| 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 |
| age | intr. Of a person, animal, or thing: to grow old; to become or appear aged. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| aggrieving | The action of aggrieve v. (in all senses). | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| aggrudged | Troubled, afflicted. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| agrotening | The action of agroten v.; glutting, surfeit. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| alangely | In a strange or foreign manner; strangely. Cf. alange adj., elengely adv. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| alikely | Equally, likewise. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| alkekengi | The Chinese lantern plant, Physalis alkekengi (family Solanaceae). | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| almonry | A place where alms are or (now usually) were distributed; an office responsible… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| almswoman | A woman who distributes alms; a female almoner. Obs. rare. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| angor | Anguish (physical or mental). Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| appeacher | One who impeaches; an accuser or informer. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| appealing | The action of accusing or impeaching (obs.), of transferring a case to a higher court… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| areast | Reasty, rancid. areastiness n. reastiness, rancidity. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| arrester | He who arrests by legal authority. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| asiden | Sidewise, obliquely, aslant. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| a-slet | | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| a-slout | Aslant, obliquely. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| astray | A stray beast; an estray. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| astrayly | Astray. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| avelonge | Oblong or oval; drawn out of the square. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| bained | Of peas and beans: Burst, split. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| barking | Steeping in an infusion of bark; tanning. | 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 |
| batch | The process of baking. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| bat-fowl | To catch birds at night by dazing them with a light, and knocking them down or netting them. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| bat-fowling | The catching of birds by night when at roost. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| bay | ‘Obstacle.’ Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| beaker | A large drinking vessel with a wide mouth, an open cup or goblet. (Now chiefly in literary use.) | 1348 | Go To Quotation |
| bedrabble | trans. To make wet and dirty with rain and mud. | 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 |
| before-set | (a) Set above; (b) previously established, proposed. | 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 |
| bellish | cf. bellishment n. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| bendwith | The name of a shrub of which the twigs are used to tie up fagots, etc. Identified by… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| beseeming | Becoming appearance, becomingness, fitness. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| besieged | Invested or surrounded by hostile forces. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| bill | trans. To work at or on with a bill; to hoe, hack, chop, lop. | 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-lime | A glutinous substance spread upon twigs, by which birds may be caught and held fast. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| birler | One who pours out drink. | 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 |
| blazing | = blazoning n. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| blearing | The protruding of the tongue or making of mouths in mockery. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| bleck | Black fluid substance; spec. ink (obs.); a preparation used by curriers and shoemakers… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| blore | intr. To cry, cry out, weep; of animals, to bleat, bray, bellow. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| blotting | The action of the verb blot v.; concr. a blot, smear, obliteration. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| bobet | | 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 |
| 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 |
| boring | The action of piercing, perforating, making a bore-hole, etc.; also concr. = bore-hole n. at bore n. Compounds. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| borrowage | Suretyship. | 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 |
| bossing | (meaning obscure: see quot. 1520). | 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 |
| bounteousness | The quality of being bounteous or liberal; liberality, munificence. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| bowelling | The extracting of the bowels, disembowelling. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| bowet | A small lantern. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| bowl | intr. To play at bowls; to trundle or roll a bowl, etc. along the ground. | 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 |
| braying | The action or process of pounding, as in a mortar; also attrib., as in braying-stone. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| brewis | ‘Bread soaked in boiling fat pottage, made of salted meat’ (Johnson). | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| broiled | Made very hot, scorched, charred; spec. grilled. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| brood | To sit on (eggs) so as to hatch them; to incubate. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| brownswine | A porpoise. | 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 |
| calgarth | A cabbage garden, a kale yard. | 1400 | 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 |
| cancelling | The action of crossing or blotting out, annulling, rescinding, etc. (see the verb); cancellation. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| candle-beam | ? A suspended beam of wood to support a number of candles; cf. quot. 1552. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| care-away | Something that drives away care (with a pun on caraway, quot. 1616). | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| carper | A fault-finder, a caviller, a captious critic. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| caterpillar | The larva of a butterfly or moth; sometimes extended to those of other insects… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| causeway | A road formed on a ‘causey’ or mound; a raised road across a low or wet place, or piece… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| ceny | = sign n. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| cession | The action of ceding, or surrendering to another, rights, property or anything to which one… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| chancemeal | At chance times. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| charmed | Influenced by magic power, bewitched, under a spell. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| cheating | Fraud, deceit, swindling. | 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 |
| checking | Chequering. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| cheese-cake | A cake or tart of light pastry, orig. containing cheese; now filled with a… | 1440 | 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 |
| choking | The action of the vb. to choke v.; obstruction of the breath; blocking up of… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| chuff | A rustic, peasant, country person, churl. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| church | Of a member of the clergy: to perform a churching ceremony for (a woman) after childbirth. See churching n. 1 Now chiefly hist. | 1440 | 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 |
| claimer | One who claims; a claimant. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| clam | see quot. 1808. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| claret | as adj., qualifying wine. Thus used, it was apparently at first significant of colour, as in French. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| cleansed | Made clean, purified. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| clerkly | In a scholarly way, learnedly. arch. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| clinch | By-form of clink v. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| clip | To clink, to ring (a bell). | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| clocking | The action of clock v.; the noise made by a brooding hen; brooding, hatching (Sc.). | 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 |
| clowchyn | = clew n. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| cockerel | A young cock. arch. or dial. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| coiner | One who coins money; a minter. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| come | The radicle of barley or other grain which in malting is allowed to develop to a… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| competently | In a competent manner (see the adj.): †appropriately, suitably… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| construer | One who construes. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| continued | Carried on or kept up without cessation; continual, constant. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| cooled | Made cool (in various senses). Formerly also: †made cold (obs.). | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| coral | Chaff of corn. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| corpion | Name of a quality of herring: see quot. 1758. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| corsy | Corpulent, big-bodied, stout. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| cosh | A small cottage, hut, hovel. | 1490 | Go To Quotation |
| counterfeiting | The action of the verb counterfeit v., q.v. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| covey | A brood or hatch of partridges; a family of partridges keeping together during the… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| cracknel | A light, crisp kind of biscuit, of a curved or hollowed shape. Cf. crackling n. 4. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| cramse | To claw, to scratch. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| crashing | The action of the verb crash v., q.v. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| crask | (See quot.) | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| cream | intr. Of other liquids: To form a scum or frothy layer on the surface; to mantle, foam, froth. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| crease | = increase n. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| crimple | A crease, wrinkle, or fold; a crinkle. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| crimple | trans. To cause (something) to shrink or draw together; to wrinkle; to shrivel (something)… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| crimpled | Wrinkled, crinkled, curled; finely crumpled; minutely wrinkled or creased. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| crisphead | Crispness. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| crispness | The state or quality of being crisp. | 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 |
| culm | Soot, smut. Obs. exc. Sc.; = coom n. 1. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| curling | The action of the verb curl v., q.v.; a curl, twist, undulation. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| cyllowre | Variant of celure n. Obs., ceiling, canopy. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| daly | A die, or a knuckle-bone used as a die; also a cubical piece of anything, a cube. | 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 |
| dawn | intr. To begin to grow daylight: said of the day, morning, light; also simply with it. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| delivered | Set free; disburdened of offspring; handed over; surrendered; formally uttered or stated, etc.: see the verb. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| despise | = despite n.; contempt, despising. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| didapper | A small diving water-fowl; = dabchick n. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| dindle | intr. To tinkle; to ring or make a noise that thrills and causes vibration. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| disbowel | trans. To take out the bowels of, eviscerate; = disembowel v. lit. and fig. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| donge | A mattress. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| dopper | A diving-bird, a didapper. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| doubtlessly | Unquestionably, certainly, surely; = doubtless adv. | 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 |
| dreggy | Abounding in dregs or fæces; of the nature or character of dregs; feculent; foul, impure; turbid, polluted. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| drill | A small draught (of liquid). Obs. rare. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| dripping | The fall of liquid in drops; concr. the liquid so falling. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| drote | intr. To stammer, stutter. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| drouking | ? Crouching, cowering. | 1490 | Go To Quotation |
| duckling | A young duck. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| dullard | A dull or stupid person; a dolt, dunce. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| dunch | A jog, a push with the elbow, a smart shock. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| earing | The action of ploughing; a ploughing. Also attrib., as in earing-time. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| ebon | A hard black wood, the product of a tree belonging to the family Ebenaceæ, mentioned in… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| ees | (See quot. 1440.) | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| elger | An eel-spear: see algere n. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| empting | = emptying n.; in U.S. the pl. in the sense ‘yeast’ is pronounced /ˈɛmptɪnz/ but often written emptyings: see emptying n. 2b. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| ensnarl | trans. To catch or entangle in, or as in, a ‘snarl’ or ravelled knot. Also fig. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| estreat | ‘The true extract, copy. or note of some original writing or record, esp. of… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| fall | Something that falls; a trap-door, trap. Cf. pitfall n., spring-fall. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| farm | To rent (land, etc.). Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| farmer | One who cleanses or purifies. In comb. gong-farmer. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| fast | A rope, etc. by which a ship or boat is fastened to a wharf. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| Fast-gong | Shrove-Tuesday; = Fastingong n. Also attrib. in Fastgong-tide n. Shrove-tide. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| fasting | That fasts, lit. and fig. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| fawner | One who fawns, cringes, or flatters; a toady. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| fellowable | Agreeable as a fellow or companion; sociable. | 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 |
| festering | The action of fester v.; an instance of this. Also concr. a fester. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| fire-fork | A fork-shaped instrument used for stirring up the fire, putting on fuel, etc. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| fist | intr. To break wind. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| fit | Well adapted or suited to the conditions or circumstances of the case, answering… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| flag | A piece cut out of or pared off the sward; a turf, sod. Also collect. Now dial. (E. Anglian). | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| fleet | trans. To take off that which floats upon the surface of a liquid; esp. to skim (milk, the cream from milk). Also with compl. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| float-grass | A name given to various species of grass sedge growing in marshy ground, swampy meadows… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| fly-flap | An instrument for driving away flies. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| fop | A foolish person, a fool. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| formed | In senses of the vb. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| framed | Of timber: hewn, cut, prepared; of (a part of) a building, ship, item of furniture, etc.… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| freckny | Freckled. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| furbisher | One who furbishes. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| gag | trans. To strangle, suffocate. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| gage | A quart pot; a quart pot full. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| gaincope | trans. To catch up with, intercept or encounter another person by taking a short cut. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| garfish | A fish (Belone vulgaris) with a long spear-like snout, called also green-bone… | 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 |
| gaunt | In favourable or neutral sense: Slim, slender, not fat. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| gavel | A quantity of corn cut and ready to be made into a sheaf. | 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 |
| gill | ? An apron. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| gleaming | The action of gleam v.; a gleam. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| glider | One who, or that which glides; also, that which aids in gliding. Also with up. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| goggle-eye | (See quot. 1897.) | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| graffer | = grafter n. 1. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| grazing | The action of graze v.; pasturing. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| greenling | A fish, perh. the cod, Gadus morrhua, or a form of it. Cf. green fish n. 1. Obs. rare. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| grinding-stone | = grindstone n. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| gripping | In comb. gripping-iron n. = grooping-iron n. at grooping n. a carpenter's gouge. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| grisil | Horrible; grisly. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| grooping | The action of the verb groop v.; grooving, gouging. Chiefly in Comb. grooping-iron n. a… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| guesser | One who guesses. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| hacking | The action of the verb hack v.; chopping, hewing; mutilation, etc. hacking off, out: see quots. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| hain | trans. To raise, heighten, set up. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| hale | = halo n. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| hallow | A loud shout or cry, to incite dogs in the chase, to help combined effort, or to attract attention. | 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 |
| hangment | Hanging. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| hatch | Obs. variant of hitch v. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| haunter | One who or that which haunts, in various senses; a frequenter. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| header | One who beheads; a headsman, executioner. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| hedged | Enclosed with or as with a hedge. Also with in. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| hempy | Made of, like, or of the nature of hemp; hempen; having or producing hemp. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| henting | The action of the verb hent v.; laying hold, seizing; grasp, apprehension. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| hitch | trans. To move (anything) as with a jerk, or in an abrupt or discontinuous manner; to shift (a thing) a little away or aside. | 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 |
| hobby | A small species of falcon, Falco subbuteo, formerly flown at larks and other small birds. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| hooded | Wearing or covered with a hood, having a hood on. | 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 |
| horse-collar | The collar n. of a horse. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| hough | trans. To disable by cutting the sinew or tendons of the hough (see hough-sinew n.); to hamstring. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| howling | The uttering of a prolonged wailing cry, as by the dog, wolf, or other animal; the production… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| hurler | One who contends or strives; one who creates a disturbance. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| huspil | trans. To treat with violence; to maltreat; to despoil; to harass. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| imprinting | The action of the verb imprint v., q.v.; †spec. printing (of books) (obs.). | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| inquered | Instructed. well inquered, well-bred, well-mannered. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| interlard | The fat or omentum of a beast. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| invy(e | obs. variants (chiefly Sc.) of envy n. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| irreprevable | = irreprovable adj. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| jack | A short and close-fitting upper garment of men and women; a jacket. Obs. | 1375 | Go To Quotation |
| jettingly | In an ostentatious or swaggering manner. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| joppe | A fool. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| jounce | intr. To move violently up and down, to fall heavily against something; to bump, bounce… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| kemp | A kind of eel. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| killed | Deprived of life; put to death. Usually of meat, with qualifying word, as fresh-killed, country-killed, etc. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| kingfisher | A small European bird (Alcedo ispida) with a long cleft beak and brilliant plumage, feeding… | 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 |
| lash | A string, cord, thong. Cf. lace n. 2, latch n. 1. Obs. (Quot. 1440 is… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| latched | Fastened with or having a latch. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| licker | One who or something which licks; spec. in sense 6a of the verb. Also licker-up;… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| light-handed | Of a vessel or factory = short-handed adj. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| lightsomeness | The quality of being lightsome, luminous, or well-lighted; brightness; †clearness. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| lined | In various senses of line v. lined blades (see quot. 1833). lined gold, gold having a… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| lingel | A shoemaker's waxed thread. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| link | One of the divisions of a chain of sausages or black puddings. (Chiefly pl.) Now dial.… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| lowing | The action of low v.; flaming. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| lumbric | A worm. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| lush | Lax, flaccid; soft, tender. Obs. exc. dial. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| lying-in | The being in childbed; accouchement. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| mackly | Evenly, aptly, easily. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| maggot | A soft-bodied apodous larva, esp. of a housefly, blowfly, or other dipteran fly… | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| maidkin | A little maid (also as a familiar diminutive title). | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| maidweed | Stinking chamomile, Anthemis cotula. Also stinking maidweed. | 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 |
| malt-worm | A weevil which infests malt. Obs. | 1440 | 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 |
| martinet | A martin; a swift. Cf. martlet n. 1. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| mashel | = mash-rule n. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| mating | The action of mate v.; checkmating. Also fig. mating net n. an arrangement of pieces… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| mellow | Of fruit: ripe; soft, sweet, and juicy with ripeness. Also fig. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| mensal | Of, relating to, or used at the table. Obs. | 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 |
| mirror glass | A mirror; (also) glass with a reflective coating, as used for mirrors. Also fig. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| misshape | = misshapen adj. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| mitre | trans. To confer or bestow a mitre upon; to raise to a rank symbolized by the wearing of… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| mothewoke | Moderately soft. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| moulter | A moulting bird or other animal. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| mouser | An animal, esp. a cat or an owl, that catches mice. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| mousetrap | A trap for catching mice. Cf. earlier mousefall n. and mouse stock n. at mouse n. 2a. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| muglard | A miser. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| mummer | A person who mutters or murmurs. Now Sc. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| murche | A dwarf. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| muster | intr. To whisper, speak privately. Later also: to talk volubly. | 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 |
| naking | The action of making someone naked. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| napping | The nap on cloth; the quality of possessing a nap. Obs. rare. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| narrowhead | Narrowness. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| neat-house | Chiefly Eng. regional (E. Anglian). A house or shed in which cattle are kept. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| needle case | A case for keeping sewing needles in. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| nestling | The action of nestle v. (in various senses). | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| neume | In plainsong: a prolonged phrase or group of notes sung to a single syllable, esp. at the end of a melody. | 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 |
| oak-apple | A roughly spherical type of oak gall; spec. the reddish spongy gall formed in leaf-buds… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| oiling | The application of oil; covering, lubricating, anointing, etc., with oil. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| opposing | The action of oppose v. 1b; an instance of this; an interrogation. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| othertime | At another time. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| outpouring | The action of pouring something out; an instance of this. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| owlist | Listless, sluggish, slothful. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| paster | A person who bakes bread; a baker. Cf. pasterer n. Obs. | 1474 | 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 |
| perdicle | The precious stone aetites (eagle stone). | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| pickling | The action of cleansing from dirt and impurities by picking. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| pinner | A person employed to impound stray animals; = pinder n. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| pipette | A small musical pipe. Obs. rare. | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| plaited | Folded, doubled; gathered in folds; furnished with pleats. Now U.S. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| planchered | Boarded; covered or floored with wooden planks. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| plotmeal | by plotmeal: = by piecemeal at piecemeal n. 1. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| plough-start | A plough handle. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| plucking | The action of pluck v. (in various senses); an instance of this. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| poll | (Usually pol-.) In the names of awnless varieties of cereal, as polbarley, polbere, polwheat. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| pome-pear | A variety of pear resembling an apple in shape. Cf. apple pear n. at apple n. 2, pear apple n. at pear n. 2. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| prank | A pleat, a fold. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| prill | A spinning top. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| prompter | A person who urges, incites, or moves another to action; an instigator; (also) a thing… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| prophesied | Spoken of in prophecy; foretold, predicted. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| prowling | The action of prowl v.; an instance of this. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| proxy | The agency of a person appointed to act in place of another; the action of a substitute… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| pullayly | Poultry. | 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 |
| quant | A pole for propelling a barge or punt, typically having a prong or flange at the bottom… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| quashing | The action of quash v., in various senses. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| quoit | intr. To play at quoits. Also Sc.: to play at curling. | 1474 | 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 |
| ransacked | That has been ransacked; thoroughly searched or explored, esp. in such a way as to cause damage or disorder; plundered, pillaged. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| rasing | Snarling. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| raster | Shaving. Only in raster cloth, raster house. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| ream | intr. To froth or foam; (of a vessel) to be full of a frothy liquid. Also with over: to overflow. Also in extended uses. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| reclaimed | That has been reclaimed (in various senses of the verb). | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| reeding | The action or process of thatching a building with reed. Now rare. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| rendering | The action or an act of returning or restoring something, or of giving something in return. Also with back. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| rester | A person who makes an arrest. | 1440 | 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 |
| rocket | A suspended spindle used with a distaff, around which spun thread is wound. Cf. ratchet n. 3. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| roit | Idle wandering about; = roiting n. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| rospeys | A kind of red wine, prob. identical with raspis (raspis n.). | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| ruckling | Cowering, crouching; = rucking n. | 1500 | Go To Quotation |
| ruffe | A sea bream or other sparid marine fish. Cf. sea-ruff n. at sea n. 6d, ruffle n. Obs. | 1440 | 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 |
| run | = brine n. 1. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| salty | Containing or impregnated with salt; tasting of salt; = salt adj. 1. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| sandling | = sand-eel n. 1. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| sanguinary | A name applied to certain plants having styptic properties, esp. milfoil, Achillea Millefolium… | 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 |
| scallard | One who has the ‘scall’. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| seasoned | Seasonable, opportune, suitable. Obs. rare. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| seem | Seeming, semblance, appearance. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| self-willy | Self-willed. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| serious | Of a person: having a grave or solemn disposition, as a permanent attribute or tendency… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| sheel | trans. To shell; to take off the husk or outer covering of. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| shimmed | Dapple-grey. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| ship-boat | The boat carried or towed by a ship. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| shipmaster | The master, captain, or commander of a ship; formerly also, a pilot, steersman. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| shittle | Of persons and their faculties: Inconstant, variable, wavering; fickle, flighty; hasty, rash. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| shoeing-horn | = shoe-horn n. 1. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| shovel | trans. To take up and remove with a shovel. Chiefly with adv. or adv. phr. Also fig. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| shovelard | The spoonbill n., Platalea leucorodia. (Cf. shoveller n.) | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| shrag | trans. To lop, trim, prune. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| shriftness | Confession. | 1460 | Go To Quotation |
| shud | A shed. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| shut | A locking-bar or bolt. Obs. | 1460 | Go To Quotation |
| shuttle | A flood-gate which opens to allow the flow and regulate the supply of water in a… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| siever | A sieve-maker. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| sift | A sieve. Obs. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| silver | trans. To cover or plate with silver; to coat with silver-leaf. Freq. with over. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| sinking | Denoting an actual downward movement. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| size | A glutinous or viscid wash applied to paper, parchment, etc., to provide a suitable… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| skey | Skittish. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| skipping | The action of the verb skip, in literal senses. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| slag | Slippery with mud; muddy. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| slite | To impair by wear; to wear out. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| slote | A door-bolt. Obs. = slot n. 1. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| sloth | A miry or muddy place; a slough. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| slur | Thin or fluid mud. Cf. slurry n. Also fig. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| slurry | trans. To dirty, soil, smear, daub, etc. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| smarthole | Water pepper, Persicaria hydropiper. Cf. smartweed n. | 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 |
| sneke | A cold in the head. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| soaking | Taking in moisture, absorbent; fig., drawing to oneself, tending to drain or exhaust. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| sojourant | = sojournant n. | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| sold | Solder. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| solve | To unbind, untie. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| soss | (See quots.) Obs. rare. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| southly | Southern; southerly. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| spall | A chip or splinter, esp. of stone or ore. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| sparkling | The action of dispersing or scattering. | 1460 | Go To Quotation |
| spattle | A spatula. Now rare or Obs. | 1440 | 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 |
| speckle | A speck, small spot or mark, esp. one occurring on the skin, body, etc.; a natural marking… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| spud | A short and poor knife or dagger. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| spulyieing | Spoiling, despoiling; spoliation. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| spurging | The action on the part of ale, wine, etc., of throwing off impurities by fermenting; fermentation. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| squaring | The action of making square or of reducing to a square form. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| squinsy | Pathol. Quinsy; suppurative tonsillitis. | 1499 | 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 | A decoy-bird; a living bird used to entice other birds of its own species, or birds of prey… | 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 |
| 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 |
| stent | trans. To assess, tax (a person, community, country). | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| stepbrother | A son, by a former marriage, of one's stepfather or stepmother. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| streak | trans. To stroke. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| streak | trans. ? To cancel by drawing a line or lines across. Obs. (Cf. strike v.) | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| streat | = estreat n. 1 2 Also attrib. as streat-office. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| stripe | The mark left by a lash; a weal. Obs. rare. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| stubbornness | The quality of being stubborn. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| stuck | (See quot. 1440.) | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| stuffed | In later use, of a receptacle: Filled full, crammed; also with out. | 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 | Clover. (Also lamb-sucklings.) dial. †Also glossing Latin locusta. = honeysuckle n. 1 2; suckle n. a. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| summer | intr. To pass or spend the summer, to dwell or reside during the summer (now chiefly Sc. and U.S.… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| sunrise | The rising, or apparent ascent above the horizon, of the sun at the beginning of the day… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| sunsetting | = sunset n. 1. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| swab | intr. To sway about. dial. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| swabble | To make a noise like that of water moved about. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| swad | = sward n. 1 2. | 1460 | Go To Quotation |
| sweeper | A broom for sweeping out an oven. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| sweltering | A condition of suffering from oppressive heat. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| tallowed | Smeared or anointed with tallow, greased: said esp. of a ship's bottom. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| tally | A stick or rod of wood, usually squared, marked on one side with transverse… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| tally | trans. †To notch (a stick) so as to make it a tally (obs.); hence, to mark, score, set down… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| tangyl | (See quot. 1440.) | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| tathe | trans. To manure (land) by turning sheep or cattle upon it (usually said of the cattle);… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| telwe | trans. To thwite, to whittle (a stick). | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| tennis-player | One who plays at lawn-tennis or (formerly) real tennis. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| terrage | Land; a territory, district. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| terre | To throw on the ground. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| thackster | = thacker n. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| thinhead | = thinness n. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| thowt | trans. To address (a person) with the pronoun thou. Cf. thou v., yeet v. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| thowting | The action of addressing a person with the pronoun thou. Cf. thowt v., yeeting n. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| threater | = threatener n. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| tilt | trans. To cover with a tilt or awning. (Chiefly in pa. pple.) | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| tilted | Having, or covered with, a tilt or awning. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| tilting | The action of covering with a tilt or awning; concr. a tilt, or material for tilts. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| tining | concr. A hedge or fence, esp. a new one made from dead thorns. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| toadling | A young or little toad. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| toll-house | = toll-booth n. 1 (Obs.) or 2 (now local). | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| trampled | Beaten down or crushed by trampling; also fig. down-trodden, oppressed. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| treacler | ? A vessel to contain ‘treacle’ of Genoa, or the like. | 1415 | Go To Quotation |
| trolling | Rolling, revolution. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| trunk | A perforated floating box in which live fish are kept. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| trussed | Packed, tied up, etc. (see the vb.); in quot. 1904, with ‘points’ trussed (truss v.… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| trying | The action of the verb try v., in various senses. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| turfer | One who enjoys common of turbary. | 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 |
| tynte | (See quots.) | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| uggle | = ugly adj. 1. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| undercloth | (under- prefix 2b(b). Cf. Middle Dutch ondercleet, Dutch -kleed; Middle High German underkleit, German unterkleid.) | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| undergoing | The action of the verb, in various senses. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| undershoe(ing | (under- prefix 2b(b).) | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| unhearty | Faint-hearted, spiritless. Obs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| unsalted | (un- prefix 8. Cf. North Frisian unsalted, (Middle) Swedish osaltad, (Middle) Danish usaltet.) | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| unsety | = unsete adj. 3. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| unsufferably | Intolerably; unendurably. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| untidily | (un- prefix 11.) | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| vestiarier | = vesterer n. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| wain | A hem, border. | 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 |
| warbot | = warble n. 3. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| warder | In early use: A staff or wand. Later, the baton or truncheon carried as a symbol… | 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 |
| wharl | intr. To pronounce the letter r with a burr or guttural sound; = burr v. 1. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| whirligig | Name of various toys that are whirled, twirled, or spun round; spec. (a) a top or… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| whitster | A bleacher. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| wimble | trans. To pierce with or as with a wimble; to make (a hole) with a wimble. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| wincer | A kicker. In quot. 1642 fig. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| wisser | A leader, director, guide. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| womanlike | Characteristic or suggestive of a woman; womanish; womanly. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| woodhack | A woodpecker. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| wrongness | The state or condition of being curved or crooked; crookedness, wryness. Obs. rare. | 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 |
