| abandoning | The action of relinquishing, giving up, or deserting; abandonment. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| acleave | intr. To cleave, be split. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| after-game | A second or subsequent game, played esp. in order to overturn an earlier loss; a return… | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| assign | One to whom a property or right is legally transferred; = assignee n. 2. Esp. in the phrase heirs and assigns: see quot. 1865. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| atween | Between. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| authentical | = authentic adj. 2. | 1531 | Go To Quotation |
| baggage | The collection of property in packages that one takes along with him on a… | 1430 | Go To Quotation |
| baptistery | That part of a church (or, in early times, a separate building contiguous to the church)… | 1460 | Go To Quotation |
| bedight | trans. To equip, furnish, apparel, array, bedeck. (Now only poetical.) | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| besail | trans. To assail, attack. | 1460 | Go To Quotation |
| betweche | (The context suggests ‘exorcize, deliver, or rid.’) | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| blazing star | fig. The brilliant centre of admiration; ‘cynosure,’ ‘star.’ arch. | 1460 | Go To Quotation |
| bliken | intr. To turn pale. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| blood-shotten | Suffused with blood; spec. = bloodshot adj. 1. Now U.S. regional and rare. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| brotherless | Having no brother. | 1460 | Go To Quotation |
| bruchelnesse | Frailty. | 1460 | Go To Quotation |
| circumdate | Surrounded, encompassed. | 1460 | Go To Quotation |
| cochour(e | A kind of dog which couches or lies low. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| confidence | The mental attitude of trusting in or relying on a person or thing; firm trust, reliance, faith. Const. in (†to, on, upon). | 1430 | Go To Quotation |
| contingence | The coming to pass of anything without predetermination, freedom from necessity; chance; happening by chance; = contingency n. 3. | 1530 | Go To Quotation |
| cony-garth | A rabbit-warren. | 1430 | Go To Quotation |
| corsie | = corrosive n. (usually fig.) | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| coucher | One lying down: in 15th c. quot. perh. one confined to bed; in Sc. one who lies when he… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| currish | fig. Like a cur in nature; snappish, snarling, quarrelsome; mean-spirited, base, ignoble. | 1460 | Go To Quotation |
| deave | intr. To become deaf. Obs. rare. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| decorate | Adorned, decorated; ornate. | 1460 | Go To Quotation |
| detent | ? Restraint; holding back or inhibition. | 1465 | Go To Quotation |
| eistricion | ? Erroneous form of extraction n. (Old French estracion). | 1460 | Go To Quotation |
| enfeoffment | The possession of a fief. | 1460 | Go To Quotation |
| enforsothe | | 1460 | Go To Quotation |
| en-gree | In good part. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| famble | intr. To speak imperfectly; to stammer, stutter. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| ferdly | Fearful, frightful. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| ferret | intr. To hunt with ferrets. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| fortunable | Bringing good fortune, lucky. | 1465 | Go To Quotation |
| foxish | fig. Like a fox in nature, crafty, cunning. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| glorificate | Glorified. | 1460 | Go To Quotation |
| grate | The railing round a monument, building, etc. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| holt | Hold, grasp, grip; support, sustenance. dial. and U.S. colloq. Cf. a-holt (s.v. ahold adv.). | 1375 | Go To Quotation |
| increep | intr. To creep in. | 1420 | Go To Quotation |
| joyingly | With joy, joyfully. | 1430 | Go To Quotation |
| kyvar-knaue | = Cover-knave, that covers a knave. | 1563 | Go To Quotation |
| life-honey | Fresh honey which runs from the honeycomb, or which may be extracted after the virgin… | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| luck | Good fortune; success, prosperity or advantage coming by chance rather than as the… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| madful | Mad; full of or causing distress. | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| mannerless | Having no manners; ill-mannered, unmannerly. Also as n.: a mannerless person. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| memoral | Perh.: memorable, notable. (In quot. 1500 app.: inordinate, excessive.) | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| mould | To allow to become mouldy. Obs. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| noxial | Of or relating to the night; nocturnal. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| penitency | The state of being penitent; penitence as a disposition; repentance; = penitence n. 2. Now rare. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| rechace | A ransom, a repurchase. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| rottle | intr. To rattle (in various senses of rattle v.); esp. (in early use) = rattle v. 2a. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| ruttle | intr. To rattle; esp. to make a rattling noise in the throat. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| sempiternal | Enduring constantly and continually; everlasting, eternal. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| sood | ? Irreg. variant of soot n. | 1430 | Go To Quotation |
| sorcerize | trans. To transform by sorcery. | 1866 | Go To Quotation |
| spiteful | Expressive of, characterized by, contempt or disdain; contemptuous, disdainful, opprobrious. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| spouseless | Of a person: Having no spouse; bereaved or deprived of a spouse. | 1460 | Go To Quotation |
| stalking | Stealthy. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| starken | intr. = stark v. 1. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| surfeity | Surfeiting, excess; immoderate behaviour. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| tent-taker | One who ‘takes tent’ or gives heed. | 1430 | Go To Quotation |
| terrestrial | Of or pertaining to this world, or to earth as opposed to heaven; earthly; worldly; mundane. | 1460 | Go To Quotation |
| uphale | trans. To pull or draw up; fig. to drink up. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| W | The letter, its sound or name. | 1465 | Go To Quotation |
| wale | trans. To mark (the flesh) with wales or weals. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| welcomer | One who, or something which, welcomes or greets (a person or thing). | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| withholden | = withheld adj. | 1430 | Go To Quotation |
| wrang-nail | A corn on the foot or hand; = agnail n. 1. | 1530 | Go To Quotation |
