| abattlement | A battlement. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| abloy | Overjoyed; carried away with joy. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| accoll | trans. To throw the arms round the neck of; to embrace, clasp, hug. Also intr. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| amel | Enamel. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| anhele | ? To blow, puff. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| atwape | intr. To escape (with dat. = from). | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| avanters | With pl. concord. Part of the numbles of a deer. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| bastille | A tower or bastion of a castle; a fortified tower; a small fortress. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| beholden | Attached, or obliged (to a person); under personal obligation for favours or services. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| belef | In advb. phr. a belef: obliquely, aslant; scarf-wise. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| bob | A bunch or cluster (of leaves, flowers, fruit, etc.). north. Still in Scotland the name… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| bourding | Jesting, joking; buffoonery; trifling. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| brace | The portion of a suit of armour covering the arms. (At first ‘a pair of brace’… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| brach | A kind of hound which hunts by scent; in later English use, always feminine, and extended to any kind of hound; a bitch-hound. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| brachet | = brach n. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| brad | Roasted, broiled. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| brain | Furious, mad. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| brent | Steep, lofty: see brant n. Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| bresed | Perhaps: Bristly, shaggy, rough. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| capados | ? A hood; a piece to protect the back of the neck. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| catcher | One who chases or drives; huntsman, driver. (Cf. catch v. 1) Obs. rare. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| charcoal | The black porous pulverizable substance, consisting (when pure) wholly of carbon, obtained… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| chargeant | Burdensome, onerous. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| chaunsel | = chaisel n. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| Christenmas | = Christmas n. (The ordinary form in northern dial.) | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| chymble | Obs. rare. ? To fold. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| clamber | To mass or cluster together. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| clenge | intr. To cling, adhere, remain. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| coperoun | A summit, top. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| corbel | A raven corbel's fee: part of a deer taken in hunting, left for the ravens; cf. corbin-bone n.… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| cracking | That cracks or makes a sharp noise as in breaking; that breaks with a sharp report; that bursts asunder. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| crisped | Of hair: Closely and stiffly curled. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| deprece | trans. ? To set free from confinement or restraint; to release. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| depress | trans. To put down by force, or crush in a contest or struggle; to overcome, subjugate, vanquish. Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| dock | The solid fleshy part of an animal's tail. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| dravel | intr. To sleep unsoundly, have troubled sleep; ? to talk in one's sleep. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| dreely | Heavily, mightily, vehemently, stiffly. Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| drooping | The action or state expressed by the verb droop v.; lit. downward hang or depression; fig. falling off, pining away; dejection. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| enbaned | ? Fortified. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| enfouble | trans. To wrap up, veil closely. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| enker | In Middle English phrase enkergrene, dark green. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| evendown | Straight down. Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| excellently | So as to surpass (others). Const. of. Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| fanning | That fans, in senses of the verb. lit. and fig. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| faultless | Without defect, imperfection, or blemish; irreproachable. Said with reference to… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| fewterer | A keeper of greyhounds. Also in a wider sense, an attendant. Also with defining word prefixed; as fox-fewterer, yeoman-fewterer. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| filour | A tool for sharpening steel, a hone or whetstone. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| finishment | End, finishing, completion; death. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| forceness | Force, strength, violence. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| forlance | intr. or absol. To throw out. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| gaudy | Only in Comb. gaudy-green n. green dyed with weld, yellowish green. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| glent | A look, a glance; = glint n. 2. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| glimmer | intr. To shine brightly; to glitter. Of the eyes: To flash. Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| Gog | by Gog, Gog of heaven, Gog give, etc. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| greave | Armour for the leg below the knee. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| grey | intr. To become or grow grey. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| grindel | Fierce; angry. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| grye | intr. ? To shudder, feel horror. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| halch | trans. To clasp in one's arms, embrace; = halse v. 1. Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| hammer | lit. To deal blows with or as with a hammer; to strike a succession of heavy blows; to thump. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| happen | Fortunate, happy, blessed. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| harl | trans. To entangle, twist, or knot together; to ravel or confuse. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| herl | A fibre or filament; a hair. Obs. rare. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| honi soit qui mal y pense | ‘Shame on him who thinks evil of it’; a proverb, orig. used as the motto for the Order of the Garter. (See garter n. 2.) | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| hough | The joint in the hind leg of a quadruped between the tibia and the metatarsus or… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| joyfnes | Youth. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| kay | Left (hand or foot). Also kay-fisted, kay-nieved, kay-pawed, left-handed. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| knag | trans. To hang, fasten up. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| knight-errant | A knight of mediæval romance who wandered in search of adventures and opportunities for deeds of bravery and chivalry. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| knuckled | Having projections or protuberances, knobbed, rugged; thick-jointed, as the stem of a plant. Obs. in gen. sense. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| ledeless | Without a companion. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| lowing | Burning, flaming, flashing. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| mafey | ‘By my faith!’ (as an asseveration); = par ma fay int. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| mannerly | Of a person, a person's conduct, etc.: respectable, decent, modest. Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| mizzy | A bog; a quagmire. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| molan | Either of the studs at each end of a horse's bridle (or perh.: a bridle-rein). | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| mounture | A horse or other animal for riding, a mount. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| muchwhat | Many matters, various things (as the substance of talk, debate, etc.). | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| mug | intr. To rain lightly, to drizzle. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| neked | A little, a small amount. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| nirt | A mark, scar, or cut. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| note | Perh.: famous, celebrated. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| off-cast | trans. To cast off (in various senses). | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| oratour | A small chapel or shrine; a room for private prayer; = oratory n. 1a. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| overwalt | trans. To overturn, push over, overthrow; = overwelt v. 2. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| palis | A fence of pales; a wooden palisade or paling. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| payttrure | = peytral n. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| pentangle | A pentagram; a talisman or magical symbol in the shape of or inscribed with a pentagram. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| quiltpoint | = counterpane n. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| rathel | trans. Apparently: to entwine. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| recheat | intr. To blow a recheat (recheat n.). Also with in. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| rescue | The act of saving or being saved from danger or distress; the fact of being saved in… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| Reynard | A proper name applied traditionally (chiefly in literature) to: a fox; also occas. as a common noun. More fully Reynard the Fox. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| rialme | A kingdom. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| rough | In a rough manner; without special care or accuracy; harshly or violently; = roughly adv.… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| rout | A sharp sudden pull; a jerk. rare. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| sailing | Spreading out like a full sail. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| scout | A high overhanging rock. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| scu | A screen. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| season | trans. To render (a dish) more palatable by the addition of some savoury ingredient. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| seem | Seemly, proper, fitting. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| seemlily | In a seemly manner; so as to present a seemly appearance; pleasingly, handsomely, nobly, elegantly. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| shaft | intr. Of the sun: ? To set. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| shore | The land bordering on the sea or a large lake or river. Often in a restricted sense more… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| shunt | An act of drawing back. Obs. rare. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| siffle | intr. To blow with a sibilant sound; to whistle, hiss. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| skayved | (Meaning uncertain.) | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| smoothly | In a smooth manner; with smooth, easy, or gentle movement or motion; gently. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| snitter | intr. Of snow: To fall. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| sounder | A herd of wild swine. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| spen | (Meaning obscure.) | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| spen-foot | ? With the feet close together. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| spinney | ? A thorn-hedge. Obs. rare. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| sprit | intr. To spring, dart. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| stably | Hunting. A besetting of a wood with men, hounds in leash, nets, etc. for the purpose of taking deer, etc. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| staple | To secure with or as with a staple. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| strithe | = stride n. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| strothe | Perh.: a marsh; (perh.) a small wood. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| tacheless | Stainless, faultless. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| talentive | Desirous. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| tap | A single act of tapping; a light but audible blow or rap; the sound made by such a blow. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| teise | trans. app. To drive (esp. a hunted beast); to chase; to urge on. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| thriving | In alliterative use: Excelling, excellent, worthy; = thriven adj. 2, thrifty adj. 2. Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| thrutch | An act of ‘thrutching’; a thrust, push, press, squeeze; also, concr. a narrow gorge or ravine (local). | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| thulge | trans. (only in Old English.) To wait for. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| thwarl | ? Twisted; ? tight. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| topping | A distinct part or appendage which forms a top to anything, a crest; the top-lock or… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| toret | Of doubtful meaning. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| trace | trans. To plait, twine, interweave, braid. Also with up. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| trant | Cunning action, trickery; a stratagem, a trick (always in an evil sense). | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| trant | intr. To practise cunning devices; to employ cunning, craft, trickery, or deception. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| troched | Also (by analogy) said of a tower furnished with pinnacles or battlements. rare. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| tytelet | ? obs. form of titled adj. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| unbar | trans. To remove the bar from (a door or gate, etc.); to unfasten, undo. Also absol. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| unbene | Ungenial, wild and rugged. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| unhardle | | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| unmannerly | In an unmannerly fashion; with lack of good manners; impolitely. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| unsoundly | So as to do hurt or harm; injuriously. Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| unspeered | Unasked; without inquiry. Also with at. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| untyȝtel | (Obscure; perh. an error for unstyȝtel: see stightle v.) | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| vaires | in vaires, ? in verity, truly. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| ver | (Meaning obscure.) | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| ware | fig. (e.g. one's time, wit, life, love). | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| ween | Beautiful. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| well-haled | Pulled up properly, drawn tight. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| whar | Imitative of a rumbling sound. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| wick | A corner of the mouth or eye. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| wrast | (Meaning obscure.) | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| wruxled | | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| yarr | intr. To snarl or growl, as or like a dog. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| yawl | To cry out loudly from pain, grief, or distress: also said of the howling of dogs… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
