| ab | Moisture within timber; sap. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| adulatory | Of or belonging to an adulator; full or characterized by adulation; (in early use)… | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| affeebled | Weakened, enfeebled. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| airing | The action of exposing to the air, esp. to fresh or warm air in order to ventilate or dry; an instance of this. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| annoyer | One who, or that which, annoys; a disturber. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| apparent | To make apparent or manifest. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| arbitratrix | A female arbitrator, an arbitress. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| arithmancy | Divination by numbers. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| back-way | A way at the back, or leading to the back, of any place; hence, an indirect, roundabout way, a by-path. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| balkish | Characterized by balks or ridges; uneven, rough. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| battable | Of pasture-land: Good for the sustenance of flocks and herds; feeding, fattening; fertile in pasture. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| bayed | Surrounded, enclosed. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| begged | Obtained or sustained by begging. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| belord | trans. To call ‘lord,’ address as ‘my lord’. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| bequit | refl. To acquit oneself. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| bilwise | App. bill-wise wise or clever of mouth, as opposed to poll-mad. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| bindcorn | Black or Corn Bindweed (Polygonum convolvulus). | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| bobtail | trans. To dock the tail of; fig. to cut short, shorten, curtail. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| boggy | Of the nature of, or characterized by, bog; swampy. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| bouerie | Boorishness. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| brogue | A rude kind of shoe, generally made of untanned hide, worn by the inhabitants of the… | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| bungerly | Clumsily. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| byland | A peninsula. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| byname | trans. To surname, to nickname. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| by-plot | An outlying plot of ground. Obs. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| castilian | One living in or belonging to a castle; one of the garrison of a castle. Applied e.g. to… | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| chiefery | The office and territory of an Irish chief. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| chink | pl. Pieces of ready money, coins. Obs. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| civity | = city n. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| cleave | A basket. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| clobberiousness | The rabble, the ‘unwashed’. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| cluttered | Run together in clots, clotted, coagulated; = clottered adj. Obs. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| colk | A local name for the Eider-duck. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| comediographer | A writer of comedies. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| cope | (See quots.) | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| counterfeitress | A female counterfeiter. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| counterscore | trans. To run up or make a score against; to rival. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| crampern | To fasten with cramp-irons or cramps; fig. to cramp, confine. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| cranet | ‘A small red worm. Cumberland ’ (Halliwell). | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| creeklet | A little creek. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| crinkling | The action of crinkle v.; the result of this; a crinkle; a pattern of crinkles. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| crinkling | That twists, winds, or bends; (in later use) esp. that forms into small wrinkles or creases. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| crotched | Having a ‘crotch’ or bifurcation; forked. (Now U.S.) | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| curmudgeon | ‘An avaricious churlish fellow; a miser, a niggard’ (Johnson). | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| descrying | The action of descry v.; perception from a distance, discovery; also attrib. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| deuit | Owed, due. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| dirempt | trans. To separate, divide; to break off. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| disbeautify | trans. To undo the beautifying of, deprive of beauty. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| dish | trans. To put (food) into a dish, and set it ready for a meal. Also with up (†forth, out). | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| dispunishable | Free from liability to punishment or penalty; not punishable. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| disshroud | trans. To deprive of a shroud; fig. to unveil, expose. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| distinctor | One who draws a distinction; a distinguisher. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| drooper | One that droops; †one whose energy or spirit fails. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| Druidish | = Druidic adj. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| drumslager | A drummer. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| earik | Compensation, fine. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| eclipsed | transf. and fig. Obscured, ‘in the shade’. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| effere | Excessively wild or fierce. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| emporium | A place in which merchandise is collected or traded in. Often as applied to towns or… | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| envying | The action of the verb envy v.; concr. in pl. jealousies, etc. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| eremitical | Of or pertaining to an eremite; characteristic of or habitual to an eremite. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| eric | A blood-fine (see quots.) | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| erimites | App. mistake for erminites n. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| exclaim | Exclamation, outcry. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| excurse | An outrush, raid, hostile sally. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| expeller | One who, or that which, expels. Const. of. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| factioner | One who makes or joins a faction; a partisan. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| fesse | A pale blue colour. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| fitten | intr. To utter falsehoods, fib, tell lies. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| flatchet | A sword. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| foreprise | To assume, take for granted. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| fox-like | Like a fox; esp. crafty, cunning. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| free-denize | trans. = denize v. Cf. free-denizen v. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| full-mouthed | Of cattle: Having the mouth full of teeth; having the full complement of teeth. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| gabble | intr. To talk volubly, inarticulately and incoherently; to chatter, jabber, prattle. Also… | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| gamegall | A satirical retort. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| gimbal | pl. Joints, connecting links (in machinery); = gimmal n. 2. Chiefly fig. Obs. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| grail | Some kind of fish. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| graveling | The parr or young salmon. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| hackney | trans. To make a hackney of; to use (a horse) as a hack, for general riding purposes; = hack v. 3a. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| haggard | In Ireland and Isle of Man: A stack-yard. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| haggler | A clumsy, awkward workman; a bungler. Obs. exc. dial. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| halsen | Of hazel. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| handfastly | By solemn engagement made by joining hands; firmly. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| handlock | trans. To handcuff. Also transf. Chiefly in pa. pple. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| heathenry | Heathen belief, practice, or custom; heathen character or quality; heathenism. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| heaver | A person who heaves (in various senses: see the verb); spec. a labourer employed in… | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| hell-kettle | A deep black gulf or abyss; a name locally applied to holes or pools popularly supposed to be bottomless. Cf. kettle n. 4c. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| heretochy | The territory ruled by a heretoga. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| hestern | Of yesterday, yester-. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| Hilary | Name of a term or session of the High Court of Justice in England; and also of one of the university terms at Oxford and Dublin. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| home-born | Born or produced in one's own home, household, or country; native, indigenous; home-grown. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| homeling | An original or native inhabitant; an indigenous person or thing. Also appositive with… | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| incastle | trans. To provide with castles; to fortify. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| inshore | trans. To put on shore; to land. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| insight | trans. To furnish with sight, to give sight to. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| intelligentiary | = intelligencer n. 1. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| irremittable | Not capable of being remitted; = irremissible adj. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| leaguer | A military camp, esp. one engaged in a siege; an investing force. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| lossless | Without loss. Obs. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| lump | intr. To look sulky or disagreeable. (In early quots. always in collocation with lour.) | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| lurching | Given to or characterized by forestalling others at meals, gluttonous. Also, pilfering. Obs. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| Lusitan | = Lusitanian adj. 1. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| mad dog | Strong ale; = huff-cap adj. 1. Now hist. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| main chance | The most important point risked or at stake; (also) the general outcome of a series of… | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| mandatum | An order or instruction; a communication containing such an order; = mandate n. 4. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| maritimal | = maritime adj. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| meta | A boundary or boundary-marker; (Roman Hist.) either of the conical columns placed one at… | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| metallical | = metallic adj. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| misdate | trans. To assign or affix a wrong date to; to date wrongly. Also intr. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| mixed corn | A mixture of cereal grains, esp. wheat and rye. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| monachism | The mode or rule of life characteristic of monks and nuns; the monastic system or principle; monasticism. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| Moravian | A native or inhabitant of Moray, in Scotland. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| most an end | For the most part, almost entirely; almost always, almost without interruption, all the… | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| mountebankwise | in mountebankwise: in the manner or fashion of a mountebank. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| mutining | That mutinies; mutinous. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| necromantical | Necromantic. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| net-caster | A person who casts a net; (in quot. 1587) spec. = retiarius n. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| new comeling | A newcomer. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| niddicock | A fool, an idiot. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| north-westerly | Situated in the north-west, located to the north-west of a point of reference; (also) directed or moving towards the north-west. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| nose | To perceive by the sense of smell; to discover, notice, or recognize by smell. Also with out. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| novenary | An aggregate or set of nine. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| ordalium | = ordeal n. 1. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| ore | More fully sea ore, float ore. Seaweed, esp. that cast on the shore and gathered for use as fertilizer. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| outliggand | An outlying portion. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| overrash | Too rash; excessively rash. | 1554 | Go To Quotation |
| over-sum | An amount which exceeds a particular level or quota, a surplus; (Sc.) an animal or animals in excess of an allotted number. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| overwhirl | trans. To whirl or hurl over. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| packing | The action of pack v.; (now only) spec. the selection or making up of a jury… | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| peacockwise | In the manner of a peacock; ostentatiously. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| peak | To project or rise in a peak. Also occas. trans. (in pass.) in same sense. Freq. with up. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| pelfish | Of the nature of or relating to pelf; †rubbishy, paltry (obs.). | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| pentarchy | A group or league of five provinces, sees, kingdoms, etc., each under its own ruler; the… | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| petty officer | gen. A minor or inferior officer. See also petit officer n. at petit adj. n. 2. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| pew-fellow | A person who has a seat in the same pew as another (usually specified)… | 1524 | Go To Quotation |
| pod | A young pike (fish), Esox lucius. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| pontificalia | The vestments and insignia of a bishop, cardinal, or abbot; pontificals (pontifical n.… | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| poplet | A young woman. Cf. popelot n. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| portlet | A small port; a creek. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| poser | A person who sets testing questions; an examiner; = apposer n. 1. Now hist. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| pragmatic | Relating to the affairs of a state or community. Chiefly in pragmatic sanction n. (now hist.)… | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| pread | trans. To plunder, rob. Also intr. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| predour | A robber, a plunderer. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| prick post | Any of various upright posts (usually one of two or more placed between the principal… | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| quadrireme | An ancient Greek or Roman galley having four rowers for each set of oars. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| quakemire | = quagmire n. Freq. fig. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| quo | In conjunction with quid: an action performed or thing given in return for something else… | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| raddle | A slender stick, wattle, or lath, fastened to or twisted between upright stakes or posts to form a fence, partition, wall, etc. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| ravelled | Of bread: made from wholemeal flour, or from flour with the bran left in. Cf. ravel adj. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| reassiege | trans. To lay siege to again. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| reconfirm | trans. To confirm, ratify, or establish anew. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| re-enforcement | The action or an act of re-enforcing (in various senses of the verb); (also) the state of being re-enforced. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| residing | The action or fact of living in a particular place on a long-term basis; residence… | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| restrengthen | trans. To strengthen again; to put new strength into. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| rewalt | trans. To overturn, throw down. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| rewalting | The action of overthrowing or throwing down. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| rhythmer | A person who writes rhymes; = rhymer n. Obs. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| ridgewise | In the shape, direction, or manner of a ridge. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| ringwise | In a ring, so as to form a ring or rings. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| rivulet | A small river; a stream. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| roguing | The action of wandering about the country or travelling from one place to another as a… | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| rootage | With out. The action of rooting out or eradicating something. Obs. rare. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| root end | The end of a plant stem, seed, etc., which is next to the root, or from which the root develops. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| rosilly | Of soil: consisting of both sand and clay, intermediate in quality between sand and clay. Cf. rosiny adj. 2, rosil n. 2. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| ross | Rubbish, dirt; dregs. Obs. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| roundfish | A fish of a rounded or cylindrical cross-section. Contrasted with flat fish n. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| roundwise | In a circular form, disposition, or arrangement; circularly. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| rowty | Of grass, hay, etc.: coarse, rough; overgrown, rank. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| rundle | A small stream of water; a rivulet. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| rutting | Of a person: promiscuous, lecherous. †Also of a person's behaviour (obs.). | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| Samson's post | A kind of mousetrap (see quot. 1623). Obs. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| scoffery | Mockery, jeering, derision. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| sconce | Fortification A small fort or earthwork; esp. one built to defend a ford, pass, castle-gate, etc., or erected as a counter-fort. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| scorchvillein | A ‘flay-villein’; an oppressive lord. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| septenary | A period of seven years (occas. weeks, days). | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| shack | Shaggy. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| shacked | Shaggy. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| shalder | ? A flake, split-off piece of stone. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| shalder | intr. To crumble. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| sholt | A cur. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| shroud | trans. To lop (a tree or its branches); also with off; occas. absol. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| shrove | intr. To keep Shrove-tide; to make merry. Often in (to go) a-shroving (locally applied… | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| skew | A coracle. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| slampant | A trick. to give one the (or a) slampant, to play a trick on, to circumvent or hoodwink, one. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| snip | trans. To take (something) quickly or suddenly; to snap or snatch. Obs. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| soldado | A soldier. Also attrib. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| south-easterly | Of a wind or current: blowing or running from the south-east. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| southwesterly | Situated in the south-west; directed or moving towards the south-west. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| sparsim | In various places; here and there; sparsely. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| sparto | aphetic form of esparto n. (Cf. spart n.) | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| speary | Of grass: Hard and stiff. Obs. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| spike | = spike-hole n. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| stagon | A stag or staggard. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| stallon | A slip, scion. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| staple | In statute staple n. the adj. replaces the phrase of the Staple, on the analogy of statute merchant… | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| status | The physical height of a person or thing; = stature n. 1. Also fig.: the highest degree or acme of something. Obs. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| stem | intr. To rise erect, mount upwards. Also with up. Obs. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| strictland | An isthmus. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| strippet | A small rill. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| stroke | (Sense obscure.) | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| studdery | A place for keeping mares and stallions for breeding. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| stuff | Obs. rare. Var. of stow v. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| suddy | Turbid, thick; also fig. ‘muddy’. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| suitably | Chiefly const. to: In agreement, conformity, or correspondence; agreeably, correspondingly, according. Obs. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| summister | = Summist n. 1. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| surceasance | = surseance n. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| symmetrician | = symmetrian n., symmetrist n. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| tectly | In a concealed manner, covertly. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| tempora mutantur | A statement emphasizing the inevitability of change in human affairs and customs. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| temporizing | Putting off, delaying, procrastination; negotiation so as to gain time: see temporize v. 2 3. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| twattler | One who ‘twattles’; a chatterer, babbler, tattler. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| twattling | The action of the verb twattle v.; idle talking, chattering. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| twish | An exclamation of contempt or vexation. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| twittle | trans. To utter idly, chatter, babble: = tittle v. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| unabolished | (un- prefix 8.) | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| unbooked | Not booklearned. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| unbroid | trans. To unbraid, disentangle, make plain. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| underspar | trans. To force up by means of a spar thrust underneath. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| unfoldress | A female unfolder. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| unfretted | Not eaten or worn away; unimpaired. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| unheaded | Destitute or devoid of a head or heading, in various senses. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| unscaled | Not having the scales removed. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| unscanned | (un- prefix 8.) | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| unspin | (un- prefix 3. Cf. Dutch ontspinnen.) | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| unwrite | trans. To cancel or abrogate the writing of (something); to annul or rescind (a writing). | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| vaticinal | Of the nature of, characterized by, vaticination or prophecy; prophetic, vatic. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| vaticiny | A vaticination or prophecy. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| velure | Velvet. Also attrib. Obs. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| verangene | = brinjal n. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| viscounty | A viscount. Obs. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| white water | Shallow or shoal water; water with breakers or foam, as in shallows or rapids on the sea or a river. Also attrib. | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| yester | Of or belonging to yesterday. poet. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| yieldable | That can be yielded. rare (mod. Dicts.). | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
