| abacot | = bycoket n. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| abbreviating | The action or practice of shortening something (esp. a word, text, etc.); abbreviation; abridgement. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| accerse | trans. To summon. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| accersit | trans. (in pass.). To be summoned, called. Cf. accerse v. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| accouple | trans. To join (one person) to another, esp. in matrimony; to couple. Also: to unite… | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| adeption | The action or an act of acquiring or attaining something; (in early use) spec. the… | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| agallop | At a gallop. Also as adj.: galloping. Occas. fig. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| agitable | Capable of being set in motion; easily moved, stirred, or shaken. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| alarm bell | A bell rung as a warning of danger or as a signal of an emergency; a warning bell, a… | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| anticipation | The action of taking into possession, actually or virtually, beforehand; the using of… | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| approbatory | Of or belonging to one who approves; of the nature of or tending to approbation or… | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| apprompt | To borrow. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| Arabical | = Arabic adj. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| aspect | To look for, expect. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| aspern(e | To despise, spurn. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| assaultable | Capable of being assaulted, open to assault. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| assaulter | One who assaults, an attacker or assailant. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| assaulting | Hostile onset, attack, assault. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| astipulate | intr. To make an agreement or stipulation; to assent or agree (to). | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| astrict | trans. To bind up, confine within narrow limits, compress; hence, to render costive. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| baffle | To subject to public disgrace or infamy; spec. to disgrace a perjured knight with infamy. Obs. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| bail | To admit to bail, to liberate on bail; to release (a person) from immediate arrest… | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| bail | To hoop, gird. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| bailed | Hooped (and covered) as a wagon. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| bannerol | A variant form of banderol(e n. (q.v.), found in all senses, and regularly used in that… | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| based | Esp. in the Tudor period: wearing bases (base n. 2); (of a horse) equipped with a comparable item (base n. 4). | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| beautifully | In a beautiful manner, with beauty; charmingly, delightfully, admirably. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| blasphemeress | A woman who blasphemes. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| braggery | Rabble. Obs. rare. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| bridling | The applying of a bridle; curbing, restraining, controlling. bridling cast n. n. a stirrup glass. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| Britannical | = British adj. 3. Cf. Britannic adj. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| burley | ‘The butt end of a lance’ (Halliwell). | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| cantle | To piece together cantles of cloth. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| charnel | To hinge. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| checking | That checks; reproving, censorious (obs.); refusing the fist (as a hawk); restraining, controlling. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| chronographer | A writer of chronography, a chronicler, chronologist. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| chronography | ‘The description of past time, the chronological arrangement of historical events’ (Johnson). | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| circumvoisin | Neighbouring on all sides. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| cloud | transf. and fig. To render obscure; to dim, obscure, darken. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| collocate | To set in a place or position. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| concinnate | adj. Of language: Skilfully put together, appropriately arranged; of studied elegance or beauty. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| congratulate | To address (a person) with expressions of joy or satisfaction on an occasion… | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| conscribe | trans. To enroll, levy (an army); to enlist (a soldier). Obs. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| continuer | One who continues, or carries on; esp. one who continues a history or other unfinished work. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| contracted | Betrothed, affianced. Obs. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| contractor | One who enters into a contract or agreement; a contracting party. Obs. exc. as in 2. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| conyhold | Perhaps a variant of cony-hole n., assimilated to hold: cf. stronghold n. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| corbelling | Work consisting of corbels. Also attrib. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| correctrice | = correctress n. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| counselful | Full of counsel; able to give advice. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| counter-companion | He against whom one is matched in contest. (In Grafton counter-panion). | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| countermand | A contrary command or order revoking or annulling a previous one. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| countermine | Mil. A mine or subterranean excavation made by the defenders of a fortress, to intercept… | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| couplement | The act of coupling or fact of being coupled together; union of pairs. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| cranet | A piece of armour covering a horse's neck or mane; a crinière. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| crob | pl. ‘The knops of leafy buds, used as pendants from the roof’ (Halliwell). | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| culpate | trans. To blame, find fault with. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| dallying | That dallies; toying, trifling, etc.: see the verb. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| dauphiness | The wife of the dauphin. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| debating | The action of debate v.; discussion; deliberation. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| defunct | the defunct: the deceased; hence, with pl. (rare), one who is dead, a dead person. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| deliberate | Well weighed or considered; carefully thought out; formed, carried out, etc.… | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| deniance | Denial. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| desolately | In a desolate manner; solitarily, by oneself (obs.); drearily, dismally, cheerlessly. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| detrude | trans. To thrust, push, or force down. (lit. and fig.) | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| devolute | trans. To pass or transfer by devolution; to devolve v. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| dirupt | trans. To break asunder. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| disarming | The action of the verb disarm v. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| disarmy | A disarming. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| disordered | Morally irregular, vitiated, corrupt; disorderly, unruly, riotous; = disordinate adj. 1. Obs. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| disprofitable | Unprofitable; detrimental. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| disputable | That may be disputed, questioned, or discussed; liable to be called in question, contested, or controverted; questionable. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| disseisin | trans. = disseise v. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| distrust | Absence or want of trust; lack of confidence, faith, or reliance; doubt, suspicion. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| disvisor | trans. To remove the visor from, to uncover (a visored face). Also intr. for refl. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| divulgation | The action of publishing or making known abroad; publication. Obs. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| doweress | A widow holding a dower; dowager n. | 1519 | Go To Quotation |
| dubious | Objectively doubtful; fraught with doubt or uncertainty; uncertain, undetermined; indistinct, ambiguous, vague. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| dumpishness | Dejection; tendency to be in the dumps. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| embow | The concave surface of an arch, vault, or dome. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| embracer | He who or that which braces or fastens; a brace, bond. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| enterlesse | trans. To omit. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| entrail | trans. To entwine; interlace. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| entreatance | Intercession; entreaty. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| enucleate | fig. To extract the ‘kernel’ from; to bring out from disguise; to lay open, clear, explain. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| errat(e | Anglicized f. erratum n. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| excecate | trans. To make blind, to blind. lit. and fig. | 1540 | Go To Quotation |
| exhumate | = exhume v. lit. and fig. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| expostulate | trans. To ask for, demand, claim. Obs. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| fabling | That fables, in senses of the vb.; that invents or relates fables; addicted to fable, romancing; in bad sense, mendacious. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| facinorous | Extremely wicked or immoral; grossly criminal; vile, atrocious, heinous; infamous. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| fallable | Capable of falling, liable to fall. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| feeblishment | Enfeeblement. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| flect | trans. To bend, turn. lit. and fig. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| floccipend | trans. To regard as insignificant or of no account; to make no account of. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| floshed | Made to resemble floss-silk. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| flush | intr. To rush out suddenly or copiously, to spurt; to flow with force or violence… | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| flying | The action of fly v., in various senses. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| forced | Fortified, made strong against attack. Obs. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| forecasting | That forecasts, in senses of the vb. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| forelay | trans. To lie in wait for, waylay. Obs. exc. dial. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| foreseer | One who foresees. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| fortunately | In a fortunate manner; by or with good fortune, happily, luckily, successfully. In mod.… | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| frenetical | Characterized or attended by, or symptomatic of, delirium or temporary madness. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| geniture | pl. = Genitals (Old French genitures). (Cf. genitor n.) Obs. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| gore | trans. To cut into a gore or gores; to furnish with gores. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| grand guard | ‘A piece of plate armour used in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in the… | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| gratify | To express pleasure at (an event); to give a welcome to (a person). Obs. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| guidon | A flag or pennant, broad at the end next the staff and forked or pointed at the other. It… | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| guissette | Bad form for cuisset n. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| gutted | = gutté adj. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| halberdier | A soldier armed with a halberd; spec. a member of certain civic guards carrying a halberd as a badge of office. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| hare-brained | Having or showing no more ‘brains’ or sense than a hare; heedless, reckless; rash, wild, mad. Of persons, their actions, etc. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| hatchment | An escutcheon or ensign armorial; = achievement n. 2; esp. a square or… | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| high-stomached | Of high courage or spirit; high-spirited, haughty. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| hypocritically | In the manner of a hypocrite; in a hypocritical fashion. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| illaqueate | Ensnared. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| illaqueate | trans. To catch as in a noose; to ensnare, entrap, entangle. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| ill luck | Bad or unfavourable luck; bad fortune, misfortune. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| immature | Occurring before its time; untimely, premature. (Almost always said of death.) Obs. or arch. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| imminently | In an imminent manner; impendingly; threateningly. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| immolate | trans. To sacrifice, offer in sacrifice; to kill as a victim. (Properly, and now only, of sacrifices in which life is taken.) | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| impignorate | Pledged, pawned, mortgaged. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| impledge | trans. To put in pledge; to pledge, pawn; to give as security; to engage. Also refl. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| improvided | Unprovided; unprepared. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| infringible | That cannot be infringed or broken; unbreakable, inviolable, indissoluble. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| ingeniously | In an ingenious manner; cleverly, skilfully; †sagaciously, learnedly (obs.); with skilful contrivance. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| inmouled | ? Moulded. In quot. 1548 absol. as n. Moulding. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| install | trans. To invest with an office or dignity by seating in a stall or official seat… | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| intempestious | An erroneous form (or perh. misprint) for *intempestivous = intempestive adj. (Cf. intempestuous adj.) | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| interview | intr. To meet together in person. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| intimate | trans. To make known formally, to notify, announce, state; †formerly, to communicate (knowledge), to declare (war). | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| inviolated | Unviolated, inviolate. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| irrecurable | Incapable of being remedied; incurable; irremediable. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| Jacob's staff | A pilgrim's staff. Obs. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| jubbah | An outer garment worn by Muslims and Parsees, consisting of a long cloth coat, open in… | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| justiciary | One who maintains or executes justice; an administrator of justice; = justicer n. 1 2. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| kreeker | (See quots.) | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| labyrinth | fig. A tortuous, entangled, or inextricable condition of things, events, ideas, etc.; an entanglement, maze. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| lamboys | The name given by mod. antiquaries to: An imitation in steel of the ‘bases’ or… | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| lethargious | Affected with or causing lethargy; lethargic. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| linterel | = lintel n. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| lostell | In phr. a lostell = Old French à l'ostel (see hostel n.), ‘to your quarters!’, ‘disperse!’ | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| lout | An awkward ill-mannered fellow; a bumpkin, clown. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| lucarne | An opening made in a roof to let in the light; a skylight, a dormer or garret window. (Now only as French.) Also lucarne window. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| lumberdyne | A kind of black lawn. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| maidenlike | Such as is usual with maidens; befitting or resembling a maiden. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| manquell | trans. To murder (a person). | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| menalty | The middle class (of society). | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| mischarging | The misaiming of a weapon. Cf. charge v. 21a. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| misnamed | Wrongly or inappropriately named. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| monarchial | Having the status of a monarch. Cf. monarchal adj. 3. Obs. rare. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| monopole | A monopoly. Sc. in later use. Obs. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| muser | A decorative spangle attached to a thread. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| mutuate | trans. To borrow (something that cannot itself be returned). Also fig. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| neglecter | A person who neglects something or someone. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| new devised | Newly or lately contrived or invented. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| new-invented | Newly or recently invented or devised. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| Nigro | = Negro n. adj. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| nominated | Selected for or appointed to a position, office, or duty. Cf. nominate adj. 2. Now chiefly Polit. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| nuncupate | Called, designated; that has been declared orally. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| oblate | trans. To offer, esp. as a gift. Obs. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| obliterate | trans. To wipe out (a mental impression, memory, feeling, etc.); to do away with… | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| obsession | The action of besieging a place; a siege. Also fig. Obs. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| obtest | To call upon in the name of something sacred; to charge solemnly, adjure; to… | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| onerarious | Burdensome; onerous. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| oreillet | The earpiece of a helmet. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| outscourer | A person sent ahead to reconnoitre; a scout, a lookout. Cf. outskirrer n. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| overfrieze | trans. To embroider over with gold. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| overlander | An inhabitant of the uplands of a country, a highlander; spec. an inhabitant of the… | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| overthrower | A person who overthrows someone or something. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| paragon | A person of outstanding merit; a person who serves as a model of some quality. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| paraphrasian | Given to, or dealing in, paraphrases. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| parenthesis | A word, clause, or sentence inserted as an explanation, aside, or afterthought into a… | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| pawn | A gallery, colonnade, or covered walk; esp. one in a bazaar, market, exchange, etc.… | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| penning | The action of pen v.; writing, composition; (also) something composed. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| perplant | trans. To plant or fix firmly. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| persolve | trans. To pay in full; to fulfil or discharge completely. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| pertract | trans. To protract, prolong (time). | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| pilfering | Plundering, robbery; stealing in small quantities, petty theft; an instance of this. Also: a stolen object. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| pollet | Perh.: a small piece of armour protecting the head or upper body; an epaulette. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| port | trans. To shut in (a person) with a gate. Obs. rare. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| portrait | To make a portrait, picture, or image of; = portray v. 2b. Also with forth. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| postery | = posterity n. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| precation | Praying, supplication; a prayer, an entreaty. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| prepare | The action of preparing; preparation. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| pretence | trans. To offer or proffer. rare. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| prince-elector | One of the Princes of Germany entitled to elect the Holy Roman Emperor; = elector n. 3. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| princely | In the manner of or befitting a prince; royally. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| procrastinate | intr. To defer action, delay; to be dilatory. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| procrastination | The action or habit of postponing or putting something off; delay, dilatoriness. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| procrastine | trans. = procrastinate v. 2. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| procreator | A person who or thing which procreates; a parent; a creator. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| procurator general | A chief legal representative or agent; spec. (a) the chief prosecuting attorney of a… | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| prodigial | Of or relating to prodigies or omens; (also) of the nature of an omen, portentous. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| propulse | trans. To drive off, chase away, repel. Obs. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| protodaw | An utter fool, a complete idiot. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| provention | = prevention n. (in various senses). | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| publicate | trans. To publish; to make publicly known, expose. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| punct | trans. To prick, pierce; = point v. 7. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| quish | In pl. Armour for protecting the front of the thighs; = cuisse n. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| rampire | trans. To strengthen, fortify (a bulwark, gate, etc.) against an attack, onslaught, etc.;… | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| reconquest | The action, or an act, of conquering again; recovery by conquest. Also in extended use. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| reduct | trans. To bring into (also to, from) a certain form, state, etc. Obs. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| refrainer | A person who restrains something; = restrainer n. 1. Obs. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| regain | To gain again; (literally or metaphorically) to recover possession or use of something lost. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| regaining | The action of regain v. (in various senses). | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| regicide | A person who kills a king, esp. a subject who kills his or her own king; a person who… | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| removed | Distant in relationship by a certain number of degrees of descent. Now esp. with… | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| repassing | The action of repass v.; an instance of this. Freq. in passing and repassing. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| requitement | The action or an act of retaliation or revenge; return, reciprocation. Also: satisfaction, gratification. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| reredemaine | A blow delivered with the back of the hand. Earliest in figurative context. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| retaunt | A repeated or renewed taunt. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| revesture | Apparel, covering, vesture; (in pl.) clothes, vestments. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| robustious | Of a person. Now rare. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| ruff | trans. (chiefly in past participle). To form into a ruff; to provide with a ruff or… | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| ruffed | Provided with or having a ruff or ruffs; wearing a ruff. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| sagacity | Acuteness of mental discernment; aptitude for investigation or discovery; keenness… | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| Salic | in early use, and still in popular language, the alleged fundamental law of the French… | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| sanker | | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| Satanical | Resembling Satan, devilish. Obs. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| satellite | An attendant upon a person of importance, forming part of his retinue and employed to… | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| scaffold | trans. To furnish with a platform, stand, or gallery. Obs. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| scapulary | a cloak covering the shoulders. Obs. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| schismatical | = schismatic adj. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| Scotical | Of, from, or belonging to Scotland; Scottish. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| scritch | A screech, shriek, loud cry. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| scult | = schout n. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| sexti- | drawn up in six copies; consisting of six parts or divisions. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| skirr | intr. To run hastily (away); to flee, make off; = scour v. 1c. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| slaughmess | A large knife used as a weapon; a dagger. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| slaugh-sword | A large two-handed sword. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| snail | intr. Of soldiers: To form into a ‘snail’ or ‘snails’. Obs. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| snite | (See quot. 1548.) | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| snuffing | That snuffs, in various senses. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| spangle | trans. To decorate (a garment or the like) with spangles. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| spleter | A splinter. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| stimulate | trans. To prick, sting, afflict. Obs. rare. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| stuprate | trans. To violate (a woman). | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| stupre | trans. = stuprate v. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| sublate | trans. To remove, take away. Only in pass. Obs. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| subsecute | trans. To follow, pursue. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| subversor | = subverter n. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| sumpsimus | A correct expression taking the place of an incorrect but popular one (mumpsimus). | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| surrept | trans. To snatch or take away stealthily; to steal, filch. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| sycophant | transf. and fig. An informer, tale-bearer, malicious accuser; a calumniator, traducer, slanderer. Obs. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| tapul | A name applied by Hall (1548) to some part of the body-armour; thence, by modern… | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| tasse | pl. A series of articulated splints or plates depending from the corslet, placed so… | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| taunting | That taunts, or reproaches provokingly. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| tell-tale | One who tells tales (tale n. 3c); one who idly or maliciously discloses private or… | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| three-corner | Of or pertaining to three corners (quot. 1548); having three corners, three-cornered, triangular. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| tragedical | Of the nature, or having the character, of tragedy; tragical. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| transfrete | intr. To pass over a strait or narrow sea. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| trapping | That traps or entraps: see trap v. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| trite | Worn out by constant use or repetition; devoid of freshness or novelty; hackneyed, commonplace, stale. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| triumphantly | In a triumphant manner; victoriously; exultantly; ‘with insolent exultation’ (Johnson); †magnificently. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| troublesome | Full of disturbance or tumult; disturbed, disorderly, unsettled, troublous. Obs. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| trump | fig. An obstruction, a hindrance: in phr. (to cast) a trump in (one's) way. Obs. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| trussery | Things ‘trussed’ or packed, baggage. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| tumultuous | Full of tumult or commotion; marked by confusion and uproar; disorderly and noisy; violent and clamorous; turbulent. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| unadventured | (un- prefix 8.) | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| unascried | Undescried, unobserved. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| unattempted | Not attempted or tried. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| unblotted | (un- prefix 8.) | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| unbreech | trans. To remove the breech or breeching from (a cannon, etc.). | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| uncharity | (un- prefix 12 5b.) | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| underboard | Under the table. Also fig. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| underprompt | (under- prefix 2a(a).) | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| ungratitude | Ingratitude; ungratefulness. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| unimagined | (un- prefix 8.) | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| unlegate | trans. To deprive of the office of legate. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| unliterate | Illiterate. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| unnaturality | Unnatural feeling or conduct. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| unnurtured | (un- prefix 8 5b.) | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| unpolitic | Impolitic. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| unprincely | (un- prefix 11.) | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| untimorous | (un- prefix 7.) | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| unviolate | = inviolate adj. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| unwork | trans. To undo or detach (from something). | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| vafrous | Sly, cunning, crafty, shifty. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| valanced | Provided or furnished with a valance or draped edging of a specified material. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| verder | ? mispr. for verger n. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| visor | refl. To disguise (oneself) with a visor. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| vocate | trans. To call or summon. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| vochette | Error for rochette rochet n. adj. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| volger | A species of ordnance, longer and less powerful than the bombard. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| whipped | Needlework. (See whip v. 18.) | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
| Yorkish | = Yorkist n. 1b. | 1548 | Go To Quotation |
