| a | Prefixed to a proper name as a war cry. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| adventuring | That adventures (in various senses of adventure v.); that lives as an adventurer; daring, venturesome, audacious. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| ailette | Each of a pair of pieces of leather or other material worn over the shoulders as part… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| aroom | To extend, prolong. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| avant-brace | Armour for the front of the arm. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| avantward | = avant-garde n., vanguard n. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| avire | To turn. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| avye | To send away, dismiss; refl. To take one's way. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| ayre | To march, proceed, make one's way; to move about (as opposed to remain still). | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| bash | trans. To destroy the confidence or self-possession of; to daunt, dismay… | 1375 | Go To Quotation |
| besom | intr. To sweep with force or violence. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| beveren | prob. Beaver-coloured, reddish-brown. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| bewscher | pl. The buttocks. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| bilynge | ? The beak or prow of a ship. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| blush | To cast a glance, glance with the eye, give a look. (in allit. poetry.) Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| bracer | The portion of a suit of armour covering the arm. Also a sort of guard for the wrist… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| brancher | A young hawk (or other bird) when it first leaves the nest and hops about the branches. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| brank | intr. Of horses: To prance, to toss the head. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| brawl | refl. To boast oneself loudly. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| brawling | Motion from side to side, quivering. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| breechless | Without breeches; bare or naked about the buttocks. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| bretheman | ? A blower of a wind-instrument, a trumpeter, etc. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| brigand | A light-armed, irregular foot-soldier. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| byswenke | intr. To work hard, exert oneself, labour. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| champaign | An expanse of level, open country, a plain; a level field; a clearing. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| champany | ? The field (of combat); ? the lists: cf. champ n. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| chasing | attrib. or Comb., as chasing spear, chasing staff. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| chequer | To diversify with a different colour or shade; to variegate, mottle. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| chilling | That chills: in various senses of the verb. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| chock-full | Filled so as to leave no vacant space; cram-full; stuffed full; full to suffocation. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| chok | ? To thrust, push, or drive with force; to chokke togeder, to thrust or ram together; to chokke thurgh, to thrust through. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| clerewort | Possibly = Old English clæferwyrt Small Clover (? Trifolium minus). | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| coble | Variant of cable n.: kobel is given as a common pronunciation of kabel in Flemish. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| comsement | Commencement. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| coup | intr. To strike; to come to blows, meet in the shock of combat, tilt. Obs. See cope v. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| coutere | A piece of armour to protect the elbow. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| crash | trans. To break in pieces with violence and noise; to dash in pieces, shiver, shatter, smash. (Now somewhat rare.) | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| cretone | A kind of seasoned soup or pottage in which rabbits, fowls, etc. were boiled. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| cupful | As much as fills a cup. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| dag | trans. To pierce or stab, with or as with a pointed weapon. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| dagswain | A coarse coverlet of rough shaggy material. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| dank | Wetness, humidity, damp. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| dank | said of dew, rain, clouds, water, etc. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| dariole | Orig., = custard n. a. Now, an individual dish of various kinds prepared in a dariole… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| dereful | Full of grief, sorrowful. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| diapered | Having the surface or ground diversified and adorned with a diaper or fret-work pattern. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| dictour | A spokesman. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| dropping | Falling in drops; distilling. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| edgeling | On the edge; edgeways. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| elfayde | Some kind of animal. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| encircle | To surround, gird, encompass with. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| encroach | trans. To seize, acquire wrongfully (property or privilege). Also absol. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| encrownment | The action or ceremony of encrowning; coronation. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| enflourish | trans. To display flourishingly; to trick out with ornaments. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| engendure | = engendrure n. lit. and fig. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| engist | trans. To appoint the resting-places or lodgings in (a journey). | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| engowschede | | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| engrailed | Entomol. engrailed moth, Tephrosia biundularia; small engrailed moth, T. crepuscularis (Newman Brit. Moths 66). | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| enkerly | Earnestly, heartily, fervently. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| enourle | trans. To border; ? to surround. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| erchevesque | = archbishop n. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| escheve | intr. To gain one's end; const. of or simply; = achieve v. 3b. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| eschew | intr. To fall out, fall to one's lot, befall. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| Excalibur | The name of King Arthur's sword. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| fake | trans. To lay (a rope) in fakes or coils; to coil. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| faucet | A tap for drawing liquor from a barrel, etc. Now dial. and U.S. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| fayful | Reliably. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| felter | trans. To tangle (hair, etc.); to mat together. Also, to felter together. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| feltered | In various senses of the vb. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| fermison | A close-time for the male deer. attrib. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| fewter | intr. for refl. To close in battle, come to close quarters. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| figured | Having a particular figure or shape. In comb. with advbs., as fair, foul, ill figured. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| filsne | intr. To lurk. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| firth | A synonym of frith n. in some of its senses: A deer-forest, hunting-ground; a piece… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| fit | trans. To array, marshal (soldiers). Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| flaming | Emitting rays of light, flashing, glowing, brilliant. flaming fly = fire-fly n. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| fleer | intr. To make a wry face, distort the countenance; to grin, grimace. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| fleering | That fleers; †grinning, grimacing; †smiling obsequiously; laughing coarsely or scornfully. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| flish | trans. To slash or cut. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| fodden | ? intr. To be produced. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| foreland | A cape, headland or promontory. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| forestam | The prow of a ship. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| forjoust | trans. To overcome or overthrow in jousting. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| forlyten | trans. To diminish. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| foster-son | One who is brought up as a son though not one by birth. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| frank | An enclosure, esp. a place to feed hogs in; a sty. Also, the process of fattening animals. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| frontier | The front line or foremost part of an army. Hence ‘attack, resistance’ in phr. to make frontier… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| furthermost | Foremost, first. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| genetor | A soldier who rides a jennet (jennet n. 1). | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| getless | Having got nothing, empty-handed. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| gled | Clothed, dressed. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| glift | intr. To look, gaze. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| gobbed | Proud. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| gobbon | trans. To cut into gobbets. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| goblet | A drinking-cup of metal or glass, properly bowl-shaped and without handles, sometimes mounted… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| gole | A stream, channel, ditch. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| goutte | A small drop-shaped figure (of specified tincture), used as a charge. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| grew-hound | A greyhound. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| gryfely | Prone, groveling. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| gush | intr. ‘To flow or rush out with violence’ (Johnson); to issue suddenly or in copious… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| gyronny | Of an escutcheon: Divided into or having gyrons; gyronny of eight, having eight gyrons… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| hamald | Belonging to home, domestic; home-grown, home-made; homely, vernacular; unpolished. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| handsome | Now only in vulgar use, exc. in proverb handsome is as (also that) handsome does. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| happing | The action of the verb hap v.; in quot. 1400, Fortune. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| harageous | Stern, cruel, violent. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| harrawnte | Perh.: shouting. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| head-rope | One of the stays of a mast. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| headsman | A chief, leader, head man. Now rare. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| heke | A horse (of some kind). | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| hided | Having a hide (esp. of a specified kind). | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| Holland | The name of a province of the Northern Netherlands, formerly a county or ‘graafschap’ (comitatus… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| hostey | intr. To wage war, make a warlike expedition. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| hotch | intr. To move or progress jerkily up and down, to jog; to shift about with… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| hoursch | intr. ? To rattle, make a din. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| indent | trans. To inlay, set, emboss; = dent v. 3. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| jag | trans. To pierce with a sharp instrument, to stab. Obs. exc. as in 1b. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| jamby | Strong on the legs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| jeryne | An article of dress or armour. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| jury | A company of persons (originally men) sworn to render a ‘verdict’ or true answer… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| just | Of place or position. just at, in, over (etc.) the = at, in, over (etc.) the very. just to… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| kemp | To fight or contend in battle with another. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| kennet | A small dog, used in hunting. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| lapping | Taking up liquid with the tongue. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| laundon | o laundon: on the field. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| leach | trans. To cut (meat, etc.) in slices; to slice. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| lee-board | The lee-side (of a vessel). | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| locker | intr. To curl. Only in ppl. adjs. ˈlockered (lockard, lokerit, lokkerit) curled, and ˈlockering (lokerand) curling. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| lone | Concealment; = lain n. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| lothen | Shaggy. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| lush | A stroke, blow. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| luttered | ? Bowed, crooked. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| mainland | A large continuous extent of land, including the greater part of a country or… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| mell | trans. To strike or beat with a mallet or hammer; to hammer or pound; (hence) to beat severely. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| muscadel | = muscatel n. 1. More fully muscadel wine. Now chiefly S. Afr. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| ninesome | A set of nine. rare before 20th cent. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| oche | trans. To cut as with a blow; to lop. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| pagan | A person not subscribing to any major or recognized religion, esp. the dominant religion… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| pall | trans. (usu. in pass.). To cover with or as with a pall; (formerly) spec. to drape with rich cloth. Also fig. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| pastorel | A shepherd, a herder. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| pavis | App.: made in or characteristic of (those of) Pavia. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| porte | In full Sublime (also Ottoman) Porte. The court or palace of the Ottoman sultan… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| prime time | The hour or time (in the early morning) of the daily office of prime; cf. prime n. 1. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| professed | That has taken the vows of a religious order. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| raddour | Fear, terror. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| reindeer | A widespread northern deer, Rangifer tarandus, both sexes of which have large… | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| repend | intr. Of a horse: to kick or rear violently. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| requite | To repay (something owed); spec. to make appropriate return for (a favour, service, etc.), to reward (a service done). Also intr. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| ribaldous | = ribaldrous adj. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| rind | north. A low ridge of earth; a bank, esp. the bank of a river. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| rinsed | That has been rinsed. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| rog | (Meaning unknown.) | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| roo | A wheel (in quot. 1440: the wheel of Fortune). | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| rosseld | Perh.: tempered, hardened. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| roy | A prince, sovereign, or other royal person. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| ruscled | Perh.: wrinkled, rugged. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| saltire | An ordinary in the form of a St. Andrew's cross, formed by a bend and a bend… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| sanglier | A full-grown wild boar (see quots.). | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| sangrail | = grail n. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| sang royal | Royal blood. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| scallop | A pilgrim's cockle-shell worn as a sign that he had visited the shrine of St. James at Compostella. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| scent | Phrases. to follow (or rarely pursue) the scent, to get (a or the) scent of, to have (a) scent of… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| scomfiter | A discomfiter, victor. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| scornful | Full of scorn, contemptuous, derisive. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| scourer | One sent out to reconnoitre; a scout or avant-courier; = discoverer n. 2 and scurrier n. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| scout-watch | A sentinel, spy; one that keeps guard. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| screeve | intr. Of a wound: To open and discharge matter. In mod. dial., to ooze, exude moisture. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| scrog | A stunted bush; usually pl., brushwood, underwood. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| scutifer | A shield-bearer; one who bears his master's shield. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| serte | Service due from a servant to his lord. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| shail | intr. To stumble, to walk or move in a shuffling, shambling manner. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| shaled | Encased as in a shell. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| sheathe | trans. To fit or furnish (a sword, etc.) with a sheath. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| shinbawde | A greave (leg-armour). | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| shock | intr. To go swiftly and suddenly; to dart, rush; to make a rapid or forced march. Chiefly with adv., away, down, in, on. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| shrag | A rag, tatter. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| shrinking | That shrinks, contracts, is reduced in size or volume, or is withered or shrivelled. Also fig. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| skew | intr. To escape, to slip away. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| skulkery | The practice of skulking. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| slack | A hollow in the sand- or mud-banks on a shore. Also, a depression among sand-dunes. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| slep | intr. To slip. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| sletch | trans. To render slack or relaxed; to assuage, mitigate. Obs. rare. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| slop | A muddy place; a mud-hole. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| slot | The slight depression or hollow running down the middle of the breast. Now Sc. and rare. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| slot | trans. To pierce through the ‘slot’. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| slowde | (Meaning uncertain.) | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| soften | With personal object: To relieve from pain. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| sop | A compact body, troop, or company, esp. of fighting men. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| soughing | The action of the verb; a rushing or murmuring sound. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| spald | intr. To go apart, to splay out. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| splint | trans. To cover, furnish, or construct with splints or thin strips of wood, etc. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| sternful | Full of sternness, severe, bold. Obs. or arch. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| stounding | pl. Remains. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| sunderwise | Asunder; separately. (Cf. sundry wise at sundry adj. 6c.) | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| surepel | A cover for a book. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| swalter | intr. To wade, splash. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| swange | The flank or groin. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| swaver | intr. To stagger, totter. Also fig. to decline away from. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| swelting | Dying. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| tachment | Something attached; an appurtenance. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| talon | spec. The powerful claws of a bird of prey, or of a dragon, griffin, etc. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| tart | formerly with meat, fish, cheese, fruit, etc.: the same or nearly the same as a pie. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| tentily | With care and attention; carefully. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| toge | A Roman toga; hence, a cloak or loose coat. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| tolowr | (Suggested to be the tiller n. of a cross-bow.) | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| to-rat | trans. To break up, scatter. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| treunt | intr. ? To depart. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| trifling | Cheating, befooling, false, feigning. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| trume | ? intr. To assemble in a troop. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| trussell | A bundle, package; in quot. 1400, a furled sail. Cf. trousseau n. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| tyke | transf. Applied opprobriously to a man (rarely with similar force to a woman): A… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| unabased | Undaunted. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| unbridle | trans. To remove the bridle from (a horse). Also absol. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| undertaking | Ready to undertake an enterprise, task, etc., esp. one involving some danger or risk; enterprising, bold. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| unfraisted | Untried, inexperienced. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| unlordly | (un- prefix 11.) | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| unquelled | (un- prefix 8. Cf. Middle Dutch ongequelt, ON. úkvaldr.) | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| unslyly | Unskilfully, clumsily. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| unteld | trans. To clear of tents or awnings. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| untenderly | (un- prefix 11.) | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| utter | intr. To exercise the faculty of speech; to speak. Also (rarely) const. of, on. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| venture | Fortune, luck; chance. = adventure n. 1b. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| ver | trans. ? To spot or bespatter with something. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| vertely | With activity or readiness; quickly, readily. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| vult | Face, countenance; esp. expression of the features, cheer or bearing. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| wallop | of horses. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| walloping | That wallops. Now chiefly (colloq. or dial.), that moves with a clumsy irregular gait. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| wandsomely | Reluctantly, falteringly. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| wastern | A wilderness. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| waterman | A seaman, mariner. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| wavering | The action of the verb waver v., in various senses. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| wayfare | Wayfaring, travelling. Also fig. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| wayside | The side of a road or path, the land bordering either side of the way. Phr. to fall by the wayside… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| wondsome | Beset with difficulty; in quot. quasi-n. (see for prep. 10a). | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| writhe | intr. To sprout, to flourish. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| yaud | A strumpet, whore. Comb. ȝaldson, the ‘son of a whore’; a term of abuse (cf. whoreson n.). | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
