| aiding | That provides aid or assistance; helping; helpful; auxiliary, contributory. | 1524 | Go To Quotation |
| middling | Girdle-making. | 1524 | Go To Quotation |
| misdemean | trans. (refl.). To misbehave, misconduct oneself. | 1524 | Go To Quotation |
| mutatis mutandis | With the necessary changes; with due alteration of details (used when comparing two or more cases or situations). | 1524 | Go To Quotation |
| peasemeal | Meal made from dried split peas. Also fig.: †a hotchpotch, a mess (obs.). | 1524 | Go To Quotation |
| piecework | Work for which an employee is paid according to the amount produced, rather than receiving… | 1549 | Go To Quotation |
| pinlock | A pound-keeper's fee for impounding stray livestock. Also more fully pinlock money. | 1524 | Go To Quotation |
| rack | trans. To stretch, pull out, increase the length of. Now rare. | 1435 | Go To Quotation |
| ramming | Copulation of rams with ewes; mating by sheep. Freq. attrib., as ramming season, ramming time. | 1524 | Go To Quotation |
| recontent | trans. To repay in full. Cf. content v. 5. | 1524 | Go To Quotation |
| scalding-house | A room in which utensils or the carcasses of animals are scalded. | 1421 | Go To Quotation |
| scolder | One who scolds. Formerly, †a common scold. | 1423 | Go To Quotation |
| scripulous | By-form of scrupulous adj.: cf. scriple n. | 1464 | Go To Quotation |
| second hand | at second hand (†also at the or a second hand, on the second hand): (to buy, receive… | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| semi-tile | ? Alteration of *samel tile (see samel adj.) = half-baked tile, by association with semi- prefix. | 1448 | Go To Quotation |
| sestern | = sester n. | 1421 | Go To Quotation |
| several | of land, esp. of enclosed pasture. | 1421 | Go To Quotation |
| several | trans. To make (a field) ‘several’ or enclosed and private property. | 1482 | Go To Quotation |
| slightly | Slimly, slenderly; flimsily, unsubstantially. | 1521 | Go To Quotation |
| smither | A smith or smithier; a hammerman. | 1435 | Go To Quotation |
| smithing | The action of the verb smith v.; the art or process of fashioning or forging metals; forging. | 1435 | Go To Quotation |
| spayer | A sluice. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| splendent | Shining brightly by virtue of inherent light. | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| stopper | One who obstructs the course of (a river); one who stops or fills up holes or chinks. | 1480 | Go To Quotation |
| straiting | = straitening n. at straiten v. Derivatives. | 1421 | Go To Quotation |
| sub-bailiwick | A district under the jurisdiction of a sub-bailiff. | 1524 | Go To Quotation |
| surquidance | = surquidry n. | 1524 | Go To Quotation |
| sussemy | Of swine's flesh: Measly. | 1421 | Go To Quotation |
| sweeping | That which is swept up; matter, esp. dust or refuse, that is swept together or away. | 1480 | Go To Quotation |
| tenter | trans. To stretch (cloth) on a tenter or tenters. | 1437 | Go To Quotation |
| thacker | One who covers roofs with thatch; a thatcher. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| towardness | Disposition, inclination towards or to do something; readiness, willingness. Obs. | 1461 | Go To Quotation |
| town-ditch | The ditch or moat surrounding a walled town. | 1423 | Go To Quotation |
| town-wall | The wall of a fortified town. | 1480 | Go To Quotation |
| unassigned | (un- prefix 8.) | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| unoffended | (un- prefix 8.) | 1524 | Go To Quotation |
| unrehearsed | Not related or mentioned; untold. | 1472 | Go To Quotation |
| unstinted | (un- prefix 8: see stint v.) | 1480 | Go To Quotation |
| untowardly | Unbecoming, improper. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| untowardness | Disinclination to be accommodating or pleasant; perversity, obstinacy. | 1524 | Go To Quotation |
| unvictualled | (un- prefix 8.) | 1484 | Go To Quotation |
| wrong-doing | Transgression of or offence against the moral or established law; reprehensible… | 1480 | Go To Quotation |
