GLOSSARY

Accord, n., harmony
According, part., punning, or in harmony
Adamant, n., a diamond
Addercop, n., a spider
Afeard, part., sifrighted
Afore, prep., before
Almery, n., 5 cupboard, a buttery
Anon, adv. immediately
Apaid, V., served, repaid
Apaired, adj., injured, impaired
Areared, adj., upright
Assay, V., to try
Aught, n., anything
Avisement,  n.,  forethought, counsel
Away with, V., to suffer
Awreak, V., revenge
Ayencoming, n., returning
Ayenge, prep., against
Ayenward, adV., vice versa

Bate, V., hawkisg, to flutter the wings as if preparing for flight
Bays, n., the fruit of the laurel Because, eonj., in order that
Beclip, V., embrace, enfold
Behind forth, adV., from back to front
Behooteth, V., advises, gives
Behove, V., to be necessary
Bernacle, n., a bridle
Beshine, V., to illuminate.
Bisse, n., a second
Blemish, V., shrink, blench
Blow, V., to obtain lead, etc., from ores in a furnace
Boisterous, boystous, adj., thick, strong, solid
Bourgeon, V., to bud, burst forth
Bray, V., to pound
Brock, n., a badger
Buck, V., to wash
Busily, adV., carefully
But, prep., except

Car, n., means or instrument
Carfle, V., to pound
Carrions, n., corpses
Cast, V., to intend
Chaffer, n., trade
Chine, n., chink, cleft ll~
Clari~y, n., clearness
Clepe, V., call
Cliff n., shore
Clue, n., S clew or hanlc (of yarn)
Comfort, V., to strengthen
Common, V., to share one's food with others and ~yenward
Conject, V., conjecture
Coverture, n., covering
Craftily, adV., skilfully
Culvour, n., pigeon
Curtel, n., S kirtle, a short coat, a covering

Deadly, adV., mortal
Deeming, n., judgment, opinion
Default, n., deficiency
Depart, V., to separate, share out
Despiteously, ad~., contempt~ uously
Detty, adj., generous
Disperple, v., to scatter, destroy
Do, done, V., to put, to don
Doomsman, n., judge
Draust, n., dross, impurity

Ear, V., to reap
Else, adV., otherwise
Enform, V., to make
Even tofore, adv., opposite to
Expert, adV., tried

Fare, V., to happen
Fear, V.a., to frighten
Fell, n., On undressed skin
Fen, n., clay
Fine, n., a boundary
Fleet, V., to float, to swim I ef "to flit"
Flux, n., S flow, a catarrh
Fore, n., trail, spoon ef " foor"
Frot, V., to rub
Fumous, ad]., vaporous, cloudy
Fumosity, n., vapour
Fundameot, n., foundation

Gentle, ad]., noble, high-minded Gesses, n., jesses, curds for
fastening the legs of a hawk
Gete, C., goats
Ghastful, ad]., frightful
Gin, n., machine
Glad, V.a., to please
Glimy, ad]., slimy
Gloss, n., the comment on Scrip-ture, compiled in the ninth century from the fathers
Glue, C., any glutinous substance
Gnod, V., to rub?.
Grieve, V., to hurt
Grutching, n., growling
Gutter, C., drop

Hale, V., to drag
Hap, n., chance
Hards, hir,ls, n~, tow
Haught, part., hatched
Heckle, V., to straighten out lint by a coarse comb
Hele, V., to cover I f, heling
Flight, V., is called
Hoar, ad]., feathered
Hop, n., the seed case of the flixplant
Horrible, ad]., unpleasant to hear
Housebond, n., husband
Hovey, n., hovel, cottage
Hosing, pare., staying

Infect, ad]., spotted, injured Intemiment, n., understanding

Jape, V., to cry out

Kele, V., to cool
Kind, n., nature
Kimily, ad].,  natural I adV., naturally

Langhaldes, n., ropes connecting the fore and hind legs of a horse or cow to stay it from jumping
Latten, n., a kind of brass
Lea, n., pasture land
Lesings, n., untruths
Let, V., to hinder
Lewd, ad]., ignorant
Liefer, adV., rather
Likelihood, n., resemblance
Limb, n., an instiument I "limb of the law"
Limbmeal, adV., limb by limb tf "piecemeal"
List, n., S limit, border
Lodesman, n., pilot
Lnwte, V., to trumpet
 

Make, n., a mate
Manner, ad]., manner of, kind of
Mawmet, n., an idol or toy
Mean, n., intermediary, means
Mean, V., to astert, consider
Medley, V., to mix
Meinie, n., domestics, household
Merry, ad]., fortunate
Meselry, n., leprosy
Mess, n., portion
Messager, n, messenger
Mete, V., measure, apportion
Mews, n., originally a place in which  hawks  were  kept "mewed up"
Mildness, n., generosity
Minish, V., to narrow
Mirror, n., seems to have been used only when the surface was curved,the word "shewer" being used for a plane mirror
Mistake, V., to take wrongly

Namely, adV., especially
Nathless, con., nevertheless
Ne, con, nor
Needly, adV., necessarily
Nerve, n., sinew
Nesh, ad]., soft
Nether, ad]., lower
Nice, ad]., silly, sniall, trifling
Nicely, adV., sillily
Nother, con., neither
Noyful, ad]., noxious, hurtful
Noying, n., harm

Ordinate, adj.,  ordered,  pre-scribed
Otherdeal, adV., otherwise
Overthwart, adj., crossed over on itself

Passing, ad]., surpassing
Patent, n., a plate or paten (patine)
Pight, ad]., put, pitched
Powder, n., dust of any kind
Pricket, n., a spike used for candlestick, hence a candle
Principles, n., indecomposable elements
Pure, V.a., to purify
Pursueth, V., suiteth ?

Quicken, V.i., to come to life
Quiver, ad]., nimble, active

Rsmaiosas, ad]., (Aa~wdisg), slow Ravish, V., to snatch
Reclaim, n., (Aawding), the call-ing back of a hawk
Refudation, n.,  a process in which vinegar is poured on lead, distilled ofi; and again suffered to act on it
Relief, n., S cessert
Rese, V., to rush on anyone
Resolve, V., to loosen, weaken, to dissolve
Rheum, n., salt humour
Ribbed, ad]., beaten  with  a "rib" in dressing flax
Ridge, n., the back bone
Riever, n., a violent, robber, a raider
Rivelled, ad]., wrinkles
Rively, adv., wrinkled, shrunk
Rodded, ad], separated from tow-" redded
Routs, n., crowds
Ruthful, ad]., sorrowful

Sad, ad]., steadfast, solid
Sanguisse, adj., blootl-like
Scarce, adj., sparing, avaricious
Seethe, V., to boil
Selde, adV., seldom
Sele, V., to cover
Shamefast, ad], shamefaced
Sheltrons, n., palisades
Shern, ad]., shore
Shewer, n., S looking-glass
Shingle, a., in roafing, brush-wood, or small boards
Shipbreach, a., shipwreck
Shore, ad]., shorn (of the hair)
Shrewd, ad]., bitter; ef, shrew Silly, ad]., blessed, Aente inno-cent, Aente simple
Sinew, a., S nerve
Slobber, V., to do anything carelessly
Smirch, V., to soil
Sod, ad]., stewed
Solar, a., an upper floor
Solemn, adi., celebrated, earnest
Somedeal, adV., somewhat
Sometime, adV., once
Sooth, a., truth
Spanells, a., ropes connecting the fore or hind feet of an animal to impede its move ments
Spousehood, n., marriage
Spousebreach, n., adultery
Spronge, ad]., sprinkled
Stare, V., to stay
Startling, part.,  leaping  and jumping
Stint, V., to stop
Stint, ad]., stopped
Straight, ad]., confined
Straited, ad]., narrowed
Sty, V., to climb
Suspect, ad]., in suspicion

Tatch, n., spot
Tatched, ad]., spotted
Tewly, livid
Tuth, V., to cultivate
Tuth, n., tillage
Tofore, prep., before
Toll, V., to entice
Trow,  V.~ to  believe I  cf, trust
 

Unmighty, ad]., unable
Unneth, adV., hardly
Uplandish, ad]., rustic
Utter, ad]., outer

Very, ad]., true

Wait, n., O guard
Wanhope, n., despair
Warily, aIV., carefully
Ween, V., consider, think
Wem, n., blemish, fault
Wend, ad]., wound up
Werish, ad]., insipid
Whelk, n., O swelling
Whet, V., to sharpen
Whiche, n., S wicket-gate I ef "wych gate"
Wilful, ad]., of set purpose
Wit, n., a sense I ef "out of his wits"
Witty, ad]., sensibly
Wonder, ad]., wondrous
Wonderly, adv., wondrously
Wood, ad]., crazy, frantic
Woodness, n., madness
Woose, n., fluid
Worahip, n., reverence, authority
Wosen, n., the arteries
Wot, V., knew
Wrang, ad]., injured, wrung
Wreak, n., revenge
Wreck, V., to revenge
Wrecker, n., avenger


 Back to Front Page



This Web page was created by Brent Hanner .  Any questions or comments send them to him.