| afame | trans. To defame (a person). | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| allowance | Praise, commendation. Obs. | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| angerness | Trouble, affliction. | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| baselard | A type of long dagger or short sword with a hilt shaped like a capital H on its… | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| dasart | A dazed, stupefied, or inert person; a dullard; = dasiberd n., dastard n. 1. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| dung-heap | A heap of dung, a dunghill. | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| fret | trans. To rub, chafe. Also with away. Causatively: To make pass by rubbing; to cause (a keel) to graze. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| heck | The lower half of a door; also, an inner door; = hatch n. 1. north. dial. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| incontinent | Not continent; wanting in self-restraint: chiefly with reference to sexual appetite. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| intinct | Wetted, suffused. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| jowl | The head of a man or beast. (In quot. 1562 applied app. to the head or top of an engine of war.) Obs. or ? dial. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| knitch | A bundle (of wood, hay, corn, etc.) tied together; a sheaf or faggot. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| lateship | Slowness, sluggishness. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| legeance | Aphetic f. allegeance n. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| lodder | Wretched. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| lumping | Weighing heavy. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| manger | A sumptuous meal; a banquet. Also fig. | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| mercifully | In a merciful manner; as a mercy, through (God's) mercy. Later also colloq.… | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| million | A thousand times a thousand; numbering a thousand thousands; (often indefinitely… | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| misadvised | Ill-advised; misguided, injudicious. | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| mole | Mass, greatness; a great mass; a large piece. Also fig. Obs. | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| mope | A fool, a simpleton; a slow-witted or inept person. Cf. mop n. 1. Now chiefly U.S. | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| mound | The world; the earth, esp. considered as the abode of mankind. Obs. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| muckerer | A person who hoards wealth, a miser; = mucker n. 2. | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| mure | Grave, modest, demure. Now only in mure-hearted: see Special uses. | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| nailing | The action of driving in a nail or fixing with nails; an instance of this. | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| needs cost | Necessarily, of necessity. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| nimp | trans. To nibble, bite, gnaw (something). Also intr. | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| ofpine | trans. To torment. | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| old Adam | Chiefly with the. The biblical Adam as a representative of the sinful and unregenerate… | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| oppressure | = oppression n.; the action of oppressing; distress, trouble. | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| outcast | A person who has been cast out (of a society, institution, etc.); a person ostracized by… | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| overcark | Too much of something; an excessive burden; overwork. | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| overhope | Excessive hope or confidence; presumption. | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| palt | trans. To thrust, put forcibly. | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| pamper | trans. To cram with food; to provide with an excessively rich diet; to feed or nourish… | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| paregal | Fully equal; equal, esp. in power, rank, or value. Obs. | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| pasturing | The action of pasture v. Also: pasturage, pastureland. | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| petit | Of small size, small; little. Formerly also (occas.): †small in number, few; = petty adj. 3 (obs.). | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| pile | trans. To fasten with nails. Obs. | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| pin | trans. To hold, fasten, or join (one thing to or on another, or things or parts of a thing together… | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| pleader | Law. A person who pleads in a law court; an advocate. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| poor | intr. To become poor. Obs. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| poorness | Want of wealth or possessions; indigence, poverty. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| poselet | Jostled, pushed. | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| precious | Of great moral, spiritual, or other non-material value; beloved, held in high esteem. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| preyer | A person who or thing which preys on or upon another; a predator; an exploiter. | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| protector | A person who protects someone or something from danger, injury, etc.; a defender; a guardian, a patron. | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| quaintness | The quality or condition of being quaint (in various senses); an instance of this. | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| quinsy | Originally: inflammation or swelling of the throat or part of the throat, esp.… | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| race | intr. To tear, go in pieces. rare. | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| rail | intr. Of blood, tears, etc.: to flow, to pour, to gush. Freq. with adverb or adverbial phrase. | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| range | A line or rank of people or animals; spec. a rank or file of hunters or soldiers. Now rare. | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| rapless | Free from blows; (also) that does not rap. | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| rapt | Carried up and transported into heaven. Also with up, to, into. | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| ravening | With the. The devil, characterized as a plunderer or predator. Obs. rare. | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| ravening | That ravens (in various senses of the verb); rapacious, voracious, bloodthirsty… | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| receipt | In sing. | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| rechelesship | Recklessness, carelessness. | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| reflower | intr. To flower or flourish again. Also fig. | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| refuse | Anything that is rejected, discarded, or thrown away; rubbish, waste, residue; (now esp.)… | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| rehet | Good cheer, entertainment. | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| restraining | The action of restrain v. (in various senses); an instance of this. | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| reversed | That is or has been reversed (in various senses). | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| rioting | Originally: †excessive revelry or merriment; dissoluteness; debauchery (obs.). Later… | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| roseroot | The root of a rose plant. | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| ruit | Noise, disorder. | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| sealing-wax | In early use, beeswax or a composition containing this, in later use a composition… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| sextress | = sextoness n. | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| sextry | = sacristy n. | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| shaming | The action or fact of putting to shame. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| slope | (Meaning obscure.) | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| soothing | The action of the verb, in various senses. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| specious | Of persons, their parts, etc., or of things. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| springel | A sprinkler for holy water. Also Comb. in springel-stick. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| sunderness | Diversity, variety. (Cf. sundriness n.) | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| surfeitous | Surfeited; immoderate; excessive or given to excess. | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| sustainer | A person who keeps others in a state of good health or well-being, or in good spirits… | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| tack | That which fastens one thing to another, or things together: applied to a fibula or… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| train | Treachery, guile, deceit, trickery; prevarication. | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| train | A branch or shoot of a tree. Also fig. Obs. | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| trental | A set of thirty requiem masses, said on the same day or on different days; also, the payment made for this. arch. and Hist. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| tressure | A ribbon or band worn round the head; a net with which a woman's tresses are… | 1325 | Go To Quotation |
| trothful | Full of ‘troth’ or loyalty, faithful, trusty; trustworthy, truthful. | 1379 | Go To Quotation |
| twinkling | The action or an act of winking; nictitation; also fig. Obs. exc. as in 3. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| unman | A monster. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| wlouȝ | ? Opulent. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| worshipfulness | The quality of being worshipful, in various senses. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
