| ABC | The alphabet. Freq. with reference to the teaching or learning of this, now esp. in to know one's ABC. Also in pl. in same sense. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| acquaint | = acquainted adj. (in various senses). Chiefly with with (also †to). | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| acquaint | trans. (refl.). To make the acquaintance of a person; (a) to introduce or present oneself to;… | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| adaunt | trans. To reduce (a person, an enemy, etc.) to submission; to prevail over, conquer; (also in extended use) to overcome, subdue. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| advancement | The raising of a person to a higher rank or position; promotion, preferment; (also) an instance of this. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| advise | trans. To look at, observe, examine, scrutinize; (also) to see, discern. Obs. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| afine | Finally; to the end, completely. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| aground | On or to the ground; on the earth. Also in figurative contexts. Freq. poet. Now arch. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| ague | An acute or high fever; disease, or a disease, characterized by such fever, esp.… | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| albusy | Hardly, scarcely. Cf. busy n. 1. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| alighting | The action or an act of dismounting from or horse, or getting down from a vehicle. Hence also: completion of a journey, arrival. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| allegeance | The action of allege v.; alleviation, mitigation (of something). Also: remission of sins. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| alliance | Union, bond, or connection through consanguinity or (now chiefly) marriage; kinship; an… | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| ally | To unite, combine, or join in kinship, friendship, association, etc., esp. for a common… | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| alure | A gallery, balcony, or other (often covered) walkway; spec. (a) one behind the parapets… | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| ambs-ace | lit. Both aces, double ace, the lowest possible throw at dice; hence, fig. bad… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| amendment | of human conduct. absol. = self-reformation. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| anaunter | In risk or peril; on the chance, in case, lest. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| ancestor | One from whom a person is descended, either by the father or mother; a progenitor… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| an-erthe | Of motion: to or into the earth. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| anhaunce | To raise up; exalt, extol. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| anhit | To hit, strike against. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| anlace | A short two-edged knife or dagger, broad at the hilt and tapering to the point, formerly… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| anoveward | Of direction: Upon, on the top of. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| ant-hill | The mound or hillock raised over an ant's nest. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| apaid | Satisfied, contented, pleased. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| apertly | Openly to the senses, publicly, plainly; without secrecy or concealment. (Opposed to privily.) | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| aplight | In faith, in truth, truly, certainly, surely. Often expletive, or in asseveration. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| apoison | To poison. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| appair | trans. To make worse, less valuable, weaker, or less; to injure, damage, weaken; to impair v. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| appeal | The transference of a case from an inferior to a higher court or tribunal, in the hope… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| aprick | To prick, spur on. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| arch | or briefly Arches: the ecclesiastical court of appeal for the province of… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| archer | One who shoots with bow and arrows, esp. one who uses them in war; a bowman. Also fig. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| architemple | A chief temple. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| armed | lit. Furnished with arms or armour; fully equipped for war. In intensive phr. ‘Armed to… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| armour | collect. sing. Defensive covering worn by one who is fighting; mail. Cf. arm n. 1. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| array | trans. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| ashend | To confound, ruin, disgrace; to reproach, curse. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| Ash-Wednesday | The first day of Lent; so called from the custom in the Roman Catholic Church of… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| aspy | = spy n. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| asseal | To set one's seal to (a document). | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| assemble | trans. To bring together (persons) into one place or company; to gather, collect, convene. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| assent | intr. To give the concurrence of one's will, to agree to (a proposal), to comply with… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| assiege | To besiege, lay siege to, beleaguer, beset. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| assign | To transfer or formally make over to another. In modern Eng. Law the appropriate word… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| assize | Orig. applied to: All legal proceedings of the nature of inquests or recognitions, fiscal, civil, or criminal. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| assoil | To absolve from sin, grant absolution to, pardon, forgive; = absolve v. 2 ‘ Whom God assoil!… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| assoin(e | An excuse; a legal excuse put in for non-appearance. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| assumption | esp. The reception of the Virgin Mary into heaven, with body preserved from corruption, which… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| astoned | Stricken with consternation or amazement, so as to lose presence of mind; amazed, overwhelmed, confounded; astonished. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| astore | To furnish, fit out, provide, store. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| astrangle | To strangle, suffocate. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| at | freq. misread or misprinted for ac conj. but. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| a-this-half | On this side (of). | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| atil | Equipment, gear. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| atil | To deck out, dress, equip, arm completely. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| attempre | Temperate, moderate, well-regulated. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| attire | for war: To arm. Obs. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| aunt | The sister of one's father or mother. Also, an uncle's wife, more strictly called an aunt-in-law. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| avile | trans. To make vile, defile, dishonour, debase. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| avowe | An advocate, patron, or protector; esp. a patron saint. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| awaking | The rising, or arousing, from sleep (or its semblance). | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| awlated | Disgusted. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| bachelor | A young knight, not old enough, or having too few vassals, to display his own banner… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| bachelry | The quality of a young knight; prowess. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| badly | Unfortunately, unluckily, unfavourably, unsuccessfully. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| bailie | = bailiff n. 1. Obs. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| bailiff | In England, formerly applied to the king's officers generally, including sheriffs… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| balance | Subjective uncertainty; hesitation, wavering, doubt. Obs. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| bald | ? Rotund, of full habit, corpulent. Obs. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| banneour | A banner-bearer, a standard-bearer. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| banneret | Originally, a knight able and entitled to bring a company of vassals into the field under… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| baptize | trans. To immerse in water, or pour or sprinkle water upon, as a means of… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| baptizing | The action or ceremony of baptism. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| bar | By-form of baron n. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| barony | strictly. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| bast | Bastardy. (In phr.: on, in, a, o, of bast.) | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| bastard | One begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate or natural child. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| battle | A hostile engagement or encounter between opposing forces on land or sea; a combat, a fight. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| begab | trans. To delude, impose upon. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| besend | trans. To send to, to send (a message) to. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| besiege | trans. To sit down before (a town, castle, etc.) with armed forces in order to capture it; to lay siege to, beleaguer, invest. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| beverage | fig. A ‘draught’ which has been brewed, and must be drunk; the bitter or sorrowful sequel of any conduct. Cf. brew n. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| beware | with of (from, with, obs.): To be on one's guard against. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| bicker | Skirmishing; a skirmish, encounter, fight; exchange of blows. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| bickering | Skirmishing, a skirmish. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| birth-time | Date or moment of birth. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| boast | Ostentation, pomp, vain-glory. Obs. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| boned | Having bones. Chiefly in compounds, as big-boned, high-boned, strong-boned, etc. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| bosk | A bush. Obs. exc. dial. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| bowman | A man who shoots with a bow; esp. a fighting man armed with a bow. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| bowyer | One who makes, or trades in, bows. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| branch | Anything analogous to a limb of a tree, in being a lateral extension or subdivision of… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| brattice | A temporary breastwork, parapet, or gallery of wood erected on the battlement of a fortress, for use during a siege. Obs. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| buff | To explode or burst into a laugh, or the like. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| building | That which is built; a structure, edifice: now a structure of the nature of a house built where it is to stand. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| bull | A papal or episcopal edict or mandate. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| burying | The action of entombing a dead body or anything similarly treated; burial, interment. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| butler | An officer who originally had charge of the wine for the royal table; hence the title… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| Caliburn | The name of King Arthur's sword. See Excalibur n. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| cankerfret | Consumed by canker (canker n. 1a). Also fig. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| catching | The action of catch v., in various senses. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| cathedral | esp. in cathedral church (formerly also church cathedral), the church which contains… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| caudle | A warm drink consisting of thin gruel, mixed with wine or ale, sweetened and spiced… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| caution | Security given for the performance of some engagement; bail; a guarantee, a pledge.… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| certain | Determined, fixed, settled; not variable or fluctuating; unfailing. To avoid… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| chair | A seat for one person (always implying more or less of comfort and ease); now the common… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| chance | The falling out or happening of events; the way in which things fall out; fortune; case. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| chanter | An enchanter, a magician. Obs. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| chantment | Incantation, enchantment. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| chapitle | A chapter n. or assembly of canons, monks etc. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| chase | The action of chasing or pursuing with intent to catch; pursuit; hunting. See also steeplechase n., wild goose chase n. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| chateus | = chattels, see chattel n. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| chere | Of persons. Also as n. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| chief | The head of a body of men, of an organization, state, town, party, office, etc.; foremost authority, leader, ruler. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| chief | Of things: Highest in rank, capital, head-. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| chirurgeon | One whose profession it is to cure bodily diseases and injuries by manual operation; a surgeon n. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| chivalry | generally. Obs. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| choice | The act of choosing; preferential determination between things proposed; selection, election. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| citation | A citing or summoning to a court of justice, a summons; ‘applied particularly to process… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| clear | orig. Expressing the vividness or intensity of light: Brightly shining, bright, brilliant. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| close | gen. An enclosed place, an enclosure. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| collar | A piece of armour protecting the neck; the neck-piece of a hauberk or similar piece of armour. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| common | ? = commons n.; share of a common table; board; rations. Obs. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| common | Of or belonging to the community at large, or to a community or corporation; public. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| companion | One who associates with or accompanies another; a mate; a fellow. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| compass | To contrive, devise, machinate (a purpose). Usually in a bad sense: see quots. 1292 1491 | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| concubine | A woman who cohabits with a man without being his wife; a kept mistress. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| confirming | The action of the verb confirm v.; confirmation. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| confirmment | Confirmation, e.g. of a charter, or as a religious rite. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| cost | Phrases. to do or make cost(s), to be at cost: to be at expense; to spend money, etc.; to… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| countour | Eng. Hist. An accountant; an officer who appears to have assisted in early times in collecting or auditing the county dues. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| covenant | A mutual agreement between two or more persons to do or refrain from doing certain acts… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| covetise | spec. Inordinate or excessive desire for the acquisition and possession of wealth, etc.;… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| cowl | A tub or similar large vessel for water, etc.; esp. applied to one with two ears which… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| crownment | Coronation. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| curn | Early form of kern v., to form grains, to granulate. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| dam | = dame n. Obs. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| darkhead | Darkness. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| dawning | The beginning of daylight; dawn, daybreak. In reference to time, now poetic or rhetorical. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| dear | Dearness, dearth. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| debruise | trans. To break down, break in pieces, crush, smash. Obs. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| deduit | Diversion, enjoyment, pleasure. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| defence | Guarding or protecting from attack; resistance against attack; warding off of injury; protection. (The chief current sense.) | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| defender | One who defends, or wards off an attack; esp. one who fights in defence of a fortress, city, etc. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| defensible | Of men-at-arms: Fit or able to defend a fortress, etc. Obs. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| deign | impers. Obs. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| descriving | Describing; description. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| desert | Deserving; the becoming worthy of recompense, i.e. of reward or punishment, according to… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| desert | Uninhabited, unpeopled, desolate, lonely. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| despise | trans. To look down upon; to view with contempt; to think scornfully or slightingly of. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| digne | Of high worth or desert; worthy, honourable, excellent (in nature, station, or estimation; cf. dignity n. 1 2). | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| dine | intr. To eat the principal meal of the day, now usually taken at or after mid-day; to take dinner… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| dinner | The chief meal of the day, eaten originally, and still by the majority of people, about… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| discord | Absence of concord or harmony (between persons); disagreement of opinions and aims; variance, dissension, strife. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| discording | Disagreeing, disagreement, discordance. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| discussing | The action of the verb discuss v.; = discussion n. (in various senses). | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| disherite | A disinherited person. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| dismay | trans. To deprive of moral courage at the prospect of peril or trouble; to appal or… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| dismember | trans. To deprive of limbs or members; to cut off the limbs or members of; to tear or… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| disordain | trans. To deprive of or degrade from orders. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| dispeple | trans. To publish, promulgate publicly. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| disturbance | The interruption and breaking up of tranquillity, peace, rest, or settled condition; agitation (physical, social, or political). | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| diverse | Different in character or quality; not of the same kind; not alike in nature… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| done | There was in Middle English a curious use of done, in which it was nearly synonymous with kin… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| dossil | A plug for a barrel; a spigot. Obs. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| dow | trans. To enrich with property; = endow v. 2. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| driving | Impelling, setting in motion, actuating. driving force or driving power, the force or… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| duty | The action and conduct due to a superior; homage, submission; due respect… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| dying | Ceasing to live, expiring, decease, death. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| eager | Strenuous, ardent, impetuous; fierce, angry. Said of persons, their actions and attributes. Obs. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| Earl Marshal | A high officer of state, formerly the deputy of the constable n. as judge of the curia militaris… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| earthgrine | An earthquake. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| East-country | Lands lying to the east; the eastern part of a country. Formerly also: an eastern country. Also attrib. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| east side | The eastern part or side of something. Also (formerly): the east. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| edge | trans. To give an edge, impart sharpness, to (a weapon, etc. or tool); chiefly in fig. sentences. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| edict | That which is proclaimed by authority as a rule of action; an order issued by a sovereign… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| empery | The status, dignity, or dominion of an emperor. Obs. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| empire | An extensive territory (esp. an aggregate of many separate states) under the sway of an… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| enchanter | One who enchants, uses magic (see enchant v. 1); formerly also, a ‘conjuror’, one who practises sleight of hand. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| enchantery | Magic, enchantment. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| enchantment | The action or process of enchanting, or of employing magic or sorcery. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| encheason | Occasion, cause, reason, motive. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| encounter | A meeting face to face; a meeting (of adversaries or opposing forces) in conflict; hence, a battle, skirmish, duel, etc. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| enfirm | trans. To strengthen, fortify. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| enqueyntance | = acquaintance n. 3. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| enreason | trans. To address in words. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| ensent | Assent. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| entice | trans. To stir up, incite, instigate (to a course of action); also to provoke (to anger). Obs. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| entry | That by which any place open or closed is entered; a door; a gate; an approach or passage… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| eyre | Itineration, circuit: in the phrase justices in eyre (= Latin in itinere on a journey)… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| fail | = failure n. 1. Obs. exc. in phrase without fail; now used only to strengthen an injunction… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| faintise | Feebleness, weakness (of body or mind); want of energy, cowardice. Cf. faintness n.… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| faintly | In a spiritless manner, like a coward; timidly. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| fairhead | Beauty. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| falsedom | Treachery, untruth; a falsehood. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| far-forth | in reference to degree or extent. Now only in phrase so far forth, with sense ‘to the specified extent and no more’. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| farm | In certain phrases, senses 1 2 pass into the sense: The condition of being let at a fixed… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| feebless | Feebleness, infirmity; infirm health. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| felon | Law. One who has committed felony. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| feythhed | Hostility. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| fie | An exclamation expressing, in early use, disgust or indignant reproach. No longer… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| fille | As the type of something worthless. [Perh. another word.] | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| filthhead | Filthiness, uncleanness. lit. and fig. Also concr. filth. to do one's filthhood: to void excrement. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| fine | intr. Of persons and other agents: To cease, stop, give over, desist. Const. inf. with to. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| fine | trans. To pay as a fine or composition. Obs. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| fishing | lit. (Old English had on fiscoð gán). | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| Fitz | The Anglo-Norman word for ‘son’; chiefly Hist. in patronymic designations, in which it… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| fool-large | Foolishly liberal, prodigal, wasteful. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| foot-folk | Foot-soldiers, infantry. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| footman | A foot-soldier. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| forasmuch | In consideration that, seeing that, inasmuch as. Now somewhat formal or arch. In… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| foreign | Out of doors; outside. a chamber foreign: a privy (cf. B.). foreign darkness = ‘outer darkness’. Obs. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| forest | Law. A woodland district, usually belonging to the king, set apart for hunting wild… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| forester | An officer having charge of a forest (see quot. 1598); also, one who looks after the… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| form | To give a specified form to; to mould or fashion into a certain shape, or after, by, from, upon… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| forsloth | trans. To lose, miss, neglect, spoil, or waste through sloth. Also with inf. as obj. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| fourscore | Four times twenty, eighty. Formerly current as an ordinary numeral; now arch. or rhetorical. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| franklin | A freeholder; in 14–15th c. the designation of a class of landowners, of free but not… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| frore | With distinctly participial sense: Frozen. Obs. exc. dial. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| fundament | The foundation or base of a wall, building, etc. Obs. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| garrison | Store, treasure; donation, gift. Obs. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| giant | One of the supposed beings in human form but of superhuman stature, who occur frequently… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| glaive | A lance or spear. Obs. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| glozing | Flattery, cajolery, deceitful blandishment, specious talk or representation. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| glozing | That glozes; flattering, coaxing, cajoling. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| govern | trans. To rule with authority, esp. with the authority of a sovereign; to direct and… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| hail | to drink (a person's) hail: a modification of the phrase drink-hail n., q.v. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| hand-axe | An axe to be wielded by one hand; anciently a battle-axe. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| hardiness | Boldness, daring; audacity; hardihood. Now somewhat rare. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| hardiss | trans. To make hardy, embolden. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| hastiness | Quickness of temper; tendency to sudden anger or irritation, passion. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| hastive | Precipitate, rash: = hasty adj. 3. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| hauberk | A piece of defensive armour: originally intended for the defence of the neck and… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| hautain | Holding or behaving oneself loftily; proud, arrogant: = haughty adj. 1. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| hautainesse | Haughtiness, pride, arrogance. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| hazardry | The playing at hazard; dicing; gambling. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| herigaut | An upper garment or cloak worn by men and women in the 13th and 14th centuries. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| highful | High; fig. haughty, proud. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| hollow | trans. To render hollow or concave; to make a hollow in; to excavate. Also with out. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| Holy Land | Western Palestine, or, more particularly, Judæa: so called as being the scene of the… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| hone | Delay, tarrying: in the phrases but, without hone, often a convenient metrical tag. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| host | trans. To gather into a host; to assemble in battle array, to encamp. (Cf. hosting n.) | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| i-mone | Moan. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| impair | trans. To make worse, less valuable, or weaker; to lessen injuriously; to damage, injure. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| imprison | trans. To put into prison, to confine in a prison or other place of confinement; to… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| incarnation | spec. of Christ, or of God in Christ. Often absol. the Incarnation. (The earliest and… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| interdict | R.C. Church An authoritative sentence debarring a particular place or person (esp.… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| Ireis | = Irish n. 1b. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| Ironside | sing. A name given to a man of great hardihood or bravery; spec. in Eng. Hist. (Ironside)… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| -is | A frequent Middle English and esp. Sc. variant of the grammatical inflection -es, -s… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| join | To put (things) together, so that they become physically united or continuous; to… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| joust | A combat in which two knights or men-at-arms on horseback encountered each other… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| kern | intr. Of corn: To form the hard grains in the ear, to seed; = corn v. 6. Also of fruit: To set. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| kindhead | Kindness. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| kingless | Without a king; having no king. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| kip | trans. To take hold of, take in the hand, seize, snatch, catch. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| lamprey | A fish of the genus Petromyzon, resembling an eel in shape and in having no scales. It has… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| Lateran | The name of a locality in Rome, originally the site of the palace belonging to the family… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| laughing | The action of laugh v.; laughter. Also: an instance of this. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| lever | A bar of iron or wood serving to ‘prize up’ or dislodge from its position some heavy… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| libel | A formal document, a written declaration or statement. Obs. exc. Hist. (as occasional… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| liege | Of the superior: Entitled to feudal allegiance and service. Now rare exc. in liege lord, which is also used fig. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| lose | Praise; renown, fame. Also in neutral sense, (good or bad) reputation; occas. ill fame. out of lose: to one's dispraise. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| mace | A weapon consisting of a heavy staff or club, either entirely of metal or having a metal… | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| maim | trans. Originally: to disable, wound, cause bodily hurt or disfigurement to.… | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| malice | The intention or desire to do evil or cause injury to another person; active ill will… | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| mandement | That which is commanded; a commandment or order (usu. written); (Sc.) a formal… | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| mangonel | A military engine formerly used for throwing stones and other missiles (esp.… | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| Martinmas | (The date of) the feast of St Martin, 11 November. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| meekhead | = meekness n. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| ménage | The members of a household (= meinie n. 1); a group of retainers (= meinie n. 2). Obs. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| middle-land | = Midland n. 2a. Now poet. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| milful | Merciful, gracious. | 1425 | Go To Quotation |
| misbeget | = misbegotten adj. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| miscase | Misfortune; a mishap. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| mischieve | trans. To afflict or overwhelm with misfortune; to destroy or ruin. Obs. (arch. in later use). | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| mouns | With the: the Alps. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| nar | Near, close. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| nephew | A son of a person's brother or sister. Hence also: a son of a brother- or sister-in-law. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| north country | The northern part of any country or place; spec. the region of England (or Britain) north of the River Humber. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| number | To ascertain the number of (individual things or persons), to count. Also intr. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| numbering | The action of number v. (in various senses); an instance of this. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| nursh | trans. To nurse; to rear; to nourish. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| obeisant | = obedient adj. 1a. Obs. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| obligation | The action of constraining oneself by oath, promise, or contract to a particular course… | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| oblige | trans. To bind (a person) by oath, promise, contract, etc.; to put under an obligation… | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| ofstrength | trans. To fortify, to improve the defences of. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| ontill | trans. To work for (something); to earn by one's labour. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| overdear | At too high a price. Obs. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| overpass | trans. To pass over, travel over; to traverse (a tract of land, a distance, etc.). Also (occas.) intr. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| panter | The officer in a household who supplied the bread and had charge of the pantry (an… | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| parcener | A person who shares, or has a part in, something with another or others; a partner; a sharer, a partaker. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| philosophy | Knowledge, learning, scholarship; a body of knowledge; spec. advanced knowledge or… | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| physic | A medicinal substance; spec. a cathartic, a purgative. Also: medicines generally. Now hist. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| piecemeal | One part or piece at a time; in separate pieces; by degrees, little by little. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| plain | A broad tract of land which is comparatively flat; an expanse of level ground; (occas.) terrain of this kind. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| plenteous | Bearing or yielding crops, etc., in abundance; fertile, prolific, productive. Freq. with in or of. Chiefly literary in later use. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| plighted | Of a thing: given in pledge or assurance; solemnly promised. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| plough staff | A staff, ending in a small spade or shovel, used to clear earth, roots, weeds, etc., from the coulter and mouldboard of a plough. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| plud | A pool, puddle. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| pointed | Having a point or points; tapering to or ending in a point or apex. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| porail | Poor people as a class; the poor. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| pough | intr. Of a garment: to hang loose or puff out; to bag (bag v. 1b). Cf. poke v. 2. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| prey | intr. To take booty or plunder; to commit pillage. Obs. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| priestless | Without a priest; not served by a priest. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| prise | The seizure of something by a lord for his own use from his feudal tenants or… | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| privy chamber | = privy n. 1. Now hist. and rare. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| profess | The declaration made by a person entering a religious order; = profession n. 1a. Also: the document containing this. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| purchase | The action or process of obtaining or gaining something for oneself in any way; acquisition, gain; an instance of this. Obs. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| quelling | The action of quell v. (in various senses); an instance of this. See also manquelling n. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| rage | Of a person. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| rather | Earlier (of two persons or things); former. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| ravish | To plunder, rob, steal from (a place, building, race or class of people, etc.); to… | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| reavery | Robbery, depredation; an instance of this. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| rebel | In predicative use. Obs. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| release | trans. To revoke, cancel (a sentence, punishment, condition, etc.). Obs. (arch. in later use). | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| rightfully | In accordance with or with due regard for what is morally right or just; virtuously; fairly. Cf. righteously adv. 1. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| rochy | Full of rocks; rocky. Obs. rare. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| Round Table | A meeting or assembly of King Arthur's knights (see sense 1b). Obs. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| row | In a fierce or violent manner, roughly; chiefly in to look row. Also: in a rough or shaggy way. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| safe conduct | The privilege, granted by a monarch or other authority, of being protected from arrest… | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| sage | Of a person: Wise, discreet, judicious. In Middle English often the sage (following… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| sail | intr. To dance. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| sans fail | Without fail; without doubt, doubtless; in Middle English, a common rhyming tag. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| sault | = assault n., in various senses. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| Saxon | One of a Germanic people which in the early centuries of the Christian era dwelt in a… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| say | A cloth of fine texture resembling serge; in the 16th c. sometimes partly of silk, subsequently entirely of wool. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| scabbard | The case or sheath which serves to protect the blade of a sword, dagger, or bayonet when… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| scarcely | Originally used to express a restrictive qualification, = ‘barely’, ‘only just’; hence… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| scour | intr. To move about hastily or energetically; esp. to range about in search of something, or in movements against a foe. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| scourge | trans. To beat with a scourge; to whip severely, flog. Now rhetorical (cf. scourge n. 1). | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| scrite | A writing, written document. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| sea-wolf | A fabulous amphibious beast of prey. Obs. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| second | with n. expressed; also predicatively. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| secre | A prayer in the Mass recited by the priest in a low voice; = secret adj. 2. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| seisin | In early use, Possession: chiefly in phrases, to have take seisin (in, of). Now only in Law, Possession as of freehold. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| sepulture | Interment, burial. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| seventieth | The ordinal numeral corresponding to the cardinal numeral seventy adj. n. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| shooter | One who shoots with a bow or with firearms; in early use, an archer; now chiefly applied to a sportsman who shoots game. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| shop | A house or building where goods are made or prepared for sale and sold. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| shoving | The action or an act of shove v. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| shreward | A scoundrel. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| sicker | trans. To assure (a person) of safety. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| silver ore | An ore containing silver. dark red silver ore, pyrargyrite. light red silver ore, proustite. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| simply | With simplicity (of mind) or sincerity; in an honest or straightforward manner; also, in later use, unaffectedly, artlessly. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| sir | The distinctive title of honour of a knight or a baronet, placed before the Christian name (†rarely the surname). | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| skeck | An attack made for the sake of plunder; a petty raid. Cf. skeg n. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| skulking | The action of the verb, in various senses. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| sod | Of food, liquor, etc.: Boiled; prepared by boiling. Obs. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| sodomy | Originally: any form of sexual intercourse considered to be unnatural. Now chiefly: anal intercourse. Also fig. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| soilure | Soiling, sullying, staining. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| solace | trans. To cheer, comfort, console; †to entertain or recreate. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| soldan | The supreme ruler of one or other of the great Muslim powers or countries of the Middle Ages; spec. the Sultan of Egypt. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| sometime | sometime…sometime, used to introduce antithetical words, clauses, etc. Also with sometimes in the first or second place. Obs. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| somewhen | At some (indefinite or unknown) time; sometime or other. Common in 19th cent. Usu. coupled with somewhere or somehow. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| somne | trans. To summon. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| sound | The particular auditory effect produced by a special cause. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| sous- | subprior. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| south side | The southern part or side of something; the south; spec. the southern part of a region or city. Cf. southdeal n., south half n. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| spearman | A soldier or warrior armed with a spear; one who carries a spear as a weapon. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| specially | In a special manner; in a degree or to an extent beyond what is usual or customary; particularly. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| spicer | A dealer in spices; an apothecary or druggist. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| spicery | collect. or in pl. Spices. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| spray | collect. Small or slender twigs of trees or shrubs, either as still growing or as cut off… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| stably | In a stable manner, firmly, †steadfastly, †constantly. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| stalworthhead | Stalwartness, courage. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| stealth | Furtive or underhand action, an act accomplished by eluding observation or discovery. Obs. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| sterling | The English silver penny of the Norman and subsequent dynasties. Often in pound of sterlings… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| sternhead | Sternness, severity. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| store | sing. (without indef. article) That with which a household, camp, etc., is stored… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| story | Each of the stages or portions one above the other of which a building consists; a room or set of rooms on one floor or level. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| stoupe | | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| stroke | A blow with the hand or a weapon (occas. with the paw of an animal, the claws or beak of… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| stubble | Each of the stumps or lower ends of grain-stalks left in the ground after reaping. Now only in pl. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| sturdy | Impetuously brave, fierce in combat. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| successor | One who succeeds another in an office, dignity, function, or position. Const. of, to… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| suing | The following of a person or thing; the pursuance of a course of action; the carrying out or execution of something. Obs. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| suit | In full, suit real (royal, regal), Sc. common suit: Attendance of a person at the… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| supple | Of a soft or yielding consistency; not rigid or hard. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| tabernacle | An ornate canopied structure, as a tomb or shrine; in quot. 1430, an ornate structure in a pageant. Obs. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| tailed | Having, or furnished with, a tail or tails; in Zool. and Bot. = caudate adj. Often… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| tailor | ‘One whose business is to make clothes’ (Johnson); a maker of the outer garments of… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| targe | A shield; spec. a light shield or buckler, borne instead of the heavy shield, esp. by footmen and archers. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| tavern | In early use, A public house or tap-room where wine was retailed; a dram-shop; in current use = public house n. 2a. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| tent | A portable shelter or dwelling of canvas (formerly of skins or cloth), supported by means… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| than | After a prep.: That; as in for þan, for that (reason), therefore; for al þan, for all that (for… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| theredown | Down there; down: in reference to direction or position. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| thereforth | Along that way; by that place. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| thirdel | A third part (of anything); = thirdendeal n. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| thrallhead | = thraldom n. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| Thurseve | = Holy Thurseven n. at Thurseven n. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| toom | Vacant or unoccupied time; time free or sufficient for doing something, leisure; a space or interval of time, a while. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| to-race | trans. To hack, slash, cut, or tear to pieces. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| touch | A hit, knock, stroke, blow; esp. a very slight blow or stroke. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| touch | spec. To lay hands on or meddle with so as to harm; to injure, hurt, in any or the least degree. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| toumbe | intr. To fall. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| transmigration | The removal of the Jews into captivity at Babylon; sometimes used for the Captivity. Obs. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| treat | intr. To deal or carry on negotiations (with another) with a view to settling terms… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| truehead | Faithfulness, fidelity. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| trueman | A faithful or trusty man; an honest man (as distinguished from a thief or other criminal). | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| trump | = trumpet n. 1. arch. and poet. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| tu-brugge | A drawbridge. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| unarmed | Not armed; having no armour or weapons. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| unasserved | Undeserved. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| ungirt | Not girded or wearing a girdle; having the girdle or belt undone, slackened, or removed. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| unhosed | Not wearing hose. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| uniware | Unaware, unawares; esp. in phr. on uniware = at unaware(s). | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| unkindhead | Unnatural conduct; ingratitude; baseness. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| unmarried | Of persons: Not married; unwedded. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| unnome | Untaken. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| unshrined | Not enshrined; unburied. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| untilled | (un- prefix 8.) | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| unused | Unaccustomed (esp. to something, or with inf.) (now freq. with pronunc. /ʌnˈjuːst/) before to. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| uptake | To deliver up, to surrender. Obs. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| up-yield | trans. To yield or deliver up; to resign. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| usage | An established or recognized mode of procedure, action, or conduct; a custom or practice; spec. one which has force of law. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| vantward | The vanguard of an army. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| vengeance | In the phrase to take (also †nim) vengeance. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| verdict | The decision of a jury in a civil or criminal cause upon an issue which has been submitted to their judgement. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| vice | Depravity or corruption of morals; evil, immoral, or wicked habits or conduct; indulgence in degrading pleasures or practices. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| vile | trans. To bring to a vile or low condition; to abase or degrade. Also refl. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| vinter | A vintner. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| vintry | A place where wine is sold or stored; a wine-shop; a wine-vault, or a number of these. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| visseþ | Southern variant of Middle English fisheth (Old English fiscaþ), fishing. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| vowson | Advowson, patronage. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| voyage | In the phrases to take or make (a, the, or one's) voyage. Now rare. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| waive | gen. = outlaw v. Obs. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| wall | with about, round about, round. to wall in, to enclose with a wall. to wall off, to wall out, to shut off or out with a wall. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| wanhope | Hopelessness, despair. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| warison | Wealth, possessions. to bring (a person) in or to (his) warison: to enrich. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| warnestore | ? A magazine for provisions, ? a fortified place. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| warrior | A person whose occupation is warfare; a fighting man, whether soldier, sailor… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| waxing | That waxes, grows, or increases. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| well-boned | Having large or strong bones. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| well-made | Of a person or animal: Well-proportioned, of good build. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| Whitsun | the day before Whit Sunday. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| windmill | A mill the machinery of which is driven by the wind acting upon sails, used (chiefly… | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| wiving | The action of the verb wive v.; taking a wife, marrying, marriage. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| womanly | In a womanly manner; like a woman. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| wombed | Having a womb (†or belly), esp. of a specified kind. Also fig. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| woodman | A madman, lunatic, maniac. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| wool-pack | A large bag into which a quantity of wool or of fleeces is packed for carriage or sale. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| wretchedly | So as to cause, or involve in, misery, distress, or discomfort. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| y-armed | Armed. Occas. as past participle. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| ybaptized | | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| yblessed | Blessed, blest. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| ybrent | Burnt; occas. burnished. Also as past participle. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| ybrought | brought. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| yburied | buried. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| ycast | | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| ycaught | | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| ychanged | | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| ycharged | charged, laden. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| ychose(n | chosen. (Cf. ycore adj.) | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| yclothed | clothed. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| ycome(n | come. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| ycompaced | | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| yconfirmed | | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| yconfounded | | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| ycorve(n | carved. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| ycrowned | crowned. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| ydel(e)d | As past participle: divided. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| ydight | As past participle: prepared, furnished, dressed. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| ydout | to fear. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| ydrife | driven. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| yegged | edged. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| y-eled | anointed. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| yfo(u)rmed | formed, informed. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| ygete | got. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| yharded | hardened. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| yharmed | Variant of y-armed adj., armed. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| yhated | hated. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| yhent | caught. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| yiug(g)ed | judged. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| ylad(d | led, conveyed, carried. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| ylay(e | Middle English pa. pples. of lie v. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| ylore(n | Middle English pa. pple. of leese v. to lose. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| ymart(i)red | Middle English pa. pple. of martyr v. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| ymorþred | Middle English pa. pple. of murder v. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| ypaid | Paid, pleased. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| yperisched | Middle English pa. pple. of perish v. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| ypiȝt(e | Pitched. (In quots. as past participle.) | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| yporveide | Purveyed. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| ypre(o)ved | Proved. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| yrad | Counselled. (In quot. as past participle.) | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| ysaued(e | Saved. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| yschrined | Shrined. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| ysee | trans. To see, behold. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| ysend(e | Middle English pa. pple. of send v. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| yserched | Middle English pa. pples. of search v., serve v., serve v. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| ysmete | Middle English pa. pple. of smite v. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| ysound | Variant of isound adj. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
| yswounyng | See swow adj., swoon v. | 1297 | Go To Quotation |
