| Aaronite | A descendant or follower of Aaron; a member of the Jewish priesthood. Cf. Aaron n. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| abridged | Shortened, cut short; limited, curtailed. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| accrease | intr. To increase or grow by addition, to flourish; (also) to accrue. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| accusation | An act of accusing; a charge or claim of lawbreaking or wrongdoing; a criticism. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| actor | A guardian, a steward; a person who acts on behalf of another. Obs. | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| Adar | In the Jewish calendar: the sixth month of the civil and twelfth of the religious… | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| adjurement | = adjuration n. (in various senses). | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| adulter | An adulterer, esp. a male one. | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| adulterer | A person who commits adultery. (Now the usual sense.) | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| affiche | trans. To fix, fasten; to affix; (in modern use) spec. to fix (a poster or placard) to a… | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| after-coming | Something that comes after; a following or subsequent state; a consequence, a sequel. Also: a second or further act of coming. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| again-buying | Redemption; ransom. Also: an instance of this. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| again-rise | intr. To rise in rebellion against someone; to rebel. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| allege | trans. To offer up (a prayer). | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| allegory | The use of symbols in a story, picture, etc., to convey a hidden or ulterior meaning… | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| ambitious | Full of ambition, thirsting after honour or advancement; aspiring to high position. | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| amended | Freed from faults, repaired, recovered, improved. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| amome | = amomum n. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| angle-hook | A fish hook. Also fig. Cf. angle n. 1. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| annual | Of or belonging to the year; reckoned, payable, or engaged by the year; yearly. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| any more | In negative, interrogative, or hypothetical contexts: in repetition or continuance of… | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| Apollyon | The destroyer, a name given to the Devil. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| apply | To bring (persons) together, to assemble. Obs. | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| arearing | The action of raising, lifting up, or elevation. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| argentary | A worker in silver, a silver-smith. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| art | trans. To confine, restrict, or limit in location or in action. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| ascend | of voluntary agents: To climb up, travel up, walk up; to soar, mount. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| attentively | With attention; with steady application of mind, energies, or senses; with careful consideration; observantly, heedfully. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| avarously | Avariciously, greedily. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| ballard | A bald-headed person. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| barbaryn | = barbarian n. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| barrenness | Incapacity for child-bearing; sterility as regards offspring. The opposite of fertility. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| bdellium | The translation, in the English Bible, of the Hebrew word b'dōlakh; see above. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| bearer | generally. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| beer | One who is or exists; sometimes spec. the Self-existent, the great I Am. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| behemoth | An animal mentioned in the book of Job; probably the hippopotamus; but also used… | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| believing | The action or fact of having belief, or of having belief in a thing or person… | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| berried | Beaten; threshed; trodden, beaten as a path. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| beseecher | One who beseeches; a suppliant, a petitioner. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| besieging | The action of laying siege to (a place); the condition of being besieged. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| blaming | The action of the verb blame v.; censure, reproach. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| borough-town | A town which is a borough. Still sometimes applied to Irish municipal boroughs. Cf. burrows-town n. (Sc.). | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| branching | That branches; that puts forth branches. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| bray | trans. To beat small; to bruise, pound, crush to powder; usually in a mortar. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| brayed | Beaten small, bruised, pounded. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| bridle-rein | A strap or cord attached to the bit, and serving to guide or control the horse; a rein. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| bundle | That which binds; a bandage. Obs. rare. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| burgeoning | That buds or sprouts. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| bushy | Abounding in bushes; overgrown with shrubs or underwood. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| caitifdom | Wretchedness, misery. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| calamy | Early form of calamus n. 2. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| camelion | A camelopard or giraffe. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| caper | A shrub (Capparis spinosa) in habit of growth like the common bramble, abundant on walls and rocky places in the South of Europe. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| caster | One who casts, in various senses of the verb. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| chafe | To warm, heat. Obs. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| Chaldee | A native of Chaldea. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| changeably | Alternately in order or position. Obs. | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| chanting | The action of the verb chant v.; singing, musical recitation, etc. (In early usage, also: Incantation, enchantment.) | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| charioteer | The driver of a chariot or car. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| chodchod | A Hebrew word kadkōd ‘a sparkling gem, prob. ruby’, left untranslated by the LXX. as χορχόρ… | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| cicone | A stork. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| civility | The position or status of being a citizen; citizenship. Obs. | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| clamour | with a, and pl. A shout, a cry; an outburst of noisy utterance. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| clayen | Of clay, as a material; clay-. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| closing | That which closes or makes fast, a fastening. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| cloth-maker | A maker of woollen cloth. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| coast | fig. intr. and trans. To border upon, come or lie near (in time, character, etc.) to; to approach, approximate. Obs. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| coctin | Corrupt forms in Wyclif MSS. of coccyn n., scarlet. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| colet | = acolyte n. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| collyrie | = collyrium n. 1. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| compatient | Suffering along with, sympathetic, compassionate. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| conjecting | Divining, guessing, conjecture. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| conjurer | One who practises conjuration; one who conjures spirits and pretends to perform miracles by their aid; a magician, wizard. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| consul | The title of the two annually elected magistrates who exercised conjointly supreme… | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| coot | A name originally given vaguely or generically to various swimming and diving birds. In… | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| corded | Having cords; made of or furnished with cords; in the form of cords. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| coupled | Built with couples or rafters, roofed. Obs. (See couple n. 8.) | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| covenableness | Fitness; seasonableness; suitableness. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| covenably | In a suitable, proper, or convenient manner; fitly; appropriately; seasonably, opportunely; conveniently. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| covering | That which covers or is adapted to cover, whether for protection, shelter… | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| crusted | Having or covered with a crust, encrusted; †crustaceous (obs.); that has deposited a crust, as old port or other wine. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| cubiculary | = cubicular n. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| cucumber | A creeping plant, Cucumis sativus (family Cucurbitaceæ), a native of southern Asia… | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| curing | Healing, cure. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| cursedhead | Cursedness, execrable wickedness. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| cursedhood | Cursedness; concr. accursed thing (tr. Latin anathema). | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| curseful | Fraught with a curse or curses. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| cypre | The henna-shrub (Lawsonia alba or inermis), with fragrant white flowers, found in the Levant. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| dauber | One who plasters or covers walls with mortar, clay, etc.; a plasterer; one who builds with daub. Obs. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| deaconhood | The office of a deacon: see deacon n. 1b 3. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| Decalogue | The Ten Commandments collectively as a body of law. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| defer | trans. To put off (action, procedure) to some later time; to delay, postpone. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| deflower | trans. To deprive (a woman) of her virginity; to violate, ravish. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| deform | Deformed, misshapen, shapeless, distorted; ugly, hideous. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| deform | trans. To form, fashion, delineate. | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| delicately | With enervating or weakening luxury or indulgence; effeminately, tenderly. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| depost | An earlier equivalent of deposit n. 1. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| depth | The great abyss of waters; the deep n. Obs. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| depute | Deputed; imputed, ascribed; appointed, assigned: see depute v. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| desolation | The action of laying waste a land, etc., destroying its people, crops, and buildings, and… | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| despairable | To be despaired of; desperate. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| devouring | The action of the verb devour v. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| dipsas | A serpent whose bite was fabled to produce a raging thirst. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| disceptation | Disputation, debate, discussion. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| distinct | Distinguished as not being the same; separate, several, individual, not identical; = different adj. 2. Const. from. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| distribution | The action of dividing and dealing out or bestowing in portions among a number of recipients; apportionment, allotment. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| diting | The action of the verb dite v.: inditing. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| duchy | The territory ruled by a duke or duchess. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| dweller | One who dwells or resides (in a place); an inhabitant, resident. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| dysentery | A disease characterized by inflammation of the mucous membrane and glands of the… | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| eder | Ivy. (The Latin word was prob. retained by Wyclif in the version of 1382 from ignorance… | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| edification | fig. In religious use, after Greek οἰκοδομή in 1 Cor. xiv: The building up the church… | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| eightieth | The ordinal numeral corresponding to the cardinal numeral eighty adj. | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| enblow | To inspire. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| encenser | A censer. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| ender | He that brings anything to completion. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| enemiable | Having the disposition of an enemy; hostile. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| enemyly | In a hostile manner. | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| enlighten | trans. To remove dimness or blindness from (the eyes). Chiefly fig. and in figurative… | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| enorn | trans. To adorn, deck, trim; to set out (a table); = anorn v.; also fig. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| ensearch | trans. To look carefully through (a country, place, book or document); to examine, pry into, scrutinize, search. Also fig. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| entering | The place where one enters; an entrance; a door, etc. Of a bodily organ: An opening. Obs. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| enviousty | = enviousness n. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| enwrap | trans. To wrap, envelop, enfold in or with (a garment, case, or covering, coils or… | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| espying | That espies. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| evangelize | To bring or tell good tidings. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| ever-during | Always enduring, everlasting. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| exactor | One who makes illegal or unjustifiable exactions; an extortioner, oppressor. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| exequy | pl. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| expense | Money expended (cf. expenditure n. 2); a sum expended. Obs. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| failing | The action of fail v., in various senses; an instance of this, a failure. for, without (any)… | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| faunt | An infant, a child, a young person. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| feelingly | With just perception, understandingly, sensibly; appropriately, to the purpose. Obs. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| fieldy | That grows in or inhabits the fields. Obs. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| filthy | Full of filth; besmeared or defiled with filth; dirty, foul, nasty, unclean. the filthy parts: the private parts. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| fiole | A bowl, cup, or phial. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| fire-red | Red like fire. Also, reddened by fire. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| first-head | The position of one who is first; primacy. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| flaggy | Abounding in flags or reeds. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| foaming | The action of foam v. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| forcement | concr. Something which strengthens; a fortification. Obs. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| foregoer | One who or that which goes in front or ‘leads the way’; a leader; hence, an example, pattern. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| forfend | To check, refrain, withhold. Obs. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| forgeable | That may be forged, admitting of forging. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| fornicary | A fornicator. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| forsleep | trans. To neglect through sleep. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| foulness | Ugliness, hideousness, repulsiveness. Obs. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| froth | intr. To emit froth or foam; to foam at the mouth. Of liquids: To gather or throw up froth; to run foaming away, by, over. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| fructuous | Full of, abounding with, or producing fruit. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| frying-pan | A shallow pan, usually of iron, with a long handle, in which food is fried. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| fugitive | One who flees or tries to escape from danger, an enemy, justice, or an owner. Cf. A. 1.… | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| galbanum | A gum resin obtained from certain Persian species of Ferula, esp. from F. galbaniflua and F. rubricaulis. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| genital | Pertaining to animal generation. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| given | Bestowed as a gift. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| glory | To boast. Const. of, to with inf., or that. Also refl. and quasi- trans. with complement in indirect passive. Obs. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| glorying | The action of glory v. | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| gluey | Resembling glue; having the properties of glue; full of, or smeared with… | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| glug | A clod. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| grappe | trans. To grip, grasp. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| grasp | intr. To make clutches with the hand. Often used as synonymous with grope n. Often with after, to… | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| gravelly | Full of or abounding in gravel; consisting of or containing gravel; strewn with gravel. Also, resembling gravel. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| graven | Sculptured, hewn. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| guilingly | In the manner of one who deceives; with guile; deceitfully. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| guilous | Guileful. | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| gull | An unfledged bird, esp. a gosling. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| hallower | One who or that which hallows, sanctifies, or consecrates; a sanctifier, consecrator. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| halting | That halts; limping, lame. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| high-set | Set in a high or lofty position. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| hissing | The utterance of a hiss or hisses as a sign of disapproval or detestation. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| hoarhead | A hoary head; hence, an old grey-haired man. Also attrib. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| homeliness | Kindness, kindliness; familiarity, intimacy. Obs. | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| horned | Having, bearing, or wearing an appendage, ornament, etc., called a horn; having horn-like projections or excrescenses. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| hospital | In phr. hospital Jove, Jupiter, or God, a translation of Latin hospitālis… | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| host | A place of lodging or entertainment; a hostel, inn. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| hulled | Stripped of the hull or husk. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| hungerer | One who suffers hunger; one who longs or craves. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| idiot | A person without learning; an ignorant, uneducated person; a simple or ordinary person. Now arch. and rare. | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| illusor | A deceiver, deluder. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| immunity | Exemption from a service, obligation, or duty; freedom from liability to… | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| imperfectness | The quality or state of being imperfect; imperfection. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| impollute | = impolluted adj. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| inbow | trans. To bend into a curved or arched form; to incurve, arch. Cf. bow v. 9, embow v. 2. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| infect | Tainted with disease or organic corruption. Obs. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| injury | Wrongful action or treatment; violation or infringement of another's rights; suffering… | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| inobeisance | = inobedience n. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| instore | trans. To restore, repair, renew. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| interpretation | The action of interpreting or explaining; explanation, exposition. by interpretation, inferentially; = interpretatively adv. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| inwritten | Inscribed, written on or in. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| irony | Consisting of iron; of the nature of iron; resembling iron in some quality, as hardness… | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| irreligiosity | The quality of being irreligious; irreligiousness; irreligious conduct. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| ivy-tree | A large plant of ivy. Obs. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| joining | An instance of such action or state; the place where two things or parts of something join or are joined; a junction, joint. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| jubilee | Jewish Hist. (More fully year of jubilee). A year of emancipation and restoration… | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| juniper | | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| justifying | The action of making, proving, or accounting just; justification. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| knowingly | Recognizably. Obs. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| knowledger | = acknowledger n. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| lacert | A lizard. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| languishing | Declining in health, pining away; drooping, withering, failing. Also in early use: †suffering from sickness or disease (obs.). | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| lattice | A structure made of laths, or of wood or metal crossed and fastened together, with… | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| leaperess | A female dancer. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| learned | Of a person: In early use, that has been taught; instructed, educated. In later use… | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| lecher | intr. To play the lecher. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| legacy | The function or office of a delegate or deputy. (Cf. embassy n. 1b) Obs. | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| library | A scribe. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| lightener | One who lightens or illuminates; an illuminator; one who flashes lightning. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| liquid | Said of a material substance in that condition (familiar as the normal condition of… | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| littlemeal | Little by little. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| logician | A writer on logic; a student of logic. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| long-living | That lives for a long time. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| loosen | To undo, unfasten (bonds, a knot, or the like). Now usually: To render looser or less tight, to relax, slacken. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| low | trans. = allow v. in various senses. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| lowing | That lows, as cattle do. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| lyingly | In a lying manner, mendaciously. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| mad | To be or to become mad; to act like a madman, rage, behave furiously. Obs. (arch. in later use). | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| madness | Imprudence, delusion, or (wild) foolishness resembling insanity; an instance of this. | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| magnify | To praise highly; to glorify, extol. Obs. exc. as in sense 1b. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| magnifying | The action of magnifying something; an instance of this. | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| maliciously | Wickedly, sinfully. Obs. | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| mannerness | Moderation. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| manslayer | A person who kills human beings; a murderer; (occas.) a person who commits manslaughter (now arch.… | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| mean | A person (as a saint, priest, etc.) who mediates or who acts as a channel of communication between God and mankind. Obs. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| meaning | That which is indicated or expressed by a (supposed) symbol or symbolic action; spec.… | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| member | trans. To mention; to remember; to be mindful of. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| Midianite | A member of a nomadic people inhabiting the north-west Arabian peninsula in Old Testament times. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| midwifing | The practice of acting as a midwife. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| milium | Millet (the seed or the plant). Obs. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| ministration | The action or an act of ministering, tending, or serving; the rendering of service, aid, care, or attention. Now usu. in pl. | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| miseasety | = misease n. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| mistrowful | Full of doubt; unbelieving. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| mistrowing | Unbelieving, doubting. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| misuse | To use wrongly or improperly; to apply to a wrong purpose. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| money changer | A person who changes money from one form to another, esp. as a profession (now chiefly hist.… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| monisher | A person who admonishes, warns, or exhorts. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| mortify | trans. To deprive of life; to kill, put to death. Also: to render insensible. Occas. intr.: to kill. Obs. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| motet | A short vocal composition, esp. a polyphonic piece for liturgical use or for setting… | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| mother-in-law | The mother of one's spouse. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| moving | A change of place, position, or state; motion, movement. Also: an act or the action of changing residence. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| mygale | A shrew; a ferret (see note in etymology). Obs. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| myrt-tree | The European myrtle, Myrtus communis. Also (in full wild myrt-tree): butcher's broom, Ruscus aculeatus. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| naphthe | = naphtha n. 1. | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| necessity | The constraining power of circumstances; a condition or state of things which forces a certain course of action. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| needfulty | An instance of need. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| neighing | Of a horse: that neighs. Freq. in extended use: having a cry (producing a noise, etc.) reminiscent of a horse's neigh. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| next of kin | A person's closest (living) relative or relatives (freq. in legal contexts). Also fig. and in extended use. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| Nicolaite | = Nicolaitan n. | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| niggard | A mean, stingy, or parsimonious person; a miser; a person who only grudgingly parts… | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| Nisan | In the Jewish calendar: the first month of the religious year and seventh of the… | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| noblehead | Nobleness. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| novelty | Something new, not previously experienced, unusual, or unfamiliar; a novel thing. | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| obeisance | The action or fact of obeying; = obedience n. 1. Obs. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| obeish | intr. To obey, comply, be obedient. Chiefly with to. Cf. obey v. 2 3. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| obliging | The action of putting under a legal or moral obligation, or of compelling or… | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| obsecration | Earnest entreaty, supplication; spec. entreaty made in the name of a god or some sacred thing; an instance of this. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| offension | Hurt, injury, damage; displeasure, annoyance; that which is offensive or causes… | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| oncoming | The approach, onset, or arrival (of something). rare before 19th cent. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| ouche | A clasp, buckle, fibula, or brooch, esp. one set with precious stones, for holding… | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| out-burn | intr. and trans. To burn out, away, or up; to blaze up. Obs. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| outlawry | Law. The action of declaring a person to be outside the protection of the law; the legal… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| outmer | Outer. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| out-think | trans. To think (something) through; to devise or determine by thinking. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| overabound | intr. To abound more, to be more plentiful. Obs. | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| overest | Highest in position, uppermost; outermost, covering all the rest; farthest away. Now Newfoundland and rare. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| overgoing | The action of overgo v. (in various senses); an instance of this. Also: a place where… | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| overhope | intr. To hope too much, have too much hope. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| overjoy | intr. To rejoice. Obs. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| overpassing | That overpasses (in various senses of the verb); †excessive, surpassing (obs.). | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| overput | trans. To get beyond or over; to recover from; to throw off, overturn. Also (occas.) intr. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| overseer | A person who oversees others; a supervisor, a superintendent; a person in charge of a job or workforce. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| overtravail | trans. To cause or force to work too hard; to exhaust or oppress with excessive work. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| parably | In parables. | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| Paralipomenon | In the Vulgate and some other versions of the Bible: the name of the books of Chronicles in… | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| parch | trans. To dry (esp. a foodstuff) by exposure to intense heat; to lightly roast or toast (corn, peas, etc.). | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| pardelun | Wyclif's translation of the second part of Latin cameleopardalum, mistaken for two… | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| parius | More fully parius stone. Parian marble. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| passible | Chiefly Theol. Capable of suffering or feeling; susceptible to sensation or emotion. Cf. patible adj. | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| Passion Sunday | The fifth Sunday in Lent, the beginning of Passiontide; the Sunday before Palm Sunday. In… | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| peaceableness | The quality or state of being peaceable; calmness or peacefulness of behaviour… | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| peaceably | With peaceful or friendly disposition, intention, or behaviour; so as to promote… | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| pentecontarch | Ancient Hist. A person in charge of a fifty-oared ship; the commander of a penteconter (cf. trierarch n.). | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| perturbation | The action of perturbing a person's mind, heart, etc.; the fact or condition of… | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| pestilence | A fatal epidemic or disease, affecting people or animals; a plague; spec. (freq. in the pestilence… | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| phial | A vessel for holding liquids; (formerly generally) any of various types of containers… | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| pimentary | A maker or seller of unguents or perfumes. Cf. pigmentary n. 1a. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| plague | A blow; (also) smiting, slaughter. Obs. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| platan | A plane tree, esp. Platanus orientalis. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| pleasable | Capable of being pleased; (formerly) spec. †placable, mild (obs.). | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| pleased | Pleasing, agreeable. Obs. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| plenteousness | Plentifulness, copiousness, abundance; fruitfulness. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| plenteouste | = plenteousness n. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| plentiness | Plentifulness, abundance, wealth; the fact or condition of being or having plenty; an instance of this. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| pliant | Flexible or supple; capable of being bent or folded easily; ductile. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| pointel | A writing or engraving instrument; a stylus or pencil. Cf. pointrel n. 2. Now rare (hist. in later use). | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| polish | trans. To make smooth (and usually glossy) by friction; (in later use also) to apply polish… | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| polished | Made smooth (and usually glossy) by friction. Also fig. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| pollute | trans. To make morally impure; to violate the purity or sanctity of; to profane or… | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| pomegranate tree | = pomegranate n. 1b. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| porter | A person employed to carry luggage, goods, etc.; (now) esp. a person employed to carry… | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| potestate | A person who has power over others; a superior, a potentate. | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| poverish | trans. To make poor, impoverish. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| prayable | Of a person, God, or a god: that may be entreated or prayed to. rare after 16th cent. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| prayer | A person who entreats or prays (freq. with modifying adjective); spec. a person who leads the prayers in a church service. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| praying | The act or practice of offering or engaging in prayer; a prayer or earnest request. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| praying | That prays; entreating, beseeching. | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| precellent | That excels or surpasses others; surpassingly excellent, pre-eminent. | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| predestinate | Destined by divine will, foreordained; predestined to a specified fate or to do something. Now rare. | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| prefation | The act of introducing or speaking before, prefacing; an introductory statement. | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| prepucy | The foreskin. Also in extended use: the state of being uncircumcised, uncircumcision. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| primacy | The state or position of being first in order, rank, importance, or authority; the fact… | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| princehead | (a) The office, rank, or condition of a prince; = princehood n. 1a. (b) A title given to a prince; = princedom n. 2b. Also fig. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| princehood | The rank, authority, or office of prince; the condition of being a prince or ruler. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| principate | The office or rank of, or as of, prince, leader, or ruler; supreme position or… | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| principle | That from which something originates or is derived; a source, an origin; the root (of… | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| print | Originally: †to press in (a seal) (obs.). Later more generally: to press (something hard)… | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| proemy | = proem n. 1. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| propitiatory | = Mercy-seat n. 1. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| proportion | Appropriate, fitting, or pleasing relation (of size, etc.) between things or parts of a… | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| province | A country, territory, district, or region; a region of the earth or of a continent.… | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| psalterer | A person who plays the psaltery. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| pulling | The action or an act of pulling away or removing something; plucking, picking, gathering; uprooting. Also with away, up. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| pupil | Chiefly Civil Law. †An orphan who is a minor and consequently a ward (obs.). Also (Sc. Law)… | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| purchaser | A person who acquires or aims to acquire wealth or possessions. Obs. | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| purgation | Ceremonial or ritual cleansing from defilement or uncleanness; = purification n. 1. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| purification | The action or process of making ceremonially or ritually clean; spec. the ritual cleansing… | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| purpured | Clothed in purple; that has been made or coloured purple; = purpurate adj. 1. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| purseynt | The area enclosed within a specified boundary; spec. the area under the jurisdiction of… | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| purtenance | A thing which belongs to or is associated with another; a contributory or subsidiary part… | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| putter | An animal that pushes or butts with the head or horns. Cf. put v. 1c. Obs. rare (Sc. in later use). | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| quarry | A surface excavation from which stone for use in building and construction is or… | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| quaternion | A group or set of four persons or things. | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| quenched | That has been quenched, in various senses; spec. (a) (of lime) slaked (obs.); (b) (of… | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| rabbeting | The process of cutting rabbets in boards, or of fitting boards together using… | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| rascal | collect. Those people forming the lowest social class; the common people; the rabble.… | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| ravishmeal | In a rushing manner; speedily, hastily. Cf ravishing adj. 2. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| reaping time | Harvest time. Also in figurative context. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| rebellion | An organized armed resistance to an established ruler or government; an uprising, a revolt. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| rebelty | Rebellion. | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| rebound | Of an action, quality, etc., or its results: to come to bear on or upon (a person… | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| rebounding | The action of rebound v. (in various senses); an instance of this. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| receivable | Capable of being received; able to be received. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| receiving | The action of receive v. (in various senses); reception, acceptance. Formerly also (in pl.): †that which is received (obs.). | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| Rechabite | According to the Old Testament and Hebrew scriptures: a member of an Israelite… | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| reconcile | In pass. (with unexpressed agent). To be restored to friendly relations with a person… | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| reconciling | Restoration of friendly relations between parties. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| recurer | A helper. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| reeden | Made or consisting of a reed or reeds; (also) reed-like. Now rare. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| refrain | To restrain, hold back, or check (a person or thing). arch. and rare after 17th cent. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| refreid | intr. To become or grow cold. Also fig. | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| refresh | trans. To impart fresh strength or energy to (a person, the spirits, a part of the body… | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| relieve | To ease (a person, the mind, etc.) from sorrow, fear, doubt, or some other source… | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| rent | Torn, pulled apart. Also in quot. 1480: †wearing torn or ragged clothing (obs.). | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| reply | trans. To repeat, reiterate; to reproduce in speech, sound, or writing. Obs. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| reprovable | Deserving of reproof or censure; blameworthy, reprehensible. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| reprover | A person who or thing which reproves (reprove v.). | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| reproving | That reproves or rebukes. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| reprovingly | In a reproving manner. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| repugn | Without following construction. Obs. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| rescrite | A copy. Cf. rescript n. 1a. | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| resident | In predicative use. Freq. fig. | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| residue | Remaining, surviving. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| resin | A highly viscous, sticky, flammable, typically aromatic substance secreted by certain… | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| retribution | Repayment or recompense for a service, good deed, etc.; an instance of this. Obs. | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| revoke | To recall or bring back (a person) to a (right) belief, way of life, etc. Also without construction. Obs. | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| rhetoric | = rhetorician n. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| right rule | trans. To direct, guide; to order, arrange (also) to make straight or right, set in order. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| roundness | The circumference or outer surface of something, esp. the earth. Now rare. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| rower | A person who rows; an oarsman or oarswoman. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| ruinous | Esp. of a building: falling or fallen into ruin; decayed, dilapidated, broken down. | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| ruler | With of, over, †upon (the people or region ruled). | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| ruler | Of scripture: canonical. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| rumour | General talk or hearsay, not based on definite knowledge. | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| sabbatize | fig. To enjoy or undergo a period of rest analogous to a Sabbath. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| sacrifier | A sacrificing priest. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| sad | (Usu. in pass.) To make solid, firm, or stiff; to compress. Also intr.: to become solid… | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| sardine | A precious stone mentioned in Rev. iv. 3. In the non-Biblical examples perh. used for sardoin n. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| savouring | A perfume, a fragrant substance. Obs. | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| schism | In the versions of the New Testament, used to represent the Greek σχίσμα in some… | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| scraping | | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| scruple | A unit of weight = 20 grains, ⅓ drachm, 1/24 oz. Apothecaries' weight. Denoted by the character ℈. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| serge | Used to translate Latin sagum, in Vulgate with the sense of curtain. Cf. say n. 2. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| shendshipful | Disgraceful, ignominious. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| shod | Wearing shoes. Chiefly with qualifying adv., well, neatly, etc. Also dry-shod adj., high-shod adj., slipshod adj. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| sieging | The action of besieging; a siege. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| signacle | Something that authenticates or confirms; a seal, a mark. | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| sinewy | Made of sinews. Obs. rare. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| sitting-place | A place to sit in; a seat. rare. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| Sivan | The ninth month of the Jewish year, though named third in the… | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| slayster | A female slayer. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| smaragdus | = smaragd n. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| smiting | That smites, strikes, or beats. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| sniter | pl. A pair of candle-snuffers. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| solacing | The action of the verb in various senses; †the fact of taking enjoyment or recreation. | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| solution | A particular instance or method of solving or settling; an explanation, answer, or decision. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| sorrowy | Sorrowful. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| sought | That is, or has been, searched for, desired, etc. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| spaciously | With much space; in a spacious place. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| sprinkled | Besprinkled (with moisture, colour, etc.). Also absol. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| spute | trans. To spit on (a person, etc.). | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| stain | trans. To damage or blemish the appearance of (something) by colouring a part of its… | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| stellion | In early use, a kind of lizard with star-like spots, mentioned by ancient writers. In modern… | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| stinkingness | The quality of being stinking. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| stirrer | One who or something which excites or provokes something, as strife, passion, etc., or… | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| stoic | (With capital initial.) One of a school of Greek philosophers (founded by Zeno, fl. 300 b.c… | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| strivous | Full of strife. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| sturdiness | Fierceness, violence; harshness, sternness. | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| subject | To make (persons, a nation or country) subject to a conquering or sovereign power; to… | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| subjectable | With to. Capable of being subjected. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| subjection | The action, state, or process of being submissive or subject to another; submission, obedience; homage. Obs. | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| subvert | To raze (a building, town, etc.) to the ground; to destroy completely. Also intr. Obs. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| subverting | The action of subvert v.; subversion; an instance of this. | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| sucker | A young mammal before it is weaned; †a child at the breast (even-sucker, see even- comb._form… | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| suddenness | The quality of taking place without warning or preparation; unexpectedness. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| superscription | A piece of text written or printed at the head or beginning of a document; a heading. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| supet | = supping n. 2. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| support | To endure without opposition or resistance; to bear with, put up with, tolerate. In later use chiefly in negative contexts. | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| sustentation | Patience, forbearance. Obs. rare. | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| swathing-clothes | With pl. concord. = swaddling-clothes n. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| taught | Of a person: Instructed, trained; †learned (obs.). Now usually absol., ‘the taught’, or… | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| Tebeth | The fourth month of the Jewish year (though placed tenth in the traditional list… | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| tempering | The action of the verb temper v., in various senses; an instance of this. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| terebinth | A tree of moderate size, Pistacia Terebinthus, N.O. Anacardiaceæ, a native of… | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| tetrarch | Roman Hist. The ruler of one of four divisions of a country or province; at a later… | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| thralless | A female thrall; a bondwoman. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| thyine | Epithet of a tree, and its wood, mentioned in Rev. xviii. 12; supposed to be the… | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| tily | Consisting of ‘tiles’ or bricks. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| timeful | Early in season; = timely adj. 1b. Obs. | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| tink | intr. To emit a metallic sound with very short resonance, e.g. as is done by a cracked… | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| tirshatha | The title of an ancient Persian viceroy or prefect; applied in O.T. to Nehemiah. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| toll-gatherer | One who collects tolls or dues; a tax-gatherer: = publican n. 1. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| Tophet | orig. Proper name of a place near Gehenna or the Valley of the Son or Children of Hinnom… | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| to-tread | trans. To trample down, trample upon. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| transfer | trans. To convey or take from one place, person, etc. to another; to transmit, transport… | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| travelling | The action of the verb travel v.; journeying. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| treasure | trans. To put away or lay aside (anything of value) for preservation, security, or future… | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| trifling | The action of the verb trifle v.; jesting or frivolous talk; fooling; idle, foolish… | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| turngiddy | Giddiness, dizziness. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| tyrandise | Oppressive or despotic government, action, or treatment: = tyranny n. 3. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| unamended | (un- prefix 8.) | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| uncontinent | = incontinent adj. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| uncorruptible | = incorruptible adj. 1. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| unculpable | Not culpable or blameworthy; free from fault or blame. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| undercreep | intr. To creep in (stealthily). | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| undernimmer | One who reproves or rebukes. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| underturn | trans. To overturn, overthrow. Obs. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| unenarrable | (un- prefix 7b 5b.) | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| unexcusable | Of persons. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| unexpugnable | = inexpugnable adj. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| unfaithful | Not having the proper religious faith; infidel, unbelieving. Also absol. | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| unfulfilled | (un- prefix 8.) | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| ungird | = ungirt adj. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| unguentary | A maker of or dealer in (perfumed) ointment; a perfumer. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| ungula | = onycha n., onyx n. 2. Obs. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| unhewn | Not hewn or cut into shape; not fashioned or shaped by hewing. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| unjustly | In an unjust manner; contrary to the principles of justice. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| unmovable | = immovable adj. 1. Now rare. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| unobeisance | Disobedience. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| unobeisant | Disobedient. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| unobeishing | Disobedient. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| unovercome | (un- prefix 8b) | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| unportable | Too burdensome or grievous to be borne; unbearable, intolerable. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| unprofit | (un- prefix 12. Cf. Middle Dutch onprofijt, Middle Low German unprofit.) | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| unprudence | Imprudence. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| unquenchable | Of fire. (Also fig.) | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| unquiet | trans. To disturb the quiet of; to disquiet. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| unreligiosity | Irreligiosity. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| unremediable | Irremediable. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| unrestful | Restless, stirring, unquiet. (Freq. 1875–.) | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| unrestfulness | (un- prefix 12; cf. unrestful adj.) | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| unshamefastly | Immodestly. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| unsubject | (un- prefix 7.) | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| unsupped | Without having supped; supperless. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| untellable | Unspeakable, unutterable; indescribable. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| untosmitten | (un- prefix 8b.) | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| unvanquishable | Incapable of being vanquished or overcome. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| unvanquished | Not vanquished or overcome; unsubdued. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| unwarded | Unguarded; undefended. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| unwitting | Lack of knowledge; ignorance. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| uttermost | External limit, part, etc.; = utmost adj. n. 4. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| vary | Particoloured, variegated. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| vengesour | An avenger. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| venomed | Of reptiles, insects, etc.: Endowed with venom; = venomous adj. 3. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| venoming | The action of the verb; poisoning; †poison. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| ver | The season of spring; springtime. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| viron | trans. To go round; to make the circuit of. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| volible | Capable of turning or of being turned round. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| vome | trans. and absol. To vomit. Also fig. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| waiter | One who watches, or observes closely; one who is on the look-out. Obs. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| walling | concr. Wall-work; also, walls collectively; also, the materials of which a wall is made. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| water-bearer | One who carries water; spec. one whose employment is to carry water from a spring, well… | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| well-pleasing | Giving great pleasure or satisfaction. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| whilemeal | Used to render Latin vicissim by turns. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| whirl-puff | A puff or gust of wind such as raises dust in a whirl or eddy; also †a whirlwind. Also fig. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| whist | An exclamation to command silence: Hush! (Coinciding with the imperative of whist v. 1.) | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| winnower | One who winnows; a person engaged in winnowing; also fig. (cf. winnowing n. 1b). | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| winter | intr. To pass or spend the winter; to stay or reside (at a specified place) during the… | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
| wooingly | Wantonly, impudently. Obs. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| wretchful | Wretched; miserable; unhappy. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| yeting | Casting of metal or a metal object. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| yourn | = yours pron. (in various senses). | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| Ziv | Formerly, the second month of the ancient Israelite year, afterwards called Iyyar n. | 1382 | Go To Quotation |
