleryman who manages the laying and firing of a cannon; a gunner. | 1562 | Go To Quotation |
| carding | Card-playing. Also attrib. | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| carpenel | Some kind of fabric; ? = Carpmeal n. | 1523 | Go To Quotation |
| cellarage | A toll or charge for the use of a cellar or storehouse. Obs. | 1512 | Go To Quotation |
| cess | A rate levied by local authority and for local purposes. Now superseded in general English… | 1531 | Go To Quotation |
| cess | To impose (taxation, a fine, etc.) upon (a person or community); = assess v. 2. | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| chafing-dish | A vessel to hold burning charcoal or other fuel, for heating anything placed upon it; a portable grate. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| chargeably | In a chargeable way (in various senses). | 1534 | Go To Quotation |
| checkarsey | A fabric; possibly check kersey, as understood by Ruffhead. | 1552 | Go To Quotation |
| chirographer | Law. The officer appointed to ‘engross fines’ (chirographs), in the Court of Common Pleas. (Abolished in 1833.) | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| chucking | See quot. 1794. | 1785 | Go To Quotation |
| clack | trans. To remove the dirty parts, esp. the tarry mark or ‘buist’ from (a fleece of wool). (Cf. clag v. 4.) | 1429 | Go To Quotation |
| closh | An obsolete game with a ball or bowl, prohibited in many successive statutes in the 15th–16th… | 1477 | Go To Quotation |
| coat-money | Money to provide a coat for each man furnished for military service; esp. that exacted as a… | 1557 | Go To Quotation |
| cockle | intr. Of cloth, paper, or the like: To bulge out in parts so as to present an uneven… | 1552 | Go To Quotation |
| cockling | The action of becoming, or condition of being, puckered or wrinkled. | 1552 | Go To Quotation |
| cockling | That cockles or puckers. | 1601 | Go To Quotation |
| cod | A well-known sea fish, Gadus morrhua, which inhabits the North Atlantic and its… | 1357 | Go To Quotation |
| codilla | The coarse tow of flax or hemp. | 1785 | Go To Quotation |
| cogmen | Men to whom the cloth called cog ware was sold. | 1389 | Go To Quotation |
| cognizor | The party who levies a fine of land. | 1531 | Go To Quotation |
| cogware | A coarse kind of cloth, apparently resembling frieze, made of the most inferior wool. | 1389 | Go To Quotation |
| collectorship | The office of a collector. | 1553 | Go To Quotation |
| commandery | esp. in Hist. A landed estate or manor, or group of manors, belonging to an Order of… | 1534 | Go To Quotation |
| committee | A person to whom some charge, trust, or function is committed; a commissioner, commissary. Obs. exc. as in 1d. | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| commorth | An aid, a contribution or collection in aid. | 1402 | Go To Quotation |
| commot | In Wales, a territorial and administrative division; usually subordinate to a cantref or cantred. | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| commutation | The exchanging of one thing for another; exchange, barter. Obs. | 1496 | Go To Quotation |
| complainant | Formally complaining, lodging a legal complaint. Also gen., complaining. | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| concurrent | Running together in space, as parallel lines; going on side by side, as… | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| conder | A man stationed on an eminence by the shore who signals to fishing-boats the direction… | 1603 | Go To Quotation |
| confederator | One who confederates with others (esp. for an evil purpose); a confederate, conspirator. | 1536 | Go To Quotation |
| conscioned | = conscienced adj. Chiefly with modifying word. | 1541 | Go To Quotation |
| constat | Law. A certificate stating what appears (constat) upon record touching a matter, given by… | 1570 | Go To Quotation |
| contemptuous | Setting legal authority at defiance; contemning law and public order. Obs. | 1529 | Go To Quotation |
| contemptuously | With contempt or disregard of law and authority. Obs. | 1529 | Go To Quotation |
| controlment | = control n. 1. | 1494 | Go To Quotation |
| conveyance | Convoying, escorting, or conducting; conduct. Obs. | 1503 | Go To Quotation |
| conveyor | One that conveys, carries, or transmits. | 1513 | Go To Quotation |
| convict | One convicted in a judicial investigation of a punishable offence. arch. | 1530 | Go To Quotation |
| conviction | The proving or finding a person guilty of an offence with which he is charged before… | 1491 | Go To Quotation |
| convocate | Convocated. arch. or poet. | 1532 | Go To Quotation |
| coparcener | One who shares equally with others in inheritance of the estate of a common ancestor; a co-heir or co-heiress. | 1503 | Go To Quotation |
| copsewood | A copse n. arch. or Obs. | 1543 | Go To Quotation |
| copyhold | A kind of tenure in England of ancient origin: tenure of lands being parcel of a manor… | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| copyholder | One who holds an estate in copyhold. | 1511 | Go To Quotation |
| co-respondent | In a divorce suit, a man charged with the adultery and proceeded against together with the respondent or wife. | 1857 | Go To Quotation |
| cork | A purple or red dye-stuff obtained from certain lichens growing on rocks in Scotland and the north of England; = cudbear n. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| corporate | trans. To form into a corporation or body politic; to incorporate. Obs. | 1531 | Go To Quotation |
| corrector | corrector of the staple: the controller of a wool staple: see quot. 1617. | 1353 | Go To Quotation |
| cost-book | A book containing an abstract of all costs and expenses incurred in working a mine, and… | 1849 | Go To Quotation |
| cottoner | One who cottons, friezes, or puts a nap on cloth. | 1557 | Go To Quotation |
| countable | Liable to give an account or reckoning; answerable, responsible; = accountable adj. 1. Obs. | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| county court | orig. A court held periodically by the sheriff of a county for the execution of… | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| court | Some kind of cart for carrying stones, bricks, lime, sand, and the like. Cf. also courtier n. | 1576 | Go To Quotation |
| covert-baron | = covert adj. 4. | 1512 | Go To Quotation |
| coynye | The billeting of military followers upon private persons; food and entertainment exacted… | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| cracked | Broken without separation of parts, fractured; partially broken so as to be no longer sound. | 1503 | Go To Quotation |
| craye | = crayer n. | 1541 | Go To Quotation |
| credit | To trust or allow to take money or goods, or to use services, without immediate payment… | 1541 | Go To Quotation |
| creditee | A person who owes money; a person who has taken goods or used services on credit. | 1541 | Go To Quotation |
| crockard | A kind of foreign money, decried as base under Edward I. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| cross-land | Irish Hist. Land belonging to the Church in the Irish counties palatine. | 1568 | Go To Quotation |
| crumple | = crumpled adj.: chiefly in comb., as crumple-horned adj.; crumple-back n. crook-back. | 1523 | Go To Quotation |
| customership | The office of a collector of customs. | 1487 | Go To Quotation |
| cuttle | A layer of cloth when the finished piece is folded. | 1541 | Go To Quotation |
| day-labourer | A labourer who is hired to work at a certain rate of wages per day; one who earns his living by day labour. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| de-afforest | = disafforest v. | 1640 | Go To Quotation |
| decay | To decline from prosperity or fortune. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| deer-hay | A net set for the capture of deer. | 1503 | Go To Quotation |
| delegacy | The action or system of delegating; appointment of a person as a delegate; commission or authority given to act as a delegate. | 1533 | Go To Quotation |
| demandant | gen. a plaintiff or claimant in any civil action. | 1485 | Go To Quotation |
| demise | Law. Conveyance or transfer of an estate by will or lease. | 1509 | Go To Quotation |
| denier | The act of denying or refusing. | 1532 | Go To Quotation |
| denization | The action of making a person a denizen, or condition of being made a denizen. | 1601 | Go To Quotation |
| denture | Indentation, indent. | 1685 | Go To Quotation |
| denunciation | Official, formal, or public announcement; declaration, proclamation. Obs. (exc. in senses influenced by 2). | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| depending | [Originally the pres. pple. agreeing with the n. in absolute construction, as… | 1503 | Go To Quotation |
| deprivation | The action of depriving or fact of being deprived; the taking away of anything enjoyed; dispossession, loss. | 1533 | Go To Quotation |
| deraignment | Discharge from a religious order. | 1539 | Go To Quotation |
| descender | Descent; title of descent. | 1485 | Go To Quotation |
| detest | trans. To curse, calling God to witness; to express abhorrence of, denounce, execrate. Obs. | 1533 | Go To Quotation |
| detestably | In a detestable manner; execrably, abominably. | 1531 | Go To Quotation |
| devise | The act of devising, apportioning, or assigning, by will; a testamentary disposition… | 1542 | Go To Quotation |
| devisor | One who devises (real property) by will; one who makes a devise. (Correlative to devisee.) | 1542 | Go To Quotation |
| dike-reeve | An officer appointed or approved by the Commissioners of Sewers, to take charge of… | 1665 | Go To Quotation |
| dilatory | Law. dilatory plea, a plea put in for the sake of delay. dilatory exception: see exception n.… | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| dimit | To convey by lease, demise: = demit v. 4. | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| dirupt | Rent asunder, burst open. | 1531 | Go To Quotation |
| disagree | To refuse to accord or agree (to any proposal, etc.); to dissent. Const. to, with; †from. Indirect passive, to be disagreed to. | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| disassent | Refusal of assent; dissent, disagreement. | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| disbark | trans. | 1552 | Go To Quotation |
| disburden | trans. To remove a burden from (the bearer); to relieve of a burden. lit. and fig. | 1531 | Go To Quotation |
| dischase | trans. To reduce from the legal status and condition of a chase to that of ordinary land. | 1725 | Go To Quotation |
| disfurniture | The act of disfurnishing; removal, deprivation; disfurnishment. | 1565 | Go To Quotation |
| dishonourable | Entailing dishonour; involving disgrace and shame; ignominious, base. | 1533 | Go To Quotation |
| disinherison | The action of disinheriting, or fact of being disinherited; disinheritance: = disherison n. | 1543 | Go To Quotation |
| disinheritance | The fact of disinheriting, or of being disinherited; dispossession from an inheritance. | 1540 | Go To Quotation |
| disparagement | Lowering of value, honour, or estimation; dishonour, indignity, disgrace, discredit… | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| dispark | trans. To divest of the character of a park; to throw open (park-land), or convert (it) to other uses. | 1542 | Go To Quotation |
| disponee | The person to whom property is conveyed. | 1746 | Go To Quotation |
| distrainant | = distrainer n. | 1553 | Go To Quotation |
| double-headed | Having a double head or two heads, two-headed (lit. and fig.). Of a train: running… | 1542 | Go To Quotation |
| dowable | Capable of being endowed; entitled to dower. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| draw-latch | A thief who enters by drawing up the latch; a sneaking thief; a sneak. Cf. latch-drawer n. at latch n. 3. | 1331 | Go To Quotation |
| dree-draw | An implement used in illegal fishing, being a ‘stroke-haul’, q.v., fastened to a… | 1850 | Go To Quotation |
| dripping-pan | A pan used to catch the ‘dripping’ from roasting meat. | 1463 | Go To Quotation |
| drowning | The action of the verb drown v., in its various senses. | 1539 | Go To Quotation |
| eassin | Of a cow: to desire the male. | 1661 | Go To Quotation |
| econtrary | Contrariwise, vice versa; = e contrario adv. 2. Cf. e contra adv. 1. | 1512 | Go To Quotation |
| eel-fare | A brood of young eels (see elver n.). | 1533 | Go To Quotation |
| elective | In passive sense. Of the holder of an office, dignity, etc.: Appointed by election. Of… | 1530 | Go To Quotation |
| embezzling | The action of the verb embezzle v., in various senses. | 1540 | Go To Quotation |
| emblement | ‘The profits of sown land: but the word is sometimes used more largely for any products… | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| embracer | One who attempts to influence a jury corruptly. | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| embracing | = embracery n. | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| endangering | The action of endanger v. | 1585 | Go To Quotation |
| endorsable | That may or can be endorsed. | 1704 | Go To Quotation |
| enduring | That endures, lasting. | 1532 | Go To Quotation |
| enfeebling | The action of enfeeble v. | 1503 | Go To Quotation |
| enfranchise | To make ‘free’ of a municipality or corporation. Const. into. Also fig. Obs. | 1514 | Go To Quotation |
| engrossing | The action of writing out a document in a fair or legal character. Also attrib. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| enlargement | Release from confinement or bondage. | 1540 | Go To Quotation |
| enrolment | The action of recording in official archives; esp. the registering a… | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| eradicat(e | Equivalent to the later eradicated adj. | 1533 | Go To Quotation |
| estatute | A law, ordinance. | 1513 | Go To Quotation |
| evict | trans. To recover (property or the title to property) of or from any one by a judicial process, or in virtue of a superior title. | 1503 | Go To Quotation |
| exchanger | One who exchanges or makes an exchange. | 1531 | Go To Quotation |
| executer | One who executes; = executor n. 1. | 1532 | Go To Quotation |
| executory | Of a law, etc.: In execution or operation; in force, of force, operative. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| exhaust | trans. To draw off or out (now only, air); lit. and fig. | 1540 | Go To Quotation |
| exigenter | An officer of the Court of Common Pleas who made out all exigents and proclamations… | 1512 | Go To Quotation |
| expert | One whose special knowledge or skill causes him to be regarded as an authority; a… | 1825 | Go To Quotation |
| exploration | The action of examining; investigation, scrutiny. Obs. | 1543 | Go To Quotation |
| extenuation | The action of making less or weak; an instance of this; a weakening… | 1542 | Go To Quotation |
| extolling | The action of extol v. | 1558 | Go To Quotation |
| fag | A ‘knot’ in cloth. | 1464 | Go To Quotation |
| fagnet | Some kind of net for fishing. | 1558 | Go To Quotation |
| fait | In the translation of Perkins: Act of parties, as distinguished from operation of law. | 1562 | Go To Quotation |
| farrier | One who shoes horses; a shoeing-smith; hence, also one who treats the diseases of horses. | 1562 | Go To Quotation |
| fee-tail | An estate of inheritance entailed or limited to some particular class of heirs of the… | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| fellable | That may be felled; fit or ready to be cut down. | 1581 | Go To Quotation |
| feloniously | In a felonious manner. | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| filibeg | A kilt. | 1746 | Go To Quotation |
| finable | Of a person, also of an offence: Liable to be punished by a fine. | 1485 | Go To Quotation |
| finer | One who or that which fines or refines, a refiner. | 1489 | Go To Quotation |
| flax-seed | The seed of flax, linseed. | 1562 | Go To Quotation |
| fledge | App. the designation of some textile material. Also attrib. | 1542 | Go To Quotation |
| flue | ‘The tip of a deer's [?] horn’ (Halliwell at Flewed). Obs. | 1532 | Go To Quotation |
| flued | Of a horn: Tipped. Obs. | 1532 | Go To Quotation |
| foldage | The practice of feeding sheep in movable folds. | 1533 | Go To Quotation |
| forbearer | One who or that which forbears. | 1570 | Go To Quotation |
| forcer | One who forces wool. | 1553 | Go To Quotation |
| forestalled | In senses of the vb.; bespoken, or taken beforehand; anticipated; prejudiced. | 1543 | Go To Quotation |
| forfeited | In senses of the verb. | 1530 | Go To Quotation |
| forger | The action of forging. (Cowel 1607, and some later writers who quote the statute, have mistaken the word for prec. n.) | 1562 | Go To Quotation |
| forjudger | A judgement or sentence of deprivation, expulsion, or banishment. Applied spec. to the… | 1496 | Go To Quotation |
| foundered | Of a horse: Affected with founder; lamed. | 1543 | Go To Quotation |
| frankfold | = faldage n. | 1609 | Go To Quotation |
| friezer | One who friezes cloth. | 1557 | Go To Quotation |
| furnishing | The action of furnish v., in senses of the vb.; an instance of this. Also gerundial with omission of in. | 1496 | Go To Quotation |
| galled | Treated with a decoction of gall-nuts. | 1581 | Go To Quotation |
| galley-halfpenny | A silver coin, said to have been introduced into England by the sailors of the Genoese… | 1409 | Go To Quotation |
| garble | To select or sort out the best in (any thing or set of things); to take the pick of. Now rare… | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| garbleable | Liable to be garbled: see garble v. i. | 1603 | Go To Quotation |
| General Letter Office | = General Post Office n. | 1660 | Go To Quotation |
| gig-mill | A building in which such machines are used. | 1551 | Go To Quotation |
| gildable | Subject to taxation. | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| gipser | A purse, pouch, or wallet, suspended from a belt or girdle. | 1403 | Go To Quotation |
| girling | A young salmon. | 1861 | Go To Quotation |
| glass-man | A dealer in glass-ware. | 1597 | Go To Quotation |
| glib | A thick mass of matted hair on the forehead and over the eyes, formerly worn by the Irish. | 1537 | Go To Quotation |
| Godfrey | In full, Godfrey's cordial. (See quot. 1961.) | 1785 | Go To Quotation |
| goryd | A kind of fishing-weir. | 1873 | Go To Quotation |
| graffer | A notary. | 1513 | Go To Quotation |
| grantee | The person to whom a grant or conveyance is made. | 1491 | Go To Quotation |
| grow | The process or result of growing; growth. | 1536 | Go To Quotation |
| gule | the Gule of August: Lammas Day, Aug. 1. | 1543 | Go To Quotation |
| gull | A fish not fully grown; also, a kind of gudgeon. | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| gun-metal | A bronze formerly much used for cannon; now, a common term for alloys of copper and tin (or zinc). | 1541 | Go To Quotation |
| gutter-tile | A tile used in the construction of gutters, or to line the ‘valleys’ of a roof. | 1477 | Go To Quotation |
| hackbut | An early kind of portable firearm; = hackbush n., harquebus n. | 1541 | Go To Quotation |
| hackney-chair | Formerly, a sedan chair, subsequently a bath chair or the like, plying publicly for hire. | 1710 | Go To Quotation |
| halberd | A military weapon, especially in use during the 15th and 16th centuries; a kind of… | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| half-angel | An English gold coin, worth at different dates, from 3 s. 9 d. to 5 s.; issued from Henry VII to James I. | 1503 | Go To Quotation |
| half-bowl | A game played with a hemisphere of wood and fifteen small pins of a conical form. | 1477 | Go To Quotation |
| half-guinea | An English gold coin worth 10 s. 6 d., coined from the reign of Charles II to 1813: see Guinea n. | 1696 | Go To Quotation |
| half-seal | The impression of the reverse side or ‘foot’ of the Great Seal, with which certain… | 1509 | Go To Quotation |
| half-sovereign | An English gold coin, nominally worth 50 pence (ten shillings). The sum is also expressed by half a sovereign. | 1503 | Go To Quotation |
| handywarp | A kind of cloth made in the 16th c., of which app. the warp was prepared in some particular way. | 1552 | Go To Quotation |
| hare-pipe | A trap for catching hares. | 1389 | Go To Quotation |
| hawk | intr. To practise the trade of a hawker. | 1542 | Go To Quotation |
| hawk's bell | A small spherical bell, for fastening on the leg of a hawk. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| hay | A net used for catching wild animals, esp. rabbits, being stretched in front of their holes, or round their haunts. | 1389 | Go To Quotation |
| hoard | = hoarding n. | 1757 | Go To Quotation |
| holder | A workman employed in a ship's hold. | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| hute | Outcry; = hue n. | 1534 | Go To Quotation |
| ignorantly | In an ignorant manner; without knowledge. | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| illegitimate | Not born in lawful wedlock; not recognized by law as lawful offspring; spurious, bastard. (The earliest sense in English.) | 1536 | Go To Quotation |
| illegitimation | The action of declaring illegitimate; a declaration of illegitimacy. | 1553 | Go To Quotation |
| impeachable | Capable of being impeached, called in question, or accused; liable to impeachment; chargeable. | 1503 | Go To Quotation |
| impetition | = impeachment n. 4. | 1530 | Go To Quotation |
| impetrate | trans. To obtain by request or entreaty; to procure. Now chiefly Theol. (also in Roman Law). | 1533 | Go To Quotation |
| importancy | The quality of being important; = importance n. 1a. | 1540 | Go To Quotation |
| incharitable | Not charitable; uncharitable. | 1496 | Go To Quotation |
| incontrary | In opposition, contrary (to): = incontrair adv. prep. | 1488 | Go To Quotation |
| incurse | = incursion n. 2. | 1543 | Go To Quotation |
| indorse | Another form of endorse v., q.v. Etymologically, indorse is the fully latinized type… | 1547 | Go To Quotation |
| indulgency | The quality or practice of being indulgent; indulgent disposition or action; = indulgence n. 1. | 1547 | Go To Quotation |
| infested | Infixed, rooted, inveterate. | 1536 | Go To Quotation |
| ingrain | A quarter of a chaldron of coal given in for every five chaldrons purchased. | 1730 | Go To Quotation |
| ingratefully | In an ungrateful manner; ungratefully. | 1543 | Go To Quotation |
| inhereditable | = hereditable adj. 2. | 1503 | Go To Quotation |
| inmake | A lodger, a person not of the household harboured or lodged; = inmate n. 1a. | 1536 | Go To Quotation |
| inmate | In relation to other persons: One who is the mate or associate of another or others in… | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| inquirable | That may or should be inquired about or into; that admits of or calls for inquiry; open… | 1485 | Go To Quotation |
| insinuation | Law. The production or delivery of a will for official registration, as a step… | 1529 | Go To Quotation |
| intaker | One who ‘takes in’ or receives stolen property. Obs. | 1421 | Go To Quotation |
| interrupter | One who interrupts: see the vb. | 1511 | Go To Quotation |
| intricate | To entangle or ensnare (an animal or person); to involve in toils; to embarrass, perplex. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| intrude | refl. and intr. To thrust oneself into any benefice, possession, office, or dignity to… | 1534 | Go To Quotation |
| intruder | One who intrudes into an estate or benefice or usurps on the rights or privileges… | 1534 | Go To Quotation |
| invade | intr. or absol. To make an invasion or attack. Const. on (upon, into), and with indirect pass. | 1491 | Go To Quotation |
| inventative | = inventive adj. | 1541 | Go To Quotation |
| invest | A payment made to the Pope or Head of the church by a bishop or the like at his investiture. | 1533 | Go To Quotation |
| invest | To clothe with or in the insignia of an office; hence, with the dignity itself; to install in… | 1533 | Go To Quotation |
| inviolably | In an inviolable manner; in a way reverently free from violation, profanation, or infringement; sacredly. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| ipso facto | By that very fact; by the fact itself. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| Irishly | In a manner characteristic or reminiscent of Ireland or the Irish. Also occas.: in… | 1571 | Go To Quotation |
| irrepleviable | = irreplevisable adj. | 1543 | Go To Quotation |
| jeofail | Law. A mistake or oversight in pleading or other legal proceeding; also, an acknowledgement of such error. Obs. exc. Hist. | 1541 | Go To Quotation |
| jerkin | The male of the gerfalcon. | 1539 | Go To Quotation |
| Kendal | A species of green woollen cloth. Obs. | 1389 | Go To Quotation |
| kepper | A device for catching fish. | 1558 | Go To Quotation |
| Kidderminster | attrib. Of or pertaining to Kidderminster; spec. the distinctive name of a kind… | 1670 | Go To Quotation |
| kiddier | One who buys provisions from the producers and takes them to market to sell; = badger n. (q.v.). | 1551 | Go To Quotation |
| lader | One who lades; esp. one who freights a ship. | 1542 | Go To Quotation |
| land-water | Water free from ice along a frozen shore. | 1531 | Go To Quotation |
| lavidnian | A fish of some kind. | 1606 | Go To Quotation |
| leasing | Gleaning. Also concr. = leasing-corn n. | 1534 | Go To Quotation |
| legantine | Incorrect synonym of legatine adj. | 1533 | Go To Quotation |
| leister | A pronged spear for striking and taking fish, chiefly salmon. | 1533 | Go To Quotation |
| lessee | A person to whom a lease is granted; a tenant under a lease. | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| lessor | One who grants a lease; one who lets (property) on lease. | 1487 | Go To Quotation |
| levying | The action of levy v. in its various senses. | 1496 | Go To Quotation |
| ley-gager | Wager of law. | 1625 | Go To Quotation |
| lighterman | One employed on or owning a lighter. | 1558 | Go To Quotation |
| litigiosity | The character or quality of being litigious; esp. in Civil Law and Sc. Law (see litigious adj. 2b). | 1868 | Go To Quotation |
| lob | The pollack. Obs. (Cf. lob-keeling n.) | 1357 | Go To Quotation |
| loggat | An old game (see quot. 1773); also the missile used in the game. (See loggerhead n. 5.) | 1541 | Go To Quotation |
| logwood | The heartwood of an American tree (Hæmatoxylon Campechianum) used in dyeing; so called from being imported in the form of logs. | 1581 | Go To Quotation |
| Lollardry | sing. collect. and pl. The tenets of the Lollards. | 1414 | Go To Quotation |
| lucern | The skin or fur of the lynx, formerly held in high esteem. | 1532 | Go To Quotation |
| lunacy | The condition of being a lunatic; intermittent insanity such as was formerly supposed to… | 1541 | Go To Quotation |
| mainpernable | Able to be stood surety for; eligible for release on bail. | 1487 | Go To Quotation |
| Manchester | attrib. Designating or relating to various cotton goods formerly produced in Manchester, as Manchester cotton, etc. Now rare. | 1552 | Go To Quotation |
| maravedi | Any of a number of medieval Spanish silver coins, distinguished by a 5.5 gram… | 1540 | Go To Quotation |
| market overt | A public, open, and legal market; the principles regulating the sale of goods in such… | 1555 | Go To Quotation |
| melius inquirendum | A writ allowing a second inquiry into a case where partiality is suspected, esp. in land law. | 1549 | Go To Quotation |
| merchant venturer | = merchant adventurer n. Also fig. | 1534 | Go To Quotation |
| mesnalty | The estate of a mesne lord; the fact or condition of being a mesne lord. | 1542 | Go To Quotation |
| methylator | A person or company engaged in the production of methylated spirits. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| metropolitical | Christian Church. Of, belonging to, or designating a metropolitan see or bishop; = metropolitan n. 1. Also fig. | 1541 | Go To Quotation |
| miring | The action or fact of becoming stuck fast in a mire. | 1556 | Go To Quotation |
| miscertify | trans. To certify inaccurately. | 1540 | Go To Quotation |
| miscognizant | Not cognizant, knowledgeable, or aware; ignorant of something; spec. ignorant of the law, or some aspect of it. | 1540 | Go To Quotation |
| miscontinuance | Continuance by unlawful process. | 1540 | Go To Quotation |
| misconverting | The action or an act of wrongful or illegal appropriation. Cf. conversion n. 7. | 1601 | Go To Quotation |
| misconveying | Mismanagement. | 1540 | Go To Quotation |
| misdemeanour | Law. An offence not involving forfeiture of property and thus regarded as less serious… | 1504 | Go To Quotation |
| misjoin | trans. To join or connect wrongly, inappropriately, or unsuitably; sometimes spec. in Law (cf. misjoinder n.). | 1540 | Go To Quotation |
| misnaming | Originally (Law): †= misnomer n. 1 (obs.). Later, more generally: the giving of a… | 1539 | Go To Quotation |
| misrecital | An incorrect recital or account. | 1539 | Go To Quotation |
| misreciting | = misrecital n. | 1572 | Go To Quotation |
| mistaker | A person who mistakes or misunderstands something. | 1551 | Go To Quotation |
| moor-burning | The burning of heather, wild grass, etc., on a moor; †an instance of this (obs.); = moorburn n. 1a. | 1610 | Go To Quotation |
| moor-coal | Peat used for burning. Also in Min.: †a friable variety of lignite (obs.). | 1562 | Go To Quotation |
| mowburnt | Of stacked hay, corn, etc.: that has deteriorated through heating up and fermenting as a… | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| naping | The action of cutting a fish through the nape (nape n. 2b). | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| National Health Service | The system of state provision of medical services in the United Kingdom, established in 1946; abbreviated N.H.S. | 1946 | Go To Quotation |
| nihilate | trans. To annul. | 1545 | Go To Quotation |
| noil | In pl. Short pieces and knots of wool combed out of a long staple; the refuse of wool or silk, sometimes made into rovings. | 1623 | Go To Quotation |
| non-resident | Of a member of the clergy: failing or refusing to reside in the place required by… | 1530 | Go To Quotation |
| non-return | Failure or refusal to return; the condition of not being returned. | 1547 | Go To Quotation |
| non-sanity | Unsoundness of mind; insanity. Originally (Law) in non-sanity of memory. Cf. non-sane adj. | 1675 | Go To Quotation |
| nonsuit | trans. To subject (a plaintiff or a suit) to a nonsuit. | 1531 | Go To Quotation |
| nyas | = eyas n.. | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| obligor | Law. A person who is bound to another by contract, or who gives a bond to another; spec.… | 1541 | Go To Quotation |
| orchil | A red or violet dye prepared from certain lichens, esp. Roccella tinctoria. Cf. archil n. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| orderer | A person who, or a thing which, orders (in various senses). | 1496 | Go To Quotation |
| overprice | A surcharge; the amount by which a price exceeds the correct amount. rare. | 1494 | Go To Quotation |
| parkly | Of or relating to the nature or character of a park; full of parks. | 1541 | Go To Quotation |
| partlet | An item of clothing worn over the neck and upper part of the chest, esp. by women to cover… | 1515 | Go To Quotation |
| part-owner | A person who owns something in common with another or others; any of two or more joint owners or tenants in common. | 1562 | Go To Quotation |
| party-jury | = jury de medietate n. at jury n. 2e. | 1662 | Go To Quotation |
| perching | The examination of cloth for defects. Cf. perch n. 7a, perch v. 7a. Also attrib., as perching room. | 1552 | Go To Quotation |
| perjured | Of a person: that has committed or is guilty of perjury; that has deliberately broken an oath, promise, etc. | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| perpetuate | Perpetual. Freq. as past participle: perpetuated. | 1503 | Go To Quotation |
| pesterable | That obstructs or takes up room, esp. on a ship; cumbersome, bulky. Esp. in pesterable wares. Now rare. Perh. Obs. | 1540 | Go To Quotation |
| pickard | A wool-card with metal spikes or teeth, as distinct from one made from natural products, such as teasel-heads. | 1549 | Go To Quotation |
| pinned | Designating a kind of cloth. Esp. in pinned strait, pinned white. | 1552 | Go To Quotation |
| portionary | Any one of two or more incumbents who shared the duties and revenues of a benefice; = portioner n. 3. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| postulate | trans. Ecclesiastical Law. To ask legitimate ecclesiastical authority to admit (a… | 1533 | Go To Quotation |
| prehension | Seizure or arrest in the name of the law; = apprehension n. 3. Obs. | 1534 | Go To Quotation |
| propriation | Church Hist. = appropriation n. 2. Obs. | 1601 | Go To Quotation |
| pulley | A kind of slide or chute used for unloading barrels of wine or beer from a cart, lowering them into a cellar, etc. Cf. polaine n. | 1790 | Go To Quotation |
| purposely | On purpose, by design; intentionally, deliberately. | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| pursy | Of cloth, the skin, etc.: drawn into folds in a manner resembling the mouth of a… | 1552 | Go To Quotation |
| quietus | An acquittance or discharge granted on payment of a debt; a receipt. Also in extended use. Now hist. Cf. quietus est n. 1. | 1540 | Go To Quotation |
| rack vintage | A vintage of racked wines stored for sale or export after the first vintage. | 1540 | Go To Quotation |
| rap | A skein typically containing between 80 and 140 yards of yarn, the precise amount varying according to region. Cf. lea n. | 1776 | Go To Quotation |
| rating | The action of rate v. in various senses, esp. the action of setting rates. | 1534 | Go To Quotation |
| raw | An implement (not identified) used for catching fish. | 1533 | Go To Quotation |
| readept | trans. To recover (authority, a position, etc.). | 1537 | Go To Quotation |
| rebutter | Law. An answer made by a defendant to a plaintiff's surrejoinder. Now chiefly hist. | 1540 | Go To Quotation |
| recontinuance | The action or an act of recontinuing; a resumption. | 1540 | Go To Quotation |
| recoupment | Law. The act or practice of recouping monies due (cf. recoup v. 2), esp. a counterclaim made… | 1719 | Go To Quotation |
| recoveree | Law. A person from whom property is recovered; spec. the defendant in an action of… | 1531 | Go To Quotation |
| redeliverance | Redelivery, restoration, return; an instance of this. Also: the fact of being saved again; a second or subsequent deliverance. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| rehave | trans. To regain, get back. | 1541 | Go To Quotation |
| resiancy | Abode, residency. Cf. resiance n. | 1580 | Go To Quotation |
| resummons | A second or renewed summons. Cf. reattachment n. 1. | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| rewey | Of fabric: of uneven texture, ribbed (esp. as a fault). | 1552 | Go To Quotation |
| rhine | A large open ditch or drain. | 1698 | Go To Quotation |
| roguish | Relating to or characteristic of a rogue; disreputable. Formerly also: †relating… | 1572 | Go To Quotation |
| rowsting | Meaning uncertain: (app.) a device or technique for rousing or beating up (a game bird). | 1581 | Go To Quotation |
| rowy | Of cloth: uneven in texture; having some rows of the weave thicker than others. Now rare. | 1552 | Go To Quotation |
| rudge-washed | Of kersey cloth: washed on the sheep's back. Cf. ridge-washed adj. at ridge n. 2. | 1592 | Go To Quotation |
| rummage sale | A sale of rummage goods. Now rare. | 1809 | Go To Quotation |
| runt | An ox or cow of a small size; esp. one belonging to the small breeds characteristic of… | 1549 | Go To Quotation |
| sack | A general name for a class of white wines formerly imported from Spain and the Canaries. | 1531 | Go To Quotation |
| scad | The fry of the salmon. | 1861 | Go To Quotation |
| scale-board | Thin board used for hat-boxes, silk hats, veneer, etc., and by printers for justifying. | 1711 | Go To Quotation |
| scelerous | Wicked, villainous. | 1534 | Go To Quotation |
| scholarship | The status or emoluments of a scholar (see scholar n. 4) at a school, college, or university. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| scope | Room for exercise, opportunity or liberty to act; free course or play. Often in phrases, to give… | 1534 | Go To Quotation |
| scringe | A kind of seine net. Also scringe net. | 1851 | Go To Quotation |
| seam | trans. To dress (wool) with grease. | 1511 | Go To Quotation |
| sedgy | Covered or bordered with sedge or sedges. | 1566 | Go To Quotation |
| seskyn | A Dutch coin of the value of 6 mites. | 1413 | Go To Quotation |
| sewable | Capable of being drained. | 1848 | Go To Quotation |
| shag | A cormorant, esp. the crested cormorant, Phalacrocorax graculus, which in the breeding season has a crest of long curly plumes. | 1566 | Go To Quotation |
| shed | A young salmon from one to two years old. | 1861 | Go To Quotation |
| ship-carpenter | A carpenter employed in the building or repairing of ships. | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| shire-ground | Country divided into shires; a tract of country subject to the control of the authorities of a shire. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| shoplifting | The action of stealing from a shop. | 1698 | Go To Quotation |
| slicking | The action of making sleek or smooth, etc. | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| small debt | A debt of limited amount for which summary jurisdiction is provided by special courts. | 1603 | Go To Quotation |
| smould | The sand-eel or launce. | 1605 | Go To Quotation |
| soap-box | A box for holding soap; orig. and still occas., a small receptacle for a ball or bar of… | 1660 | Go To Quotation |
| solace | Some substance used for dressing cloth. | 1552 | Go To Quotation |
| solely | As a single person (or thing); without any other as an associate, partner, sharer… | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| sorter | One who sorts, arranges, selects, or classifies; esp. a wool-sorter. Also transf. | 1554 | Go To Quotation |
| Spanish | Earth or clay unfit for brick-making. | 1725 | Go To Quotation |
| sparch | trans. and intr. To scorch. | 1532 | Go To Quotation |
| spired | Of barley: Sprouted; spoilt on this account for brewing purposes. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| spooler | One engaged in winding thread on spools. | 1554 | Go To Quotation |
| squally | Of cloth: Defective (in some specific manner). | 1552 | Go To Quotation |
| stalker | A kind of net used by poachers. Also stalker net. Obs. | 1389 | Go To Quotation |
| stalled | Payable at fixed periods. Cf. stall v. 4. | 1553 | Go To Quotation |
| standel | A young tree left standing for timber. (Cf. stander n. 8, standard n. 20a.) | 1543 | Go To Quotation |
| steer | ? A pile (of wood). | 1837 | Go To Quotation |
| still-head | The cap, helm, or upper compartment of a still or alembic. | 1694 | Go To Quotation |
| sub-constable | An officer immediately subordinate to a constable; an under-constable; a deputy… | 1512 | Go To Quotation |
| substract | To withdraw or withhold (something beneficial, useful, or valuable, or something to… | 1542 | Go To Quotation |
| sufficiency | Sufficient means or wealth; ability or competence to meet pecuniary obligations. Obs. | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| surefully | In security. | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| surname | To give such-and-such a surname to; to call (a person) by his surname or family name. | 1512 | Go To Quotation |
| surrejoinder | In old common-law pleading, a plaintiff's reply to the defendant's rejoinder. Also transf.… | 1542 | Go To Quotation |
| sursise | A penalty formerly exacted at Dover for failure to pay the castle-guard rent. | 1540 | Go To Quotation |
| survey | Oversight, supervision, superintendence. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| survivor | spec. in Law. One of two or more designated persons, esp. joint-tenants or other persons… | 1503 | Go To Quotation |
| suspect | const. of, †with, †for. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| swarf | The wet or greasy grit abraded from a grindstone or axle; the filings or shavings of… | 1566 | Go To Quotation |
| taining | Some kind of device for catching fish in rivers. | 1533 | Go To Quotation |
| tales | Originally, in plural, Persons taken from among those present in court or standing by, to… | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| Tavistock | A woollen cloth formerly made at the town of Tavistock. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| tax | The yew-tree (also tax-tree); transf. a bow made of the wood of the yew. | 1541 | Go To Quotation |
| tender | spec. An offer of money, or the like, in discharge of a debt or liability, esp. an… | 1542 | Go To Quotation |
| tender | trans. Law. To offer or advance (a plea, issue, averment; evidence, etc.) in due and… | 1542 | Go To Quotation |
| tentering | The action of the verb tenter v.; the stretching (of cloth) on tenters or by means of other mechanical devices. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| tenuity | fig. Meagreness; slightness, slenderness, weakness, poverty. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| tillage | The state or condition of being tilled or cultivated. in tillage, in or under cultivation. | 1488 | Go To Quotation |
| tinner | One who gets or digs tin ore; a tin-miner. | 1512 | Go To Quotation |
| tinselled | Embellished with gold or silver leaf. | 1532 | Go To Quotation |
| tipstaff | A staff with a tip or cap of metal, carried as a badge by certain officials: see 2. Obs. | 1541 | Go To Quotation |
| towing | That drags or pulls (in various senses of tow v.). (In quot. 1909 transf.) | 1795 | Go To Quotation |
| tractation | Conduct towards or dealing with a person or thing; treatment. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| transportation | The action or process of transporting; conveyance (of things or persons) from one place to another. | 1540 | Go To Quotation |
| transporter | One who transports. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| treat | Here app. belongs the denomination bread of trete n. (Anglo-Norman pain de trayte… | 1266 | Go To Quotation |
| trimboat | Some kind of fishing-boat used in the 16th c. on the Thames. | 1558 | Go To Quotation |
| trinker | (a) = trink n. (b) = trinkerman n. Also in comb. trinker-boat n. Obs. = trink-boat n. at trink n. Compounds. | 1485 | Go To Quotation |
| trollnet | A kind of net declared illegal in the Act cited. | 1558 | Go To Quotation |
| turkin | A kind of light blue cloth. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| turnet | = torret n. c. | 1543 | Go To Quotation |
| twice-laid | Of rope: Made from the yarns of old rope. Also absol. = twice-laid rope. | 1592 | Go To Quotation |
| tyrannous | Characterized by or inclined to tyranny; ruling or acting tyrannically; despotic. | 1491 | Go To Quotation |
| unbarbed | Of cloth: Not barbed or clipped. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| unburdened | (un- prefix 8 and un- prefix 8.) | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| uncallow | trans. To clear (clay, marl, etc.) of the surface soil; to remove (soil) for this purpose. Also intr. | 1729 | Go To Quotation |
| uncarried | (un- prefix 8.) | 1584 | Go To Quotation |
| unculted | Uncultivated. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| undividedly | In an undivided manner; without division. | 1539 | Go To Quotation |
| unexamined | (un- prefix 8.) | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| unexpended | (un- prefix 8.) | 1571 | Go To Quotation |
| unfelled | (un- prefix 8.) | 1543 | Go To Quotation |
| unfirmness | (un- prefix 12 5b; cf. infirmness n.) | 1566 | Go To Quotation |
| unfurnished | Const. of or with. | 1541 | Go To Quotation |
| unition | Of ecclesiastical benefices. Obs. | 1511 | Go To Quotation |
| unpreferred | Not advanced or promoted. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| unreceived | (un- prefix 8.) | 1540 | Go To Quotation |
| unrowed | Not having the nap raised. | 1487 | Go To Quotation |
| unruliness | The quality of being unruly. (Of persons, animals, etc.) | 1547 | Go To Quotation |
| unstoved | (un- prefix 8.) | 1863 | Go To Quotation |
| unsubstantially | (un- prefix 11.) | 1529 | Go To Quotation |
| usker | An ornament or jewel. In quot. 1536 – 7 collect. | 1536 | Go To Quotation |
| utensilies | With pl. concord. Utensils, esp. of a household. | 1496 | Go To Quotation |
| vacabuncy | Vagabondage. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| vacating | That is retiring from office, etc. | 1921 | Go To Quotation |
| vagabondry | = vagabondage n. 1. | 1547 | Go To Quotation |
| vagrantly | As a vagrant; in a vagrant or wandering manner; †irrelevantly. | 1547 | Go To Quotation |
| vell | (See quots.) | 1724 | Go To Quotation |
| vending | The action of selling or retailing. | 1666 | Go To Quotation |
| verderer | ‘A judicial officer of the King's forest..sworn to maintain and keep the assises of… | 1541 | Go To Quotation |
| vesse | A kind of worsted fabric formerly made in Suffolk. Only in pl. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| vicar choral | (See quot. 1854, and cf. choral adj. 1b) | 1530 | Go To Quotation |
| vicontiel | Certain sums regularly payable to the Crown by a sheriff and charged against him in the Exchequer accounts. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| vicountile | = vicontiel n. adj. | 1542 | Go To Quotation |
| wad | A material composed of matted fibres of silk, raw cotton, etc. = wadding n. 3. Obs. | 1540 | Go To Quotation |
| water-craft | Skill in water-matters. | 1566 | Go To Quotation |
| weal-public | The general good of the community; public welfare or interest. Hence, the state or body politic. | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| well(-)shaven | | 1542 | Go To Quotation |
| wharfinger | An owner or keeper of a wharf. | 1552 | Go To Quotation |
| witch hazel | = witch n. a. Also, the hornbeam. | 1541 | Go To Quotation |
| withers | In pl. with pl. concord. In a horse: the highest part of the back, lying… | 1541 | Go To Quotation |
| Worcester | The name of the county town of Worcestershire, used attrib. to designate… | 1551 | Go To Quotation |
| worth | Manure. | 1609 | Go To Quotation |
