| acker | A strong or turbulent current in the sea; a flood tide. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| affirmed | That is or has been affirmed; confirmed, corroborated; positively asserted, declared. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| afterpart | The part of something nearest the rear; (Naut.) the part of a ship, deck, etc., nearest to the stern. Also in pl. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| aggrudged | Troubled, afflicted. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| agroten | trans. To glut, surfeit; = agrotye v. Cf. ingroten v. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| alkekengi | The Chinese lantern plant, Physalis alkekengi (family Solanaceae). | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| allowed | Assigned as a portion or due share; allotted. Now rare except as merged with sense 4a. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| almonry | A place where alms are or (now usually) were distributed; an office responsible… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| ambrose | Herb. An English plant: with some the Wood Sage (Teucrium scorodonia);… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| appeacher | One who impeaches; an accuser or informer. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| arrester | He who arrests by legal authority. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| assayed | Tried, tested. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| avelonge | Oblong or oval; drawn out of the square. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| awk | Directed the other way or in the wrong direction, back-handed, from the left hand. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| babbling | Swinging in the air; wavering, fluttering. Cf. babble v. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| bane | A proclamation of a marriage; a prelude of a play. In the latter sense more freq. in pl. banes, now banns n. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| banns | Proclamation or public notice given in church of an intended marriage, in order that those… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| barking | Steeping in an infusion of bark; tanning. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| barnacle | A species of wild goose (Anas leucopsis) nearly allied to the Brent Goose, found in… | 1226 | Go To Quotation |
| bartering | Trading or trafficking by exchange of commodities. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| base | = prisoners' bars n. Cf. prisoners' base n. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| bat | trans. To strike with, or as with, a bat; to cudgel, thrash, beat. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| bay | ‘Obstacle.’ Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| bayed | Bay-coloured. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| bedstead | Strictly, the place occupied by a bed; but long ago transferred to the wooden or metal… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| beldam | A father or mother's mother, a grandmother. Also fig. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| belfather | Grandfather. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| benger(e | A corn-bin. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| beplotmele | Part by part, one portion after another. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| beseeming | Becoming appearance, becomingness, fitness. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| besieged | Invested or surrounded by hostile forces. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| billet | A short written document; a small paper, notice, or note; a label. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| billet | A thick piece of wood cut to a suitable length for fuel. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| billing | Working with a bill or mattock; hoeing. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| bird-bolt | A kind of blunt-headed arrow used for shooting birds. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| birler | One who pours out drink. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| bite | The act or action of cutting, piercing, or wounding, with the teeth; also fig. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| blade | trans. To take off the blades (senses 1 3). dial. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| blare | intr. To roar with prolonged sound in weeping, as a child; to bellow as a calf. Now chiefly dial. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| blaring | = blare n. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| blaundrell | A kind of white apple, formerly in much repute. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| blearing | The protruding of the tongue or making of mouths in mockery. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| blemished | Damaged or disfigured; marred by defect, flaw, or stain; spoiled. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| blore | intr. To cry, cry out, weep; of animals, to bleat, bray, bellow. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| blot | trans. To spot or stain with ink or other discolouring liquid or matter; to blur. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| blotting | The action of the verb blot v.; concr. a blot, smear, obliteration. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| blundering | Bungling or stupid action. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| blym | To gladden. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| boggish | ? Inclined to bluster or brag; puffed up; bold. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| bolter | One who sifts meal, etc. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| bondship | Suretyship. (dial.) | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| boneshaw | Sciatica or hip-gout. | 1350 | Go To Quotation |
| boom | intr. To hum or buzz, as a bee or beetle; to make a loud, deep sound with much resonance… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| boose | A stall for a cow or (less usually) a horse; esp. the upper part of the stall, where the fodder is placed. See also boosy n. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| borrower | One who takes a thing on security or on credit. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| borrowship | = borrowage n. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| botching | The action of repairing or mending; clumsy patching; unskilful or bungling work. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| botew | ? A short boot. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| bourdly | Jestingly, in jest, frivolously. | 1500 | Go To Quotation |
| bowet | A small lantern. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| brake | A clump of bushes, brushwood, or briers; a thicket. Also attrib., as in brake-axe. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| brake | A baker's kneading-machine. Hence brakesman n. also break(s)man a man who operates… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| brandishing | The action of flourishing (weapons). | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| bray | A baker's pestle. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| braying | The crying of various animals, now esp. of the ass. Hence contemptuously of the human voice. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| brazier | One who works in brass. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| bred | Developed in the womb; hatched from the egg; brought forth. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| breding | Broadening, spreading out. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| breveter | One who carries brevets. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| brokaly | A broken piece, broken pieces. (Cf. brockle n.) | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| brood | To sit on (eggs) so as to hatch them; to incubate. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| brooking | The capacity to take (food); assimilation, digestion. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| brunt | intr. To make an assault or attack. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| buggard | A boggard, a bogy. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| bung | A stopper; spec. a large cork stopper for the ‘mouth’ of a cask, i.e. the hole in the bulge by which it is filled. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| burr | General sense: A circle. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| bursting | comb. with various advbs. (cf. the vb) | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| caddow | A jackdaw. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| calm | lit. of the weather, air, or sea. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| caltrop | trans. To catch or trap with a caltrop. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| camoroche | The Wild Tansy or Silver-weed (Potentilla anserina). | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| camper | A player at camp-ball; a foot-ball player. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| cancel | trans. To deface or obliterate (writing), properly by drawing lines across it… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| cant | trans. To part, divide, share, parcel out, apportion. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| caraway | An umbelliferous plant (Carum carui): its small fruits, commonly called… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| casard | = casing n. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| caton | The Disticha de moribus attributed to Dionysius Cato, a book of ethics in Latin verse, of… | 1481 | Go To Quotation |
| chaffinch | A very common British bird, Fringilla cælebs, with pretty plumage and pleasant short song. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| chastiser | One who chastises. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| cheat | trans. To escheat, confiscate. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| check | trans. To mark with a chess-board pattern, mark out or cut in squares (obs.); to mark with a pattern of crossing lines. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| cheese-cake | A cake or tart of light pastry, orig. containing cheese; now filled with a… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| chefe | Hap. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| cherished | Held dear, tenderly cared for or fostered. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| cherve | To twist. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| chickweed | A name now usually applied to a small weedy plant, Stellaria media (family Caryophyllaceæ)… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| chipping | gen. A small piece (of wood, stone, etc.), chipped off, esp. in dressing or… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| chirp | intr. To utter the short sharp thin sound proper to some small birds and certain insects. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| choked | With the respiration stopped or impeded; suffocated; with the free passage obstructed; clogged. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| churn | trans. To agitate milk or cream in a churn so as to make butter; to produce butter thus. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| churning | The action of churn v.; esp. the agitating of milk or cream to produce butter. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| chymer | To shiver. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| cintre | The centre or centering of a bridge or arch. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| clack | The clapper of a mill; an instrument which by striking the hopper causes the corn to be shaken into the mill-stones. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| clambering | The action of clamber v. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| claret | Some apparatus for drawing liquor from a cask. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| claryour | A clarioner. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| clenched | Firmly fastened, tightly closed. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| clenching | The action of clench v. in various senses. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| clenzon | | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| clerkly | In a scholarly way, learnedly. arch. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| cley-staff | A crook, a crozier. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| clinch | By-form of clink v. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| clodder | To run together in clots, to coagulate, become clotty or lumpy. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| clouter | One who clouts, mends, or patches (lit. and fig.); a cobbler, or patcher; a botcher. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| cobble-stone | See quot. 1440. Obs. (Cf. cherry-stone n. 1.) | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| codded | pulse; peas and beans. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| colder | ? Clippings of stone. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| column | One of the narrow divisions of a sheet of paper, page of a book, etc., formed by vertical… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| competently | In a competent manner (see the adj.): †appropriately, suitably… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| compost | To treat with compost, to manure or dung. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| construing | The action of construe v. in various senses. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| containing | Holding, keeping, including, restraining. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| copperas | generically or vaguely. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| corsy | Corpulent, big-bodied, stout. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| cory | (See quot. 1440.) | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| cosh | A small cottage, hut, hovel. | 1490 | Go To Quotation |
| counter | intr. To sing an accompaniment to a melody or plain-song. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| coursely | In due or ordinary course or order. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| covey | A brood or hatch of partridges; a family of partridges keeping together during the… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| cramse | To claw, to scratch. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| crannied | Having crannies or chinks. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| cranny | A small narrow opening or hole; a chink, crevice, crack, fissure. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| crapaud | (More fully crapaud-stone.) A precious stone formerly believed to be produced in the head… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| crask | (See quot.) | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| crest | trans. To furnish with a crest; to put a crest, cresting, or ridge on (a building). | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| crimpled | Wrinkled, crinkled, curled; finely crumpled; minutely wrinkled or creased. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| crowfoot | A name for various species of Ranunculus or Buttercup, properly those with divided… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| crumb | trans. To make crooked or curved; to crook, bend. | 1490 | Go To Quotation |
| cue | The sum of half a farthing, formerly denoted in College accounts by the letter q, originally for quadrans. Obs. (Cf. cee n.) | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| curded | Formed into curd, or into a curd-like mass; coagulated, congealed. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| customer | One who acquires ownership by long use or possession; a customary holder. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| cyllowre | Variant of celure n. Obs., ceiling, canopy. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| dancer | One who dances; spec. one who dances professionally in public. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| dapper | Of persons: Neat, trim, smart, spruce in dress or appearance. (Formerly appreciative; now… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| dastard | One inert or dull of wit, a dullard; a sot. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| dawn | intr. To begin to grow daylight: said of the day, morning, light; also simply with it. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| despise | = despite n.; contempt, despising. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| didapper | A small diving water-fowl; = dabchick n. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| dodded | Polled, lopped; hornless; awnless. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| dopper | A diving-bird, a didapper. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| dotterel | A species of plover (Eudromias morinellus): so called from the apparent simplicity with… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| drag | trans. To draw or pull (that which is heavy or resists motion); to haul; hence to draw… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| dragging | The action of drag v. in various senses. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| drill | A small draught (of liquid). Obs. rare. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| drip | A falling drop. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| driving | The action of drive v. (q.v.), in various senses. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| drote | intr. To stammer, stutter. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| duckweed | The common name for plants of the genus Lemna, which float on still water, so as to cover the surface like a green carpet. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| dullard | A dull or stupid person; a dolt, dunce. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| edgrew | The aftergrowth of grass; aftermath, eddish. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| ees | (See quot. 1440.) | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| elger | An eel-spear: see algere n. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| ell-wand | The larger of the two bones of the forearm; the ulna. Cf. wand n. 10. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| example | trans. To exemplify; to furnish a model or pattern of; to find or give an example or… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| face | To show a bold or threatening face; to brag, boast, swagger. Also in to face and brace at brace v. Obs. (regional in later use). | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| Facet | The title of a medieval manual of behaviour which was used in schools. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| fasel | intr. To ravel. Also, to fasel out. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| fassion | | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| fawner | One who fawns, cringes, or flatters; a toady. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| fenced | Sc. Law. Poinded; see fence v. 8c. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| ferry-boat | A boat used for conveying passengers, etc. across a ferry. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| fetterlock | An apparatus fixed to the foot of a horse, to prevent his running away. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| fire-fork | A fork-shaped instrument used for stirring up the fire, putting on fuel, etc. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| fit | Well adapted or suited to the conditions or circumstances of the case, answering… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| flash | A pool, a marshy place. Obs. exc. local. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| flathe | A name for the ray or skate. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| flayer | One who flays; also fig. one who ‘fleeces’ or practises extortion. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| flaying | The action of flay v. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| fleeting | The action of skimming a liquid, esp. milk. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| flotesse | Scum or grease floating on the surface of a liquid; esp. skimmed fat, dripping. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| flue | Shallow. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| fly-flap | An instrument for driving away flies. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| folding | The action of folding sheep; an instance of this. Also concr. Manure dropped in the fold. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| force | trans. To clip or shear (wool, the beard); esp. to clip off the upper and more hairy part of (wool). | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| forfeiting | The action of forfeit v. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| formed | In senses of the vb. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| fratch | intr. To make a harsh or strident noise; to creak. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| fructuose | = fructuous adj. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| gage | A quart pot; a quart pot full. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| gally | Having galls or sores. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| garsing | The action of the verb garse v. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| garter | trans. To tie with a garter. Also with on, up. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| gasping | The action of gasp v. (in various senses). | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| gauging | The action of gauge v. in various senses; esp. the action or method of determining… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| gaunt | In favourable or neutral sense: Slim, slender, not fat. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| gavel | trans. (See quot. 1825; the statement in quot. 1611 is perh. an error.) | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| gelder | One who gelds or castrates (animals, etc.). Also in Comb., as dog-gelder, horse-gelder, sow-gelder. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| gib | A hump. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| gilding | The action of the verb gild v. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| gill | ? An apron. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| gleaning | The action of glean v.; also (chiefly pl.) that which is or may be gleaned. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| gloffer | A gluttonous eater. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| goaf | The quantity of grain stacked in one bay of a barn. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| goggle-eye | (See quot. 1897.) | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| graffer | = grafter n. 1. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| grinner | One who grins, in senses of the vb. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| groten | trans. To glut. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| grubbing | Digging; the uprooting of stumps of trees, etc.; the clearing of ground of trees, weeds, and the like. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| guesser | One who guesses. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| hain | trans. To raise, heighten, set up. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| halter | One who halts or limps, as a cripple. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| hambargh | The collar of a draught horse; a bargham or brecham. | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| hanaper | A case for a hanap or hanaps; a plate-basket; a repository for treasure or money. Cf. hamper… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| hangment | Hanging. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| harry | A call to a horse; = hait int. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| hatch | Obs. variant of hitch v. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| headborough | Originally, the head of a friðborh, tithing, or frank-pledge (see borrow n. 3); afterwards… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| header | One who beheads; a headsman, executioner. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| heckle | trans. To dress (flax or hemp) with a heckle, to split and straighten out the fibres; = hackle v. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| hem | trans. To edge or border (a garment or cloth); to decorate with a border, fringe, or the like. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| hiding-place | A place in which one hides or conceals oneself. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| hitting | The action of hit v. in various senses; striking, impact, collision; also fig. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| hoast | intr. To cough. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| hop | The ripened cones of the female hop-plant (see 2), used for giving a bitter flavour… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| horel | A fornicator, adulterer. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| hurler | One who contends or strives; one who creates a disturbance. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| irreprevable | = irreprovable adj. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| javer | intr. = jabber v. 1. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| jetting | Pompous walking, strutting; (also) capering. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| job | intr. Of a bird: to peck. More generally: to penetrate into, to stab, pierce, or prod at. Now regional and rare. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| joppe | A fool. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| jurory | Bearing of false witness or false presentments; slander, defamation. (Cf. juror n. 2.) | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| kemp | A kind of eel. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| kindliness | with pl. An instance of this, a kindly deed. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| kneader | One who, or that which, kneads; spec. a kneading-machine. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| knit | Knotted, tied, fastened together; contracted together: see the verb. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| knobbed | Furnished with or having a knob or knobs; formed into or ending in a knob. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| langle | trans. To fasten with a thong; to confine (the legs of an animal) with a thong, rope, or the like. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| larded | Stuffed with fat bacon; smeared with lard, greased. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| law-breaker | One who violates the law. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| leading | quasi- concr. The fouling of a gun with lead from bullets; more widely, deposition of lead on a surface. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| lethe | Flexible, supple. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| lifehood | Means of maintaining life: livelihood, sustenance. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| light-handed | Of a vessel or factory = short-handed adj. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| lightsomeness | The quality of being lightsome or not heavy; †easiness (obs.), liveliness, cheerfulness, etc. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| lingel | A shoemaker's waxed thread. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| lisper | One who lisps. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| listless | Characterized by unwillingness to move, act, or make any exertion; marked by… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| listy | ? Pleasant, delightful. Also, pleased or willing to do something; hence, ready, quick. (Cf. list adj.) | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| lockchester | A woodlouse. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| lockdor | = lockchester n. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| louse | trans. To clear of lice, remove lice from (a person, oneself, a garment). | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| lowing | The action of low v.; flaming. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| magnet | Min. A kind of rock that naturally attracts iron; lodestone (magnetite). Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| mainprizer | = mainpernor n. 1. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| malt-comes | With pl. concord. The dried radicles which are separated from the grain in the… | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| manifoldwise | In various ways. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| marl | trans. To catch in a snare, put in a noose, entangle. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| marrow | A companion, a fellow worker, a partner (cf. mate n. 1a). Formerly also: †an accomplice (obs.). | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| mashel | = mash-rule n. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| masted | Of an animal: fed with mast, fattened. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| mast hog | A fattened pig. Cf. mast v. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| maunche present | A term of contempt (applied variously) for: a slanderer; a cheat, an impostor; a glutton. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| mawther | A girl or young woman. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| measured | That has been measured to determine magnitude or quantity; dealt out by measure. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| merry-totter | A swing. Also: a see-saw. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| metewand | A measuring rod; = meteyard n. 1. regional and hist. in later use. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| minim | Music. A symbol (now usually drawn) for a note having a duration equal to half that… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| misshape | = misshapen adj. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| mitchkin | Perh.: a little loaf. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| moulted | Of a bird or other animal: that has moulted; deprived of feathers, etc., by moulting. Also fig. and in extended use. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| mounting | The action of ascending (lit. and fig.); the action of climbing on to something, spec.… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| mouser | An animal, esp. a cat or an owl, that catches mice. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| mow | A gull. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| mower | A person who makes a face; a jester, a mocker. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| muglard | A miser. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| mummer | A person who mutters or murmurs. Now Sc. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| muster | intr. To whisper, speak privately. Later also: to talk volubly. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| mustering | Whispering; talebearing. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| naker | A person who strips another of clothes. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| nakerer | A person who plays a naker. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| napping | The nap on cloth; the quality of possessing a nap. Obs. rare. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| nestling | The action of nestle v. (in various senses). | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| nethertheless | = nevertheless adv. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| nettling | The application of nettles to the skin (now rare or hist.). In extended use… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| nickname | A (usually familiar or humorous) name which is given to a person, place, etc., as… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| nipe | trans. To nip. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| nirvil | A dwarfish person. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| nought | trans. To disregard, despise, hold in contempt. Now Sc. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| nurse | Any of various dogfishes or sharks; (now) esp. (more fully grey nurse) the… | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| oak-apple | A roughly spherical type of oak gall; spec. the reddish spongy gall formed in leaf-buds… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| offended | That has been offended (in various senses of the verb). | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| organ pipe | Any one of the pipes of a musical organ. Also fig. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| othertime | At another time. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| overplay | Ebullition. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| oversetter | A person who or thing which oversets. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| overwhelmed | That has been overwhelmed; overcome, overpowered; submerged. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| owlist | Listless, sluggish, slothful. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| panting | The action of pant v. (in various senses); esp. quick, heavy breathing; rapid throbbing. Also… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| paraph | trans. To divide into paragraphs. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| parbreaking | The action of vomiting. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| parched | Of foodstuffs, esp. grains: dried by exposure to intense heat; roasted. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| pared | That has been pared (in various senses of the verb); trimmed, reduced in size. In later use freq. in pared-down. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| paster | A person who bakes bread; a baker. Cf. pasterer n. Obs. | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| pause | intr. To make a pause; to cease or interrupt an action (esp. movement or speech) for a… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| pausing | The action of pause v.; pause, intermission, hesitation; (also) an instance of this. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| pelfry | Booty, spoils, plunder; (also) a pilfered or plundered item. Cf. pelf n. 1. | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| pellet | Chiefly Sc. An animal pelt; esp. a sheepskin. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| pickling | The action of cleansing from dirt and impurities by picking. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| pilcrow | A symbol marking the start of a paragraph; = paragraph n. 2. Also occas.: the section of text so marked; = paragraph n. 1a. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| pile | A heap or stack of things (of considerable height) laid or lying on one another. Also fig. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| pinner | A person employed to impound stray animals; = pinder n. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| pirn | A bobbin, spool, or reel; spec. (in early use) a small cylinder on which thread, etc.… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| pirrie | A sudden, strong blast of wind; a squall; a storm. Now chiefly in pirrie wind n. at Compounds. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| pisspot | A chamber pot or other pot for holding urine. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| plaited | Folded, doubled; gathered in folds; furnished with pleats. Now U.S. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| plotmeal | by plotmeal: = by piecemeal at piecemeal n. 1. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| plucking | The action of pluck v. (in various senses); an instance of this. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| poppin | A doll, a puppet. Also poppin-show n. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| pranked | Of a garment: folded, pleated; adorned with pleats. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| pricing | The setting of a price for goods, services, etc.; the overall level of prices so set. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| proke | intr. To ask; to make a demand. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| prop | A stick, rod, pole, stake, or beam used as a temporary support or to keep something… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| purl | intr. = prowl v. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| pursy | Short of breath, wheezy, asthmatic; = pursive adj. Now rare (chiefly Eng. regional (north.)). | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| quailed | Curdled. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| quailing | Curdling, coagulation. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| querken | trans. To choke (a person); to suffocate, stifle. Also intr.: to choke; to vomit, retch. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| quice tree | Gorse, Ulex europaeus. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| rain-fowl | Eng. regional (north.) in later use. Now rare (perh. hist.). A woodpecker; esp.… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| raking | The action of rake v. (in various senses). Also with adverbs, as raking down, raking over, raking together. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| ramming | The action of ram v. (in various senses). Also with in. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| ramsey | The plant ramsons, Allium ursinum. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| rasing | Snarling. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| rebound | The action of rebounding; the springing or bouncing back of an object after impact or… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| received | Generally adopted, accepted, or approved as true, authoritative, or standard. Freq. in received opinion, received wisdom. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| reclaimed | That has been reclaimed (in various senses of the verb). | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| refete | Refreshment, meal. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| rendles | Rennet. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| restiness | Rancidity. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| rig | trans. To provide (a building) with a roof ridge; to provide (a roof) with a ridge. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| rive | trans. = rake v. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| roit | intr. To wander idly about. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| roky | Misty, foggy; drizzly. Cf. rawky adj. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| romancing | The action of composing romances or (in later use chiefly) extravagant fictions; wild… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| roping | Forming ropes or ropelike threads, esp. of a viscid or glutinous nature; turning… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| rore | trans. To turn over, to stir about or up, to trouble. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| rospeys | A kind of red wine, prob. identical with raspis (raspis n.). | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| rostling | The action of rostle v. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| router | A person who snores. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| rown | In sing. and pl. The roe of a fish, esp. a female fish (= roe n. a). | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| ruckling | Cowering, crouching; = rucking n. | 1500 | Go To Quotation |
| ruffle | intr. To contend or struggle with, or do battle for (a person or thing). Obs. (arch. in 19th-cent. use). | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| ruffling | The action of making uneven, irregular, disordered, or †tangled; the result of this (as… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| ruffling | Dissension, disturbance, tumult; an instance of this. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| saintrel | A saintling. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| sallier | A dancer. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| sally | intr. To leap, bound, dance. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| sauce | trans. To season, dress, or prepare (food) with sauces or condiments. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| sawger | A bed or garden of sage. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| saxifrage | Any plant of the genus Saxifraga, esp. S. granulata (White Meadow Saxifrage). The… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| scanning | Prosody. = scansion n. 2. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| scarbot(e | A beetle. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| seal | = sale n. Also attrib. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| seasoned | Seasonable, opportune, suitable. Obs. rare. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| sencion | Groundsel. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| seriouste | Seriousness. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| servicious | = serviceable adj. | 1460 | Go To Quotation |
| sheathing | The action of putting into a sheath. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| shent | Disgraced, lost, ruined; stupefied. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| shipmaster | The master, captain, or commander of a ship; formerly also, a pilot, steersman. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| shogging | The action of shog v.; a shaking, jolting, jerking, etc. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| shovelard | The spoonbill n., Platalea leucorodia. (Cf. shoveller n.) | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| shoveller | One who shovels. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| shriftness | Confession. | 1460 | Go To Quotation |
| siever | A sieve-maker. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| sifting | The action of the verb, in various senses. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| sipping | The action of the vb.; drinking by sips; also, a single act of this; a quantity taken at a sip. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| sithe | trans. To strain; to pass through a sieve. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| skein | A quantity of thread or yarn, wound to a certain length upon a reel, and usually put up in a kind of loose knot. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| skip | An act of skipping; a slight bound or spring. hop, skip, and jump (see hop n. 3). | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| slag | Slippery with mud; muddy. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| sleek | trans. To make sleek or smooth by rubbing or polishing. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| slip | The edge, skirt, or flap of a robe or garment. Obs. rare. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| slurry | Thin sloppy mud or cement. Also in extended use, any fluid mixture of a pulverized solid… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| slurry | trans. To dirty, soil, smear, daub, etc. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| sneck | trans. To latch (a door or gate); to close or fasten with or by means of a sneck. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| snorer | One who snores. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| soaking | The action of the vb. in various senses. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| sore | Mud; now (in Cheshire and Yorkshire) black mud, liquid manure, drainage. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| sorporr | trans. To surfeit. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| sparer | A sparing, frugal, or thrifty person; one who spares in using anything. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| sparget | trans. To parget. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| sparkling | The action of sending out sparks or sparkles, or of glittering with light; scintillation. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| sparkling | The action of dispersing or scattering. | 1460 | Go To Quotation |
| spawning | The action of depositing or laying spawn. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| speck | A patch or piece of leather used in the making or mending of boots or shoes. †Also, a patch of cloth or other material. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| spilcock | A form of top. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| spulyieing | Spoiling, despoiling; spoliation. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| squirt | Diarrhœa; looseness or laxity of the bowels. Now dial. in pl. | 1460 | Go To Quotation |
| stab | A wound produced by stabbing. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| stale | trans. To render (beer or ale) ‘stale’. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| stanchgrain | ? erron. (see quot. 1530). | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| standing-place | A place prepared or assigned for a person or thing to stand in; a place to accommodate persons standing. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| starch | A substance obtained from flour by removing some of its constituents (now also… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| startle | Actuated by sudden impulse. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| stay | To cease going forward; to stop, halt; to arrest one's course and stand still. Obs. (exc. as in 1b.) | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| steepness | The quality or condition of being steep. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| stepbrother | A son, by a former marriage, of one's stepfather or stepmother. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| stirment | An incitement, provocation. | 1460 | Go To Quotation |
| stowing | The action of the verb in various senses. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| strag | intr. ? To walk with a crutch; ? to straddle. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| stramage | Rushes with which a floor is strewed. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| streak | trans. ? To cancel by drawing a line or lines across. Obs. (Cf. strike v.) | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| striding | The action of stride v. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| striping | The action or an instance of stripe v. | 1460 | Go To Quotation |
| stroy | One who destroys; a wasteful person. dial. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| stuck | Short. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| stuffure | Material used for furnishing, supply, or outfit. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| stug | A pig-trough. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| styany | = sty n. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| suckling | An infant that is at the breast or is unweaned. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| supra | With regard to writing: = above adv. 1. Abbreviated sup. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| swabble | To make a noise like that of water moved about. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| swale | Shade; a shady place. Also, the cool, the cold. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| swarl | trans. To ensnare. | 1460 | Go To Quotation |
| sweep | A broom or mop: in oven-swepe. Obs. | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| sweltering | A condition of suffering from oppressive heat. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| tallied | Cut, scored, marked. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| tallowed | Smeared or anointed with tallow, greased: said esp. of a ship's bottom. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| tallowy | Having the nature or properties of tallow; sebaceous. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| taming | The action of tame v. Also attrib. ˈtaming-stick n. a kind of yoke for newly captured slaves. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| tapping | The action of tap v.; the sound made by this action; †in Etching: see quot. 1688 (obs.);… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| tenor | Corrupted form of tenon n. | 1484 | Go To Quotation |
| tern | ? To throw a tern or terns in dice playing. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| terrage | Land; a territory, district. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| tew | The tawing of leather: see tew v. 1. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| tew | Fishing-tackle; nets, fishing-lines, etc. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| tewer | One who taws leather; = tawer n. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| thackster | = thacker n. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| thoke | Not firm or solid; unsound. rare. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| thole-pin | A peg used as a fastening; = thole n. 2. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| three-halfpennyworth | As much as is worth, or costs, three-halfpence. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| thurible | A vessel in which incense is burnt in religious ceremonies; a censer. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| tining | concr. A hedge or fence, esp. a new one made from dead thorns. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| tinning | Coating, lining, or plating with tin; working at tin-ware. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| toadling | A young or little toad. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| toly | = toil v. 3, to dispute, argue, esp. to contend or plead in a lawsuit. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| toughness | The state or quality of being tough, in various senses of the adjective. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| towering | Photogr. See quot. 1891. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| training | Drawing out, protracting, lengthening. Obs. rare. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| trammel | The hopper of a mill. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| trampling | The action of the verb trample v. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| treacler | ? A vessel to contain ‘treacle’ of Genoa, or the like. | 1415 | Go To Quotation |
| trenket | A knife; spec. a shoemaker's knife. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| trolling | Rolling, revolution. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| troth-plight | trans. To plight one's troth to; to engage, or engage oneself to, in order to pledge… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| trussed | Packed, tied up, etc. (see the vb.); in quot. 1904, with ‘points’ trussed (truss v.… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| turn-sick | Affected with vertigo; giddy; dizzy. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| tuzzy-muzzy | A bunch or posy of flowers, a nosegay; a garland of flowers. Also fig. Revived in 20th cent., usu. in form tussie-mussie. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| tymer | intr. To work idly. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| undercloth | (under- prefix 2b(b). Cf. Middle Dutch ondercleet, Dutch -kleed; Middle High German underkleit, German unterkleid.) | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| undershoe(ing | (under- prefix 2b(b).) | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| unhearty | Faint-hearted, spiritless. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| unloathsome | (un- prefix 7) | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| unmight(i)ly | Weakly, ineffectually. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| unmoved | Not moved in position; unstirred; remaining fixed or steady. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| unsety | = unsete adj. 3. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| untrustly | Unfaithfully, unreliably. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| untwind | = untwine v. | 1460 | Go To Quotation |
| vantage | trans. To profit or benefit (one). Now only arch. Cf. advantage v. 1. | 1460 | Go To Quotation |
| vestiarier | = vesterer n. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| vinager | ? A wine-vessel. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| wagstart | = wagtail n. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| walloping | The action of the verb wallop v. (in various senses). | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| walming | Turning (of the stomach), nausea. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| wanbode | (See quot. 1440.) | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| wanderer | A person or thing that is wandering, or that has long wandered (in various senses of the… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| wap | intr. To bark. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| wash | A sandbank or tract of land alternately covered and exposed by the sea; a portion of… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| wasted | Laid waste, devastated, ravaged, ruined. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| water-drinker | A drinker of water, one who drinks water in preference to wine or other liquors; now usually spec. a total abstainer. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| watering-place | A place in a river or lake where animals are brought to obtain water: also a pool… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| water-soggen | = water-soaked adj. at water-soak v. Derivatives. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| wayfarer | A traveller by road, esp. one who journeys on foot. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| web | trans. To weave (a fabric) in the loom. ? Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| wedge | trans. To tighten, fasten tight by driving in a wedge or wedges. Also with in, on, up. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| weighed | That has had its weight ascertained by the scales. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| westly | Towards the west; in a westerly direction. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| wheal | A pimple, pustule. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| whirler | One who turns or spins rapidly round; †one who wanders about (obs.); a ‘whirling’ dervish. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| white lead | A compound of lead carbonate and hydrated oxide of lead, much used as a white pigment; also called ceruse n. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| whitret | A weasel; also, a stoat. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| whitster | A bleacher. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| womanlike | Characteristic or suggestive of a woman; womanish; womanly. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| wopne | | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| wrayward | Perverse, froward. | 1516 | Go To Quotation |
| writing-board | A board on which to rest the paper while writing. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| yeeting | The action of addressing a person with the pronoun ye instead of thou. Cf. yeet v., thowting n. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
