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A Dictionary of the First or Oldest Words in the English Language

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Ȝarewe, adj. == ready. O. and N. 378. AS. gearo

Ȝark, v. a. == make ready. RG. 391, 399. Alys. 1411. AS. gearcian

Ȝarte. See Yare

Ȝavre, == ever, or perhaps ‘of yore.’ O. and N. 1178

Ȝef. See If

Ȝeines. Rel. S. i. 16. Probably instead of ‘tharto ȝeines’ we should read ‘thar toȝeines’ == there against, i.e. against death. AS. to-geánes

Ȝeme, sb. == care. RG. 135. AS. gýman

—— v. a. == care for, take care of. HD. 131

Ȝeming, sb. == care. Ps. cxl. 3

Ȝende, sb. == end. RG. 169

Ȝene ? O. and N. 843

Ȝeode, vb. == went. See Go

Ȝep, adj. == active. Wright’s L. P. p. 39; bold. O. and N. 465. AS. gæp

Ȝephede, sb. == boldness. O. and N. 683

Ȝerne, adv. == earnestly. RG. 487. AS. georne

Ȝete, v. a. == cast. Body and Soul, 189. See yhete

Ȝeuȝede, sb. == youth, q. v.

Ȝeve, == give, q. v.

Ȝeynchar, sb. == repentance. Wright’s L. P. p. 46. See App. to Mapes’s Poems, p. 343. AS. cerran with ‘gen’

Ȝeȝe, v. n. == jog along, go. Wright’s L. P. p. 111

—— v. a. == jog. Pol. S. 158

Ȝif. See If

Ȝiverness, sb. == avarice. Rel. S. vii. 11. AS. gífer

Ȝoe, == she. See under He

Ȝoe, == joy, q. v.

Ȝokkyn, sb. == joking? Wright’s L. P. p. 50

Ȝomere, adj. == sorrowful. O. and N. 415. AS. geomor

Ȝonie, == yawn, q. v.

Ȝoȝelinge, sb. == chattering, gabbling. O. and N. 40. Probably the same as the later ‘gaggle,’ which is used of a confused noise of people talking, in the Poem on the Deposition of Richard II. p. 18, and of geese, in Churchyard’s Pleasant Conceit penned in Verse (1593), cited in the pref. to Nash’s Pierce Penniless. (Shaksp. Soc.’s ed.), p. xviii.

Ȝraihand. See Thraying

Ȝuling. See Yelling

Ȝulle. See Yell

Ȝulpe. See Yelp

Ȝulping. See Yelping

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