Part 24
Agresyth, 331, Agrise, _i. e._, to shudder, or to make to shudder; so “agresyth me,” makes me shudder. See also p. 41.
Agryse, 159, see agresyth.
Aȝens, against.
Alye, 145, kindred.
Alle-be-dene, 4, by and by, forthwith. See Sir Fred. Madden’s Havelok, 730, 2841, and glos. in voc.
Allether, 14, 230, gen. pl. of all.
Alleredy, all ready.
Altheris, 202, of you all.
Althing, 57, every thing.
Amat, 294, dismayed. Chaucer and Shakespeare use the verb mate, which is doubtlessly the same. _See_ The Knightes Tale, l. 957, and second part of Henry VI., act. iii. sc. i.
Amonge, at intervals. Answers to the Latin word “mixtim.”
Amoure, 50, love.
An, and.
And, if.
Anow, enough.
Anvempnyd, 75, envenom.
Apayed, 67, pleased, contented.
Apert, open.
Apertly, openly.
Aqwyte, 335, requite.
Are, 44, hare.
Aren, _vide_ arn.
Arere, 132, 215, stir up. P. 240, raise up.
Aresyn, arisen.
Areste, 91, arrest.
Arn, are.
Arnde, errand, message.
Arneys, 283, harness.
Arryn, 316, seize.
Arwe, arrow.
Asayn, assay.
Askuse, 2, excuse.
Asmatryk, 189, arithmetic. This word is used by Chaucer and Lydgate, and occurs as late as the year 1594 in John Davis’s “Seaman’s Secrets,” epist. ded. See also Chaucer’s Cant. Tal. v. 1900, ed. Tyrwhitt, and note, where he quotes a passage from the Cottonian manuscript of “the Sevyn Sages of Rome,” in which the same word occurs.
Asoyle, 38, resolve. Mr. Hunter, in the additions to Boucher, points out the two meanings of this word from Palsgrave, _viz_., absolve, and resolve. It is here used in the latter sense.
Aspye, 249, espy.
Astat, 12, estate.
Asyse, 60, assize. Hence, judgment; as in a passage quoted by Stevenson from an Edinburgh MS. in the additions to Boucher.
At, that.
Atent, 4, intention.
Atreyd, 350, frightened. This may be a mistake for “afreyd.” I find the same word, however, in The Kyng of Tars, 604—
“He sturte him up in a breyd, In his herte sore atrayyed.”
In which place it probably means vexed, angered, as in The Seven Sages, 1867, from “tray.” Ritson absurdly explains it poison’d, from the Saxon attred.
Atwin, in two, asunder.
Augrym, 189, algorism, arithmetic. This is a corruption from the Arabic, and is often found in works on arithmetic after the Boetian system of contractions was superseded by the eastern notation. See the curious etymologies of this word in Rara Mathematica, pp. 1, 72, and 94.
Autecer, 88, ancestor. It here alludes to the first parent. This word is not yet obsolete in the North-West Riding of Yorkshire. See Hunter’s Hallamshire Glossary.
Autere, altar.
Avantorsly, peradventure, by chance. “Awnterowsly, forte, fortasse, forsan, forsitan,” Prompt. Parv.
Aved, had.
Averte, 88, averter, turner away.
Avyse, advice.
Avyse, to consider. “Avise yow wele,” _i. e._, look well to yourselves.
Avoyd, 131, move away.
Avoutrie, _vide_ Advowtrye.
Avowe, a vow. “Avowe, votum,” Prompt. Parv.
Awey, away.
Awtere, altar.
Ay, ever, aye, always.
Bad, 164, bold.
Baftys, 180.
Baye, 180, set at bay. See Sir F. Madden’s Glos. to William and the Werwolf.
Bayle, 292, custody, government. Cant. Tales, v. 7574.
Bayn, 173, 178, ready.
Bale, 30, sorrow, misery.
Balys, 105, plural of “bale.”
Balys, 210, bales.
Balke, 343, a ridge of land between two burrowes, Cotgrave. “Balke of a londe eryd, porca,” Prompt. Parv. See Boucher’s Glossary, in voc.
Bane, bone.
Bairn, child.
Barne, 160, 168, 180, 182, &c. _Vide_ bairn.
Baron, 182, _vide_ bairn.
Barrany, barren.
Bat, 12, debate.
Bath, both.
Batte, 296, stroke. So it may be interpreted in this place, but see Stevenson’s additions to Boucher, in voc. bat. “Batte-staffe, perticulus,” Prompt. Parv.
Be-dene, 2, 4, 7, 62, 161, immediately, moreover, collectively.
Beetes, 22, beets. “Betys herbe, beta,” Prompt. Parv.
Befforn, before.
Begchis, 384, bitches.
Behest, promised. “I have beheste, voto nuncupavi,” Hormanni Vulgaria, fol. 3.
Behestes, promises.
Be-lyff, 181, quickly, instantly.
Belle, 189. To bere the belle, _i. e._, to carry the prize; a proverbial expression, which occurs also in Chaucer’s Troilus and Cresseide, 199.
Belle, 18, clock.
Bemys, beams.
Benethe, 145, begin.
Benyson, 86, benediction, blessing.
Bent, subject.
Bent, a bending or declivity.
Berde, 300, lady, damsel. A word often applied to a young female in old English poetry. By metathesis it is brid, and hence the modern term “bride.” See Sir F. Madden’s Glos. to Havelok, in voc. Chaucer, however, in the Romaunt of the Rose, 1014, uses the word “birde” for “bride” in its present signification.
Beryelys, 18, tombs. See the last edition of Dugdale’s Monast. vi. 1537, where the first portion of these mysteries has been inserted.
Berynt, 316, bear.
Berys, 352, bears.
Be-seyn, 249, appear.
Best, beast.
Be-stad, 77, 329, placed, circumstanced. I am not quite certain of its meaning in the first of these instances, but the word “accomplished” will suit the context. _Vide_ Boucher’s Glossary in voc., who remarks that “no precise, constant meaning seems ever to have been attached to this word.” In the Prompt. Parv. is the following valuable notice of this word, “Be-stad, or withholdyn yn wele or wo.”
Besy, busy.
Besynes, business.
Betake, 72, deliver, commit. See Boucher’s Glossary, in voc. _Vide_ be-teche, which appears to be exactly the same word, differing only in the spelling.
Bete, 180.
Bete, bit.
Be-teche, 70, commit, recommend. To commit to the charge or protection of another.
Betyde, 47, happen.
Bett, better.
Bewray, 218, betray.
Bewté, beauty.
By, sometimes used for “in.”
Byche, bitch. Byche-clowte, 218, baggage. It is not easy to gloss this old slang.
Bydyng, 22, dwelling.
Bylde, 20, make.
Bylle, 41, book.
Birthene, burden.
Bysmare, 140, 217, shameless person. Generally used as an adjective, as by Chaucer in Canterbury Tales.
Byth, bite.
Blaberyn, 164, 384, talk idly. “Blaberyn or speke withowte resoun, blatero,” Prompt. Parv.
Ble, 20, generally means complexion. “Bryth as ble,” should probably be “bryth of ble,” _i. e._, bright of complexion. See Kyng of Tars, l. 368, “Heo that was so bryht of ble.”
Blenke, blink, a wink of the eye in derision.
Blere, 98, dim.
Blyff, 13, _vide_ be-lyff.
Blyn, 338, cease.
Blythe, 24, 167, gay.
Blome, 65, bloom, blossom.
Blosme, blossom.
Blosme, to blossom.
Bobbyd, 332, struck.
Boyst, 356, box. Fr.
Bonden, bound.
Bondmen, husbandmen.
Bone, boon, prayer, request.
Bone, 28, order.
Boot, 30, _vide_ Bote.
Boot, 29, bit.
Borys, 319, boars.
Borwe, borrow.
Bot, but.
Bote, 4, 162, salvation, safety, help.
Boure, bower, chamber.
Bord, table, board.
Bow, bough.
Bowne, 264, ready.
Brayde, 231, start. “Within a brayde,” is a proverbial expression for rapidity, and occurs in Chaucer’s Romaunt of the Rose, v. 1336. See also above in the note on the word “atreyd.”
Brake, 22, fern. “Filix, ferne or brekans,” Ortus Vocabulorum. “Brake herbe or ferne, filix,” Prompt. Parv.
Brast, burst.
Bredys, 270, breads.
Breganders, brigandiers.
Breke, break.
Brennyng, burning.
Brent, burnt.
Brere, 355, briar. “Bowndyn in brere” alludes of course to the crown of thorns.
Brethellys, 308, wretches, worthless people of either sex.
Brybour, 183, beggar.
Brydde, bird.
Brynnys, 162, streams.
Bryst, breast.
Bronde, 52, brand.
Brothel, 217, _vide_ brethellys.
Buske, 158, go.
But, without. “By” and “with” are often synonymous with this preposition.
But, except, unless.
Buxum, 22, 52, obedient, courteous.
Cadace, 241, Cadiz.
Cadens, 189, cadence.
Caisar, _vide_ Kayser.
Calabere, 242, cloth of Calabria.
Calde, called.
Cammaka, 163, a kind of cloth. See Spelmanni Glossarium, pp. 88, 97. In the time of Edward III. they made the church vestments of this material.
Careyn, 48, carrion.
Carys, 218, cares.
Carnalle, 194, earthly.
Carpynge, 166, talking, speech, narration.
Cast, 129, plan.
Caton, 189, the Disticha Catonis, a book greatly read in the middle ages.
Cessacion, 107, ceasing.
Ceteceyn, citizen.
Chaffare, 266, barter, generally used a substantive, meaning “merchandize.”
Chalys, 276, chalice.
Chare, 325, 359, frighten, scare.
Charle, 139, churl, slave, villain.
Chase, 23, enchase.
Chawmere, 115, chamber.
Chavyl bone, 37, cheek bone. Prompt. Parv. Mandibula, _i. e._, maxilla.
Cheke, 306, check.
Cheselys, 56, gravel, sand. Wickliffe uses the word “gravel” for “sand,” in Gen. xx. “Chysel or gravel,” Prompt. Parv.
Cheve, 160, succeed.
Cheverelle, 241, kid leather, leather made of goat’s skin. “Cheverell lether, cheverotin,” Palsgrave. “Cuir chevreul,” Cotgrave. “Cheverelle leddare,” Prompt. Parv. Used by Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, act iii. sc. 1, and frequently in an allegorical sense.
Chevesauns, 242, provision. Explained in the Promptorium Parvulorum by the word “providentia,” _i. e._, studium.
Chevetyn, chieftain.
Chyse, 180, choice.
Claryfieth, 103, lighteneth.
Clenche, 385, cling together.
Clepyd, 113, called.
Clergye, 193, erudition.
Clyne, 114, incline.
Clowdys, 402, clods.
Clowte, 98, 139, knock.
Clowte, 218, a term of reproach, _vide_ Byche.
Comeryd, cumbered.
Comperycion, comparison.
Conceyte, 70, conception.
Conseyl, counsel.
Conserve, 70, preserve.
Contrye, country.
Cordewan, 241, Cordovan, a Spanish leather, so called from Corduba. “His shoon of Cordewane,” Sire Thopas. Shoes made of this leather were articles of luxury.
Cors, 342, corpse.
Cost, coast, region.
Costyous, 241, costly.
Cote, 96, cot, cottage.
Countyrfe, 241, contrive.
Coverte, 140, covering.
Covnawnt, 299, covenant.
Cowdel, 139, caudle.
Cownce, 313, counsel.
Cowthe, 103, kind.
Craftys, 180.
Crenseyn, 241, crimson.
Cressetys, 270, 283, cressets. “Crucibulum, a lanterne or a cresset,” MS. Harl. 1000. An open lamp, exhibited on a beacon, carried upon a pole, or otherwise suspended. “Falor, a cressit light (such as they use in play-houses) made of ropes wreathed, pitched, and put into small and open cages of iron”—Cotgrave.
Crofte, 36, yard.
Crook, 209, _vide_ Kyng Alysaunder, 6193.
Cunnyng, 2, knowledge.
Curyng, covering. “Curyne or hyllynge,” Prompt. Parv. _Vide_ Hylle.
Cursyd, accursed.
Curteys, 161, courteous.
Cus, 88, kiss.
Dalyawnce, 135, 369.
Damisele, damsel.
Dawe, 291, 294, down.
Dawe, 298, dawn.
Dawncyn, 319, dance.
Dede, dead.
Defawth, fault.
Defendyd, 322, offended.
Delacion, delay.
Dele, part.
Deliberacion, 130, consideration. “Good deliberacion” here means “kind consideration.”
Delve, 32, dig.
Delvyng, 32, digging.
Delyre, 204, delay.
Delyte, delight.
Dem, 250, condemn.
Demyd, 29, judged, condemned.
Dempt, damned.
Dene, den.
Dentys, blows, strokes.
Dere, dear.
Dere, 61, 63, injure.
Derrere, dearer.
Dette, due.
Deve, 166, deafen.
Develys, devils.
Devyd, 348, deafened.
Devys, device.
Devoyde, 243, absent.
Dew, due.
Dyght, 94, prepared.
Dymysellys, 100, damsels.
Dyng, 31, strike down.
Dyngne, 164, worthy.
Dyntys, blows, strokes.
Diplois, 217. See notes, p. 414. “Lynynge of clothe, deploys-dys,” Prompt. Parv. “Surtout double,” Gall. _Vide_ Ducange, in voc.
Dyrthe, 186, dearth.
Dyscres, decrease.
Dyscryve, 190, descry.
Dispite, 2, contempt.
Dysprave, 285, 350, disprove.
Dysspice, despise.
Dysteyn, 61, 215, disdain.
Dyswary, 383, doubt.
Dyth, 18, prepare, make ready.
Do, don. The various uses of this verb in English and Scotch, in an auxiliary, active, and passive sense, have been pointed out by Tyrwhitt, in his Essay on the Versification of Chaucer. See also Sir Fred. Madden’s Glossaries to Havelok, and William and the Werwolf.
Doctrynal, 189, a popular book of the middle ages.
Doyl, 47, dole, sorrow.
Dolfoly, 35, sorrowfully.
Dolowre, grief.
Dome, 349, judgement.
Domys, 189, judgments, opinions. “Dome, judicium,” Prompt. Parv.
Dompnesse, dumbness.
Donjoone, 21, dungeon.
Doungenys, 308, dungeons.
Douteres, daughters.
Dowcet, 24, dulcet, sweet.
Dowe, dove.
Dowse, 90, _vide_ Dowcet.
Dowte, 5, 10, fear.
Dowtere, daughter.
Dowty, 163, mighty.
Dowtynes, 161, mightyness.
Dreynt, 43, drowned.
Drepe, 170, drop. I believe this to be the right interpretation, although it may possibly be a singular instance of the primitive meaning of the verb “drepe,” which frequently occurs in early English writers, meaning “to kill.” If the writer of this passage means to say that the three kings were drowned in oblivion, it would almost realize Lye’s interpretation of the Saxon “dresse,” which he explains by “lethi causa.” In Cædmon we read “on gemynd-drepend” applied to Noah in his drunkenness. See Thorpe’s edition, p. 94.
Dresse, 217, prepare.
Drewe, 36, 405, love, friendship.
Drowe, 239, drew.
Dulfulle, 228, doleful.
Dwelle, 3, dwell, give attention. So in the Sevyn Sages, 1,
“Lordynges that here likes to dwell, Leves yowr speche and heres this spell.”
Dwere, doubt.
Echone, each one.
Edyfy, 252, 256, edify.
Efne, 278, heaven.
Efte, again.
Eyd, 325, heed.
Eyen, eyn, eyne, eyes.
Eylsum, 93, wholesome, sound.
Eyte, 129, eight.
Eyted, 83, eighth.
Eyzil, 325, vinegar.
Empere, 201, emperor.
Enchesone, _vide_ incheson.
Ende, _vide_ Hende.
Ensens, 162, incense.
Enspyre, inspire.
Erbys, herbs.
Erdon, 282, errand.
Erst, 105, else.
Ertheleche, earthly.
Earthepwave, 331, earthquake.
Everyche, every.
Everychone, every one.
Evy, heavy.
Exys, 270, axes.
Fad, 24, fed.
Fader, father.
Fay, faith, truth.
Fayer, fair.
Fayn, glad, joyful.
Falfage, 39, a mistake in the MS. for “falsage.”
Fals, false.
Falsed, 10, baffled.
Fame, 139, defame.
Famyt, 105, famished.
Fare, 162, go. This word is very common in early English.
Faryn, 89, fare.
Faryn, 163, gone.
Fawe, 293, glad. _Vide_ fayn. The same form of the word occurs in Kyng of Tars, 1058.
Fawte, fault.
Fawth, want.
Fe, 183, money. Tyrwhitt says that this word is sometimes used to signify inheritable possessions, in contradistinction to money or moveables. See Lydgate’s Minor Poems, p. 117.
Feble, feeble.
Feetly, 135, fitly, properly.
Fey, faith.
Feynnesse, feebleness.
Feythful, 375, believing.
Feythnnesse, 44, feebleness.
Felachep, fellowship.
Felawes, fellows, companions.
Fele, many, often.
Fele, very.
Felle, 188, skin.
Felle, fierce.
Felle, 65, overcome.
Fellere, 159, destroyer.
Fenaunce, 223, end.
Fend, fiend.
Fenne, 166, 264, fen. “Fenne, labina,” Prompt. Parv.
Fer, far.
Ferd, feared.
Ferde, 117, fared.
Fere, 91, companion.
Fere, fire.
Fere, fear.
Fere, far.
Ferforthe, 126, henceforth.
Feryng, fearing.
Ferly, 17, wonderful.
Feste, feast.
Fett, fetch.
Fygwryth, figureth.
Fylt, 112, filled.
Fise, 385.
Fyth, fight.
Fytt, 186, a division or part in music. See Percy’s Reliques, Tyrwhitt’s Chaucer, gloss. in voc. fit., Sir F. Madden’s gloss. to Sir Gawayne, in voc., and the old ballad of King Estmere.
Flem, 280, banish. _Vide_ Chaucer’s Manciples Tale, “and appetit flemeth discretion.”
Flyth, flight.
Flom, river.
Florens, 167, florins, francs. Ancient French coins.
Floure, flower.
Flowe, 3, flowed.
Foyson, 66, 89, abundance.
Folys, fools.
Folwe, follow.
Folwyth, followeth.
Fomen, 56, foes.
Fon, 12, foes.
Fond, 25, try.
Fonge, 41, 243, undertake.
Fonnyng, 304, temptation.
Fonnys, 367, foolish.
Food, 149, offspring.
Fop, 295, fool. “Foppe, folet, fatuellus, stolidus, follus,” Prompt. Parv.
For, notwithstanding.
Fordere, 240, further.
Fordone, ruined, destroyed.
For-fare, 47, perish.
Forgeten, forgot.
Forlorn, 7, utterly lost.
Former, 159, creator.
For-than, 64, therefore.
For-thy, 120, therefore, on this account.
Foulyng, 306, wretch.
Frayth, 15, affrayeth, caused fear to.
Fre, 3, 8, noble.
Freke, 30, fellow. This word generally occurs in a bad sense.
Frelnes, 108, frailty.
Frenchep, friendship.
Fryth, 264, an inclosed wood. See Sir F. Madden’s gloss. to Sir Gawayne, in voc.
Fryhthis, 167, 183, possessions, as distinguished from money.
Fro, from.
Fruyssyon, fruition.
Fulfyllyd, 125, 127, filled full.
Fullyche, fully.
Gadere, gather.
Game, 133, sport.
Gan, began.
Gate, 51, way.
Gatys, 346, ways.
Geawunt, 15, giant.
Gebettys, 290, gibbets.
Gendyr, 61, engender.
Gent, 135, gentle.
Gerlys, 181, children (of either sex). Knave gerlys, male children.
Gerthe, 186, girth.
Gesyne, 150, parturition, childbirth. “Gesine, a lying in childbed, a lying in,” Cotgrave.
Geste, guest.
Gett, gotten.
Gyde, guide.
Gyldyn, golden.
Gynne, 44, trap.
Gynne, begin.
Gynnyng, beginning.
Gyse, 118, fashion.
Glade, 168, fine.
Glathe, 171, welcome.
Glete, 165.
Glevys, 270, glaives, swords.
Glose, 9, gloss.
Godys, 34, goods.
Gomys, 384, gums.
Gonge, 345, little house.
Gost, spirit.
Governawns, 135, conduct.
Gowys, 179, _vide_ Golkys.
Grame, 2, 27, anger.
Gramercy, 56, thanks.
Grave, 227, buried.
Gre, great.
Grede, 181, cry.
Grees, 82, 85, steps. “Siste gradum, abide thor at grees,” Reliquiæ Antiquæ, vol. i. p. 8.
Greff, grief.
Gres, grass.
Gyrlle, 230, angry.
Grym, 69, cruel. “Gryme, gryl, and horrable, horridus,” Prompt. Parv. “He loked grymly or angerly,” Hormanni Vulgaria.
Gryscysme, 189, an educational book of the time.
Gryse, _vide_ agryse.
Grythe, 7, peace. Perhaps it ought to be spelt gyrthe, which would complete the rhyme; and yet it occurs similarly in the Townley Mysteries, p. 140.
Gronyn, 95, groan.
Groundyd, 1, foundation.
Grugge, 228, grumble. _See_ “The Voiage and Travaile of Sir John Maundevile,” ed. 1839, p. 57. “Grucchyd, murmuratus,” Prompt. Parv.
Grw, 179, Greek.
Gun, 11, began.
Ha, 163, hedge.
Halle, 303, all.
Hals, 342, neck.
Halse, 323, embrace. From the Saxon hals, _i. e._, the neck, but used generally.
Halwe, 61, hallow, sanctify.
Happys, 182, fortunes.
Haras, 147, a stud of horses. A “hous of haras” merely means a “stable.” The following definition of this word is given in a poem of the reign of Edward II., MS. Trin. Coll. Cantab. B. 14, 40:—“Haras seyth man of coltys.”
Hardaunt, 15, courageous.
Harlot, 217. This word is applied to either sex. “Scurra, a harlotte,” Reliquiæ Antiquæ, vol. i. p. 7.
Harpe, 181.
Harwere, 160, harrower.
Hastow, hast thou.
Hat, 13, hast.
Hatede, hated.
Hede, hide.
Hedyr, hither.
Hefly, 255, heavenly.
Hefne, heaven.
Heyde, hide.
Heylyght, 139, aileth.
Heyn, 237, heaven.
Heyn, 179.
Hele, health.
Helme, helmet. “Galea, a helme,” Reliquiæ Antiquæ, vol. i. p. 7.
Helmes, alms.
Hem, 30, home.
Hem, them.
Hende, 5, 174, fair.
Hendyng, ending.
Hendyr, 89, more gentle.
Hens, hence.
Hent, 12, 94, taken, take.
Herborwe, 147, habitation, lodging. Used by Chaucer. See Cant. Tales, ed. Tyrwhitt, glos. in voc.
Herdys, 159, shepherds.
Here, their.
Here, 6, hear.
Here, her.
Here, 226, hair.
Hest, 17, command.
Hete, 185, hit.
Hevy, sorrowful.
Hevyly, sad.
Hevyn, heaven.
Hey, high.
Hy, hie.
Hy, high.
Hyȝer, higher.
Hyght, 6, be called.
Hylle, 38, 253, cover, conceal. A Somersetshire word.
Hylte, 401, concealed.
Hoberd, 179, 325, a satirical term. It is used also in the curious old poem on the Man in the Moon, printed in my Introduction to Shakespeare’s Mids. Night’s Dream, p. 54.
Hol, 284, whole.
Hoo, who.
Hool, whole.
Host, 282.
Howe, 99, ought.
Howyth, 97, ought.
Howlott, 179, owl. See Hunter’s Hallamshire Glossary, p. 52.
Howte, 182, howl.
Howtyn, 179, hoot.
I or Y, at the beginning of a word, represents the Saxon prepositive “ge,” and, when it occurs, is most frequently prefixed to the participle past. See Sir F. Madden’s Glos. to William and the Werwolf.
I-crake, 342, probably a mistake in the manuscript for “to crake,” which will make better sense.
I-fownde, 158, 179, found.
I-knowe, 141, known.
Inbasset, 77, embassy.
Incheson, 116, cause. “Enchesone or cause,” Prompt. Parv.
Indute, 204, clothed, indued (indutus, Lat.)
I-now, 385, enough.
Inportable, 291, unbearable.
Intille, into.
I-prest, 384, pressed. Perhaps this is an error in the manuscript for “and prest.”
I-wys, truly, certainly. The Saxon adjective gewis, used adverbially. Sir Frederick Madden “doubts whether it was not regarded as a pronoun and verb by the writers of the fifteenth century.” V. Gloss. to Sir Gawayne, in voc.
Jape, jest. Sometimes, as at p. 118, used in an obscene sense. “Mokkyn, or japyn, or tryfelyn, ludifico,” Prompt. Parv.
Jebet, gibbet.
Jematrye, 189, geometry. A curious document, which affords a very good illustration of geometry in England at this period, is printed in Rara Mathematica, p. 56-71.
Jentylle, gentle, of noble birth, or breeding.
Juré, Jewry.
Jurediccyon, 302, jurisdiction.
Kage, 162, 166, cage, stall.
Kayser, 183, emperor.
Keude, kind.
Kendely, 34, natural.
Kerchere, 54, kerchief.
Kerchy, 318, kerchief.
Kydde, 49, known.
Kyknytes, 180, knights.
Kynrede, kindred.
Kyrke, 178, church.
Kyrtyl, 163, 310. “Kyrtyl, tunica,” Prompt. Parv. See Gifford’s Jonson, vol. ii. p. 260.
Kyth, 159, native country.
Kythe, 180, make known.
Knad, 384, knife.
Knaggyd, 384, hanged.
Knave, 151, servant.
Knelende, 74, kneeling.
Knyt, 19, joined.
Knytes, knights.
Knop, 245, knob.
Know, 169, acknowledge.
Knowlage, 123, acknowledge.
Kold, 168, slain.
Kok, cock.
Kow, 299, cow.
Krepe, creep.
Kure, 54, cover.
Kusse, 78, kiss.
Kutte, 218, cut.
Lacche, 29, catch, take.
Lay, 161, law.
Lake, 387, den.
Langage, language. Hence, 40, dispute.
Lappyd, 125, were enfolded. “Lappyn or whappyn in clothys, involvo; lappyn as howndys, lambo,” Prompt. Parv.
Las, 29, lace.
Lave, 98, washed.
Leche, physician.
Ledys, 183, people.
Lef, leave.
Leff, 267, well.
Leysere, 321, leisurely.
Lende, 169, tarry. See Sir F. Madden’s Glos. to Sir Gawayne, in voc.
Lenyalle, lineal.
Lent, 190, given.
Lere, learn.
Lernyst, 103, teachest.
Les, falsehood.
Lesyng, lying.
Lesse, 223, be lessened.
Lest, 333, list, desire.
Lestyght, lasteth.
Lestyng, lasting.
Lete, 25, lose.
Lett, 121, 369, hinder.
Lettyng, 5, 33, hindrance.
Leve, 31, dear.
Levyn, 156, sky.
Levyng, living.
Levyr, 120, rather.
Levys, leaves.
Lyberary, 88, bible.
Lycorys, 22, liquorice.
Lyff, life.
Lyme, 170, limb.
Lymyd, 63, ensnared, caught as with bird-lime. Chaucer, Cant. Tales, 6516, uses the word in the same manner.
Lympe, lump.
Lynage, lineage.
Lyne, lie.
Lynyacion, 189, measuring.
Lyste, 154, listen.
Lyste, 171, pleasure.
Lythe, 166, lies.
Lofflyere, 161, more lovely.
Lofsumere, 161, more worthy.
Logge, 29, lodge.
Logyd, 11, lodged.
Lokyn, 19, 29, &c., locked.
Lombe, lamb.
Longe, belong.
Lore, 37, doctrine.
Lorn, 55, destroyed.
Losel, 37, wretch. The word occurs as late as the year 1627 in the old play of Apollo Shroving, p. 80, and once in Shakespeare, Winter’s Tale, act ii. sc. 3.
Loth, loath.
Lothfolest, 75, most loathsome.
Loveday, 111. A day appointed for the amicable arrangement of differences. See Tyrwhitt’s Notes to Chaucer, v. 260. “Loveday, dies sequestra,” Prompt. Parv.
Lovely, 1, good people. The latter word is understood.
Lovelyest, 183, most dear, precious.
Loverd, lord.
Lowh, 24, smiles.
Lowlyté, 355, loyalty.
Lowte, 59, 206, bow, bow down.
Lowth, 137, 166, obey, worship.
Lullyd, 182, lolled.
Lullynge, 182, lolling.
Lurdeyn, 45, clown. Generally used as an expression of contempt, as at p. 184.
Lusty, 74, pleasant.
Maculacion, 138, spot, stain, Lat.
Mahownde, Mahomet. _Vide_ Ducange, in voc.
Mayn, might, strength.
Maystryes, 211, skill.
Make, mate, companion.
Males, 106, evils.
Manace, 41, danger.
Manas, 21, _vide_ manace.
Mansclawth, 312, manslaughter.
Maryn, 99, marry.
Marryn, 163, hurt.
Masangere, messenger.
Matere, matter.
Matere, 383, womb.
Mawndé, 11, 259, Maunday.
May, maid.
Mede, 55, 352, merit, reward.
Medys, 183, rewards, merits.
Medyl-erth, 30, world.
Meef, 243, move.
Mekyl, much.
Melle, 21, mix, join.
Mende, mind.
Mendys, 240, remembrances.