| agle | intr. Perh.: to think, to believe. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| alike | Modifying an adjective: to the same degree or extent, equally. Now rare. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| anger | That which pains or afflicts, or the passive feeling which it produces; trouble, affliction, vexation, sorrow. 2. Obs. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| arled | ? Speckled. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| atwite | To depart, go away. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| becall | trans. To accuse of. Obs. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| begetel | Advantageous, profitable. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| belong | Pertaining, belonging, or appropriate; ‘along of.’ Const. on. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| bergh | Protection, shelter. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| bigamy | Marriage with a second wife or husband when already married; the crime of having two… | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| bigging | The fact of dwelling or staying; residence, rest. Obs. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| bilacche | To take away. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| bileven | That which is left; remainder, remains. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| bimen | A complaint, a lament. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| birth | intr. To have birth, be born. rare. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| birthel | Fruit-bearing. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| blesche | trans. To quench, extinguish; fig. to put a stop to, blot out. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| blo | Blackish blue, livid, leaden-coloured. (In early writers sometimes = blue adj.) | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| bout | In various senses of about prep. (Not in literary prose.) | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| brim | intr. To be fertile, develop fruit, to breed v. (sense 12c). | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| brinfir | Fierce burning fire: applied as a name for brimstone. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| burial | A burying place, grave, or tomb. Obs. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| canticle | A song, properly a little song; a hymn. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| chartre | A prison. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| chastehead | Chastity. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| circumcis | Circumcised. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| circumcise | Circumcision; foreskin. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| cisternesse | A cistern. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| clipping | (a) the time of sheep-shearing; (b) Sc. the nick of time. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| costful | transf. Causing expenditure or loss (of time, trouble, etc.). | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| cowl-staff | A stout stick used to carry a ‘cowl’, being thrust through the two handles of it; a pole… | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| damask | The city of Damascus. Obs. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| dayn | To dawn. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| Dead Sea | The lake or inland sea in the south of Palestine, into which the Jordan flows; it has… | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| dearth | A condition in which food is scarce and dear; often, in earlier use, a time of scarcity… | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| dere | Harm, hurt, injury, mischief, esp. in phr. to do (a person) dere. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| dready | Feeling dread, fear, or awe; timid. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| drearihead | Sadness, sorrow; = dreariness n. 1. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| dref | Troublesome, vexatious, grievous. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| dretch | intr. To delay, linger, tarry. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| eathe | trans. To lighten, alleviate, assuage. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| elt | To knead. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| evenlength | The time of year when the days and nights are of equal length; the equinox. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| explicit | A medieval Latin word, used by scribes in indicating the end of a book, or of one of… | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| fathead | = fatness n. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| feastly | As men do at a feast; merrily. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| fighty | Pugnacious; †warlike. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| fire-isle | In pl. Ashes, embers. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| first name | A person's first or Christian name. Also as attrib. phr. Hence as v. trans., to address… | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| flour | Originally, the ‘flower’ or finest quality of meal; hence, the finer portion of meal… | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| fodme | ? Product. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| forhard | trans. To harden. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| forirk | intr. To grow weary or disgusted. Const. of or to with inf. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| forweary | trans. To weary, tire out. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| forwend | trans. To turn into (something); to turn, incline, dispose. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| forwrought | Destroyed, ruined, accursed. In quot. 1325 absol. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| frightful | subjectively. Full of terror; timid; alarmed. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| frightly | In a frighted manner. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| frighty | Causing fright, formidable. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| fulsome | Characterized by abundance, possessing or affording copious supply; abundant, plentiful, full. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| fulsomehead | Plentifulness, abundance. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| gear | trans. To adorn; to array; to dress. Obs. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| gisarme | A kind of battle-axe, bill, or halberd, having a long blade in line with the shaft… | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| gore | = gare n. a spear or javelin. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| grot | Weeping, lamentation. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| grusnen | intr. To cry out with fright. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| haswed | Marked with grey or brown. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| heartburn | Burning of heart; fire of passion. rare. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| hearting | The action of the verb heart v.; the imparting of courage; encouragement, animation, cheer. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| hidel-like | Secretly. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| holocaust | A sacrifice wholly consumed by fire; a whole burnt offering. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| hoten | Promised. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| hunter | One engaged in the chase of wild animals; a huntsman. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| idlehead | Idleness. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| idol | An image or similitude of a deity or divinity, used as an object of worship: applied… | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| idolatry | The worship of idols or images ‘made with hands’; more generally, the paying or offering of divine honours to any created object. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| joust | (?) To join, to ally oneself. Obs. rare. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| keep | Care, attention, heed, notice; usually in phrases to nim, take, give keep, to take or… | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| land-way | A way or path over land. Also advb. = by land. Obs. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| lathe | A barn. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| leaved | Having leaves or foliage; bearing leaves, ‘in leaf’. lit. and fig. Also Heraldry. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| leaveless | Without permission. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| lentil | Chiefly pl., in early use occas. collective sing. The seed of a leguminous plant (Ervum lens… | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| likeless | Unlike. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| loder | A leader: in quot. attrib. loder-man. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| lordhead | = lordship n. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| lote | trans. To forsake, fail. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| maidenhead | The state or condition of being a virgin, virginity (esp. of a young woman, occas. of… | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| manlihead | The condition of being human; human nature or form. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| master-man | A craftsman, an artist; a master with apprentices or employees. Cf. mister man n. at mister n.… | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| maugh | A near (male) relation by marriage; esp. a brother-in-law or a son-in-law. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| middlehead | The middle (middle adj. 1). | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| mids-world | = middle earth n. 1. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| mischoose | intr. To make a wrong choice. Obs. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| miserlike | Perh.: indistinctly. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| miswive | trans. (refl.). To marry unlawfully. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| Moabite | Of or relating to Moab, an ancient region east of the Dead Sea, or its inhabitants. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| moan | To complain of, lament; to bemoan, bewail. Now rare. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| mome | An aunt. Also as a title of or affectionate form of address to an old woman. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| moreover | For more time, longer. Obs. rare. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| morn-while | Morning; the early part of the morning. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| murkness | Intense darkness; (sometimes) spec. darkness caused by fog, smoke, etc. Freq. in murkness of (the) night. Also fig. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| music | The art or science of combining vocal or instrumental sounds to produce beauty of… | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| nemel | trans. To name; to appoint. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| often | Many times; at many times; on numerous occasions; frequently; for a significant amount or proportion of the time. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| ondregh | intr. To endure. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| one time | On one occasion, at one time; once; formerly. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| othersome | Some others. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| outsteal | trans. To steal away from (a place or person) secretly. Obs. rare. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| out-through | Right through; throughout; thoroughly. Obs. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| outwork | To produce by work. Obs. rare. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| overfleet | intr. To overflow. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| overman | A man having a position of authority or rule over others; a leader, a ruler, a chief… | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| overmete | intr. To pass by, elapse. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| overthought | Grieved, vexed. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| pert | Open, unconcealed; evident, manifest; public; = apert adj. 1 2. Also (quot. 1375): acknowledged. Freq. opposed to privy. Obs. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| pode | A toad; = pad n. 1; (also) any of various other creatures reputed to be venomous. Also in extended use: a vile person. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| powhead | A tadpole. Also fig. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| primices | With pl. concord. First fruits. Now chiefly in extended use. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| prisoner | The keeper of a prison; a jailer. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| promission | = promise n.; esp. a divine promise of future benefit or blessing (cf. promise n. 3).… | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| pulment | Pottage, gruel. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| rake | To draw together, collect, or gather (scattered objects) with or as with a rake. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| ransack | trans. To search (a person) for something stolen or missing. Obs. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| rape | To hurry oneself; to hasten to a place. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| ren | A run; a course. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| righteoushead | Righteousness. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| rosp | trans. To scrape away; (fig.) to destroy. Cf. rasp v. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| selthelike | Successfully, prosperously. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| semble | To bring together (persons) into one place or company; = assemble v. 1. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| short livy | Short-lived. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| sightless | Unable to see; destitute of the power of sight; blind. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| skind | trans. To hasten (a journey). | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| skipper | A locust. Obs. rare. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| smitten | That has been smit; beaten, struck. Also absol. with down. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| soft | That which is agreeable, pleasant, or easy; comfort, ease. rare. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| sojourn | A temporary stay at a place. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| solstice | One or other of the two times in the year, midway between the two equinoxes, when the… | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| son | intr. To conceive a son. Obs. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| sort | With possessive pronoun: The fate or lot of a particular person or persons. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| southen | Of a wind: blowing from the south, southerly. Obs. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| speaking | That speaks; capable of articulate speech. †In early use absol. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| spice-like | So as to smell like spices. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| spile | Sport, play. (In fig. senses: cf. spile v. 1b.) | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| spotted | Marked or decorated with spots. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| squinacy | = squinsy n. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| stound | intr. To remain, stay. Obs. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| stung | Wounded or hurt by a sting. lit. and fig. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| sundering | The action of sunder v.; parting, separation. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| sunshine | The shining of the sun; direct sunlight uninterrupted by cloud. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| swac | Weak, feeble. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| sweam | Grief, affliction. to think sweam (impers. with dat.): to be grievous to. to be sweam: to be a pity. So for sweam! | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| swepe | ? Scope, significance (of a dream). | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| sworn | That has taken or is bound by an oath. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| swow | A swoon. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| tamehead | Tameness, domesticity, docility. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| thef | A smell. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| thole | Patience, forbearance, endurance. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| thwart | To act or operate in opposition to; to run counter to, to go against; to oppose, hinder. Also absol. Now rare. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| thwart | Of persons or their attributes: Disposed to resist, oppose, or obstruct… | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| tidy | In good condition, or of good appearance; fair, well-favoured, comely, bonny; fat… | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| tile | ? Gain, profit; wealth, possessions, goods. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| tribe | A group of people forming a community and claiming descent from a common ancestor; spec.… | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| twi- | bigamy. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| ugging | Dread, fear, horror, loathing. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| unachteled | Unestimated. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| unbuxomhead | Stiffness of body. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| uncircumcis | = uncircumcised adj. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| unended | Not made to end or stop; having no limit or bounds; continued, lasting, infinite. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| unframe | trans. To distress, trouble. Obs. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| unfright | Unafraid. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| unmade | Not (yet) made, in senses of the verb. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| unslain | Not put to death; not killed. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| unspear | trans. To unbar; to open. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| unswac | Not weak or gentle. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| unward | Unprotected. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| updrawn | (up- prefix 3b 3c(b) Cf. updraw v.) | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| upgo | intr. To go up; to ascend, mount. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| upwake | intr. and trans. To wake up. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| upwind | intr. To fly up. Obs. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| wale | of a person, his attributes, actions, etc. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| wanmol | Destitute of eloquence. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| waxen | Grown up, full-grown, adult. little waxen, young. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| welked | Dulled in lustre. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| well-weaponed | | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| were | A defender, protector. Obs. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| weryer | A defender, guardian. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| whereat | interrog.: At what? rare. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| will | Bewilderment, distraction. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| wine-grape | A cluster or bunch of grapes. Obs. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| wlat | Nauseous, loathsome. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| wol(e | Orig. unstressed form of well adv. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| wriðel | ? Wild lettuce. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| wrought | Created; shaped, moulded. Obs. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| yeming | The action of the verb yeme v.; care, keeping, protection, charge. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
