| abail | trans. To provide bail for, to release on bail; (also) to pay bail to. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| aggregatory | A book which contains collected particulars; a compilation. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| alliage | Alliance, confederation; (also) an alliance. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| ambassade | The mission or function of an ambassador. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| ambidextry | Double-dealing. Cf. ambidexter n. 2. | 1611 | Go To Quotation |
| amity | sing. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| amphibille | Ambiguous. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| apostil | To annotate or write marginal notes to. | 1637 | Go To Quotation |
| attorney | letter (also warrant) of attorney: a legal document by which a person appoints one or… | 1431 | Go To Quotation |
| bijou | A jewel, a trinket; a ‘gem’ among works of art. Also attrib. Loosely as adj.: small… | 1668 | Go To Quotation |
| black pudding | A large sausage made of blood and suet, sometimes with flour or oatmeal. Cf. blood pudding at blood n. 5, blutwurst n. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| cablet | A small cable or cable-laid rope less than 10 inches in circumference. | 1575 | Go To Quotation |
| cense | A tax or tribute; = census n. 2. | 1458 | Go To Quotation |
| censer | One who pays or †levies cense or ‘censure’. | 1458 | Go To Quotation |
| chargé | A minister who transacts diplomatic business at a foreign court during the temporary… | 1767 | Go To Quotation |
| coronary | The office of a coroner. | 1872 | Go To Quotation |
| coxcombing | The making a coxcomb or fool (of). Cf. fooling n. | 1664 | Go To Quotation |
| depance | Payment, disbursement. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| disbursal | The act of disbursing, disbursement. | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| dishabited | ? Improperly habited or dressed. | 1648 | Go To Quotation |
| disjourn | trans. To put off from the day appointed. | 1642 | Go To Quotation |
| disjustice | To deprive of the office of Justice of the Peace. | 1603 | Go To Quotation |
| dismountable | Capable of being dismounted. Of a gun or cannon: capable of being removed from its carriage for transport. | 1711 | Go To Quotation |
| Downing Street | A short street in London running out of Whitehall towards St. James's Park and… | 1781 | Go To Quotation |
| émeute | A popular rising or disturbance. | 1782 | Go To Quotation |
| factioneer | A member of a faction, a party-man. | 1710 | Go To Quotation |
| filigrane | = filigree n. | 1668 | Go To Quotation |
| floatage | The action or state of floating. | 1626 | Go To Quotation |
| flushy | Somewhat flushed, or inclined to flush; reddish. | 1706 | Go To Quotation |
| grave | trans. To clean (a ship's bottom) by burning off the accretions, and paying it over with… | 1461 | Go To Quotation |
| havier | A gelded fallow deer. Also attrib. | 1676 | Go To Quotation |
| High Church | The party or principles of the High-Churchmen (see High-Churchman n.). | 1702 | Go To Quotation |
| hockey | An outdoor game of ball played with sticks or clubs hooked or curved at one end, with… | 1527 | Go To Quotation |
| hummer | trans. To murmur, mutter. | 1629 | Go To Quotation |
| immortgage | trans. = mortgage v. | 1575 | Go To Quotation |
| impromptu | Without preparation or premeditation; off-hand, on the spur of the moment; extempore. | 1669 | Go To Quotation |
| inawe | trans. To put in awe or fear; to awe, overawe. | 1642 | Go To Quotation |
| ingressor | One who enters; an intruder, an invader. | 1710 | Go To Quotation |
| injunct | Enjoined. | 1517 | Go To Quotation |
| inlease | trans. To let on lease. | 1608 | Go To Quotation |
| japanned | Varnished, lacquered, or adorned with japan or in Japanese style. | 1693 | Go To Quotation |
| jowel | app. One of the piers or supporters of a wooden bridge. (See recent explanations in quots. 1788 1828.) | 1516 | Go To Quotation |
| junct | Joined, conjunct, joint. | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| jurament | An oath. to do juraments (University slang): see quot. 1877. | 1575 | Go To Quotation |
| jurate | Sworn, bound by oath. | 1433 | Go To Quotation |
| kern | Hist. A light-armed Irish foot-soldier (cf. quot. 1600); one of the poorer class among… | 1351 | Go To Quotation |
| kettledrummer | One who plays the kettledrum. | 1683 | Go To Quotation |
| latter will | A person's will or testament. Also in extended use: a legacy. Freq. in latter will and testament. | 1540 | Go To Quotation |
| levy | trans. To raise (contributions, taxes); to impose (an assessment, rate, toll, etc.). Const. †of, on, upon. | 1388 | Go To Quotation |
| loft | To store (goods or produce) in a loft. rare. | 1518 | Go To Quotation |
| lostless | Free from loss. | 1459 | Go To Quotation |
| maltoter | A person who collects a maletolt. | 1456 | Go To Quotation |
| manichord | = monochord n. 2 (occas. also in sense 1). | 1668 | Go To Quotation |
| manifest | Clearly revealed to the eye, mind, or judgement; open to view or comprehension; obvious. | 1385 | Go To Quotation |
| manning | Originally: the action of providing a ship with a crew, or a fort, city, etc., with troops… | 1462 | Go To Quotation |
| marchman | An inhabitant of the marches or border territories. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| marshman | A person who lives in marshy country; (in local use) an inhabitant of a specific area of marshland, as Romney Marsh, etc. | 1462 | Go To Quotation |
| mash-rule | An implement used to stir the malt in a mash tun; a mash-staff. | 1388 | Go To Quotation |
| mendicancy | The state or condition of being a mendicant or beggar; the habit or practice of begging. | 1711 | Go To Quotation |
| metleyship | The office of meter or measurer. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| mid-man | A mediator, an arbitrator. | 1459 | Go To Quotation |
| missy | Used as an affectionate, playful, or (occas.) contemptuous form of address or mode of… | 1676 | Go To Quotation |
| mortgagee | The person to whom property is mortgaged; the creditor (now usually a bank, building… | 1584 | Go To Quotation |
| mortuary | A customary gift formerly claimed by the incumbent of a parish from the estate of… | 1403 | Go To Quotation |
| murenger | An officer responsible for keeping the walls of a city in good repair. | 1580 | Go To Quotation |
| mustarding | Prob.: treatment with mustard, for a practical joke. | 1679 | Go To Quotation |
| needling | Needles (needle n. 8) inserted into a structure to provide support; the operation of inserting such beams. | 1348 | Go To Quotation |
| non-paying | Failure or refusal to pay; non-payment. | 1599 | Go To Quotation |
| ombre | A trick-taking card game for three people using forty cards. Cf. renegado n. 4. | 1661 | Go To Quotation |
| outlope | An act of running out; a sally, an excursion; = outleap n. 2. In early use: spec. an escape from prison. | 1241 | Go To Quotation |
| pace | Easter; (formerly also) †Passover (obs.); = pasch n. In later use chiefly attrib. | 1385 | Go To Quotation |
| pack | A bundle of things wrapped or tied up together for transport; a bale, package… | 1191 | Go To Quotation |
| pauper | A person having no property or means of livelihood; a person dependent on the charity… | 1516 | Go To Quotation |
| paying off | The action of paying off (in various senses); the action of clearing a debt or loan; the… | 1646 | Go To Quotation |
| peace man | A man living under the king's peace; a peaceful subject. Also: a man under the protection or authority of the king. Obs. | 1473 | Go To Quotation |
| pearl | The brill, Scophthalmus rhombus. Also pearl turbot. | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| penitent | That repents with sincere desire to amend the sin or wrongdoing; repentant, contrite. | 1341 | Go To Quotation |
| piped | Having the form of a pipe; tubular. Now rare. | 1520 | Go To Quotation |
| pirling | That spins, whirls, or revolves. Originally and chiefly in pirling wheel n. a spinning wheel. Obs. | 1448 | Go To Quotation |
| plashed | That is or has been pleached. | 1602 | Go To Quotation |
| pleasance | A fine gauzelike fabric. Freq. in kerchief of pleasance and variants. | 1426 | Go To Quotation |
| podder | Originally: field crops or their seed grains; fodder for cattle. In later use: plants having pods, pulse (cf. codware n. 1). | 1467 | Go To Quotation |
| poke | A projecting brim or front of a hat or bonnet; the peak of a cap. Now hist. and Brit. regional. | 1614 | Go To Quotation |
| poll money | Money levied or exacted at a fixed rate for every person; a capitation, a poll tax. | 1468 | Go To Quotation |
| polyphone | A musical instrument having a large number of wire strings and resembling a lute. Cf. poliphant n. Obs. | 1655 | Go To Quotation |
| popinjay | An ornamental representation of a parrot, esp. on a tapestry. Obs. | 1322 | Go To Quotation |
| portmoot | The court of a borough or city (used esp. of cities and boroughs in the County Palatine of Chester). Now hist. | 1266 | Go To Quotation |
| posthume | A posthumous child. Also fig. | 1569 | Go To Quotation |
| processionary | = processional n. 1. Now hist. and rare. | 1447 | Go To Quotation |
| quiver | A portable case for holding arrows (and sometimes also a bow). | 1322 | Go To Quotation |
| recredential | Of a letter: sent by a government to its ambassador for presentation to the government… | 1639 | Go To Quotation |
| redd | Sc. Of land: cleared of vegetation, crops, etc.; ploughed and suitable for planting. Now only in red land n. | 1459 | Go To Quotation |
| redder | A person who tries to separate combatants or to make peace in a quarrel. Now only in compounds. | 1453 | Go To Quotation |
| red land | Land that has been cleared of vegetation, crops, etc.; ploughed land suitable for new planting; arable land. | 1459 | Go To Quotation |
| register book | A book or volume in which information of any kind is regularly and accurately recorded; esp.… | 1515 | Go To Quotation |
| relaxion | = relaxation n. | 1528 | Go To Quotation |
| repentable | Of an action: that can or should be repented of; regrettable. Also: †repentant (obs.). | 1571 | Go To Quotation |
| resell | trans. To sell again. Also intr. | 1574 | Go To Quotation |
| residenter | Christian Church. = residentiary n. 1. Obs. | 1446 | Go To Quotation |
| retail | trans. To sell (goods) by retail. Also intr. | 1365 | Go To Quotation |
| retailing | The action of retail v. (in various senses); the retail business. | 1365 | Go To Quotation |
| riband | trans. Usu. in pa. pple. To decorate, adorn, or trim with a riband or ribands. Also in… | 1386 | Go To Quotation |
| ridge | trans. To provide (a building) with a roof ridge or a covering for this; to make or renew… | 1445 | Go To Quotation |
| rochet | = red gurnard n. (a) at red adj. n. 2a(c)(ii). | 1345 | Go To Quotation |
| roved | Having a rove (rove n.) or roves; riveted. Freq. with modifying word prefixed: having a… | 1661 | Go To Quotation |
| saut | A ransom for murder or manslaughter. | 1528 | Go To Quotation |
| scarkle | trans. To scatter, disperse. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| scouter | A scout or spy. Obs. | 1642 | Go To Quotation |
| scrimish | An alarm, an outcry. rare. Cf. scrimmage n. 2. | 1505 | Go To Quotation |
| semar | A loose coat or mantle worn by women, 1670 – 80. | 1673 | Go To Quotation |
| sept | A division of a nation or tribe; a clan: orig. in reference to Ireland. | 1517 | Go To Quotation |
| sheriffdom | A district or territory under the jurisdiction of a sheriff. Sc. | 1385 | Go To Quotation |
| shingler | One who shingles houses, etc.; also U.S. ‘one who or a machine which cuts and prepares shingles’ (Ogilvie 1882). | 1445 | Go To Quotation |
| snipe | trans. To shoot or fire at (men, etc.), one at a time, usu. from cover and at long range… | 1782 | Go To Quotation |
| spontoon | A species of half-pike or halberd carried by infantry officers in the 18th century (from about 1740). | 1746 | Go To Quotation |
| sprat | sprat-fishing. | 1568 | Go To Quotation |
| stancher | One who or that which stanches. | 1453 | Go To Quotation |
| stow-ball | An outdoor ball-game commonly played in the 16–17th c. (see quots.). Also attrib. | 1634 | Go To Quotation |
| strip | = estrepement n. | 1516 | Go To Quotation |
| subtenant | A person who leases a property from a tenant; an undertenant. | 1445 | Go To Quotation |
| sweetwood | A name for various trees and shrubs, chiefly lauraceous, of the West Indies and… | 1607 | Go To Quotation |
| tellograph | A form of ‘telegraph’ or signalling apparatus invented by R. L. Edgeworth, consisting of… | 1796 | Go To Quotation |
| tenantry | Land held of a superior; land let out to tenants; also, the profits of such land. | 1385 | Go To Quotation |
| tevell | Lace. | 1632 | Go To Quotation |
| ticket | A short written notice or document; a memorandum, a note, a billet. in ticket, in writing (Sc.). Obs. exc. as in 1b 1c. | 1528 | Go To Quotation |
| tinker | A craftsman (usually itinerant) who mends pots, kettles, and other metal household utensils. | 1265 | Go To Quotation |
| tip | Intoxicating liquor; a draught of liquor. Also in comb. tip-merry adj. merry with liquor, slightly intoxicated. | 1612 | Go To Quotation |
| tirl | a trundle- or truckle-bed on low wheels or castors. | 1488 | Go To Quotation |
| tithing-penny | A customary duty formerly paid by manorial tenants to the lord, and also a payment by lords of manors at the hundred court. | 1192 | Go To Quotation |
| tract | trans. To draw, pull along, haul, tow. (Superseded by track v.) | 1523 | Go To Quotation |
| traffic | To carry on trade, to trade, to buy and sell; to have commercial dealings with any one… | 1542 | Go To Quotation |
| transporting | The action of the verb transport v.; transportation. | 1500 | Go To Quotation |
| tranter | A word having various local uses: chiefly denoting a man who does jobs with his horse and… | 1500 | Go To Quotation |
| trente | (in erron. trante a courante) another name for the game of rouge-et-noir (in which… | 1671 | Go To Quotation |
| triply | A third reply; a pursuer's reply to a defender's rejoinder; a surrejoinder. Also allusively. | 1531 | Go To Quotation |
| tutelary | Of supernatural powers: Having the position of protector, guardian, or patron; esp.… | 1611 | Go To Quotation |
| ulnager | = alnager n. | 1750 | Go To Quotation |
| unburrow | trans. To bring or force out of a burrow. | 1744 | Go To Quotation |
| undisguisedly | (un- prefix 11; cf. undisguised adj.) | 1611 | Go To Quotation |
| unissued | (un- prefix 8.) | 1667 | Go To Quotation |
| unnoticed | (un- prefix 8) | 1720 | Go To Quotation |
| unparliamentary | (un- prefix 7.) | 1626 | Go To Quotation |
| unransomed | (un- prefix 8.) | 1554 | Go To Quotation |
| unremovably | Irremovably. | 1604 | Go To Quotation |
| unvote | To reverse or annul by revoting. | 1647 | Go To Quotation |
| unwarn | (un- prefix 3.) | 1612 | Go To Quotation |
| unwrit | = unwritten adj. | 1485 | Go To Quotation |
| ventage | The action of selling or vending; sale. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| Vermonteer | = Vermonter n. | 1778 | Go To Quotation |
| viceroydom | = viceroyalty n. 1. | 1711 | Go To Quotation |
| violet-coloured | Having the blue or bluish-purple colour of a violet. | 1552 | Go To Quotation |
| water-head | The head or source of a stream; the land adjoining the source of a stream. | 1567 | Go To Quotation |
| wayferer | = wayfarer n. | 1388 | Go To Quotation |
| weyleyship | The office of weigher. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| whitefish | A general name for fishes of a white or light colour (esp. those having silvery… | 1461 | Go To Quotation |
| writership | The office or position of a writer in the service of the former East India Company. Now Hist. | 1763 | Go To Quotation |
