| alabandine | = almandine n. Now hist. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| alkitran | Any of various resins, oils, and pitch-like substances with a practical use (see also some… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| anornament | Adornment, decoration, ornamentation. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| aparaunt | A dependency. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| apyke | To adorn. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| areward | ? Before, formerly. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| asteal | intr. To steal or slip away (with dat. = from). | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| baboon | A representation of a grotesque figure or monster, esp. in architecture, or as… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| bantel | ? ‘A post, pillar’. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| barnage | Childhood, infancy. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| battlement | An indented parapet at the top of a wall, at first used only in fortified buildings for… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| bay | An opening in a wall; esp. the space between two columns. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| beardless | Having no beard; hence fig. youthful, immature. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| below | gen. In a low position relatively to another place; in or to a lower position, lower… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| bib | trans. and intr. To drink; keep on drinking, tipple. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| blubber | intr. To bubble, bubble up; to give forth a bubbling sound, as a spring, boiling water. Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| blysne | intr. To shine, to gleam. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| bottomless | That has no bottom. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| bougoun | ? Some kind of musical instrument. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| bracken | A fern; spec. (in modern writers) Pteris aquilina, the ‘Brake’. (In the north all large… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| braythe | intr. To rush or ‘fly’ up. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| brych | ? (Dr. Morris suggests ‘Filth, uncleanness’; cf. German sich (er-) brechen to vomit… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| bysulp | trans. To besully, befoul. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| canacle | ? A cup. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| capstan | A piece of mechanism, working on the principle of the wheel and axle, on a vertical axis… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| captivity | The condition of a captive; the state of being held prisoner by an enemy or… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| carp | Carping speech, cavil (with play on carp n.). | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| charged | Loaded, laden, burdened, filled, etc.; see the verb. Now esp. = ‘Charged with electricity’. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| chisly | ? Choicely, fondly. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| clat | ? To rattle, strike noisily. Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| clattering | Noise of the rapidly repeated collision of hard bodies; rattling. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| clawre | = claw n. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| clustered | Growing or placed in a cluster, forming a cluster; grouped, closely collected. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| daubed | Plastered or coated with clay, paint or sticky matter; fig. bedizened, bearing a specious exterior. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| dazing | That dazes; †that is dazed. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| dem | trans. or absol. To dam, obstruct the course of water, etc. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| dottle | A fool or dotard; a silly person. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| doubler | A large plate or dish. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| dush | intr. To move with violent impulse or collision; to rush or strike forcibly against something; to fall with a thud. Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| eightsome | Eight together. eightsome-reel n. a kind of dance in which eight persons take part. Also n. = an eightsome reel. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| enamel | trans. To inlay or encrust (metal) with a vitreous composition (see enamel n.) applied to the surface by fusion. Also absol. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| exorcism | The action of exorcizing or expelling an evil spirit by adjuration or the performance of certain rites; an instance of this. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| festival | Of or pertaining to a feast, befitting a feast-day. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| filiole | ? A column, turret, or pinnacle. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| flank | = flake n. 2. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| flose | ? To be shaggy. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| flot | ‘The scum of a pot of broth when it is boiling’ (Jamieson). | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| fog | The long grass left standing in the fields during winter; rank grass. (to leave) under fog: with the long grass standing. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| fool | intr. To be or become foolish or insane. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| foray | trans. To scour or ravage (a country) in search of forage or booty; to pillage; to seize… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| forloin | trans. To leave behind at a distance, forsake. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| foumart | The polecat (Putorius fœtidus). | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| fret | trans. To furnish, stock, stud, supply. Chiefly in pa. pple. modified by advbs. full, thick, well. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| garnade | In Comb. apple-garnade = pomegranate n. adj. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| gazophilace | = gazophylacium n. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| glop | intr. To stare, to gaze in alarm or wonder. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| grisping | Gnashing the teeth. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| groping | That gropes, in senses of the vb. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| holk | trans. To hollow out by digging; to excavate; to dig out or up. With various spec. local senses: see quots. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| hurling | Rushing, impetuous, violent: sometimes esp. referring to sound; sometimes associated with whirling. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| hydropic | Having an insatiable thirst, like a dropsical person; hence fig. Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| indenture | Jointing by means of notches or indentations: cf. indenting n. 2. Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| in-mong | Among, amongst. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| javel | A low or worthless fellow; a rascal. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| jeopard | = jeopardy n. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| jewellery | Jewellers' work; gems or ornaments made or sold by jewellers; esp. precious stones… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| kuchiez kote | erroneous reading of knauez kote = servant's cottage. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| lale | intr. To speak. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| lifting | That lifts, in senses of the vb., spec. in lifting-bridge n. a bridge of which either a part… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| lisoun | ? Glimpse; trace. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| listen | Hearing, sense of hearing. Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| lumber | intr. To move in a clumsy or blundering manner; in later use only, to move heavily on… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| mansed | Accursed, damned. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| maskering | Bewildering. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| meeken | To make meek; to humble, soften, tame; †to mitigate, calm, soothe (obs.); to lessen the violence of; to bring low, abase. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| merciless | Of persons, their attributes, actions, etc.: without mercy; showing no mercy; pitiless, unrelenting. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| mese | trans. To mitigate, assuage, appease, calm (a person's anger, sorrow, etc.); to settle (a dispute). | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| mike | Naut. A forked support on which a mast rests when lowered. Also more fully mike-hook. Cf. mitch-board n. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| mourken | intr. To rot. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| mud | Soft, moist, glutinous material resulting from the mixing of water with soil, sand, dust… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| nait | To make use of, use, employ; to exert (one's strength). Also refl.: to exert oneself. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| naitly | Properly, fittingly; thoroughly. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| nif | If not, unless. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| noted | In predicative use. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| noting | The action of using or enjoying (food, etc.). Cf. note v. 1. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| noughty | Of behaviour, an action, etc.: bad, immoral, wicked. Cf. naughty adj. 3a. Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| nurn | trans. To utter, say. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| nytel | intr. To busy oneself with inconsequential effect, to blunder about. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| oddly | Singularly; remarkably; nobly; choicely. Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| out-comeling | A stranger; a person who has come from outside (as distinguished from a native or original resident). | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| oversey | intr. Of a period of time: to pass by, elapse. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| pack | trans. To wrap and tie (goods, clothes, etc.) in cloth, canvas, or other material, so as to… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| parget | Plaster spread on a wall, ceiling, etc.; roughcast. Formerly also: †whitewash (obs.). Also fig. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| peridot | A green gemstone. Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| pinkardine | A kind of precious stone (not identified). | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| platting | The action of plat v.; plaiting. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| pullaile | Poultry. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| raining | Rainy; producing rain; falling as rain. Also fig. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| ranish | Strange, unfamiliar; rough, uncouth. Obs. rare. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| rasp | trans. To inscribe by scraping or scratching; to score. Obs. rare. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| rasse | A peak, a summit; a projection or ledge of rock. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| ratted | Ragged, torn. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| reflair | Odour; scent, perfume; (also) a smell, a fragrance. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| rehete | To be kind or friendly towards; esp. to cheer up or comfort through kind or friendly words and treatment. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| renishly | Roughly, vigorously; fiercely. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| rich | To arrange, prepare (a thing). | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| ridel | intr. Probably: to surge. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| rigg | A storm, a tempest; a strong wind. In later use chiefly in Michaelmas rigg n. at Michaelmas n. 2. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| ringing | Having or giving out the sound of a bell, or of some similar metallic body; resounding, resonant. Also fig. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| rolling | Turned inwards in a coil or curl. Also: turned over. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| rothel | trans. To roast. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| rothel | intr. Perh.: to walk rapidly or blindly. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| rothum | Prob.: a redness. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| royal | Befitting or appropriate to a monarch, esp. in quality, size, or ostentation; stately, magnificent, splendid, imposing. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| ruddon | Ruddiness; red or reddish colour. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| ruel | intr. To fall. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| runish | Mysterious, strange. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| ruthe | trans. To awaken, rouse. Also refl. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| samenfere | A fellow-traveller, an associate. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| sandiver | A liquid saline matter found floating over the glass after vitrification; glass-gall. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| scout | intr. To act as a scout, to play the spy; to travel about (in search of information). | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| scrof | Rough. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| shrewdship | = shrewdom n. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| skele | A dish or platter. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| skig | Fastidious. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| skyvald | (Meaning obscure.) | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| slyp | (Meaning uncertain.) | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| smilt | ? Fine. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| smod | Stain, filth. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| smolt | intr. To make off, go, escape, etc. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| smouldering | Smothering, suffocating, stifling. Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| solie | A seat, throne. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| sonet | Song, melody, music. Also attrib. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| sonnette | A bell. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| sorcer | = sorcerer n. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| sowly | Dirty, foul, unclean. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| sprawling | The action of the verb in various senses. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| stare | Power of seeing. Obs. rare. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| swaying | Moving. Obs. rare. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| tarn | A small mountain lake, having no significant tributaries. (Originally local northern… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| tede | ? Tied, joined together. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| teen | Angry, vexed, enraged. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| tempting | Afflicting, distressing, ‘trying’. Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| thead | A brewer's strainer; = tap-hose n.: see quot. 1825. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| tote | Of doubtful origin and meaning; recorded only in the passage quoted. Prob. = Middle Dutch tote… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| tramontane | The north pole-star: originally so called in Italy and Provence, because visible beyond… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| traythly | Etymology and meaning obscure. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| tulk | intr. To utter sound, to sound. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| tuyre | App. erron. form of tirve v. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| unbrosten | Unburst. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| uncherished | (un- prefix 8.) | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| ungarnished | (un- prefix 8.) | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| ungoderly | Squalid, filthy. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| unhasp | trans. To free from a hasp or catch; to unfasten; fig. to disclose. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| unnevened | Unnamed. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| unsmitten | (un- prefix 8b.) | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| unswallowed | (un- prefix 8a 8c.) | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| untwine | fig. To dissolve, undo, destroy. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| voche | trans. ? To call or summon. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| waxloke | (Unexplained.) | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| whole-footed | Having ‘whole’ or undivided feet, i.e. with the toes united; web-footed, as a bird; rarely, solid-hoofed, as a quadruped. Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| wilnesful | Phr. for wilnesful (see for- prefix 2a): because of obstinacy or perversity. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| yarm | A discordant outcry; a scream, yell. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| yawp | intr. To shout or exclaim hoarsely; to yelp, as a dog; to cry harshly or querulously, as a bird. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
