| abasement | A reduction in price or value (esp. of a currency); the action or fact of making such a reduction. Also in extended use. | 1435 | Go To Quotation |
| abatement | The result of abating or lessening (in various senses of abate v. II.); the amount… | 1421 | Go To Quotation |
| abridgement | The action of reducing something in magnitude, extent, or duration; shortening… | 1439 | Go To Quotation |
| abroge | trans. = abrogate v. | 1427 | Go To Quotation |
| abuse | Improper usage; a corrupt practice or custom; esp. one that has become chronic. | 1439 | Go To Quotation |
| accessory | Chiefly Law. A person who incites or assists someone to commit an arrestable offence… | 1414 | Go To Quotation |
| accountant | Giving or liable to give an account (esp. of conduct or the performance of… | 1429 | Go To Quotation |
| accustomed | Customary, habitual, usual. | 1429 | Go To Quotation |
| acquiet | trans. = acquit v. (in various senses); esp. to free of claims or obligations.… | 1453 | Go To Quotation |
| adhere | intr. To support a person (party, cause) steadfastly; to be an adherent or supporter of. Now rare and arch. | 1461 | Go To Quotation |
| adherence | Attachment to a person, party, or cause; steadfast support; loyalty, allegiance. Also occas.: an instance of this. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| adjoinant | = adjoining adj. | 1429 | Go To Quotation |
| adjournment | The action or an act of adjourning (in various senses of the verb). | 1445 | Go To Quotation |
| adjudge | To pronounce or decree by judicial sentence, or by a similar legal or official ruling. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| affirmance | The action or an act of affirming; a statement; an assertion, a strong declaration. Now rare. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| aforethought | Chiefly used postpositively. Originally and esp. Law in malice aforethought (see also malice… | 1472 | Go To Quotation |
| aforetime | In the past, formerly, previously; = aforetimes adv. | 1433 | Go To Quotation |
| aforetimes | In the past, formerly, previously; = aforetime adv. | 1429 | Go To Quotation |
| aid | To give help, support, or assistance to (a person); to relieve from difficulty or distress, to succour. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| aidant | That provides aid or assistance; helpful. Now rare (chiefly literary in later use). | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| alcamyne | A metal alloy imitating gold; = alchemy n. 2. | 1463 | Go To Quotation |
| allot | trans. To give or assign (something) to someone authoritatively, without the recipient… | 1473 | Go To Quotation |
| amobreship | The right or title to receive the Amober. | 1467 | Go To Quotation |
| aulner | = alnager n. | 1484 | Go To Quotation |
| beforetimes | In the past, formerly, previously. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| body corporate | An entity legally authorized to act as a single individual and having legal rights and… | 1461 | Go To Quotation |
| cocket | Hist. A seal belonging to the King's Custom House. Also applied to other seals used to seal permits. | 1293 | Go To Quotation |
| cocket | trans. To furnish with a cocket or custom-house certificate. | 1343 | Go To Quotation |
| crew | An augmentation or reinforcement of a military force; hence, a body of soldiers organized… | 1455 | Go To Quotation |
| decree | trans. To command (something) by decree; to order, appoint, or assign authoritatively, ordain. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| deduct | Deducted. | 1439 | Go To Quotation |
| demerit | Merit, desert, deserving (in a good or indifferent sense). Freq. in pl. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| deposal | The act of deposing from office; deposition. | 1397 | Go To Quotation |
| deposition | The action of deposing or putting down from a position of dignity or authority; degradation, dethronement. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| deputy | Law. A person authorized to exercise on behalf of another the whole of his office (general deputy… | 1405 | Go To Quotation |
| deroge | = derogate v. | 1427 | Go To Quotation |
| directly | Completely, absolutely, entirely, exactly, precisely, just. | 1455 | Go To Quotation |
| disable | trans. To incapacitate legally; to pronounce legally incapable; to hinder or restrain (a… | 1445 | Go To Quotation |
| disablement | The imposition of a legal disability; (also) an instance of this; a penalty, a disqualification. Now rare. | 1485 | Go To Quotation |
| disabling | The action or result of disable v.; an instance of this. | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| episcopal | Of or pertaining to a bishop or bishops. | 1485 | Go To Quotation |
| filacer | A former officer of the superior courts at Westminster, who filed original writs, etc.… | 1447 | Go To Quotation |
| freehold | Permanent and absolute tenure of land or property with freedom to dispose of it at will.… | 1414 | Go To Quotation |
| frontlet | An ornament or band; also, a bandage worn at night to prevent or remove wrinkles. | 1478 | Go To Quotation |
| gauge | a gauger's fee or perquisite. | 1444 | Go To Quotation |
| green cloth | Freq. with capital initials. The counting house, formerly a department of the… | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| handcraftman | = handicraftsman n. | 1463 | Go To Quotation |
| Hansard | A member of one of the establishments of the German Hanse. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| head-sheet | (?) A sheet put at the head of a bed. Obs. | 1423 | Go To Quotation |
| hereditably | By way of inheritance; heritably. | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| hereditament | Law. Any item of property that can be inherited; something either corporeal (such as land… | 1461 | Go To Quotation |
| hungil | A payment under the Forest Laws on account of dogs. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| imagined | Conceived (solely) in the mind, supposed, fancied, imaginary. †Also: feigned, pretended (obs.). | 1430 | Go To Quotation |
| impoverishing | The action of impoverish v. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| improvement | The turning of a thing to profit or good account; profitable management or use; making the… | 1453 | Go To Quotation |
| incumbent | The holder of an ecclesiastical benefice. | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| infamy | Evil fame or reputation; scandalous repute; public reproach, shame, or disgrace. | 1473 | Go To Quotation |
| informator | An instructor, a teacher. In later use chiefly: = informator choristarum n. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| infortunately | Unfortunately. Cf. infortunate adj. | 1442 | Go To Quotation |
| inheritament | Inheritable property, hereditament. | 1463 | Go To Quotation |
| inquietation | The action of inquieting, disturbing, or molesting; the fact or condition of being inquieted; = inquieting n. | 1461 | Go To Quotation |
| insurrection | The action of rising in arms or open resistance against established authority… | 1459 | Go To Quotation |
| intercourse | Communication to and fro between countries, etc.; mutual dealings between the… | 1473 | Go To Quotation |
| interest | The fact or relation of being legally concerned; legal concern in a thing; esp. right or… | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| interline | trans. To insert additional words between the lines of (a written, esp. a legal, document). Chiefly pass., const. with. | 1421 | Go To Quotation |
| Italian | A native of Italy. | 1439 | Go To Quotation |
| jailership | The office or function of a jailer. | 1485 | Go To Quotation |
| jettison | In maritime law: the action or an act of throwing goods overboard, esp. in order to lighten a ship in distress. | 1426 | Go To Quotation |
| journeyman | One who, having served his apprenticeship to a handicraft or trade, is qualified to work at… | 1463 | Go To Quotation |
| jurat | A member of a company or corporation, sworn to see that nothing is done against its statutes. | 1432 | Go To Quotation |
| justiciar | A judge presiding over, or belonging to, one of the king's superior courts, or… | 1485 | Go To Quotation |
| kardester | A woman who cards. | 1363 | Go To Quotation |
| knight-service | Under the Feudal System: The military service which a knight was bound to render as a… | 1439 | Go To Quotation |
| landholder | A holder, proprietor, or occupier of land; in modern use sometimes (opposed to land-owner)… | 1414 | Go To Quotation |
| legate | A legacy or bequest. | 1447 | Go To Quotation |
| levable | That may be levied; = leviable adj. | 1432 | Go To Quotation |
| levy | The action of collecting an assessment, duty, tax, etc. | 1427 | Go To Quotation |
| liegewoman | A woman who is a liege vassal. | 1464 | Go To Quotation |
| lieutenancy | The office of a lieutenant, in various senses; e.g. that of deputy governor of a kingdom… | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| lieutenantship | The office of a lieutenant. Now rare. | 1467 | Go To Quotation |
| likewise | The full phrase. in like wise: in the same manner. Obs. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| lintworm | ? A figure of a dragon. | 1423 | Go To Quotation |
| lodge | A small house or dwelling, esp. a temporary one; a hut or booth; a tent, arbour, or the like. Now dial. in specific applications. | 1290 | Go To Quotation |
| lushburg | A base coin made in imitation of the sterling or silver penny and imported from Luxemburg… | 1346 | Go To Quotation |
| lying-weight | = avoirdupois n. | 1454 | Go To Quotation |
| madder | trans. To treat or dye with madder. | 1464 | Go To Quotation |
| Magna Carta | The charter of English personal and political liberty, obtained from King John in… | 1472 | Go To Quotation |
| maladerie | A leper hospital, a leprosarium. | 1461 | Go To Quotation |
| man-of-war | A fighting man; a soldier or warrior. Now arch. or humorous. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| mansion place | A dwelling place; a mansion house; the chief seat of a landed proprietor. Also fig. Now arch. and rare. | 1473 | Go To Quotation |
| manuring | Cultivation, tillage. Obs. | 1436 | Go To Quotation |
| market town | A town permitted to hold a market; a town where a market is held regularly. Also: †a trading town (obs.). | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| marquisship | = marquisate n. Also used as an honorific title (as your marquisship, etc.). | 1464 | Go To Quotation |
| mayhem | Criminal Law. The infliction of physical injury on a person, so as to impair or… | 1447 | Go To Quotation |
| memorable | Worthy of remembrance or note; worth remembering; not to be forgotten. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| merchandisable | Of a saleable quality or condition; marketable. | 1482 | Go To Quotation |
| merchant stranger | A merchant from a foreign country; a foreign trader. | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| mesne | At an intervening time (between two other times). Cf. mean adv. 2. Obs. | 1439 | Go To Quotation |
| milliner | With capital initial. A native or inhabitant of Milan, a city in northern Italy. Obs. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| minute | = minishing n. | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| misbehave | trans. (refl.). To behave badly or wrongly; to conduct oneself improperly. | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| misbehaving | The action of behaving badly; improper conduct, misbehaviour. Also: an instance of this, a piece of bad behaviour (now rare). | 1451 | Go To Quotation |
| mischieving | The action of causing ruin, damage, or injury; an instance of this. | 1432 | Go To Quotation |
| misdemeaning | Misconduct, misdemeanour; an instance of this. | 1487 | Go To Quotation |
| misdispense | Improper or wasteful expenditure; an instance of this. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| misentreat | trans. To treat badly; to mistreat, abuse. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| misliver | A person who leads an evil life. | 1436 | Go To Quotation |
| misnomer | Law. A mistake in naming a person or place; an inaccurate description of this nature. | 1455 | Go To Quotation |
| misprision | Law. A wrongful act or omission; spec. a misdemeanour or failure of duty by a public official. Now rare exc. in sense 1b. | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| misrehearsal | Misquotation, misrecital. | 1472 | Go To Quotation |
| mistreat | trans. To treat badly or wrongly; to ill-treat. | 1453 | Go To Quotation |
| mistreating | Ill-treatment, abuse; falsification. | 1453 | Go To Quotation |
| miswriting | An error in writing; the action of writing something incorrectly. | 1430 | Go To Quotation |
| moiety | In legal or quasi-legal use. | 1444 | Go To Quotation |
| morris-pike | A type of pike supposed to be of Moorish origin. | 1487 | Go To Quotation |
| mortmain | The condition of lands or tenements held inalienably by an ecclesiastical or… | 1464 | Go To Quotation |
| move | A proposal, a motion. Obs. rare. | 1439 | Go To Quotation |
| mover | Only in office of mover n. an office conferring the right to receive a fee on the marriage… | 1473 | Go To Quotation |
| multiplied | Made many, much, or more; increased in number or quantity; manifold, multiple. | 1463 | Go To Quotation |
| munity | A granted right or privilege; = munition n. 1. | 1467 | Go To Quotation |
| murdrum | From the 11th to the 15th cent.: a fine imposed by the Crown on a manor or hundred in… | 1290 | Go To Quotation |
| musk ball | A receptacle for musk; a pomander. Cf. must-ball at must n. 1. | 1423 | Go To Quotation |
| naifty | The status of a naif or serf; serfdom. writ of naifty n. a writ by which a lord claimed a person as his naif. | 1473 | Go To Quotation |
| noisance | Nuisance, inconvenience. Cf. noyance n. 1. Cf. nuisance n. 2a. | 1413 | Go To Quotation |
| non-appearance | Failure or refusal to appear, esp. in a court of law, as a party to a suit or as… | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| non-certainty | Uncertainty. | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| non-certificate | The act or fact of not making or presenting a report. | 1455 | Go To Quotation |
| non-certifying | Failure to make or present a report. | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| non-knowledge | Lack of knowledge; the fact or condition of not knowing. | 1503 | Go To Quotation |
| non-performing | = non-performance n. | 1444 | Go To Quotation |
| non-residence | Failure or refusal of a member of the clergy to reside in the place required by… | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| non-resident | A person, esp. a member of the clergy, who fails or refuses to reside in the place required by official duties. Now hist. | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| nonsue | trans. = nonsuit v. | 1437 | Go To Quotation |
| non-suffisantee | Insufficiency. | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| notory | Notorious; widely known; manifest. Cf. notary adj. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| novercant | Having characteristics attributed to a stepmother; hostile. | 1472 | Go To Quotation |
| noyancy | = noyance n. 1. | 1414 | Go To Quotation |
| nurrior | A foster-father. | 1487 | Go To Quotation |
| offer | An act of offering something for acceptance or refusal; an expression of intention… | 1433 | Go To Quotation |
| open market | A market open for business; a public market. Now Obs. | 1455 | Go To Quotation |
| open time | The time after harvest when cattle may be turned into the open fields. Obs. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| or | Gold (the metallic element). Obs. rare. | 1437 | Go To Quotation |
| oratrice | A female pleader, plaintiff, or petitioner. Formerly commonly used in closing a formal… | 1432 | Go To Quotation |
| othertimes | At other times. | 1447 | Go To Quotation |
| ouster-le-main | A restitution of land made by the sovereign on the basis of a finding that the king has… | 1485 | Go To Quotation |
| outlive | Esp. of a person: to live longer than (another); to survive. Also: to live longer than (a thing lasts). | 1472 | Go To Quotation |
| over-chargeful | Involving too much trouble or cost. | 1451 | Go To Quotation |
| overflowing | The action of overflow v. (in various senses); an instance of this; a flood, an inundation. | 1430 | Go To Quotation |
| overgilding | The action or process of overgild v. Also: = gilding n. | 1477 | Go To Quotation |
| over-grievous | Too grievous. | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| overward | The upper part of an administrative ward or district; (also) †the upper ward of a forest (obs.). | 1485 | Go To Quotation |
| oyer and terminer | In full commission of oyer and terminer, writ of oyer and terminer. A commission… | 1414 | Go To Quotation |
| packed | That has been packed; made into a package; put into a package, packet, or container. Also… | 1472 | Go To Quotation |
| packer | An official responsible for the packing or supervision and regulation of the packing… | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| pact | A formal agreement or covenant between individuals or parties; a treaty, an alliance. Also with with. | 1429 | Go To Quotation |
| palatine | Originally: designating a county or other territory in England (and later in Ireland… | 1436 | Go To Quotation |
| pardon | trans. To refrain from exacting or imposing (something due, esp. a debt, fine, etc.);… | 1433 | Go To Quotation |
| partition | The action or process of dividing into shares or portions; distribution among a number. | 1429 | Go To Quotation |
| patentee | A person who has been granted a privilege, title, land, etc., by letters patent. Also fig. | 1442 | Go To Quotation |
| peerage | In the United Kingdom. | 1454 | Go To Quotation |
| penal | Of a statute, system, etc.: serving to order, regulate, or legislate for the… | 1439 | Go To Quotation |
| penalty | Liability to be punished or penalized, esp. in the event of failure to comply with a… | 1455 | Go To Quotation |
| perpetrate | Used as past participle: perpetrated. | 1472 | Go To Quotation |
| perquisition | Chiefly Law. The acquisition of something otherwise than by inheritance. Cf. perquisite n. 1a. rare. | 1461 | Go To Quotation |
| petitioner | A person or party who makes a petition or formally presents one to an authority. | 1414 | Go To Quotation |
| petty | Of secondary or lesser importance, rank, or scale; minor; subordinate. Now chiefly… | 1372 | Go To Quotation |
| pight | trans. = pitch v.; to set up; to fix. | 1459 | Go To Quotation |
| pike | A weapon consisting of a long wooden shaft with a pointed steel head. | 1487 | Go To Quotation |
| piscary | The right to fish in a particular body of water; a fishing right. Also common of piscary n.… | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| plenarty | Ecclesiastical Law. Of a benefice: the fact or state of being occupied. Opposed to vacancy n. 5b. Now hist. | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| pluries capias | = pluries n. | 1444 | Go To Quotation |
| poise | Definite or specified weight; the amount that a thing weighs. Obs. | 1421 | Go To Quotation |
| portership | The office, function, or position of a porter (porter n. 1a). Also occas. (humorous)… | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| possessory | Relating to a possessor; relating to possession. | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| post | in the (also le) post (as opposed to within the degrees): in the time after (an alleged flawed transaction or dispossession). | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| poundage | A duty or tax of so much per pound sterling on merchandise; spec. a subsidy, usually… | 1422 | Go To Quotation |
| pound-like | By the pound; at so much per pound. | 1472 | Go To Quotation |
| practice | The carrying out or exercise of a profession, esp. that of medicine or law. Also as a… | 1421 | Go To Quotation |
| practise | trans. To pursue or be engaged in (a particular occupation, profession, skill, or art). | 1421 | Go To Quotation |
| prebend | Originally: †the estate or portion of land from which a stipend is derived to support a canon… | 1422 | Go To Quotation |
| prebendary | The holder of a prebend; (formerly) a canon of a cathedral or collegiate church… | 1422 | Go To Quotation |
| precedent | A previous instance taken as an example or rule by which to be guided in similar… | 1427 | Go To Quotation |
| pre-contract | A pre-existing contract of marriage. Now chiefly hist. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| predial | Of a tithe: arising or derived from the produce of the soil. Now hist. | 1461 | Go To Quotation |
| prefect | trans. To appoint to a position of command or authority. | 1489 | Go To Quotation |
| prejudice | To affect adversely or unfavourably as a consequence of some action; to impair the validity of (a right, claim, statement, etc.). | 1447 | Go To Quotation |
| prejudiciable | = prejudicial adj. | 1429 | Go To Quotation |
| prejudicially | In a prejudicial manner; with prejudice or bias; harmfully, detrimentally. | 1467 | Go To Quotation |
| premunition | Prior notification, forewarning; a presentiment or foreboding; = premonition n. Now rare. | 1472 | Go To Quotation |
| prepare | To bring into a suitable condition for some future action or purpose; to make ready in advance; to fit out, equip. Also refl. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| prestation | The action of paying, in money or service, what is due by law or custom, originally esp.… | 1473 | Go To Quotation |
| pretenced | Put forward in defence or excuse; alleged, claimed, or professed, esp.… | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| pretended | Of a title or designation: not valid, spurious; (of a person or thing bearing such a… | 1461 | Go To Quotation |
| princely | Of, belonging to, or relating to a prince or princes; held, exercised, or governed by a prince; befitting a prince. | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| proditor | A traitor; a betrayer. | 1436 | Go To Quotation |
| profity | = profit n. | 1432 | Go To Quotation |
| promulge | trans. To publish or proclaim formally (a law, decree, or ordinance). Now chiefly: spec.… | 1488 | Go To Quotation |
| provably | As may be proved; demonstrably. | 1460 | Go To Quotation |
| provide | To stipulate in a will, statute, etc.; to lay down as a provision or arrangement. Cf. provided… | 1423 | Go To Quotation |
| providently | With foresight; with provision for the future; prudently. | 1487 | Go To Quotation |
| providing | With that, forming a compound conjunction. With the proviso or stipulation that, on… | 1423 | Go To Quotation |
| purlieu | A tract of land on the fringe or border of a forest; spec. one formerly included within… | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| purpense | trans. To deliberate upon; to determine beforehand; to premeditate. Also intr. Cf. prepense v. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| purpensed | That has been resolved or deliberated upon beforehand; premeditated, planned.… | 1436 | Go To Quotation |
| purpensely | = prepensely adv. | 1472 | Go To Quotation |
| purview | More fully clause of purview. A provisional or qualifying clause in a statute; a proviso. Obs. (rare after Middle English). | 1442 | Go To Quotation |
| quietance | = quittance n. 2. | 1451 | Go To Quotation |
| quietus est | = quietus n. 1. Also in extended use. | 1427 | Go To Quotation |
| quote | = quota n. 1a. | 1451 | Go To Quotation |
| rangership | The position or office of ranger of a forest or park. Also in extended use. | 1464 | Go To Quotation |
| raquite | trans. To redeem. | 1454 | Go To Quotation |
| rate | Estimated or believed value or worth (of individual things or people). Freq. in phrases: after the… | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| rateable | Capable of being rated, estimated, or calculated, esp. in accordance with some scale; proportional. | 1503 | Go To Quotation |
| rately | = rateably adv. | 1472 | Go To Quotation |
| ravishment | Forcible abduction of a woman, esp. with the intention of rape; rape itself. Also in extended use. Now chiefly literary. | 1436 | Go To Quotation |
| ready money | Cash or funds immediately available for use; esp. (in early use) money in the form or… | 1429 | Go To Quotation |
| reannex | trans. To annex again. | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| reboiling | The action or an act of fermenting wine a second time; esp. a second fermentation, or spoiling, of wine. Cf. reboil v. 1. Obs. | 1432 | Go To Quotation |
| recarry | trans. To carry, bear, or convey back or again. Freq. in to carry and recarry. Also intr. | 1429 | Go To Quotation |
| receiver general | A chief receiver (receiver n. 1a); spec. a public official in charge of government revenues, a treasurer. Also fig. | 1439 | Go To Quotation |
| receivership | The position, function, or office of a receiver (receiver n. 1a). Now chiefly hist. | 1485 | Go To Quotation |
| recept | = receipt n., reset n. (in various senses). | 1423 | Go To Quotation |
| rechange | The action or an act of re-exchanging money or goods. Freq. in change and rechange. Now hist. | 1487 | Go To Quotation |
| recharge | To reload (a ship); to reload (something) on to a ship. In extended use: to refill… | 1432 | Go To Quotation |
| recite | trans. Law. To state (a relevant fact) in a deed or other legal document. Also with clause as object. | 1430 | Go To Quotation |
| recommise | trans. (in pass.). To recommend. | 1427 | Go To Quotation |
| recompensing | The action of recompense v. (in various senses); an instance of this. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| reddition | Restoration of something taken or received; surrender of a thing (esp. a town, an army, etc.). Cf. rendition n. 1. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| redressing | The action of redress v. (in various senses); an instance of this. | 1426 | Go To Quotation |
| re-edification | Rebuilding; restoration; (also) an instance of this. | 1473 | Go To Quotation |
| refusal | The action or an act of refusing; a denial or rejection of something requested, demanded, or offered. | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| refuser | A person who refuses (to do) something; (also) spec. a recusant; = recusant n. | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| regency | The office and jurisdiction of a regent (regent n. 2) or vicegerent; government by a regent… | 1429 | Go To Quotation |
| relivery | The action of returning something; restitution, restoration. Cf. reliver v. | 1463 | Go To Quotation |
| remand | To send (a thing) back again to a place; to reconsign. Also: to remit, consign. | 1439 | Go To Quotation |
| remanent | Of a thing or number of things. Obs. | 1414 | Go To Quotation |
| remedy | trans. To grant a legal remedy to (a person), provide redress to. Obs. | 1414 | Go To Quotation |
| remembrancer | A local official of some kind, perh. a collector of the Crown's debts. Obs. rare. | 1431 | Go To Quotation |
| remevement | Removal, transference. | 1437 | Go To Quotation |
| remise | Law. The action of transferring or surrendering property, a right, etc. | 1473 | Go To Quotation |
| rent seck | A rent reserved by deed in favour of some person, originally one without incidents of… | 1472 | Go To Quotation |
| renunciation | The action of renouncing, giving up, or surrendering a possession, right, title, etc.;… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| repacking | The action of packing something again. | 1472 | Go To Quotation |
| repayment | The action or an act of repaying money, or its equivalent; payment back of money given or lent. | 1421 | Go To Quotation |
| replegiare | The restoration of goods by replevin; an action of replevin. | 1484 | Go To Quotation |
| replevin | The restoration to or recovery by a person of goods or chattels distrained or… | 1447 | Go To Quotation |
| replevish | trans. To replevy (in various senses); esp. to bail (a person). Chiefly in pa. pple. | 1433 | Go To Quotation |
| repressing | The action of repress v.; repression. | 1431 | Go To Quotation |
| repute | Reputed, considered, reckoned. In later use only in habit and repute n. at habit adj. a. | 1442 | Go To Quotation |
| requisitory | Of an official document: that expresses or conveys a request or demand. Freq. as postmodifier, esp. in letter requisitory. | 1447 | Go To Quotation |
| rescours | Rescue, escape; relief, aid. Also: an instance of this. | 1439 | Go To Quotation |
| resetment | Unlawful receiving or harbouring of a person. Cf. receptment n. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| resianty | Abode, residency. Cf. resiance n. | 1467 | Go To Quotation |
| resister | A person who resists (something or someone). | 1459 | Go To Quotation |
| restfully | In a restful manner; quietly, peacefully. | 1433 | Go To Quotation |
| restraint | An ordinance or injunction which imposes a restriction; such a prohibition itself. Obs. | 1439 | Go To Quotation |
| restraint | Restrained, restricted. Freq. as pa. pple. | 1445 | Go To Quotation |
| resume | trans. To reassume possession of (something which previously belonged to one but which was… | 1404 | Go To Quotation |
| retailer | A person who sells goods by retail; a retail shop or business. | 1489 | Go To Quotation |
| retailour | A person who sells goods by retail; a retail shop or business. | 1445 | Go To Quotation |
| retain | The action or fact of retaining or keeping hold of someone or something; retention. | 1455 | Go To Quotation |
| retainder | Law. The action or fact of retaining money, goods, or property for oneself; an instance… | 1467 | Go To Quotation |
| retainer | Law. The action or fact of retaining money, goods, or property for oneself; an instance… | 1453 | Go To Quotation |
| retainment | The action or an act of retaining a person or thing (in various senses of the verb); retention; an instance of this. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| revenue | In sing. | 1427 | Go To Quotation |
| reversal | Law. Annulment of a judgment, sentence, or decree, esp. one made by a lower court or… | 1489 | Go To Quotation |
| reverter | Law. The return of an estate to the original owner, or his or her heirs, after the expiry… | 1491 | Go To Quotation |
| revertible | Admitting of or subject to reversion; capable of reverting (in various senses). | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| reverture | Reversion; return. | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| ridership | The position or office of a rider. Formerly: spec. †rangership (obs.). Also in extended use. rare. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| rigorousté | Rigorous quality or application; strictness, severity. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| ringild | The position or office of a sergeant or bailiff; = ringildship n. In later use… | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| ringildry | Chiefly in medieval and early modern Wales: the position or office of a sergeant or… | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| rough | To raise a nap on (cloth); = row v. Obs. | 1484 | Go To Quotation |
| row | trans. To raise a nap on (cloth). Cf. nap v. 2, rough v. 1a, and rowing n. | 1487 | Go To Quotation |
| safekeeping | The action of keeping safe; protection, preservation; (formerly also) custody. Also in in safekeeping. | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| salmon-trout | A fish of the species Salmo trutta, resembling the salmon, found in rivers of northern Europe. | 1421 | Go To Quotation |
| salute | A gold coin bearing a representation of the salutation of Gabriel to the Virgin Mary… | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| scavage | A toll formerly levied by the mayor, sheriff, or corporation of London and other towns… | 1444 | Go To Quotation |
| scawe | Some kind of defect in cloth. | 1463 | Go To Quotation |
| schedule | A slip or scroll of parchment or paper containing writing; a ticket, label, placard; a short note. Obs. | 1397 | Go To Quotation |
| scire facias | A judicial writ, requiring the sheriff to do the party concerned to wit that he should… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| sealable | That can be or requires to be sealed. Also, †suitable for use in sealing. | 1477 | Go To Quotation |
| secret | = secre seal at secre adj. 2. Also = privy seal n. | 1378 | Go To Quotation |
| seditiously | In a seditious manner; so as to cause sedition. | 1453 | Go To Quotation |
| seigniorage | A duty levied on the coining of money for the purpose of covering the expenses of minting… | 1444 | Go To Quotation |
| seizable | Capable of being seized (in various senses of the verb). Chiefly of property, that may lawfully be seized. | 1461 | Go To Quotation |
| sensable | Capable of assessment or taxation. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| sergeantship | The office of a sergeant or a serjeant, in various senses. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| sessor | = assessor n. in various senses. | 1496 | Go To Quotation |
| setter-forth | One who sets forth (in various senses); one who promulgates an opinion, who equips an expedition, etc. | 1451 | Go To Quotation |
| severally | with distributive adj. or pron. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| sheepcote | A slight building for sheltering sheep; a sheephouse. | 1414 | Go To Quotation |
| shelp | A sandbank in a river or the sea; = shelf n. | 1430 | Go To Quotation |
| sheriffwick | The office of sheriff. | 1451 | Go To Quotation |
| -ship | Added to ns. designating an official or person of rank to denote the office, position… | 1485 | Go To Quotation |
| shirewick | = sheriffwick n. | 1460 | Go To Quotation |
| shoemaker | A person whose trade it is to make shoes. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| shorling | The skin of a sheep that has been recently shorn; the wool taken from such a skin. | 1429 | Go To Quotation |
| sinister | Of information: Given with intent to deceive or mislead, esp. so as to create a… | 1411 | Go To Quotation |
| sited | Of buildings, countries, etc.: Having a (certain) site or situation; situated. Usually… | 1455 | Go To Quotation |
| skevinage | A district under the jurisdiction of a local magistrate. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| soliciter | One who conducts or manages affairs on behalf of another; spec. = solicitor n. 3. | 1464 | Go To Quotation |
| spinace | Earlier form of pinnace n. | 1442 | Go To Quotation |
| stablishment | The action of stablishing or establishing; the condition of being established. | 1444 | Go To Quotation |
| stannary | the Stannaries: The districts comprising the tin mines and smelting works of Cornwall… | 1455 | Go To Quotation |
| staple | trans. To receive (export goods) at a staple; to cause to be weighed, inspected, and… | 1472 | Go To Quotation |
| stew-house | A stews. | 1436 | Go To Quotation |
| sticker | One who gathers sticks for firewood. | 1422 | Go To Quotation |
| St Martin | (Occas. St Martin's.) St Martin's Day, Martinmas. Obs. | 1429 | Go To Quotation |
| subducion | The action of subduing or bringing under control; suppression. Cf. subdue v. 1c. | 1455 | Go To Quotation |
| subdue | Subdual, subjugation; conquest. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| subornate | Of a person: = suborned adj. 1. Also as pa. pple. | 1431 | Go To Quotation |
| substitute | To appoint to a role or position in place of another; spec. to install in place of the incumbent ruler. | 1447 | Go To Quotation |
| succourer | One who, or that which aids or assists. | 1442 | Go To Quotation |
| suffisantee | Property. | 1436 | Go To Quotation |
| summa | A sum-total; = sum n. 4b. Obs. | 1442 | Go To Quotation |
| supposed | Believed or thought to exist, or to be what the noun or noun phrase modified denotes… | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| surcharge | trans. To charge (a person) too much as a price or payment; to overburden with… | 1429 | Go To Quotation |
| surmise | Law. A formal allegation or information; spec. in Ecclesiastical Law, the allegation in the libel. Obs. | 1451 | Go To Quotation |
| surmit | trans. To charge, impute; to allege, suggest (often falsely); = surmise v. 1. | 1411 | Go To Quotation |
| surrend | trans. = surrender v.; in quot. 1475 used = give back, restore (cf. render v. 16). | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| surrender | The giving up of an estate to the person who has it in reversion or remainder, so as to merge… | 1487 | Go To Quotation |
| surround | trans. To overflow, inundate, flood, submerge. Obs. exc. dial. | 1444 | Go To Quotation |
| survey | trans. To examine and ascertain the condition, situation, or value of, formally or… | 1467 | Go To Quotation |
| surveyorship | The office of surveyor. | 1485 | Go To Quotation |
| survive | intr. To continue to live after the death of another, or after the end or cessation of… | 1473 | Go To Quotation |
| swale | Timber in laths, boards, or planks; planking; also, a lath, plank. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| swanherd | One who tends swans; an official having charge of swans. | 1482 | Go To Quotation |
| swarve | Chiefly pass., to be choked up with sediment, to be silted up. | 1485 | Go To Quotation |
| Syteer | (?) | 1433 | Go To Quotation |
| tail | Of a fee or freehold estate (= Anglo-Norman fee taylé, medieval Anglo-Latin feodum tāliātum… | 1473 | Go To Quotation |
| tailed | Law. Of lands and tenements: Granted, settled, or held in tail (see tail v. 5); = entailed adj. Obs. or arch. | 1430 | Go To Quotation |
| tainder | Aphetic form of attainder n. | 1469 | Go To Quotation |
| tallagie | = tallage n. | 1444 | Go To Quotation |
| tapester | = tapisser n. Also attrib., as tapester-work. | 1472 | Go To Quotation |
| tasseller | One who makes tassels. Obs. rare. | 1301 | Go To Quotation |
| taxable | Liable to be assessed (to a tax, impost, or charge); assessable. Obs. | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| Temple-bar | The name of the barrier or gateway closing the entrance into the City of London from the Strand; removed in 1878. | 1354 | Go To Quotation |
| tenderance | Tender treatment or regard. | 1454 | Go To Quotation |
| tenser | An inhabitant of a city or borough who was not a citizen or freeman, but paid a… | 1444 | Go To Quotation |
| tent | trans. Law. To offer, proffer: = tend v. 5, tender v. 1. | 1459 | Go To Quotation |
| tenure | The condition of service, etc., under which a tenement is held of the superior; the title… | 1436 | Go To Quotation |
| term-time | The period during which the law-courts are in session; the period of study at a university or school: see term n. 5. | 1426 | Go To Quotation |
| terre-tenant | One who has the actual possession of land; the occupant of land. | 1439 | Go To Quotation |
| testate | That has left a valid will at death. | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| testator | One who makes a will; esp. one who has died leaving a will. | 1447 | Go To Quotation |
| testimonial | rarely testimonial letter (usually pl. letters testimonial(s)): a letter testifying to… | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| thrown | Of silk: Twisted into thread. | 1463 | Go To Quotation |
| throwster | One who twists silk fibres into raw silk or raw silk into thread, a silk-throwster… | 1455 | Go To Quotation |
| tight | Formerly (14th–17th c.) appended to ton, pipe, hogshead, dolium, as measures… | 1379 | Go To Quotation |
| toll | trans. To take away, bar, defeat, annul. to toll an entry, to take away the right of, or bar entry. | 1467 | Go To Quotation |
| ton | A unit used in measuring the carrying capacity or burden of a ship, the amount of… | 1379 | Go To Quotation |
| tonnage | Eng. Hist. A tax or duty formerly levied upon wine imported in tuns or casks, at the rate… | 1422 | Go To Quotation |
| tourn | The tour, turn, or circuit formerly made by the sheriff of a county twice in the year, in… | 1432 | Go To Quotation |
| town-gate | The gate of a walled town. | 1433 | Go To Quotation |
| tracery | A place for tracing or drawing: cf. tracing-house n. at tracing n. Compounds. Obs. rare. | 1464 | Go To Quotation |
| trayer | A drawer; a tapster. | 1473 | Go To Quotation |
| treasure-trove | Rendered treasure found n. Obs. | 1467 | Go To Quotation |
| treve | = truce n. | 1406 | Go To Quotation |
| tri- | a plurality in which three benefices are held at once. | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| triable | Of a cause or offence. | 1429 | Go To Quotation |
| tribulary | = tribulage n. | 1467 | Go To Quotation |
| trowman | The master or captain of a trow: see trow n. a. | 1429 | Go To Quotation |
| tucking-mill | See quot. 1888. (A West of England term.) | 1467 | Go To Quotation |
| tumulate | Buried, entombed. (Const. as pa. pple.) | 1455 | Go To Quotation |
| tyre | A strong sweet wine imported in the 15th and 16th centuries. Also attrib. | 1429 | Go To Quotation |
| unapproved | Not proved to be skilled. Obs. | 1421 | Go To Quotation |
| unbehoveful | Not profitable or useful; unnecessary. | 1429 | Go To Quotation |
| uncoined | (un- prefix 8.) | 1423 | Go To Quotation |
| uncompelled | (un- prefix 8.) | 1470 | Go To Quotation |
| unconsciencely | = unconscientiously adv. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| uncovert | = discovert adj. | 1485 | Go To Quotation |
| undefeasible | = indefeasible adj. (Freq. in 17th c.) | 1461 | Go To Quotation |
| undelivered | Not handed over or transferred to another's possession; not delivered or distributed. | 1472 | Go To Quotation |
| under-captain | A captain subordinate to another. | 1442 | Go To Quotation |
| under-collector | (under- prefix 3a(a).) | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| under-steward | (under- prefix 3a(a).) | 1472 | Go To Quotation |
| undesired | Not asked or requested; uninvited. | 1470 | Go To Quotation |
| undistributed | gen. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| unfriendly | Not characteristic of a friend or friends; exhibiting dislike or hostility. | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| unfulled | (un- prefix 8.) | 1467 | Go To Quotation |
| ungarbled | Not garbled, cleansed, or sifted; not selected or sorted out. | 1439 | Go To Quotation |
| ungathered | Not gathered or brought together; uncollected. | 1461 | Go To Quotation |
| unguerdoned | (un- prefix 8.) | 1433 | Go To Quotation |
| unlevied | (un- prefix 8.) | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| unpack | trans. To undo or open up (a pack, bale, etc.) and remove or release the contents. | 1472 | Go To Quotation |
| unperformed | (un- prefix 8.) | 1442 | Go To Quotation |
| unsevered | (un- prefix 8.) | 1453 | Go To Quotation |
| untrowed | Unbelieved, uncredited. | 1432 | Go To Quotation |
| untucked | Not tucked up; loose. | 1467 | Go To Quotation |
| unwet | Not wet or moistened. | 1433 | Go To Quotation |
| unwoven | (un- prefix 8b.) | 1429 | Go To Quotation |
| uny | trans. To form, combine, or join into one; to make one; to unite. | 1433 | Go To Quotation |
| urgent | Pressing, impelling; demanding or calling for prompt action; marked or characterized by urgency. (Freq. from 1800.) | 1496 | Go To Quotation |
| usually | In a usual or wonted manner; according to customary, established, or frequent… | 1477 | Go To Quotation |
| usurpor | = usurper n. | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| usurpously | By usurpation; usurpingly. | 1461 | Go To Quotation |
| vagrant | One of a class of persons who having no settled home or regular work wander from place… | 1444 | Go To Quotation |
| valeur | Valour. | 1433 | Go To Quotation |
| valure | trans. = value v. 1a. | 1487 | Go To Quotation |
| venire facias | A former judicial writ directed to a sheriff requiring him to summon a jury to try a… | 1444 | Go To Quotation |
| verment | Aphetic form of averment n. | 1472 | Go To Quotation |
| vicarage | The benefice or living of a vicar. | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| vice-count | A viscount. | 1461 | Go To Quotation |
| vidimus | A copy of a document bearing an attestation that it is authentic or accurate. Also attrib. | 1436 | Go To Quotation |
| viscountess | The wife of a viscount; a peeress of the fourth order of nobility. | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| visne | A neighbourhood or vicinage, esp. as the area from which a jury is summoned. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| vitaillement | The provision of victuals; victualling. | 1453 | Go To Quotation |
| voidable | Capable of being annulled or made legally void; spec. (as distinguished from void), that may be either voided or confirmed. | 1485 | Go To Quotation |
| vouchee | Law. The person vouched or summoned into court to give warranty of a title. common vouchee n. (see quot. 1766). | 1485 | Go To Quotation |
| vray | True. | 1460 | Go To Quotation |
| waitership | The office of warder, or watchman. Obs. rare. | 1485 | Go To Quotation |
| ward | Aphetic form of award v. | 1442 | Go To Quotation |
| warding | Judicial award. | 1485 | Go To Quotation |
| warrenership | The office of warrener. | 1485 | Go To Quotation |
| ways and means | The methods and resources which are at a person's disposal for effecting some object. | 1433 | Go To Quotation |
| wear | The action of wearing or carrying on the person (an article of clothing, an ornament… | 1464 | Go To Quotation |
| weighable | That can be weighed; heavy enough (or reckoned as heavy enough) to be weighed in scales. | 1429 | Go To Quotation |
| well-ruled | Well-conducted. | 1453 | Go To Quotation |
| Welshwoman | A woman who is Welsh by descent, birth, or residency, typically one born in Wales or… | 1442 | Go To Quotation |
| whole cloth | A piece of cloth of the full size as manufactured, as distinguished from a piece that may… | 1433 | Go To Quotation |
| windfall | a tree or branch, or a number of trees or branches; spec. (chiefly U.S.) a heap or tract… | 1464 | Go To Quotation |
| withdrawing-chamber | = withdrawing-room n. | 1392 | Go To Quotation |
| woad | trans. To dye, colour, or stain with woad, sometimes (in dyeing) as a ground for… | 1464 | Go To Quotation |
| woader | A cultivator of woad. | 1415 | Go To Quotation |
| wool-fell | = woolskin n. | 1422 | Go To Quotation |
| woolled | Bearing wool, covered with wool; having the wool still on, unshorn. | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| wrack | That which is of an inferior, poor, or worthless quality; waste material; rubbish. Now rare. | 1472 | Go To Quotation |
| ykoyned | coined. | 1423 | Go To Quotation |
