| abattle | trans. To engage in battle. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| abay | intr. Of a dog: to bark or bay, esp. at prey it is pursuing or has caught. Also in extended use, of a person. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| abelde | intr. To become bold. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| adaw | intr. To wake from sleep; to return to consciousness after fainting, swooning, etc. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| afaitement | Proper behaviour or conduct; (good) manners. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| aguile | trans. To entrap, deceive. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| Albanian | A native or inhabitant of Albania, a country once located in the eastern Caucasus, in… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| almaçur | A person of high rank or status; a grandee. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| amayed | Dismayed. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| amblant | Ambling. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| amere | Only in to do amere: to do bitter things to, inflict bitter wounds upon. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| ami | A friend, a lover. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| amidward | Towards or near the middle of. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| amiture | Clothing, dress. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| amour | gen. Love, affection, friendship. Obs. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| amour | A lover. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| anarrow | To cramp, crush, dishearten. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| anhungered | Overcome with hunger, hungry. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| annoyed | Disturbed by what one dislikes; troubled, vexed, offended. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| apert | Straightforward, direct; brisk, bold. (With batayle aperte cf. ‘open battle.’). Obs. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| a-rape | In haste, hastily. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| arbalestre | The missile shot from the arbalest. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| arbalestrier | = arbalester n. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| arbour | A garden of herbs or flowers; a flower-garden; a flower-bed. Forms: erber(e, herber(e, eerbir, erbare, herbour. Obs. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| arnement | Ink, or materials with which it is made. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| a-room | To or at a distance; apart, aside, off. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| around | In the round, in circumference; in a round, in a circle. Obs. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| arson | Occas. used for: A saddle. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| ars-table | = astrolabe n. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| a-scoff | In scorn, mockingly. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| asee | To see. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| assay | trans. To attempt, try to do (anything difficult). | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| assent | esp. in phrases by or with one assent, common assent. arch. exc. as influenced by senses 2 5. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| asteynte | | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| a-store | In great number; in a heap; together. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| asue | To follow after. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| a-throng | In a throng; thronged, crowded. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| atour | In same sense, the phrases by atour, by and atour, more atour (mairatour). | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| author | spec. One who begets; a father, an ancestor. Obs. (exc. in author of his being: cf. 1c). | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| avenant | Convenient, suitable, agreeable. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| avetrol | A bastard. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| aviroun | Round about. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| awhape | To amaze, stupefy with fear, confound utterly. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| baiting | The action of setting on dogs to worry a chained or confined animal; formerly, also, the… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| baldric | A belt or girdle, usually of leather and richly ornamented, worn pendent from one… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| balm | trans. To embalm. arch. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| bannerette | A small banner. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| barking | The utterance of a dog's sharp explosive cry. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| barrel | By metonymy: The contents of a barrel; intoxicating liquor. Cf. ‘the bottle’. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| basinet | A small, light, steel headpiece, in shape somewhat globular, terminating in a… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| bate | trans. To beat down or away; fig. to put an end to. Obs. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| battler | One who battles or fights; a warrior, a fighter. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| battling | The action of battle v.; fighting, conflict. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| baudekin | A rich embroidered stuff, originally made with warp of gold thread and woof of silk; later… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| bay | esp. The chorus of barking raised by hounds in immediate conflict with a hunted animal; hence… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| bearing | A material support; a supporting surface; supporting power. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| beaten | Overlaid, inlaid, embossed, damascened with gold or other precious material; embroidered. Obs. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| bedag | To bemire the bottom of (dress). | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| beef | The flesh of an ox, bull, or cow, used as food. Often preceded by words indicating the… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| begetting | The action or process of generating or producing; generation; also, the result of the action, progeny. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| behoting | Promising, promise. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| belfry | A wooden tower, usually movable, used in the middle ages in besieging fortifications.… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| bemoaning | Lamentation, wailing, grief loudly expressed. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| beshut | trans. To shut in, enclose, surround; to shut up, confine, imprison. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| bewail | trans. To wail over, to utter wailings or cries of sorrow over, esp. over the dead. Also refl. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| bewray | To expose (a person), by divulging his secrets, or telling something that one knows… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| bistint | trans. To cause to slacken, to check. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| biwite | intr. To go, go away. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| blast | intr. To blow, to puff violently. Obs. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| boast | intr. To utter a threat, to threaten. Also with cognate object of the thing threatened. Obs. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| boistous | Of persons, etc.: Rough, rude; untaught, rustic; coarse, unpolished. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| bonair(e | Well-bred, gentle, courteous, kind, complaisant. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| booting | Relieving, curing, healing, helping; payment to the good; service, avail. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| botemay | Bitumen. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| bouked | Having a protuberance. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| bowel | The intestines or entrails; the portions of the intestinal canal contained within the abdomen. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| bowshot | The distance to which an arrow can be shot from a bow. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| bray | Outcry; a loud cry, a shriek. Obs. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| bristle | gen. A short, stiff, pointed or prickly hair or similar appendage on other animals… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| bristled | Covered, set, or tipped with bristles or stiff prickly hairs; rough and prickly, bristly. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| brother-in-law | prop. The brother of one's husband or wife; the husband of one's sister. Sometimes extended… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| brown | intr. To become brown. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| bu | | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| buckler | A small round shield; in England the buckler was usually carried by a handle at the back… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| bugle | A young bull. dial. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| bugle-horn | as a musical instrument, whence = bugle n. 2. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| burel | A coarse woollen cloth (prob. originally of brown colour: cf. baize n.); frieze; a garment of this fabric; (plain) clothing. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| butcher | One whose trade is the slaughtering of large tame animals for food; one who kills such… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| buzzard | Name for the genus Buteo of birds of the falcon family, esp. B. vulgaris. Applied… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| cales | The name of a fabulous creature: see quot. 1300. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| carie | perhaps = carry n. load. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| caroling | The action of carol v. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| Catathleba | Some fabulous monster. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| cement | A substance used to bind the stones or bricks of a building firmly together, to cover… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| cert | Certainly, certes, of a truth. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| chain | A connected series of links (of metal or other material) passing through each other… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| champ | A field. champ clos, champ of battle: the ground set apart and enclosed for a… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| charm | intr. To work charms, use enchantments or spells, practise magic. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| charrey | The ‘carriage’ or transport vehicles of an army; rarely a carriage, car, or chariot. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| chase | To put to flight, scatter in flight, rout; to dispel = to chase away in 7b. Obs. or arch. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| chine | The spine, backbone, or vertebral column; more loosely ‘the part of the back in which the… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| chrysolite | A name formerly given to several different gems of a green colour, such as… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| citole | To play on the citole. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| clawed | Having claws (in various senses; see claw n.). | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| coat | An outer garment worn by men; usually of cloth, with sleeves. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| coming | The action of come v. in various senses: drawing near, approaching; arrival, advent. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| compassment | Compassing; contrivance, machination, plan. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| cord | Aphetic f. accord n.; see also chord n. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| cornel | A variant of carnel n., kernel n. = battlement, embrasure. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| corour | = courser n. 1a. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| courage | The heart as the seat of feeling, thought, etc.; spirit, mind, disposition, nature. Obs. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| courser | orig. A large powerful horse, ridden in battle, in a tournament, etc.; a charger. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| cover | A defensive or protective covering for the body; a piece of armour; an article… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| coward | trans. To render cowardly or timorous; to make afraid, daunt, intimidate. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| cowardice | The quality of a coward; cowardliness; want of courage to face… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| cower | intr. To stand or squat in a bent position; to bend with the knees and back; to crouch, esp.… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| croched | Crooked, twisted. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| crocodile | A large amphibious saurian reptile of the genus Crocodilus or other allied genera. The… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| croup | The rump or hind-quarters of a beast, esp. of a horse or other beast of burden. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| crull | Curly. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| crupper | A leathern strap buckled to the back of the saddle and passing under the horse's tail… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| cubeb | The berry of a climbing shrub Piper Cubeba or Cubeba officinalis, a native of Java and… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| cumberment | Hindrance, embarrassment, entanglement. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| cure | Care, heed, concern. to have (take, do, etc.) no cure of (a thing): not to care for or regard it. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| current | Running; flowing. (Now rare.) | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| curtain | To furnish, surround, cover, adorn, with a curtain or curtains. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| custron | A scullion, a kitchen-knave; hence a boy or lad of low birth, base-born fellow, ‘cad’, vagabond. In later use Sc. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| dab | dial. A slight blow with the back of the hand or the like, a box, a slap. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| dally | intr. To talk or converse lightly or idly; to chat. Obs. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| damage | Loss or detriment caused by hurt or injury affecting estate, condition, or circumstances. arch. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| dance | A rhythmical skipping and stepping, with regular turnings and movements of the limbs… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| dance | intr. To leap, skip, hop, or glide with measured steps and rhythmical movements of… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| daunt | trans. To overcome, subdue, vanquish. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| day-spring | Daybreak, early dawn. Now chiefly poet. or fig. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| deceit | The action or practice of deceiving; concealment of the truth in order to mislead; deception, fraud, cheating, false dealing. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| defending | The warding off of attack, etc. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| defiance | Renunciation of faith, allegiance, or amity; declaration of hostilities. Obs. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| defy | trans. To renounce faith, allegiance, or affiance to (any one); to declare hostilities… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| defying | The action of defy v.; a defiance, a challenge. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| delicious | Highly pleasing or delightful; affording great pleasure or enjoyment. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| delphin | = dolphin n. Obs. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| demean | To handle, manipulate, manage (instruments, tools, weapons, etc.). Obs. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| demurrance | Abiding, abode, dwelling. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| deny | Const. with simple object (formerly sometimes a person). | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| depose | To put down from office or authority; esp. to put down from sovereignty, to… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| deraign | The action of vindicating or maintaining one's right, esp. by wager of battle; hence… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| deray | Disorder, disturbance, tumult, confusion. to make deray: to create a disturbance, act violently and noisily. Obs. (or arch.). | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| desirous | with of; also †to (obs. rare). | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| destrer | A war-horse, a charger. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| destroying | The action of the verb destroy v.; destruction n.: now chiefly gerundial. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| destuted | Omitted, left out. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| dewing | Deposition of dew. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| discharge | transf. and fig. To rid, clear (of); to deprive (of). Now rare. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| dismaying | The action of dismay v.; daunting; dismay. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| disray | Disorder, confusion; = deray n., disarray n. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| disray | trans. To put out of array or military order; to throw into disorder; = disarray v. 1. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| ditch | trans. To surround with a ditch; to cast a ditch about, around, esp. for the purpose… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| dole | intr. To sorrow, grieve, mourn, lament. Obs. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| dolour | Mental pain or suffering; sorrow, grief, distress. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| dolphin | A species of cetaceous mammal (Delphinus Delphis), having a longer and more slender snout… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| doppe | A bird that dops or dives; a dabchick. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| dragoman | An interpreter; strictly applied to a man who acts as guide and interpreter in… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| dragonet | A small or young dragon. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| drawbridge | A bridge hinged at one end and free at the other, which may be drawn up and let down so… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| dress | trans. To make ready or prepare for any purpose; to order, arrange, draw up. Also with up. Obs. exc. as transf. from 7. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| dromedary | A light and fleet breed of the camel, specially reared and trained for riding. See camel n. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| ederling | ? Mistake for *elderling ancestor | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| egg-shell | The shell or external calcareous covering of an egg; often as a type of worthlessness or of fragility. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| eker | | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| eldring | In pl., Elders, parents, ancestors. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| embrace | trans. To put (a shield) on the arm. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| emerald | A precious stone of bright green colour; in mod. use exclusively applied to a variety of… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| engineful | Full of ingenuity, skilful. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| entail | Ornamental carving; sculpture. Also concr. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| envenom | trans. To venom (a person, an animal); to poison by contact, bite, inoculation, etc. Also absol. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| envenomed | Of a wound: Infected with venom, poisoned. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| envesure | Game, play. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| escape | The action of escaping, or the fact of having escaped, from custody, danger, etc.; spec. in Law: see quot. 1641. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| estellation | Astrology. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| fairy | Enchantment, magic; a magic contrivance; an illusion, a dream. Obs. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| favour | That which conciliates affection or goodwill; attractiveness, comeliness, beauty; an attraction, charm. Obs. exc. arch. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| fealty | The recognition of this obligation (see quot. 1629). Also pl. Frequent in phrases to do, make, receive, swear, etc. fealty. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| feast | intr. To make or partake of a feast, fare sumptuously, regale oneself. Also with on, upon, and to feast it. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| ferraunt | Of a horse: Iron-grey. Also absol. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| finder | One who or that which finds, in various senses of the vb.; one who comes upon or… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| fling | To move with haste or violence from or towards an object; to go or run violently or hastily; to dash, rush. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| flumbarding | ‘A fiery character’ (Weber). | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| fodding | ? A division. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| forbearing | The action of forbear v. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| forchure | The fork of the body. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| formerward | The vanguard. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| fort | Strong, powerful. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| fortress | A military stronghold, fortified place; in mod. use chiefly one capable of receiving… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| frush | trans. To strike violently so as to crush, bruise, or smash. Obs. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| fur | trans. To line, trim, or cover (a garment) with fur. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| gage | spec. A pledge (usually a glove thrown on the ground) of a person's appearance to do… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| garcion | A serving-man, groom; esp. a young man or boy servant. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| garden | An enclosed piece of ground devoted to the cultivation of flowers, fruit, or… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| garget | The throat. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| gest | Race, kind, family; company. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| gillyflower | A clove (cf. clove-gillyflower n. 1); also attrib. in sauce gilofre, clove sauce. Obs. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| gilt | = gilded adj. (in literal sense). | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| gird | †A strap or band of any kind (obs.); a saddle-girth. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| giving | In transitive senses. Occas. pl. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| glorious | Of persons and things: Possessing glory; entitled to brilliant and lofty… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| glue | trans. To join or fasten (together) with glue, or some similar viscous substance. Const. on or upon… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| gonfanon | = gonfalon n. In the middle ages, chiefly applied to the small flag or pennon… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| gorge | intr. To fill the gorge; to feed greedily. (In early use, of a bird of prey.) Const. on, upon. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| gorger | = gorget n. 1. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| governor | One who governs, or exercises authoritative control over, subjects or inferiors; a ruler. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| grain | ? The blade of a weapon. Obs. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| grede | A cry; outcry; noise. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| Gregois | A Greek. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| grent | intr. ? To grunt or groan. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| greybitch | The female of the greyhound. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| griffin | A fabulous animal usually represented as having the head and wings of an eagle and the body and hind quarters of a lion. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| Griffon | A Greek. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| grifhound | A greyhound. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| guileful | Full of guile; deceitful, treacherous. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| guiling | Deceit; cunning. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| guyour | = guider n. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| harness | To put harness on (a horse or other beast of burden or draught); now confined to… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| he | An exclamation used to draw attention or express emotion. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| headling | With the head foremost; headlong. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| hind | hind and forth, hynt an(t)forth, hind end foremost, backside foremost. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| hippopotamus | A pachydermatous quadruped, the African river-horse, Hippopotamus amphibius, a very… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| hold | Allegiance, fidelity. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| holmen | Of holm or holly; made of holly-wood. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| hounding | A fabulous animal, partly dog and partly man; a cynocephalus. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| imager | A producer of solid images; a sculptor, carver, etc. Now chiefly hist. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| increase | To cause to wax or grow; to make greater in amount or degree; to augment, enlarge, extend, intensify. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| inherit | trans. To make heir, put in possession, cause to inherit (lit. and fig.). Obs. (Cf. disinherit v.) | 1305 | Go To Quotation |
| iniquity | The quality of being unrighteous, or (more often) unrighteous action or… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| iron hat | An iron helmet shaped like a hat. (Cf. hat n. 1.) | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| jollily | Cheerfully, gaily, merrily, jovially; †spiritedly, gallantly, boldly, insolently (obs.). | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| jouster | A horse for jousting; a charger. Obs. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| kindling | sing. One of a brood or litter; a young animal. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| knife-playing | Wielding a knife as a weapon. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| knush | trans. To crush. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| lace | A net, noose, snare. Chiefly fig. Obs. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| laron | A robber. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| launch | intr. for refl. To be set into sudden or rapid motion; to rush, plunge, start or shoot… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| leg | One of the organs of support and locomotion in an animal body; esp. one of the two lower… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| lidderon | A rascal, blackguard. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| lineage | The persons through whom one's ‘lineage’ (sense 1) is traced; one's ancestors collectively. Obs. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| listening | The action of the verb listen v. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| livering | The action or process of delivering something; the unloading or discharging of a cargo… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| lock | trans. To shut up or confine with a lock; to put under lock and key. Const. in, into, within. Also with advs. in, up. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| louring | Of persons (†occas. of animals), their looks, etc.: Frowning, scowling; angry-looking, gloomy, sullen. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| lumbar | A kind of ship. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| Macedon | Ancient Macedonia. Now arch. and hist. | 1330 | Go To Quotation |
| Macedonian | A member of an ancient people inhabiting the kingdom of Macedonia (see Macedon n.). Now hist. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| maintenant | At once, immediately. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| malapert | Malapertness personified. Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| mangle | in mangle: in a mêlée; fighting at close quarters. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| mantleless | Lacking or without a mantle. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| martin | A kind of monkey (not identified). Also martin ape, martin monkey. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| marvelling | A wonderful thing, a wonder. Obs. rare. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| measurable | Of a person, action, etc.: characterized by moderation, esp. of diet; moderate, temperate; (occas.) modest. Obs. | 1330 | Go To Quotation |
| Median | = Mede n. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| monoceros | The unicorn, or a similar mythical one-horned creature. Now arch. and hist. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| muchhead | = micklehead n. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| muray | A fortification, a wall. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| nakedhead | Nakedness, bareness; deprivation. | 1330 | Go To Quotation |
| nourished | That is, or has been, nourished or nurtured; provided with food or other nourishment. Freq. as the second element in compounds. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| ofgrede | trans. To call for or summon. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| ounce | A medium-sized member of the cat family, as a lynx, puma, or cheetah. Now arch. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| outspit | trans. To spit (something) out. Obs. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| Parthian | A native or inhabitant of Parthia, a region of the Achaemenian empire and later a kingdom in what is now Iran. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| pavilion | To enclose in or as in a pavilion; to canopy; to encamp in a pavilion or pavilions. In later use chiefly fig. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| plump | To land with a splash; to plunge into water. Also (Sc.): (of rain) to fall heavily. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| pomoun | The lungs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| potion | A liquid, usually taken orally, with healing, magical, or poisonous qualities… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| poudreye | Dust; dirt. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| poune | Misreading of ponne, variant of pan n. (in the Lincoln's Inn MS 150, l. 2754). | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| proche | trans. To prick, pierce; to spur. Also intr. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| pyrope | Any red or fiery gem, such as a ruby or carbuncle. In later use poet. Now rare. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| region | A kingdom; a realm. Also fig. Obs. | 1330 | Go To Quotation |
| remuing | The action of remue v., esp. removal; dismissal. | 1330 | Go To Quotation |
| rere-main | = reredemaine n. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| revert | intr. To become conscious again; to regain one's senses. Obs. (chiefly Sc. in later use). | 1330 | Go To Quotation |
| rivering | The action of hawking by a river. Obs. | 1424 | Go To Quotation |
| rocher | A rock; (also) a rocky bank or hillside. Now rare (in later use only in French contexts). | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| ruet | A type of early wind instrument, probably a small horn or trumpet. Hence humorously: the anus. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| sacred | Consecrated to; esteemed especially dear or acceptable to a deity. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| sans | Without. Now arch. (chiefly with reminiscence of Shakespeare), joc., and Heraldry. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| scoff | ‘Contemptuous ridicule; expression of scorn; contumelious language’ (Johnson); mockery. Phrase, to make scoff. Now rare or Obs. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| scomfit | Defeat, discomfiture. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| scope | A leap or skip. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| scour | The action of moving rapidly or going in haste; a run or rush. †Adv. phr. good scour =… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| scrub | trans. To curry-comb (a horse). Obs. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| shake | With prefixed adj., as advb. cognate obj. to shake vb., or other vbs. of motion, a good, great… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| shouldered | Having shoulders; furnished with shoulders. Chiefly with qualifying adv. or adv. phr. Also round-shouldered adj. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| shrill | intr. Of a voice, cry: To sound shrilly. Hence of noises, the wind, or the like, or a place echoing with sound. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| shrub | trans. = scrub v. 1. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| skick | = skeck v. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| slice | A fragment, a shiver, a splinter. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| slinging | The action of the vb. in various senses. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| spoil | In collective sing. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| spon-new | Perfectly new. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| spray | Outcry. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| spy | Mil. A person employed in time of war to obtain secret information regarding the enemy… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| stivour | A performer on a kind of bagpipe. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| stoke | A thrust with a weapon, a stab. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| stover | The provision of food (for persons or animals) necessary for a journey or a sojourn. Obs. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| surmouncy | Dominance, superiority. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| taborn | = tabor v., to drum. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| teller | One who relates, makes known, or announces. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| tenor | The course of meaning which holds on or continues through something written or spoken… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| terrene | Belonging to the earth or to this world; earthly; worldly, secular, temporal, material… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| teste | The head. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| Thebes | With pl. concord. = Thebans; see Theban n. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| thinly | With little thickness or depth; with thin clothing. Also fig. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| threating | That threats; threatening, menacing. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| timbre | = timbrel n. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| to-gnaw | trans. To gnaw to pieces; to gnaw away. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| toil | †Verbal contention, dispute, controversy, argument (obs.); also, battle, strife, mêlée, turmoil (arch. or merged in sense 2). | 1326 | Go To Quotation |
| tourney | = tournament n. 1. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| trap | A cloth or covering spread over the saddle or harness of a horse (cf. trapper n.); a… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| treason | trans. To betray; to act treasonably towards. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| treble | In three ranks or rows, threefold; to three times the extent; three times over; trebly. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| tresget | Casting of darts. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| trumper | A trumpeter. Obs. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| truncheon | The shaft of a spear. Obs. or arch. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| twinkle | intr. = tinkle v. 2 3. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| twinkling | A tinkling sound; the production of such a sound. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| under-chamberlain | (under- prefix 3a(a).) | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| underthew | trans. To subject, subdue. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| unhonest | Physically or morally objectionable, offensive, or unpleasant; indecent, filthy, vile. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| unlovesome | (un- prefix 7.) | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| unspring | intr. To burst open. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| up | Situated on high ground. rare. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| upper | Occupying, comprising or consisting of, rising or more elevated ground (and usu. further… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| V | The Roman numeral symbol for: Five (†or fifth). | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| veire | (in) veir(e), truly, in truth. (Cf. vaires n.) | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| venom | fig. To infect with moral evil; to corrupt, deprave, vitiate; = envenom v. 3. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| vigour | Freq. in Middle English verse in the adv. phr. with (..) vigour. Also in pl. Obs. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| virgin wax | Orig., fresh, new, or unused bees-wax, sometimes that produced by the first swarm of… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| virtuous | Distinguished by manly qualities; full of manly courage; valiant, valorous. Obs. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| visage | The face with reference to the form or proportions of the features. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| visaged | Having a visage of a specified kind. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| void | trans. To clear (a room, house, place) of occupants; to empty or clear (a place… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| warnement | Equipment, armour, clothing. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| warring | The action of the verb. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| water-cress | pl. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| water-dog | Any kind of dog that swims well, and is habituated to or not shy of the water. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| well(-)apaid | Heartily pleased or satisfied. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| wire | trans. To adorn with (gold) wire. Obs. rare. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| wolden-eiȝed | ? = wall-eyed adj. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| wolfling | A young or little wolf. Also fig. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| wombling | On the belly. Cf. womb n. 1. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| word for word | In the exact, or (in reference to translation) precisely corresponding, words; = verbatim adv.… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| wounding | The action of the verb; the fact of being wounded. Also fig. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| ybathed | See quot. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| ybete(n | beaten. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| ydought | grown strong. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| yfurred | furred. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| ygreved | grieved. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| ykitt | cut. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| ylet | hindered. | 1301 | Go To Quotation |
| ypass | To pass. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| yplaied | Played. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| yprast | Middle English pa. pples. of press v. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| ystabelid | Middle English pa. pples. of stable v., stable v. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| yswerred | Necked. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| yteld | Middle English pa. pple. of tell v. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| ythewed | Variant of thewed adj., mannered. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |