Chapter 11

Accord, _n._, harmony According, _part._, punning, or in harmony Adamant, _n._, a diamond Addercop, _n._, a spider Afeard, _part._, affrighted Afore, _prep._, before Almery, _n._, a 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._, _hawking_, to flutter the wings as if preparing for flight Bays, _n._, the fruit of the laurel Because, _conj._, 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 Clarity, _n._, clearness Clepe, _v._, call Cliff, _n._, shore Clue, _n._, a clew or hank (of yarn) Comfort, _v._, to strengthen Common, _v._, to share one's food with others and ayenward Conject, _v._, conjecture Coverture, _n._, covering Craftily, _adv._, skilfully Culvour, _n._, pigeon Curtel, _n,_, a kirtle, a short coat, a covering

Deadly, _adv._, mortal Deeming, _n._, judgment, opinion Default, _n._, deficiency Depart, _v._, to separate, share out Despiteously, _adv._, contemptuously 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._, an undressed skin Fen, _n._, clay Fine, _n._, a boundary Fleet, _v._, to float, to swim; _cf_. "to flit" Flux, _n._, a flow, a catarrh Fore, _n._, trail, spoor; _cf_. "foor" Frot, _v._, to rub Fumous, _adj._, vaporous, cloudy Fumosity, _n._, vapour Fundament, _n._, foundation

Gentle, _adj._, noble, high-minded Gesses, _n._, jesses, cords for fastening the legs of a hawk Gete, _n._, goats Ghastful, _adj._, frightful Gin, _a._, machine Glad, _v. a._, to please Glimy, _adj._, slimy Gloss, _n._, the comment on Scripture, compiled in the ninth century from the fathers Glue, _n._. any glutinous substance Gnod, _v._, to rub? Grieve, _v._, to hurt Grutching, _n._, growling Gutter, _n._, drop

Hale, _v._, to drag Hap, _n._, chance Hards, hirds, _n._, tow Haught, _part._, hatched Heckle, _v._, to straighten out lint by a coarse comb Hele, _v._, to cover; _cf._, heling Hight, _v._, is called Hoar, _adj._, feathered

Hop, _n._, the seed case of the flaxplant Horrible, _adj._, unpleasant to hear Housebond, _n._, husband Hovey, _part._, hovel, cottage Hoving, _part._, staying

Infect, _adj._, spotted, injured Intendment, _n._, understanding

Jape, _v._, to cry out

Kele, _v._, to cool Kind, _n._, nature Kindly, _adj._, natural; _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, _adj._, ignorant Liefer, _adv._, rather Likelihood, _n._, resemblance Limb, _n._, an instrument; _cf._, "limb of the law" Limbmeal, _adv._, limb by limb; _cf._, "piecemeal" List, _n._, a limit, border Lodesman, _n._, pilot Lowte, _v._, to trumpet

Make, _n._, a mate Manner, _adj._, manner of, kind of Mawmet, _n._, an idol or toy Mean, _n._, intermediary, means Mean, _v._, to assert, consider Medley, _v._, to mix Meinie, _n._, domestics, household Merry, _adj._, 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, _adj._, especially Nathless, _con._, nevertheless Ne, _con._, nor Needly, _adj._, necessarily Nerve, _n._, sinew Nesh, _adj._, soft Nether, _adj._, lower Nice, _adj._, silly, small, trifling Nicely, _adv._, sillily Nother, _con._, neither Noyful, _adj._, noxious, hurtful Noying, _n._, harm

Ordinate, _adj._, ordered, prescribed Otherdeal, _adv._, otherwise Overthwart, _adj._, crossed over on itself

Passing, _adj._, surpassing Patent, _n._, a plate or paten (patine) Pight, _adj._, 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, _adj._, nimble, active

Ramaious, _adj._, (_hawking_), slow Ravish, _v._, to snatch Reclaim, _n._, (_hawking_}, the calling back of a hawk Refudation, _n._, a process in which vinegar is poured on lead, distilled off, and again suffered to act on it Relief, _n._, a dessert Rese, _v._, to rush on anyone Resolve, _v._, to loosen, weaken, to dissolve Rheum, _n._, salt humour Ribbed, _adj._, beaten with a "rib," in dressing flax Ridge, _n._, the back bone Riever, _n._, a violent, robber, a raider Rivelled, _adj._, wrinkled Rively, _adv._, wrinkled, shrunk Rodded, _adj._, separated from tow--"redded" Routs, _n._, crowds Ruthful, _adj._, sorrowful

Sad, _adj._, steadfast, solid Sanguine, _adj._, blood-like Scarce, _adj._, sparing, avaricious Seethe, _v._, to boil Selde, _adv._, seldom Sele, _v._, to cover Shamefast, _adj._, shamefaced Sheltrons, _n._, palisades Shern, _adj._, shore Shewer, _n._, a looking-glass Shingle, _n._, in _roofing_, brushwood, or small boards Shipbreach, _n._, shipwreck Shore, _adj._, shorn (of the hair) Shrewd, _adj._, bitter; _cf._, shrew Silly, _adj._, blessed, _hence_ innocent, _hence_ simple Sinew, _n._, a nerve Slubber, _v._, to do anything carelessly Smirch, _v._, to soil Sod, _adj._, stewed Solar, _n._, an upper floor Solemn, _adj._, celebrated, earnest Somedeal, _adv._, somewhat Sometime, _adv._, once Sooth, _n._, truth Spanells, _n._, ropes connecting the fore or hind feet of an animal to impede its movements

Spousehood, _n._, marriage Spousebreach, _n._, adultery Spronge, _adj._, sprinkled Stare, _v._, to stay Startling, _part._, leaping and jumping Stint, _v._, to stop Stint, _adj._, stopped Straight, _adj._, confined Straited, _adj._, narrowed Sty, _v._, to climb Suspect, _adj._, in suspicion

Tatch, _n._, spot Tatched, _adj._, spotted Tewly, livid Tilth, _v._, to cultivate Tilth, _n._, tillage Tofore, _prep._, before Toll, _v._, to entice Trow, _v._, to believe; _cf._, trust

Unmighty, _adj._, unable Unneth, _adv._, hardly Uplandish, _adj._, rustic Utter, _adj._, outer

Very, _adj._, true

Wait, _n._, a guard Wanhope, _n._, despair Warily, _adv._, carefully Ween, _v._, consider, think Wem, _n._, blemish, fault Wend, _adj._, wound up Werish, _adj._, insipid Whelk, _n._, a swelling Whet, _v._, to sharpen Whiche, _n._, a wicket-gate _cf._, "wych gate" Wilful, _adj._, of set purpose Wit, _n._, a sense; _cf_ "out of his wits" Witty, _adj._, sensibly Wonder, _adj._, wondrous Wonderly, _adv._, wondrously Wood, _adj._, crazy, frantic Woodness, _n._, madness Woose, _n._, fluid Worship, _n._, reverence, authority Wosen, _n._, the arteries Wot, _v._, knew Wrang, _adj._, injured, wrung Wreak, _n._, revenge Wreck, _v._, to revenge Wrecker, _n._, avenger