| affable | Of a person, or a person's character or bearing: easy to approach and converse with… | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| alkanamyer | An alchemist, (perh.) one who prepared or used the metallic composition ‘alchemy’ (see alchemy n. 2). | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| approve | lit. To make profit to oneself of (e.g. land), by increasing the value or rent. esp. Said… | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| ardagh | Ploughing, the quantity of land that may be ploughed in a day (or other space of time). | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| areasoner | One who addresses or questions. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| arrow-head | The head or pointed part of an arrow, made separately and of different material from the shaft. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| axle-tooth | A molar tooth, a grinder. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| bairnly | | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| banstickle | Name of the Three-spined Stickleback. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| baptizer | One who baptizes; occas. used of John the Baptist. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| bastardry | | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| beat | A bundle of flax or hemp made up ready for steeping. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| beater | A person who beats; one who strikes repeated blows, a striker; a punisher; one who ‘beats’… | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| bedstock | Earlier name of a bedstead n., or rather of its front and back parts, between which… | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| beguilous | = beguileful adj. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| begun | That has begun, or has been begun. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| bell | A bubble formed in a liquid. (The ordinary word for ‘bubble’ in modern Scottish use, whence occasional in English literature.) | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| belted | Wearing, or girded with, a belt; spec. as describing the distinctive cincture of an earl… | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| berande | obs. north. form of bearing adj. Also subst. Bearer, carrier. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| birthful | Prolific, productive. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| birtle | A sweet apple. Also in comb. birtle-tree. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| biteable | That may be bitten. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| blindfold | fig. With the mind blinded; without perception; without forethought, heedless, reckless. Cf. blind adj. 3. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| bluntness | Dullness of wit, stupidity. Obs. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| bode | A pole or perch. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| bolt-head | The head (a) of a bolt, or arrow; (b) of a bolt for holding parts together. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| bonfire | A fire of bones; a great fire in which bones were burnt in the open air. Obs. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| boot | trans. To put boots on (another or oneself). | 1468 | Go To Quotation |
| borer | One who bores or pierces. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| brawde | trans. To embroider. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| breech | To cover or clothe with, or as with, breeches; to put (a boy) into breeches. to breech it (obs.): to serve as breeches. | 1468 | Go To Quotation |
| bristle | trans. To render the surface of (anything) crisp with heat; to toast, scorch, parch. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| bucking | The operation of steeping or boiling yarn, cloth, or clothes in a lye of wood ashes, etc.… | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| buffeter | ‘A boxer; one that buffets’ (Johnson). | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| bulle | A semicircular or bowed handle, as of a pail, a door, etc. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| burl | trans. To dress (cloth), esp. by removing knots and lumps; ‘to dress cloth as fullers do’ (Johnson). | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| burler | One who dresses cloth by removing knots and extraneous particles. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| burry | Of the nature of a bur; rough, prickly. | 1468 | Go To Quotation |
| burstenness | Burst state or quality; spec. rupture, hernia. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| butter | = butteris n. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| buyable | That can be bought. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| camerelle | A small room. | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| cap | trans. To provide or cover with a cap; to put a cap on (a person, or his head); esp. as the… | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| cart-house | A shed or outhouse in which carts are kept. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| caul | A sheepfold. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| cervylle | To remove or knock out the brains. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| chapmanry | The employment or dealing of a chapman; mercantile business. (With quot. 1790, cf. chap-money n.) | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| charger | One who loads. Obs. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| christener | One who christens or baptizes. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| chuller | (See quot. 1483.) | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| cleansable | Capable of being cleansed. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| cleaver | One who cleaves or splits (wood, etc.). | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| clement | Of persons, their actions, etc.: Mild and humane in the exercise of power or… | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| clettis | | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| clipped | Cut as with shears or scissors, cut short, spec. having the hair or wool shorn, etc.… | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| clot | trans. To free (lands) from clods; absol. to crush clods. Still dial. Cf. clod v. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| clothing | That clothes, investing, enveloping. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| clotting | a clod-mall. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| coll | trans. To poll, cut off the hair of, shear, clip, cut close. Ascham uses coul for ‘to pare or cut down the feather of an arrow’. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| coming | Sprouting, esp. of barley in the malting. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| commanding | gen. Possessing or exercising command or control, ruling, controlling. commanding signs in Astrol.: see quot. 1696. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| conditionally | In a conditional manner; under conditions. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| considering | The action of consider v.; consideration. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| considering | That considers; thinking, reflecting; thoughtful, reflective. (Common from 1650 to 1750; now rare: so French considérant.) | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| corrup | | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| court-house | A building in which courts of law are held. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| cowpe | ? A tub or cask. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| cropper | One who or that which crops. spec. a shearing machine in iron and steel work; also, the workman who operates it. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| crosser | A small lamp. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| culler | One who culls, selects, or gathers. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| cup-bearer | One who carries a cup; an officer of a king's or nobleman's household who served his master with wine. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| dadder | intr. To quake, tremble. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| deaconry | The office of a deacon; deaconship, diaconate. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| debatous | Quarrelsome, contentious. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| deceitful | Full of deceit; given to deceiving or cheating; misleading, false, fallacious. (As said of things often = deceptive adj.) | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| degraded | Lowered in rank, position, reputation, character, etc.; debased. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| dionise | A precious stone, of a black colour streaked with red, reckoned, by mediæval writers, a preservative against drunkenness. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| diphthong | A union of two vowels pronounced in one syllable; the combination of a sonantal with a consonantal vowel. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| disarray | trans. To strip or spoil of personal array, raiment, or attire; to disrobe. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| disseisor | One who disseises, or dispossesses another of his lands, etc.; a dispossessor. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| Donatist | One of a sect of Christians which arose in North Africa in the year 311, out of a… | 1460 | Go To Quotation |
| doubtfully | In a doubtful, uncertain, or ambiguous manner; hesitatingly, ambiguously, indistinctly. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| dregbaly | ? Error for *dragbelly: a big belly, a person with a large paunch. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| ducker | A person who ducks or dives under water; a diver. In mod. Sc., douker, dooker, a bather. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| dunnock | The hedge-sparrow or hedge-warbler (Accentor modularis). | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| ear-pick | An instrument for clearing the ear of wax, etc.; also fig. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| eatable | That may be eaten, suitable for food; edible, esculent. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| eel-bed | transf. A bivouac on swampy ground. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| eker | One who increases. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| emigrane | = migraine n. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| engleimous | Slimy; viscous. | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| equinoction | = equinox n. 1. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| equivoce | = equivocal adj. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| erring | The action of the verb err v.; †an instance of the same, a fault. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| favourer | One who countenances, encourages, or sides with another; a well-wisher, friend, or follower. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| fed | Supplied with food; hence, nourished; lit. and fig. Chiefly with adv. prefixed, as highly, well fed… | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| fee | trans. ? To invest with a fief; ? to grant as a fief. Obs. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| feigning | Given to inventing; imaginative. Obs. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| fernticle | ‘A freckle on the skin, resembling the seed of fern’ (W.). | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| fillable | Capable of being filled. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| finger-stall | A cover or protection for the finger, usually of leather, e.g. the finger of a glove, used… | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| flight | A turf. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| foge | ? Some ailment. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| fox-fire | The phosphorescent light emitted by decaying timber. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| fuke | A lock of hair. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| Gabriel | = Gabriel-hound n. at b. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| garn | Yarn or worsted (see quot. 1876). | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| garsil | Brushwood used for fencing, or (mod.) for burning. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| gawberd | (See quot. 1847 – 78.) | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| gay horse | A figure, perh. in the form of a decorated horse with a gaping mouth and gnashing teeth… | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| geometrician | An expert or specialist in geometry. Cf. geometer n. 1. | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| gersum | trans. To subject to a fine, impose a fine upon. to gersume in: to admit to possession of in consideration of a fine or rent. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| gerundive | = gerund n. (So French gérondif.) | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| ginners | With pl. (and occas. sing.) concord. The gills of a fish. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| gist | trans. To take in or put out (cattle) to pasture at so much per head: = agist v. 2. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| gister | = agister n. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| glass | A resounding noise. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| gleety | Slimy. Obs. exc. Sc. and north. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| glovery | A place in which gloves are made or sold. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| glue-pot | A pot in which glue is melted by the heat of water in an outer vessel. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| gluer | One who glues. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| goff | = gaffer n. 1 2. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| gold-finer | A refiner of gold. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| gold-mine | A mine from which gold is obtained. Also fig. a source of wealth; esp. a source of abundant income or profit. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| gom | = cummer n. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| good-dame | A grandmother. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| graft | A shoot or scion inserted in a groove or slit made in another stock, so as to allow the sap… | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| graft | trans. To insert (a shoot from one tree) as a graft (see graft n.) into another tree. Const. in… | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| grafting | The action of inserting a graft (see graft n. 1). For cleft-, crown-, saddle-, tongue-, whip-… | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| greyness | The state or quality of being grey; grey colour. Also fig. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| grime | trans. To cover with grime, to blacken, befoul. Also fig. to grime the face of. (Cf. begrime v.) | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| grimed | Blackened with grime; grimy. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| grooper | One who digs trenches. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| haggaday | A kind of door-latch: see quot. 1877. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| hagworm | A northern name for the adder or viper; but in some districts applied to the common snake, and in others to the blindworm. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| half-naked | As nearly naked as clothed. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| half-tone | (?) To sing or play in semitones. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| hay-mow | A rick or stack of hay; in some places applied to the pile of hay stored in a hay-house… | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| heard | Perceived by the ear. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| heart-strings | In old notions of Anatomy, the tendons or nerves supposed to brace and sustain the heart. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| hemmer | One who hems; in earlier times, one who makes or trims borders of garments. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| hiding | That hides: see the verb. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| hollness | Hollowness, cavity. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| honey-pot | A receptacle, of wax or other substance, in which many species of wild bees store their honey. (Cent. Dict.) | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| hud | A log placed at the back of the fire-place to keep the fire in by night; = head block n. 1. Obs. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| hugge | trans. To abhor, abominate. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| hurr | ‘A thin flat piece of wood, tied to a string and whirled round in the air’ (Halliwell). Also called hurre-bone n. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| imaginer | (a) One who imagines something; a user of the imagination. Cf. imaginator n. 1. (b) A plotter, a planner. Now hist. rare. | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| ing | A common name in the north of England, and in some other parts, for a meadow; esp. one by… | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| inhigh | trans. To elevate. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| insameikle | = insomuch adv. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| invitory | Shortened form of invitatory n. 2. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| invitory | Corrupt form of inventory n. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| javel | = jail n. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| joinable | Capable of being joined. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| kindling | That kindles, in senses of the vb. (chiefly intr.). | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| lanyard | = lainer n. Obs. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| lanyer | trans. To bind with a thong. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| larderer | One who has charge of a larder. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| launderer | One who launders (linen). Obs. exc. U.S. | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| lavish | Expending or bestowing without stint or measure; unboundedly liberal or profuse… | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| lea | A scythe. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| leftward | On the left hand. Also to (the) leftward (of). | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| linn | The linden or lime; also, the wood of this tree; attrib., in linn-bark, linn-board, linn-tree. | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| linsey-woolsey | Orig. a textile material, woven from a mixture of wool and flax; now, a dress material… | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| lope | intr. To leap, jump, spring. Also with about. Obs. exc. dial. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| loper | A leaper, dancer. Obs. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| loping | The action of the verb lope v. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| loppy | Full of or infested with ‘lops’ or fleas. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| martinet | A watermill for an iron forge. | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| mask | To infuse (malt) as a mash; to prepare a mash in (a vat or similar vessel); to brew (ale, etc.) by mashing. Also intr. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| midwifery | The work or profession of a midwife; the branch of medicine that deals with this, obstetrics. | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| mishearing | Sinful hearing or listening; disobedience. Obs. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| moss-crop | Any of several grasses which grow in boggy or marshy areas; spec. (a) cotton… | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| mouldness | Mouldiness, mould. | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| nap | trans. To smooth the surface of (cloth) by shearing or trimming. Obs. | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| night-waker | A person who stays awake at night; esp. (in Sc.) a reveller. | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| occupied | Taken possession of; held in possession, dwelt in; filled up, taken up; engaged… | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| ooze | Seaweed. | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| penny-stone | Sc. and Eng. regional (north.). A flat round stone used as a quoit. Formerly also: (in pl.) †a game played with these (obs.). | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| pilling | That peels or flakes off or away; eroding. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| plaining | That plains; plaintive, mourning, lamenting; (formerly also) †expressing a grievance, uttering a complaint (obs.). | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| playable | Playful, given to play. Obs. | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| pleated | Made with pleats; that has been folded or stitched into pleats; (also) that resembles… | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| pleating | Pleats, pleated work; an instance of this; a pleat or fold. Also: the action of pleat v. | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| plough driver | The driver of a plough; esp. one who drives the animal or animals drawing a plough. | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| plough handle | The handle, or either of the two handles, of a plough. | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| preferred | Put in a privileged or more eminent position. Obs. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| puddinger | A person who makes or sells sausages and puddings. | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| pup-barn | A young child, an infant. | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| pursiness | The condition of being pursy; shortness of breath, breathlessness, dyspnoea. | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| quartful | Sound, healthy; safe, prosperous. | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| reested | Rancid. | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| registery | = registry n. (in various senses); esp. a repository where registers are kept (cf. registry n. 2). | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| renewed | Recounted, repeated. Obs. rare. | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| restness | Rancidity. | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| riddling | The action of posing or asking a riddle or riddles; an instance of this. Also: a riddle, a… | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| ring man | (A name for) the ring finger. Now regional and nursery. | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| river | A person who splits or tears something. Cf. rive v. In later use Eng. regional (north. and E. Anglian). Now rare. | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| Rochester earth | Saltpetre. | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| rooty | Full of roots; consisting of roots; relating to or suggestive of roots. | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| rowan-tree | = rowan n. 2. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| sacristanry | = sacristy n. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| saddling | App: a saddlecloth or horse-cloth. Perh. also: a saddler's district; an act of saddling. Obs. rare. | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| salt-maker | A manufacturer of salt. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| sartryn | A tailor's shop. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| scabbedness | The condition of being ‘scabbed’ or suffering from ‘scab’. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| scaddle | Wild; timid; shy. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| scapular | A short cloak covering the shoulders; prescribed by the Rule of St. Benedict to be worn… | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| scraw | A scroll or tag of parchment or leather. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| scrithel | Fleeting. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| scrud | (See quot. 1483.) | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| scullion | A domestic servant of the lowest rank in a household who performed the menial offices… | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| scurf | The Sea-trout, Salmo eriox or S. trutta. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| scurfy | Covered with scurf; suffering from cutaneous disease. Also, of the nature of scurf. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| seamless | Without a seam; of a garment, woven without a seam. Now esp. of tubing and women's stockings or tights. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| seekable | †Capable of investigation. Obs. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| seeking | That seeks, in various senses of the vb. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| seemingly | Fittingly, becomingly. Now somewhat rare. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| sendable | That may be sent. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| sent | In senses of the vb. Also in comb. as heaven-sent adj. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| sequencery | = sequencer n. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| shear-grass | A name popularly applied to several kinds of sharp-edged grass or sedge, which are apt to… | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| shippable | Navigable. rare. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| shive | With pronunc. /ʃɪv/. A particle of husk; a splinter; a piece of thread or fluff on the… | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| shive | trans. To ‘break’ (hemp, flax). | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| shoo | An exclamation used to frighten or drive away poultry, birds, or other intruders. Also shoohoo. Also as n. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| shoop | The fruit of the rose; = hip n. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| shorted | Shortened, cut short. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| side-rope | A trace for a horse. Obs. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| sleuth-hound | A species of bloodhound, formerly employed in Scotland for pursuing game or tracking fugitives. Now Hist. or arch. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| sloughy | Consisting or formed of slough or cast skin. rare. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| sluttishness | The character or state of being sluttish; dirtiness; gross slovenliness or untidiness. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| snig | A young or small eel; a grig. In later use a distinct species of eel (see quots.). | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| snuffkin | A muff. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| soap-maker | One who makes soap; a soap-boiler. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| solemn | trans. To solemnize, celebrate. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| speakable | That may or can be spoken; fit or possible to be expressed in speech. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| spelk | trans. To bruise (beans). | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| spendible | = spendable adj. 1. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| spilt | Of a liquid: That has been allowed to flow over or run out, esp. in an accidental… | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| splete | (Meaning obscure.) | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| spreader | One who spreads, strews, or scatters. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| sprouted | That has developed a sprout or sprouts; spec. of corn that has germinated prematurely. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| steg | A gander; also, a clumsy or stupid person. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| stirred | Moved, agitated, excited, etc.: see the various senses of the verb. Also with up: see stir v. 16. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| stoothe | trans. To garnish with studs or knobs. = stud v. Obs. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| strainable | Coercive, compulsive, compulsory. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| strake | trans. ? To sharpen, whet. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| stur | A hard variety of apple. Only in comb. stur-apple, stur-tree. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| suppable | Able or fit to be taken into the mouth in small quantities or using a spoon. | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| surgeonrer | A surgeon. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| swingle-hand | = swingle n. 1. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| swingletree | In a plough, harrow, carriage, etc., a crossbar, pivoted at the middle, to which the… | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| table-board | A board for backgammon or a similar game. Now rare (hist. in later use). | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| taking | Seizing, receiving; getting something into one's possession; rapacious. rare. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| taxage | Taxation. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| taxed | Subjected to a tax. Of a motor vehicle: having had excise duty paid for the current period. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| teachable | Able or apt to teach. Obs. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| tellable | Capable of being told or narrated; fit to be told; worth telling. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| temple | A contrivance for keeping cloth stretched to its proper width in the loom during the process of weaving. Usually pl. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| tether | trans. To make fast or confine with a tether. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| thirlable | That may be thirled or pierced; penetrable. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| thivel | A stick for stirring porridge or anything cooked in a pot; a potstick. (See also quot. 1876, γ.) | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| thorn | trans. To make thorny, to furnish with thorns; esp. to protect (a newly planted quick-set… | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| thorn-tree | A tree having or bearing thorns; in Great Britain, usually a hawthorn tree; in southern Africa, usually an acacia. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| three-halfpence | Money of the value of three halfpennies, or a penny and a halfpenny (1½ d.); a silver coin… | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| thrusche | trans. ? To cut asunder, cleave. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| trayment | Betrayal. | 1468 | Go To Quotation |
| tributor | One who pays tribute. Also fig. Obs. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| turnable | That may be turned. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| turngrece | A winding stair, as in a turret, etc. Also attrib. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| twister | One who prunes or clips trees. Obs. rare. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| unacceptable | Not acceptable. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| unbelt | trans. To ungird. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| unbent | Not bowed or curved; also, freed from bending, straightened. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| uncleansable | (un- prefix 7b.) | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| uncrafty | Not dexterous or ingenious; unskilful. Obs. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| unfeather | trans. To strip of feathers; to unplume. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| unfolding | The action of the verb, in various senses. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| unforthinking | (un- prefix 12 10.) | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| unhearable | (un- prefix 7b.) | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| unlarge | †Not generous in giving. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| unmanly | Dishonourable or degrading to a man. | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| unnoyous | = unnoyand adj. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| unpraisable | That cannot be praised. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| unseemlily | = unseemly adv. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| unteachable | Incapable of being instructed. | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| unthirlable | (un- prefix 7b.) | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| verrel | A ferrule. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| wam-lock | A twisted or tangled lock of wool from under the belly of a sheep. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| war | trans. To ‘worst’, defeat in a contest or competition; to surpass, excel. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| wardnape | = gardnap n. | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| warty | Afflicted with warts on the skin. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| way-maker | One who makes or mends roads. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| weavable | That may be woven. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| welt | trans. To furnish (shoes) with welts; to repair or renew the welts of. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| whew | A musical instrument, a pipe. Obs. | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| whew | intr. To whistle; to make a whistling or rustling noise; to utter the interjection whew! | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| whin-bush | A furze-bush. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| wiping | That wipes, in various senses: see the verb. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| witting | bequest: see wit v. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| wool-bearer | An animal that bears wool, esp. a sheep. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| wool-work | Working in wool; manufacture of woollen goods. Obs. | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| worrying | The action of strangling or of biting and tearing by the throat. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| woubit | A hairy caterpillar, esp. the larva of the tiger-moth; a ‘woolly bear’. Also transf. (and attrib.… | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| wounder | One who or that which wounds. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| ye | trans. To address (a person) by the pronoun ye instead of thou. Cf. thou v., yeet v. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| yeverous | Eager, impetuous. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| yok(e)able | Capable of being or adapted to be yoked. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| yoker | One who yokes. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| yure | An udder. | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
