| abscise | trans. Chiefly Surg. To cut off or away; to perform abscission on. Cf. abscission n. 2. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| accident | That is accidental; contingent, incidental. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| acquest | The action or an act of acquiring something. Cf. acquist n. 1. Obs. | 1455 | Go To Quotation |
| chamber work | Sexual activity. Cf. chamber n. 2. Obs. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| conservancy | The action of conserving or keeping something safe; conservation, protection. Now rare except as in sense 2. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| destinour | He who destines; the Author of destiny. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| dilatable | erroneous f. delitable adj. (also diletabil, dilitable, etc.). | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| disceyvous | Deceptive, deceitful. | 1422 | Go To Quotation |
| discomfit | The act of discomfiting, or fact of being discomfited; undoing, defeat, rout, discomfiture. | 1422 | Go To Quotation |
| discorder | A quarreller; a maker of discord. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| dismeasure | = dismeasured adj. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| disobeyant | = disobedient adj. | 1422 | Go To Quotation |
| downgate | Going down, descent, setting. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| doyen | A leader or commander of ten. Obs. | 1422 | Go To Quotation |
| fleshed | Clothed or furnished with flesh: chiefly with some defining prefix. Also, fleshed and boned. | 1422 | Go To Quotation |
| fleshiness | The quality or state of being fleshy; fullness of flesh. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| fourhood | | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| fust | (See quot. 1657.) | 1422 | Go To Quotation |
| heritance | Inheritance; heirship. Also fig. | 1422 | Go To Quotation |
| hinny | intr. To neigh as a horse, to whinny. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| holding | That holds, in various senses (see the verb); retentive; grasping; tenacious. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| honourability | The quality of being honourable, honourableness; pl. things that are honourable, honours. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| hosting | The raising of a host or armed multitude; hostile encounter or array, raid… | 1422 | Go To Quotation |
| hyle | Matter, substance; the first matter of the universe. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| ill-mannered | Having or showing bad manners; unmannerly, rude. (Of persons, their actions, etc.) | 1422 | Go To Quotation |
| imparlement | = imparlance n., imparling n. at imparl v. Derivatives. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| inhabitation | The action of inhabiting; the fact or condition of being or becoming inhabited. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| inwise | Very wise. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| Itaile | = Italian adj. n. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| justification | Administration of justice or the law; execution of sentence; capital punishment. Obs. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| lancent | That lances, adapted for lancing. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| lately | Slow. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| longlasting | The fact of lasting a long time. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| lording | That lords, in senses of the vb. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| mediocrity | Medium size. Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| mill | Millet, Panicum miliaceum. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| mined | Of a region: that has been excavated. Obs. rare. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| misadventurous | Unfortunate, unlucky; characterized by misadventure or misadventures. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| mis-seem | trans. To be unbecoming or unbefitting to. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| mountant | Astrol. = ascendant n. 1. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| noble science | gen. A highly regarded discipline or branch of study. In later use chiefly ironic and humorous. | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| nut muschet | Nutmeg. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| opposed | Of two or more things, concepts, etc.: contrasting or conflicting with each other; = opposite n. 2a. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| outdrink | trans. To outdo in drinking, drink more than. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| outspeaking | That speaks out; that speaks frankly or unreservedly. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| over-drowning | A submergence or flooding. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| overlately | At an excessively late or recent time; too tardily. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| palpably | In a palpable manner; visibly, noticeably; manifestly, clearly. | 1455 | Go To Quotation |
| pesable | Weighed; evenly balanced; well-considered. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| philosophable | Able to philosophize. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| philosophiant | Able to philosophize. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| philosophically | In a philosophical manner; according to philosophical rules and principles; as… | 1455 | Go To Quotation |
| plantisoun | A plant. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| plantoun | = plant n. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| polygony | A polygonum (polygonum n. 1); esp. knotgrass, Polygonum aviculare, or (in early use) bistort, Persicaria bistorta. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| potency | Power, powerfulness; ability to accomplish or affect something; authority, influence. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| precognition | Antecedent cognition or knowledge; (supposed) foreknowledge, esp. as a form of extrasensory perception. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| preponderant | Greater or superior in influence, power, or importance; predominant. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| prerogative | Of, relating to, or arising from prerogative or special privilege, privileged; spec.… | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| prerogatively | By way of prerogative or privilege; by an exercise of prerogative. | 1455 | Go To Quotation |
| pressed | That has been subjected to pressure; compacted, flattened. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| prodigaleous | Recklessly wasteful; prodigal. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| prudency | = prudence n.; discretion, circumspection, caution. | 1455 | Go To Quotation |
| quarreure | = quadrature n. 3a. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| quartile | Astrol. and Astron. Designating the aspect of two celestial objects which are a quarter… | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| quent | intr. To be quenched. Also trans.: to quench. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| quirré | A leather habergeon or cuirass. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| radiation | The action or condition of sending out rays of light. Obs. exc. as in sense 1c. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| rapping | The action of striking or knocking sharply, esp. repeatedly; an instance of this. Also in extended use. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| rashness | The quality of being rash; unthinking haste or boldness; recklessness, foolhardiness; (also) an instance of this, a rash act. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| reburgeon | trans. To cause to bud or sprout again. Obs. rare. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| renunciative | Characterized by renunciation. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| replevishing | Filling with food or drink; replenishing. Cf. replenish v. 4. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| represent | A representation; an image, an impression. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| repugnancy | Tendency to oppose, fight, or rebel against something; opposition or resistance to action. Obs. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| resolute | trans. To dissolve, decompose (= resolve v. 8a). Also: to condense (= resolve v. 1b). Only in pass. Obs. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| rufe | A brownish-red colour. Cf. rufous n. 1. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| sandal | = sandalwood n., in its various applications. †Also, an ointment made of powdered sandalwood. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| scarification | The action of scarifying; an instance of this. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| scariole | Broad-leaved endive. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| shadowed | Protected from light and heat; furnished with shade. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| showable | Demonstrative, able to prove. Obs. rare. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| sleuthful | Slothful. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| soluble | Of the bowels, etc.: Free from constipation or costiveness; relaxed. Now rare or Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| souly | Of, belonging, or relating to the soul. Obs. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| spiring | The action of the verb in various senses; also concr., a shoot or sprout. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| spiritalty | = spiritality n. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| stabled | In senses of the verb. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| stablement | Something that establishes or supports. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| stew | trans. To bathe in a hot bath or a vapour bath. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| storier | A chronicler, historian. Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| stypticity | Styptic quality; astringency. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| surabound | intr. To superabound. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| surmontant | Dominant, superior. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| survenant | One who comes up, or to a place; a comer. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| sustantive | That sustains growth or life. Cf. sustentive adj. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| sustentment | The action of maintaining someone in a particular position or state. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| tached | Having qualities of a specified kind; (well- or ill-) mannered or conditioned. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| tasteable | Capable of feeling or perceiving by the sense of touch. Obs. rare. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| unconvenient | = inconvenient adj. (in various senses). | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| undeparting | †Absence of separation. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| understandant | An understanding person. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| unhealful | Unwholesome. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| unwiseman | A fool or simpleton. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| upraised | Raised or lifted up; elevated. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| upspringing | (up- prefix 3d. Cf. upspring v.) | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| upspringing | (up- prefix 3c(b). Cf. upspring v.) | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| vegetability | A plant. Obs. rare. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| weighing | Heavy. Obs. rare. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| womb full | With a full stomach. Cf. womb n. 1. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| ylauenyt | Middle English pa. pple. of leaven v. | 1422 | Go To Quotation |