| ablaqueate | trans. To loosen or remove the soil round the roots of (a tree, vine, etc.) so as to expose them to the sun and rain. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| ablaqueation | The loosening or removal of the soil round the roots of a tree or vine; the exposure of a plant's roots. Cf. ablaqueate v. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| aboundable | Ample, sufficient; abounding, plentiful. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| absinthiate | Flavoured with wormwood. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| admissure | The action or an act (on the part of an animal) of copulating. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| admixed | Mixed together or with something else; added as an ingredient or additional element. In early use chiefly as pa. pple. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| admove | trans. To apply (something) to another thing; to move (a person or thing) towards something. Chiefly with unto. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| adolent | Growing. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| adolescent | A person in the age of adolescence; a youth. Also: an animal at an analogous stage of development. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| ador | = spelt n. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| adure | trans. and intr. To burn (something) completely; to scorch, parch. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| aestuant | Boiling; boiling hot. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| agrest | Belonging to the fields; uncultivated, wild; = agrestial adj.; (hence) inferior, coarse. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| agriculture | (a) Originally: the theory or practice of cultivating the soil to produce crops; an… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| alethe | trans. To alleviate, moderate. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| algor | Cold, chilliness; spec. the feeling of being very cold which occurs as the body… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| amaracus | An aromatic plant, the Dittany of Crete (Origanum dictamnus), by some made the type of a distinct genus (Amaracus). | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| appetent | Longing, eagerly desirous. Const. after, of. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| argillose | = argillous adj. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| argillous | Clayey, argillaceous. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| argute | Of taste: Sharp. Obs. rare. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| armorace | Horse-radish. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| attemperately | Temperately, with moderation; suitably, properly. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| avail | Beneficial effect; advantage, benefit, profit. arch. or Obs. exc. as in 4. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| availant | = availing adj. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| availing | Advantageous, profitable; of beneficial efficiency. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| bernete | ? Fallow ground ploughed in spring. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| bifornys | Before, in front. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| bipedal | Two feet long. Obs. rare. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| bitted | Furnished with or having a bit. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| blichening | Mildew, rust, or blight in corn. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| blite | Book-name for various plants of the family Chenopodiaceæ: esp. Wild Spinach (C. Bonus-Henricus)… | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| brassik | Cabbage. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| brawny | Of a fruit: ? Fleshy. Obs. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| brim | intr. Of swine: To be ‘in heat’, rut, copulate. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| bulked | Having bulk, bulky; esp. in comb. big-bulked. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| bushing | Training on bushes (obs.), setting with bushes. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| calcatory | A winepress, where the grapes are trodden. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| calculose | Stony, pebbly. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| callum | = callus n. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| calvair | A skull. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| cannibe | | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| caprifig | The wild fig. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| caprify | To ripen by caprification. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| carbunculine | Of earth: (perh.) hard and stony. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| carenayre | | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| carene | A sweet wine boiled down. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| castration | The removing of the testicles; gelding. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| cause | ? To cast or shed. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| cave | Obs. and dial. form of chave v., to separate chaff and empty ears from the corn. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| cedr- | a name applied sometimes to the oil of cedar, sometimes to the pitch or resin, but properly to the crude tears of the cedar. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| celest | Of or pertaining to heaven; = celestial adj. 2 3. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| chave | trans. To mix or strew with chaff. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| cicatrice | transf. A scar on the bark of a tree. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| cinquefoil | = cinquefoiled adj. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| circumferent | = In circumference. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| clave | A knotty branch, scion, graft. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| clod | trans. To free (land) from clods by harrowing, rolling, or the like. Also absol. Obs. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| clorded | | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| cockle | The English name of bivalve molluscs of the genus Cardium, esp. C. edule, common on… | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| cockle-shell | The shell of the cockle; usually, a single valve of the shell. Formerly applied… | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| coct | Ripened. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| codd(e | The stock or stem of a plant. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| colocasia | A genus of plants of the Arum family, natives of the East Indies, and largely cultivated… | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| coloquint | colocynth n. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| columbaire | = columbary n. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| commissure | A joining or connecting together; the line or surface along which two parts touch each… | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| commix | trans. To mix or mingle together; to blend. Now arch. or poet. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| commixed | Mixed together, commingled. (In early use chiefly participial: see the vb.) | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| commodious | Advantageous, beneficial, profitable, of use. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| commodiously | conveniently, now esp. in respect to ready access and roominess. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| complane | To make plain or level. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| complose | Clapped together, put together. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| condiment | Anything of pronounced flavour used to season or give relish to food, or to stimulate the appetite. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| condiment | trans. To season or flavour with a condiment; to spice. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| condite | Preserved, pickled; seasoned. (Often construed as a pple.) | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| condite | trans. To preserve with salt, sugar, spices, or the like: to pickle. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| confray | trans. To rub together. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| conge | = congius n. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| considerance | The action of considering; consideration, reflection. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| contumacity | Contumacious quality, stubborn perverseness. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| conyza | A genus of strong-smelling herbaceous or shrubby plants of the Composite order. The… | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| cornel | Corner, angle (of a house, etc.). | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| cotul | = cotyle n. 1. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| counter | Against, contrary to. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| covert | trans. To put a covering over; to cover, conceal. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| crassitude | Thickness (of dimension). Obs. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| crese | ? To crease; or to crush. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| cruse | A small earthen vessel for liquids; a pot, jar, or bottle; also a drinking vessel. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| cubital | Of the length of a cubit. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| cuculle | A hood or cowl of a monk. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| culture | The action or practice of cultivating the soil; tillage; = cultivation n. 1. Now chiefly with of. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| cyner | Ashes, cinders. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| decoct | Decocted; subjected to heat; digested, etc.: see the verb. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| decoct | To prepare as food by the agency of fire; to boil, cook. Obs. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| defect | A shortcoming or failing; a fault, blemish, flaw, imperfection (in a person or thing). | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| deferve | To boil down. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| defrut | Must boiled down. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| deject | trans. To throw or cast down; to cause to fall down, overthrow. arch. or Obs. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| dene | Ten. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| dependent | Hanging down, pendent. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| deplume | trans. To strip of feathers; to pluck the feathers off. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| desiccate | Desiccated, dried. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| detract | Extracted, taken out. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| devex | Bent or bending down, inclined or sloping downward. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| devolve | To roll down; to cause to descend with rolling motion; also to unroll (something rolled up), to unfurl (a sail). arch. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| disclude | trans. To disclose. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| disjoint | Obs. Disjointed, out of joint; disconnected. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| disjoint | trans. To put out of joint; to disturb, destroy the due connection and orderly arrangement… | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| divise | Divided; separate, distinct. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| drossy | Of metals, etc.: Characterized by containing dross or scorious matter, or waste… | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| dunging | The manuring of land; concr. manure, dung. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| economy | The management or administration of the material resources of a community, discipline… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| efflower | intr. Of a plant: To go out of bloom. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| effund | trans. To pour out (lit. and fig.); to shed (blood); to pour out the contents of (a vessel). | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| egestion | gen. The action of discharging or emptying out. In quot. 1420 concr. Obs. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| elong | trans. To make longer, lengthen. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| eminent | Of qualities: Remarkable in degree; †conspicuously displayed. Of actions… | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| emplastration | A mode of budding trees mentioned by Latin writers; so called from the piece of… | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| enable | intr. for refl. To become able, gain strength or power. Obs. rare. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| encre | ? To grow, thrive. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| endwell | trans. To dwell in, stay in. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| enmine | trans. To fix in a hole in the ground. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| ennoy | To be irksome, produce tedium. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| ennoyous | Annoying, troublesome; harmful. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| enoil | To mix with oil. Cf. enhuile v. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| enround | trans. To surround, encircle. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| enter | Between. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| estivous | Of or pertaining to summer, summer-like. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| excluse | Excluded; shut out. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| excodication | The action of digging up or removing the soil from the roots of a tree. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| exile | Slender, shrunken, thin; diminutive. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| experient | Having experience; = experienced adj. 1 experient of: acquainted with. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| expertly | As one who has had experience; by actual experiment. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| expurgation | The action of expurgating or cleansing from impurity (lit. and fig.); an instance of this. Obs. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| externe | trans. (in quot. 1420) To alienate. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| far | A coarse kind of wheat; spelt. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| fecundity | Of the earth: The quality of producing abundantly; fertility. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| fenestrelle | A small window. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| feracity | The quality of being feracious; fruitfulness, productiveness. †Of a person: The profit he makes. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| ferment | orig. Leaven or yeast. Hence gen. an agent which causes fermentation (see fermentation n. 1). | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| fern | trans. To cover with fern. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| ferule | = ferula n. 1. Also a plant or stalk of it. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| fistulose | = fistulous adj. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| floody | Pertaining to the flood, i.e. to the river or to the sea. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| floor | trans. To cover or furnish with a floor or floors, in various senses of the word; to pave. Also with over. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| fœture | The action or process of bearing young. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| fold | ? The mountain-ash (app. rendering Latin ornus). | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| fortunate | trans. To make fortunate, give good fortune to, prosper. Also absol. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| fretted | transf. and fig. in various senses. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| frigidity | The state or condition of being frigid; intense coldness. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| fungous | Of or pertaining to fungi; having the nature of a fungus. †Also, formerly, Resembling a fungus in texture; spongy. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| garland | trans. To form (flowers) into a garland. rare. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| gauge | trans. To measure or measure off (a length or quantity). Obs. rare. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| gemmy | Abounding in, covered with, or set with gems, or something resembling gems. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| germin | intr. To produce new growth; to germinate (in various senses). Occas. also trans. Chiefly in figurative contexts and fig. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| germinant | Germinating; sprouting. Also: having the potential to germinate or grow; nascent… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| germination | Originally: the sprouting of a bud or shoot; the (initial) growth of a plant or seed… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| gladiole | = gladiolus n. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| glareous | Bot. (See quot. 1880.) | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| gliciride | = liquorice n. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| gravelous | Resembling grains of gravel or sand; granular. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| gross | A green fig; a young fig. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| grush | trans. To crush; †to make a deep wound in; to gash. Also †intr. for refl. To crumble. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| gurgolion | A weevil. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| guttering | Trenching, draining. Also attrib. Now dial. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| gypse | trans. To close or plaster down with gypsum (obs.). | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| gyre | trans. To turn or whirl round. rare. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| hacked | Chopped; slashed, mangled; having irregular and jagged cuts or wounds; chapped, as by frost. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| hask | Rough and hard to the touch or taste, esp. from the absence of moisture; coarse and dry. Also used as adv. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| Hecate | Thus identified with the moon; also, with Persephone the goddess of the infernal regions. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| hock | A caterpillar. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| hood | trans. To cover with or as with a hood: sometimes with the intention of protection or concealment. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| horrend | = horrendous adj. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| horsed | Of a mare: Covered by a horse. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| huls | ? | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| hurt | Injured, wounded, etc.: see the verb. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| husband | trans. To till (the ground), to dress or tend (trees and plants), to manage as a husbandman; to cultivate. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| husbanding | Cultivation, culture, tillage (of soil or plants). | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| immote | trans. To convey or put upon something. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| immune | Free or clear (of something regarded as undesirable or damaging). Also with from. Cf. free adj. 9c. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| implain | trans. To make smooth with plaster; to plaster smooth. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| inbeat | trans. To beat in, drive in by beating. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| include | trans. To shut or close in; to enclose within material limits; †to shut up, confine (obs.). Now only in pass.: cf. included adj. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| increment | Nourishment. Obs. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| incrementation | Production of growth or increase; means of promoting growth. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| indistinctly | In such a way as not to distinguish or make a difference between things, persons… | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| ineye | trans. To put an eye or bud into (the bark of a tree); to inoculate, to propagate by inoculation; = bud v. 5. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| infecund | Not fecund, prolific, or fruitful; barren, unproductive. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| infuse | To pour on or upon; to shed, diffuse. Obs. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| ingress | A place or means of entrance; an entrance. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| inoculate | trans. (Hort.) To set or insert (an ‘eye’, bud, or scion) in a plant for propagation; to… | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| inoculer | trans. To inoculate or engraft. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| instrie | trans. To strew or scatter in or upon something. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| interspace | A space between two things; intermediate or intervening space, interval. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| intort | Twisted or thrust in. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| intrie | trans. To put in, introduce, add. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| ire | trans. To anger, irritate. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| ironless | Destitute of iron; not possessing iron. In quot. 1420 quasi- adv. ‘without the aid of iron tools’ (Lodge, Gloss. to Palladius). | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| jocundity | Jocund quality or condition; mirthfulness, gaiety; mirth, merriment, glee. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| jugland | A walnut tree. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| lapidose | Abounding in stones. Also, of stony nature. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| lard | (Often hog's lard.) The internal fat of the abdomen of a swine, esp. when rendered… | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| laughter | The full number of eggs laid by a hen or other female bird before she begins to… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| lead | To make dull and heavy as lead. Obs. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| leak | intr. To pass (out, away, forth) by a leak or leakage. Also fig., to pass away by gradual waste. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| leaking | That leaks or lets water in or out; that has a leak or leaks. †Also of weather, showery. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| leavy | Having leaves; covered with leaves or foliage. Obs. exc. poet. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| lentiscine | Of or belonging to the mastic-tree. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| lentisk | The mastic tree (Pistacia lentiscus). Also attrib. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| lesure | Hurt, injury, wound. Cf. lesion v. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| librament | Fall or escape (of liquid). | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| limous | Muddy; slimy. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| liniment | Something used for smearing or anointing. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| liquamen | A substance reduced to a liquid state. Also, the name of a kind of fish-sauce used by the ancient Romans; garum. Obs. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| loment | Bean-meal. Obs. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| lop | The smaller branches and twigs of trees, such as are not measured for… | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| luculent | Full of light; bright, clear, shining. Now rare. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| madefy | trans. To make wet; to moisten. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| magma | The dregs that remain after a semi-liquid substance has been pressed or evaporated. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| maltha | A kind of cement made by mixing pitch or lime with wax, fat, or sand, and other ingredients. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| mature | Of fruit, etc.: ripe. Also fig. (now arch. or poet.): ripe or ready for. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| maturity | Of fruit, wine, cheese, etc.: ripeness; possession of a full flavour. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| mediate | Intermediate; intervening or interposed in position, rank, quality, time, or order… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| medicament | A substance used for medical treatment; a medicine, remedy. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| medick | Any of various Eurasian and North African plants, chiefly yellow-flowered, constituting… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| mediety | gen. A half. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| mele | An apple; an apple tree. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| melion | App. a transmission error for melilot n. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| mellify | intr. To make honey. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| mellite | Sweetened with honey. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| mellowy | = mellow adj. (in various senses). | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| milge | trans. To dig round about; to forage in the earth. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| miliar | A type of water vessel, (prob.) a tall narrow container used in Roman baths for drawing and warming water. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| minute | Chopped small. Obs. rare. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| mire | Miry. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| mirous | Wondrous, remarkable. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| mix | To put together or combine (two or more substances or things) so that the constituents… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| mouse-dun | Mouse-coloured. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| mulch | Of soil: soft, moist. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| munite | Fortified, protected. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| musty | Of or relating to must or new wine; made with must; (of wine or beer) not yet fermented, in a state of newness. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| myrtite | Wine made from or flavoured with myrtle berries. Also wine myrtite. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| myxe | A kind of plum or plum-like fruit. Cf. myxa n. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| nebulose | Resembling a cloud or mist; foggy, misty. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| nick | To make a notch or notches in; to mark with a notch or notches; to indent. Occas. intr. with object implied. Also fig. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| obumber | trans. To shelter; to overshadow; to cast a shadow over, obscure. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| obumbration | The action or an act of overshadowing; the condition of being overshadowed. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| occation | Harrowing. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| odorate | Originally and chiefly: that has a pleasant smell; scented, fragrant; odoriferous. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| offe | A small piece, morsel, crumb. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| offe | trans. To break into bits, crumble. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| oil mill | An installation, apparatus, or factory in which seeds, fruits, or other plant parts are crushed or pressed to extract oil. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| oinet | A small variety of onion. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| olive plant | = olive n. 1a. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| omphacomel | A drink made of the juice of unripe grapes mixed with honey. | 1873 | Go To Quotation |
| opaque | Lying in shadow; dark, dim, not illuminated. Also fig. Now rare. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| opium quirinaik | The gum resin of the plant silphium or laser. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| orbicular | Round; circular; discoidal. Now rare. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| origan | Any plant of the genus Origanum; esp. wild marjoram or oregano, O. vulgare. In early use also: †wild thyme or pennyroyal (obs.). | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| over-cold | Excessive or extreme cold. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| overdry | Too dry; very dry. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| overfold | trans. To fold over; to fold so as to cover. Now rare. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| overslame | trans. To smear or plaster over. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| overwash | trans. To flow or wash over; to inundate. Chiefly in pass. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| oxblood | The blood of an ox. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| paled | That has been made, or has become, pale; (esp. of the complexion) pale, pallid. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| palmy | Chiefly poet. Made of palm leaves, palm sap, etc. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| pampinary | Of a vine: having tendrils or young shoots. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| pampine | trans. To prune or trim (a vine). | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| pampinose | Of a vine: bearing shoots; leafy. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| panic | Originally: Italian or foxtail millet, Setaria italica (formerly Panicum italicum). Later… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| pass | Wine made from raisins, raisin wine; = passum n. Also pass-wine. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| pastinate | Of land: dug, prepared for planting. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| pastinated | Dug, cultivated. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| pastine | Ground prepared for planting by digging. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| pastine | trans. To dig or cultivate (ground) in preparation for planting. Also: to plant in cultivated soil. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| perflable | That may be blown through; open or permeable to the air or wind; allowing ventilation. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| permixed | Thoroughly mixed; intermingled, intermixed. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| petifoot | A peduncle, a pedicel; spec. the stalk of a fruit. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| pig | intr. Of a sow: to give birth, to farrow. Also of a woman: †to give birth (obs., chiefly derogatory). | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| pistachio | Also pistachio nut. The fruit of the tree Pistacia vera (see sense A. 1b), a nutlike drupe… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| pistacia | Originally: the pistachio tree, Pistacia vera. Later also (in form Pistacia): a genus of… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| piste | More fully piste Indik. = spikenard n. 1. Cf. pistic nard n. at pistic adj. 1. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| pitched | Smeared, covered, saturated, or otherwise treated with pitch. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| pitchlongs | With a downward slope, steeply, precipitously. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| pluvious | Of, relating to, or characterized by rain; full of or bearing rain or moisture; rainy. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| pool | intr. Of land: to be or become marshy; to be covered with pools of water. Occas. trans. Also fig. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| posca | A mixture of vinegar and water; (also) weak wine diluted with water or with vinegar-water. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| pourry | Stagnant, putrid. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| prasocoride | An insect or grub (not identified) that is a pest of certain vegetables. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| prate | Of domestic poultry: to make a characteristic sound; spec. †(of a cock) to crow (obs.); (of… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| preconize | trans. To proclaim or announce publicly; (also) to sing the praises of, to commend or extol publicly. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| premature | Ripe, mature, esp. before the proper season. Obs. rare. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| profaned | That has been desecrated, defiled, or treated with contempt. Occas. also as n. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| profluent | Branching out from a central body. Obs. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| prominent | Jutting out or protruding from a surface; projecting, protuberant. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| propagation | The production of offspring; the action or practice of causing a people, race, etc., to… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| propel | trans. To drive away or out; to eject; to expel. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| provect | trans. To carry forward or onward; to advance. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| provine | intr. and trans. To propagate (a plant, esp. a vine) by layering. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| pug | The husks separated in the cleaning of any kind of small seed; the chaff of wheat or oats… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| putation | The pruning or trimming of trees. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| quadrivial | Of or relating to the quadrivium (quadrivium n. 2). Also in extended use. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| quatrefoil | Having four leaves. Obs. rare. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| queest | The wood pigeon, Columba palumbus. Formerly also queest-dove. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| rathest | Most preferable; quickest, soonest. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| rave | A root vegetable. wild rave n. (prob.) horseradish. Cf. beet-raves n. at beet n. 2. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| rean | A deep furrow used for conducting drainage water from a field or other piece of… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| reclude | trans. To open (a gate, etc.); to unblock, clear an obstruction from. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| rede | A small trench or furrow. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| refluent | Of the tide, waves, etc. Also in extended use (chiefly poet.). | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| refrigerate | Rendered or kept cold; cooled, chilled. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| relent | Loosened, loose; (also) softened. Cf. relent v. 3. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| relict | Allowed to remain untouched or undisturbed. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| remote | Of two or more things or (occas.) persons: placed or situated at a distance or interval… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| renovate | Renewed, revived; restored. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| renumber | trans. To count over (a collection of things); to reckon up. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| repercuss | As past participle: beaten upon. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| repone | trans. Chiefly Sc. To put (a person or thing) back in a previous place or position; to replace. Chiefly with in. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| repose | To return (an object) to a particular place; to put back, replace. Cf. reposit v. 2. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| resplendent | Shining, brilliant (lit. and fig.); splendid, sumptuous. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| rest | That which remains or is left over; the remaining, esp. unused, amount or portion; the… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| revire | intr. To recover freshness. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| rigent | Stiff, rigid. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| risp | trans. To rub (two things) together; to rasp or file (something); esp. to grind (one's teeth). Also fig. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| roofing | The act of covering with a roof; material used or suitable for roofs; that which forms a roof or roofs. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| rosaire | A rose bed or rose garden. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| runkle | Wrinkled. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| rustic | Of, relating to, or characteristic of the countryside (as opposed to the town); rural. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| sanation | The action of healing or the process of becoming healed; an instance of this. Also fig. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| sape | Obs. Anglicized form of sapa n. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| sation | ‘A sowing of seed, a planting’ (Blount Glossogr. 1661). | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| scarify | To make incisions in the bark of (a tree). | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| scobe | Sawdust. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| scrape | Eastern U.S. ‘A small dredge’ (Funk's Stand. Dict.). | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| sea-froth | Seaweed. Obs. rare. (In quots. tr. Latin alga.) | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| sedum | Bot. A genus of plants (N.O. Crassulaceæ), the British species of which are known as stonecrop. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| seedness | The action of sowing, the state of being sown. Also fig. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| sejoint | As past participle: separated, disjoined. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| semicicle | Half a pint. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| semi-mature | Half ripe. Obs. rare. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| seminair(e | = seminary n. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| seminary | A piece of ground in which plants are sown (or raised from cuttings, etc.) to be afterwards transplanted; a seed-plot. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| serenous | = serene adj. 1. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| seriol | A small jar. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| sesame | A widely cultivated East Indian plant, Sesamum indicum (N.O. Pedaliaceæ). Also, the seeds… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| sevum | Suet, as used in pharmacy. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| shoughtering | Flapping or agitation of the wings. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| shuddering | The action of the verb shudder v. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| siliqua | The carob-tree. (Cf. silique n. 1) Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| silique | = siliqua n. 1. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| skewed | Skewbald. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| slack | Small or refuse coal. Also attrib. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| sleaving | A slip taken from a tree by splitting or pulling. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| solute | Of loose open texture or composition. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| spectable | Capable of being seen; visible. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| sperage | Asparagus. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| spissitude | Density, thickness, compactness. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| splate | intr. To extend. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| sprain | Agric. To sow (seeds, etc.) with the hand. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| stannery | = stony adj. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| stature | trans. To give or impart stature or height to. Freq. with complement expressing the type… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| structure | The action, practice, or process of building or construction. Now rare or Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| subact | Esp. of land or territory: subjugated, subdued. Also as past participle. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| sum | intr. To hum softly. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| superfluent | Superfluous; exceeding requirements; unnecessary. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| surtray | trans. To draw off, take away, subtract. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| suspensure | A hollow floor ‘suspended’ or built over a furnace for heating a bath. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| swethe | trans. To swathe. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| tablemeal | With reference to planting: table by table (table n. 23a); bed by bed. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| talion | A shoot or scion, such as is used in grafting. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| talpe | A mole. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| Tarentine | n. Name of some herb. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| tect | Covered, hidden. (Const. as pa. pple. See also tectly adv.) | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| tegument | gen. (natural or artificial). | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| teneritude | Tenderness, softness. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| testacye | Name for a kind of cement. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| theriac | An antidote to poison, esp. to the bite of a venomous serpent; = treacle n. 1. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| thighed | Having thighs (of a specified kind); often in parasynthetic combinations. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| Tiburtine | Of or pertaining to the region or district of Tibur (now Tivoli) in ancient Latium. Tiburtine stone… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| tilette | A small or minute tile. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| toothing | Development or ‘cutting’ of the teeth, dentition: = teething n. 1. Obs. or rare. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| transplant | trans. To remove (a plant) from one place or soil and plant it in another. Also fig. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| transversal | Lying or passing across; = transverse adj. 1. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| transversant | Crossing, transverse. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| tribute | intr. To yield tribute; trans. to pay as tribute. Obs. rare. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| tricline | = triclinium n. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| trimenstre | Ripening in three months. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| trunk | trans. To cut a part off from; to cut short, truncate; to lop, clip, prune. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| tuber | A kind of apple, or the tree on which it grows. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| turgent | Physically swelling or swollen; distended, turgid. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| uliginose | = uliginous adj. 2b. rare. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| ulpic | A kind of leek. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| unbruised | Not injured by bruising or crushing. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| uncumber | trans. To free from encumbrance; to disencumber. Also refl. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| underclose | (under- prefix 2b(a).) | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| underslake | (under- prefix 1a.) | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| undertaken | Attended to, made safe. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| undewed | (un- prefix 8.) | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| undewy | (un- prefix 7). | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| undried | (un- prefix 8.) | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| undry | intr. To lose dryness. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| undunged | (un- prefix 8.) | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| undure | trans. To crumble, break up. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| uneled | Unbaked. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| uneven | To make uneven. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| ungrained | Seedless. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| unguent | An ointment or salve. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| unhusbanding | Lack of husbandry. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| unlean | (un- prefix 7.) | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| unleast | (un- prefix 7.) | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| unnecessaire | Unnecessary. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| unoffensed | Unoffended. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| unold | (un- prefix 7.) | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| unproved | Not put to proof or trial; untried. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| unpulled | (un- prefix 8a 8c.) | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| unrende(d | = unrent adj. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| unrotted | (un- prefix 8.) | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| unrough | Not rough; spec. not rough-chinned; unbearded. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| unscummed | (un- prefix 8. Cf. Swedish oskummad.) | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| unshend | Obs. variant of unshent adj. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| unsmelling | (un- prefix 10.) | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| unwatered | Not sprinkled, moistened, or artificially supplied with water. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| unwink | intr. Of the eye: To open. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| upclose | trans. and intr. To close up, in various senses. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| updried | (up- prefix 3b.) | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| upfill | trans. To fill up. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| upplucked | Plucked up. Also as past participle. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| upset | To set up, raise up, erect. Obs. (Cf. upset adj. 1.) | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| ure | intr. To have good fortune. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| variate | Varied in nature. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| vesselling | Vessels collectively. (Cf. vesselment n.) | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| Virgils | The Pleiades. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| walnyed | Of a horse: ? Light grey. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| weedy | Full of, abounding or overgrown with, weeds. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| whiting | by covering or coating with white: Whitewashing. Also fig. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| winded | Having wind, i.e. (usually) breath, of a specified kind or in a specified condition… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| ycleyed | stopped with clay. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| yheped | heaped. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| zizyphus | A plant of a large widely distributed genus so named, which comprises spiny shrubs or trees… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
