GLOSSARY

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