THE

CANTERBURY TALES

CHAUCER;

WITH AN ESSAY UPON HIS LANGUAGE AND VERSIFICATION,

AN INTRODUCTORY DISCOURSE, NOTES,

AND A GLOSSARY,

BY T. TYRWHITT, ESQ.

VOL. V.

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CONTENTS OF THE FIFTH VOLUME.

Explanation of the Abbreviations by which the Works of Chaucer and some other Books are generally cited in the

following Glossary Page vii

A Glossary , . . ; 1

Words and Phrases not understood 299

EXPLANATION OF THE ABBREVIATIONS BY WHICH THE WORKS OF CHAUCER AND SOME OTHER BOOKS ARE GENERALLY CITED IN THE FOLLOWING GLOSSARY.

The Arabian numerals, without any letter pre fixed, refer to the verses of the Canterbury Tales in this Edition.

Edit. Sp. Ifi02.

A B C.— Chaucer's ABC, fol. 347

A F. — Assemblee of Foules, — . 233

An. — Annelida and Arcite, 243b.

Astr. — Treatise on the Astrolabe, — 249 Bal.Vil.— Balade of the Village, 319b.

Ber. — The History of Beryn, Edit. Ur.

p. 600.

B K. — Complaint of the Black Knight, 257b. Bo. — Translation of Boethius, V Books, 197b. C D. —Chaucer's Dreme, 334

C L. —Court of Love, 327

C M. —Complaint of Mars, 309b'

C M V. — Complaint of Mars and Venus, 306b. C N. — Cuckow and Nightingale, — 316b-

viil EXPLANATION, &c.

Cotg. — Cotgrave's Fr. and Eng. Dictio nary.

Con/. Am. — Gower's Confessio Amantis, Edit. 1532.

C V. —Complaint of Venus, 310

Du. — The Book of the Duchesse, com monly called, The Dreme of Chaucer, 227

F. —The House of Fame, III Books, 262

F L. —The Flour and the Leaf, 344

Gam. —The Tale of Gamelyn, Edit. Ur. p. 36.

Jun. Etymol. — Junii Etimologicon Ling. Angl. by Lye.

Kilian. — Kiliani Etymologicum Ling. Teuton.

L W. — Legende of good Women, 185

Lydg. Trag. — Lydgate's Translation of Boc- cace De casibus virorum illustrium, Edit. J. Wayland.

M. —The Tale of Melibeus, Vol. III. p. 80.

Magd. — Lamentation of Marie Magdalene, 302

P. —The Persones Tale, Vol. IV. p. 1.

P L. — Translation of Peter of Langtoft, by Robert of Brunne. Ed. Hearne.

P P. — Visions of Pierce Ploughman, Edit. 1550.

EXPLANATION, &C. IX

Prompt. Parv. — Promptorium Parvulorum sive Clericorum. MS. Harl. 2*21. A dictionary; in which many hundreds of English words are translated into Latin, compiled in 1440, by a Frier Preacher, a Recluse, at Lynne in Norfolk. He gives notice in his preface; that his English is that spoken in the East country ; and accordingly his orthography will be found to differ very much from Chaucer's. His name was Richard Fraunces; if we may believe a MS. note cited by Hearne, Gloss, to P L. v. Neshe; who has there also given an account of an edition of this dictionary, printed by Pynson in 1499. Dr. Hunter has a copy of it.

Prov. — Proverbes by Chaucer, 321b

R. — The Romaunt of the Rose, 109

R G. —Robert of Glocester's Chronicle. Ed.

Hearne.

Sk. — Skinner's Etymologicon Ling. Angl* Sp. — Speght, the Editor of Chaucer, T. — Troilus and Creseide, V Books, 143 T L. — Testament of Love, III Books, 271 b

Ur. — Urry, the Editor of Chaucer.

VOL. v.

GLOSSARY.

A, which is commonly called the Indefinite Article, is really nothing more than a corruption of the Saxon Adjective ANE, or AN, before a Substantive beginning with a consonant.

It is sometimes prefixed to another Adjective ; the Substantive, to which both belong, being un derstood, ver. 208.

A Frere there was, A WANTON and A MERY. See ver. 165, and the note,

It is also joined to Nouns plural, taken collec tively; as An hundred frankes, ver. 13201. A thousand frankes, ver. 13206. — and to such as are not used in the singular number; as A listes, ver. 1715. See the note. So the Latins said, Un<B litera, Cic. ad Att. v. 9. and the French, formerly, unes lices ; unes lettres ; unes troves. Froissart. v. i. c. 153. 237- v. ii. c. 78. A, prep, before a Gerund, is a corruption of ON. To go A BEGGING. 118S4. R. 6719. i. e. on begging. The prep, is often expressed at length. ON HUNTING ben they ridden, 1689. To ride ON HAWKING. 13667.

VOL. V. B

2 GLOSSARY.

In the same manner, before a noun it is gene rally a corruption of ON or IN. A* bed. 5989. 6509. Ajire. 6308. AGoddes name. 17267. A'morwe. 824. Anight. 5784. Awerke. 4335. 5797. though in some of these instances perhaps it may as well be supposed to be a corruption of AT.

A in composition, in words of Saxon original, is an abbreviation of AF, or OF; of AT ; of ON, or IN; and often only a corruption of the pre positive particle GE, or y. In words of French original, it is generally to be deduced from the Latin AB, AD, and sometimes Ex.

A, Interj. Ah ! 108O. 9109.

ABACKE, adv. SAX. Backwards. L. W. 864.

ABAIST, part. pa. FR. Abashed, ashamed. 8193. 8887.

ABATE, v. FR. To beat down. P. 83.

ABA WED, part. pa. FR. Esbahi. Astonished. R. 3646. I was ABAWED for marveile. Orig. Moult M'ES- BAHY de la merveille.

ABEGGE, ABEYE, ABIE, v. SAX. To suffer for. 3936. 12034. 16162.

ABET, n. SAX. Help. T. n. 357.

ABIDE, v. SAX. To stay. 3131,3.

ABIDDEN, > C T. n. 935.

' > part. pa. ) ABIDEN, > * 2984. 9702.

ABIT for ABIDETH. 16643. R. 4977. ABLE, adj. FR. Fit, proper. 167. R. 986. ABOTE, part. pa. of ABATE. C. D. 1290.

GLOSSARY.

ABOUGHT, part. pa. of ABEGGE. 2305.

ABOUTEN, prep. SAX. On-butan. About. 2191. 4146.

ABRAIDE, v. SAX. To awake; to start. 4188. See

BRAIDE.

ABRAIDE, pa. t. Awaked, started. 8937. 10791. 15014.

ABREDE, adv. SAX. Abroad. R. 2563.

ABREGE, v. FR. To shorten, to abridge. 9531.

ABROCHE, v. FR. To tap, to set abroach ; spoken of a vessel of liquour. 5759.

ABUSION, n, FR. Abuse, impropriety. T. iv. 990.

ACCESSE, n. FR. Properly, the approach of a fever; A fever. B. K. 136.

ACCIDIE, n. FR. from Avoj&*«, Gr. Negligence; aris ing from discontent, melancholy, &c. P. 77. seq.

ACCORD, «. FR. Agreement. 840.

, v. FR. To agree. 832.

AcCORDEDEN,pa. t. pi. L. W. 168.

ACCORDANT, 7 C 10417.

' > part. pr. J ACCORDING, 3 £ 6506.

ACCUSE, v. FR. To discover. R. 1591. ACHATE, n. FR. Purchase. 573. ACHATOUR, n. FR. A purchaser; a caterer. 570. ACHEKED, part. pa. SAX. Choaked. L. W. 2006. ACHEVE, v. FR. To accomplish. R. 2049. 4600. ACKELE (Akele), v. SAX. To cool. C. L. 1076. ACLOYE, v, A. F. 517. may perhaps mean — To cloy ; to embarrass with superfluity.

GLOSSARY.

ACOIE, v. FR. To make quiet. R. 3564.

ACOMBERD, part. pa. FR. Encumbered. 510.

ACROKE, adj. FR. Crooked, aukward. C. L. 378,

ADAWE, v. SAX. To awake. 10274. T. in. 1126.

ADO, v. SAX. To do. It is used to express the FR. afaire. To have ADO. R. 3036. To have to do. And don all that they han ADO. R. 5080. Et fa- cent ce qu'ils doivent FAIRE. Orig. 4801.

ADON (corruption of OF- DON), part. pa. Sax. Done away. L. W. 2582.

ADON, pr. n. Adonis. 2226.

ADOUN, adv. SAX. Downward, 2417. — Below. 17054.

ADRAD, ADRADDE, part. pa. of ADREDE, v. SAX. Afraid; 607, 3425.

ADRIANE for ARIADNE, pr. n. 4487.

ADVERTENCE, n, FR. Attention, T. iv. 698.

ADVOCACIES, n. pi. FR. Law-suits, T. n. 1469.

ADVOCAS, n. pi. FR. Lawyers, advocates, 12225.

AFERED, AFERDE, part. pa. SAX. Afraid, frighten ed, 12218. T. ii. 606,

AFFECTE, n. LAT. Affection, R. 5486. T. in. 1397.

AFFERMED, part. pa. FR. Confirmed, 2351. L. W. 790.

AFFIE, v. FR. To trust. R. 3155.

AFFRAY, v. FR. To affright. 8331.

, n. FR. Disturbance, 5557. — Fear, R. 4397.

AFFRIKAN, pr. n. The elder Scipio Africanus. A. F. 41.

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AFILE, v. FR. To file, polish, 714.

AFOREN, AFORNE, AFORE, adv. et prep. SAX.

jEs-pojian. Before. AGAIN, prep. SAX. On-gean. Against. 2453.

10456. Toward. 4811. 5419.— adv. 993. 10456. AGASTE, v. SAX. To terrifie. 1509.

AGAST, for AGASTED, part. pa. Terrified. 2343. AGATHON, pr. n. L W. 5"26. I have nothing to say

concerning this writer, except that one of the

same name is quoted in the Prol. to the Tragedie

of Cambises, by Thomas Preston. There is no

ground for supposing, with Gloss. Ur. that a

philosopher of Samos, is meant, or any of the

Agathoes of antiquity. AGEINS, prep. 12667, as AGAIN. AGEN, adv. 803, as AGAIN. AGILTE, v. SAX. To offend, to sin against. P. 9.

125.

AGILTE, for AGILTED, pa. t. Sinned. 5674. AGO, AGON for YGON, part. pa. SAX. Gone ; past.

2338. 6445.

AGREE, FR. a gre*. In good part. R. 4349. AGREFE, (A'grefe). In grief. 14899. T. in.

864.

AGREGE, v. FR. To aggravate. M. 85. AGREVED,par£. ;xi. FR. Injured, agrieved. 4197-

L. W. 345. AGRISE, v. SAX. To shudder. 5034 — To make to

shudder. 7231.

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AGROSE, pa. t. Shuddered, trembled. T. n. 930. L. W. 830.

AGROTED, part. pa. Cloyed, surfeited. AGROTONE WITH METE OR DRINKS. Ingurgito. Prompt. Parv.

AGUILER, n. FR. A needle-case. R. 9S.

AJUST. v. FR. To applie. B. n. pr. 3.

AKEHORNS, n. pi. SAX. Acorns. Bo. i. m. 6.

AK.-!>iovf^,part.pa.SAX.Tobenaknowe. C.L. 1199. To confess. I am aknowe. Bo. iv. pr. 4. I acknowledge.

AL, ALLE, adj. SAX. All. Al and som. 5673, 11910. The whole thing. At al, 8921, 9098. In the whole Over all, 7666, 8924. Through the whole. In alle manere wise, 13276. By every kind of means. At alle rightes, 2102. With every thing requisite.

ALAIN, pr. n. A F. 316. a poet and divine of the XII. Century. Beside his Planctus Natures, or Plaint of Kinde, which is here quoted, he wrote another poem in Latin verse called Anticlaudianus, to which our author alludes in F. n. 478. For the rest of the works see Fabric. BibL Med. JEt. in v. ALANUS DE INSULIS,

ALDER, ALLER, gen. ca. pi. Of all, 801, 825. It is frequently joined in composition with adjectives of the superl. deg. Alderfirst, 9492. Alderlast. B. K. 504. Alderlevest, T. in. 240. First, Last, Dearest of all.

AL, ALL, adv. SAX. generally answers to the LAT. Omnino. Al alone, 9200. Quite alone. Al hoi.

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1176-2. Entire. Al holly. 7678. Entirely. All in one. C. D. 670. At the same time. All newe. 13308. Anew. Al only, 13385. T. iv. 1096. Solely, singly. It is sometimes used ellipticaliy for although, or all be it that, 2266. ALL tell I not as now his observances. 2477. All be ye not of o complexion.

ALARGED, part. pa. FR. Eslargi. Given largely. C. D. 156.

ALAUNS, n. pi. A species of Dog. See the n. on ver. 2150. They were much esteemed in Italy in the xivth Century. Gualv. de la ftamma, [ap. Murator. Antiq. Med. JE>. t. 11. p. 394.] com mends the governors of Milan ; quod equos emis- sarios equabus magnis commiscuerunt, et procreati sunt in nostro territorio DESTRARII nobiles, qui in magno pretio habentur. Item CANES ALANOS altae staturce et mirabilis fortitudinis nutrire stu- duerunt.

ALA YE, n. FR. Allay; a mixture of base metal. 9043.

ALBIFICATION, n. LAT. A Chemical term for mak ing white. 16273.

ALCALY, n. ARAB. A chemical term for a species of Salt, 16278.

ALCHYMISTRE, n. FR. Alchymist, 16672.

ALDRIAN, pr. n. A star on the neck of the Lion, SP. 10579.

ALE AND BRED. 13801. This oath of Sire Thopas

8 GLOSSARY.

on ale and bred was perhaps intended to ridicule the solemn vows, which were frequently made in the days of Chivalrie, to a Peacock, a Pheasant, or some other noble bird. See M. de Sainte Palaye, Sur Pane, cheval. Mem. Illme. I will add here, from our own history, a most remarkable instance of this strange practice. When Edward I. wa's setting out upon his last expedition to Scotland in 1306, he knighted his eldest son and several other young noblemen with great solemnity. At the close of the whole (says Matthew of West minster, p. 451.) allati sunt in pompaticd gloria duo CYGNI vel OLORES ante regent, phalerati re- tibus aureis vel fistulis deauratis, desiderabile spec- taculum intuentibus. Quibus visis, Rex VOTUM VOVIT DEO C.ELI ET CYGNIS se proficisci in Sco- tiam, mortem Johannis Corny n # fidam Itesam Scoto- rum vivus sive mortuus vindicaturus, #c. This practise is alluded to in" DUNBAR'S WISH, that the King were Johne Thomsonnis man." MS. Maitland. St. 5.

I wold gif all that ever I have To that condition, so God me saif, That ye had VOWIT TO THE SWAN Ane yeir to be Johne Thomsonnis man. And so in the Prol. to the Contin. of the Canterb. T. ver. 452. the Hosteler says — I MAKE A VOWE TO THE PECOCK, ther shall wake afoule mist. ALEGE, n. FR. To alleviate. R. 6626.

GLOSSARY.

ALEGEANCE, n. FR. Alleviation. C. D. 1688. ALEIS, n. FR. Alise. The Lote-tree. R. 1377. ALEMBIKES, n.pl. FR. Vessels for distilling; Stills.

16262.

ALE-STAKE, n. SAX. A stake set up before an Ale house, by way of sign. 12255. ALEYE, n. FR. An alley, 13491. ALGATES, ALGATE, adv. SAX. Always. Toutesfois.

FR. 7031, 7619.

ALGEZIR, pr. n. A city of Spain. 57. ALIGHT, v. SAX. To descend, 8*85.

ALIGHT, pa. t. for ALIGHTED, 985, 2191. ALisANDRE,pr. n. Alexandria, a city in Egypt, 51. ALLEGE, v. FR. To alledge, 9532. ALMAGEST, pr. n. 5765. The Arabs, called the

MeyaX*; 2wr«|^ of Ptolemee Almagesthi, or Alme-

gisthi, a corruption of Meyir1?- See D'Herbelot, in v. ALMANDRES, n. pi. FR. Almond-trees. R. 1363. ALMESSE, n. SAX. from the LAT. GR. Eleemosyna.

Alms, 7191, P. 123. ALMESSES, pi. P. 124. ALNATH, pr. n. The first star in the horns of Aries

whence the first mansion of the Moon takes its

name. Sp. 11593.

ALONDE, (A'londe) ; On land. L. W. 2164. 2402. ALONG, prep. SAX. On-long, 16398. Whereon it

was along. By what it was occasioned. T. n.

1001. On me is nought along thine evil fare. Thy.

ill fare is not occasioned by me. ALOSED, part. pa. FR. Praised. R. 2354.

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ALOUE, v. FR. To allow, to approve. 10988. Hi*

dedes are to ALOWE/or his hardynesse. P. L. 281. Therefore lords ALOW him litle, or lysten to his

reason, P. P. 76. b. ALOWE, adv. SAX. Low. C L. 1201. ALPES, M. pi. Bulfinches. R. G58. ALS, conj. SAX. Also. 4315, 11902.— As. T. v.

367. AMALGAMING. A Chemical term for mixing of

Quicksilver with any metal. 16239. AMBASSATRIE, n. FR. Embassy. 4653. AMBES AS, 4544. Two aces, at dice. FR. AMBLING, part.pr, FR. 8264. AMENDE, v. FR. To mend. 306S, 3076. AMENUSE, v. Fr. To lessen. P. 36, 38. AMEVED, part. pa. FR. Moved. 8374. AMI AS, pr. n. The city of Amiens. R, 3826. AMIDDES, prep. SAX. At, or in the middle. 2011. AMIS, adv. SAX. Ill ; badly. 11610, 17197- See

Mis. AMONESTE, v. FR. To admonish, to advise. 83. M.

110. P. 121. AMONG, adv. SAX. Together; at the same time; at

the same place. R. 690, 3881. Du. 298. Ever

among. R. 3771. Ever at the same time. Con/.

Am. 114. b. AMONGES, prep. SAX. Among, 6534, 9902. See

the n. on ver. 761. AMORETTE, n. FR. An amorous woman. R. 4755.

GLOSSARY. 11

And eke as ivell by [r. be.] AMORETTES. — Car aussi bien sont AMOURETTES. Orig. 4437.

AMORILY, C L. 1383. is perhaps put by mistake for Merily.

AMORTISED, part. pa. FR. Killed. P. 22.

AMORWE, On the morrow. 824, 2491.

AMPHIBOLOGIES, n. pi. FR. GR. Ambiguous ex pressions. T. iv. 1406.

AN, for ON, prep. 11161. R. 2270.

ANCILLE, n. LAT. A maid-servant. ABC. 109.

ANCRE, n. FR. Anchor. R. 3780.

AND, con/. SAX. If. 768, 10307, 15613, 16714.

ANELACE, n. 359. See the note.

ANES, adv. for ONES. Once. 4072.

ANHANG, v. SAX. To hang up. 12193.

ANIENTISSED, part. pa. FR. Reduced to nothing M. 107.

ANJGHT, In the night. L. W. 1473.

ANKER, n. SAX. An anchorite, or hermite. R. 6348.

ANNUELLER, n. 16480. See the note.

ANNUNCIAT, part. pa. LAT. Foretold. 14021.

ANOIE, n. FR. Hurt, trouble. R. 4404.

ANOIE, v. To hurt, to trouble. M. 88.

ANOIFUL, adj. Hurtful; unpleasant. M. 86.

ANTEM, n. SAX. Antejin. An anthem. 13590.

ANTICLAUDIAN. F. n. 478. The title of a Latin poem by Alanus de insulis. See ALAIN.

ANTILEGIUS, pr. n. Antilochus. Du. 1064.

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ANTIPHONERE, n. LAT. GR. A book of Antiphones, or Anthems. 13449.

ANVELT, n. SAX. An anvil. Du. 1165.

ANY, adj. SAX. Either; One of two. 7115. — It usually signifies one of many.

APAIDE, part. pa. FR. Paid, satisfied. 1870, 9439.

APAIRE, v. FR. See APEIRE.

APE, n. SAX. Metaphorically, a fool. 3389, 16781. The monke put in the mannes hode an ape, And in his wife's eke. 13370. The monk made a fool of the man, and of his wife too. — Win of ape. 16993. See the note,

APEIRE, v. FR. To impair; to detract from. 3149. Our state it APEIRES. P. L. 290. — To be im paired; to go to ruin. T. n. 329.

APERT. adj. FR. Open. P. 72. Prive and apert. 6696. In private and in publick.

APIES for OPIES, n. pi. FR. Opiates. L. W. 2659.

APPALLED, part. pa. FR. Made pale. 10679, 1303*2.

APPARAILE, v. FR. To prepare. L. W. 2462.

APPAREKCE, n. FR. An appearance. 11577.

APPERCEIVE, v. FR. To perceive, 8476.

APPERCEIVINGS, n. pi. Perceptions. 10600.

APPETITE, v. FR. To desire, to covet. L. W. 1580.

APPOSE, v. FR. To object to; to question. 7179> 15831. It seems to be a corruption of Oppose.

APPROVER, n. FR. An informer. 6925.

APRENTISE, n. pL FR. Apprentices, novices. R. 687.

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AQUEINTABLE, adj. FR. Easy to be acquainted

with. R. 2213.

AQUITE, v. FR. To pay for. 6742. ARACE, v. FR. To draw away by force. 8979. ARANDE, n. SAX. A message. T. n. 72. ARAYE, n. FR. Order. 8138. — Situation. 6484.

13300.— Clothing. 6509. — Equipage. 8821.

: — v. FR. To dress. 36S9.— To dispose. 8837.

ARBLASTERS, n. pi, FR. Arbalestres, Engines to

cast darts, &c. R. 4196. ARCHANGEL, n. R. 915. The herb so called; a

dead nettle. Gloss. Ur. — In the Orig. it is Me-

sange, the bird which we call a Titmouse. ARCHEBISHOP, n. SAX. LAT. an Archbishop.

7084.

ARCHEDEKEN, n. SAX. LAT. an Archdeacon. 6884. ARCHEDIACRE, n. FR. Arch-deacon. C D. 2136. ARCHEWIVES, 9071. Wives of a superior order. ARDURE, n. FR. Burning. P. 108. A REDE, v. SAX. To interpret. Du. 289. See REDE. ARERAGE, n. FR. Arrear. 604. AREISE, v. SAX. To raise. P. 61. ARESONE, v. FR. Arraisoner. To reason with. R.

6-2'20. ARESTE, n. FR. Arrest, constraint. 9158. — Delay.

L. W. 806.

ARESTE, v. FR. To stop. 829. ARETTE, v. FR. To impute to. 728. P. 63. ARGOIL, n. FR. Potter's clay. 16281.

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ARIETE, pr. n. Aries, one of the signs in the Zodiac. T. iv. 1592. T. v. 1189

ARISTOTLE, pr. n. 10547. A treatise on Perspective, under his name, is mentioned by Vincent of Beau- vais, in the XIII Century. Spec. Histor. L. in. c. 84. Extat etiam liber, qui dicitur Perspectiva Aristotelis.

ARIVAGE, n. FR. F. i. 223. as Arivaile.

ARIVAILE, n. FR. Arrival. F. 451.

ARK, n. LAT, A part of the circumference of a circle. 4422.

ARME, n. T. n. 1650. may perhaps be put for de fence, security.

ARMLES, adj. SAX. Without an arm. 14209.

ARM-GRETE, adj. SAX. As thick as a man's arm. 2147.

ARMIPOTENT, adj. LAT. Mighty in arms. 1984.

ARMORIKE, pr. n. Basse Bretagne, in France, called antiently Britannia Armorica. 11041.

ARMURE, n. FR. Armour. M. 114.

ARN, pi. n. of AM. v. SAX. Are. 4706, 8218.

ARKOLDE OF THE NEWE iovfs,pr. n. of a Physi cian and Chemist of the XIII Century. 16896. See Fabric. Bibl. Med. Mt. in v. ARNALDUS

VlLLANOVANUS.

AROUME, F. n. 32. seems to signifie At large. AROWME OR MORE UTTER. Remote, deprope. seorsum. Prompt. Parv.

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A'ROW ; in a row ; probably from the FR. Rue.

Successively. 6836. R. 7606. ARSMETRIKE, n. LAT. Arithmetick. 1900. See

the note. ARTE, v. LAT. To constrain. T. i. 389. C. L.

46.

ARTELRIES, n. pi. FR. Artillerie. M. 114. As, adv. SAX. Alj*. Al so. Omnino sic. As fast

T. v. 1640. Very fast. As swith. 5057, 16404.

Very quickly ; immediately. See the n. on ver.

3172.

ASCAUNCE, See the n. on ver. 7327- ASHEN, n. pi. SAX. Ashes. 1304. T. n. 539. ASLAKE, v. SAX. To slacken; to abate. 1762.

3553. ASPE, n. SAX. A sort of poplar. 2923. L. W.

2637.

ASPEN, adj. Of an asp. 7249. ASPIE, v. FR. To espie. 13521. ASPRE, adj. FR. Rough, sharp. T. iv. 827. Bo.

iv. pr. 7.

ASPRENESSE, n. Sharpness. Bo. iv. pr. 4. ASSAUT, n. FR. Assault. 991. ASSEGE, n. FR. Siege. 10620. ASSETH. R. 5600. Sufficient, enough. Assez. Orig.

P. P. fol. 94. b. And if it suffice not for ASSETH. ASSISE, n. FR. Situation. R. 1238. ASSOILE, v. FR. To absolve; to answer. 9528.

C L. 1284. Assoileth. imp. m. 2 pers. pi. 9528.

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ASSOMONED, part. pa. Summoned. C L. 170.

ASSURE, v. FR. To confide. T. i. 6S1.

ASTERTE, v. Sax. To escape. 1597- 6550. — To re lease. 6896. Asterte for Asterted. part. pa. 1524.

ASTONED, 8192. ASTONIED. 1 1651. part. pa. FR. Confounded, astonished.

ASTRELABRE, «. FR. Astrolabe. 320O.

ASTROLOGIEN, w. FR. Astrologer. Ast.

AswEVED,/>ar£. pa. SAX. Stupified, as in a dream. F. ii. 41.

ASWOUNE. In a swoon. 3821,6. 10788. T. in. 1098. Adoun he fell all sodenly IN SWOUNE.

AT, ATTE, prep. SAX. See the n. on ver. 12542. At after souper. 1O616. 11531. As soon as supper was finished. At day. 13169. At break of day. At on. 4195, 8313. Of one mind.

ATAKE, v. SAX. To overtake. 16024.

for ATAKEN. part. pa. 6966.

A'THRE; In three parts. 2935.

ATTAMED.parf. pa. FR. Entame'. Opened; Begun. 14824.— Tasted, felt. C D. 596.- Disgraced. CD. 1128.

ATTEMPRE, adj. FR. Temperate. 14844. M. 82.

ATTEMPRELY, adv. FR. Temperately. 13192.

ATTOUR, n. FR. Head-dress. R. 3718.

ATTRY, ATTERLY, adj. SAX. Poisonous, perni cious. P. 6'4.

A'TWINNE, 35S9. A'TWO, P. 104. In two, asunder.

ATYZAR. See the n. on ver. 4725.

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AVALE, v. FR. To lower; to let down. 3124. —

To fall down. T. in. 627. AVANCE, v. FR. To advance; to profit. '246. T.

v. 434.

AVANT, n. FR. Boast. 227. AVANTAGE, n. FR. Advantage. 2449. AVANTE, v. FR. To boast, 5985. AT AUNT, adv. FR. Forward. R. 3958. 4790. AUCTORITEE n, LAT. A text of Scripture ; or of

some respectable writer. See the n. on ver. 6858.

—and ver 5583. 6790.

AUCTOUR, n. LAT. A writer of credit. 6794. AVENAUNT, adj. FR. Becoming. R. 1263. AVENTAILE, n. FR. See n. on ver. 908O. AVENTURE, n. FR. Adventure. 846. AVERROIS, pr. n. 435. Ebn Roscbd, an Arabian

Physician of the XII. century. See D'Herbelot,

in v. ROSCHD, and the authors mentioned in n.

on ver. 433. AUGHT, n. SAX. Apipt. Any thing. T. in. 468.

It is sometimes used as an adverb. If that the

childes mother were AUGHT she. 5454. Can he

OUGHT tell a merry tale or tweie 9 16065. AUGHT, pa. t. of OWE. T. in. 1801. as OUGHT. AuGHT-wHERE,adw SAX. Anywhere. L. W. 1538. AUGRIM, a corruption of Algorithm. See n. on ver,

3210. AVICEN, pr. n. 434. 12823. Ebn Sina, an Arabian

Physician of the X. century. See D'Herbelot, in VOL. T, c

18 GLOSSARY.

v. SIN A, and the authors mentioned in n. on ver.

433. Avis, n. FR. Advice. 1870. The king at his

AVYS sent messengers thre. P. L. 285, AVISAND, part. pr. Observing. C D. 1882. AVISE, v. FR. To observe. T. 11.276. Aviseth

you. imp. m. 2 pers. pi. Look to yourselves;

take care of yourselves. 3185. AVISION, «. FR. Vision. 15120, 9. AUMBLE, n. FR. An ambling pace. 13814. AUMENER, n. FR. Aumoniere. A purse. R. 2087- AUMERE, n. R. 2271. Aumere of silke. Bourse

de soy. Orig. It seems to be a corruption of

AUMENER. AUNTRE, v. FR. Corruption of AVENTURE. To

adventure. 4207.

AUNTROUS, adj. Adventurous. 13837. AVOUTERER, AVOUTRER, n. FR. An adulterer.

P. 102. 6954.

AVOUTERIE, AVOUTRIE, n. Adulterie, 6888. 9309. Avow, n. FR. Vow. 2239. 2419. AURORA. Du. 1169. The title of a Latin metrical

version of several parts of the Bible by Petrus de

Riga, Canon of Rheims, in the XII century. Ley-

ser, in his Hist. Poet. Med. JEm. p. 692 — 736. has

given large extracts from this work, and among

others the passage which Chaucer seems to have

had in his eye. See p. 728.

Aure Jubal varies ferramenti notat ictus. Pondera librat in his. Consona quaeque facit.

GLOSSARY. 19

Hoc -inventa modo prius est ars musica, quamvis

Pythagoram dicant hanc docuisse prius. AUTER, n. FR. Altar. 2294. AWAITE, n. FR. Watch. 7239. 17098. AWAITING, part. pr. Keeping watch. 7634. AWAPED, part. pa. SAX. Confounded, stupified.

T. 1.316. L W. 814. AWAYWARD, adv. SAX. Away. 17211. AWREKE, v. SAX. To revenge. 1O768. R. 278. AXE, v. Sax. To ask. 3557. AXING, n. Request. 1828. AY, adv. SAX. Ever. 7406. AYEL, n. FR. Grandfather. 2478. AYEK, adv. & prep. P. 102. as AGAIN. AYENST, prep. P. 111. as AGAIN. AYENWARD, adv. SAX. Back. T. in. 751.

B.

BA, v. 6015. seems to be formed from BASSE, v. FR. To kiss.

BACHELER, n. FR. An unmarried man. 9150. — A Knight: 3087. 3465.— One who has taken his first degree in an University. 11438.

BACHELERIE, w. FR. Knighthood; 17074. The Bachelrie. 8146. The Knights.

BADE, pa. t. of BEDE. 6706.7449.

BADDER, comp. d. of BAD. adj. SAX. Worse. 10538.

BAGGE, v. To swell ; to disdain. Sk. Rather, per haps, to squint. Du. 624.

20 GLOSSARY.

BAGGINLY, adv. R. 292. seems to be the transla tion of en lorgnoyant ; squintingly. BAILLIE, n. FR. Custody, government. R. 4302.

7574. BAITE, v. SAX. To feed ; to stop to feed. T. i.

192. C. L. 195. BALANCE, n. FR. Doubt, suspense. R. 4667. — I

dare LAY IN BALANCE All that I have. 16079. I

dare wager all t. I. h.

BALE, n. SAX. Mischief, sorrow. 16949. BALES, C. L. 80. r. BALAIS. pr. n. Fr. A sort of

bastard Ruby.

BALKES, n. pi. SAX. The timbers of the roof. 3626. BALLED, adj. Smooth as a ball; bald. 198. 3520. BANDON, n. FR. See Du Cange. in v. ABANDONS.

Toherbandon. R. 1163. To her disposal. A son

bandon. Orig.

BANE, n. SAX. Destruction. 1099. BARBE, n. A hood, or muffler, which covered the

lower part of the face, and the shoulders. T. n.

110. See Du Cange, in v. BARBUTA. BAREN,j9a. t. pi. of BERE. v. SAX. Bore. 723. BARGAINE, n. FR. Contention. R. 2551. BARGARET, n. FR. Bergerette. A sort of song.

FL. 348. BARME, n. SAX. The lap. 10945. 14750.

BARME-CLOTH, 3236. An apron. BARRE, n. FR. A bar of a door. 552. — A stripe.

331.

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BARREINE, adj. SAX. Barren. 8324.

BASILICOK, n. A Basilisk. P. 99.

BASSE, n, FR. A Kiss. Ch. 797.

BASTING, part.pr. Sewing slightly. R. 104.

BATAILED, part. pa. FR. Embattled. R. 4162.

BATHE for BOTHE. 4085. 4189.

BATHE, v SAX. 15273. We should rather say to

bask.

BAUDE, adj. FR. Joyous. R. 56/4. BAUDERIE, BAUDRIE, n. Pimping. 1928. T. in.

938. Keeping a bawdy-house. 6887. BAUDY, adj. Dirty. 16103. With BAUDY cote.

Lydg. Trag. B. IX. f. 36. b. BAYARD, pr. n. FR. Originally, a Bay-horse; a

horse in general, 16881. T. i. 218. BAY-WINDOW, C L. 1058. A large window; pro bably so called, because it occupied a whole bay, i. e. the space between two cross-beams. BE, prep. SAX. By. 2577. BE for BEEN. part. pa. SAX. 60. 7611. 9245. BEAU SEMBLANT. FR. Fair appearance. C L.

1085. BEAU SIRE, FR. Fair Sir; a mode of address. R.

6053. BEBLEDDE, part. pa. SAX. Covered with blood.

2004.

BEBLOTTE, v. SAX. To stain. T. n. 1027. BECKE, v. FR. To nod. 12330, 17295. BECLAPPE, v. SAX. To catch. 15477-

22 GLOSSARY.

BEDAFFED, part. pa. SAX. Made a fool of. 9067- See DAFFE.

BEDE, v. SAX. To order, to bid. — To offer. S236. 9658. T. v. 185.— To pray. R. 7374. To bede his necke. T. iv. 1105. To offer his neck for execution.

BEDOTE, v. SAX. To make to dote ; to deceive. L W. 1545. See DOTE.

BEDREDE, adj. SAX. Confined to bed. 7351. 9168.

BEDREINTE, part. pa. Drenched, thoroughly wet ted. C L. 577

BEEN, n. pi. SAX. Bees. 10518.

BEFILL, for BEFELL,PC. t. of BEFALL, v. SAX- 10007.

BEFOREN, BEFORNE. adv. % prep. SAX. Before.

BEGILED, part. pa. FR. Beguiled. 12208.

BEGON, part. pa. of BEGO. v. SAX. Gone. Wei begon. 6188. R. 5533. In a good way. Wo be- gon. 5338. 11628. Far gone in woe. Worse be gon. T. v. 1327. In a worse way. With gold begon. R. 943. Painted over with gold ; a or paintes. Orig.

BEGONNE, part. pa. of BEGINNE, v. SAX. Begun. 11341.

BEHALVE, n. SAX. Half; side, or part. T. iv.945.

BEHESTE, n. SAX. Promise. 4461, "2.

BEHETE, v. SAX. To promise. 1856.

BEHEWE, part. pa. SAX. Coloured. T. in. 216. See HEWE.

BEHIGHTE, v. SAX. To promise. P. 39.

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BEHIGHTE, part. pa. Promised. 11100. BEHIGHTEN, pa. t. pi. Promised. 1 1639. BEHOVE, n. SAX. Behoof, advantage. R. 1090. BEJAPED, part. pa. SAX. Tricked. 19853. Laughed

at. T. i. 532.

BEKNOWE, v. SAX. To confess. 1558. 5306. BEL AMY, FR. Good friend. 12252. BELEVE, n. SAX. Belief. His believe. 3456. His creed. BELLE, v. SAX. To roar. F. in. 713. BELLE, adj. fern. FR. Fair. T. 11. 288. BELLE CHERE, FR. Good cheer. 13339. BELLE CHOSE, FR. 6029. 6092. BELLE ISAUDE, F. m. 707. The fair Isaude; the

mistress of Tristan. She is called Isoude. L W.

254.

BELMARIE, pr. n. See n. on ver. 57. BELOUS, n. SAX. Bellows. P. 35. BEMES, n. pi. SAX. Trumpets. 15404. R. 7605. BEN, inf. m. SAX. To be 141. 167.

pr. t.pl. Are. 764. 820. 945.

part, pa. Been. 361. 465.

BENCHED, part. pa. Furnished with benches. W L.

204. BENDE, n. FR. A Band ; or horizontal stripe. R.

1079. BENDING, n. Striping ; making of bands, or stripes.

P. 43. BENE, «. SAX. A bean. 9728. And al n'as wurth

a BENE. R. G. 497.

24 GLOSSARY.

BENEDICITE ! LAT. An exclamation, answering to our Bless us ! It was often pronounced as a Tri syllable, Bencite ! 15399. T. i. 781. in. 758. 862.

BENIGNE, adj. FR. Kind. 89*3.

BENIME, v. SAX. To take away. P. 59.

BENISON, n. FR. Benediction. 9239.

BENOMEN, part. pa. of BENIME. Taken away. R. 1509.

BENT, n. SAX. The bending, or declivity of a hill. 1983.

BERAINED, part. pa. SAX. Rained upon. T. iv. 1172.

BERDE, u. SAX. Beard. To make anyone's berde; to cheat him. See n. on ver. 4094.

BERE, ». SAX. A bear. 2060.

BERE, v. SAX. To bear ; to carry. To here in, or on hand; To accuse falsely, 5040, 5975. To per suade falsely, 5814, 5962.— To here the belle. T. in. 199. To carry the prize.

BERE, n. SAX. A bier, 2902. — A pillow-bear. Du. 254.

BERING, n. SAX. Behaviour. P. 41.

BERME, n. SAX. Yest, 16281.

BERNARD, pr. n. 436. a Physician of Montpelier in the XIII Century. See the authors mentioned in n. on ver, 433.

BERNARD, pr. n. L W. 16. St. Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux in the XII Century. Our author al-

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ludes to a proverbial saying concerning him. Ber-

nardus ipse non vidit omnia. See Hoffman, in v. BERNE, n. SAX. A barn, 3258. BESANT, n. Fa. A piece of gold, so called because

first coined at Byzantium, now Constantinople.

Sk. R. 1106.

BESEKE, v. SAX. To beseech, 920. BESET, BESETTE, part. pa. SAX. Placed, employed,

3299, 7534. BESEY, part. pa. of BESEE, v. SAX. Beseen. Evil

besey , 8841. Ill-beseen ; of a bad appearance

Richely besey, 8860, of a rich appearance. BESHET, part. pa. SAX. Shut up. A. 4488. T. in.

603.

BESHREWE, v. SAX. To curse, 6426, 7. BESIDE, prep. SAX. By the side of. 5597. 6002. BESMOTRED, part. pa. SAX. Smutted, 76. BESPET, part. pa. SAX. Spit upon, P. 27- BSSTEDDE, BESTAD, part. pa. SAX. Situated, 5069.

It is sometimes used in an ill sense, for Distressed.

R. 1227.

BESTE, n. FR. A beast, 1 978. BESTE, adj. sup. SAX. Best, 1808, 11843. BESY, adj. SAX. Busy, 2855. BET, BETTE, adv. comp. for BETTER, 7533, 13362. BETAKE, v. SAX. To give, 3748. To recommend

to, 8037. BETAUGHT, pa. t. Recommended to R. 443S. See

the n. on ver. 13852.

26 GLOSSARY.

BETE, v. SAX. To prepare, make ready. To bete fires, 2255, 2294. To make fires. — To mend ; to heal. To bete nettes, 3925. To mend nets. To bete sorwe. T. i. 666. To heal sorrow.

BETE, v. FR. To beat, 4206.

BETECHE, v. as BETAKE. See the n. on ver. 13852.

BETH, imp. m. 2 pers. pi. SAX. Be ye, 7656. 17259.

BETID, BETIDDE, pa. t. % part, of BETIDE, v. SAX. Happened, 7773. T. 11. 55.

BETOKE, pa. t. of BETAKE. Recommended, 16009.

BETRAISED, part. pa. FR. Betrayed. Thei have BETRAISED thee. P. L. 255.

BETWIX, BETWIXEN, prep. SAX. Between, 2134.

BEWEPE, v. SAX. To wepe over. T. i. 763.

BEWREY, BEWRIE, v. SAX. To discover, 5193. 9747. T. ii. 537.

BEYE, v. SAX. To buy. 16762. See ABEYE.

BEYETE, part. pa. SAX. Begotten. T. i. 978.

BIALACOIL, pr. n. FR. Bel-accueil. Courteous re ception. R. 2984. et al. The same person is afterwards called Faire welcoming. R. 5856.

BIBBED, part. pa. LAT. Drunk, 4160.

BIBLE, n. FR. Any great book, 16325. F. m. 244.

BICCHEL BONES. See the n. on ver. 12590.

BIDDE, v. as BEDE, 3641.

BIE, v. SAX. To suffer, 5749. See ABEYE.

BIGINE, pr. n. FR. Beguine. A nun, of a certain order. R. 6861, 7368. See Du Cange, in v. Beghinte.

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BIKER, n. SAX. A quarrel. L. W. 2650. BILDER, n. SAX. A builder. The bilder oke. A. F.

176. The oak used in building. BILL, n. A letter, 9811. BIMENE, v. SAX. To bemoan. R. 2667. BINT, for BINDETH. C M V. 47, 8. BIRDE for BRIDE, n. SAX. R. 1014.

Hire chere was simple, as BIRDE in hour. i. e. as bride in chamber.

Simple fut comme une ESPOUSEE. Orig. BISMARE, n. SAX. Abusive speech. 3963. And

bold, and abiding, BISMARES to suffer. PP. 108. b. BIT, for BIDDETH, 187. 10605. BITORE, n. FR. A bittern, 6554. BITRENT, part. pa. Twisted ; carried round. T. in.

1237. iv. 870. Perhaps from the SAX. Beijiy-

mian. Circumdare. BIWOPEN, part. pa. of BEWEPE. Drowned in tears.

T. iv. 916. BLANCMANGER, n. FR. 389. seems to have been a

very different dish in the time of Chaucer, from

that which is now called by the same name. There

is a receipt for making it in MS. Harl.. n. 4016.

One of the ingredients is, " the brawne of a capon,

tesed small."

BLANDISE, v. FR. To natter. P. 38. BLANCHE FEVERE, T. i. 917. See Cotgrave, in v.

" Fievres blanches. The agues wherewith maidens

that have the greene-sickness are troubled ; and

28 GLOSSARY.

hence ; II a les fievres blanches : Either he is in love, or sick of wantonness." CN. 41. I am so shaken with THE FEVERS WHITE. BLE, n. SAX. Colour. Magd. 391. BLEE,^r. n. 16024, 16952. A forest in Kent. Ur. BLEINE, n. SAX. A pustule. R. 553. BLEND, v. SAX, To blind, to deceive. T. 11.

14N6. BLENT, pa. t. of BLEND. T. v. ! 1 94.

part. pa. 99S7. 16545.

BLENT, pa. t. of BLENCH, v. SAX. Shrinked, start ed aside, 1080. And so perhaps it should be understood in ver. 3751. and T. in. 1352. BLERED, part. pa. SAX. In its literal sense is used to describe a particular disorder of the eye, at tended with soreness and dimness of sight : and so perhaps it is to be understood in ver. 16198. But more commonly, in Chaucer, a man's eye is said to be blered metaphorically, when he is any way imposed upon, 17201. R. 3912. See also ver. 3863.

BLEVE, v. SAX. To stay. T. iv. 1357. BLIN, v. SAX. To cease, 16639. BLISSE, v. SAX. To bless, 8428. BLIVE, BELIVE, adv. SAX. Quickly, 5973, 7102. BLOSME, n. SAX. Blossom, 3324.

. v. To blossom, 9336.

BLOSMY, adj. Full of blossoms, 9337.

BOB UP AND DOWN, pr. n. of a town in the road to

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Canterbury, 16951. It is not marked in the com mon maps.

BOBANCE, n. FR. Boasting, 6151.

BOCHE, w. FR. Basse. A swelling; a wen or boil. Bo. in. pr. 4.

BODE, BOD EN, part. pa. of BEDE, v. SAX. Bidden, commanded, 6G12.

BODE, pa. t. of BIDE. v. SAX. Remained. T. v. 29.

BODE, n. SAX. A stay, or delay. An. ISO.

An omen. A F. 343.

BODEKIN, n. SAX. A dagger, 3958.

BOECE, pr. n. 6750. 15248. Boethius. His most popular work De consolatione Philosophies was translated by Chaucer certainly before 1381, [See LW. 425.] and probably much earlier. The reflections on Predestination in T. iv. 966 — 1078. (of which there is no trace in the Filostrato} are almost entirely taken from Bo. v. pr. 3. Several other passages of the same work, which our au thor has copied, have been pointed out in the notes on ver. 743. 2923.

BOTSTE, n. Fa. A box, 12241.

BOISTOUS, adj. SAX. Boisterous; rough, 17160.

BOISTOUSLY, adv. Roughly, 8667.

BOKELER, n. FR. A buckler, 112.

BOKELING, part. pr. FR. Buckling, 2505.

BOKET, n. SAX. A bucket, 1535.

BOLAS, n. Bullace; a sort of plumb, or sloe. R. 1377-

30 GLOSSARY.

BOLEARMONIAC, 16258. Armenian earth. FR. GR. BOLLEN, part. pa. of BOLGE. v. SAX. Swollen.

BK. 101. BOLT,?*. SAX. An arrow, 3264. Bolt-upright, 13246.

Strait as an arrow. BONE, n. SAX. A boon, petition, 2671. He bade hem

all a bone, 9492. He made a request to them all. BORAS, n. FR. Borax, 632, 16258. BORD, n, FR. A border ; the side of a ship, 3585.

Over bord, 5342. BORDE, n. SAX. A table, 52. BORDEL, n. FR. A brothel. — Bordel-women, P. 116.

Whores. BORDELLERS, n. pi. Keepers of bawdy-houses. R.

7084. BOREL, n. FR. Bureau. Coarse cloth of a brown

colour. See Du Cange, in v. BURELLUS. In ver.

5938, it seems to signifie clothing in general. BOREL, adj. made of plain, coarse stuff, 1 1028. —

Borel-folk, 7454, 6. Borel men, 13961. Laymen.

So in PP. 50. Burel clerks is probably put for

Lay clerks. BORWE, n. SAX. A pledge. Hath laid to borwe,

1624. Hath pledged. Have here my feith to

borwe, 11546. Have here my faith for a pledge.

Seint John to borwe, 10910. St. John being my

security. BOSARD, n. FR. A buzzard ; a species of Hawk,

unfit for sporting. R. 4033.

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BOSSE, n. Fa. A protuberance, 3266.

BOST, n. SAX. Pride, boasting, 14105.

BOST, adv. Aloud. He cracked BOST, 3999. He spake thise wordes BOST. P. L. 275.

BOTE, n. SAX. Remedy; Help; Profit. 426, 13396.

BOTE, v. SAX. To help. P. 44.

BOTE, pa. t. of BITE. v. SAX. Bit, 14519. His swerd best BOTE. P. L. 243.

BOTELES, adj. SAX. BOOTLESS; remediless. T. i. 783.

BOTEL, BOTELLE, ». Fa. Bottle. 7513, 12820.

BOTERFLIE, n. SAX. A butterflie, 15280.

BOTHE, adj. SAX. Two together. Our bothe labour. T. i. 973. The labour of us two together. Nos trum amborum labor. In T. iv. 168. Ed. Ca. reads your bother love, which might lead one to suspect that bother was the ancient genitive case of BOTHE, as Aller was of Alle. See the Essay, &c. n. 27.

BOTHE, cow/, is generally used to copulate two mem bers of a sentence ; but sometimes more. See ver. 992. And rent adoun bothe wall, and sparre, and rafter.

— And ver. 2300.

To whom both heven, and erthe, and see is sene. So the Greeks sometimes used A/jupoJepov. Od. O. 78. AiMfiolepw w§o? re, xai ayXaiv), Y.O.I ovemtp.

BOTHUM, n. FR. Bouton. A bud, particularly of arose. R. 1721. et al.

BOUGERON, n. FR. A sodomite. R. 7072.

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BOUGHTON UNDER ELBE, pr. n. of a town in Kent. 16024.

BOUKE, n. SAX. The body, 274S.

BOULTE, v. SAX. To sift, to separate the flour of wheat from the bran. 15246.

Boux, adj. SAX. Ready, 11807. And bade hem, all to be BOWNE. PP. IO. b.

BOUNTEE, n. FR. Goodness, 8033, 10163.

BOURDE, n. FR. A jest, 17030.

BOURDE, v. FR. To jest, 12/12.

BOURDON, n. FR. A staff. R. 3401, 4092.

BOURE, n. SAX. A house; a chamber. 3367, 13672.

BOWE, n. SAX. A bow, 108. A doggefor the bowe, 6951, 9888. A dog used in shooting.

BOXE, n. A blow. LW. 1386.

BRACER, n. FR. Armour for the arm, 111.

BRA DWARDIN, pr. n. 15248. Thomas Bradwardine, Archbishop of Canterbury in 1349. His book De causa Dei, to which our author alludes, is in print. See Tanner, in v. BRADOWARDINUS.

BRAIDE, n. SAX. A start. L W. 1164. At a BRAIDE. R. 1336. Tantost. Orig.

BRAIDE. v. SAX. To awake; to start, 4283, 6381. See ABRAIDE, Out of his wit he braide, 11339, 14456. He ran out of his senses. In ver. 5257, it signifies to take off. See also F. in. 588.

BRAKET, n. BRIT. Bragod. A sweet drink made of the wort of ale, honey, and spice. 3261. It is still in use in Wales. Richards, in v. Bragod.

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BRASIL, n. A wood used in dying, to give a red colour, 15465. — This passage of Chaucer is a de cisive proof, that the Brazil-wood was long known by that name before the discovery of the country so called in America. See Huetiana. p. 268. In the inventory of the effects of Henry V. Rot. Par/. 2 H. VI. m. 20. is the following article. " n Graundes peces du Bracile> pris vis. vm d."

BRATT, n. SAX. A coarse mantle. 16349.

BRECH, n. SAX. Breeches. 12882.

BREDE, n. SAX. Breadth. 1972. Inbrede. T. i. 531. Abroad. In F. HI. 132. it seems to be put for bride.

BREME, adj. SAX. Furious. 1701. full scharply and full BRIM. P.L. 244.

BRENNE, v. SAX. To burn. 2333.

BRENT, pa. t. # part. Burnt. 2427. 2959.

BRENNINGLY, adv. SAX. Hotly. 1566.

BRERES, n. pi. FR. Briars. 1534.

BRESTE, c. SAX. To burst. 1982. 11071.

BRET-FUL, adj. 689. In the n. on this ver. I should have observed, that the same word occurs, in the same sense, in ver. 2166, and in F. in. 1033. The sense is much more clear than the etymology.

BRIBE, n. FR. Properly, what is given to a beggar ;

JVhat is given to an extortioner, or cheat. 6960. BRIBEN, inf. m. FR. To beg 4415. or perhaps, To steal. See Rot. Parl. 22. E. IV. n. 30. Have stolen and BRIBED Signetts (Cygnets). And so in P.P. VOL. v. D

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115. b. a bribour seems to signifie a thief ; as bri-

bors, pilors, and pikeharneis, are classed together ;

and still more plainly in Lydg. Trag. 152. Who saveth a thefe, whan the rope is knet, — With some false turne the bribour will him quite.

See also Antient Scottish Poems, p. 171. st. 7.1. 3. BRIBOURES. 6949. Upon second thoughts, I believe

that I was wrong in adopting this word from MS.

C. i. and that we should rather read with other

MSS.

" Certain he knew of briberies mo."

See the n. on ver. 2469. BRIDALE, n. SAX. A marriage-feast. 4378. BRIDDES, n. pi. SAX. Birds. 10955. BRIGE, n, FR. Contention. M. 139. BRIKE, n. SAX. Breach ; Ruin. 1470O. BRIMME, adj. R. 1836. T. iv. 184. as BREME. BROCAGE, n. A treaty by a broker or agent. 3375.

R. 6971. BROCHE, n. FR. Seems to have signified originally

the tongue of a buckle or clasp ; and from thence

the buckle or clasp itself. 3265. 8131. T. v. 1660.

But see ver. 160. It probably came by degrees

to signifie any sort of jewel. BROCHE. JUELL.

Monile. armilla. Prompt. Parv. See NOUCHE. BROIDED, part. pa. FR. Braided, woven. 1051. BROKKING, part. pr. Throbbing, quavering. 3377. BROMEHOLME, pr. n. A priory in Norfolk. 4284.

The roode of Bromholme is mentioned in P.P. 24.

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BRONDE, n. FR. A torch. 9651.

BROSTEN, part. pa. of BRESTE. 3827.

BROTEL, adj. SAX. Brittle. 9155. M. 122.

BROTELNESSE, n. Brittlenesse. 9155.

BROTHERHED, ». SAX. Brotherly affection. 12972.

BROUDED, part. pa. FR. Erode. Embroidered. 14387,

BROUKEN, inf. m. SAX. To brook; enjoy, use. 10182. 15306.

BUCKES HORNE. A buck's horn. 3387- To blow the buckes home is put for any useless employment.

BUFFETTE, n. FR. A blow. P. 23.

BUGLE-HORN, n. A drinking-vessel made of horn. 11565. Gloss. Ur. derives it from Buculce cornu. The Gloss, to Anc. Scott. Po. explains Bowgle to mean a Buffalo. I have been told that in some parts of the North a Bull is now called a Boogie.

BUMBLE, v. SAX. To make a humming noise. In ver. 6554. it is used to describe the noise made by a bittern. BURDOUN, n. FR. Bourdon. A humming noise ; the

bass in musick. 675. 4163. BURIELS, n. pi. SAX. Burying-places. 15654. BURNED, part. pa. FR. Burnished. 1985. BURNEL THE ASSE. 15318. See the note. The story supposes, that the priest's son, when he was to be ordained, directed his servant to call him at cock-crowing, and that the cock, whose leg he had formerly broken, having overheard this, purposely

36 GLOSSARY.

refrained from crowing at his usual time; by which artifice the young man was suffered to sleep till the ordination was over.

BURNETTE, n. FR. Brunette. Cloth died of a brown colour. R. 226. 4756. See Du Cange in v. BUR- NETUM.

BUSK, n. FR. A bush. R. 54. 102.

BUTTE, BUT, adv. & conj. SAX. But; Sed. 4824. — Unless; Nisi. 13115. I nere BUT lost. Non essem nisi perdita. 15942. 16069. — Only. 11349. which that am BUT lorne.

BUT, prep. SAX. Without. Gloss. Vr. I cannot say that I have myself observed this preposition in Chaucer, but I may have overlooked it. The Saxons used it very frequently; and how long the Scottish writers have laid it aside, I am doubtful. It occurs repeatedly in Bp. Douglas. BUT spot or fait. p. 3. 1. 53. Poete BUT pere. p. 9. 1. 19. BUT and BEN. p. 123. 1. 40. Without and within ; Butan anb bmnan ; originally, I suppose, Hi utan anb bi innan. By and with are often synony mous.

BUXOME, adv. SAX. Obedient; civil. 13107. 13172.

BUXUMLY, adv. SAX. Obediently. 8062.

BY, prep*. SAX. has sometimes the signification of IN. By the morwe. 16965. In the morning, or day-time. See the note. By his life. R. 5955. In his life-time. — It is sometimes used adverbially. By and by. 1013. 4141. Near, hard by. BY AND

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BY. Sigillatim. Prompt. Parv. See R. 4581. These were his wordes by and by. i. e. Severally, distinctly. And so perhaps this phrase should be understood in the passages above quoted.

BYFORNE. See BEFORNE.

BYLEVE, v. SAX. To stay. 10897. T. in. 624.

BYRAFT, part. pa. of BYREVE, v. SAX. Bereved, taken away. 1363.

BYWORD, n. SAX. A proverb. T. iv. 769.

C.

CACCHE, v. To catch. P. 99.

CADENCE, n. FR. F. n. 114. See the n. on ver. 17354. and Jun. Etymolog. in v.

CADENCE, n. FR. F. n. 114. See the n. on ver. 17354. and Junius, in v.

CAIRRUD, pr. n. of a city in Bretagne. 11 120.

CAITIF, n. %adj. FR. Chetif. A wretch; wretched. 1719. 1948.

CALCINATION, n. FR. A chemical process, by whic bodies are reduced to a calx. 162/2.

CALCULED, pa. t. FR. Calculated. 11596.

CALEWEIS, R. 7093. is probably miswritten. The Orig. has La poire du CAILLOUEL. 12468. Cot- grave says, that Caillouet is the name of a very sweet pear.

CALIDONE, pr. n. 12539. It should be Lacedomie. See the n. on ver. 12537.

CALIOPHIA, pr. n. F. in. 182. We should rather

38 GLOSSARY.

read CALYPSA, with the two Bodl. MSS. for Ca lypso.

CALLE, n. FR. A species of cap. 6600. T. in.775. CAMAILLE, n. FR. A camel. 9072. CAMELINE, n. FR. A stuff made of camel's hair.

R. 7367.

C A MUSE, adj. FR. Flat. 3932. 3972. CAN, v. SAX. To know. 4467. 5638. See CONNE. CANANE'E, adj. FR. Cananean. 15527. CANE, pr. n. Cana in Galilee. 5593. CANEL, n. FR. Canal. Channel. Du. 943. CANELLE, n. FR. Cinnamon. R. 1370. CANEVAS, «. FR. Canvas. 16407. CANON, 12824. The title of Avicenne's great work.

See D'Herbelot, in v. Canun. CANTEL, n. SAX. A fragment. 3O1O. CAPEL, n. LAT. A horse. 1?013, 4. And gave him

CAPLES to his carte. P. P. 109. CAPITAINE, n. FR. A captain. 12516. CAPITOLIE, n. LAT. The Capitol at Rome. 146*21, 3. CAPPE, n. LAT. A cap, or hood. To set a man's

cap. 588. 3145. To make a fool of him. CAPTIF, adj. FR. Captive. T. in. 383. CARDIACLE, n. FR. GR. A pain about the heart.

12247.

CARECTES, n.pl. LAT. GR. Characters. P. P. 61. CARFE, pa. t. of CARVE, v. SAX. Cut. 14519. CARLE, n. SAX. A churl ; a hardy country-fellow.

547.

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CARMES, n. pi. FR. Carmelite Friars. R. 7462. CAROLE, n. FR. A sort of dance. 1933. CAROLE, v. FR. To dance. 2204. In caroling.

16813. In dancing. CARPE, v. To talk. 476. By CARPING of tonge ;

By speech. P. P. 566. CARRAINE, n. FR. A carrion ; dead or putrified

flesh. 2015. 14542. CARRIKE, n. FR. A large ship. 7270. CARTE, n. SAX. A chariot. 2024. CARTER, n. SAX. A charioteer. 2024. CAS, n. FR. Cas. Chance. 846. Upon cos. 3661.

T. i. 271. By chance. CAS, n. FR. Casse. A case, quiver. 2360. CASSIODORE, pr. n. M. 102. Cassiodorus ; a Ro man Senator and Consul. A. C. 513. Several of his works are extant. See Fabric. Bibl. Lat. and Bibl. Med. Mt.

CAST, v. SAX. A contrivance. 3605. 2470. CASTE, v. To throw. T. in. 712. L. W. 1931.—

To contrive. M. 150. CASTELOIGNE, pr. n. Catalonia, in Spain. F. in.

158.

CASUEL, adj. FR. Accidental. T. iv. 419. CATAPUCE, n. FR. A species of spurge. 14971. CATEL, n. FR. Goods ; valuable things of all sorts.

542. 39/7. 4447-

CATERWAWED. 5936. To gon a caterwawed seems to signifie the same as to go a catenvawing ; or

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caterwawling, as it has been called by later writers.

CATON, pr. n. See the n. on ver. 3227.

CAUGHT, pa. t. fypart. of CATCH. 8986. 11824.

CAVILATIOUN, n. FR. Cavil. 7718.

CECILE, CECILIE,/?/-. n Cecilia. 15664. 15686.

CEISE, R. 7258. CESE. A F. 481, are misprinted for SEISE, v. FR. . To seize, to lay holdof.

CELERER, n. LAT. Celerarius. The officer in a mo nastery who had the care of the provisions. 13942.

CELLE, n. LAT. A religious house. 1722. It seems to be put for a man's head. 13978. See also 1378.

CELSITUDE, n. FR. Highness. C. L. 611.

CENSER, n. FR. An incense-pot. 3340.

CENSING, part. pr. FR. Fumigating with incense. 3341.

CENTAURIE, pr. n. of an herb. 14969.

CERCLE, v. FR. To surround. R. 1619.

CERCLES, n. pi. FR. Circles. 2039.

CERIAL, adj. FR. Belonging to the species of oak called Cerrus. LAT. Cerro. ITAL. Cerre. FR. 2292.

CERTAIN, adj. FR. is used sometimes as a substan tive. Of unces a certain. 16244. a certain of gold. 16492. i. e. A certain number of ounces ; a certain quantity of gold.

CERTAIN, CERTES, adv. Certainly. 3495. 6790.

CERUSE, n. FR. White lead. 632.

CESED, part. pa. for SEISED. C. M. 87. is used in a legal sense. To that he be cesed therwith; Till

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that he be possessed therof ; Till he have seisin therof.

CESSE, v. FR. To cease. T. n. 483.

CHACE, v. FR. To chase ; to pursue. 8217. 8269.

CHAFE, v. FR. To grow warm or angry. P. 73.

CHAFFARE, n. SAX. Merchandize. 4558. 13215.

CHAFFARE, v. SAX. To merchandize. 4559.

CHAIERE, n. FR. A chair. 14531. The chair, or pulpit, of a professor or preacher. 7100.

CHALONS, 4138. See the note.

CHAMBERERE, n. FR. A chamber-maid. 5882. 8695.

CHAMPARTIE, n. FR. A share of land ; A partner ship in power. 1951. Lydgate has the same ex pression. Trag. 139. B. vm. 17.

CHANTEPLEURE, n. FR. A sort of proverbial ex pression for singing and weeping successively. An. 323. See Lydg. Trag. St. the last; where he says that his book is

" Lyke Chantepleure, now singing now weping." In MS. Harl. 4333. is a Ballad, which turns upon this expression. It begins ; Moult vaut mieux pleure chante que nefait chante pleure.

CHANTERIE, n FR. An endowment for the pay ment of a priest, to sing mass agreeably to the appointment of the founder. 512. There were thirty-five of these Chanteries established at St. Paul's, which were served by fifty-four Priests. Dugd. Hist. pref. p. 41.

CHAPMAN, n. SAX. A merchant, or trader. 13184, 6.

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CHAPMANHEDE, n. SAX. The condition of a chap man, or tradesman. 13168.

CHAR, n. FR. A chariot. 2140. 14366.

CHARBOUCLE, n. FR. A carbuncle. 13800.

CHARGE, n. FR. A load, burthen ; business of weight. It n'ere no charge. 2289. It were no harm. Of which there is no charge. 10673. From which there is no consequence to be expected. Of that no charge. 16217. No matter for that.

CHARGE, -v. FR. To weigh, to incline on account of weight. F. n. 237. — Which chargeth not to say. T. in. 1582. Which it is of no importance to say.

CHARGEANT, particip. pr. Burthensome. M. 106. P. 78.

CHARMERESSE, «. FR. An enchantress. F. in.

171.

CHASTELAINE, n. FR. The wife of a Chastelain, or lord of a castle. R. 3740.

CHASTIE, c. FR. To chastise. R. 6993.

CHAUNTECLERE, pr. n. of a cock. 14855.

CHECKERS, n. FR. A chess-board. Du. 660.

CHEES, pa. t. of CHESE, v. SAX. Chose. 9471. 10039.

CHEFFIS. R. 7091. We should read Cheses, The Orig. has fromages.

CHEKE. Du. 659. A term at chess, to give notice to the opposite party, that his king, if not removed, or guarded by the interposition of some other piece, will be made prisoner. It is derived origi-

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nally from the Persian Shdh, i. e. King; and means, Take care of your king. See Hide, Hist. Shahilud. p. 3, 4.

CHEKELATOUN. 13664. See the note.

CHEKEMATE, or simply MATE, is a term used at chess, when the king is actually made prisoner, and the game consequently finished. The Per sian phrase is Shdh mdt, i. e. The King is con quered. T. ii. 754. Du. 659, 660. See Hyde, Hist. Shahilud, p. 152.

CHELAUNDRE, n. FR. A goldfinch. R. 81.

CHEPE, v SAX. To cheapen ; to buy. 5850.

CHEPE, n. Cheapness. 6105. F. in. 884.

CHEPE, pr. n. Cheap-side in London. 756. 4375.

CHERCHE, n. SAX. A church. 2762.

CHERE, n. FR. Countenance, appearance. 8114. 8117. — Entertainment, good cheer. 13257-

CHERICE, v. FR. To cherish. 14438.

CHERISANCE, n. FR. Comfort. R. 3337.

CHERL, n. SAX. A man of mean birth and condi tion. 6740. 7764.

CHERLISH, adj. Illiberal. 1182f.

CHES, n. FR. The game of chess. 11212.

CHESE, v. SAX. To choose. 6480. 11398.

CHESE for CHESETH. 6497.

CHESTE, n. LAT. A coffin. 79O5.

CHESTE, n. Debate. P. 60.

CHESTEINE, n. FR, The chesnut tree. 2924. — The chesnut fruit. R. 1375.

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CHEVACHIE, n. FR. An expedition. See the n. on ver. 85. and ver. 16999.

CHEVALRIE, n. FR. Knighthood ; the manners, exercises, and valiant exploits, of a knight. 45. 2108. 2186.

CHEVALROUS, adj. Valiant T. V. 802.

CHEVE, v. FR. To come to an agreement, or con clusion. Yvel mote he CHEVE. 16693. Ill may he end. See ver. 4172. Ye, they shall have the

flour of YVEL ENDING.

CHEVESAILE, n. FR. A necklace. R. 1082. The

word does not occur in the Orig. in this place,

but it is used in ver. 21897-

Et pour tenir la CHEVESSAILLE Deux fermeaux d'or au col luy bailie. CHEVETAIN, n. FR. Chieftain. 2557. CHEVISANCE, n. FR. An agreement for borrowing

of money. 13259. 13277. 13321. CHICHE, adj. FR. Niggardly, sparing. R. 5588. CHICHEVACHE. See the n. on ver. 9064. CHIDERESSE, n. SAX. A female scold. R. 4266. CHIDESTER, n. SAX. A female scold. 9409. CHIERTEE, n. FR. Tenderness, affection. 59/8.

13266.

CHIKE, n. SAX. A chicken. R. 541. CHIMBE, n. SAX. The prominent part of the staves

beyond the head of a barrel. 3893. CHIMBE, v. To sound in consonance, like bells.

3894.

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CHIMENEY, n. FR. A chimney. T. in. 1147.

CHINCHE, adj. as CHICHE. R. 5998. Conf. Am. 109. b.

CHINCHERIE, n. Niggardliness. M. 133.

CHIRCHE, n. SAX. A church. 1C2263.

CHIRCHEREVE, n. SAX. A churchwarden. 6889.

CHIRCHHAWE, n. SAX. A church-yard. P. 114.

CHIRK, v. SAX. To chirp, as a sparrow. 7386.

CHIRKING, n. A disagreeable sound. 2006. F. in. S53.

CHIT for CHIDETH. 16389.

CHIVACHEE, n. as CHEVACHIE. 16999.

CHIVER, v. SAX. To shiver. R. 1732. B. K. 231.

CIEKGES, 71. pi. FR. Wax-tapers. R. 6248.

CiPiouN,jyr. n. Scipio. R. 10.

CIPRIS, pr. n. Venus. F. n. 10.

CIRCES, pr. n. for CIRCE. 1946. CITEE, n. FR. A city. 941.

CITOLE, n. FR. A musical instrument. 1961. Sir John Hawkins, in his very curious History of Mu- sick, v. 2. p. 106. n. supposes it to have been a sort of Dulcimer, and that the name is a corrup tion of the LAT. Cistella. Beside the passage which he has quoted from Gower, Conf, Am. 178. it is mentioned again in fol. 189. among the in struments which sowned lowe. See also Du Cange, in v. CITOLA, and M. de la Ravaliere, Poesies du Roy de Navarre. T. i. p. 248. CITRIN, adj. FR. Of a pale yellow, or citron -colour. 2169.

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CITRINATION, n. A chemical term. Arnoldus in Rosario MS. 1. I.e. 5. Citrinacio nihil aliud est quam completa albedinis digestio,nec albedo est aliud quam nigredinis ablatio. Gloss. Carpent. in v.

CLAMBEN, pa. t. pi. of CLIMB, v. SAX. F. in. 1061.

CLAPERS, n. pi. FR. Rabbet-burrows. R. 1405.

CLAPPE, v. SAX. To knock repeatedly. 7163, 6. — To talk fast, 9076.

CLAPPETII, imp. m. 2 pers. pi. 9076.

CLAPPING, n. Noisy talking. 8875.

CLAPSED. Clasped. 275.

CLARRE', n. FR. Wine mixed with honey and spices, and afterwards strained till it is clear. 1473. 9717. It, was otherwise called Piment; as appears from the title of the following receipt, in the Medulla Cirurgice Rolandi. MS. Bod. 761. fol. 86. " Cla- retum bonum, sive pigmentum. — Accipe nucem moschatam, cariojilos, gingebas, mads, cinamomum, galangum ; quae omnia in pulverem redacta dis- tempera cum bono vino cum tertid parte mellis : post cola per sacculum, et da ad bibendum. Et nota, quod illud idem potest fieri de cerevisid." And so in R. 5967. Clarrtfis the translation of Piment. Orig. 1 1453. CLATTEREDEN, pa. t. pi. of CLATTER, v. SAX.

2425.

CLAUDIAN, pr. n. His poem De raptu Proserpinee is alluded to in v. 10106. See also F. i. 449. in. 419.

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CLAUSE, n. FR. An end, or conclusion. T. it. 728.

CLAW, v. SAX. To stroke. T. iv. 728. He CLAWED him on the back. 43-24. He stroked him on the back, to encourage him. To claw on the gall. 6502. signifies the same as To rub on a sore place.

CLED for CLAD. T. m. 1527.

CLENENESSE, n. SAX. Purity. 7465. 7492.

CLEPE, v. SAX. To call. 3432.— To name. 4611.

CLERGIE, n. FR. The clerical profession. 6S59.

CLERGIAL, adj. Learned. 1622O.

CLEKGION, n. A young clerk. 13433.

CLERK, n. FR. A person in holy orders. P. 114. — A man of learning. 482. — A student at the univer sity. 3199. 6109. THE CLERK OP OXENFORDE. See his CHARACTER, ver. 287 — 310.

CLEVES, n. pi. SAX. Rocks. L W. 1468. See CLIFFE.

CLIFFE, n. SAX. A rock. L W. 1495.

CLIFTE, n. SAX. A cleft. 7727.

CLIKET, n. FR. A key. 9991, 5, 7.

CLINKE, v. FR. To ring. 12926.

v. neut. To tinkle. 12598.

CLIPPE, v. SAX. To cut hair. 3324. — To embrace. 10287.

CLIPSY, adj. As if eclipsed. R. 5349.

CLOBBED, adj. SAX. Like a club. 13904.

CLOISTRE, n. FR. A cloister. 7681. An inclosure. 15511.

CLOMBEN,pa. t. pi. of CLIMB, v. SAX. 3636.

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CLOSER, n. FR. An inclosure. R. 4069. CLOTE-LEFE. A leaf of the bur-dock, or clote-bur.

16045.

CLOTERED, part. pa. SAX. Clotted. 2747. CLOUE-GILOFRE. See the n. on ver. 13692. CLOUTES, n. pi. SAX. Small pieces. 9827. CLUM, 3639. This word seems to be formed from

the SAX. v. Clumian Mussitare, murmurare ; to

express the mumbling noise, which is made by a

congregation in accompanying prayers, which

they cannot perfectly repeat. COAGULAT, part. pa. LAT. Curdled. 16279. COCKES BONES. 16958. 17340. A corruption of a

familiar oath, which appears undisguised in ver.

12639.

COD, n. SAX. A bag. 12468. COFRE, n. Fn. A chest. 300. 8461. COGGE, n. SAX. A cock-boat. L W. 1479. See

Du Cange, in v. COGO. COILONS, n. pi. FR. Testicles. 12886. COINE, n. FR. A piece of money. 9044.

A quince. R. 1373.

COINT, adj. FR. Neat, trim. C D. 1824.

COKE, n. LAT. A cook. See his CHARACTER, ver.

381-9.

COKENEY. See the n. on ver. 4206. COKEWOLD, n. A cuckold. How this word has been

formed is difficult to say, but probably it has some

relation to the FR. Cocu. In the best MSS. of the

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CANTERBURY TALES it is constantly spelled as above ; and is always, I believe, to be pronounced as a trisyllable. See ver. 3154. 3226. 6796. 7198. 10130. 12316. The author of the Remedie of Love, ver. 288. seq. pretends, that the true orthographic of this word is cokcold, according to a most ab surd etymologic, which he has there given of it ; an additional proof (if any were wanted) that the Remedie of Love was not written by Chaucer.

COL. See the n. on ver. 15221.

COLD, v. SAX. To grow cold. 5299.

COLER, n. FR. A collar. 3239. T. v. 1659.

COLERED, part. pa. Collared ; wearing collars. 2154.

COLLATION, n. FR. A conference. 8201.

COLLINSES, n. pi. FR. Embraces round the neck. T. L. ii. 340.

COLTISH, adj. SAX. Playful as a colt. 9721.

COLUMBINE, adj. LAT. Belonging to a dove; dove- like. 10015.

COMBRE-WORLD, w. An incumbrance to the world. T. iv. 279.

COMBUST^ adj. LAT. Burnt. 16279. A term in astrology, when a planet is not more than 8° 30' distant from the sun. T. HI. 718.

COME for COMETH. 15710.

COMMENSAL, n. FR. A companion at table. T L. i. 319.

COMMUNE, n. Fa. Commonalty. 7946. VOL. v. E

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COMMUNES, n. pi. Commoners; common people. 2511.

COMPAIGNABLE, adj. FR. Sociable. 12934.

COMPAME for COMPAGNE. 37O9. See the note.

COMPAS, w. FR. A compass; a circle. The trine compos. 15513. The Trinity ; an appellation bor rowed, as it seems, from the common emblem of that mystery, a circle circumscribing a triangle. — Contrivance. F. i. 461. in. 80.

COMPASMENT, 11. L W. 1414. ) „ . .

$ Contrivance. COMPASSING, n. 1998. )

COMPASS, v. To contrive. L W, 1412. He COM PASSED his thought. 5011. He contrived in his thought.

COMPENABLE, ad/. FR. 14878. as COMPAIGNABLE.

COMPERE, n. FR. A gossip ; a near friend. 672. 4417.

COMPLIN, n. FR. Compile. Even-song; the last service of the day. P.4O. — Singing, in general. 4169.

COMPOWNED, part. pa. Composed, put together. LW. 2574. F. ii. 521.

COMPTE, n. FR. Account. R. 5026.

CONCETE, n. FR. Conception, apprehension. Bo. in. pr. 10.

CONDESCENDS, v. FR. To yield. 10721.

CONDISE, n. pi. FR. Conduits. R. 1414.

CONFECTURE, n. FR. Composition. 12796.

CONFUSE, adj. FR. Confounded. 2232. 15931.

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He became so CONFUSE, he conneth not loke. P P. 47. b. CONJECTE, v. FR. To project. R. 6928.

CONISAUNCE, n. FR, Understanding. R. 5465.

CONJURE, v'. FR. To adjure. 13574.

CONNE, v. SAX. To know ; to be able. I shall not CONNE answere. M. 141. 1 shall not know how, or be able, to answer. Thou shall never — CON knotven. R. 7135. Thou shalt never be able to know. — To conne thank ; to be pleased, or oblig ed ; Sg avoir gre". FR. 1810.3066. To conne mau- gre". R. 4559. To be displeased; S$ avoir mal gr& Orig.

CONSEIL, n. FR. Counsel. 9237.

CONSENTANT, part. pr. FR. Consentant of this cur- sednesse. 12210. Consenting to t. c.

CONSERVE, v. FR. To preserve. 15855.

CONSISTORY, n. FR. signifies usually an Ecclesiasti cal Court; but in v. 12096. 12191. any court of justice.

CONSTABLERIE, n. FR. A ward, or division of a castle, under the care of a constable. R. 421H. See Du Cange, in v. CONSTABULARIUS CASTRI.

CONSTANTINE, pr, n. See the n. on ver. 9684.

CONTEKE, n. SAX. Contention. 2004. T. v. 1478.

CONTENANCE, n. FR. Appearance ; pretence. 4419. 16732.

CONTRACT, part. pa. LAX. Contracted. P. 33.

CONTRANIAUNTES, part. pa. is used in the plural

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number, according to the French custom. T L. i. 319 b. Opposing, contradicting.

CONTRARIE, v. FR. To contradict. 6626.

CONTRA RIOUS, adj. FR. Opposite. 6280. Per verse. 6362.

CONTRARY, n. FR. Adversary. 1861.

CONTREFETE, v. FR. To counterfeit; imitate. 130. 15327-

CONTROVE, v. FR. To invent. R. 4249. 7547.

CONTUBERNIAL, adj. LAT. Familiar. P. 87.

CONTUNE for CONTINUE. R. 4354. 5205. 5332. This is one of those licences for the sake of rime, of which see the n. on ver. 8915. Our author seems to have been ashamed of it, as I do not re collect to have met with it in the CANTERBURY TALES. Lydgate has been less scrupulous. See Trag. 2 b. 14 b. 24 b.

COPE, n. FR. Cape. A cloak. 13955.

COPPE, n. SAX. The top of any thing. 556. F.in.76.

CORAGE, re. FR. Heart. 22. — Inclination. 9130. — Spirit ; courage. 1947. 8096.

CORBETTES, n. pi. FR. Niches for Statues. F. in. 214.

CORDETH for ACCOUDETH. T. ii. 1043.

CORDEWANE, ». Fu. Cordouan. Spanish leather,

so called from Corduba. 13662. CORDILERES, ?i. pi. FR. Cordeliers. An order of Friars, so called from their wearing a cord for a girdle. R. 7461.

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CORINNE pr. n. An. 21. What author is meant, I cannot say. One can hardly suppose that Chaucer had met with that poem of the antient Corinna, the contemporary of Pindar, which was entitled 'Ew/a em @y£an; [Fragm. ex Apollonia Dyscolo, ap. Maittair. de Dialect, p. 429. 1. 4.], nor do I know that any fictitious work upon the War of Thebes has ever been set forth under her name. She is mentioned by Propertius [II. El. 3. v. 21.] and by Statius [Sylv. v. Carm. 3. v. 158.], but neither of them takes notice of her having written on the affairs of Thebes.

CORNEWAILE, pr. n. Cornouaille, in Bretagne. R. 4250.

CORNICULERE, n. LAT. An officer in the Roman Government. 15837. See Pitisc. Lex. Ant. Rom. in v. Cornicularius.

CORNMUSE, n. FR. A bag-pipe. F. in. 128.

CORNY, adj. SAX. Strong of the corn, or malt. 12249. 12390.

COROUNE, n. FR. A crown, or garland. 2292. 15689.

CORPS, n. FR. Body. 12238. 13836.

CORPUS, n. LAT. Body. Corpus Domini. 13365. God's body. Corpus Hadrian. 13898.

CORRIGE, v. FR. To correct. Bo. iv. pr. 4. pr. 7-

CORRUMPABLE, adj. Fr. Corruptible. 3012.

CORRUMPE, v. FR. To corrupt. 2748.

CORSE, v. SAX. To curse. T. in. 1707-

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CORSEINT, n. FR. A holy body ; a Saint. C D. 940.

The CORSAYNT and the kirke. P L. 44. CORVEN, part. pa. of CARVE, v. SAX. Cut. 2698.

COSIN, n. FR. A cousin, or kinsman. It is some times used adjectively. 744. 17159. Allied, related.

COSINAGE, n. FR. Kindred. 13339.

COSTAGE, n. FR. Cost, expence. 5831. 9002.

COSTEIE, n. FR. To go by the coast. B K. 3t>.

COSTJLEWE, adj. Costly. P. 43.

COSTRELL, n. A drinking-vessel. L W. 2655. See Du Cange, in v. COSTRELLUS.

COTE, n. SAX. A cottage. 8274.

COTE, n. FR. A coat. 8789. — COTE-ARMURE ; A coat worn over armour ; upon which the Armorial ensigns of the wearer were usually embroidered. 1018. 2142.

COTIDIEN, adj. FR. Daily. It is used as a sub stantive for A quotidien ague. R. 2401.

COUCHE, v. FR. To lay. 16620.

COUCHED, part. pa. Laid. 16668. COUCHED with perles. 2163. Laid, or trimmed, with pearls.

Coup, COUDE, pa. t. of CONNE. Knew; was able. 94, 5. See the Essay, &c. n. 35. It is used as a participle pa. P. 125. So that instead of always in the note, I should have said generally.

COVEITE, v. FR. To covet. R. 6173.

COVENABLE, adj. FR. Convenient ; suitable. P. 4.

COVERCHIEFS, n. pi. FR. Head-cloaths. 455.

COVERCLE, n. FR. A pot-lid. F. n. 284.

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COVERT, adj. FR. Secret, covered. R. 6149.

COVINE, n. FR. Secret contrivances. 606. R. 3799-

COULPE, n. FR. A fault. P. 33.

COUNT, v. FR. To account; to esteem. 4054. 4190.

COUNTERPEISE, n. FR. A counterpoise ; a weight, which balances another. T. in. 1413.

COUNTERPEISE, v. FR. To counterpoise. F. in. 660.

COUNTERPLETE, v. FR. To plead against. L W. 476.

COUNTERWAITE, v. FR. To watch against. M. 112.

COUNTOUR,W. FR. Comptoir. A compting-house. 13143. — Compteur. An arithmetician. Du. 435.

COUNTOUR. 361. See the note.

COUNTRETAILLE, n. Fa. A tally answering ex actly to another. Hence echo is said to answer at the countretaille. 9066.

COURE, v. FR. To sit crouching, like a brooding hen. R. 465.

COURTEPY. See the the n. on ver. 292.

COURT-MAN. 9366. A courtier. Homme de Cour. FR.

COUTH, COUTHE, pa. t. of CONNE. Knew ; was able. 392. R. 753.

part. pa. Known. 14. 8818.

COWARDISE, n. FR. Want of courage. R. 2490. As to the etymology of the adj. from which this word has been formed, I think the opinion of Twysden and Somner [Gloss, ad X Script, v. Fridwite\ much the most probable, who derive it from the BARB. LAT. Culum vertere ; To turn tail, or run away. See Du Cange, in v. Cut VERT A,

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and CULVERTAGIUM, who rejects the opinion above mentioned, but without suggesting any thing so plausible. Culvert (as it is written in the oldest and best French MSS. that I have seen) might easily be corrupted, accordingto the French mode of pronunciation, into Couart and Couard.

I have somewhere seen the French language se riously charged with indelicacy for its frequent and wanton use of the word cul in composition. Nor can the charge be said to be groundless. Beside the numerous instances which will occur to every body, I suspect that this monosyllable makes part of a common and solemn term in our Law, im ported originally from France. Culprist seems to me to have been a vulgar name for a prisoner ; a person taken by that part which is most exposed in running away. Holinshed has expressed the same idea more delicately. Vol. in. p. 842. The prentises were CAUGHT BY THE BACKS and had to prison. And so it is expressed in " Ancient Scot tish Poems." p. 182. ver. 15.

Yet deid [death] sal TAK HIM BE THE BAR.

COYE, v. FR. To quiet, to sooth. T. n. 801.

CRAFTESMAN, n. SAX. A man of skill. 1899.

CRAKE, v. FR. To crack. 3999.

CRAKE, CRAKEL, v. SAX. To quaver hoarsely in singing. 9724. CN. 119.

CRAMPISH, v. 'FR. To contract violently, as the cramp does. An. 170.

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CRATCHING, n. SAX. Scratching. 2836.

CRASED, part. pa. FR. Ecrasd. Broken. 16402.

CREANCE, n. FR. Faith, belief. 5335.

CREANCE, v. FR. To borrow money. 13219, 33, 96.

CREATE, part. pa. LAT. Created. P. 19.

CRENCLED, part. pa. Crincled ; circularly formed. LW. 2O10. Perhaps from the ISLAND. Kringe. Circino. gyro.

CREPIL, n. SAX. A cripple. T. iv. 1458.

CREVASSE, n. FR. A chink, or crevice. F. in. 996.

CRIANDE, part. pr. of CRIE, u. FR. Crying. R. 3138.

CRIPS. F. in. 296. as CRISPE.

CRISIPPUS, pr. n. 6259. I find the title of a work in Montfaucon, Bib. Bibl. p. 513. to which Chau cer may possibly allude. Chrysippi, discipuli Eu- thymii, in Joannem encomium. — and again p. 1314. Chrysippi Presbyteri laudatio S. Joannis Baptistce. It is not unlikely that a Panegyrist on the Bap tist might be led by his rage against Herodias to say some harsh things of women in general.

CRISPE, adj. LAT. Curled. 5886.

CROCE, n. SAX. A cross. 6066.

CROIS, n. FR. A cross. 12885.

CROMES, n. pi. SAX. Crumbs. 15528.

CROMMED, part. pa. SAX. Stuffed, crammed. F. in. 1039.

CRONE, n. SAX. An old woman. 4852. Kronie; Ovis vetula. Kilian.

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GROPE, CROPEN, part. pa. of CREPE, v. SAX. Crept. 4257. 11918.

CROPPES, n. pi. SAX. The extremities of the shoots of vegetables. 7. Now in the crop. 1534. Now at the top. Croppe and rote. T. n. 348. Root and branch ; the whole of a thing.

CROSSELET, n. FR. A crucible. 16585.

CROUCHE, v. SAX. To sign with the cross. 9581.

CROUDE, v. SAX. To shove together. 4716.

CROUKE, n. SAX. An earthen pitcher. 4156.

CROUN, n. FR. signifies Head. 4039. 4097-

CROUPE, n. FR. The ridge of the back. 7141.

CROWES FEET. T. n. 404. The wrinkles which spread from the outer corners of the eye. Spen ser describes this mark of old age in the same manner, Eel. 12.

And by mine eie the crow his claw doth wright.

CROWNED, part. pa. Wearing a crown. Crowned malice. 10840. Sovereign malice.

CRULL, adj. SAX. Curled. 81. 3314.

CUCURBITE, n. LAT. A gourd ; a vessel, shaped like a gourd, used in distillation. 16262.

CULPONS, n.pl. FR. Shreds. 681. Logs. C2869.

CULVER, n. SAX. A dove. L. W. 2307.

CUPPE, n. FR. A cup. Withouten cuppe he drank all his penance. 11254. He took large draughts of grief; he made no use of a cup, but drank out of the pot.

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CURATION, n. FR. Cure, healing. T. i. 792. Bo. i. pr. 6.

CURE, n. FR. Care. I do not care. L. W. 152. I take no care.

CURFEW-TIME. 3645. according to the Conquerour's edict is said to have been 8 h. P. M. Walsingham, speaking of an event on the 2d of September, 1311. mentions 9 h. as the hora ignitegii. It pro bably varied with the seasons of the year.

CURIOUS, adj. FT. Carefull. 13156. R. 6578.

CURTEIS, adj. FR. Courteous. 99. 6869.

CUSTOMER, adj. Fr. Accustomed. R. 4936.

CUTTE, CUT. 837. 847- 12727. seq. See the n. on ver. 837.

D. DAFFE, n. SAX. A fool, 4206. Thou dotest, DAFFE.

quod she, dull are thy wittes. PP. 6. b. DAGGE, n. A slip, or shred. R. 7212. DAGGED, part. pa. Cut into slips. P. 44. BAGGING, n. Slitting, cutting into slips. P. 44. DAGON, n. A slip, or piece. 7333. DAMASCENE, pr. n. The country about Damascus.

14013. DAMASCENE, pr. n. 435. Joannes Mesue Damas-

cenus, an Arabian Physician, in the VIII and IX

Century. See Fabric. Bibl. Gr. t. XIII. p. 256. DAME, n. FR. LAT. Domina. Mistress, Lady. 7387-

7451.— Mother. 3260.

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DAMPNE, v. FR. To condemn. 553O. 5652. DAN, n. FR. LAT. Dominus. Lord ; was a title com monly given to Monks. 12973. 13935,6. See the n. on ver. 9684. It is also prefixed by Chaucer to the names of other persons of all sorts. Dan Arcite. 9893. Dan Burnett. 15318. Dan Caton. 14977.

DANCE, n. FR. The olde dance. 478. 12013. The old game. See R. 4300. T. HI. 696. The French have the same phrase. Elle scait assez de la vieille danse. Cotgrave.

DANGER, n. FR. A dangerous situation. In danger. 665. See the note; and R. 1470. — Coyness, spar- ingness. R. 1147. T. n. 384. With danger. 6103. Sparingly.

DANGEROUS, adj. Difficult; sparing. 519. 5733.

DANTE, pr. n. 6708. 14771. LW. 36O. F. T. 450. See the n. on ver. 6710. and Gloss, in v. LAVEN DER.

DAPPLE-GRAY. 13813. The colour which is called, in FR. Pommele. See ver. 618.

DARE, v. SAX. To stare. 13033.

DARES, pr. n. of a supposed Historian of the Trojan war. F. in. 379. Du. 1070.

DARREINE, v. FR. Desrener. LAT. Derationare. To contest. 1611. 1633.

DART, n. SAX. A spear, or javelin. The dart is sette up for virginitee. 5657. There is an allu sion to the same custom in Lydg. Trag. 26.

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And oft it happeneth, he, that hath best ron, Doth not the spere like his desert possede.

DASEN, pr. t. pi. of DASE, v. SAX. Grow dim- sighted. 16980.

DAUNT, v. FR. To conquer. P. 24. R. 4764. That ne with love may daunted be. Orig. 4444. Qui par amours ne soit domptez.

DAWE, v. SAX. To dawn. 1678. 9716.

DAWENING,». SAX. Day-break. 14888. LW. 2183.

DAWES, n. pi. for DATES. 11492. The Saxon 5 is frequently expressed by w as well as by y.

DAYE,W. SAX. Day; Time. 9012. At my day. 16495. At the day appointed to me. To graunt him days of the remenant. 1 1879. To permit him to pay the remainder at certain days, by instalments.

DEAURAT, part . pa. LAT. Gilded. BK. 598.

DEBATE, v. FR. To fight. 13707.

DEBONAIRE, adj. FR. Courteous. M. 143. Gentle. Bo. i. m. 5.

DECOPEDjjparf. pa. FR. Cut down. R. 843.

DECORATE, pr. n. Decoratus. Bo. in. pr. 4.

DEDE, v. SAX. To grow dead. F. n. 44.

part. pa. Dead. 7090.

DEDLY, adj. SAX. Devoted to death. 11352. Bo. v. pr. 6.

DEDUIT, w. FR. Pleasure. 2179.

DEFAIT, DEFAITED, part. pa. FR. Wasted. T. v. 618.

DEFAME, n. FR. Infamy. 14467.

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DEFAME, ». FR. To make infamous. 3149. DEFAUTE, n. FR. Want. Bo. in. pr. 3. DE-

FAUTES, pi. Defects. 7392. DEFENCE, v. FR. To forbid. 7416. 16938.— To

ransom. R. 7088.

DEFENCE, n. FR. Prohibition. T. m. 138. DEFINISHE, v. FR. To define; to make a definition

of. Bo. v. pr. 1. DEGREE, n. FR. A stair, or set of steps. R. 46. —

Rank in life. 9901.

DEIDEN, pa. t. pi. of DEYE, v. SAX. Died. 7483. DEINE for DEIEN, inf. m. of DEYE. v. SAX. To

die. LW. 1179.

DEINOUS, adj. FR. Disdainfull. 3930. DEINTEE, n. FR. Value; a thing of value. Hath

deintee. 4559. Values highly. Told no deintee of.

5790. Set no value upon. It was deintee. 8988

It was a valuable thing. See also T. n. 164. DEINTEOUS, adj. Choice, valuable. 8141. DEIS, «. FR. See the n. on ver. 372. DEL, n. SAX. A part. Never a del. 3066. Not a

bit. Every del. 3369. Every part DELE, v. SAX. To divide. 7831. DELIBERE, v. FR. To deliberate. M. 142. T. iv.

169.

DELICACIE, n. FR. Pleasure. 14397. DELICES, n. pi FR. Delights. 15471. DELIE, '-adj. FR. Delie*. Thin, slender. Bo. i. pr. 1 . DELIT, n. FR. Delight. 7457.

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DELITABLE, adj. FR. Delectable. 7938. 8075.

DELIVER, adj. FR. Nimble. 84. Conf. Am. 177. b.

DELIVERLY, adv. Quickly. 15422.

DELIVERNESS, n. FR. Agility. M. 99,

DELVE, v. SAX. To dig. 538.

DELUVY, n. LAT. Deluge. Bo. n. pr. 6.

DEMAINE, ». FR. To manage. F. n. 451.

DEMAINE, n. FR. Management. 14583.

DEME, v. SAX. To judge. 1353.

DEMONIAK, n. FR. One possest by a devil. 7822.

DENT, n. SAX. A stroke. F. n. 26. See DINT.

DENWERE, n. Doubt. Sk. This interpretation suits well enough with the only passage in which I have found this word. T L. i. 323. b. but I should be glad to see some other instance of the use of it.

De par dieux jeo assente. 4459. In God's name I agree.

DEPART, v. FR. To part ; to distribute, 7796.

DEPEINT, part. pa. FR. Painted. 12884.

DEQUACE, v. To shakedown, q? TL. n. 327. b.

DERE, v. SAX. To hurt. 1824. 10554. 14007.

DERE, adj. SAX. Dear, 2455.

DERELING, n. SAX. Darling. 3791.

DEREWORTH, adj. SAX. Precious ; valued at a high rate. Bo. n. pr. 1 .

DERNE, adj. SAX. Secret. 3200. 3297.

DERRE, comp. of DERE. Dearer. 1450. T. i. 174.

DBS, F. in. 270. As DEIS.

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DESCENSORIE, n. FK. A vessel used in Chemistry

for the extraction of oils per descensum. 16260. DESCRIVEN, inf. m. FR. To describe. 10354. DESIROUS, adj. FR. Eager. 10337. DESOLAT, part. pa. LAT. Abandoned, Distressed.

6285.

DESPITE, n. FR. Malicious anger. 949. ' DESPITOUS, adj. Angry to excess. 6343. DESPITOUSLY, adv. Angrily. 8411. DESPOILE, v. FR. To undress. 8250. DESTREINE, v. FR. To vex, to constrain. 1818.

17HO. DESTRER, n. FR. A war-horse. LAT. Dextrarius.

13841. DESTRIE, DESTRUIE, v. FR. To destroy. 1332.

17HO. — C D. 1605. Descried should be Destried. DETERMINAT, part. pa. LAT. Fixed, determined.

7041.

DETTELES, adj. Free from debt. 584. DEVE, adj. SAX. Deaf. 15754. DEVINING, n. FR. Divination. 2523. DEVISE, w. FR. Direction. 818. R. 1974. DEVISE, v. FR. To direct; to order. 1418.1427. —

To relate. 7486. 79^8.— At point devise. 3689.

A point devise*, FR. With the greatest exactness. DEVOIR, n. FR. Duty. 2600. Wele thei stode and

did ther DEVERE. P L. 331. DEY, n. See the n. on ver. 14852. DEYE, t>. SAX. To die. 6987- 7210.

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DEYER, n. SAX. A Dier. 364.

DIAPRED, part. pa. FR. Diversified with flourishes,

&c. 2160. R. 934. DICHE, v. SAX. To dig ; to surround with a ditch.

L W. 708.

DIDE for DIED, 6547. DIDE, pa. t. of Do. v. SAX. 3421. DiDEN,pa. t. pi.

7O73. 129O1.

DIE, v. SAX. To tinge. R. 1705. DIETE, ». FR. Daily food. 437. DIFFAME, n. FR. Bad reputation. 8416. 8606.

See DEFAME.

DIGESTIBLE, adj. LAT. Easy to be digested. 439. DIGESTIVES, n. pi. FR. Things to help digestion.

14967. DIGHT, v. SAX. To dispose, 14447. — To dress

6349. 17261. See ver. 10235. DIGNE, adj. FR. Worthy. 2218. 5198.— Proud,

disdainful, 519.

DIKE, v. SAX. To dig: to make ditches, 538. DILATATION, n. FR. Enlargement. 4652. DINT, n. SAX. as DENT. Thonder-dint. 5858. T. v.

1504. A stroke of thunder. DIOSCORIDES, pr. n. of a Greek writer on Plants,

whose work is extant. 432. DISARRAY, n. FR. Disorder. P. 254. DISAVAUNCE, v. FR. To drive back. T. n. 511. DISAVENTURE, n. FR. Misfortune. T. iv. 297. DISBLAME, v. FR. To clear from blame. T. n. 17-

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DISCOMFITURE, n. FR. Defeat. 1010.

DISCOMFORT, n. FR. Displeasure. 11208.

DISCOMFORTEN, v. FR. To discourage. 2706.

DISCOVERTE, adj. FR. At discover te. P. 81. Un covered. A descouvert.

DISDEINOUS, adj. FR. Disdainful. R. 7412.

DISENCRESE, n. FR. Diminution. B K. 2O3.

DISENCRESE, v. neut. FR. To decrease. Bo. v. pr. 6.

DISFIGURE, n. FR. Deformity. 6542.

DISHERITED, part. pa. FR. Disinherited ; stripped of possessions. 2928. L. W. 1063.

DiSHEVELE,/>ar£. pa. FR. With hair hanging loose. 685. DescheveM.

Dis JOINT, n. FR. A difficult situation. 2964.13341.

DISOBEISANT, part. pr. FR. Disobedient. A F. 429.

DISORDEINED, part. pa. Fr. Disorderly. P. 95.

DISOEDINATE, adj. L.AT. Disorderly. P. 180.

DISORDINAUNCE, n. FR. Irregularity. F. i. 27.

DISPARAGE, n. FR. A disparagement. 8784.

DISPENCE, n. FR. Expence. 443. 6845.

DISPERANCE, n. FR. Despair. T. u. 530,

DISPITOUS, adj. Angry to excess. 518. See DES- PITOUS.

DISPLESANCE, ». FR. Displeasure. R. 3436.

DISPONE, v. LAT. To dispose. Bo. iv.pr. 6.

DISPORT, n. FR. Deport. Sport, diversion. 777.

DISPORT, u. To divert. T. in. 1139.

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DISPREISING, part. pa. Fr. Undervaluing. M. ISO. DISPUTISON, n. FR. Dispute. 9348. 11205. The

clergie of the south made a DISPUTESOUN. P L.

30O.

DISRULILY, adv. Irregularly. R. 4900. DISSIMULE, v. FR. To dissemble. 17296. DISSIMULINGS, n. pi. FR. Dissemblings. 10599. DissoNED,parf. pa. FR. Dissonant. R. 4248. DISTAINE, v. FR. To discolour; to take away the

colour. T. ii. 840. LW. 274. DISTINCT, v. LAT. To distinguish. R. 6199. DISTINGUED. part. pa. FR. Distinguished. Bo. n.

pr. 5.

DISTOURBLED, pa. t. FR. Disturbed. R. 1713. DISTREYNE, v. FR. To constrain. P. 7. See

DESTREINE.

DISTROUBLE, v. FR. To disturb. P. 4. Du. 524. DISTURNE, v. FR. To turn aside. T. in. 719. DITE, v. FR. To dictate; to write. R. 6786. DITES, n.pl. FR. Sayings, ditties. F. n. 114. DITUS, pr. n. Dictys Cretensis. F. HI. 379. DIVERSE, adj. FR. Different, 4631. DIVERSE, v. To diversifie. T. HI. 1758. DIVINE, n. for Divinity. R. 6488. DIVINISTRE, n. FR. A divine. 2813. Do, v. SAX. See the Essay, &c. n. 37- Do for DON, part. pa. M. 151. DOAND, part.pr. Doing. R. 2708. DOGEREL, adj. derived, I suppose, from Dog; so

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that Rime-dogerel in ver. 13853. may be under stood to mean what in French might be called Rime de chien. See Cotgrave, in w. CHIEN. " Chose de chien ; A paultrie thing ; a trifle; trash, trum- perie."

DOGGE FOR THE BOWE, 6951, 9888. A dog used in shooting.

DOKE, n. SAX. A duck. 3576.

DOLE, n. SAX. as DEL. R. 2364.

DOLE, n. FR. Grief, mourning. R. 29." 9.

DOLVEN, part. pa. of DELVE, v. SAX. Buried. 40/0.

DOMBE, adj. SAX. Dumb. 776.

DOME, n. SAX. Judgement, opinion. 10989.

DOMESMAN, n. SAX. A judge. 14408.

DONET, n. A grammar; the elements of any art; from jElius Donatus, a Roman Grammarian, whose introduction to the Latin language [inter Gramm. Vet. Putsch, p. 1735.] was commonly read in schools. T L. n. fol. 338. Then drave I me among drapers, my DONET to lerne. P P. •^3b.

DONMOW, pr. n. 5799. See the note ; and P. P. 44 b.

DONNE, DON. adj. SAX. Of a brown or dun co lour. T. ii. 908. A F. 334.

DORMANT, part. pr. FR. Fixed, ready. 355. Les vaisseaux qui la dormoient a Vancre. Froissart. v. iii. c. 52.

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DORTOUR, n. FR. A dormitory, or common sleep ing-room. 7437.

DOSEIN, n. FR. A dozen, 580.

DOSSER, n. FR. A basket to be carried on the back. F. HI. 850.

DOTE, v. SAX. To be foolish, through age or other wise. 9315. 16451.

DOTH, imp. m. cl per. pi. of Do. 6631. Do ye.

DOUCED. F. in. 131. may perhaps be a corruption of Doucete, which is the name of a musical instru ment, in a poem of Lydgate's. MS. Bodl. Fairf. 16.

" Ther were trumpes and trumpetes, " Lowde shallys and DOUCETES."

DOUGHTREN, n. pi. SAX. Daughters. 14885.

DOUTANCE, n. FR. Doubt. T. iv. 963.

DOUTE; v. FR. To fear. R. 1089.

DOUTELEES, DOUTELES. adv. Without doubt. 2669. 4511.

DOUTOUS, adj. Doubtfull. T. iv. 992.

D' 'outre mere. FR. From beyond Sea. Du. 253.

DOWAIRE, n. FR. Dower. 8724.

DRADDE, DRAD, pa. t. Impart, of DREDE, v. SAX. Feared. 15483. 7945.

DRAF, n. SAX. Things thrown away, as unfit for man's food. 17346.

DRAF-SAK, 4204. A sack full of draffe.

DRAFTY, ad;. SAX. Of no more value than draffe. 13851.

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DRAGGES, n. pi. FR. Drugs, 428.

DREDE, n. SAX. Fear ; Doubt. tVithouten drede.

4449. Without doubt. Out of drede. 5313. Out

of doubt. DREDE, v. SAX. To fear. 2595. DRED. pa. t.

8056. for DRAD.

DREDEFUL, adj. Timorous. 1481.11621. DREDELES, adv. Without doubt. T. i. 1035. DREINT, pa. t. & part, of DRENCHE. Drowned.

11690. 3520.

DRENCHE, v. SAX. To drown. 3617. DRENCHE, v. neut. SAX. To be drowned. 3521.

5343.

DRERINESSE, n. SAX. Sorrow. R. 4728. DRERY, adj. SAX. Sorrowfull. T. i. 13. DRESSE, v. FR. To address, applie, 8883. DRETCHE, v. act. SAX. To vex, to trouble. T. u.

1471. DRETCHED, part. pa. Oppressed, troubled. 14893.

Con/. Am. 79. DRETCHE, v. neut. SAX. To delay. T. n. 1264.

iv. 1446. Con/. Am. 178. DRETCHING, n. Delay. T. in. 855. DRIE, v. SAX. To suffer. R. 439O. 7484. T. v.

264. 296.

DRIFE, v. SAX. To drive. R. 1874. DRINKELES, adj. SAX. Without drink, T. n. 718. DRONKELEW, adj. SAX. Given to drink. 7625.

12429. PP.41.

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DRONKEN, part. pa. of DRINK, v. SAX. Drunk.

7481. DROUGH. pa. t. of DRAW. v. SAX. Drew. T. v.

1557. LW. 1457. DROVY, adj. SAX. Dirty. P. 94. DRUERIE, n. FR. Courtship, gallantry. 1S823. R. 844. — A mistress. R. 5064. See Du Cange, in v. DRUDARIA. The reader may perhaps not be displeased to see the following description of a Drut, or Lover, by Guillem Aesmar, a Provencal poet. MS. Crofts, ccxvim.

Ben paoc ama drut, qi non es gelos, Et paoc ama, qi non est airos, Et paoc ama, qi non es folettis, Et paoc ama, qi non fa tracios ; Mais vaut d amor qi ben est enveios Un dolz plorar non fait qatorze ris.

Quant eu li quier merce en genoillos, E la mi colpa et mi met ochaisos, Et 1 aigua m cur aval per mer lo vis, Et ela m fai un regard amoros, Et eu li bais la bucha els ols amdos, Adonc mi par un ioi de paradis. DRUGGE, v. SAX. To drag. 1418. DUBBED, part. pa. SAX. Created a knight. P. 88. The phrase is derived from the stroke (with a sword or otherwise), which was always a princi pal ceremony at the creation of a knight. At dubban, Island, signifies to strike. This stroke in

72 GLOSSARY.

French was called La coUe. See VOrdene de

Chevalerie, par Hue de Tabarie. ver. 244. seq.

published by M. Barbazan. 1759. and Du Cange,

in v. ALAPA MILITARIS. DUETEE, n. FR. Duty; what is due to any one.

6934. 6973.

DULLE, v. act. SAX. To make dull. 16561. DULLE, v. neut. SAX. To grow dull. R. 4792. Dun is in the mire. 16954. See Ray's Proverbial

Similes, p. '-219. As dull as Dun in the mire. I

suppose Dun was a nickname given to the Ass,

from his colour, as well as Burnett. See the n.

on ver. 15318.

DURE, v. FR. To endure. 1362. 11148. DURESSE, n. FR. Hardship, severity. R. 3547. DUSKED, pa. t. SAX. Grew dark, or dim. 2808. DUTEE, 3062. as DUETEE. DWALE, n. SAX. A sleeping-potion. 4159. C L.

998. DWELLINGS, n. pi. SAX. Delays. Bo. i. m. 1.

Moras. Orig. DWINED, part. pa. SAX. Wasted. R. 360.

E.

EARED, part. pa. Ploughed. F. i."485. See ERE.' EBRAIKE, adj. Hebrew. 49O9. ECCLESIAST, n. An ecclesiastical person. 710. —

The Book of Ecclesiastes, or Ecclesiastions.

6233.

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EC HE, adj. SAX. JElce. Each one, every one, of any number. 39.662. 1134.

ECHE, v. SAX. To add. F. in. 975.— To add to; to encrease. T. i. 706.

EDIPPE, pr. n. (Edipus. T. iv. 300.

EFFECT, n. FR. Substance. 7033. 9272.

EFT, adv. SAX. Again. 1671. 5212. 10945.

EFTSONE, EFTSONES, adv. SAX. Soon after; pre sently. 3489. 5329. 6390.

EGALITEE, n. FR. Equality. P. 121.

EGER, EGRE, adj. FR. Sharp. P. 8. R. 217.

EGGE, v. SAX. To incite. P. 115.

EGGEMENT, n. SAX. Incitement. 5261.

EGGING, n. 10009. as EGGEMENT.

EGREMOINE, n. FR. Agrimony. 16268.

EIRE for AIR. 3473.

EISEL, n. SAX. Vinegar. R. 217.

ELAT, part. pa. LAT. Elated. 14 173.

ELBE, n. SAX. Old age. 6797- 1O054.

ELDE, v. SAX. To make old. R. 391, 2. — t>. neut. To grow old. R. $95.

ELENGE, adj. Strange 6781. See the note ; but I much distrust the etymology there proposed from Gloss. Ur. In ver. 13152, it seems to signifie Dull, Chearless ; as in P P. 111. b. Hevy-chered lyede, and ELENGE in herte. And so perhaps it should be understood in the passage quoted from G, N. 115. and P P. 3 b. and 46 b.

74 GLOSSARY.

ELENGENESSE, n. R. 7406. in the Orig. Soucy ; Care, trouble.

ELFE, n. SAX. A witch. 5174.— A faery. 6455.

ELF-QUENE, n. Queen of elves or faeries. 6442. 13720, 4.

ESI, pr. n. 7472. seems to be put for ELIE. See 1 Kings c. 1 9.

Ei,iE,j»r. n. Elijah. 7698. The Carmelites pretend that Elijah was the founder of their order.

ELISEE, pr. n. Elisha, the disciple of Elijah. 7698.

ELLES, adv SAX. Else. 377- 1153. Elks what. F. in. 651. Anything else. Elleswher. 2115. 13o20. Elsewhere.

ELVISH, adj. SAX. Faery-like, fantastick. 16219. 16310. — In ver. 13633, it seems to signifie shy, re served.

EMBEI.ISE, v. FR. To beautifie. L W. 1735.

EMBOI.DE, v. FR. To make bold. C L. 1147.

EMBOYSSEMENT, n. FR. Ambush. M. 112.

EMBROUDED, part. pa. FR. Embroidered. 89. L W. 119.

EME, n. SAX. Uncle. T. n. 162.

EMFORTH, prep. SAX. Even with. EMFORTH my might. 2237- Even with my might ; with all my power. EMFORTH my wit. T. n. 243. To the utmost of my understanding. It is a corruption of epenpori'S, which occurs at length in P P. 66. b. EVENFORTH with thyselfe, and 108. b. He did equitiefor all, EVENFORTH his power.

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EMPEIRE, v. FR. To impair ; hurt. 10072.

EMPERICE, n. FR. Emperess. 6828. 11360.

EMPLASTRE, v. FR. To plaister over. 10171.

EMPLIE, v. To infold, to involve. Bo. v. m. 1. Implicat. Orig.

EMPOISONER, n. FR. A poisoner. 12828.

EMPRESSE, v. neut. FR. To crowd. 9452. 16539.

EMPRISE, n. FR. Undertaking. 2542.

EMPTE, v. SAX. To empty. 16209.

ENBATTELLED, part. pa. FR. Indented, like a bat tlement. 14866.

ENBIBING, part. pr. LAX. Imbibing. 16282.

ENBOSED, part. pa.Fu.. Embosqutf. Sheltered in a wood. Du. 353.

ENBOSSED,par£.joa. FR. Emboss^. Raised. LW. 1198.

ENBRACE, v. FR. To take hold of. S288.

ENBRAUDE, v. FR. To embroider. L W. 234O.

ENCENSE, n. FR. Incense. 2279.

ENCENSE, v. FR. To burn incense. 15863. To burn incense to. 15880.

ENCHAUFING, n. FR. Heat. P. 108.

ENCHESON, n. FR. Cause; occasion. 10770. M. 133.

ENCORPORING, part. pr. FR. Incorporating. 16283%

ENDELONG, prep. SAX. Along. 2680. 11304. — adv. Length-ways. 1993.

ENDETTED, part. pa. FR. Indebted. 16202.

ENDITE, v. FR. To dictate; relate. 2743.

ENDOUTE, v. FR. To doubt; to fear. R. 1664.

ENDRIE, v. SAX. To suffer. C L. 725. 941.

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ENEE, pr. n. /Eneas. 4484.

ENEIDOS, pr. n Virgil's -<Eneis. 15365.

ENFAMINED, part. pa. FR. Hungry. L W. 2418.

ENFECTE, v. FR. To infect. 16441.

part. pa. Infected. C L. 217.

ENFORCE, v. FR. To strengthen. 592*2.

ENFORCED, part. pa. Constrained by force. P. 116.

ENFORTUNE, v. FR. To endow with a certain for tune. C M. 1O6.

ENGENDRURE, n. FR. Generation. 5716. 5719.

ENGINED, part. pa. FR. Racked; tortured. 15066.

ENGLUTING. 16234. Rather ENLUTING. Stop ping with clay.

ENGREGGE, v. FR. To aggravate. P. 116.

ENGREVE, «. FR. To hurt. R. 3444.

ENHAUNSE, v. FR. To raise. 1436.

ENHAUNSED, part. pa. Raised. 9248.

ENHORT, v, FR. To exhort. 2853.

ENLACED, part. pa. FR. Entangled. Bo. v. pr. i.

EN LANG OURED, part. pa. FR. Faded with languour. R. 7399.

ENLEVEN, num. SAX. Eleven. 17317-

ENLUMINE, v. FR. To illuminate. 7909.

ENOINT, part. pa. FR. Anointed. 2963.

ENSELED, part. pa. FR. Sealed up; kept secret. T. v. 151.

ENSPIRE, v. FR. To inspire. 6.

ENSURE, v. FR. To assure. 12O77- 12971.

ENTAILE, n. FR. Shape. R. 162. 3711.

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ENTAILED, part, pa, FR. Carved, R. 140.

ENTALENTE, v. FR. To excite. Bo. v. pr. 5.

ENTEND, v. FR. To attend. 5857- 11001.

ENTENDEMENT, n. FR. Understanding. T. iv. 1696.

ENTENTE, n. FR. Intention. 1489.

ENTENTIF, adj. FR. Attentive. 9165.

ENTERCHANGEDEN, pa. t. pi. FR. Exchanged. T. in. 1374.

ENTERMEDLED, part. pa. FR. Intermixed. R. 906.

ENTERMETE, v. FR. To interpose. 6416. R. 2966.

ENTERPART, v. FR. To share. T. i. 593.

ENTETCHED, part. pa. FR. Entache'. It is applied indifferently to things and persons marked, or en dowed, with good or bad qualities. Entetched and , defouled with yvel. Bo. iv. pr. 3. Stained and defiled with evil^—The best entetched. T. v. 832 Endowed with the best, qualities.

ENTREE, n. FR. Entry. 1985.

ENTREMEES, n. pi. FR. " Choice dishes served in between the courses at a feast. Cotg." R. 683 1 .

ENTRIKE, v. FR. To deceive. R. 1642.

To intangle. A F. 403.

ENTUNED, part. pa. FR. Tuned. 123.

ENTUNES, n. pi. FR. Songs, tunes. Du. 309.

ENVENIME, v. FR. To poison. 6056.

ENVENIMING, n. Poisoning. 9934.

ENVIE, v. FR. To vie; to contend. 5724. Du. 406.

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ENVIRON, adv. FR. About. C L. 1031. COM/.

Am. 139. b.

ENVIRON, v. FR. To surround. R. 7067. ENVOLUPED, part. pa. FR. Wrapt up. 12876. ENVYNED. See the n. on ver. 344. Epistolis, LAT. Epistles. 44/5. EQUIPOLENCES, n. pi. FR. Equivalents. R. 7126. ER, adv. SAX. Before. 3787-— Before that. 4193.

2639.

ERANDE, n. SAX. A message; an errand. Du. 134. ERE, v. FR. To plough, 888. EREOS for EROS, pr. n. GR. Love. 1376. ERKE, adj. SAX. Weary, sick. R. 4867. ERLY, adv. SAX. Early. 811. 2491. ERME, v. SAX. To grieve. 12246. ERMEFUL. See the n. on ver. 12236. ERMIN, adj. Armenian. 14344. ERNEST, n. SAX. Zeal; studious pursuit of any

thing. LW. 1285.

ERNESTFUI/, adj. Serious. 9O51. T. n. 1727- ERRATIKE, adj. FR. Wandering; applied to the

Planets. T. v. 1811. ERRAUNT, part. pa. FR. Strolling ; applied to a

thief. 17173.

ERS, ERSE, n. SAX. The fundament. 37:J2. 7272. EKST, adv. superl. of ER. First. 778. At erst. At

first; for the first time. 8861.15732. 13624.—It

is sometimes redudant. Long erst or. 12596.

Long before.

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ERTHELES, adj. SAX. Without earth. T. iv. 770. ESCHAUNGE, n. FR. Exchange. T. iv. 146. ESCHEVE, ESCHUE, v. FR. To shun, to decline,

9686. C N. 114. ESCULAPIUS, pr. n. 431. A book of Medicine,

under his name, is mentioned by Fabric. Bibl.

Gr. t. i. p. 56. n. *. ESE, n. FR. Pleasure. 5709. ESE, v. To accommodate. 2196. ESED, part. pa. 2672. See the n. on ver. 29. ESEMENT, n. Relief. 4177. 4184. ESIE, adj. Gentle, light. Esie sighes. T. in. 1369.

which passage Lord Surry has copied. Songes,

&c. p. 12. " And easy sighes, such as folkes draw

in love." ESIER, comp. d. Lighter. Of esier avail. CL. 116.

Of lighter, or less value. ESILICH, adv. Gently. T. i. 317- ESPERUS, pr. n. Hesperus ; a name of the Planet

Venus. B K. 613. ESPIAILLE, n. FR. Spying, private watching. 6905.

M. 112. ESPIRITUELL, adj. FR. Spiritual, heavenly. R.

650. 67^.

ESSOINE, n. FR. A legal excuse. P. 13. ESTAT, ESTATE, n. FR. State, condition, 203.

524. — Administration of government. 7600. ESTATELICH, adj. Stately. 140. ESTRES, n. pi. FR. The inward parts of a building.

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1973. 4293. R de la R. 13267. Car il scet de I 'Hostel les estres.

ETERNE, adj. LAT. Everlasting. 1306.

ETHE, adj. SAX. Easy". R. 3955. T. v. 850.

EVANGILES, n. pi. FR. Gospels. 5036.

EVEN, adj. SAX. Equal. An even-cristen. P, 41. 65. A fellow-christian.

EVENLIKE, adj. SAX. Equal. Bo. iv. m. 6.

adv. Equally. Bo. iv. pr. 2.

EVER, adv. SAX. Always. Ever in on. 1773. 3878. Continually in the same manner. Ever lenger the more. 1O71S. 11772. See P. 119. where this el liptical phrase is expressed at length.

EVERICH, adj. SAX. Every one of many. 373. 2194.

Each of two. 1188. 2088. 2101. 6986.

Ew, n. SAX. Yew. 2925.

EXALTAT, part. pa. LAT. Exalted. 6286.

EXAMETRON. 13985. is explained by the context to signifie a verse of six feet. It usually signifies the Heroic verse, but here, I suppose, must be under stood to mean the Iambic, in which the antient Tragedies were " communly versified"

EXECUTOUR, n. FR. Executioner. 7592.

EXECUTRICE, n. FR. A female executioner. T. ui. 618.

EXORCISATIONS, n. pL FR. Exorcisms, conjura tions. ; F,III. 173.

EXPANS YERES. 11587. "In this and the following verses, the Poet describes the Alphonsine Astro-

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nomical tables by the several parts of them, wherein some technical terms occur, which were u^ed by the old astronomers, and continued by the compilers of those tables. .Collect years are certain sums of years, with the motions of the heavenly bodies corresponding to them, as of 20, 40, 60, &c. disposed into tables ; and Expans years are the single years, with the motions of the heavenly bodies answering to them, begin ning at 1, and continued on to the smallest CoZ- lect sum, as 20, &c. A Root, or Radix, is any certain time taken at pleasure, from which, as an era, the celestial motions are to be computed. By Proporcionel convenientes are meant the Tables of Proportional parts." Gloss. Ur. " Argument in astronomy is an arch whereby we seek an other unknown arch proportional to the first." Chambers. .

EXPECTAUNT, part. pr. FR. Waiting. R. 4571.

EXPLEITE, v. FR. To perform. R. 6174.

EY, n. SAX. An egg. 14851. 16274. But as it were a grypes eye. Con/. Am. 22.

EY, interj. 10165.

EYEN, n. pi. SAX. Eyes. 152. 201.

EYRE for AIR. F. n. 419.

EYRISH, adj. Aerial, belonging to the air. F. n. 424. 457.

VOL. V.

82 GLOSSARY.

F.

FABLE, n. FR. Idle discourse. R. 1439. 6603.

FACONDE, n. FR. Eloquence. A F. 558.

FACONDE, adj. Eloquent. Du. 926. AF. 521.

FAERIE, n. FR, The nation of Faeries. 6441. See the note. — Enchantment; the work of Faeries. 9617.10515. King of Faerie. 131Q1, 8. Queue of Faerie. 10190. Contree of Faerie. 13731.

FAIN, adj. SAX. Glad. 13241. Than was I as FAYNE as foule offayre morowe. P P. 47 b..

FAIN, adv. Gladly. 9949.

FAINE, v. FR. To feign, to dissemble. R. 3089. To swinke and travail he notfaineth. R. 5685. He does not feign, or pretend, only to labour ; i. e. he labours seriously.

FAIREHEDE, n. SAX. Beauty. R. 2484.

FAITOUR, n. FR. A lazy idle fellow. P P. 32 b. 33 b. Faitard, Faiteor, un paresseux, piger. La- combe.

FALDING, n. 392. 3212. " A kind of coarse cloth. SK." He derives it from the A S. Fealb, plica. However that may be, Helmoldus [Chron. Slav. 1. I.e. 1.] speaks of indumenta lanea (probably coarse enough) qua nos appellamus FALDONES ; and Fallin in Irish, according to Lhuyd, signifies a mantle. Giraldus Cambr. [Topog. Hibern. dist. 3. c. 10.] describes the Irish as clothed in phalingis laneis, vice pa lliorum. FALDYNG CLOTH.

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Amphibalus. Birrus" Prompt. Parv. " Row CLOTH, as FALDYNG and other lyke. Endromis- Amphibalus." Ibid. See Du Cange, in v. AM PHIBALUS.

FALL for FALLEN, part. pa. P. 1O.

FALSEN, v. FR. To falsifie, 3175. — To deceive. R. 5416.

FALWE, adj. SAX. Yellow. 1366.

FALWES, n. pi. SAX. Harrow'd lands. 6238.

FAMULER, adj. LAX. Domestick. 9658.

FAN, n. See the n. on ver. 16991.

FANDE, pa. t. of FINDE, v. SAX. Found. R. 2707.

FANE, n. A weathercock. 8872. CD. 79.

FANTASIE, n. FR. Fancy. 9451.

FANTOME, n. FR. Any false imagination. 5457. Et dirent plusieurs qu' ils avoient et£ EN "f ANTOSME. Froissart. v. 1. c. 63.

FARCE, n. FR. Farder. To paint. R. 2285.

FARDEL, n. FR. A burthen. R. 56S3.

FARE, v. SAX. Togo. 1397.12985. To fare wet; To speed, to be happy. 2437.

FAREN, FARE, part. pa. 7354. 7364. 13129.

FARES for FARETH, 4021.

FARING, part. pr. 11244.13948.

FARE, n. seems to have been derived from the French v. Faire ; whenever it can be interpreted by the word Ado. See ver. 1811. This hote FARE. ver. 3997. For which the wardein chidde and made FARE.

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ver. 4989. What amounteth all this FARE? ver. 13193. Betwixt us two nedeth no strange FARE. T. iv. 532. And leve this nice FARE. In other in stances it follows the sense of the Saxon v. Fare, as in the compound words Welfare, Thoroughfare, &c.

FARME, n. SAX. Food; a meal. CD. 1750. See Spelman, in v. firma.

PARSE, v. FR. Farcir. To stuff. 233.

FATHE, n. F. in. 1050. See LATHE.

FAUTE, n. FR. Want. 10757.

FAWE, adj. SAX. Glad. 5802. as FAIN.

FAY, n. FR. Faith. 3284.

FAYRE, adj. SAX. Fair. 2O4. 234.

adv. FAIRLY, gracefully. 94.275.

FEBLESSE, n. FR. Weakness. T. n. 863.

FECCHE, v. SAX. To fetch. 6942. 7136.

FEE, n. SAX. Money. 6212. In R. 6044. it seems to signifie inheritable possessions in contradistinc tion to money, or moveables.

FEFFE, v. FR. To infeoff; to present. T. v. 1688. C L. 932.

FEINE, v. FR. To feign. 738.

FEL, adj. SAX. Cruel, destructive. 7584. 13758.

FELAW, n. SAX. Fellow, companion. 6967.

FELAWSHIP, n. SAX. Company. 476.

FELAWSHIPE, v. To accompany. Bo. iv. m 1. pr. 3.

FELDE, w. SAX. Afield. 1524.

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FELDEN, pa. t. pi. of FELLE, v. SAX. Felled,

made to fall. R. 911. FELE, adj. SAX. Many. 8793. C L. 191. FELE, v. SAX. To feel. 6088. To have sense.

11039. To perceive. 15623. FELL, n, SAX. Skin. T. i. 91. FELONIE, n. FR. All sorts of criminal violence.

1998.

FELOUN, adj. FR. Cruel. R. 3250. FEMINIE, pr. n. The country of Amazons. 868.

See the note.

FEMININITEE, n. FR. Womanhood. 4780. FEND, n. SAX. An enemy; the Devil. 5200. 7030. FENDLICHE, adj. Devilish. 5171. 5203. FENNE, n. 12824. The name of the Sections of Am-

cenne's great work, entitled Canun. See CANON. FEOFFED, part. pa. FR. Infeoffed. 9572. FER, adv. SAX. Far. 4013. 5078. FERRE, comp. 48. 1852. 2062. Further. FERREST, superl. 496. Furthest. FERD, FERED, part. pa. of FERE. Terrified. 15392.

16392. T. ii. 124.

FERD, FERDE, pa. t. of FARE. 1374. 3457- 10775. FERDEN,;MZ. t.pl. 1649. 2119. FERE, n. SAX. A companion ; a wife. T. iv. 791.

In fore. 474S. 4814. Together; in company. FERE for FIRE. R. 2471. T. i. 229. FERE, n. SAX. Fear. 2346. 6604. u. SAX. To terrifie. T, iv. 1483.

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FERFORTH, FERFORTHLY, adv. SAX. Far forth. 962. 4992.

FERLY, adj. SAX. Strange. 4171.

FERMACIE for PHARMACIE, n. FR. A medicine. 2715.

FERME, n. FR. A farm. 253.

FERMERERE, n. LAT. Infirmarius. The officer, in a religious house, who had the care of the infirmary. 7441. Du Cange, in v.

FERNE, adj. SAX. Before. 10570. See the note.

FERS, adj. FR. Fierce. 1600.

FERS, n. Du. 654. seq. The piece at chess next to the king, which we and other European nations call the queen ; though very improperly, as Hyde has observed. Pherz, or Pherzdn, which is the Persian name for the same piece, signifies the King's Chief Counsellor, or General. Hist. Sha- hilud. p. 88, 9.

FERTHING, n. SAX. A farthing; any very small thing. No ferthing — of grese. 134. Not the smallest spot of grease.

FEST, n. SAX. Fist. 12736.

FESTE, n. FR. Feast. 10375.

FESTEYING, part. pr. FR. Feasting. 10659.

FESTLICH adj. Used to feasts. 10595.

FETCHE, n. SAX. A vetch. T. HI. 938.

FETE, n. FR. Work. 8305.

FETISE, adj. Well made; neat. 157.

FETISELY, adv. Neatly; properly. 124.3205.

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FETTE, FET, part. pa. of FECCHE. 821. 2529. 5087. FEY, n. FR. Faith. L W. 2508. FEYRE, n. FR. A fair, or market. 5803. FIAUNCE, n. FR. Trust. R. 5481. FIDEL, n. SAX. A fiddle. 298. FILL for FELL, pa, t. of FALL. 1105. 2668. FINCH, n. SAX. A small bird. To pull a finch. 654. was a proverbial expression, signifying, To strip a man, by fraud, of his money, fyc. See R. 5983. If I may gripe a riche man, I shall so pulle him, if I can, That he shall in a fewe stoundes Lese all his markes and his poundes. — Our maidens shall eke plucke him so, That him shall neden/ei/iers mo. — See also R. 6820.

Withoute scalding they hem pulle. FIND, v. SAX. To find. To supply. 12471. See

the n.

FINT for FINDETH. 4069. 15686. FINE, FIN, n. FR. End. 4844. 9980. FINE, ». FR. To cease. 6718. R. 1797. FINE, adj. FR. Of fine force. T. v. 421. Of very

necessity. FIT, n. SAX. A division, or short portion of a poem.

13816. See Gloss. Percy, in v. FITTINGEST, adj. sup. SAX. Most fitting. A F.

551. FIXE, adj. FR. Fixed. 11594. 16247-

88 GLOSSARY.

FLAIE for FLEY, pa. t. of FLEE. Flew. C N. 213. FLAINE, part. pa. of FLAIE, v. SAX. Flaied, or

flead. P. 45.

FLAMBE, n. FR. FLAME. T. v. 302. FLA TOUR, n. FR. A flatterer. 15331. Con/. Am.

154 b. FLA WE, adj. Yellow; from the LAT. Flavus. C L.

782. Gloss. Ur.

FLECKED, adj. Spotted, 9722. 16033. FLECKERING, part.pr. 1964. See FLICKER. FLEE, v. neut. SAX. To fly. 6102. 10436. FLEEN, n. pi. SAX. Fleas. 16966. FLEME, v. SAX. To banish. 17131. R. 6781. FLEMED, part. pa. 15526. FLEMER, n. Banisher. 4880. FLETE, v. SAX. To float; to swim. 2399 FLETE for FLETETH. 4883. FLETING, part. pr. 1958. FLICKER, v. neut. SAX. To flutter. P. 100. T.

iv. 1221. FLIT, v. neut. SAX. To fly. P. 37. R. 5359.

Ellefuit. Orig.

FLIT, v. act. R. 1812. To remove. FLITTED, part. pa. Removed, shifted. T. v. 1543. FLITTERING, part.pr. Floating. Bo. in. m. 9.

Fluitantis. Orig. FLO, n. SAX. An arrow. 17213. FLONE.P/. BK.

469. FLOCKMEL, adv. SAX. In a flock. 7962.

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FLOREIN, pr. n. A species of gold coin. 12704.

FLOTERY, adj. SAX. Floating. See the n. on v. 2885.

FLOTTE, v. FR. To float. Bo. in. pr. 11.

FLOTTE, v. Bo. in. pr. U. as FLETE.

FLOURELES, adj. Without flower. C D. 1860.

FLOURETTE, n. FR. A small flower. R. 891.

FLOYTING. 91. Playing on the flute. See the note.

FOINE, v. FR. To make a pass, in fencing ; to push. 1656. 2552.

POISON, n. FR. , Abundance. 3165. 4924.

FOLED, part. pa. SAX. Foaled. 7127.

FOLEHARDINESS, n. FR. Rashness. Bo. i. pr. 3.

FOLE-LARGE, adj. M. 135. P. 94. penult. Fool ishly liberal.

FOLIE, n. FR. Folly. 3148. 1800.

FOLILY, adv. Foolishly. 9277. 15896.

FOLWE, v. SAX. To follow. 530. 6165.

FOLY, adj. Foolish. R. 5006. 5085.

FOND, adj. SAX. Foolish. R. 5366.

FOND, pa. t. of FIND. 3819. 10121.

FONDE, v. SAX. To try. 4767. 9284. T. in. 1161.

FONG, v. SAX. To take. 4797.

FONNE, v. SAX. A fool. 4087.

FONNE, v. To be foolish. C L. 458.

FONT-STONE, n. SAX. A font for baptizing. 5143.

FOR, prep. SAX. Pro. LAT. Pour. FR. It is fre quently prefixed to verbs in the infinitive mode,

90 GLOSSARY.

in the French manner. For to tellen. 73. For to don. 78. Pour dire; Pour fair e. For to han ben. 754. Pour avoir tie". — It sometimes signifies — Against. For percingof his herte. 13791. Against, or to prevent, piercing. For steling of the Rose. R. 4229. Against stealing. See PP. 31. Some shall sow the sacke for sheding of the wheate. i. e. to prevent shedding.

FOR, conj. SAX. Quia. LAT. Pour ce que. FR. Because that. For him luste to ride so. 102. FOR she wolde virtue plese. 8092. FOR I teche. 12374.

FOR, in composition, has various powers. It is most commonly intensive of the signification of the word with which it is joined ; as in Fordronken, Fordry, Forfered, &c. sometimes privative, as in Forboden, Foryete ; and sometimes only communicative of an ill sense, as in Forfaite, For/are, Forjuged, &c.

For, FR. and Ver, BELG. have similar powers in composition.

FORBERE, v. SAX. To abstain. R. 4751.

FORBODEN, part. pa. of FORBEDE, v. SAX. For bidden. P. 98. R. 6616.

FORBRAKE, pa. t. Broke off. Bo. iv. pr. 1. Abrupt. Orig.

FORBRUSED, part. pa. FR. Sorely bruised. 14532.

FORCE, n. FR. No force. 7711. No matter. I do no force. 6816. I care not. I do no force of your divinitee. 7094. I care not for your divinity. No force of deth. 8968. No matter for death. They

GLOSSARY. 91

yeve no force. R. 4826. They care not. " De

fruit avoir ne fait force." Orig. FORCUTTE, v. SAX. To cut through. 17289. FORDO, v. SAX. To do away; to ruin. 13057. FORDON, FORDO, part. pa. Undone. 11866.17239. FORDRIVE (Tor driven), part. pa. SAX. Driven away.

R. 3782. FORDRONKEN, part. pa. SAX. Very drunken, 3122.

12608.

FORDRY, adj. SAX. Very dry. 10723. FORDWINED, part. pa. SAX. Wasted away. R. 366. FORE (Foren), part. pa. of FARE, v. SAX. Gone. R.

2710.

FORE, prep. SAX. is seldom used by itself. In corn- position it has the power of Before. FOREIN, n. L W. 1960. A jakes. Gloss. Ur. from

SK. The context seems rather to require that it

should signifie An outward court, or garden. FOREWETING, n. SAX. Foreknowledge. 15249. FOREWOTE, FOREWETE, v. SAX. To foreknow.

15240.

FORFAITE, v. FR. To misdo. P. 25. FORFARE, v. SAX. To fare ill. R. 5388. FORFERED, part. pa. SAX. Much afraid. 10841.

T. iv. 1411.

FORGIFTE, n. SAX. Forgiveness. L W. 1851. FORGON, inf. v. SAX. To omit; to lose. 9959.

17244. FORGROWEN, part. pa. SAX. Overgrown. F L. 45.

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FORJUGED, part. pa. FR. Wrongfully judged. B K.

275. FORKERVE, v. SAX. To carve, or cut through.

17289.

FORLAFE, part. pa. SAX. Left off entirely. 12017 . FORLESE, v. SAX. To lose entirely. P. 91. FORLETE, v. SAX. To give over; to quit. P. 6. FORLORE (TorlorenJ, part. pa. SAX. Utterly lost.

3505. FORLOYNE, ft. FR. Forlonge. A term of the chase,

which signifies that the game is far off. Du. 386. FORME, adj. SAX. First. Adam oure FORME/a^er.

M. 94.

FORMEST, adj. sup. SAX. First. Du. 89O. FORMELL, AF. 371. is put for the female of any

fowl; more frequently for a female eagle. Seever.

445. 535.

FORPINED, part. pa. SAX. Wasted away; torment ed. 205. 1455.

FORSAKE, v. SAX. To denie. Bo. n. pr. 3. 4. FORSHAPEN, /iar£. pa. SAX. Transformed. T. n. 66. FORSHRONKE (Forshronken) , part. pa. SAX. Shrunk

up. F L. 358.

FORSLEUTHE, FoRSLOUTHE, FoRSLUGGE, V. SAX.

To lose through sloth. 15102. P. 77- FORSONGEN, part. pa. SAX. Tired with singing.

R. 664.

FORSTER, n. FR. A forester. 117- FORSTRAUGHT, part. pa. SAX. Distracted. 13035.

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FORTHBY, adv. SAX. Forward by. 13499. 13532. FORTHER, v. SAX. To further, to advance. T. n.

1368. FORTHINKE, v. SAX. To grieve ; to vex. 9780.

T. ii. 1414.

FORTHOUGHT, pa. t. of FoRTHINKE. R. 1671.

FORTHREN, inf. m. of FORTHER. T. v. 1706. FORTH Y, conj. SAX. Therefore. 1843. FORTRODEN, part. pa. of FORTREAD, v. SAX. Tro-

den down. P. 16.

FORTUIT, adj. FR. Accidental. Bo. v. pr. 1. FORTUNE, v. FR. To make fortunate. 419. To give

good or bad fortune. 2379. FORTUNOUS, adj. Proceeding from fortune. Bo. n

pr. 3, 4. FORWAKED, part. pa. SAX. Having waked long.

5016. FORWANDRED, par. pa. SAX. Having wandered

long. R. 3336. FORWELKED, part. pa. SAX. Much wrinkled. H.

360. FORWEPT, part. pa. SAX. Having much wept. C D.

1833.

FORWERED, part. pa. SAX. Worn out. R. 235. FORWERIE, adj. SAX. Very weary. R. 3336. FORWORD (Foreword), n. SAX. A promise, or cove nant. 831. 854. FORWOUNDED, part. pa. SAX. Much wounded. R.

1830.

94 GLOSSARY.

FoRWRAppED,par£.pa. Wrapped up. 12652. P. 31. FORYELDE, v. SAX. To repay. 8707. L W. 457. FORYETE, v. SAX. To forget. 1884. FORYETTEN, part. pa. 3055. FOSTER, n. FR. R. 6329. as FORSTER. FOSTRED, part. pa. of FOSTER, v. SAX. Nourished.

8916, 9.

FOSTRING, n. Nutriment. 7427. FOTE-HOT. 4858. Immediately. See the n. and

add to the instances there quoted. Du. 375. FOTE-MANTEL. 474. means, I suppose, a sort of rid ing-petticoat, such as is now used by market- women. POTHER, n. SAX. A carriage-load; an indefinite

large quantity. 532. 1910. FOUDRE, n. FR. Lightning. F. u. 27- FOULE, n. SAX. A bird. 10463. FOUND, pa. t. of FIND. Supplied. 12471. See

the n.

FOUNDE, v. An. 244. as FONDE. FOUNDRED, pa. t. of FOUNDER, v. FR. Fell down.

2689.

FOWERTIE, num. SAX. Forty. R. 5733. FOXERIE, n. Foxish manners. R. 6795. FRA for FRO, prep. SAX. From. It is sometimes used adverbially. Til and fra. 4037. To and fro. 2850.

FRAINE,V. SAX. To ask. T. v. 1226. FRAKNES, n. pi. SAX. Spots, freckles. 2171.

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FRANCHISE, n. FR. Frankness, generosity. 9861. 11828.

FRANK, n. A denomination of French money ; an swering at present to the Livre Tournois. 13111.

FRANKELEIN, n. FR. See his CHARACTER, ver. 333 — 362. and the n. on ver. 333.

FRAUGHT, v. SAX. To freight, load a ship. 4591.

FRE, adj. SAX. Willing, unconstrained. 854. — At liberty. 5631,— Liberal, bountiful. 13106.13462.

FREDOM, n. SAX. 46. 17075. as FRANCHISE.

FREELTEE, n. FR. Frailty. 5674, 5.

FREGIUS for PHRYGIUS. Du. 1070.

FREMDE, FREMED, adj. SAX. Strange. 10743. T. ii. 248. Tofrend ne to FREMED. P P. 79.

FRENETIKE, adj. FR. Frantick. T. v. 206.

FRENSEIE, «. FR. A frenzy. T. i. 738.

FRERE, n. FR. A Frier. See his CHARACTER. ver. 208—271. and P P. 12. a. b.

FRESHE, v. FR. To refresh. R. 1513.

Fret, n. FR. A band. L W. 225, 8. F L. 152.

FRET, FRETTE, part. pa. FR. Fraught, filled. R. 4705. L W. 1115. C L. 124. or, perhaps, Wrought in a kind of fret-work. A sort of Blazon is called Fretti. InR. ver. 4705. And through the fret full of falshede — we should read — A trouthe/re£/w// offalshede.

FRETE, v. SAX. To eat, devour. 2070.

FRETING, part. pr. 2021.

FRETTE (Freted), part. pa. 4895.

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FREYNE, v. SAX. 13530. 15901. as FRAINE.

FRISE, pr. n. Friezland. R. 1093.

FROTE, v. FR. To rub. 3/46. T. in. 1121.

FROUNCELES, adj. FR. Without wrinkle. R. 860.

FROWARD, adj. SAX. Averse. R. 4940.

FRO YE. T. i. 5. From you. Ye is put for You, that Fro ye may rime, in appearance at least, with joye and Troye. So in ver. 7038. say ye rimes to praye. See more of these double rimes in the n. on ver. 674. and add the following passages, in which the (ihee), being the eleventh and last sylla ble of the verse, is to be pronounced without any accent.

FRUCTUOUS, adj. FR. Fruitful. 17384.

FRUITESTERE, n. SAX. A female seller of fruit. 12402.

FUL-DRIVE, part. pa. Fully driven, completed. 11542.

FULKE (f. FOLKE), n. SAX. People. F. i. 73.

FULSUMNESSE, n. SAX. Satiety. 10719.

FUMETERE, pr. n. of a plant; Fumitory. 14969.

FUMARIA — purgat bilem et humores adustos. Ray's Synopsis.

FUMOSITEE, ra. FR. Fumes arising from excessive drinking. 10672. 12501.

FUNDAMENT, n. FR. Foundation. 7685.

FURIAL, adj. FR. Raging. 10762.

FUSIBLE, adj. FR. Capable of being melted. 16324.

FY, inter j. FR. 7509. Isayfy. 4500. I crie shame.

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G.

GABBE, v. FR. To talk idly; to lye. 3510. 15072.

Gabbe I of this ? Bo. n. pr. 5. Num id mentior ? GACIDES. F. in. 116. is probably a misprint for

dSacides; though I do not know that Chiron had

any right to that title.

GADLING, n. SAX. An idle vagabond. R. 938. GADRED, part. pa. SAX. Gathered. 4379. GAILER, n. FR. Gaoler. 14*6. GAILLARD, adj. FR. Brisk, gay. 3336. 4365. GAITRE-BERIES. 14971. Berries of the dog-wood

tree ; Cornusfcemina. GALAXIE, pr. n. The milky way ; a tract in the

heavens so called. F. n. 428. GALE, v. SAX. See the n. on ver. 6414. GALFRIDE, pr. n. Geoffrey of Monmouth. F. in.

382. Geoffrey Vinsauf. C L. 11. See GAUFRIDE. GALICE, pr. n. A province of Spain. 468. The fa mous shrine of St. James at Compostella was in

Galicia.

GALINGALE, pr. n. Sweet cyperus. 383. GALLIEN, GALIAN, pr. n. Galen. 433. 12240.

See the notes.

GALOCHE, n. FR. A shoe. 10869. GALPE, v. SAX. To gape, to yawn. 16984. GALPING, part. pr. Gaping, yawning. 10664. GALWES, n. pi. SAX. The gallows. 6240. 14652. GAN, pa. t. of GINNE, v. SAX. Began. 11153.

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98 GLOSSARY.

GANNEN, pi. T. 11. 194. GAR, v. SAX. To make. 4130. GARDEBRACE, n. FR. Armour for the arm. C D.

1554.

GARGATE, n. FR. The throat. 15341. GARISOUN. R. 3249. Seems to be used as aw. To

heal. The Orig. has Garwon, a n. Healing, re covery.

GARNEMENT, n. FR. A garment. Magd. 354. GARNER, ». FR. A granary, or store-room. R.

1148. 681O. GARNISON, n. FR. A guard, or garrison. M. 86.

R. 4204.

GASTNESS, n. SAX. Gastliness. Bo. HI. pr. 5. GATE, GATTE, pa. t. of GET, v. SAX. Gate; Be-

gate. R. 2692. L W. 2561. GATE, n. SAX. Away. Went her gate. R. 3332.

Went her way. GATISDEN, pr. n. 436. John Gatesden, author of a

medical work, entitled Rosa Anglicana, in the XIV

Century. See Tanner, in v. GAT-TOTHED. 470. See the note. GAUDE, n. FR. Jest. 12323. T. n. 351. GAUDES,

pi. Ridiculous tricks. P. 73. GAUDED. 159. See the note. GAUFRIDE, pr. n. 15353. See the note. GAURE, v. To stare. 3825. 5332. For them, that

GAURED and cast on me their sight. Lydg. Trag.

B. ix..f. 22 b.

GLOSSARY. 99

GAWAIN, pr. n. nephew to King Arthur, by his sister, married to King Lot. So says the British His tory, which goes under the name of Geoffrey of Monmouth ; and I believe it will be in vain to look for any more authentic genealogist of all that family. He is there called Walganus. The French Romancers, who have built upon Geoffrey's foundations, agree in describing Gawain as a mo del of knightly courtesy. To this his established character our author alludes in ver. 10409. and in R. 2209.

GAYLER, n. FR. 1472. as GAILER.

GEANT, n. FR. Giant. The Crane the geant. A F. 344.

GEAR, n. F L. 26. See GERE.

GENDE for GENT. B K. 127.

GENELON, pr. n. of one of Charlemagne's officers, who, by his treachery, was the cause of the de feat at Roncevaux, the death of Roland, &c. for which he was torn to pieces by horses. This at least is the account of the author who calls him self Archbishop Turpin, and of the Romancers who followed him ; upon whose credit the name of Genelon, or Ganelon, was for several centuries a synonymous expression for the worst of traitors. Our author alludes to his treachery, ver. 14699. 15233. and to his punishment, ver. 13124. See also Du. 1121.

GENT, adj. FR. Neat, pretty. 3234. 13645,

100 GLOSSARY.

GENTERIE, w. FK. Gentility. 6728.

GENTIL, adj. FR. in its original sense means Well born; of a noble family, 6735. R. 2194. II y avoit un Chevalier, Capitaine de la ville ; — point gentil- homme nestoit : — et V avoit fait, pour sa vaillance, le Roy Edouard Chevalier. Froissart. v. ii. c. 77- — It is commonly put for Civil ; liberal ; gentleman like.

GENTILLESSE, n. FR. follows the significations of GENTIL.

GEOMANCIE, n. FR. Divination by figures made on the earth. P. 67.

GERE, n. SAX. All sorts of instruments ; of Cookery. 354. of War. 2182. of Apparel. 8248. of Che mistry. 16263. In hir quainte geres, 1533. In their strange fashions.

GERIE, GERFUL, 1538. 1540. Changeable. Pro bably from the FR. Girer. To turn round. GIER- FUL. T. iv. 286.

GERLOND, ». FR. A garland. 668. The name of a dog. 15389.

GESSE, v. SAX. To guess. 2595. 3467.

GEST, n. SAX. A guest. 8214.

GESTE, v. See the n. on ver. 17354.

GESTES, n. pi. LAT. Actions, adventures. T. n. 1349. The Romain gestes. 10158. See the note.

GESTOUR, n. A relater of gestes. See the n. on ver. 13775.

GET, n. FR. Geste. Fashion, behaviour. 684. See

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the note. With that false get. 16745. With that cheating contrivance.

GETHE for GOETH. L W. 2143.

GIE, v. SAX. To guide. 15604. 15627-

GIGGES, n. pi. F. in. 852. Irregular sounds, pro duced by the wind, &c. Gigue, FR. signified a musical instrument, like a fiddle; and from thence a sort of light tune. Menage, in v. It is probably a word of Teutonic original. See Junius.

GILBERTIN, pr. n. An English Physician of the XIII Century. See Fabricius, Bibl. Med. JEt. in

V. GlLBERTUS DE AQUILA.

GILOUR, n. FR. A deceiver. 4319.

GILT, part. pa. SAX. Gilded ; of the colour of gold.

L W. 230.

GILT, n. SAX. Guilt. 5969.

GILTE-LES, adj. SAX. Free from guilt. 1312. 1314. GILTIF, adj. SAX. Guilty. 5088. Cow/. Am. 62 b. GIN, n. FR. Engine ; contrivance. 10442.16633. GINGIBER, n. FR. Ginger. R. 1369. GINNE, v. SAX. To begin. T. v. 657. GIPCIERE, n. FR. A pouch or purse. 359. GIPE, n. FR. An upper frock, or cassock. R. 7214. GIPON, n. FR. A short cassock. 75. 2122. GIRDE, v. SAX. To strike, to smite. 14464. This

word is perhaps the original of Gride, in Spenser.

See Obs. on Sp. v. ii. p. 62. GIRDELSTEDE, n. SAX. The waist; the place of

the girdle. R. 826.

102 GLOSSARY.

GIELES, n. pL SAX. Young persons, either male

or female. 666. GIRT, part. pa. of GIRDE. Thurgh girt. 1012.

Smitten through. GISARME, n. FR. A battle-ax. R. 5978. See Du

Cange, in v. Gisarma. GISE, n. FR. Guise, fashion. 2127. At his owen

gise. 665. In his own manner; as he would wish. GITE. n. FR. A gown. 3952. 6141. GITERNE, n. FR. A guitar. 3333. 4394. GITERNING, n. Playing on a Giterne. 3363. GLADE, ». SAX. To make glad. 11280. 14817. GLADER, n. One that maketh glad. 2224. GLADSOM, adj. SAX. Pleasant. 14784. GLASE for CLOSE, v. T. v. 469. GLASE, v. SAX. To put glass into windows. Du.

323.

GLASINGE, n. Glass-work. Du. 327. GLE, n. SAX. Mirth. 13769.— Musick. T. 11. 1O36.

GLEES, pi. Musical instruments. F. in. 119. GLEDE, n. SAX. A burning coal. 3379. GLEBES,

pi. 3880. Sparks of fire. GLEIRE, n. FR. The white of an egg. 16274. GLENT.JJO. t. Glanced. T. iv. 1223. GLEVE, «. FR. Glaive. A lance. C L. 544. GLIMSING, n. Glimmering. 1O257. GLITEREN, pr. t. pi. of GLITER, v. SAX. 979. GLOBE, pa. t. of GLIDE, v. SAX. 10707. 13832.

She GLODE/or</i, as an adder doth. Conf. Am. 105.

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GLOMBE, v. SAX. To look gloomy. R. 4356. GLOSE, n. FR. A comment or interpretation. 7374- GLOSE, v. To comment, or interpret. 5609. 5701. — To speak tenderly. 10225. — To flatter. 6091. 16983.

GLOTON, n. FR. A glutton. R. 4307. GLOWEDEN, pa. t. pi. of GLOW, v. SAX. 2134. GNARRE, n. SAX. A hard knot in a tree. 551. GNAT, n. SAX. is put for any little worthless thing.

5929. 17204.

GNIDING, part. pr. SAX. Rubbing. 2506. GNOFFE, n. 3188. " An old cuff; a miser." Gloss.

Ur. I know not upon what authority. GNOWE, pa. t. of GNAWE, v. SAX. 14758. Go, v. SAX. means sometimes To walk, in contra distinction to riding. 1353. 2254. Go (Gon), part. pa. T. 11. 795. GOBBET, n. FR. A morsel ; a bit. 698. GOD, n. SAX. God toforne. R. 7294. T. i. 1060. God going before. Deofavente. — Goddes armes two. 6415, 12588. Goddes bones. 12629. 12906. Vulgar oaths. — A Goddes kichel. 7329. See the note. A' Goddes half. 5632. See HALFE. GODE, GOOD, n. SAX. Wealth ; goods. 7534, 5. GODE-LES, adj. Without money or goods. 13220. GODELYHEDE, n. SAX. Goodness. R. 4604. T. in.

1736.

GODENESS, n. SAX. At godeness. R. 1453. At ad vantage. And so we should read in R. 3462.

104 GLOSSARY.

where the Editt. have At gode mes. The Orig.

has en bon point.

GODSIB, n. SAX. A gossip ; a godfather. P. 107. GOFISH, adj. Foolish. T. in. 585. from the Fa.

Go/e-} Dull, stupid. GOLD, n. A flower, commonly called A Turnsol.

1931. Gower says, that Leucothea was changed Into ajloure was named GOLDE, Which stont governed of the sonne.

Conf. Am. 121 b. GOLD-HEWEN, adj. SAX. Of a golden hewe, or

colour. 2502.

GOLDSMITHRIE, n. SAX. Goldsmith's work. 2500. GOLET, n. FR. The throat, or gullet. R. 7096. GOLIARDEIS. See the n. on ver. 562. GOMME, n. FR. Gum. L W. 121. GON, inf. m. SAX. To go. 2512. So mote I gon.

3116. 11089. So may I fare well. So mote I

ride or go. 7524. So may I fare well, riding or

walking, i e. in all my proceedings. See Go.

GON, pr. t. pi. 771. 2604. 2965.

part. pa. Gone. 4437.5137.

GONFANON, n. FR. A banner, or standard. R.

1<201. 2018.

GONG, n. SAX. A little-house ; ajakes. P. 103. GONNE, n. A gun. L W. 637. F. in. 553. GONNEN, GONNE, pa. t. pi. of GINNE. 11230.

15985. GORE, n. See the n. on ver. 3237. since which it

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has been suggested to me by a learned person, whom I have not the honour to know, that Gore is a common name for a slip of cloth or linen, which is inserted in order to widen a garment in any particular place. GOOB OF A CLOTH. La- cinia. Prompt. Parv. See also the Glossary to Rennet's Paroch. Antiq. in v. Gore. This sense will suit very well with the context of ver. 3237, but hardly, I think, with that of ver. 13719; unless we suppose, that gore is there put for shirt, because shirts have usually gores in them. The expression would certainly be very aukward, and unlike Chaucer's general manner, but in this place (the Rime of Sire Topas) he may be sup posed to have taken it purposely from one of those old Romances, which are the objects of his ridicule. See the n. on ver. 13845.

GOSE for GOES. C D. 1286. Goeth.

GOSPELLERE, 7z. SAX. Evangelist. R. 6887.

GOSSOMER, n. A thin cobweb-like substance which flies about in the air. 10573.

GOST, n. SAX. Spirit; mind. 5679.

GOTH, imp. m. 2 pers. pi. Go ye. 2560. 14200.

GOVERNAILLE, n. FR. Government, steerage. 9068.

GOUNE-CLOTH. 7829. 7S34. Cloth enough to make a gown.

GOURD, n. A vessell to carry liquour; perhaps so called from its shape. 17031, 40.

106 GLOSSARY.

GOWER, pr. n. T. v. 1855. An eminent English poet, to whom Chaucer directs his Troilus and Cre- seide. Some circumstances relating to him are touched upon in the Essay, &c. n. 55. the Dis course, &c. § XIV. XV. n. 15, 16. and in the Notes, Vol. iv. 302.

GRACE, n. FR. Favour. 3071. Sory grace. 6328. Harde grace. 16133. Misfortune. T. i. 713. So full of sorowe am I, sothe to sayne, That certainly no more harde grace May sit on me, for why ? there is no space.

So Hercules, ap. Euripid. H/>. M. 1250.

Fe/xw xaxwv Sij, x Sxer e<7& omj re&ij.

The criticism of Longinus, Sect. XL. is perhaps equally applicable to both passages.

With harde grace. 7810. is to be understood as spoken, in a parenthesis, of the Cherl ; Misfor tune attend him! See WITH. Save your grace, M. 91. With your favour. Sauve votre grace.

GRACIOUS, adj. FR. Agreeable. 3693. Graceful. 8489.

GRAME, n. SAX. Grief. 16871. Anger. T. in. 1030. Felle it to gode or GRAME. P L. 327.

GRAMMERE, n. FR. Grammar. 13466.

GRAND MERCIE, FR. Great thanks. 8964.

GRANE, n. FR. A grain, a single seed. T. n. 1028.

GRANGE, n. FR. A Farm-house. 3668.

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GRAPINEL, n. FR. A grapling-iron. L W. 64O.

GRATCHE, R. 7368. " is perhaps the same with Graithe, if not mistaken for it." Gloss. Ur. See GREITHE. The Orig. has — S'AOURNE comme beguyne.

GRAUNSON,/)?-. n. C M V. ver. ult. See An account of the works of Chaucer, &c. Vol. i. p. xli.

GRAVE, v. SAX. To carve, to engrave. T. n. 47. T. in. 1468.

GRAVE, ^Graven) part. pa. Buried. 6647.11288.

GRE, n. FR. Pleasure, satisfaction, from Grains, LAT. To receive in gre. 4679. 9017. To take kindly. The gre. 2735. The prize. See the note. — From Gradus, LAT. it signifies A step, or degree. 9249.

GREDE, n. SAX. A greedy person. R. 6002.

GREDE; v. BARB. LAT. To cry. C N. 135.

GREIN, n. FR. Grew, de Paris. R. 1369. de Pa- radis. Orig. Grains of Paradise; a sort of Spice. The same are meant in ver. 3690. — Grain of Por- tingale. 15465. A sort of scarlet-dye, called Kermes or Vermillion.

GREITHE, v. SAX. To prepare, make ready. 4307 . 14512.

GRENEHED, n. SAX. Childishness. 4583.

GRESE, n. FR. Grease. 135. 6069.

GRETE for GREDE, v. R. 4116.

GRETTE, pa. t. of GRETE. v. SAX. Greeted, sa luted. 5471. 8828.

108 GLOSSARY.

GREVES, n. pL SAX. Groves. 1497- R. 3019. GRILLE, adj. R. 73. f. Horrible. GRYMN. GRYL

AND HORRYBLE. Horridus. Prompt. Parv. GRINT for GRINDETH, 5971. GRINTE. pa. t. of GRIND, v. SAX. Ground. Grint

with his teeth. 7743. Gnashed with h. t. GRINTING, n. Grinding, gnashing. P. 18. GRIS, n. FR. A species of Furr. See the n. on

ver. 194.

GRISLY, adj. SAX. Dreadful. 19*3. 6318. GROCHE, v. SAX. To grutch, to murmur. 3861.

6025. GROFF, adj. SAX. Flat on the ground. 951. 13605.

R. 2561. GROINE, n. FR. The snowt of a swine. P. 12.: —

A hanging lip. T. i. 350. GROIN E, v. To hang the lip, in discontent. R.

7099.

GRONE, v. FR. To groan. To grunt. 7411. GRONT. pa. t. 14627. Groaned. GROPE, v. SAX. To search ; to examine by feeling.

7399. 7723.

GROT, n. A coin, worth four-pence. 6874. 7546. GROUNDED, part. pa. of GRIND, 16243. GROYNING, n. 2462. Discontent. See GROINE. GUERDON, n. FR. Reward; Recompense. 7460..

S759.

GUERDON, v. To reward. P. 26. GUERDONLES, adj. Without reward. B K. 400.

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GUIDO, pr. n. L W. 1462. GUIDO DE COLUMPNIS. F. in. 381. Guido dalle Colonne, of Messina in Si cily, a lawyer and poet, died about 1290. Qua- drio, Vol. ii. p. 160. His History of the Trojan war, to which our author refers, was written in Latin, and finished in 1287- See the n. on ver. 15147. I have there intimated my suspicion, that he translated it, for the most part, from a French Romance of Benoit de Sainte More. How ever that may have been, Guide's work is cer tainly the original, from which the later writers of the middle ages have generally taken their accounts of Trojan affairs. It was translated into Italian in 1324 by Filippo Ceffi, a Florentine. [Quadrio, Vol. vi. p. 475.] A French transla tion is also extant, in which it is said to be translates en Francois premierement du comman- dement du Maire de la cite'de Beauvais, en nom et en honneur de Karles le roy de France, Tan mil. CCC. quatre vingtz. [MS. Reg. 16. F. ix.] This is probably the French translation men tioned by Lydgate in the Prologue to his Boke of Troye, which is a mere paraphrase in verse of Guide's history, with some digressions and addi tions of his own. Lydgate's work was finished ',(as he tells us himself at the end) in 1420.

110 GLOSSARY.

H.

HABERGEON, n. FR. A diminutive of Hauberg, a coat of mail. 76. 13790.

HABILITEE, n. FR. Ability. C L. 1044.

HABITACLES, n. pi. FR. Places of habitation. F. in. 104.

HABITE, v. FR. To dwell. R. 660.

HABUNDANT, part. pr. FR. Abundant. 7935.

HACKENAIE, n. FR. An ambling horse, or pad. R. 1137.

HACKING, n. FR. Cutting in pieces. F. HI. 213.

HADDEN,P<I. t. pi. of HAVE. 375. 762.

HAF, pa. t. of HEVE. v. SAX. Heaved, raised. 2430.

HAIE, Hay, n. FR. A hedge. R. 54. 3007.

HAILE, n. SAX. Health, welfare. 4087.

HAILES, pr. n. of an Abbey in Gloucestershire. See the n. on ver. 12587.

HAIRE, n. FR. A hair-cloth. 15601. R. 438.

HAKENEY, n. FR. 16027- as HACKENAIE.

HAKETON, n. FR. A short cassock, without sleeves. 13789.

HALDEN for HoLDEN,par£. pa. of HOLD. 4506.

HALFE, ». SAX. A side; a part. A' Goddes half. 5632. Du. 370. On God's part; with God's fa vour. A' this halfe God. T L. i. 325. b. On this side of God. Four halves. 3481. Four sides.

GLOSSARY. Ill

HALI, pr. ». 433. An Arabian Physician. Fabric.

Bibl. Gr. t. xm. p. 17. HALKE, n. SAX. A corner, 11432.15779. HALPE, pa. t. of HELP. v. SAX. 14052. R. 1911. HALS, n. SAX. The neck. 4493. HALSE, v. SAX. See the n. on ver. 13575. HALT, pa. t. of HOLD, v. SAX. Held, or kept.

5141.

HALT for HOLT, i. e. Holdeth. Du. 621. HALTE, v. FR. To go lamely. Du. 622. HAME for HOME, n. SAX. 4030. HAMELE, v. SAX. To hamstring; to cut off. T.

ii. 964.

HAMERS, n.pl. SAX. Hammers. Du. 1164. HAN, inf. m. of HAVE, v. SAX. 754. 1048. 2109.

pr. t. pi.. 931. 1022. 7581.

HANSELINES, P. 44. 'appears from the context to

mean a sort of breeches.

HAPPE, n. SAX. Chance. 13168. Bo. v. pr. 1. HAPPE, v. To happen. 587. 6467- HARD. adj. SAX. Hard. Harde grace. 7810. 16133.

Misfortune. See GRACE. It is used adverbially.

9879. 13133.

HARDE, v. SAX. To make hard. 10559. HARDELY (Hardily} adv. FR. Boldly. 10147. adv.

SAX. Certainly. 7867. 7901 . 9186. T. v. 673. HARDING, n. SAX. Hardening. 10557. HARIE, v. FR. To hurry. To harie and drawe.

P. 13.

112 GLOSSARY.

HARIED, part. pa. Hurried. 2728. Ils seroient hariez en grand manere. Froissart. v. i. c. 225.

HARLOT, n. See the n. on ver. 649.

HARLOTRIES, n. pi. Ribaldries. 563.

HARNEIS, n. FR. Armour. 1615. Furniture. 5718.

HARNEISE, v. FR. To dress. R. 2648.

HAROW, interj' FR. See the n. on ver. 3286.

HARPOUR, n. FR. A harper. T. n. 1030. In the Act of Resumption, 28 H. vi. there is a proviso in favour of John Turges, Harpourwith the Queen, for the reversion of an annuity of 10 Marks, after the death of William Langton, Minstrell.

HARWED, p. t. of HARWE, v. SAX. See the n. on ver. 3512.

HASAUBOUR, n. FR. A Player at Hazard ; A game ster. 12530.

HASARDRIE, n. FR. Gaming, in general. 12524.

HASELWODE. T. in. 892. v. 585. 1174. All these passages plainly allude to the same proverbial saying, which appears to have been used in scorn or derision of any improbable hope or expectation. Why it was so used, is beyond my reach to discover. It may be proper however to mention that in T. in. 892. MS. Harl. 3943. reads— Haselwode is shaken; — and that the passage. T. v. 1174. is an imitation of the following in the Filostrato. [See Essay, &c. n. 62.]

Ma Pandero seco tacitamente Ride di cio che Troylo dicea —

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Chel si fusse sembiante facea Di crederlo, e dicia, de mungibelo Aspetta il vento questo tapinello.

HASTIF, adj. FR. Hasty. 3545.

HASTIFLY, adv. Hastily. 13546.

HATE, v. SAX. To be named. R. 38.

HAUBERK, n. FR. A coat of mail. 13792

HAUNCE, v. FR. To raise, to enhance. B K. 431.

HAUNT, n. FR. Custom, practise. 449.

HAUNTE, v. FR. To practise. P. 89.

HAUNTEDEN,pa. t.pl. 12398. Practised, frequented.

HAUTEIN, adj. FR. Haughty. R. 3739. — Loud. 12264. — A hautein faucon. L W. 1118. A high flying hawk; Faulcon haultain. FR.

HAVEN, inf.m. of HAVE, v. SAX. Bo. iv. pr. 2. It is more commonly abbreviated into HAN.

HAVOIR for AVOIR, n. FR. Wealth. R. 4720.

HAWE, n. SAX. A hawthorn-berry. 6241 . T. in. 856. — A farm-yard. 12789. — A church-yard. P. 92.

HAWEBAKE, 4515. See the note.

HE, pron. SAX. is often prefixed in all its cases to proper names emphatically, according to the Saxon usage. He Moises. 10564. He Tityus. T. i. 787. See the n. on ver. 9594. — HE is also fre quently used for IT in all cases. 7550. 7838. 9737. Seethe n. on ver. 9594.

HED. n. SAX. Head. On his hed. 1346. On pain of losing his head. See the note. VOL. v. i

114 GLOSSARY.

HEDDE for HIDDE (Hidden.) L W. 208. HEGGES, n. pi. SAX. Hedges. 15224. HEISUGGE. A F. 612. Curruca, a little bird, which

is supposed to hatch the Cuckow's egg, and to be

destroyed by the young Cuckows. Sp. HELE, v. SAX. Helan. To hide. 6531. R. 6882- HELE, v. SAX. Hselan. To heal, to help. 1250.

10955.

HELE, n. SAX. Health. 3104. 4237. HELELES, adj. Helpless. T. v. 1592. HELISE, pr. n. Elysium. C L. 119. HELMED, part. pa. FR. Armed with an helmet.

14376. T. ii. 593. HELOWIS, pr. n. 6259. Eloisa, the mistress of

Abelard. See a summary of their history in Rom.

de la Rose, ver. 9172—9247. HEM, obi. c. pi. of HE. Them. See HIM ; and

Essay, &c. n. 28.

HEMSELF, HEMSELVE, HEMSELVEN. See SELF. HENCHMEN, n. pi. Pages. F L. 252. See a note

on the Midsummer Night's Dream of Shakespeare.

Act. ii. Sc. 2. Edit. Johnson and Steevens, 1773. HENDE, HENDY, adj. SAX. Civil, courteous, 6868.

3199. HENEN. 4031. HENNE. 2358. 3887. HENNES.

R. 4922. HENS. 12621. adv. SAX. Hence. HENG, pa. t. and part, of HANG, v. SAX. 360. 678.

9757- HENNESFORTH, adv. SAX. Henceforth. 10972.

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HENTE, v. SAX. To take hold of; to catch. 906.

7082.

KENT, pa. t. and part. 700. 6899. 1583. HEPE, n. SAX. A heap. To hepe. T. HI. 1770. Bo.

iv. pr.'6. Together; in a heap. — The fruit of the

Dog-rose. 13677. HERAUD, n. FR. A herald. 2535. HERBERGAGE, n. FR. Lodging. 4327. HERBERGEOURS, n. pi. FR. Providers of lodgings ;

Harbingers, 5417- HERBERWE, n. SAX. An inn ; a lodging. 767.

4143. — The place of the Sun. 1 1 347. In ver. 405.

[See the note.] it rather means, I think, A harbour.

— HERBER, T. n. 17O5. F L. 49. An arbour. HERBERWE, v. SAX. To lodge. R. 6145. HERD, HIERDE, n. SAX. A keeper. 605. 15660.

— HERDEGROMES. F. HI. 135. Shepherd-boys. HERDES, n. pi. Coarse flax. Herde, libra lini.

Kilian. R. 1-233.

That not of hempe ne heerdis was. So this ver. is written in MS. Hunter. The

Orig. has only — elle nefut de bourras. HERE for HIRE, pron. 2059. 3691. 4880. and in

other places, for the sake of the rime. HERE, adv. SAX. In this place. HERE, in composition, signifies this, without includ ing any idea of place. Hereagaines.3041. Against

this. Herebeforn. 1586. Before this. HERE, v. SAX. To hear. 2347.

116 GLOSSARY.

HERD, HERDE, pa. t. and joartf. 221. 955. 1597.

HERDEN, pa. t. pi. 15382.

HERE, n. SAX. Hair. 677.

KEREN, adj. Made of hair. 12670.

HERKING, part. pr. of HERKE, v. SAX. Hearken ing. 10392.

HERMES, pr. n. 169O2. A chemical treatise under his name is extant in the Theat. Chemic. t. iv. See Fabric. Bibl. Gr. L. i. c. 10. HERMES BAL- LENUS. F. in. 183. Whether a different person from him just mentioned, I cannot tell.

HERNE, n. SAX. A corner. 11433. 16126. ,

HERONERE, n. FR. A hawk made to flie only at the heron. T. iv. 413. L W. 1118.

HERONSEWES, n. pi. FR. Young Herons, 10382. See the note.

HERTE for HURT, v. SAX. Du. 883.

HERTE, n. SAX. Heart. Herte-blood. 6300. 12836. Heart's blood. Herte-spone. See the n. on ver. 2608.

HERTELES, adj. Without courage. 14914.

HERTLY, adj. Hearty. 10319.

HERY, v. SAX. To praise. S492. 13548.

HERYING, n. Praise. 13389.

HESTE, n. SAX. Command. 12574. — Promise R. 4475, 7-

HEX, HETTE, pa. t. of HETE, v. SAX. Heated. A F. 145.

HETE, v. SAX. To promise. 240O. 4754. To be called. Du. 200. See HIGHTE.

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HETHENESSE, n. SAX. Country of Heathens. 49.

5532. HETHING, n. SAX. Contempt. 4108. All is thy

HETHiNG/a/Zett upon thee. P L. 273. HEVE, v. SAX. To heave, to raise. 552. — v. neut.

To labour. T. n. 1289. HEVED, n. SAX. Head. F. n. 42. Every virtue

in my heved. So I apprehend this line should be

read, instead of in me heved. HEVEN-QUENE, n. SAX. The queen of heaven; the

Virgin Mary. 16557- HEW OF LINCOLN, pr. n. 13614. See Discourse, &c.

§ xxxn.

HEWE, v. SAX. To cut. 1424. v. neut. C L. 980. T L. i. 325 b. He that

heweth to hie, with chippes he may lese his sight.

So Con/. Am. 18 b.

Full ofte he heweth up so hye, That chyppes fallen in his eye. HEWE,n.SAX. Colour; appearance. 10901. T.n.21. HEWED, part. pa. Coloured. 11557- HEXT, adj. superl. SAX. Highest. C D. 345. Hegh,

Heghest, Heghst, Hext. In the same manner Next

is formed from Negh. HIDOUS, adj. FR. Dreadful. 3520. HIDOUSLY, adv. Terribly. 1703. HIE, v. SAX To hasten. 10605. C D. 1550. HIE, n. Haste, diligence. In, or On hie. 2981.

4629. T. iv. 1385. In haste.

11B GLOSSARY.

HIE, HIGHE, adj. SAX. High. In high and low.

819. 5413. See the n. on ver. 819. HIERDESSE, n. SAX. A shepherdess. T. i. 654.

See HERDE. HIGHEN, F. in. 1062. is perhaps miswritten for

Highe.

HIGHT, n. SAX. Highth. 1892. On hight. 1786. seems to signifie — aloud; in a high voice. En haut. FR.

HIGHTE, v. SAX. See the. n on ver. 1016. HIM, obi. c, of HE, is often used alone in that reci procal sense, which is generally expressed by the addition of the adj. Self. 3052. Than hath he don his frend, ne him, no shame, i. e. nor himself. As he him laid. 13SO. And clad him. 1411. And bare him. 1449.

It is also frequently put without the usual pre position. Him to grete shame. 17209. To great shame of him. Shefalleth him to fete. 5524. She falleth at the feet of him. She sivore him. 6543. She swore to him. Hem and Hire are used in the same manner.

HIMSELF, HIMSELVE, HIMSELVEN. See SELF. HINDEREST, superl. d. of HIND, adv. SAX. Hind most. 624. HINE, «. SAX. A servant in husbandry; a hind.

605.

HINE, n. Bal. Vil. 35. should probably be Hiene. The gall of an hyena was used to cure a cer-

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tain disorder of the eye. Plin N. H. 1. 29. c. 38.

HIPPOCRAS, pr. 11. Hippocrates. 433. See the note.

HIR, pron. poss. SAX. Their. See Essay, &c. p. 93.

HIRE, obi. c. of SHE. pron. SAX. is often put for Herself. 139. 4869. and without the usual prepo sition. 11057. See HIM.

HIRE, pron. poss. SAX. Her. See Essay, &c. p. 93.

HlRESELF, HlRESELVE, HlRESELVEN. See SELF.

HIRS, pron. poss. SAX. Theirs. 7508. See the Essay, &c. n. 29.

HISTORIAL, adj. FR. Historical. 12090.

Ho, interj. FR. commanding a cessation of any ac tion. See the n. on ver. 2535. and I believe o in that verse is put for Ho, and not for Oyez. See the C L. ver. 270.

HOCHEPOT, n. FR. A mixture of various things shaken together in the same pot. M. 108. Huts- pot. BELG.

HOKER, n. SAX. Frowardness. 5? 17-

HOKERLY, adv. Frowardly. P. 64.

HOLD, n. SAX. A fort or castle. 4927.

HOLD, v. SAX. To keep. To hold in honde. T. v. 1370. To keep in suspence. T. v. 1614. 1679. To amuse in order to deceive.

HOLD, HOLDEN, part. pa. Obliged. 5717. T. in. 1265.

120 GLOSSARY.

HOLE, HOL, adj. SAX. Entire; whole; sound. 6952.

7615.

HOLLY, adv. Entirely; wholely. 5793. HOLOUR, n. SAX. A whoremonger. 5836. P. 100. HOLT, ». SAX. A grove, or forest. 6. T. in. 352. HOLT for HOLDETH. 9224. 9386. HOMLY, adj. SAX. Domestick. 9666. — Plain, sim ple. 7425. HOMLINESSE, n. SAX. Domestick management.

8305. — Familiarity. M. 139. HONDE, n. SAX. A hand. An honde-brede. 3809.

An hand's breadth. Withouten honde. T. in. J8S.

Without being pulled by any hand. — HoNDEN,pZ.

R. 6665. HONEST, adj. FR. means generally, according to the

French usage, Creditable, honourable. 246. 13491.

Becoming a person of rank. 8302. 9902. HONESTETEE, HONESTEE, n. FR. Virtue. 8298.

— Decency. 14630. — Good manners. 6849. HONG, v. SAX. To hang. 12724. HONT, n. SAX. Du. 385. as HUNT. HONY-SWETE, adj. SAX. Sweet as honey. 9270. HOPE, v. SAX. To expect. 4027- See the note. HOPPESTERES, n. pi. SAX. Dancers. 2019. See

the note. ,

HORD, n. SAX. Treasure. 13014. — A private place,

fit for the keeping of treasure. P. 95. HORE, HOOR, adj. SAX. Hoary, grey. 7764. 9335. HOROWE, adj. SAX. Foul. C M. 52.

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HORRIBLETE', n. FR. Horribleness. R. 7285. HORS, n. pi. SAX. Horses. 5867. 7141. 13563. HORSE, adj. SAX. Hoarse. Du. 347- HORSLY, adj. 10508. is applied to a horse, as manly

is to a man. HOSPITALERS, n. pi. LAT. Religious persons, of

both sexes, who attended the sick in hospitals.

P. 104. — Knights Hospitalers, of different orders.

R. 6693. See Du Cange in v. Hospitalarius. HOST, n. FR. An army. 14486. HOSTELERE, n. FR. An inn-keeper. 4358. 15035. HOSTELRIE, n. FR. An inn, or lodging-house. 23. HOSTILEMENTS, n. pi. Household furniture. Bo. u.

pr. 5.

HOTE, adj. SAX. Hot. 7018. HOTE, HOTEN, part. pa. of HETE. Called. 3939. HOVE, v. SAX. To hover. T. in. 1433. T. v. 33. HOUND-FISH, n. SAX. The dog-fish. 9699. HOUNE, n. for HOUND. T. iv. 210. Thus said both

here and houne, i. e. hare and hound ; all sorts of

people.

HOUPED, pa. t. FR. Hooped, or hollowed. 15406. HOUSEL, n. SAX. The Eucharist. R. 6386. HOUSELED, v. To administer the sacrament. R. 6437.

— To ben houseled. To receive the sacrament.

P. 123. HOWVE, n. SAX. A cap, or hood. See the n. on

ver. 3909. HULFERE, n. SAX. Holly. B K. 129.

122 GLOSSARY.

HULSTRED, part. pa. SAX. Hidden. R. 6146.

HUMBLEHEDE, n. SAX. Humble state. 1459O.

HUMBLESSE; n. FR. Humility. 4585.

HUMBLING, n. A humming. F. n. 531. Homme- len; Bombilari, bombum edere. Kilian. Hence our Humble-bee.

HUNT, n. SAX. A huntsman. 1680. 20-20.

HURTLE, v. FR. To push. 2618. 4717.

HUSBANDRIE, n. SAX. Thrift, economical manage ment. 4075.

HUSBOND-MAN. w. SAX. The master of the family, 7350.

HUST, adj. SAX. Silent, whist. Bo. n. m. 5.

HYLDE, v. SAX, To pour. Bo. n. m. 2.

HYLLED, part. pa. SAX. Hidden. 15061. See HELE.

I.

I, at the beginning of a word, in the common Editt. and even the MSS. of Chaucer, is often used to express a corruption of the Saxon prepositive par ticle Ee ; which, in this Edit, of the Canterbury tales, (as has been said before in the Essay, &c. p. 92.) is always expressed by y. All such words therefore, occurring in the works of Chau cer not contained in this Edition, should be looked for either under Y or under their second letters.

J ACRE OF DOVER. 4345. See the note. JACKE FOOL. 3708. See the n. on ver. 14816.

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JACOBIN, pr. n. A grey-frier. R. 6338.

JAKKE STRAW, pr. n. 15400. The noise made by the followers of this rebel, to which our author alludes, he had probably heard himself. It is called by Walsingham, p. 251. clamor horrendissi- mus, non similis clamoribus quos edere solent ho mines, sed qui ultra omnem fEstimationem su- peraret omnes clamores humanos, et maxime pos set assimulari ululatibus infernalium incolarum. Many Flemings (Flandrenses) were beheaded by the rebels cum clamor e consueto. Walsingham, ibid.

JAMBEUX, n. pi. FR. Boots ; armour for the legs, 13804.

JANE, n. A coin of (Janua) Genoa. It is put for any small coin. 8875. 13665.

JANGLE, v. FR. To prate ; to talk much, or fast. 10534.

JANGLE, n. Prate, babble. 6989.

J ANGLER, JANG LOUR, n. A prater. 17292, 7.

JANGLERESSE, n. A female prater. 6220.10181.

JAPE, n. SAX. A trick ; a jest. 4341.16780.

JAPE, v. To jest. 13623. — To cheat; to laugh at. 1731.

JAPER, n. A common jester, or buffoon. P. 73.

JAPERIE, n. Buffoonerie. P. 73.

JAPE-WORTHY, adj. Ridiculous. Bo. v. pr. 3.

ICH, ICHE, pron. SAX. I. So the ich. 12881, So the iche. 16397. So may I prosper.

124 GLOSSARY.

IDEL, adj. SAX. Idle; fruitless. In idel. 11179.

P. 64. In vain.

IDOLASTRE, n. FR. An idolater. 10172. JEOPARD, v. To hazard, to put in danger. T. iv.

1566. JEOPARDIE, n. Danger. T. n. 465. T. v. 1529.

JEOPERDISE. Du. 666. JEREMIE, pr. n. Jeremiah. 12569. JEROME, pr. n. 6256. Our author has made much

use of a treatise of St. Jerome, contra Jomnianum.

See the n. on ver. 9172. and ver. 11679, and the

Discourse, &c. n. 19. JESTES, n. pi. T. v. 1510. F. in. passim, as

GESTES. JEWERIE, n. FR. A district, inhabited by Jews.

13419. JEWISE, «. Judgement; punishment. 1741. 5415.

It may have been formed by corruption either of

the LAT. Judicium, or the FR. Justice. Con/. Am.

157. b. 158.

IK, pron. SAX. I. 3862, 5. See ICH. lLioN,pr. n. The citadel of Troy. 15362. ILKE, adj. SAX. Same. 64. 3O35. IMAGINATIF, adj. FR. Suspicious. 11406. IMPED, part. pa. SAX. Planted. R. 5137. IMPES, n. pi. SAX. Shoots of trees. 13962. R.

6293. lMPETREN,/>r. t. pi. FR. Obtain by prayer. Bo. v.

pr. 3.

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IMPORTABLE, ad;'. FR. Intolerable. 14590. R.

6902. — Impossible. 9020. IMPORTUNE, adj. FR. Troublesome. R. 5632. IMPOSSIBLE, adj. FR. used as a substantive. 6270.

T. in. 525. IN, prep. SAX. Upon. 6350. 14500. 14545. In

with. 9460. 9813. Within.

INCOMBROUS, adj. FR. Cumbersome. F. n. 354. INCONSTANCE, n. FR. Inconstancy. 7540. INCUBUS. 6462. See the n. on ver. 6441. INDE, adj. FR. Azure-coloured. R. 67. INDIGNE, adj. FR. Unworthy. 8235. INECHEB, part. pa. SAX. Inserted. T. in. 1335. INEQUAL, adj. FR. Unequal. 2273. INFORTUNAT, adj. LAT. Unfortunate. 4722. INFORTUNE, n. FR. Misfortune. R. 5551. INGOT, n. A mould for casting ingots. 16674. 16701.

16782.

INHABIT, part. pa. FR. Inhabited. C D. 1400. INHILDE, v. SAX. To pour in. T. in. 44. See

HYLDE.

INJURE, n. FR. Injury. T. m. 1020. INLY, adv. SAX. Inwardly, deeply, thoroughly.

6930. R. 397. T. m. 1612. F. i. 31. INNE, prep. SAX. In. 14002. INNE, IN, n. SAX. A house, habitation, lodging.

3547. 5517. 13372.

INNED, part. pa. SAX. Lodged. 2194. INNERESTE, adj. sup. SAX. Inmost. Bo. iv. pr. 6.

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INNOCENT, adj. FR. Ignorant. 8150. 10840. lNSELED,par£. pa. FR. Attested under seal. C D.

1014.

INSET, part. pa. SAX. Implanted. Bo. n. pr. 3. INTERMINABLE, adj. FR. Infinite. Bo. v. pr. 6. INWITTE, n. SAX. Understanding. T L. i. 320 b. JOCE, pr. n. 6065. See the note. JOCONDE, adj. FR. Joyous, pleasant. 16064. JOGELOUR, n. FR. A juggler. 7049. JOINANT, part. pr. FR. Joining. 1O62. JOINE, v. FR. To enjoin. R. 2355. JOLIE ROBIN. The name of a dance. R. 7455. De

la danse le beau Robin. Orig. 12864. — See T. v

1174.

JOLIF, adj. FR. Jolly, joyful. 3355. 4152. JOMBRE, v. To jumble. T. 11. 1037- JONGLERIE, n. T. v. 755. should rather be Jan-

glerie ; Idle talk. See JANGLE. JORDANES, n. pi. See the n. on ver. 12239. JOSSA, interj. 4099 seems to be partly formed from

the FR. ca ! Come hither !

Jovis,pr. n. Jupiter. T. in. 15. F. 1.219. F. in. 917. JOURNEE, n. FR. A day's journey. '2740. d D-

1945.

• A day's work. R. 579.

JOUSTES, n. pi. FR. Justs. C D. 1987-

JOWELES, n. pi. FR. Jewels. R. 542O.

JOYE, v. FR. To enjoy. R. 5028.

IPOCRAS, n. FR. Wine mixed with spices and other

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ingredients ; so named, because it is strained through a woollen cloth, called the sleeve of Hip pocrates. 9681. See CLARKE. IRE, n. FR. Anger. 7416. IROUS, adj. Passionate. 7596, 7, 8. ISAUDE, pr. n. F. in. 707- See BELLE ISAUDE. She is called YSEUT by Bernard da Ventador. MS. Crofts fol. LXVII.

Tant trag pena d'amor, Q'anc Tristan 1'amador Non sofret maior dolor Per Yseut la blonda.

And so in Fabliaux, &c. T. i. p. 242. Yseut la blonde. Petrarch calls her Isotta. Trionfod'Amore. HI. 82. A late French writer, in what he has been pleased to style " Histoire literaire des Trou badours," [T. n. p. 323.] having quoted a pas sage celebrating the love of " Tristan a Isault," adds very coolly — C'est une allusion a quelque Roman ; which is just as if a commentator upon Ovid should say of the epistle from Paris to Helen, that it alludes to some Greek story. IT, pron. 3 pers. neut. gend. SAX. is used instead oi^

He and She. 3764. 5529. 13144. ITAILLE, pr. n. Italy. 8142. JUBALTARE. pr. n. Gibraltar. 5367. JUBBE, n. A vessel for holding ale, or wine. 3628.

13000. JUDICUM. 14052. The book of Judges. So Meta-

12S GLOSSARY.

morphoseos is put for the Metamorphosis of Ovid.

4513. and Eneidos for the JEneis of- Virgil. 15365. JUGE, n. FR. A judge. 12057. 12190. JUIL, pr. n. The month of July. 10007. JULIAN, pr. n. See the n. on ver. 341. JUPARDIE, n. R. 2666. as JEOPARDIE. JUPARTIE, n. FR. Jeopardie. See the n. on ver.

16211.

JUSTICE, n. FR. A judge. 15965. JUSTINIAN, pr. n. R. 6615. The law referred to is

in the Code, L. xi. tit. 25. De mendicantibus va-

lidis. JUVENAL, pr. n. The Roman Satirist. 6774. T. iv.

197-

K.

KALENDER, w. LAT. A Calendar. 13136. — A guide,

or director. L W. 542. KALENDES, n. pi. LAT. The first day of the month ;

the beginning of any thing. T. n. 7. T. v. 1633. KAYNARD. See the n. on ver. 5817. KELE, v. SAX. To cool. C L. 775. KEMBED, KEMPED, part. pa. SAX. Combed. 2291.

2136.

KEMELIN, n. SAX. A tub. 3548. KENELM, pr. n. 15116. See the note. KEPE, n. SAX. Care, attention. 4162. 8934. KEPE, v. To take care. 2240. 2962. KERCHEF, n. 6600. a corruption of COVERCHIEF.

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KERNELS, n. pi. FR. Battlements. R. 4195. KERS, w. SAX. Water-cresses. Of paramours ne

raught he not a kers. 3754. He cared not a rush

for love. CRESSE is used, in the same sense, in

T L. i. 320. and n. 332 b. KERVER, n. SAX. A carver. 1901. KESSE, v. SAX. To kiss. 8933. R. 2610. KESTE, pa. t. Kissed. 10664. KETCHE, v. T. in. 1381. as CACCHE. KEY ERE, v. FR. To cover. In T. i. 918. it sig nifies to recover.

KICHEL, n. SAX. A little cake. 7329. See the note. KID, KIDDE, pa. t. and part, of KITHE. Made

known, discovered. 9817. T. i. 208. R. 2172. KIKE, v. SAX. To kick. 6523. KIN, n. SAX. Kindred. By my fader kin. 9389.

16297. By my father's kindred. KIN, adj. Of the same nature. 5557. KIND, n. SAX. Nature. 17130. T. 1.238. KINDLY, adv. Naturally. 5984. KINREDE, n. Kindred. M. 116. KIRTEL, n. SAX. A tunic, or waistcoat. 3321-

11884. In kirtels and non other wede. R. 778.

Qui estoient en pure cottes. Orig. 775. KITHE. v. SAX. To shew, to make known. 5056.

7191. Ne kithe hire jalousie. 11060. Nor shew

to her any jealousie. KITHED, part. pa. 16522. See KID. KITTE, pa. t. SAX. Cut. 6304.

VOL. v. K

130 GLOSSARY.

KNAKKES, n. pi. SAX. Trifling tricks. 4049. The

word seems to have been formed from the knack- ing, or snapping, of the fingers, used by jugglers.

See Cotgrave, in v. Matassiner des mains, and Ni-

quet. — Trifling words. P. 73. KNAPPE, n. A short sleep, a nap. R. 4005. KNARRY, adj. SAX. Full of gnarres, or knots.

1979. KNAVE, n. SAX. A servant; properly, a boy-servant.

2730. 13240.—^ knave-child. 5135. 8320. A

male child. — This boie knave. R. 3849. Ce gar-

fcw. Orig. KNEDDE, part. pa. of KNEDE, v. SAX. Kneaded.

R. 4811. KNEEN, KNENE, n. pi. SAX. Knees. C D. 294.

436.

KNET, part. pa. R. 2092. as KNIT. KNIGHT, n. SAX. A servant; generally, a servant

in war; a soldier. M. 137. 15851. — A dubbed

knight. See his CHARACTER, ver. 43 — 78. KNIGHTHODE, n. Valour. 14560. KNIT, part. pa. SAX. Joined, bound. 11298. —

Agreed. 11542. KNOBBES, n. pi. SAX. Excrescencies, in the shape

of buds, or buttons. 635. See KNOPPE. KNOPPE, n. SAX. A button. R. 1080. — A rose-bud.

R. 1702.

KNOPPED, part. pa. Buttoned, fastened. R. 7212. KNOTTE, n. SAX. A knot. In ver. 10715. 10721.

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it is used, in the sense of Noeud, Fn./or the chief point, or head of a matter.

KNOTTELES, adj. SAX. Without a knot; without any thing to obstruct or retard the passage T. v. 769.

KNOWE for KNEE; T. n. 1202.

KNOWLECHE, v. SAX. To acknowledge. M. 143.

KNOWLECHING, n. Knowledge. 16900. R. 4676.

KONNING, n. F. in. 966. as CONNING ; Cun ning.

KYKE, v. SAX. To look stedfastly. 3445. Kijcken. TEUT. Spectare. Kilian.

L.

LABBE, n. A blab, a great talker. 3509. LABBING, part. pr. Blabbing. 10302. LACED, part. pa. FR. Tied, bound. R. 3178. LACERT, n. FR. " A fleshy muscle; so termed from

its having a tail like a lizard. Cotg." 2755. LACHE, adj. FR. Sluggish. Bo. iv. pr. 3. LACHESSE, n. FR. Slackness, negligence. P.

81. LAD, LADDE, pa. t. of LEDE, v. SAX. Led, carried.

7260. 13264. LAFT, pa. t. and part, of LEVE, v. SAX. Left. 16351.

LW. 168.

LAIE, n. T. i. 341. 1002. as LAY. LAIED, part. pa. of LAY, v. SAX. With orfreys

LAIED, i. e. trimmed. R. 1076. So this word is

132 GLOSSARY.

frequently used by Hollinshed, Vol. in. p. 1317. LAID with gold lace. — LAID ON with red silke and gold lace. — LAID ABOUT with silver lace. See COUCHED.

LAINE, inf. v. SAX. To lay. R. 184.

LAINERS, n. pi. FR. Straps, or thongs. 2506.

LAKE, n. 13787- It is difficult to say what sort of cloth is meant. Laecken, BELG. signifies both linen and woollen cloth. Kilian.

LAKKE, n. SAX. A fault, a disgraceful action. 10073.— Want. 10145.

LAKKE, v. To find fault; to blame. R. 284. 4804.

LAMBEN, n. pi. SAX. Lambs. R. 7063.

LANGURE, v. FR. To languish. 9741.

LAPIDAIRE. F. in. 262. A treatise on precious stones, so entitled ; probably a French transla tion of the Latin poem of Marbodus de gemmis, which is frequently cited by the name of Lapi- darius. Fabric. Bibl. Med. ^Et. in v. MARBODUS.

LAPPE, n. SAX. A skirt, or lappet of a garment. 8461,15480. T. in. 59. 743.

LARGE, adj. FR. Spacious; free. Prodigal. 13361. At large. C2290. At liberty. Til that it was prime large. 10674. Till prime was far spent.

LARGELY, adv. Fully. 1910.

LAS, n. FR. A lace. 394. — A snare. 1819. 1953.

LASSE, LAS, adj. comp. SAX. Less. 4407. 13047- R. 3045.

LATCHE, n. R. 1624. as LAS.

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LATERED, part. pa. SAX. Delayed. P. 81.

LATHE, n. 4086. A barn. " It is still used in Lin colnshire. Sk." In F. in. 1050. where the Editt. have rathe and fathe, the MSS. give the true reading — lathe.

LATON, ?i. FR. A kind of mixed metal. 701. of the colour of brass. 11557.

LAUDE, n. LAX. Praise. 13385.

LAUDES. 3655. The service performed in the fourth, or last, watch of <the night. Dicuntur autem Laudes, quod illud officium laudem prcecipue sonat divinam, #c. Du Cange in v. LAUS 2. The same service was often called Matins. Idem in v. MATUTINI.

LAVED, part. pa. FR. Drawn; spoken of water taken out of a well. Bo. in. m. 12.

LAVENDER, n. FR. A washerwoman, or laundress. L W. 358. In the passage of DANTE, which is here quoted, Envy is called,

LA MERETRICE, che mat daW ospizio Di Cesare non torse gli occhi putti, Morte comune, e delle corte vizio.

Inf. xni. 64.

LAVEROCK, n. SAX. A lark. R. 662.

LAUNCEGAY, n. A sort of lance. See the n. on ver. 13682.

LAUNCELOT DU LAKE. 15218. An eminent knight of the round-table, whose adventures were the subject of a Romance begun by Chrestien de Troyes,

134 GLOSSARY.

one of the oldest of the Romance-poets, and fi nished by Godefrois de Leigni. See Fauchet. L. ii. c. 1O, 11. They have been repeatedly printed in French prose, and make a considerable part of the compilation called " Mort <£ Arthur? His accomplishments, as a courtier and a man of gallantry, have been alluded to before, ver. 10601. Signer Volpi, in his notes upon Dante, Inf. v. 128. has most unaccountably represented Land- lotto, as innamorato di Giuevra, moglie del Re MARCO. If there be any faith in history, Ginevra was the wife of King ARTHUR. The story in Dante, which is the occasion of Signor Volpi's note, is a curious one. It is alluded to by Pe trarch, Trionfo d' Amore. HI. 82.

Vedi Ginevra, Isotta, e 1' altre amanti, E Za coppia d' Arimino. —

LAUNDE, n. FR. A plain not ploughed. 1693.

LAVOURES, n. pi. FR. Lavers. 5869.

LAD RE AT, adj. LAT. Crowned with laurel. 7907. 14614.

LAUREOLE, n. FR. Spurge-laurel. 14969.

LAURER, n. FR. Laurel. 9340.

LAUS, adj. SAX. Loose. 4O62. Laus. Island. Solu- tus. This is the true original of that termination of adjectives, so frequent in our language, in les or less. Consuetud. de Beverley. MS. Harl. 560. Hujus sacrilegii emenda non erat deterrninata, sed dicebatur ab Anglis Botalaus, i. e. sine emen-

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135

dd. So Chaucer uses Boteles; and other words of the same form ; as Detteles, Drinkeles, Gil- teles, fyc. LAWE, adj. for Low. R. 5046.

A purging medicine. 2758.

n.

FR.

Law; religious profession. 4796.

LA YEN. pi.

Leche-crqft.

LAXATIF, 14949. LAY, 11. SAX.

10332. LAY, n. FR. A species of poem. 9755. 11259. See

the Discourse, &c. n. 24. LAY, pa. t. of LIE, or LIGGE. 972.

3210.

LAZAR, n. FR. A leper. 242. LECHE, n. SAX. A physician. 3902.

2747. The skill of a physician. LECHE, ». To heal. C D. 852. LECHEROUS, adj. Provoking leacherie. 12483. LECHOUR, n. FR. A leacher. 6953. LECTORNE, n. LAT. A reading-desk. C L. 1383. LEDEN, n. SAX. Language. 10749. See the note. LEDGE, v. C L. 1065. as ALLEGE. LEES, n. FR. A leash, by which dogs are held.

P. 40. LEES, adj. SAX. False. Withouten lees. R. 3904.

Without lying; truly. LEFE, adj. SAX. Pleasing, agreeable. Al be him

LOTHE or LEFE. 1839. Though it be unpleasing

to him, or pleasing. — For LEFE ne LOTHE. l.'>062.

For friend nor enemy. He turned not— for LEVE

136 GLOSSARY.

ne for LOTHE. P L. 286.— It sometimes signifies, Pleased. I n'am not LEFE to gabbe. 3510. lam not pleased to prate; I take no pleasure in prat ing.

LEFULL, adj. Lawfull. 5619. 9322.

LEGGE, v. SAX. To lay. 3935.

LEGGE, v. FR. To ease. R. 5016. as ALEGE.

LEIE, v. SAX. To lay. T. HI. 72.

LEISEB, n. FR. Leisure. 1190. 9708. Opportu nity. 3292.

LEITE, n. SAX. Light. Thonder-leite. Bo. i. m. 4. Lightning.

LEKE, n. SAX. A leek. 3877- It is put for any thing of very small value. 16263. R. 4830.

LEMES, n. pi. SAX. Flames. 14936.

LEHMAN, n. SAX. A lover, or gallant. 4238. 5337-— A mistress. 14069.

LENDES, n. pi. SAX. The loins. 3237.

LENE, adj. SAX. Lean. 289. 9*27.

LENE, v. SAX. To lend. 613. 3775.— To grant. 7226. 13613.

LENGER, adv. comp. SAX. Longer. 14437.

LENTE, pa. t. of LENE. 13284.

LENTON, n. SAX. The season of Lent. P. 7.

L'ENVOY, FR. was a sort of postscript, sent with po etical compositions, and serving either to recom mend them to the attention of some particular person, or to enforce what we call the moral of them. The six last Stanzas of the CLERKES

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TALE are in many MSS. entitled, L'envoy de Chaucer a les mariz de notre temps. See also the Stanzas at the end of the Complaint of the Black Knight, and of Chaucer's Dreme.

LEON, n. LAT. A lion. 1600.

LEONINE, adj. Belonging to a lion. 14564.

LEOPART, LEPARD, n. FR. A leopard. 2188. 14267-

LEGS, n. GR. People. 15571, 4.

LEPANDE, part. pr. of LEPE, v. SAX. Leaping. R. 1928.

LEPE, LEP, for LEPETH, 3 pers. sing. 4226. 10285.

for LEPED, pa. t. 2689. C D. 2164.

LEPE, pr. n. A town in Spain. 12504.

LERE, LERNE, v. SAX. To learn. 10002. 13466. —To teach. 16312.

LERED, pa. t. and part. 577. 13449.

LERE, n. SAX. The skin. 13786. See the note.

LESE, n. FR. as LEES. In lustie lese. T. n. 752. In Love's leash.

LESE, adj. SAX. as LEES. R. 8. 5093.

LESE, v. SAX. To lose. 11672, 4.

LESETH, 2 pers.pl. imp. m. 4439. Lose ye.

LESING, n. SAX. A lie; a falsity. 15947. R. 4508. LESINGES, pi. 12525.

LEST, LIST, LUST, n. SAX. Pleasure. 132. 192. 6215. 11124.

LESTE, LISTE, LUSTE, v. To please. It is gene rally used, as an Impersonal, in the third person

138 GLOSSARY.

only, for It pleaseth, or It pleased. Him luste to ride so. 102. It pleased him t. r. s. Wei to drinke us leste. 752. It pleased us well t. d. If you lest. 830. If it please you. Me list not play. 3865. It pleaseth me not to play. LESTE, adj. SAX. superl. d. Least. 2200. At the

leste way. 1123. At the leste. 5432. At least. LESTE for LAST. T. n. 1330.

LET, v. SAX. To leave; to omit. 1319. To leave; to permit. 1325. Let thy japes be. 5824. Let the sompnour be. 6871. — To cause. 2978. 5377.— To hinder. T. in. 726.

LETE, pr. n. The river Lethe. F. i. 71.

LETGAME, n. SAX. A hinderer of pleasure. T. HI. 528.

LETTE, n. Delay, hindrance. 8176.

LETTOWE, pr. n. Lithuania. 54.

LETTRED, adj. FR. Learned. R. 7691.

LETTRURE, LETTERURE, n. FR. Literature. 14414. 16314.

LETTUARIE, n. FR. An electuary. 428. 9683.

LEVE, v. for LIVE. 71 14.

LEVE, ». SAX. Desire, inclination. 13952.

LEVE, adj. Dear. 3132. See LEFE.

LEVE, v. SAX. To believe. 10079.

LEVETH, imp. m. 2 pers. pi. 3090. Leveth me. Believe me. In R. 3519. Leveth is misprinted for Leseth.

He leseth more than ye may doe.

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So this verse should be written.

Plus y pert-il que vous nefaictes. Orig. In T. in. 56. Leve is misprinted for Lene; and also in T. 11. 1212. and T. v. 1749.

LEVELES, adj. SAX. Without leave. C D. 74.

LEVEN, n. SAX. Lightning. 5858.

LEVER, comp. d. of LEFE. More agreeable. It were me lever. 10995. I hadde lever. 10037- HIRE hadde lever. 5447. See also ver. 16844. 16972.

LEVESELL. See the n. on ver. 4059. though I am by no means satisfied with the explanation there given of this word. The interpretation of it in the Prompt Parv. will not help us much. " LEVE-

CEL BEFORN A WYNDOWE OR OTHER PLACE.

Umbraculum." My conjecture with respect to the origin of the proverb, Good wine needs no bush, is certainly wrong. That refers to a very old practice of hanging up a bush, or bough, where wine is to be sold. The Italians have the same proverb, Al buono vino non bisognafrasca.

LEWED, LEWDE, adj. SAX. Ignorant; unlearned. 6928. 12370. — Lascivious. 10023.

LEYE, v. SAX. as LEGGE. To lay. R. 4143. — To lay a wager. 16064.

LEYES, pr. n. Layas, in Armenia. 58. See the n. on ver. 51.

LEYTE, n. SAX. Flame. P. 113. See LEITE.

LIARD, pr. n. belonged originally to a horse of a grey colour. See the n. on ver. 7145.

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LICENCIAT, n. LAT. 220. seems to signifie, that he

was licensed by the Pope to hear confessions, &c.

in all places, independently of the local ordi naries. See R. 6364 — 6472. LICHE-WAKE. See the n. on ver. 296O. LIDE, pr. n. Lydia. 14645. LIEGES, n.pL FR. Subjects. 7943. LIEN, pr. t. pi. of LIE, or LIGGE. 16247. LIEN, part, pa. of LIE, or LIGGE. Lain. P. 120.

129.

LIES, n. pi. Fa. Lees of wine, &c. F. m. 1O40. LIETH, R. 4143. is misprinted for LEYETH. LIFLY, adv. SAX. Like the life. 2089. LIGEANCE, n. FR. Allegiance. 5315. LIGGE, LIE, v. neut. SAX. To lye down. 2207.

13839.

LIGGING, part. pr. Lying. 1013. LIGHT, v. SAX. To enlighten. 15539. 13401.— To

make light or pleasant. 10710.

v. neut. To descend, to alight. 5524. 10483.

LIGNE, n. FR. Lineage; lineal descent, T. v.

1480. LIGINE. C D. 1517- should probably be

Lignee, to rime to Compagnee. LIGNE ALOES. T. iv. 1137- Lignum aloes; a very

bitter drug.

LIKE, LIKEN, v. SAX. To compare. 5951,3, 5. LIKE, v. SAX. To please. 8382. T. i. 432. If you

liketh. 779- If it pleaseth you. It liketh hem.

5679. It pleaseth them.

GLOSSARY. 141

LIKEROUS, adj. SAX. Gluttonous. I24?3. — Lasci vious. 6048.

LIKING, part. pr. Pleasing. R. 868.

LIKING, n. Pleasure. 12389.

LIMAILE, w. FR. Filings of any metal. 16321.

LIME, v. SAX. To smear, as with bird-lime. T. i. 354.

LIMED, part. pa. Caught, as with bird-lime. 65 Iff.

LIMED, part. pa. FR. Polished, as with a file. F. in. 34.

LIMER, n. FR. Limier. A blood-hound. Du. 362, 5.

LIME-ROD. 14694. A twig with bird-lime.

LIMITATION, n. LAT. A certain precinct allowed to a Limitour. 6459.

LIMITOUR, n. A Fryer licensed to beg within a certain district. 209. 253, 4.

LIMMES, n. pi. SAX. Limbs. P. 10.

LINAGE, n. FR. Family. 4270. R. 258.

LINDE, n. SAX. The lime-tree. 9087. R. 1385.

LISSE, n. SAX. Remission, abatement. 11550.

LISSE, v. neut. SAX. To grow easy. R. 3758. 4128.

LISSED, part. pa. of LISSE, v. SAX. Eased, relieved. 11482.

LISTE, v. See LESTE.

LISTENETH, imp. m. 2 pers. pi. of LISTEN, v. SAX. Hearken ye. 13642.

LISTES, n. pi. FR. Lists ; a place enclosed for corn- bates, &c. See the n. on ver. 1715.

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LITARGE, n. FR. White lead. 16243.

LITE, adj. SAX. Little. 1195. P. 78.

LITH, n. SAX. A limb. 14881.

LITH for LIETH. 3653. 10349.

LITHE, adj. SAX. Soft, flexible. Du. 953. F. i. 119.

LITHE, v. SAX. To soften. T. iv. 754.

LITHER, adj. SAX. Wicked. C N. 14. [In the Editt. it is Lithy.] LUTHER and quede. R G. 414, See QUADE.

LITHERLY, adv. SAX. Very ill. 3299.

LITLING, adj. SAX. Very little. F.III. 133.

LIVAND, part. pr. SAX. Living. C D. 1628.

LIVE, n. SAX. Life. On live. 3041. 5622. In life ; A'live, Lives creature. 2397. 8779. Living crea ture. Lives body. F. n. 555. Living body.

s See the note on ver. 405.

\ and the statute 3 Geo. I. c. LODEMANAGE. 405.

LODESTERRE. 2061. < MI1 '"^™ Load-manage t.

j used repeatedly in the sense

' of Pilotage.

LODESMEN, n. pi. SAX. Pilots. L W. 1486. LOFT, adv. SAX. On loft. 4697. On high; A-loft. LOGE, n. FR. A lodge, habitation. 14859. LOGGED, part. pa. FR. Lodged. 15004. LOGGING, n. Lodging. 15001. LOKE, v. SAX. To see, to look upon. Bo. iv. pr.

6. v. pr. 3. LOKEN, LOKE, part. pa. of LOKE, v. SAX. Locked.

GLOSSARY. 143

14381. R. 2092. Shut close. Cow/. Am. 29. His one eye anon was LOKE.

LOLLER, n. A Lollard. See the n. on ver. 12923. and ver. 12914.

LOLLIUS, pr. n. of a writer, from whom Chaucer professes to have translated his poem of Troilus and Creseide. See the note on P. 131. I have not been able to find any further account of him.

LONDE, n. SAX. Land. 4806. 5323.

LONDENOYS. A Londoner ; one born in London, T L. i. 325.

LONE, n. SAX. A loan ; any thing lent. 7443.

LONG, v. SAX. To belong. 2280. Longing for his art. 3209. Belonging to his art. 10353. — To de sire. L W. 2275.

LONG. 16390. See ALONG.

Loos, Los, n. FR. Praise. 16836. M. 136,7. LOSES, pi. F. in. 598.

LORD, n. SAX. A title of honour, given to Monks, as well as to other persons of superiour rank. 172. 13930. — In ver. 830. Lordes is used in the sense of Lordings.

LORDINGS, n. pi. Sirs, Masters. 763. 790. A di minutive of Lords.

LORDSHIP, n. SAX. Supreme power. 1627.

LORE, n. SAX. Knowledge. 8664. — Doctrine. 529. —Advice. 3527.

LOREL, n. SAX. A good-for-nothing fellow. 5855. Bo. i. pr. 4. where it is the translation of perdi-

144 GLOSSARY.

tissimum. Skinner supposes it to be derived from the LAT. Lurco ; and in the Promptorium Parvu- lorum, " LOSEL, or LOREL, or LURDEN," is ren dered " Lurco." But Lurco, I apprehend, sig nifies only a glutton, which falls very short of our idea of a lorel ; and besides I do not believe that the word was ever sufficiently common in Latin to give rise to a derivative in English. One of Skinner's friends deduces it with much more pro bability from the BELG. [rather SAX.] Loren ; Lost ; Perditus.

LORNE, part. pa. of LESE, v. SAX. Lost. S947- Undone. 10943. 13959.

Los, n. SAX. Loss. 16477. T. iv. 27.

LosED,par£. pa. SAX. Loosed. R. 4511.

LOSED, part. pa. FR. Praised. T L. i. 325.

LOSENGE, n, FR. A quadrilateral figure, of equal sides but unequal angles, in which the Arms of women are usually painted. R. 893. In F. in. 227. Losynges seems to signifie small figures of the same form in the fret-work of a crown.

LOSENGEOUR, «. FR. A flatterer. 15332.

LOTEBY, n. R. 6339. In the Orig. Compaigne. A private companion or bedfellow. In P P. 14. the concubines of priests are called their Lotebies. Perhaps it may be derived from the SAX. Loute; to lurk.

LOTH, adj. SAX. Disagreeable, odious. 3393.

LOT HER, comp. d. More hateful. LW. 191.

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LOTHEST, superl. d. Most unwilling. 11625.

LOTHLY, adj. Loathsome. 6682.

LOVE-DA YES. See the n. on ver. 2CO. and add TL.

i. 319. " Maked I not a Lovedaye betwene God

and mankynde, and chese a mayde to be nompere,

to put the quarell at ende ?" LOVE-DRINKE, ». SAX. A drink to excite love.

6336. LOVE-LONGING, n. SAX. Desire of love. 3349.

3679.

LOVESOME, adj. SAX. Lovely. T. v. 465. LOUGH, pa. t. of LAUGH, v. SAX. Laughed. 6254.

12410. LOUKE, 4413. See the note. In P P. 20. Wrong is

called a wicked luske ; and I learn from Cotgrave,

that luske is a synonymous word to lowt, lorel, &c.

so that perhaps Louke may be still another term

for an idle, good-for-nothing fellow. See Cotg. in

v. Luske, ENG. and inv. Loricard, Falourdin. FR. LOURE, v. neut. SAX. To look discontented. R.

7099.

LOURING, part. pr. 6848. LOUTE, v. SAX. To bow. 14168. R. 4384.— To

lurk. 15654.

Low, n. for LAW, CD. 319. LOWLYHEDE, n. SAX. Humility. B K. 315. LUCAN, pr. n. The Roman poet. 14637. LUCE, n. LAT. The fish, called a pike. 352. LUCINA, pr. n. The Moon. 11357.

VOL. v. L

146 GLOSSARY.

LULLED, pa. t. of LULL, v. SAX. Invited to sleep. 8429.

LUMBARDES, n. pi. Bankers; Remitters of money. 13297.

LUNARIE, pr. n. of a herb; moon-wort. 16268.

LURE, n. FR. A device used by falconers for cal ling their hawks. 6922. 17O21.

LURE, v. FR. To bring to the lure. 5997.

LUSSHEBURGHES. See the n. on ver. 13968.

LUST, n. See LEST.

LUSTE, v. See LESTE.

LUSTYHEDE, «. SAX. Pleasure, mirth. 17223. LW. 1528.

LUXURIE, n. FR. Leacherie. 5345.

LYNIAN, pr. n. 7910. See the note. A learned correspondent, to whom I am obliged for other useful hints,' has suggested to me, that Fabricius, upon the authority of Ghilini, has placed the death of Joannes Lignanus in 1383. Bibl. Med. JEt. in v. This furnishes an additional reason for believing that the Canterbury tales were com posed, or at least collected into a body, after that period.

M.

MACE, n. FR. A club. 2126. MACHABE, pr. n. The books of the Maccabees.

14497. 14573. MACROBES, pr. n. R. 7. MACROBIUS. 15129. Du.

GLOSSARY. 147

384. A F. 111. The author of the commentary on the Somnium Scipionis of Cicero.

MADDE, u. SAX. To be mad. 3559. R. 10/2.

MADRIAN. 13898. See the note. XI have found since that the French have a Saint called Materne. But Mr. Steevens, with much more probability, supposes, that the precious body, by which the Host swears, was that of St. Mathurin. See his story in the Golden Legende, Edit. 1527, by Win- kin de Worde, 151 b. " Than toke they the precious body and enoynted it with moche reve rence ; and when they had layd it in the erth, on the morowe they came to the sepulture and founde the holy body above the erth nygh unto the same sepulture, and than were they all abasshed and wyst not what to do." It seems, the knightes, who had brought him out of France, had promised that, if he died on his journey, he should be sent back and buried " where as they had taken him ;" and therefore his body would not stay in the ground, till it was deposited, ac cording to promise, in France ; where it after wards worked many miracles.

MAFEIE, FR. Mafoy; by ray faith. T. in. 52.

MAGICIEN, n. FR. A magician. 11553.

MAGIKE, n. FR. Magick. 11607. Magike naturel. 418. See the note.

MAHOWND, pr. n. Mahomet. 4644. See Du Cange,

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MAILLE, n. FR. A coat of mail. 9078,

MAINTE, part. pa. B K. 230. as MEINT.

MAINTENANCE, n. FR. Behaviour. Du. 834.

MAISONDEWE, FR. Maison-dieu ; a hospital. R. 5619.

MAISTER,«. FR. A skilful artist ; a master. 11514. 11532. Maister-strete. 2904. The chief street. Maister-temple. L W. 1014. The chief temple. Maister-tour, 10540. The principal tower.

MAISTERFUL, adj. Imperious. T. n. 756.

MAISTERIE, MAISTRIE, n. FR. Skill ; skilful management. 3383. 6400. — Power; superiority, 6622. 9048. 1 1076.

Love wol not be constreined by maistrie. Whan maistrie cometh, the God of love anon Beteth his winges, and, farewel ! he is gon. I cite these elegant lines, as I omitted to observe before, that Spenser has inserted them in his Faery Queen, B. 2. C. 1. St. 25. with very little alteration, and certainly without any improve ment.

Ne may love be compel'd by mastery ;

For, soon as mastery comes, sweet love anone

Taketh his nimble wings, and soon away is gone.

A maistrie. 16528. A masterly operation. Un

coupdemaitre. — For the maistrie. 165. See the note.

MAISTRESSE, n. FR. Mistress, governess. 12040.

MAISTRISE, n. FR. Masterly workmanship. R. 4172.

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MAKE, w. SAX. A fellow; a mate. 2558. — A hus band. 5667. 8716. A wife. 9175. 9696. MAKE or METCI-IE. Compar. Prompt. Parv.

MAKE, v. SAX. To compose, or make verses. L W. 69. 364. To solace him sometime, as I do whan I MAKE. P P. 60. — To make a man's berde ; To cheat him. See the n. on ver. 4094.

MAKE. Bo. iv. m. 7- Why MAKE ye your baches ? We should read — nake, i. e. make naked. Cur inertes terga nudatis ? Orig.

MAKED, part. pa. Made. 2526.

MAKELES, adj. SAX. Peerless ; without a fellow. T. i. 172.

MAKING, n. Poetry. L W. 74. MAKINGES, pi. Poetical compositions. L W. 413. And thou medlest with MAKINGS. PP. 60.

MALAPERT, adj. Pert, forward. C L. 737- And so we should read in T. in. 87. with the MSS. J. K. instead of in all apert. The word seems to be evidently of French original, though I do not re collect to have seen it used by any French writer. Appert, adj. FR. signifies Expert, &c. Cotgrave.

MALE, n. FR. A budget, or portmanteau. 3117. 12854.

MALEFICE, n. FR. Enchantment. P. 34.

MALE-TALENT, n. FR. Ill will. R. 273. 330.'

MALISON, n. FR. Malediction, curse. 16713. P. 47. I gyve it my MALISOUN. P L. 318.

MALT, pa. t. of MELT, c. SAX. Melted. T. i. 583.

150 GLOSSARY.

MALVESIE, pr. n. Malmseywine. See the n. on ver. 9681.

MALURE, n. FR. Misfortune. C D. 599.

MANAGE, n. FR. A threat. 2005.

MANAGE, v. To threaten. 7998. 9626.

MANAGING, n. Threatening. 2037.

MANCIPLE, n. An officer, who has the care of pur chasing victuals for an Inn of Court. See his CHARACTER, ver. 569. 588. The name is pro bably derived from the LAT. Manceps, which sig nified particularly the superintendant of a public bakehouse, and from thence a baker in general. See Du Cange, in v. MANCEPS. 2. The office still subsists in several Colleges as well as Inns of Court.

MANDEMENT, n. FR. Mandate. 6928.

MANERE, n. FR. Carriage, behaviour. 140. 10860. — Kind, or sort. A manere Latin. 4939. A kind of Latin. Swiche a maner love-drinke. 6335. Such a sort of love-potion. Swiche maner rime. 6709.

MANGONEL, n. FR. An engine used to batter walls. R. 627:9.

MANIE, n. FR. GR. Madness. 1376.

MANNISH, adj. SAX. Human ; proper to the hu man species. M 1(>8. — Masculine; proper to man, as distinguished from woman. T. i. 284. In this last sense, when applied to a woman, it is a strong term of reproach. 5202.

MANOR, n. FR. Dwelling. Du. 1004.

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MANSUETE, adj. FR. Gentle.' T. v. 194.

MANTELET, n. FR. A short mantle. 2165,

MARCIAN, pr. n. Martianus Capella. 9606. F. n. 477.

MARCIAN, adj. Martial; under the influence of Mars. 6192.

MAREIS, n. FR. A marsh. 6552.

MARGARITE, n. FR. A pearl. TL. 1.315 b.

MARIE, MARY, n. SAX. Marrow. 12476. Marie- bones. 382. Marrow-bones.

MARKET-BETER. 3934. See the note. But I am now more inclined to believe, that this word is to be understood in a sense similar to that in which the French phrases, Batre les rues — and Bateur de pavez, are used. Batre les rues- To revell, jet, or swagger up and down the streets a'nights. Bateur de pavez ; A jetter abroad in the streets. — A pavement-beater. See Cotgrave, in v. Ba teur. Batre. Pave'. So that " He was a market- beter atte full " may mean perhaps ; — He was used to swagger up and down the market, when it was fullest: — a circumstance, which suits very well with the rest of his character. MARKET DASCHAR. Circumforaneus. Prompt. Parv. MARKIS, n. FR. A marquis. 7940. MARKIS for MARKISES, gen. ca. sing. 8870. In the same manner Peneus is put for Peneuses. 2066. Theseus for Theseuses. 2201. 2697. Venus for Venuses. 2274. 10586. Ceres for Cereses. 10139.

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Melibeus for Melibeuses. 13902. and in prose, M. 146. Perhaps it might have been proper to add a mark of Apocope to the words so abbreviated. As to the present method of expressing the ge nitive cases of nouns ending in s, by adding ano ther s, with a mark of Syncope, as Peneus's, Theseus s, Venus's, &c. it seems absurd whether the addition be intended to be pronounced, or not. In the first case, the e should not be cut out; in the second, the s, is quite superfluous. But the absurdity of this practice is most strik ing, when the genitives of monosyllable nouns are thus written; an ox's horns; an ass's ears; a fish's tail ; i St. James's park ; notwithstanding that the e, which is thus directed to be cut out, is constantly and necessarily to be pronounced, as if the several words were written at length ; oxes, asses, Jishes, Jameses.

MARKISESSE, n. FR. The wife of a Marquis. 8159. 8270.

MARTE, pr. n. Mars. 2023.

MARTIRE, n. FR. Martyrdom; torment. R. 2547.

MARTIRE, v. FR. To torment. 1564.

MARY, MARIE, pr. n. A vulgar oath; By Mary. 13322. 16530.

MASE, n. A wild fancy. 15099. T. v. 468.

MASE, v. neut. To doubt ; to be confounded. 10261.

MASEDKESSE, n. Astonishment; confusion. 8937-

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MASELIN, n. Rather Mazerin. 13781. A drinking- cup. See Du Cange, in v. MAZER.

MATE, part, pa. of MATE, v. FR. Dejected ; struck dead. 957. R. 1739. Sofeble and mate. Conf. Am. 127 b.

MATIRE for MATERE, n. FR. Matter. T. iv. 818.

MAUGRE, MALGRE, FR. In spite of. Maugre all thy might. 1609. Maugre thineyen. 5897. Maugre f hire hed. 6469. P. 116.— The original of this expression appears more plainly in the following passages. I drede thou canst me grete maugre. R. 4399.

Car je cuide, que me scavez. Mai gr<?. Orig. 4118.

Malgre his. R. 2386. 5933. With his ill will ; against his will. Mai grtf lui.

MAVIS, n. SAX. A thrush. R. 619.

MAVIS. R. 5590. is probably a mistake for Muis, n. pi. FR. The Orig. has Cent muys de froment. 5197- The Paris Muid contains something more than five quarters English.

MAUMET, n. An idol. P. 85.

MAUMETRIE, n. The religion of Mahomet. 4656. — Idolatrie. P. 85.

MAWE, n. SAX. The stomach. 12930.

MAXIMIAN, pr. n. C L. 798. The author of vi Elegies, which have been frequently printed un der the name of Gallus. He is said by Fabricius [Bibl. Lat. T. i. p. 297. Ed. Patav.] to have lived

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under the Emperour Anastasius, q. i or n ? A translation, or rather abridgement, of these Ele gies, in English verse, is in MS. Harl. 2253.^

MAY, v. SAX. To be able, physically. 2314. 3045, 8. morally. 739. 2355, 6. See MOWE.

MAY, n. SAX. A virgin. 5-27 1. Of Mary, moder and MAY. P L. 235. 307. — A young woman. T. v,

i7iy.

MAYDENHED, n. SAX. Virginity. 2331.

MEANELICHE, adj. SAX. Moderate. Bo. i. pr. 6. Mediocribus. Orig.

MEBLES, re. pi. FR. Moveable goods. 9188. 160O8.

MEDE, n. SAX. Reward. 3380. P. 92. — A mea dow. 89.

MEDE, METHE, METH, n. BARB. LAT. Mead; a liquour made of honey. 2281. 3378. 3261.

MEDLE, v. FR. To mix. P. 8.

MEDLEE, adj. Of a mixed stuff, or colour. 330.

MEINIE, n. FR. Household attendants. 7627. 7738. — An army. 14348. 17177- Hurlewaynes meyne. Contin. of Canterb. Tales, 1. 8. This obscure phrase; I think, may be understood to relate to a particular set of ghostly apparitions, which were used to run about the country at night, and were called in French La mesgnie de Hellequin or Herlequin. The fullest account that 1 have seen of them is in. L'histoire de Richard sans paour, Due de Norman- die, qui futfils de Robert le Diable." In one of his rides he meets with three black knights, whom

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he engages. " Et quand les Chevaliers veirent le jeu mal party pour eux ils monterent a cheval et s'enfuyrent; — et Richard — chevaucha apres eux; et ainsi qu'il chevauchoit il apperceut une dance de gens noirs qui s'entretenoyent. Adonc luy souvint de la mesgnie de Hellequin, dont il avoit autres foys ouy parler." The title of the next chapter (4.) is " Cy dtvise de la mesgnie de Helle quin et qui il estoit." He is there said to have been a knight, who, having spent, all his substance in the wars of Charles Martel against the Sara cens, lived afterwards by pillage. " Adonc il avint qu'il mourut et fut en danger d'estre damne, mais dieu luy fit pardon pource que il avoit ba- taille contre les Sarrazins et exaulce la foy. Si fut condamne de Dieu que pour un terns deter mine luy et ceux de son lignage feroient peni tence et yroierit toute la nuit parmy la terre, pour leurs penitences faire et endurer plusieurs maux et calamitez." The belief of such apparitions was certainly of great antiquity in Normandy, as they are mentioned by Ordericus Vitalis, under the title offamilia Heriechini^ in a most extraordinary story related by him, L. vm. p. 695. ann. 1091. And 1 suspect that in a passage quoted by Du Cange, in v. HERLININI, from Petr. Biesens.^p. 14. we should read Herlikini instead of Herlinini. Gervase of Tilbery, who wrote in 1211, men tions another set of apparitions, which were called

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familia Arturi. Ot. Imper. Dec. n. c. 12. " In sylvis Britaiiniae majoris aut minoris consimilia contigisse ref'eruntur, narrantibus nemorum cus- todibus, quos forestarios — vulgus nominal, se al- ternis diebus circa horara meridianam, et in primo noctium conticinio sub plenilunio luna lucente, ssepissime videre militum copiam venantium et canum et cornuum strepitum, qui sciscitantibus se de societate et familid Arturi esse affirmant." He had just said that Arthur, not long before, had been seen in a palace, " miro opere construe- to," in a most delicious valley in the neighbour hood of mount .Etna, where he had resided ever since the time of his supposed death, " vulneribus quotannis recrudescentibus."

MEINT, part. pa. of MENGE, v. SAX. Mixed, min gled. R. 2296.

MEKE, adj. SAX. Meek, humble. 8017.

MEKE, v. To become meek. R. 3541. 3584.

MELES, n. pi. SAX. Meals ; dinners, &c. Du. 612.

MELE-TIDE, n. SAX. Dinner-time. T. n. 1556.

MELLE, v. FR. To meddle. C D. 536.

MELLE, n. for MILLE. 3921.

MEMORIE, n. FR. Remembrance. To be drawen to memorie. 3114. To be recorded.

And for to drawe in to memorye Her names bothe and her historye.

Conf. Am. f. 76.

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MEMORIE, v. To remember. 10118.

MEN DI ANTS, n. pi. FR. Fryers of the Begging- or ders. 7488. See the note.

MENE, v. SAX. To mean, to intend. 2065. 2218.

MENE, «. FR. Moyen. A mean, or instrument. 9545. T. in. 255. Where the Orig. has mezzano ; a procurer. MENES, pi. 7064. 3375.

MENE, adj. Middle. 7O27. 17322. But see the note on the latter verse.

MENIVERE, n. FR. A sort of furr. R. 227. See the n. on ver. 193.

MKRCENRIKE, pr. n. The kingdom of Mercia. 15118.

MERCIA, pr. n. F. HI. 139. Marsyas is probably meant ; but our Poet, I know not upon what au thority, has turned him into a female.

MERCIABLE, adj. FR. Merciful. 13618.

MERITORIE, adj. FR. Meritorious. P. 96.

MRKE, n. SAX. A mark ; an image. 11192. All the merke of Adam. 6278. All the images of Adam ; all mankind.

MERKE, adj. SAX. Dark. R. 5339.

MERLION, n. FR. Emerillon. A merlin; a sort of hawk. A F. 339.

MERVAILLE, ». FR. Wonder, marvel. 10974.

MERY, adj. SAX. Merry. 804. — Pleasant. 14972.

MES. R. 3462. At gode mes should probably be At godeness. The Orig. has en bon point. See GODE-

NESS.

158 GLOSS Alt Y.

MESE, n. for MESSE. C D. 2116. MESEL, «. FR. A leper. P. 69. MESELRIE, n. FR. Leprosie. P. 69. MESSAGE, n. FR. A messenger. 8614. 8823. MESSAGERIE, pr. n. A fictitious attendant in the

Temple of Venus. A F. 228. Boccace calls her

Ruffiania. Theseida. b. vu. MESSE, n. FR. The service of the Mass. 9768. MESTE, adj. SAX., superl. d. 8006. as MOSTE. MESURABLE, adj. FR. Moderate. 437. 106*6. MESURE, n. FR. Moderation. 11981. METAMORPHOSEOS. 4513. METAMORPHOSOSE. C L.

1260. Ovid's Metamorphosis. See JUDICUM. METE, adj. SAX. Fitting, convenient. 1633.. ?,- METE. n. SAX. Meat. 1617- During the metes

space. 5434. During the time of eating. METE-BORDE, n. SAX. An eating-table. T L. n.

326. b.

METELY, adj. Proportionable. R. 822. METE, v. SAX. To meet. 12627.— To dream. T.

in. 1350. METTE, MET, pa. t. Dreamed. 15089. 15118.

I mette. 6159. Me mette. 14900, 4. I dreamed. METRICIENS, n, pi. Writers in verse. C L. SO. MEVABLE, adj. FR. Moveable. R. 4/36. MEWE, n. FR. A cage for hawks, while they mue,

or change their feathers. 10957. — A cage, in

general, or any sort of confinement. R. 4778.

T. in. 603. In mewe. T. i. 382. In secret.

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ME WET, adj. FR. Mute. In mewet. C L. 148.

Dumbly ; speaking inwardly. MICHER, n. A thief. R. 6541. Lierres. Orig.

12008. MYCHYN or PRYVELY STELYN SMALE

THYNGS. Surripio. Prompt. Parv. MIGHT, pa. t. of MAY, v. SAX. Was able. 301.

1519. MIGHTEN,/>Z. 798,5. MIGHT, part. pa. T. in. 655. If godely had he

might. If he had been able with propriety. MIGHT, «. SAX. Power, strength. 1155. 1858. MILKSOP, n. An effeminate fellow. 13916. MILNE-STONES, n. pi. SAX. Mill-stones. T. u.

1384. MINDE, n. SAX. Remembrance. 1908. Conf. Am.

148. As the bokes maken MINDE. MINE, v. FR. To penetrate. T. u. 627. MINISTRALLES, n. pi. FR. Minstrels. 10392. MINISTRES, n. pi. FR. Officers of justice. 15049.

15064. MINISTERS. C D. 2130. Minstrels. MINORESSE, n. R. 149. A nun, under the rule of

St. Clare. Du Cange in v. MINORISSA. It is

not clear however why Chaucer has likened Hate

to a Sister of this order. His original gave him

no authority.

MINOUR, n. FR. A miner. 2467. MINSTRALCIE, n. FR. Musick. 2199. 10582. —

Musical instruments. 17216. MIRBOUR, n. FR. A looking-glass. 10446. MIRTHELES, adj. SAX. Without mirth. A F. 592.

160 GLOSSARY.

Mis, adv. Ill, amiss. 16467. R. 3243. T. iv. 1267. It is often to be supplied to a second verb, having been expressed in composition with a for mer. If that I m\sspeke or say. 3141. That hire misdoth or saith. 13928. There is nothing mis- saide nor do. Du. 528.

Mis, n. A wrong. 17226.

MIS-ACCOMPTED, part. pa. Misreckoned. T. v. 1184.

MIS-AVENTURE, n. Misfortune. 6916.

MIS-AVISE, v. To advise wrongly. 5812.

Mis-BODEN,par£. pa. of MIS-BEDE. Injured. 911.

MIS-BORNE, part. pa. of MIS-BERE. Misbehaved. M. 15«2.

MISCHANCE, n. FR. Misfortune. With mischance. 6916. 17142. See WITH.

MISCHEFE, n. FR. Misfortune. R. 6741.

MISCOVETING, n. R. 196. should probably be Mis- COMPTING. Mescompter. Orig.

MIS-DEPARTE, v. To distribute wrongly. 4527.

MISERICORDE, n. FR. Mercy, pity. 7492.

MIS-ESE, n. Uneasiness. P. 14.

MlS-FORYAVE, pa. t. Of MlS-FORYEVE. Mis-gave.

T. iv. 1426. MIS-GIED, part. pa. of MIS-GIE. Misguided.

14451. MIS-GON, MIS-GO, part. pa. of MIS-GO. Gone

wrong. 4216. 4253. MIS-HAPPING, part. pr. Falling amiss. R. 5543.

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MIS-LEDE, v. To conduct amiss. T. iv. 48. MIS-LIVED, part. pa. Having lived to a bad purpose.

T. iv. 330. MIS-METRE, v. To spoil the metre of verses, by

writing or reading them ill. T. v. 1795. MIS-SATE, pa. t. of MIS-SIT. Misbecame. R. 1194. MIS-SAYDE, part. pa. of MIS-SAYE. Ill spoken of.

R. 1260.

MIS-SAYER, n. An evil-speaker. R. 2231. MISSE, v. SAX. To fail. T. in. 1630. MISSE-METRE, v. See MIS-METRE. MISTAKE, v. To take a wrong part ; to transgress.

R. 154O. Mesprendre. Orig. MISTERE, n. FR. Trade, occupation, 615. — Con dition of life. 1342. What mistere men ye ben,

1712. What kind of men ye are. — Need. R.

56H G078.

MISTIHEDE, n. SAX. Darkness., C M. 71. MISTILY, adv. SAX. Darkly. 16862. MISTRIST, v. for MISTRUST. 12303. MIS-WAIE, n. A wrong way. R. 4766. MIS-WENT, part. pa. of MIS-WENDE. Gone amiss.

R. 7280.

MIS-WRITE, v. To write wrong. T. v. 1794. MITAINE, n. FR. A glove. 12307, 8. MITCHE, n. FR. A manchet; a loaf of fine bread.

R. 5585.

MITE, n. SAX. A small worm. 6142. 16166. MIXEK, n. SAX. A dunghill. P. 107.

VOL. v. M

162 GLOSSARY.

Mo for ME. 8915. See the note.

Mo for MORE, adj. comp. 546. S10. 1937. — adv.

comp. 1354. 2073. MOCHEL, MOCHE, adj. SAX. Great, in quantity.

2354. 7593. in number. 6586. 6855. in degree. 496.

adv. Much, greatly. 1118. 2852. MODER, MODRE, n. SAX. Mother. 10139. 10291.

— The Matrix, or principal plate of the Astrolabe

Ast.

MOISON, n. FR. Harvest; growth. R. 1677. MOIST, MOISTT, adj. FR. New. 459. 12249.

17009. See the n. on ver. 459. MOKEL, n. Du. 454. 861. may perhaps signifie size,

m agnitude ; as Michel seems to be used in that

sense in P P. 89. b. Of one MICHEL and might. MOLESTIE, n. FR. Trouble. Bo. in. pr. 9. MOLTE, pa. t. of MELTE, v. SAX. Melted. F. n.

414. — part. pa. T. v. 10. MONCHE, v. To chew. T. i. 915. MONE, n. SAX. The Moon. 9759. — Lamentation.

5076. 11232.

MONESTE, v. FR. To admonish. R. 3579. MONIOURS, n. pi. FR. Coiners. R. 6811. In the

Original it is Faulx Monnoyeurs. MONSTRE, n. FR. A monster, or prodigy. 1 1656. —

A pattern. Du. 912. MOOD, ». SAX. Anger. 1762. MORCELS, n pi. FR. Morsels. R. 6179. MORE, adj. comp. SAX. Greater, in quantity. 705.

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785. in number. 10192. in degree. 1758. 6516. — adv. comp. 1309. 2746. It is usually joined to adjectives and adverbs to express the comparative degree. 6023. 7551. 10786.

MORMAL, n. See the n. on ver. 388.

MORTER, n. FR. A sort of wax-light. T. iv. 1245.

MORTIFIE, v. FR. To kill (speaking of Quicksilver). 16594.

MORTREWES, n. See the n. on ver. 386.

MORWE, n. SAX. The morning. 2493. A'morwe. 824.6175. In the morning. 1623.2491. In the morning of the following day. — To-morwe, I be lieve, always means the following day. 782. 1612. 2*241. 2404. and it includes the whole day. To- morwe at night. 3593.

MORWENING, n. SAX. The morning. 4232. 15308. MORWENINGES, pi. 6457.

MOSEL, n. FR. The muzzle ; mouth of a beast. 2153.

MOSTE, adj. superl. SAX. Greatest, in quantity. 305. 897. in number. 10675. in degree. 2200. 10614. — adv. superl. 563. 2409. It is usually joined to adjectives and adverbs to express the superlative degree. 2205. 9425.

MOSTE, v. SAX. Must. 734, 7. MOSTEN, pi. 6024.

MOTE, v. SAX. Must. 232. 1647, 8.— May. 834. 4175. MOTEN,/>Z. 10630, 2.

MOTE, n. SAX. An atom. 6450. T. in. 1609.

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MOTHES, n. pi. SAX. Moths. 6142.

MOTIF, n. FR. A motive, incitement. 5048. 9365.

MOUGHT, pa. t, of MOWE, v. SAX. Might.

MOULE, v. SAX. To grow mouldy. 4452.

MOULED, part. pa. 3868.

MOUN for Mow EN, pr. t. pi. of MOWE, u. SAX. May. 12868. 13160.

MOUNTANCE, «. FR. Amount; in value. 1572. — in quantity. 1 2797. Not full the mountance of a mile. Conf. Am. 187.

MOURDANT, n. FR. The tongue of a buckle. R. 1094.

MOWE, v. SAX. May; to be able. MOWEN, pi. 13967. 16149. — It is sometimes used in the inf. m. M. 123. Which thou shalt not mowe suffre. Which thou shalt not be able to endure. — To moiven suche a knight done live or die. T. n. 1594. To be able to make such a knight to live or die. — She should not con ne mow altaine. CD. 150. She should not know nor be able to attain.

MOWE, n. FR. A distortion of the mouth. T. iv. 7. F. in. 716. What do I than but laugh and make a mowe ? Lydg. Trag. 137-

MOWING, n. Ability. Bo. iv. pr. 4. In the fol lowing passage it seems to be used as a GERUND. That shrewes weren dispoiled of mowing to don yvel. Ibid.

MUCH, MUCHEL. See MOCHE.

MUCKRE, v. SAX. To heap. T. in. 1381.

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MUE, v. FR. To change. T. n. 1258. MUET, adj. FR. Dumb, mute. T. v. 194. MULLOK, n. SAX. Dung; rubbish. 3871. 16408. MULTIPLICATION, ra. FR. The art of making gold

and silver. 16317- MULTIPLIE, v. FR. To make gold and silver.

16303, MUSARD, n. FR. A muser, or dreamer. R. 3256.

4034.

MUSE, v. FR. To gaze. R. 1592. MYSELF, MYSELVE, MYSELVEN. See SELF.

N.

NA for No. 4174. See the n. on ver. 4021.

N'ADDE for NE HADDE; Had not. 10212.

NAILE, n. SAX. A nail. 6351. By nailes. 12222. By Goddes nailes. 12585. an oath. See the n. on ver. 12585.

NAKERES, n. pi. FR. See the n. on ver. 2513.

NALE, n. SAX. An ale-house. 6931. Seethe note. But I am now less inclined to adopt Skinner's explanation of this word, because I observe that Ale alone is commonly put for an Ale-house, and I cannot find that Nale is ever used, except where it follows the preposition Atte. Tn the passage quoted from PP. 32 b. the Cotton MS. Vesp. B. xvi. has at the ale. And so in P P. 26 b. With idle tales at the ale. — Robert of Brunne's transla-

166 GLOSSARY.

tion of Manuel des pechdes. Ms. Bodl. 2313. fol. 1.

In gamys, in festys, and at the ale — fol. 38. Or yf thou leddest any man to the ale. I suspect therefore that Nale, in those few passages in which it is found, should be considered as merely a corruption, which has arisen from the mispronunciation and consequent miswriting of atte nale for atten ale See the n. on ver. 12542. A similar corruption seems to have taken place in the name of that celebrated personage in our law, Mr. John a-noke, whose original appellation, I believe, was John atten oke, as that of his con stant antagonist was John atte stile. Sim! atte stile is a name in P P. 23 b. and there are many others of the same form; as Atte-cliff, Atte-ley, Atte-well, Atte-wood, &c. That the letter n is apt to pass from the end of one word to the be ginning of another, we have an instance in Newt, which has certainly been formed by corruption from An ewt, or eft ; and perhaps Nedder, n. SAX. may have been formed in the same way from An adder. The word in the Teutonic is Adder, as we write it now, without the initial n. The same corruptions have happened in other languages. See the notes of Signer Redi upon his Bacco of Toscana. p. 133. 4, 5. 182, 3. N'AM for NE AM ; Am not. 5730.

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NAME, pa. i. of NIME, v. SAX. Took. 16765. NAPPE, v. SAX. To sleep. 16958. See KNAP. NARCOTIKES, n. pi. FR. GR. Drugs causing sleep.

1474. L W 2659.

NARWE, adj. SAX. Close, narrow. 3224. 14828. Whan they hem narwe anise. 9862. Whan they closely consider their conduct. NAS for NE WAS ; Was not. 1450. 1651. NASO,/W. n. L W. 928. 2218. P. Ovidius Naso.

See OVIDE.

NAT, adv. SAX. Not. 5889. 6551. NATAL, adj. LAT. Presiding over nativity. T. in.

150. NAT«ELESSE, NATHELES, adv. SAX. Not the less;

nevertheless. 24*5. 3606.

NATION, n. FR. 4701. Nation. — Family. 6650. NAUGHT, NOUGHT, n. SAX. Nothing. 758. 770. NAUGHT, adv. Not; not at all. 2070. 4820. It may more properly perhaps be considered as a noun used adverbially. See NOTHING. NAY, adv. SAX. 8297- It seems to be used some times as a noun. It is no nay. 8692. 9015. It cannot be denied. NAY, v. To denie. P. 121. NE, adv. SAX. Not. 9356. 10070. Ne had he ben

holpen. 10980. Had he not been helped. NE, con/. SAX. Nor. 970, 1. 8847. 11795. NECE, n. FR. A niece.— A cousin. 13030. 13055. NECESSAIRE, adj. FR. Necessary. T. iv. 1021.

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NEDE, n. SAX. Need ; necessity. 4523.

NEDE, v. is generally used as an Impersonal. It

nedeth thee nought teche. 3599. Nedeth hem no

dwale. 4159. Neded no more to hem to go ne ride,

9489.

NEDEFUL, adj. Distrest, indigent. 4532. NEDELY, adv. Necessarily. 6550. NEDES, NEDE, adv. Necessarily. It is usually

joined with must. 1171. 11475. 17157- NEDDER, n. SAX. An adder. 9660. NEDERS, pi.

L W. 699.

NEIGHE, adj. SAX. Nigh. 3392. NEIGHE, v. To approach, to come near. R. 1775

2003. NEKKE, n. SAX. The neck. 5859. Nekke-b&ne.

6488.

NEMPNE, v. SAX. To name. 1O632. NER, adv. SAX. Near. 10315. 12900. NERE, comp. d. Nigher. Never the nere. J6189.

Never the nigher. Nere and nere. 13450. Nigher

and nigher. Ferre ne nere. 1852. Later nor

earlier. N'ERE for NE WERE ; Were not. 17222. N'ere it.

1602. Were it not. N'ere thefrendship. 16830. NERFE, n. FR. Nerve, sinew. T. n 642. NESHE, adj. SAX. Soft, tender. C L. 1092. NESCH

and hard. P L. 242. 300. NETE, n. SAX. Neat-cattle. 599. NETHER, adj. comp. SAX. Lower. 3850.

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NETTLE IN, DOCK OUT. T. iv. 461. See RAKET. NEVEN, v. SAX. To name. 8485. 16289. NEVEW, n. FR. A nephew. — A grandson. L W.

2648.

NEWE, adj. SAX. New; fresh. 459. NEWE, adv. Newly. 7879. Newe and newe. T.

in. 116. Again and again. Allneive. 970O. Of

newe. 8814. Newly, lately. All newe. 13308.

Anew, afresh.

NEWE, v. To renew. T. in. 306. NEWED, part. pa. Renewed. M. 150. NEWEFANGEL, adj. Desirous of new things. 10932.

17142.

NEWEFANGELNESSE, n. Inconstancy. 10924. NEXTE, superl. d. Nighest. It generally signifies

the nighest following ; but sometimes the nighest

preceding. F. in. 685. N'IIATH for NE HATH ; Hath not. 925. NICE, adj, FR. Foolish. 5508. 6520. NICETEE, n. Folly. 4044. 17101. Do his nicetee.

5994. So the French use Fairefolie. NIFLES, n. pi. Trifles. 7342. NIGARD, n. A stingy fellow. 5915. NIGARDIE, n. Stingyness. 13102. NIGHTERTALE. 97- Night-time. See the note. NIGHT-SPEL, n. SAX. A night-charm. See the n.

on ver. 3480.

N'ILL for NE WILL ; Will not. 5724. 5762. N'IS for NE is ; Is not. 976. 1679.

170 GLOSSARY.

N'ISTE for NE WISTE; Knew not. sing. 11340. 3414. N'ISTEN forNEWisTEN; Knew not. pi. 10948.

NOBLEDEST, pa. t. 2 pers. sing, of NOBLE, v. FR. Ennobledest. 15508.

NOBLESSE, n. FR. Dignity, splendour. 8344. 8658.

NOBLE Y, n. 8704. 10391. as NOBLESSE.

NOCKED, part. pa. Notched. R. 942.

NOIE, n. FR. Hurt, trouble. R. 3772.

NOIE, v. FR. To hurt, to trouble. R. 4416.

NOISE, v. FR. To make a noise. Bo. in. m. 6.

N'OLDE for NE WOLDE ; Would not. 3159 3168.

NOMBRE, n. FR. Number. 718.

NOMEN, NOME, part. pa. of NIME, v. SAX. Taken T. v. 190. 514. L W. 1016.

NOMPERE, n. An arbitrator. T L. i. 319. See the passage quoted above in v. LOVEDAIE. The sense of this word is established by the Prompt. Parv. 11 NOWMPER or OWMPER. Arbiter. Sequester" If the etymology of it were as clear, we might be able to determine, which of the two methods of writing it is the best. Custom has long declared for the latter. The modern word is umpire -, and in P P. 25 b. the Editt. read — an umper ; but the Cotton, MS.Vesp. B. xvi. has — a numper. I can not find that any such word is used, in the same sense, in any other of the Gothic or Romance languages. It has been supposed by some to be a corruption of un pere, FR. which I can hardly

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believe ; and perhaps the reader will be as back ward to admit of a derivation of it from the FR. Nonpair; An odd, or third person; which an ar bitrator generally is. This however is the most probable etymology that has occurred to me ; and I see that the compiler of the Statutes for the Uni versity of Oxford (whoever he was) had the same idea, for he expresses the word umpire, in his Latin, by Impar. Tit. xv. § 14. Index, IMPAR, aut Arbitrator, in qudcunque causd electus. NON, adj. SAX. Not one; none. 656. 682. NON, adv. FR. Not. 13011. Absent or non, 8311

IVhether ye wol or non. 1 1090. NONE, n. FR. The ninth hour of the natural day; Nine o'clock in the morning ; the hour of dinner. 9767. T. v. 1114, 22, 30.

NONES. For the nones. See the n. on ver. 381. and add, if necessary, the following instances, T. i. 562.ii. 1381. iv. 428. L W. 295. 1068. 1114. NONNE, n. FR. A nun. 118. NORICE, n. FR. A nurse. 5881. Bo. n, pr. 4. In other passages, Bo. i. pr. 3. in. pr. 9. it is printed by mistake, I suppose, for NORIE, n. A foster- child. Alumnus.

NORTELRIE, n. Nurture, education. 3965. NOSETHIRLES, n. pi. SAX. Nostrils. 559. P. 18. N'OT for NE WOT ; Know not. 286. 3664. NOTABILITEE, n. FR. A thing worthy of observa tion. 15215.

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NOTE, n. SAX. Need, business. 4066.

NOTE, n. FR A musical note. To cry by note T. iv. 583. To cry aloud, in a high tone.

NOTEMUGE, n. Nutmeg. 13693. R. 1361.

NOTES, n. pi. SAX. Nuts. R. 1377-

NOT-HED; A head like a nut. See the n. on ver. 109.

NOTHER, conj. SAX. Nor, neither. 8796. 9951.

N'OTHER, adj. SAX. for NE OTHER. Neither n other. L W. 192. Nor one nor other. He n'is in neither n other habite. Bo. v. m. 3. Neutro est habitu. Orig.

NOTHING, adv. SAX. Not ; not at all. 1756. 8251.

NOUCHES, n. pi. 8258. See the note. It is proba ble, I think, that Noucheis the true word, and that Ouche has been introduced by a corruption, the re verse of that which has been taken notice of in NALE. See Du Cange, in v. Nochia, and Nusca ; and Schilter, Gloss. Teut. in v. Nuosci; from whence it appears that Nuschin, TEUT. signifies Fibula; a clasp, or buckle. As these were some of the most useful instruments of dress, they were probably some of the first that were ornamented with jewels ; by which means the name by degrees may have been extended, so as to include several other sorts of jewels. The same thing may have happened in the case of the word BROCHE [See above] ; which indeed seems, origi nally, to have been a French expression for Nouche.

NOUGHT, n. & adv. SAX. See NAUGHT.

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NOUTHE, adv. SAX. Now. 464. T. i. 986. See the

n. on ver. 464.

NOVELRIES, n, pi. FR. Novelties. F. n. 178. Now, adv. SAX. Now and now. 10744. Once and

again. Now adayes. 9040. 16864. In these days. NOWEL, n. FR. Christmas. See the n. on ver.

11567. NOYSAUNCE, n. FR. Offence, trespass. CD. 255.

O.

O for Ho. 2535. See Ho.

O, adj. for ON ; One. 740. 5555. In the curious old Ballad on the battle of Lewes [Ant. Poet, v. ii. p. 4.], 1. 10. oferlyng should be written, I believe, oferlyng, i. e. one farthing.

OBEYSANCE, n. FR. Obedience. 8378. OBEYSING. R. 3380.

OBEYSANT, part. pr. FR. Obedient. 7942. OBEY SING. L W. 1264.

OBSEQUIES, n. pi. FR. Funeral rites. 995.

OBSERVANCE, n. FR. Respect. 10830.

OBSERVE, v. FR. To respect; to pay regard to 13560.

OCCIDENT, n. FR. The West. 4717.

OCTAVIEN, pr. n. Du. 368. I do not suppose that Augustus is meant, but rather the fabulous em- perour, who is the subject of a Romance entitled " Octavian imperator." MS. Cotton. Calig. A. 11. See Percy's Catalogue, n. 18. and the passage

174 GLOSSARY.

quoted from MS. Reg. 17. C. vm. in the n. on ver. 13775- The same Octavian, I apprehend, was celebrated in a piece of Arras hangings, which made part of the furniture of Henry V, and is thus described in the Inventory. Rot. Parl. 2 Hen. VI. Item i autre pece d arras D or q comence en I estorie " Le Octavion Roy de Rome."

OCY, OCY. C N. 124. The nightingale's note.

OERTHROW for OVERTHROW, part. pa. SAX. Over thrown. CD. 1151.

OETUS, pr. n. jEtes. LW. 1436.

OF, adv. SAX. Off. 552. 784. 2678.

OFFENDED, part. pa. FR. Hurt. 2396.

OFFENSIOUN, n. Offence, damage. 2418.

OFFER.TORIE, n. FR. A part of the Mass. 712.

OFFRING, n. FR. Offering at Mass. 452. P. 42.

OFT, OFTE, adv. SAX. Often. OFTEN-SITH ; Often times, 1879. 81O9.

OINEMENT, n. FR. Ointment, 633.

OLIFAUNT, n. FR. Elephant. 13739. See the note, and jR. de la Rose. 18686. OLIPHANT sur sa haute eschine, &c.

OLIVERES, n. pi. FR. Olive-trees. 14042. R. 1314.

OMER, pr. n. Homer. T. i. 146. F. in. 376.

ON, prep. SAX. In. On live. 3041. In life ; Alive. On twelve. 7549. In twelve. On hunting. 1689. On hawking. 13667. See A prep. — Upon. On to see. 3247. To look upon. See the note; and

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add L W. 2414. Lycurgus daughter, fairer OM to sene — So this line is written in MS. Bodl.

ON, adj. SAX. One. After on. 343. 1783. Alike. They were at on. 4195. They were agreed. See R. 5817. T. in. 566. Ever in on. 1773. 3878, Continually. I mine on. C. D. 1019. 1 single, I by myself. And thus I went widewher walking MINE ONE. PP. 40 b. Non saw but HE ONE. P L. 44. All HIM ONE. Conf. Am. 175.

ONDE, n. SAX. Zeal, malice. R. 14S. Ny the and ONDE. P L. 249.

ONED, part. pa. SAX. Made one, united. 7550. P. 16.

ONES, pi. of ON. 12630. We three ben alle ones. We three are all one.

ONES, adv. SAX. Once. At ones. 767. At once ; at the same time. 3470.

ONHED, n. SAX. Unity. T. L. n. 339.

ONLY, adv. SAX. Al only, 13385. M. 124. Solely.

ONY, adj. SAX. Any. 2410.

OPEN-ERS, n. SAX. The fruit of the Medlar-tree. 3869.

OPEN-HEDED, adj. Bare-headed. 6228.

OPIE, n. FR. Opium. 1474.

OPPRESSE, v. FR. To ravish. 11723.

OPPRESSED, par*, pa. 11697.

OPPRESSION, n. Rape. 6471. L W. 1866.

OR, adv. SAX. Er, before. 275. 1157.

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ORATORIE, n. FR. A chappie. 1907. A closet. 6276.

ORDAL, n. SAX. Judicial trial. T. m. 1048. See Kilian. in v. Oor-deel, and Hickes. Dissert. Epist. p. 149. It is possible however that Chaucer may have used this word, in its more confined sense, for a trial by fire, or water, without considering whether such trials were practised at Troy.

ORDE, n. SAX. A point. L W. 645.

ORDERED, part. pa. Ordained, in holy orders. P. 90.

ORDERS FOUR, 210. The four orders of Mendicant Friers.

ORDINANCE, n. FR. Orderly disposition. 8837. 11215.

ORDINAT. part. pa. LAT. Orderly, regular. 9160.

ORE, n. SAX. Grace, favour. 3724. See the note.

OREWELL, pr. n. A sea-port in Essex. 279.

ORFRAYS, n. FR. Gold embroidery. R. 562. 869. See Du Cange in v. Aurifrigia.

ORIENT, n. FR. The east. 14320.

ORIGENES, pr. n. In the list of Chaucer's works in L W. ver. 427- he says of himself, that " He made also, gon is a grete while,

Origenes upon the Maudeleine."

meaning, I suppose, a translation, into prose or verse, of the Homily de Marid Magdalend, which has been commonly, though falsely, at tributed to Origen. v. Opp. Origenis. T. n. p.

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291. Ed. Paris. 1604. I cannot believe that the Poem, entitled, " The Lamentation of Marie Mag- daleine" which is in all the editions of Chaucer, is really that work of his. It can hardly be con sidered as a translation or even imitation of the Homily ; and the composition, in every respect, is infinitely meaner than the worst of his genuine pieces.

ORISON T, n. FR. The horizon. 9671.

ORLOGE, n. FR. A clock, or dial. 14860.

ORPIMENT,/)/-. n. A mineral so called. 16291.

OTHER, adj. SAX. Alter LAT. The other of two. 1134. 1137- 1*77. OTHERS, gen. ca. 2736.

OTHER, adj. SAX. Alius. LAT. 463. 1218.

OTHER, con;. SAX. Or, either. 1714. 1814. 5556.

OUCHE, n. 6325. F. in. 260. See NOUCHE.

OVER, prep. SAX. Above. 2045. Over all. In every case; on every side. 249. 5846. 8924.

OVER, adj. SAX. Upper. 133.

OVEREST. superl. d. Uppermost. 292. 16101.

OVER-GRET, adj. SAX. Too great. 16116.

OVER-LADDE, part. pa. Overborn. 13917- Do not the people oppresse, nor OVERLEDE. Lydg. Trag. 104.

OVER-LIVE, v. SAX. To out-live. 6842.

OVER-MERILY, adv. SAX. Too merrily. C L. 406.

OVER-MOCHE, adj. SAX. Too great. C L. 384.

OVER-NOME, part. pa. of OVER-NIME, v. SAX. Over-taken. 2802.

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OVER-SPRADDE, pa. t. SAX. Over-spread. 2873. T. ii. 769.

OVERTE, adj. FR. Open. F. n. 210.

OVERTHREW, pa. t. of OVERTHROW, v. neut. SAX. Fell down. C D. 663.

OVERTHROWING, part. pr. SAX. Falling headlong. By overthrowing way. Bo. i. ra. 6. Prcecipiti vid. Orig. And therfore clepeth Cassiodore poverte the moder of mine, that is to say, the moder of over throwing or falling doun. M. 131.

OVER-THWART, adv. SAX. Across. 1993. Du. 863. — Over against. T. in. 686.

OVER-TIMELICHE, adv. SAX. Too early. Bo. i. m. 1.

OVIDE, pr. n. 4474. 6534. 9999. M. 81. Our author seems to have been well acquainted with the best part of Ovid's works. Most of the his tories in his Legende of good women are taken from the Epistolte Heroidum, or the Metamorphoses. That of Lucrece shews that he had read the Fasti.

OUGHT, n. SAX. Opiht. Any thing. 5158. 8471. adv. 3047. See AUGHT. The difference has arisen merely from the different usages of writ ing A or 0 for One.

OUGHT, pa. t. of OWE. 4331. L W. 589. 16O7.

OUGHTEN, OUGHTE, pi. M. 114. 143. — From hence, as it seems, has been formed a new verb Ought, which is very commonly used in the pre-

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sent tense, for Owe, in both numbers. 3053. 90400. 2. 14687. M. 93.

Ought is also used as an Impers. in the pr. and pa. t. Wei ought us werke. 15482. Well be- hoveth it us to work. Hem oughte have gret repentance. M. 142. It behoved them to have

g-r- OUNDING, n. FR. Waving; imitating waves. P.

43. OURES, pr. poss. SAX. Ours. 12720. 13203. See

the Essay, &c. n. 29. OUT, inter j. SAX. Away! 3823. 10240. OUT, adv. SAX. Out and out. T. n. 739. Through out. OUTHEES, n. LAT. BARB. Outcry. 2014. And

born to London brigge full hie with OUTHEYS.

P L. 339.

OUTRAGE, n. FR. Violence. 2014. OUTRAIE, v. FR. To fly out; to be outrageous.

8519.

OUT-REDE, v. SAX. To surpass in counsel. 2451. OUTRELY, adv. FR. Utterly. 12783. OUT-RENNE, v. SAX. To out-run. 2451.

OUT-STRAUGHT, pa. t. of OuT-STRETCH, V. SAX.

Stretched out. R. 1515.

OUT-TAKEN, part. pa. Taken out; excepted. OUT-TAKEN Crist on loft. 4697. Christ in heaven being excepted. OUT-TAKE Carleon, that was in Arthurs tyme. P L. 332.

ISO GLOSSARY.

OWE, v. SAX. Debeo. 3091. OWEN, pi. 7688.

M. 126.

OWEN, OWNE, part. pa. 8380. 9664. 13126. OWHERE, adv. SAX. Anywhere. 655. OWNDIE, adj. FR. Waving. F. in. 296. OXENYORDE, pr. n. Oxford. 3329, OYSE, pr. n. A river in Picardie. F. in. 838.

P.

PACE, v. FR. To pass away. 8968. 10808.— To

surpass. 576. PAGE, n. FR. A boy-child. 3970. — A boy servant.

12975. L W. 2035.

PAIE, n. FR. Liking, satisfaction. R. 5938. PAIE, v. FR. To please, to satisfie. R. 3599.— To

pay. 131 2O. PAIDE, part. pa. Pleased. 6767- C D, 426.—

Payed. 13319,29. PAILLET, n. Fa. A couch (properly of straw).

T. in. 230.

PAINDEMAINE. 13655. See the note. PAIRE, v. FR. To impair. R. 6103. If I speke

ought TO PAIRE her loos, i. e. to impair their credit

or reputation. So this line is written in Edit.

1542. and MS. Hunter. PALAMEDES, pr. n. B K. 331. Not the son of Nau-

plius, one of the Grecian commanders at the war

of Troy, but a knight of the Round table, called

ALOMIDES in " Mort d 'Arthur " the unsuccess-

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ful rival of Tristan for the love of la belle Tsoude. See Mort d' Arthur. B. u. which seems to be com piled chiefly from the Roman de Tristan.

PALASINS, n. pi. FR. R. 6862. Ladies Palasins ; Ladies of the court. In the Orig. Palatines. See Du Cange, in v. PALATINI

PALATIE, pr. n. See the n. on ver. 65,

PALE, n. A perpendicular stripe, in Heraldry. F. in. 750,

PALE, v. FR. To make pale. Bo. n. m. 3.

PALEIS, n. FR. A palace. 2201. 10374.

PALFREIS, n. pi. FR. Horses for the road. 2497. where Stedes are horses for battle. Ne large palfrey, esy for the nones. L W. 1114.

PALING, n. FR. Imitating pales. P. 43.

PALLADION, n. GR. The image of Pallas at Troy. T. i. 153.

PALLED, part. pa. FR. Made pale. 17004.

PALMERES, ». pi. See the n. on ver. 13.

PALMERIE, pr. n. Palmyra in Syria. 14253.

PAMPHILUS, pr. n. 11422. Seethe note.

PAMPRED, part. pa. Pampered, made plump. C L. 177- See Jun. Etymol. who derives it from the FR. Pampre ; a vine-branch, full of leaves.

PAN, n. SAX. The skull ; the head. 1167. 13958.

PAN, pr. n. The heathen deity. Du. 512.

PANTER, n. FR. A net. R. 1621. L W. 131.

PAPELARD, n. FR. A hypocrite. R. 7233.

PAPELARDIE, n. FR. Hypocrisie. R. 6796.

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PAPER-WHITE, adj. White as paper. L W. 1196. PAR, prep. FR. Paramour. 1157- With love. See

the note. Par compagnie. 3837. For company.

Par chance. 12540. By chance. Par cuere. R.

4796. By heart. Memoriter. So this line should

be written. PARABOLES, n. pi. FR. Parables; the Proverbs of

Solomon. 6261.

PARAGE, n. FR. Kindred. 5832. PARAILLE, n. FR. Apparel. 6143. PARAMOUR, PARAMOURS, n. FR. Love, gallantry.

3354. 3754, 6. 13772 — A lover, of either sex.

6O36. 6954. See the n. on ver. 1157. PARAVENTURE, adv. FR. Haply, by chance. 6475. PARAUNTER, corruption of Paraventure. Du. 556.

779.

PARC./E, n. pi. LAT. The Fates. T. v. 3. PARCEL-MELE, adv. By parcels, or parts. P. 120. PARDE, PARDIEUX, 7257- 9110. T. u. 759. A

common FR. oath, which most of the personages

in Chaucer express very frequently in English,

with as little ceremony as the Greeks used their

vy AJ«, and with as little meaning too. See ver.

1812. 4024. 4033. 6168. 7432. PARDONER, n. FR. A seller of pardons, or indul gences. See his CHARACTER, ver. 671 — 716.

See also the n. on ver. 710. and P P. 2. PAREMENTS, n. pi. FR. Ornamental furniture, or

clothes. See the n. on ver. 10583.

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PARENTELE, n. FR. Kindred. P 107.

PARFAY, FR. Parfoy. By my faith. 3681.

PARFEI, R. 6228. as PARFAY.

PARFIT, adj. FR. Perfect. 72. 5697-

PARFITLY, adv. Perfectly. 5693.

PARFOURME, v. FR. To perform. 7843. 9926.

PARISHENS, n. pi. FR. Parishioners. 484.

PARITORIE, n. FR. LAT. The herb Parietaria, or Pellitory of the wall. 16049.

PARLEMENT, n. FR. An assembly for consultation. 2972. T. iv. 211.— A consultation. R. 7358.

PARTEN, inf. m. FR. To take part. 9504. L W. 465.

PARTIE, n. FR. A part. 3010. 4437. — A party, in a dispute. 2659.

PARVIS, n. FR. A portico before a church. Du Cange, in v. Paradisus, i. It appears from R. 7158. Orig. 12530. that books were commonly sold Au parvis devant Notre Dame at Paris. At London, the Parvis was frequented by Serjeants at Law. See ver. 312. and Fortescue de laud, leg. Ang. c. LI. Post meridiem curite non tenentur ; sed placitantes tune se divertunt ad Pervisum et alibi, consulentes cum Servientibus ad Legeni et aliis consiliariis suis. There is a difference of opinion where the Parvis at London, to which the Lawyers resorted, was situated. Somner sup poses it to have been in Old-Palace-yard, before Westminster-hall. Gloss, in X Script, v. Trifori-

184 GLOSSARY.

urn. But others, with more probability, think it was what Dugdale calls the Pervyse of Pawles. See the notes upon Fortescue, loc. tit. When the Serjeants had dined in any of the Inns of Court, St. Paul's lay much more conveniently for an af ternoon consultation than Westminster-hall.

PAS, n. FR. A foot-pace. See the n. on ver. 827. and T. n. 627. His horse — On which he rode a pasful softely.

PASS, v. FR. To surpass ; to excell. 450. L W. 1125. — To judge; to pass sentence. 3091. T. in. 1288. L W. 162.

PASSANT, PASSING, part. pr. Excelling. 2109. 16082.

PATREN, inf. m. To pray; properly, to repeat the Pater noster. R. 7195. 6794.

PAVADE, n. 3927. See the note. ,

PAUMES, n. pi. FR. The palms of the hands. T. in. 1120.

PAX. To kisse the Pax. P. 42. For an account of this ceremony see Du Cange, in v.

PAYEN, adj. FR. Pagan. 2372.

PAYENES, n. pi. Heathens. 4962.

PAYSAUNCE, n. C D. 1673. " Pausing or stopping. Gloss. Ur." q?

PECUNIAL, adj. Pecuniary, paid in money. 6896.

PEES, n. FR. Peace. 2319. When used as an in terjection, 6420. 6432. it signifies the same as Hold thy pees. 2670. Be silent.

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PEINE, n. FR. Penalty. Up peine of deth. 5304.

See UP.— Grief, torment. 1321. 2385.— Labour.

11042. PEINE, w. FR. To torture ; to put to pain. 1748.

She peined hire. 139. 4740. She took great pains. PEISE, v. FR. To poize; to weigh. T. in. 1413. PELL, n. F. HI. 220. " A house, a cell. Sp. and

Sk. f. a palace. Gloss. Ur." q? PELLET, n. FR. Pelotte. A ball. F. in. 553. PENANCE, n. FR. Repentance. P. 5. — Pains to

be undergone by way of satisfaction for sin. 223.

5411.— Pain, sorrow. 4758. 5224. 11050. PEN ANT, n. FR. A person doing penance. 13940. PENCELL, n. FR. Pennoncel. A small streamer.

T. v. 1043 PENIBLE, adj. FR. Industrious, pains -taking. 7428.

8590. PENITENCER, n. FR. A priest, who enjoins penance

in extraordinary cases. P. 120. PENMARK, pr. n. A place in Bretagne. See the

n. on ver. 11113. PENNER, n. 9753. A pen-case. In the inventory

of the goods of Henry 5. Rot. Parl 2 H. 6. n. 15.

m. 13. is the following article : " Un penner' et i

ynkhorn d' arg' dorrez." And again, m. 20. " i

pennere et i come covert du velvet bloy." PEN ON, n. FR. A streamer, or ensign. 980. PENS, n.pl. SAX. Pennies. '12310. 12864. PENSELL, n. R. 6280. as PENCELL.

186 GLOSSARY.

PENSIFEHED, n. Pensiveness. BK. 102.

PEPEE, n. LAT. Pepper. 16230. To brewe peper. R. 6028. seems to be an expression for the prepa ration of a hot pungent liquor, which should burn the throats of the drinkers. In the Orig. it is — Dames les brasseront tel poivre. 11514.

PEPLE, n. FR. People. 2532, 6.

PEPLISH, adj. Vulgar. T. iv, 1677.

PERCHE, n. FR. A pearch for birds. 14890.

PERCEL, adv. BK. 225. r. Parcel. Ed. 1542. By parcels, or parts.

PERDE. F. n. 332. as PARDE'.

PERE, v. To appear. C L. 55.

PERE, n. FR. A peer, an equal. 4024. 10990.

PEREGAL, adj. Equal. T. v. 840.

PEREGRINE, adj. FR. Wandering. 10742. See the note.

PERELES, adj. Without an equal. B K. 347-

PERJENETE, n. A young pear. See the n. on ver. 3248.

PERNASO, pr. n. Mount Parnassus. 11033.

PERRIE, n. FR. Jewels ; precious stones. 2938. 5926.

PERSAUNT, part.pr. FR. Piercing. R. 2809.

PERSE, pr. n. Persia. 14258.

PERSE, adj. FR. Skie-coloured, of a blewish grey. 441.

PERSELEE, n, SAX. LAT. Parsely. 4348.

PERSONE, n. BARB. LAT. A man ; generally, a

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man of dignity. 10339. — A parson, or rector of a church. 7590. See his CHARACTER. 479 — 53O. PERSONER. T L. n. 326.

PERTELOTE, pr. n. of a hen. 14876.

PERTURBE, v. FR. To trouble. 908.

PERTURBING, n. Disturbance. 7836.

PERVINKE, ». SAX. LAT. The herb periwinkle. R. 903.

PERY, n. FR. A pear-tree. 10091.

PESE, n. FR. R. 4703. as PEES.

PESEN, n. pi SAX. Peas. LW. 648.

PESIBLE, adj. Peaceable. R. 7413.

PETER ALFONSE. M. 102, 4. PIERS ALFONSE. M. 89. 111. 131. See the note on M. 89.

PETRARK, pr. n. 7907. 14331. See the note on ver. 7927 and 14253. Our author has inserted a translation of the 103d Sonnet of Petrarch into his Troilus and Creseide. B. i. ver. 394 — 421. It is not in the Hlostrato. There seems to be no sufficient reason for believing that Chaucer had ever seen Petrarch. See the Discourse, &c. § xx. n. 20.

PEYTREL, n. FR. The breast-plate of a horse. 16032. P. 46.

PHISIKE, n. FR. Medicine. 415. 2762. Doctour of Phisike. See his CHARACTER. 413 — 446.

PHISIOLOGUS, pr. n. 15277. See the note. There was a larger work, with the same title, in prose,

188 GLOSSARY.

which is frequently quoted by Vincent of Beau-

vais.

PHITON, pr. n. The serpent Python. 17058, 77. PHITONESSE, n. BARB. LAT. A witch. 7092. F.

in. 171. See the n. on ver. 7092. PIE, n. FR. A mag-pie. 10963. — A prating gossip,

or tell-tale. T. m. 528. F. n. 195. PIERRIE, n. FR. Jewels; precious stones. 14311. PIGGESKIE. See the n. on ver. 3268. PIGHT, pa. t. of PIKE, v. SAX. Pitched. 2691. PIKE, v. SAX. To pitch. To pick, as a hawk does

his feathers. 9885.— To steal. L W. 2456.— To

peep. T. in. 60.

PIKE, n. SAX. A fish so called. 9293. PIKEREL, n. SAX. A young pike. 9C293. PILCHE, n. SAX. A coat, or cloak, of skins. Prov. 4.

Toga pellicea. Junius in v. FILER, n. FR. A pillar. 1995. Du. 739. PILLE, v. FR. Filler. To rob, to plunder. 6944.

P. 87. PILLED, rather PILED, part. pa. FR. Pel& Bald.

629. 3933.

PILLOURS, n. pi. FR. Plunderers. 1009. P. 88. PILWE, n. SAX. A pillow. T. v. 224. PILWE-BERE, n. SAX. The covering of a pillow.

696. PIMENT, n. BARB. LAT. Spiced wine. R. 6027.

— Wine mixed with, honey. Bo. n. m. 5. See

CLARRE.

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PINCHE, v. FR. To squeeze. Ther coude no wight pinche at his writing. 328. No one could lay hold of any flaw in his writings.

PINE, n. SAX. Pain, grief. 1326. 6369.

PINE, v. SAX. To torment. R. 3511.

PINED, part. pa. Tortured. 15065.

PIPE, v. SAX. To play on a pipe. 3874. To pipe in an ivy lefe. 1840. TL. in. 348. is put for any useless employment ; as it is now said of a disap pointed man, He may go whistle. See BUCKES

HORN.

PISTELL, n. SAX. LAT. An epistle. 9030. — A short lesson. 6603.

PITANCE, n. FR. A mess of victuals. 224. It pro perly means an extraordinary allowance of vic tuals, given to Monastics, in addition to their usual commons. See Du Cange in v. Pic- TANTIA.

PITH, n. SAX. Marrow; strength. 6057.

PITOUS, adj. FR. Merciful. 10334. — Compas sionate. «980. — Exciting compassion. 8962.

PITOUSLY, adv. Pitifully. 5339. 8958.

PLAGE, n. LAT. The plague. P. 65.

PLAGES, n. pi. LAT. The divisions of the globe. The plages of the North. 4963. The Northern regions.

PLAIN, n. FR. A plain. 4444. 11510.

adj. Simple, clear. 11032. It is often used

as an adverb. 792. 5306. See PLAT.

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PLAIN, v. To make plain. T. v. 1229.

PLAINE, v. FR. To complain. 5969. 11629.

PLAINLICHE, adv. Plainly. T. n. 272.

PLAT, PLATTE, adj. FR. Flat, plain. 1847. 12582. — The flat of a sword. 10476, T. iv. 937.— It is often used as an adverb. 12582. All plat, i. e. Flatly. Ful plat and eke ful plain. 14675.

PLATE, n. A flat piece of metal. A brest-plate.SlW. Armour for the breast. A pair of plates. 2123. Armour for the breast and back.

PLAY, v. SAX. Sport, pleasure. 8906. 13047.

PLAY, v. To sport, to take pleasure. 12892. 12901. To act upon a stage. 3384. To play upon musi cal instruments. 3306. 3333. To play a pilgrim age. 13163, 4. To withdraw upon pretence of going on a pilgrimage.

PLE, n. FR. An argument, or pleading. AF. 485.

PLEIN, adj. FR. Full, perfect. 339. 8802.

PLENERE, adj. FR. Compleat. L W. 1605.

PLESANCE, «. FR. Pleasure. 9308. 9524.

PLESINGES, n. pi. Pleasures. 5131.

PLETE, v. FR. To plead. T. n. 1468.

PLETING, n. Pleading. P. 13.

PLIE, v. FR. To bend, or mold. 9045. 9304.

PLIGHT, n. Condition. P. 87.

PLIGHT, pa. t. and part, of PLUCK, v. SAX. Pulled, plucked. 4435. 6372. 14055. R. 1745.

PLIGHTE, v. SAX. To engage, to promise. 6591. 13128.

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PLIGHTE, pa. t. 6633. PLIGHTEN, pi. 1164O. PLITE, v. To plait, or fold. T. n. 697. 1204. See

PLIE.

PLITE, n. Condition, form. 16420. See PLIGHT. PLUNGY, adj. FR. Wet, rainy. Bo. in. m. 1. POILEIS, adj. FR. Of Apulia, antiently called POILE.

See the n. on ver. 10509. tVillamme's dogter

Conversane in POYLE to wyve he nome. R G.

413. POINT, n. FR. The principal business. 2967. — A

stop, or full point. 16948. — In good point. 200.

In good case, or condition. At point devise. 3689.

10874. R. 1215. With the greatest exactness.

At point to brest. T. iv. 1638. In point for to

brast. R. 3186. Ready to burst. POINTEL, n. FR. A style, or pencil, for writing.

7324. Ho. i. pr. 1. POINTEN, inf. m. v. FR. To prick with any thing

pointed. R. 1058. POKE, n. FR. A pocket. 3778.— A bag. 4276. See

POUCHE.

POKE, v. FR. To thrust. 4167.

POLIVE, n. A pullie. 10498.

POLLAX, n. SAX. A halberd. 2546. Bipennis.

Prompt. Parv. POMEL, n. FR. Any ball, or round thing. The top

of the head. 2691. POMELEE, adj. FR. Spotted with round spots like

192 GLOSSARY.

apples; dappled. Pomelee gris. 16027. Of a

dapple-grey colour. POPELOT, n. See the n. on ver. 3254. POPET, n. FR A puppet. 13631. POPINGAY, n. A parrot. 10196. 13299. Papegaut,

FR. Papegaey. BELG. Papagallo. ITAL. POPPED, adj. FR. Nicely dressed. R. 1019. POPPER, n. See the n. on ver. 3929. PORE, v. To look earnestly. 5877. 7320. POREN,

pr. t.pl. 16138. PORE, adj. 7518. for POURE. PORISME, n. GR. Bo. in. pr. 10. is used in the

sense of — A corollary; a theorem deduced from

another. PORPHURIE, pr. n. of a species of marble; Por-

phyrie. 16243.

PORT, n. FR. Carriage, behaviour. 69. 138. PORTECOLISE, w. FR. A falling gate, a portcullis.

R. 4168.

PORTOS, n. See the n. on ver. 13061. POSE, v. A rheum, or defluxion, obstructing the

voice. 4150. 17011. Catarrus. Corisa. Prompt.

Parv. POSE, v. FR. To suppose. 1164. T. in. 572.

I POSE, I had sinned so. P P. 95 b. POSSE, v. FR. To push. LW. 2409. POSSED, part. pa. R. 44/9. Possession ERS, n. pi. LAT. An invidious name

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for such religious communities, as were endowed with lands, &c. 7304. The Mendicant orders professed to live entirely upon alms.

POST, «. SAX. A prop, or support. 214. T. i. 1001.

POSTS', n. FR. Power. R. 6484. 6533.

POTECARY, n. FR. An Apothecary. 12786.

POTENT, n. FR. A crutch. R. 368. 7417. A walking-stick. 7358.

POTENTIAL, adj. FR. Strong, powerful. F. in. 5.

POTESTAT, n. FR. A principal magistrate. 7599.

POUCHE, n. FR. Pocket, pouch. 3929.

POUDRE, n. FR. Powder. 16228. F. n. 28. Pou- DRES, pi. 16275.

POUDRE MARCHANT. 382. See the note.

POVERTE, n. FR. Poverty. 6759. 6767. It is to be pronounced Povtfrte; the final e being con sidered as an e feminine.

POULCE, n. FR. The pulse. T. in. 1120.

POULE, pr. n. St. Paul. 7229. Poules windowes. 3318. See the note.

POUNSONED, part. pa. FR. Punched with a bod kin. P. 44.

POUPE, v. To make a noise with a horn. 15405. 17039.

POURCHACE, n. FR. To buy. 610. — To provide. 5293. T. ii. 1125.

POURCHAS, n. Fr. Acquisition, purchase. 258. 7033.

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194 GLOSSARY.

POURE, v. R. 1640. T. ii. 1708. as PORE. POURE, adj. FR. Poor. 6*69. 6775. POURTRAIE, «. FR. To draw a picture. 96. POURTRAIOUR, n. A drawer of pictures. 1901. POURTRAITURE, «. A picture, or drawing. 1917.

1970.

PRACTIKE, n. FR. Practice. 5769. PREAMBLE, n. FR. Preface. 6413. PREAMBULATIOUN, n. Preamble. 6419. PRECIOUS, adj. FR. Over-nice. 5730. 9836. PREDESTINE', n. FR. Predestination. T. iv. 966. PREDICATION, n. FR. Preaching; a sermon.

12279.

FREES, n. FR. A press, or crowd. 5066. 6104. PREFE, PREVE, n. FR. Proof, trial. 8663. At

preve. T. HI. 1004. Upon trial. With evilprefe.

5829. Evil may it prove ! See WITH. PREFECT, n. FR. LAT. A governour, or principal

magistrate. 15830.

PREISE, n. FR. Commendation. 8902. PREISE, v. FR. To commend. 8898. 9420.— To

value. 9728.

PRENTIS, n. FR. An apprentice. 4383. 5885. PRENTISHODE, n. Apprenticeship. 4398. PREPARAT, part. pa. LAT. Prepared. 16278. PRE'S, adv. FR. Near. So I suspect this word is

to be understood in ver. 14143. Of pr&. i. e. at

hand ; close. De prts. FR. Or perhaps Ofprts

may be put for In a prees. See FREES.

GLOSSARY. 195

PBESE, v. FR. To press, or crowd. 2582. R. 4198.

PRESENT, v. FR. To offer, to make a present of. 12190. And with the wine she gan hem to PRE SENT. L W. 1093. And smote his hed of, his fader to PRESENT. PL. 18.

PRESENTARIE, adj. LAT. Present. Bo. v. pr. 6*.

PREST, adj. FR. Ready. T. n. 785. in. 919. '

PRETEND, v. FR. To lay claim to. T. iv. 922.

PRETERIT, adj. FR. Passed. R. 5011.

PREVE, v. FR. To try. 8575. 9028.— To demon strate by trial. 10112.

v. neut. To turn out upon trial. 8876.

PRICK, n. SAX. A point. Bo. n. pr. 7. F. n. 399.— A pointed weapon. 2608.

PRICK, PRIKE, v. SAX. To wound. 8914. — To spur a horse; to ride hard. 16029. R. 2314.

PRICKASOUR, n. A hard rider. 189.

PRICKING, n. Hard riding. 191.

PRIDELES, adj. SAX. Without pride. 8806.

PRIE, v. To look curiously. 3458. 7320.

PRIKKE, n. 5449. See PRICK.

PRIME, adj. FR. LAT. First. At prime temps. R. 3373. At the first time. At prime face. T. in. 921. At first appearance.

PRIME, n. The first quarter of the artificial day T. ii. 1095. Half way prime. 3904. Prime half spent. See the n. on ver. 3904. Prime large.

196 GLOSSARY.

10674. Prime far advanced. In ver. 10387. it seems to be used metaphorically for the season of action, or business.

PRIMEROLE, n. FR. A primrose. .'5268. Con/. Am. 148. b.

PRIMETEMPS, ra. FR. Spring. R. 4747.

PRIS, n. FR. Price. 817.— Praise. 67. 237. T. n. 181. 376'. Or it be prys, or it be blame. Con/. Am. 165.

PRIVE', adj. FR. Private. Prive* and apert. 6696. Private and publick. Prive* man. 8395. A man entrusted with private business.

PRIVELY, adv. Privately. 1445.

PRIVETEE, n. Private business. 3454. 3603.

PROCESSE, n. LAT. Progress. 2969.

PROFESSIOUN, n. FR. The monastic profession. 13085. R. 4910.

PROHEME, n. FR. GR. A preface. 7919.

PROINE, v. FR. Provigner. It seems to have signi fied originally, to take cuttings from vines, in order to plant them out. From hence it has been used for the cutting away of the superfluous shoots of all trees; which we now call pruning; and for that operation, which birds, and particularly hawks, perform upon themselves, of picking out their superfluous or damaged feathers. In allu sion to this last sense, Damian is said to proine and pike himself. 9885. Gower, speaking of an eagle, says,

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For there he pruneth him and piketh, As doth an hauke, whan him wel liketh.

Cow/. Am. 139.

PROLLE, v. To go about in search of a thing. 16880.

PROVABLE, adv. Fr. Capable of being demonstrated. R. 5414.

PROVENDE, n. FR. Prcebenda. LAT. A prebend; a daily or annual allowance or stipend. R. 6931. See Du Cange, in v. PR.EBENDA.

PRO YEN ORE, n. A prebendary. T L. n. 326.

PROVERBE, n. FR. LAT. A prudential maxim. 6-233. 9441.

PROVERBE, v. To speak proverbially. T. in. 294.

PROVOSTRY, n. FR. The office of Provost, or Pre fect. Praefectura. Bo. HI. pr. 4.

PROW, n. FR. Profit, advantage. 12234. 13338.

PROWESSE, n. FR. Integrity. Bo. iv. pr. 3.

PRUCE, pr. n. Prussia. 53.

PRUCE, adj. Prussian. 2124.

PRUNED, pa. t. C D. 1874. as PROINED.

PTHOLOMEE, pr. n. 5764. 5906. See the note on ver. 5764 and 17278. and Rom. de la R. 7399. 19449.

PUELLA and RUBEUS. 2047- " The names of two figures in Geomancie, representing two constella tions in heaven; Puella signifieth Mars retro grade, and Rubeus Mars direct." Sp.

198 GLOSSARY.

PULCHRITUDE, n. LAT. Beauty. C L. 613.

PULLAILE, n. FR. Poultry. R. 7094.

PULLED HEN. 177- See the note. I have been told since, that a hen whose feathers are pulled, or plucked off, will not lay any eggs. If that be true, there is more force in the epithet than I apprehended.

PUNICE, t». FR. To punish. R. 7187. T. v. 1706.

PURE. adj. FR. Mere, very. See the n. on ver. 1281. and add these instances. Pure fere. Du. 1251. Pure kind. F. 11. 316.

PURED, part. pa. Purified. 57*25.11864.

PURFILED, part. pa. See the n. on ver. 193.

PURPOS, n. FR. Purpose, design. 6923. — Proposi tion in discourse. T. n. 897.

PUR PRISE, n. FR. An inclosure. R. 3987.

PURVEYANCE, n. FR. Foresight; Providence. 1254. 3013. — Provision. 3566.

PURVEYE, v. To foresee. T. iv. 1066. — To pro vide. 6173.

PUTERIE, n. FR. Whoredom. P. 103.

PUTOURS, n. pi. Whoremongers. P. 103.

PYTHAGORAS, pr. n. Du. 1167. See the passage quoted in v. AURORA.

Q-

QUAD, QUADE, adj. TEUT. Bad. See the n. on ver. 4345. and ver. 13368. None quad ; Nothing evil. Con/. Am. 103.

GLOSSARY. 199

QUAILE-PIPE, n. A pipe used to call quails. R.

7213. QUAIRE, n. FR. A quire of paper ; a book. B K.

675.

QUAKKE, n. 4150. seems to be put for an articulate noise, occasioned by any obstruction in the throat. QUALME, n. SAX. Sickness. 2016. — The noise

made by a raven. T. v. 382. QUAPPE, v. To tremble, to quake. T. in. 57.

L W. 865.

QUARELS, n. pL FR. Square arrows. R. 1823. QUEINT, n. See Junii Etymolog. in v. QUEINTE, adj. FR. Strange. 2335. 10553. I made of that lefefull queint. R. 3079. See ver. 11530. He made it strange. — Cunning, artful. 3605.4049. —Trim, neat. R. 2251. QUEINTE, pa. t. $ part, of QUENCH, v. SAX.

Quenched. 2336. 2338, 9.

QUEINTISE, n. Trimness, neatness. R. 2250. —

Excessive trimness. P. 110. — Cunning. P. 83.

QUELLE, v. SAX. To kill, to destroy. 15396.

16173. QUEME, v. SAX. To please. R. 7222. T. v. 695.

Wei me QUEMETH. Conf. Am. 68. QUENE, n. SAX. A queen. 4581. — A harlot. R.

7082.

QUERNE, n. SAX. A hand-mill. 14080. F. m. 708.

200 GLOSSARY.

QUEKEOUE, n. FR. One that works in a stone- quarry. R. 4149.

QUESTE, n. FR. A prayer or demand. F. m. 648.

QUEST-MONGERS, n. pi. Packers of Inquests, or juries. P. 92.

QUETHE, v. SAX. To say ; to declare. I quethe him quite. R. 6999. is a translation of an old tech nical term in the law ; Clamo ille quietum. The original FR. has only Je quitte.

QUIK, adj. SAX. Alive. 1017. R. 5056.

QUIKKEST, superl. d. Speediest. The quikkest strete. 11806. The most expeditious way.

QUIKEN. v. SAX. To make alive. 15949. QUIKED, part. pa. Made alive. 11362.

QUIKED, pa. t. of the same v. used in a neutral sense. 2337- Became alive.

QUINIBLE, n. 3332. is the instrument, I suppose, which is called in BARB. LAT. Quinterna and Quintaria. See Du Cange, and Carpentier, in v. Quinternizare ; and Mehus, Vita d'Ambr. Camald. p. 323. Lyrd, limbutd, quintaria, ribebd, avend, tibiisque.

QUISHIN. n. FR. A cushion. T. in. 966.

QUISTRON, n. R. 886. A beggar. Gl. Ur. I rather believe it signifies a Scullion ; un gargon de cuisine.

QUITE, adj. FR. Free, quiet. 15916.

QUITE, v. FR. To requite ; to pay for. 772. 312 1 . —To acquit. R. 3069. QUITTE, part. pa. Requited. R. 3146.

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QUITELY, adv. Freely, at liberty. 1794. QUOD, pa. t. of QUETHE. Said. 790. 839. QUOKE, pa. t. of QUAKE, v. SAX. Trembled, shook. 1578. 14210.

R.

RA, n. SAX. A roe-deer. 4084.

RACINE, n. FR. A root. R. 4881.

RAD, RADDE, pa. t. of REDE, v. SAX. Advised. A F. 579.— Explained. Du. 281.

RADEVORE. L W. '2341. Tapestry. " Ras in FR. signifies any stuff, as Ras de Chalons, Ras de Gennes, Ras de Fore, or Vaur, may be a stuff made at such a place. Gloss. Ur." There is a town in Languedoc, called La Vaur, but I know not that it was ever famous for tapestry.

RAFLES, n. pi. FR. Plays with dice. P. 9l.

RAFTE, pa. t. of REVE, v. SAX. Took away 14104, 7.

RAGE, «. FR. To toy wantonly. 259. 3273.

RAGERIE, n. Wantonness. 6037- 9721.

RAGOUNCES. R. 1117- should probably be JA- GONCES, as in the Orig. FR. The precious stones, called Jacinths, or Hyacinths.

RAINES, pr. n. The city of Rennes in Bretagne. Du. 255.

RAKE-STELE, n. SAX. The handle of a rake. 6531.

RAKEL, adj. Hasty, rash. 17227. T. i. 106S.

RAKELNESSE, n. Rashness. 17232.

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RAKET. To play raket; nettle in, dock out ; seems to be used as a proverbial expression, signifying, to be inconstant. T. iv. 461. T L. i. 319 b. What the original of the phrase may have been is not so clear.

RAMAGE, adj. FR. Wild. R. 5384. RAMMISH, adj. SAX. Rank, like a ram. 16355. RAMPE, v. FR. To climb. She rampeth in my face.

13910. She rises against me, flies in my face. RAN, pa. t. of RENNE, 4103. 6552. RANNEN, pi.

2927.

RAPE, adv. Quickly, speedily. R. 6516. RAPE, n. Haste. Ch. wordes to his Scrivener. 7. RAPE, v. SAX. To take captive. To rape and renne.

16890. To seize and plunder. See RENNE. RASIS, pr. n. 434. An Arabian Physician of the X Century. See Fabric. Bibl. Gr. t. xm. p. 46. in v. ALBUBECAR.

RASKAILE, n. A pack of rascals. T. v. 1852. RATED, part. pa. Chidden. 3463. RATHE, adv. SAX. Soon, early. 13029. — Speedily.

T. ii. 108S.

RATHER, comp. d. Sooner. 10176. RATHEST, superl. d. Soonest. B K. 428. RATHER, adj. SAX. comp. d. Former. T. in. 1342. RATOUNS, n. pi. FR. Rats. 12788. RAUGHT, pa. t. of Rsecan, «. SAX. Reached. 136. 2917. On his way he raught. T. n. 447. He sprang forth on his way.

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RAUGHT, pa. t. of Reccan, v. SAX. Cared, rekked.

3770. 15346. RAVENERS (Ravinoursj n. pi. Plunderers. Bo. i.

pr. 3. RAVINE, n. FR. Rapine. Foules of ravine. A F.

323. Birds of prey.

RAVISABLE, adj. FR. Ravenous. R. 7066. RAVISHING, part. pr. FR. Rapid. With a ravish ing sweigh. Bo. i. m. 5. Rapido turbine. Orig.

See SWEGH.

RAUNSON, n. FR. Ransom. 1178. RAYED, part. pa. FR. Streaked, or striped. Du.

252.

REAL, adj. FR. Royal. 1499. 15190. REALLER, comp. d. More royal. 4822. REALLICH, adv. Royally. 380. REALTEE, n. Royalty. 4838. REBEKKE, pr. n. Rebeccah. 9578. REBEKKE, n. FR. A musical instrument. See the

n. on ver. 6959.

RECHASED, pa. t. FR. A term in hunting. Du. 379. RECCHE, REKKE, v. SAX. To care. 2247. 4514. RECCHELES, adj. Careless. 8364. RECCHELESNESSE, n. Carelessness, P. 80. RECLAIMS, v. FR. A term in Falconry, for bringing

the hawk to the fist, by a certain call. 17021. RECLAIMING, n. Calling; in the sense of RE-

CLAIME. L W. 1369. RECOMFORT, v. FR. To comfort. 2854. M. 138.

204

GLOSSARY.

RECORD, n. FR. Witness, testimony. Du. 934. RECORDE, «. FR. To remember. Bo. HI. m. 11.

— In ver. 1747. it seems to be used in a technical

legal sense, for what is called to enter upon record

in judicial proceedings. RECREANDISE, n. FR. signifies fear, cowardice ;

desertion of principle. R. 2107. 4OS8. RECREANT, adj. One who yields himself to his

adversary in single combat. P. 79. R. 4090.

For the full import of these two words see Du

Cange, in v. RECREDENTIA. RECURE, n. FR. Recovery. B K. 682. RECURED, part. pa. FR. Recovered, R. 4920. B K.

652. REDDE, RED, pa. t. of REDE, v. SAX. 6296. 6303.

T. v. 737.

REDDOUR, n. FR. Strength, violence. Fort. 13. REDE, n. SAX. Advice, counsel. 14467. 3527. —

A reed. T. u. 1387. REDE, v. SAX. To advise. 3073. 16476.— To read.

6252. 6267.— To explain. Du. 279. REDE, adj. SAX. Red. 1971. 14934. REDOUTE, v. FR. To fear. R. 2023. REDOUTING, n. Reverence. 2052. REDRESSE, v. FR. To recover. T. n. 969. — To

make amends for. 11748.

REFECT, part. pa. LAT. Recovered. Bo. iv. pr. 6. REFIGURING, part. pr. FR. Figuring again. T. v.

472.

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REFRAIN, n. FR. The burthen of a song. T. n. 1571.

REFRAINING, n. The singing of the burthen of a song. R. 749.

REFREIDE, v. FR. To cool. T. u. 1343.

REFERTE, n. The same as REFRAIN. T L. in. 341 b. In Ber. 468. it is printed corruptly Fre- freit.

REFTE, RIFTE, n. SAX. A chink, or crevice. R. 2661.

REFUTE, n. FR. Refuge. 5272. 15543.

REGALS, n. pi. FR. Royalties. L W. 2126.

REGARD, n. FR. At regard of. P. 90. 127. With respect to ; in comparison of.

REGNE, n. FR. A kingdom. 868. 14190.

REHETE, v. FR. Rehaiter. To revive, to cheer. R. 6509.

REHETING, n. T. in. 350. according to several MSS. " And all the reheting of his sikes sore" " Some MSS. and most of the printed Editions read richesse instead of reheting. Gloss. Ur" Ri- chesse, though almost as aukward an expression as the other, is more agreeable to the corres ponding passage in the Filostrato —

" E sospir che gli avea a gran dovicia" — and one can hardly conceive that it could come from any hand but that of the author. I can make no sense of reheting ; but at the same time

106 GLOSSARY.

I must allow that it is not likely to have been in serted by way of a gloss.

REILE, v. neut. To roll. Reileth diversly. Bo. i. m. 7. Vagatur. Orig.

REINES, pr. n. R. 3826. See RAINES.

REJOIE, v. FR. To rejoice. T. v. 395.

REKE, v. SAX. To exhale. L W. 2601.

REKEN, v. SAX. To reckon. 3198. — To come to a reckoning. 4530.

REKES, n. pi. SAX. Ricks (of corn). T L. Prol.

RELAXES, n. pi. FR. Fresh sets of hounds. Du.362.

RELEFE, n. SAX. What is left. T L. Prol.

RELEES, n. FR. Release. BK. 333. See the n. on ver. 15514.

RELIGIOUSITE, n. FR. Persons of a religious pro fession ; the Clergy. C L. 686.

RELIKE, n. FR. A relick. 12883. RELIKES, pi. 703.

REMEKANT, n. FR. A remnant; a remaining part. 1571. 3166.

REMES, n. pi. FR. Realms. 15142.

REMISSAILS, n. pi. FR. Orts, leavings. T L. Prol.

REMORDE, v. FR. To cause remorse. T. iv. 1491. To afflict. Bo. iv. pr. 6.

REMUABLE, adj. FR. Moveable ; inconstant. T. iv. 1682.

REMUE, REMEWE, REMEVE, v. FR. To remove. 11305. 11532. Con/. Am. 164 b.

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REMUED, pa. t. 11517. R. 7432.

REN ABLY, adv. FR. Reasonably. 7091.

RENEGATE, n. FR. An apostate from Christianity.

5353.

RENEIE, v. FR. To renounce ; to abjure. 4760.4796. RENGES, n. pi. FR. Ranks. 2596. — The steps of a

ladder. 3625. See the note. RENNE, v. SAX. To run. 3888. 4063. — To rend.

q? 16890.

RENOMEE, n. Fa. Renown. 6741. L W. 1511. RENOVELAUNCE, n. FR. A. renewing. F. ri. 185. RENOVELLE, v. FR. To renew. M. 150. P. 123. RENT, v. SAX. To tear, or rend. R. 324. REPAIRED. FR. Resort. 6806. REPAIRE, v. FR. To return. 109O3. REPENTANT, part. pr. FR. Repenting. 228. 10969. REPREFE, REPREVE, n. FR. Reproof. 10080.

10137. REPRESSION, n. T. in. 1040. seems to be put for

power of repressing. REQUERE, v. FR. To require. 6592. RERE, v. SAX. To raise. C D. 468. RESCOUS, n. FR. Rescue. 2645. RESCOWE, v. FR. To rescue. T. v. 231. RESON, n. FR. Reason. 9552. Proportion. Bo. n.

pr.7.

RESONS, n. pi. FR. Discourses. T. in. 90. RESPITE, n. T. v. 137. may, perhaps, be put for Respect.

208 GLOSSARY.

RESPITEN, inf. m. FR. To grant a respite. 11886.

— To excuse. R. 6084. RESPORT, n. T. iv. 850. is probably put for

Respect.

RESTE, n. SAX. Repose. 9729. RESTE, v. SAX. To repose; to cease from labour.

2623. RETENUE, n. FR. Retinue. 8146. At his retenue.

6937. Retained by him. RETHOR, n. FR. LAT. An orator, or rhetorician.

10352.

REVE, n. SAX. A steward, or bailif. See his CHA RACTER, ver. 539 — 624. REVE, v. SAX. To take away. 4009. P. 61. REVEL, n. FR. Entertainment, properly during the

night. 2719. Sport, festivity. 4 4OO. LW. 2242. REVELOUR, n. A reveller. 43b9. REVELRIE, n. Pleasure. R. 720. REVERS, adj. FR. Contrary. 7638. 14983. REVERSE, v. FR. To overturn. R. 5468. REVERT, v. FR. To turn back. R. 7284. REVEST, v. FR. To cloath again. T. m. 354. REW, n. A row, or line. On a rew. 2868. In a

line. All by rew. 6088. See A'ROW. REWAKE, v. SAX. To waken again. T. in. 1124. REWARD, n. FR. Regard, respect. Take reward

of thin owen value. P. 12. Have regard to t. o. v. In reward of. R. 3254. In comparison with. See REGARD.

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REWE, v. SAX. To have compassion. 1865. — To suffer; to have cause to repent. 3530.

REWEL BONE. 13807. See the note.

REYES, n. pi. F. in. 146. Dances, in use among the Dutch. Reye. BELG. Chorea celerior, chorea in longam seriem. Kilian.

REYSED. See the n. on ver. 54. " Les Gandois firent une rese sur les marches de Haynault, et dedans le pays pillerent, bruslerent, et firent moult de maux" Mem. de la Marche. p. 384. Where a note in the margin says, " Reyse en has Ale- mand signifie un voyage ou course."

RIBANINGES. n. pi. R. 1O77. seems to signifie Borders.

RIBAUDE, n. A poor labourer. R. 5673. But the word generally implies profligacy of manners as well as meanness of condition. See Du Cange, in v. RIBALDUS.

RIBAUDRIE, n. Ribaldry ; indecent words, or ac tions. 3864. 12258.

RIBIBE, n. See the n. on ver. 6959.

RIBIBLE, n. A small ribibe. 3331. 4394.

RICHARD, pr. n. 15354. In the Essay, &c. n. 50. I have vindicated the character of this heroic prince from an aspersion, which was first cast upon him, I find, by Mr. Rymer, in consequence of a mistaken construction of a passage in Hove- den. I am tempted to add here the beginning of a poem, which, having been composed after VOL. v. P

210 GLOSSARY.

his death by Anselm Faydit, must stand clear of

all suspicion of having been either begged or

bought.

For chausa es et tot lo maior dan, El maior dol, las ! q eu anc mais agues, Et zo, don dei toz temps plaigner ploran, M aven a dir en chantar et retraire, De eel q era de valorz caps et paire. Li reis valenz Rizard, reis des Engles, Es morz ; ai deus ! cals perda et cals danz es ! Can estraing moz et qan greu per audir ! Ben a dur cor toz horn co po sofrir.

Morz es li reis, et son passat mil an Qanc tan pros hom no fo ne nol vit res, Ne ia mais hom non er del sen senblant, Tan lares, tan pros, tan ardiz, tals donaire ; Q Alixandres lo rei^s, qe venqi Daire, No cuit qe tan dones ni tan messes, Ni an Charles ni Artus tan valgues, Q a tot lo mon sen fez, qi n vol ver dir, Als us doptar et als altres grazir.

MS. Crofts, fol. cxi. RICHESSE. n. FR. Wealth. 6692. RICHESSES, pi.

Riches. M. 116, 119. RiDDELED,jpar*./>a. R. 1235,43. Plaited. Gl. Ur.

In the first of the places quoted, the French Orig.

has — Et fut si bien cuellie et jointe, — which

Chaucer has translated — Lorde ! it was riddeled

fetisly.

GLOSSARY. 211

RIDDEN, part. pa. of RIDE. He is ridden. 1505.

They ben ridden. 1689. He had ridden. 13729. RIDE, v. SAX. Herideth him. 1693. RIDING, n. See the n. on ver. 4375. RIFE, RIVE, v. SAX. To thrust through. 9112.

RIGHT, n. SAX. A right, or due. At alle rightes.

1854. 2102. At all points. RIGHT, adj. Good, true. 189. RIGHT, adv. Truely, rightly, exactly, completely.

It is frequently joined to adjectives, as the ad

verbs well and full are, to augment their force.

290. 617. RIME, n. FR. A composition in rime. 13639.

Hence the title of THE RIME OF SIRE THOPAS.

For the original of compositions in rime, see the

Essay, &c. n. 43. — Rime-dogerel. 13851. See

DOGEREL.

RIMEYED, part. pa. FR. Composed in rime, or verse. 11023. See the n. on ver. 11021.

RIMPLED, part. pa. SAX. Wrinkled. R. 4495.

RING, v. SAX. To make to sound. 2433. 12-265.

- , v. neut. To sound. 2602.

RISE, n. SAX. Small twigs of trees or bushes. 3324. R. 1015.

RISHE, n. SAX. A rush. R. 1701. T. m. 1167.

RIST for RISETH. 3688. T. u. 812.

RIT for RIDETH. 976. 17028.

RIVAGE. F. i. 223. See ARIVAGE.

212 GLOSSARY.

RIVE, v. neut. SAX. To split, to fall asunder. R.

5393. 5718. RIVELING, part. pr. SAX. Wrinkling. R. 7214.

Ruyffelen. BELG. Rugare. Kilian. RIVER, n. FR. See the n. on ver. 6466 ROCHE, n. FR. A rock. F. in. 26. ROCHES,/)/.

F. ii. 527. RODE, n. SAX. The Cross. Rode-beem. 6078. It

is also called the Rode-tree ; from its being made

of wood.

RODE, ra. SAX. Complexion. 3317. RODY, adj. SAX. Ruddy. 10699. ROFE, pa. t. of RIFE, LW. 661. 1349. ROFTE.

F. i. 3/3. should probably be ROFE. ROGGE, v. SAX. To shake. L W. 2697. ROGGYN

OR MEVYN. Aglto. Prompt. Parv. ROIGNE, n. FR. A scab, mange, &c. R. 553. ROIGNOUS, adj. FR. Scabby ; rough. R. 61<>0. 988. ROKETTE, n. FR. A loose upper garment. R.

1240, 2. 4754. RoKiNG,par£. pr. ofRoKKE, or ROGGE, v. neut.

SAX. Shaking, trembling. R. 1906. ROGGYN

OR WAVERYN. Vacillo. Prompt. Parv. ROMAUNCES REALES. See the n. on ver. 13777- ROMBEL, n. A rumbling noise. 1981. — Rumour.

8873.

ROME, v. SAX. To walk about. 7994. 11155. RONDEL, n. FR. " A rime or sonnet which ends

as it begins. Cotgrave." LW. 423.

GLOSSARY. 213

RONE, pr. n. Rouen in Normandy. R. 1674.

RONE, pa. t. of RAIN, v. SAX. Rained. T. in. 678.

ROPEN, part. pa. of REPE, v. SAX. Reaped. L W. 74.

ROSALGAR. 16282. Red arsenic; a preparation of orpiment. Chambers, in v. Realgar. It should rather perhaps have been written Rysalgar, with MS. C. 1. as the Latin name is Risigallum.

ROSEN, adj. Rosy. B K. 657.

ROSER, n. FR. A rose-bush. P. 10O.

ROSE-RED, adj. 15722. Red as a rose.

ROTE, n. SAX. A root. 2. T. n. 348.

ROTE. A root, in astrology. 4734. See EXPANS YERES.

ROTE, n. A musical instrument. 236. See Du Cange, in v, ROCTA. Notker, who lived in the Xth century, says, that it was the antient Psalte- rium, but altered in its shape and with an addi tional number of strings. Schilter, in v. ROTTA.

ROTE, n. FR. Practise. By rote. 13452, 75. By heart. Par rotine. Cotg.

ROTE, v. SAX. To rot. 4405.

RoTEN,jj«r£. pa. 3871.

ROTHER, n. SAX. The rudder of a ship. C D. 1377-

ROUGHT for RAUGHT, pa. t. of RECCHE. 8561. T. i. 497.

ROUKE, v. SAX. To lie close. 131O. T. v. 409. But now they RUCKEN In her nest. Conf. Am. 72.

214 GLOSSARY.

ROULE, v. neut. SAX. To roll, to run easily. 6235. Where some copies have royle. See REILE.

ROUME, n. SAX Room, space. L W. 1997.

ROUME, ad/. Wide, spacious. 4124.

ROUMER, comp. d Wider. 4143.

ROUNCEVALL, pr. n. See the n. on ver. 672.

ROUNCIE, n. BARB. LAT. A common hackney horse. 392. See Du Cange in v. RUNCINUS.

ROUNDEL, n. FR. A sort of song. 1531. See RONDEL. — A circular figure. F. n. 283. 290.

ROUTE, n. FR. A company. 624. 9424.

ROUTE, v. To assemble in a company. 4960.

ROUTE, v. FR, To snore. 3647. 4 165. — To roar. F. ii. 530.

ROUTHE, n. SAX. Compassion. 11824. — The ob ject of compassion. 11833.

ROUTHELES, adj. Without compassion. T. n. 346.

Row, n. A line of writing. F. i. 448. See REW.

Row, adj. SAX. Rough. 3736. 16329. C D. 772. He loked wel ROWE. R G. 507-

ROWNE, v. SAX. To whisper. 5823. 7132.

RUBEUS. 2047. See PUELLA.

RUBINS, n. pi. FR. Rubies. 2149.

RUCKING, part. pr. of RUCKE, or ROUKE, v. SAX. Lying close. 15232.

RUDDF., n. SAX. Complexion. 13657. See RODE.

RUDDOCK, n. SAX. A bird, called Robin red breast. A F. 349.

RUFUS, pr. n. 432. A Greek physician, of whose

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works some are extant. See Fabric. Bill. Gr.

L. iv. c. 3.

RUGGY, adj. Rough. 2885. RUSSEL, pr. n. The fox is called Dan Russel in

ver. 15340, from his red colour, I suppose.

S.

SACHELLES, n. pi. FR. Small sacks. Bo. i. pr. 3. SACKED FRERES. R. 7462. Friars wearing a coarse

upper garment called Saccus. Mat. Paris, ad an.

1257- Eodem tempore novus ordo apparuit Londini

de quibusdam fratribus ignotis et non prcevisis, qui,

quia saccis incedebant induti, FRATRES SACCATI

vocabantur.

SACRE, n. FR. A sacred solemnity. CD. 2135. SADE, adj. SAX. Grave, steady. 8878. 8923. —

Sorrowfull, repentant. 16345. SADLY, adv. Steadily, carefully. 2604. This mes-

sager drank sadly ale and wine. 5163. This

messenger applied himself to drink a. & w. SADNESS, n. Gravity, steadiness. 8328. 9465. SAFFRON, v. FR. To tinge with saffron. 12279. SAIE for SEIE, pa. t. of SE, v. SAX. Saw. T. in.

993.

SAILE, v. FR. To assail. R. 7338. SAJLOURS, n. pi. R. 770. may mean Dancers, from

the LAT. FR. .So in P P. 68. For I can — neither saylen, ne saute, ne syng to the gyterne. The lines

which Chaucer has here translated are not in the

216 GLOSSARY.

best Edit, of the Rom. de la Rose. Paris. 1735. but they are quoted by Junius, Etym. Ling. Angl. in v. Timbestere, from an Edit, of 1529. Apres y eut farces joy euses, Et batelleurs et batelleuses, Qui de passe passe jouoyent, Et en fair ung bassin ruoyent, Puis le scavoyent bien recueillir Sur ung doy, sans point yfaillir. Where it is plain that the author is speaking of jugglers rather than dancers. SAINE for SEINE, part. pa. of SE, v. SAX. Seen.

R. 7445.

SAINE, pr. n. The river Seine. 11534. SALADE, n. FR. A sort of armour for the head.

CD, 1554.

SALADES, n. pi. FR. Sallads of herbs. F L. 412. SALEWE, SALUE, v. FR. To salute. 1494. 10405. SALUED, part. pa. 1 1622. SALUINGES, n. pi. Salutations. T. u. 1568. SAMITE, w. FR. GR. A rich silk. R. 873. T. i.

1O9. See Du Cange, in v. EXAMITUS. SANGUIN, adj. FR. Of a blood-red colour. 441.

2170.

SARPLERES, n. pi. Packages of a larger size than

sacks. Bo. i. pr. 3. See Du Cange, in v. SAR-

PLERIUM. Sarpilltire, FR. A piece of canvas,

&c. to wrap or pack up wares in. Cotgrave.

SARLINISHE. R. 1188. should perhaps be SARSI-

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NISHE, from the FR. Sarrasinois ; a sort of fine

silk, used for veils. See Du Cange, in v. SARA-

CENICUM and SARACENUM. It is still called

Sarcenet.

SATEN, pa. t. pi. of SIT, v. SAX. 2895. SATALIE, pr. n. The antient Attalia. 58. SAVE, n. LAT. The herb sage. 2716. SAUF, adj. FR. Safe. See VOUCHE. — Saved, or

excepted. 685. 12048. 12216. SAVETE', n. FR. Safety. R. 6869. SAULE for SOULE. 4185. 4261. SAVOUR, v. neut. FR. To taste, to relish. 5753. SAVOURING, n. FR. The sense of tasting. P. 18. SAVOUROUS, adj. Sweet, pleasant. R. 84. SAUSEFLEME. See the n. on ver. 627. SAUTES, n. pi. FR. Assaults. B K. 419. SAUTRIE, n. FR. GR. A musical string-instrument.

3213. 3305. See ROTE. SAWE, n. SAX. Speech, discourse, 1528. 16159.

R. 6475. — A proverb, or wise saying. 6242. SAY for SEY, pa. t. of SE, v. SAX. Saw. 6227-

9810. SCALL, n. SAX. A scale or scab. Ch. tvordes to

his Scrivener. 3.

SCALLED, adj. Scabby, scurfy. 630. SCANTILONE, n. FR. A pattern, a scantling. R.

7114.

SCARCE, adj. FR. Sparing, stingy. R. 2329. SCARIOT, pr. n. Judas Iscariot. 15233.

218 GLOSSARY.

SCARMISHE, n. FR. A skirmish, a battle. T. n.

934. v. 1507.

SCATHE, n. SAX. Harm, damage. 448. 9048. SCATHEFUL, SCATHELICHE, adj. Pernicious. 4519.

LW. 1370.

SCATHELES, adj. Without harm. R. 1550. SCLAUNDRE, 7i. FR. Slander. 8598. 8606. SCLENDRE, adj. Slender. 94*6. SCOCHONS, n. pi. FR. Scutcheons of arms. F L.

216. SCOLAIE, v. FR. To attend school, to studie. 304.

See the note.

SCRIPT, n. FR. A writing. 9571. T. 11. 1130. SCRIPTURES, n. pi. FR. Writings, books. 2046. SCRIVEN-LIKE. T. ii. 1026. Like a scrivener, or

writing-master ; Comme un escrivain. SEAMES, n. pi. SAX. Seams : Suture. P. 69. SECREE, adj. FR. Secret. 9783, 15646. SECRENESSE, n. Privacy. 5193. SECULER, adj. FR. Of the laity ; in opposition to

Clerical. 9127. 15456. SEDE, v, SAX. To produce seed. R. 4344. SEE, v. FR. A seat. 14155. T. iv. 1023. SEES,

pi F. in. 120. SEE, v. SAX. To see. God you see! 7751. God

him see ! 4576. May God keep you, or him, in

his sight! In T. n. 85. it is fuller. — God you

save and see ! — To look. On to see. 3247. To

look on. See the note, and T. in, 130. That —

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Ye wolden sometime frendly on me see. That ye would sometimes look friendly on me. SEE, n. SAX. The sea. 2458. 3033. The Grete see. 59. A learned friend has suggested to me, that the Sea on the coast of Palestine is called the Great Sea in the Bible [See Numb, xxxiv. 6, 7« Josh. xv. 12.] ; which puts the meaning of the appellation in this passage out of all doubt. SEGE, n. FR. A siege. 939. SEIE, SEY, pa. t. of SEE, v. SAX. SAW. 5229.

8990. T. v. 816.— part. pa. Seen. 6134. SEIGNORIE, n. FR. Power. R. 3213. SEIN, part. pa. of SEE, v. SAX. Seen. 10267. SEINDE, part. pa. of SENGE, v. SAX. Singed. 14851. SEINT, n. FR. Ceinct. A girdle. 331. 3235. SEINTUARIE, n. FR. Sanctuary. T2887. SEKE, v. SAX. To seek. 13. 1?. SEKE, adj. SAX. Sick. 18. SELDEN, adv. SAX. Seldom. 10125. Selden time.

8022.

SELE. n. FR. A seal. 7710. SELES, pi. T. in. 1468.

SELF, SELVE, adj. SAX. answering to the BELG.

Self, the FR. Mdme, the LAT. Ipse, and the GR.

Aura?. See the Essay, &c. n. 30. — With the article

prefixed it answers to the LAT. Idem, and the

GOTH. Samo, from whence our Same. See ver.

2586. In the selve moment ; In the same moment.

ver. 1 1706. In the selve place ; In the same place.

These two usages of the adj. SELF, when joined

220 GLOSSARY.

to a substantive, might be confirmed by the uni form practise of all our writers, from the earliest times down to Shakespeare ; but, as they are both now obsolete, I choose rather to take this opportunity of adding a few words to what has been said in the Essay, &c. loc. tit. upon the usage of the adj. SELF, when joined to a Pronoun; in which light only it appears to have been con sidered by Wallis, when he pronounced it a Sub stantive, answering nearly to the Latin persona.

Dr. Johnson, in his Dictionary, has very rightly established the primary signification of SELF to be that of an Adjective ; but, in its connexions with Pronouns, he seems rather inclined to suppose it a Substantive ; first, because it is joined to posses sive, or adjective pronouns, as my, thy, her, &c. and secondly, because it has a plural number selves, contrary to the nature of the English adjective.

The latter reason, I think, cannot have much weight, when it is remembered, that the use of Selves, as the plural number of Self, has been in troduced into our language since the time of Chaucer. Selven, which was originally the accu sative ca. sing, of SELF, is used by him indiffer ently in both numbers. I myselven. 9334. Ye yourselven. 9380. 12676. He himselven. 4464. 9919.

The former reason also will lose its force, if the hypothesis, which I have ventured to propose in

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the Essay, &c. loc. tit. shall be admitted, viz. that, in their combinations with Self, the pronouns my, thy, her, our, your, are not to be considered as possessive or adjective, but as the old oblique cases of the personal pronouns I, thou, she, we, ye. Ac cording to this hypothesis, the use of these com binations, with respect to the pronouns, is almost always solecistical ; but not more so than that of himself in the nominative case, which has long been authorized by constant custom: and it is remark able, that a solecism of the same sort has pre vailed in the French language, in which moi and toi, the obi. cases of je and tu, when combined with m&ne, are used as ungrammatically as our my and thy have just been supposed to be, when combined with Self. Je I'ai vu moi-meme ; I have seen it myself: Tu leverras toi-mdme; Thou shalt see it thyself: and so in the accusative case, moi- mdne is added emphatically to me, and toi-mdme to te.

It is probable, I think, that these departures from grammar, in both languages, have been made for the sake of fuller and more agreeable sounds. Je-mdme, me-me'me, tu-mdme, and te- mefae, would certainly sound much thinner and more languid than moi-mdne and toi-mdne; and myself, thyself, &c. are as clearly preferable, in point of pronunciation, to Iself, meself, thouself, theeself, &c. though not all, perhaps, in an equal

222 GLOSSARY.

degree. It should be observed, that itself, where a change of case in the pronoun would not have improved the sound, has never undergone any alteration.

SELLE, n. FR. Celle. Cell. C D. 2064.

SELLE for SILLE, n. SAX. A door-sill, or thresh old. 3820. See the note.

SELVE, adj. 2586. 286>I2. See SELF.

SELY, adj. SAX. Silly, simple; harmless. 4088. 4106. 5952.

SELYNESSE, n. SAX. Happiness. T. in. 815. 827.

SEMBLABLE, adj. FR. Like. 9374.

SEMBLAUNT, n. FR. Seeming, appearance, 10830.

SEMELICHE, SEMELY, adj. SAX. Seemly, comely. SEMELIESTE, superl. d. 17068.

SEMELYHEDE, n. Seemliness, comeliness. R. 777- 1130.

SEMISOUN, n. LAT. A low, or broken tone. 3697-

SEMICOPE, n. A half, or short, cloke. 264.

SEN, SENE inf. m. of SE. 1711. 2178. — part. pa. 1967. 2300.

SEND for SENDETH. 4134.

SENDALL, n. 442. A thin silk. See Du Cange, in v. CENDALUM.

SENEK, pr. n. Seneca the philosopher. 6750.6767. 9397- What is said of him in the Monkes tale, ver. 14421—14436. is taken from the Rom. de la Rose. ver. 6461 — 6499.

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SENGE, v. SAX. To singe. 5931.

SENIOR, pr. n. 1G918. See the note.

SENTENCE, n. FR. Sense, meaning. 308. 10162. — Judgement. 4533.

SEPTE, pr. n. 5367- Ceuta, formerly Septa, in Africa, over-against Gibraltar.

SEPULTURE, n. FR. Grave. T. iv. 327-

SERAPION, pr. n. 434. Joannes Serapion, an Ara bian physician of the Xlth Century. Fabric. Bibl Gr. t. xui. p. 299.

SERE, adj. SAX. Dry. R. 4749.

SERGEANT, n. FR. A Squier, attendant upon a prince or nobleman. 8395. — A SERGEANT OF THE LAWE. See his CHARACTER, ver. 311 — 332. His name is derived from his having been originally a servant of the King in his law-business ; Serviens ad legem, just as Serviens ad arma. The King had formerly a Serjeant in every county. Spel- man, in v. SERVIENS.

SERIE, n. FR. Series. 3069.

SERMONING, n. FR. Preaching. 3093.

SERVAGE, n. FR. Servitude, slavery. 4788 11106, 7.

SERVAND,/>ar£. pr. of SERVE. Serving. CD. 1627-

SERVE, v. FR. To serve. 8845. — To behave to. 8516, 7.

SET for SETTETH. 7564. for SETTE, pa. t. 11124.

SETEWALE, n. SAX. The herb Valerian. 3207. 13691.

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SETHE, v. SAX.. To boil. 385.

SETHE for SETHED, pa. t. 8103.

SETTE, v. SAX. To place, to put. 7851. Setteth him doun. P. 118. Placeth himself on a seat. Yet sette I cas. M. 125. Yet I put the case, or sup pose. — To put a value on a thing; to rate. / nolde sette his sorrow at a myte. T. m. 902. I would not value h. s. — To sette a man's cappe ; to make a fool of him. See the n. on ver. 588.

SETTE, pa. t. 6241.

SEUKEMENT, n. FR. Security, in a legal sense. 11838.

SEURETEE, n. FR. Certainty. 6485. — Surety, in a legal sense. 6493.

SEWE, v. FR. To follow. R. 4953.

SEWES, n. pi. FR. Dishes. 10381. See the note.

SEYE. See SEIE.

SHADDE, pa. t. of SHEDE, v. SAX. Fell in drops. 14649

SHADDE, pa. t. of SHADE, v. SAX. Shaded, co vered with shade. Du. 426.

SHADOWY, adj. SAX. Unsubstantial. Bo. HI.

pr. 4.

SHAFT, n. SAX. An arrow. 1364.

SHAL, auxil. v. SAX. is used sometimes with an ellipsis of the infinitive mode, which ought to follow it. 10912. Beth swiche as I have ben to you and shal, i. e. shall be. 15771- first tell me whi ther I shal, i. e. shall go. T. n. 46. Yet all is

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don or shal, i. e. shall be done. See also ver. 1510O.

T.V. 833. SHALE, n. SAX. A shell, or husk. F. in. 191.

But all n'is worthe a nutte SHALE. Conf. Am. 66. SHALMIES, n. pi. Shalms ; Musical string-instru ments, otherwise called Psalteries, or Sauteries.

F. in. 128. See ROTE. SHAME, n SAX. Shames dethe. 5239. 10251. A

death of shame ; a shamefull death. To York he

did him lede, SCHAMES DEDE to deie. P L. 247. SHAMEFAST, adj. SAX. Modest. 2057. SHAPE, n. SAX. Form, figure. 7040. 7052. SHAPELICH, adj. SAX. Fit, likely. 374, T. iv.

1452. SHAPEN, SHAPE, part. pa. of SHAPE, v. SAX.

Formed, figured. 7045. 7096. Prepared. 1110.

1227. 1394. SHAWE, n. SAX. A shade of trees, a grove. 4365.

6968. T. HI. 721. SHEFE, n. SAX. A bundle. A sheaf of arrowes.

104. SHEVES, pi. of corn. R. 4335. SHEFELD, pr. n. Sheffield, in Yorkshire. 3931. SHELD, n. SAX. A shield. 2124. SHELDES, pi. 'French crowns, called in FR. Ecus, from their

having on one side the figure of a shield. 280.

13261.

SHEMERING, «. SAX. A glimmering. 4295. SHEND, v. SAX. To ruin. 5347. P. 78. SHENDSHIP, n. Ruin, punishment. P. 25.

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SHENE, adj. SAX. Bright, shining. 1070. SHENT, part. pa. of SHEND. 5351. 9194. SHEPEK, n. SAX. A stable. 2002. 6453. See the

n. on ver. 2002.

SHERE, v. SAX. To cut. — To shave. R. 6196. SHERTE, n. SAX. A shirt. 9859. I hadde lever than my sherte. 15126. I would give my shirt, i. e. all that I have. — It seems to mean the linen in which a new-born child is wrapped. 1568. That shapen was my dethe erst than my shirte. Compare T. in. 734.

0 fatal sustren, whiche or any clothe Me shapen was, my destinee me sponne — and LW. 261S.

Sens first that day, that shapen was my sherte, Or by the fatal suster had my dome. — In T. iv. 96. Alas ! that I ne had brought her in my shert ! it seems to be put for skirt (or lap) which perhaps was the original word. SHETE, v. SAX. To shoot. 3926. R. 989. SHETES, n. pi. SAX. Sheets. 4138. SHETTE, SHET, v. SAX. To close, or shut. 15985.

16605.

SHETTE, SHET, pa. t. and part. 2599. 3499. So was hire herte shette in hire distresse. 5476. So was her heart overwhelmed with h. d. SHIFT, v. SAX. To divide. 5686. SHILDE, SHELDE, w. SAX. To shield. Godshilde! 3427. God shield, or forbid !

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SHIPMAN, n. SAX. A mariner; the master of a

barge. See his CHARACTER, ver. 390 — 412. SHIVER, n. SAX. A small slice. 7422. SHODE, n. SAX. The hair of a man's head. 2009.

3316. SHODE, part. pa. of SHOE, v. SAX. Shod, having

shoes on. R. 7463. SHOFE, pa. t. of SHOVE, v. SAX. Pushed. R. 534.

L W. 2401.

SHONDE, n. SAX. Harm. 13836. F. i. 88. SHOPE, pa. t. of SHAPE. 7120. 11121. SHORE, part. pa. of SHERE. 13958. SHORTE, v. SAX. To make short. P. 82. SHOT, part. pa. of SHETTE. Shut. 3358. 3695. See

the n. on ver. 3:>58. SHOTER, n. SAX. A shooter. A. F. 180. The

yew-tree is called Shoter, because bows are usually

made of it. SHOTTES, n. pi. SAX. Arrows, darts; any thing

that is shot. T. n. 58. SHOVE, SHOWVE, v. SAX. To push. 3910. SHOVE, part. pa. 11593. SHREWE, v. SAX. To curse. 6644. 7809. SHREWE, n. SAX. An ill-tempered, curst man, or

woman. 5947- 60S7. 10302. SHREWES,/)/. Bo.i.

pr. 3. Pessimi. Orig. SHREWED, adj. SAX. Wicked. Shreudefolk. Bo. i.

pr. 4. Impios. Orig. SHREWEDNESSE, n. SAX. Ill-nature. T. n. 858.

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SHRIFT, n. SAX. Confession. P. 115. SHRIFTE-FADERS, n. pi. SAX. Father-confessors.

7024.

SHRIVE, v. SAX. To make confession. P. 119. SHRIVEN, part. pa. 7022. I have been shriven this

day of my curat. 7677- I have made my confession

t. d. to my curate. P. 120. SHRIGHT for SHRICHETH. 2819. Shrieketh. SHRIGHT, pa. t. of SHRICH, v. SAX. Shrieked.

10731. 15368.

SHROUDE, v. SAX. To hide. B K. 148. SHULDE, pa. t. of SHAL. Should. 964. See the

Essay, &c. p. 40. n. 35. SHULDEN, pi. 747.

3229. SHULLEN, SHULN, SHUL, ind. m.pr. t. pi. Sof HAL.

3016. 2766. 1823, 4. M. 103. SIBBE, SAX. Related, allied. M. 117- SIE for SEIE- Saw. 11162. F L. 194. SIFT, v. SAX. To shake in a sive. 16409. SIGH for SEIE. Saw. R. 818. SIGHTE, pa. t. of SIKE. 5455. R. 1746. Sighed. SIGNE, v. FR. To appoint. C L. 642. SIGNIFER, n. LAT. The Zodiack. T. v. 1020. SiGNiFiAUNCE, n. FR. Signification. T. v. 1446. SIKE, adj. SAX. Sick. 426. 9165. In ver. 5976.

it seems to be used, as a noun, for Sickness. SIKE, v. SAX. To sigh. 2987. 11316. SIKE, n. SAX. A sigh. 10812. SIKES, pi. 1922.

11176.

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SIKER, adj. SAX. Sure. 9264. 9582.

SIKERDE, part. pa. of SIKER, v. SAX. Assured. L W. 2126.

SIKERNESSE, n. Security. 9156.

SiKERLY,a<fo. Surely. 13084. 13213.

SIMPLESSE, n. FR. Simplicity. R. 954.

SIN, adv. SAX. abbreviation of SITHEN. Since. 5234. 10181.

SINAMOME, n. FR. Cinnamon. 3699.

SIP, n. SAX. Drink. An. 195.

SIPHER, n. A cipher, or figure of o, in Arithmetic. Although a sipher in augrim have no might in sig nification of itself e, yet he yeveth power in significa tion to other. T L. n. 333 b. There is another passage in Du. ver. 435 — 40. which seems to im- plie, that, in Chaucer's time, the numerals, com monly called Arabian, had not been long in use in this country.

SIRE, n. FR. Sieur, Seigneur. A respectful title, given formerly to men of various descriptions, as well as to knights. Sire knight. 839. Sire clerk. 842. Sire monk. 3120. Sire man of lawe< 4453. It was so usually given to priests, that it has crept even into acts of parliament. Rot. Parl. 12 & 13 E. iv. n. 14. -Sir James Thekenes, Preste. 1 H. vn. p. 11. Sir Oliver Langton, Prest. Sir Robert Naylesthorp, Prest. Hence a Sir John came to be a nickname for a Priest. See ver. 14816, and the note. — Sire is sometimes put for personage.

230 GLOSSARY.

R. 4998. And melancholy, that angry sire. — Our

sire, 6295. Our husband; our good-man; as the

French, in their old familiar language, use Notre

sire. Sis, ra. FR. The cast of six; the highest cast upon

a die. 14579. Sir for SITTETH. 3641. 9808. It sit me not to lie.

10189. It doth not become me 1. 1. 8335. 9153.

It syt a kynge wel to be chast. Conf. Am. 168 b. SITHE for SITHES, n. pi. SAX. Times. 5153. 5575. SITHEN, SITH, adv. SAX. Since. 1817- 4478. SITHES, n.pl. SAX. Scythes. T L. prol.

5541. SITTE, v. SAX. To sit. — To become, to suit with.

See SIT.

SITTAND, part.pr. R. 2263. SITTEN, part. pa. 1454. 6002. SKAFFAUT, n. FR. A scaffold; a wooden tower. R.

4176.

SKAFFOLD, n. A scaffold, or stage. 3384. SKIE, n. SAX. A cloud. F. in. 510. SKILL, n. SAX. Reason. 9028. 9552. SKILLES,

pi. 10519.

SKILFUL, adj. Reasonable. T. in. 288. 940. SKINKE, v. SAX. To pour out, to serve with drink.

9596.

SKIPTE, pa. t. of SKIPPE, v. SAX. Leaped. 11714. SKOGAN, pr. n. See Vol. I. p. liii. SKORCLE, v. SAX. To scorch. Bo. n. m. 6.

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SKRIPPE, n. FR. Escharpe. A scrip. R. 7405. SLACKS, adj. SAX. Slow. 2903. 'SLAIN, part. pa. of SLE. 1743. 2040. SLAKE, v. SAX. To appease, to make slack. 86*8.

8983.

v. neut. To fail., 8013. To desist. 8581 .

SLAWE, part. pa. of SLE. 15020. SLE, v. SAX. To kill, to slay. 2558. SLEER, n. SAX. A killer. 2O07. L wTl367- SLEIGHLY, adv. SAX. Cunningly. 1446. SLEIGHT, n. SAX. Contrivance. R. 7109. SLEIGHTES, pi. R. 7121. Suche sleig-htes 05 / shall

you neven. — So this line should probably be written.

See the Orig. ver. 12495. Neven is from MS.

Hunter. SLEN,pr. t. pi. of SLE. 1569. 5384.— inf. m. 1565.

5379. SLEP, SLEPE, pa. t. of SLEPE, v. SAX. Slept. 98.

399. SLETE, n. SAX. Sleet; a mixture of rain and snow.

11562. R. 2651. SLEVELESSE, adj. T L. n. 334. seems to signifie

idle, unprofitable ; as it does still in vulgar lan guage.

SLIDER, adj. SAX. Slippery. 1266. L W. 648. SLIDING, part. pr. Uncertain. 16200. Lydg. Trag.

99 b. Sliding fortune. Bo. I. m. 5. Lubricafor-

tuna. Orig. SLIE, SLIGH, adj. SAX. Cunning. 3392.

232 GLOSSARY.

SLIKE for SWILKE, adj. SAX. Such. 4128. SLIT for SLIDETH. 16150.

SLIT, v. SAX. To cut through, to cleave. 11572. SLIVER, n. SAX. A small slice or piece. T. ir.

1015.

SLO, v. SAX. To slay. R. 1953. 4592. SLOGARDIE, n. FR. SAX. Sloth. 1044. SLOMBERINGES, n. pi. SAX. Slumberings. T. v.

246.

SLOPPE, n. SAX. A sort of breeches. 16101. P. 44. SLOW, pa. t. of SLO. Slew. 11745. 14104. SLOWE, n. SAX. A moth. R. 4751. In the Orig.

FR. Taigne.

SLUGGY, adj SAX. Sluggish. P. 80. SMALISH, adj. SAX. Diminutive of Smale, or Small.

R. 826. SMERTE, v. SAX. To smart; to suffer pain. R.

7107. SMERTE, 149. seems to be used as an Adverb ;

Smartly. P L. Gl. v. Forthought. SMIT for SMITETH, ind. m. 3 pers. sing. 7998. SMITETH, imp. m. 2 pers.pl. Smite ye. 784. SMITHE, v. SAX. To forge, as a smith. 3760. P P.

16 b. SMITTED for SMITTEN, part. pa. of SMITE. T. v.

1544.

SMOKLES, adj. SAX. Without a smock. 8751. SMOTERUCH, adj. 3961- means, I suppose, smutty, dirty. But the whole passage is obscure.

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SNEWE, v. SAX. To snow; to be in as great abun dance as snow. 347-

SNIBBE, v. SAX. To snubb ; to reprove. 525. 11OOO.

SNOW-WHITE, adj. SAX. White as snow. 15722. 17082.

SODEN, adj. SAX. Sudden. 4841.

SOGET, n. FR. Subject. C L. 93.

SOIGNE, n. FR. Care. R. 3882.

SOJOUR. n. FR. Stay, abode. R. 4282.

SOKEN, n. SAX. Toll. 3985.

SOKINGLY, adv. Suckingly, gently. M. 132. See SOUKE.

SOLAS, n. FR. Mirth, sport. SOO. 3654.

SOLEIN, adj. FR. One, single. Du. 982.— Sullen. R. 3897.

SOLEMPNE, adj. FR. Solemn. 10425.

SOLEMPNELY, adv. Solemnly. 276.

SOLER HALL. See the n. on ver. 3988. A solere windows occurs in Gam. ver. 267. for the window of a loft, or garret. See before, ver. 252.

SOM, adj. SAX. Some. This is all and som. 5673. This is the whole. All and some. 8817- T. n. 1149. One and all.

SOMDEL, adv. SAX. Somewhat; in some measure. 44 S. 3909.

SOMER, pr. n. In the treatise on the Astrolabe, fol. 291 b. Chaucer professes to make use of the Kalenders of the reverent derkesfrere JOHN SOMER

234 GLOSSARY.

and frere NICHOLAS LENNE. The Kalendar of John Somur is extant in MS. Cotton, Vesp, E. vn. It is calculated for 140 years from 1367, the year of the birth of Richard II, and is said, in the in troduction, to have been published in 1380, at the instance of Joan mother to the King. The Ka lendar of Nicholas Lenne, or Lynne, was calculated for 76 years from 1387. Tanner, in v. NICOLAUS LINENSIS. The story there quoted from Hakluit of a voyage made by this Nicholas in 1360 ad in- sulas septentrionales antehac Europceis incognitas, ' and of a book written by him to describe those countries a gradu 54. usque ad polum, is a mere fable ; as appears from the very authorities which Hakluit has produced in support of it.

SOMME. T. ii. 1249. Lo! Troilus—

Came riding with his tenthe somme ifere. So this line stands in the Editt. but a MS. quoted in Gloss. Ur. instead of tenthe has X. and MS. I. tenteth. Perhaps the original was XX. With his twenty some ifere, according to the Saxon mode of expression, would signifie Together with some twenty of his attendants. See Hickes, Gramm. A. S. p. 32, 3.

SOMME, n. FR. A sum. Bo. iv. pr. 2.

SOMMER, n. SAX. Summer. A Sommer-game. 6230. See the note.

SOMONE, SOMPNE, v. LAT. To summon. 7159. 6929, 43.

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SOMPNOUR, n. An officer employed to summon de linquents to appear in Ecclesiastical courts, now

called an Apparitor. See his CHARACTER, ver.

625.— 7 .

SOND, n SAX. Sand. 1">273. SOND, n. CD. 114". seems to signifie a sounding

line ; from the FR. Sonde. SONDE, n. SAX. A message. 480K. 5469. Goddes

sonde. 4943. 13149. What God has sent ; God's

gift.

SONE, adv. SAX. Soon. 12002, 4. SONE, n. SAX. A son. 79. 338. SONES, pi.

10343. SONKEN, part. pa. of SINK, v. SAX. Sunk, R.

5113.

SONNE, n. SAX. The sun. 1511. 2524. SONNISH, adj. SAX. Like the Sun. T. iv. 736.

See ver. 1197i,2.

SOOTY, adj. SAX. Foul with soot. 14S38. SOP, n. FR. A piece of bread dipped in any sort

of liquour. 336'. 9717. He toke a SOPPE. Conf.

Am. 104. SOPHIME, ». FR. GR. A sophism, a subtle fallacy.

7881. 10868.

SORE, v. FR. Essorer. To soar. T. i. 671- SORT, n. FR. Chance, destiny. 846. T. n. 754. SORTED, pa. t. of SORT, v. FR. Allotted. T. v.

1826. SORWE, n. SAX. Sorrow. 1221. 2824.

236 GLOSSARY.

SORY, adj. SAX. Sorrowfull. 3618, 9. Sory grace.

6328. Misfortune. See GRACE, and WITH. SOTE, n. SAX. Soot. T. HI. 120O. SOTE, SWOTE, adj. SAX. Sweet. 3205. 3691. SOTE, n. FR. A fool. F L. 101. SOTED, part. pa. FR. Fooled, besotted. 1C809. SOTEL, adj. FR. Subtle; artfully contrived. 1056. SOTH, adj. SAX. True. 4355. Certain. 3885.

SOTHER, comp. d. 15682.

SOTH, SoTHLY,acto. 1523. 1627- 1186. 1201. Truly. SOTHE, n. SAX. Truth. 3922. 6513. SOTHFASTNESS, n. SAX. Truth. 17344. SOTHERNE, adj. SAX. Southern. 17353. SOTHNESS, n. SAX. Truth, reality. 157*29. SOTH-SAW, n. Veracity, true-saying. R. 6125. SOUDAN, n. A Sultan ; any Mahometan Sovereign.

4597. See D'Herbelot, in v. SOLTHAN. SOUDANNESSE, n. The wife of a Sultan. 4778. SOUDED, part. pa. See the note on ver. 13509.

SOWDE-METEL. Consolidum. Prompt. Parv. SOUKE, v. FR. To suck. 4155. SOUKED, part. pa. 8326. SOULED, part. pa. SAX. Endued with a soul.

15797-

SOUN, n. FR. Sound, noise. 7815. 12487- SOUNDE, v. SAX. To make sound, to heal. An.

245.—- v. neut. To grow sound. B K. 293. SOUNE, v. FR. To sound. 567. Asfer as souneth

into honestee. 139r3. As far as isc onsonant to

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h. That souneth unto gentillesse of love. 10831.

That is consonant to g. o. 1. SOUNING, part. pr. 277. 309. SOUPE, v. FR. To sup, to take the evening-meal.

11539. SouPEN,joJ. 10611.

SOUPER, n. Supper, the evening-meal. 350. 10604. SOUPI/E, adj. FR. Supple, pliant. 203. SOURDE, v. FR. To rise. P. 47. SOURS, n. A rise, a rapid ascent. 7520, S. F. n.

36. 43. — The source of a stream of water. 7925. SOUTER, n. LAT. A cobler. 3902. SOVERAINE, adj. FR. Excellent, in a high degree.

15215.

SOVERAINLY, adv. Above all. 15368. SOWE, v. LAT. To sew. T. n. 1201, 3. 'Tt was

usual, and indeed necessary, formerly to sew

letters, when they were written upon parchment.

But the practice continued long after the inven tion of paper.

SOWE, v. SAX. To sow. 17346, 7- SOWERS, n, pi. Stores ; Bucks in their fourth year.

Du. 429. SPAN-NEWE, adj. T. in. 1671. seems to signifie

Quite new ; but why it does so, I cannot pretend

to say. SPANNISHING, n. FR. Espanouissement. The full

blow of a flower. R. 3633. SPARE, v. SAX. To refrain. 7017- L W. 2591. SPARETH, imp.m. <2per.pl. 6919. 7004. SPARANDE, part. pr. Sparing, niggardly. R. 5363.

238 GLOSSARY.

SPARHAUK, w. SAX. A sparrow-hawk. 15463. SPARRE, n. SAX. A wooden bar. 992. SPARRED, part. pa. Barred, bolted. R. 3320. SPARTHE, n. SAX. An ax, or halberd. R. 5978.

See Du Cange, in v. SPARTH, SECURIS DANICA. SPECES, n. pi. Fr. Sorts, or kinds. 3015. SPEDE, v. FR. To dispatch. Bo. v. pr. 4, 5. SPEDEFUL, adj. Effectual. Bo. iv.pr. 4. v. pr. 4. SPEKTAKEL, n. FR. LAT. A spying glass. 6785. SPELL, n. SAX. Sport, play. 4355. See the note.

— Tale, or history. 13821. SPENCE, n. FR. Despence. A store-room for wine,

or victuals. 7513.

SPERE, n. FR. A sphere. 11592.

* *

SPERE, n. SAX. A spear. 2712.

SPERED. R. 2099. SPERRED. T. v. 531. as

Sparred.

SPERME, n. FR. GR. Seed. 14015. SPICED. 528. 6017. See the note. I have since

met with a passage, in which spiced, applied to

conscience, seems to signitie nice, scrupulous.

Beaumont and Fletcher. Mad Lover, act 3.

When Cleanthe offers a purse, the Priestess says, " Fy ! no corruption

Cle. Take it ; it is yours ;

Be not so spiced ; it is good gold ; And goodness is no gall to the conscience." SPICES. P. 4. as Speces. SPILLE, v. SAX. To waste, to throw away. 17102.

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— To destroy. 6480. — v. neut. To perish. 5007.

5235. SPIKE, n. A stake. T. n. 1335. a corruption

probably of Spere. SAX. SPIRED. See the n. on ver. 13733. SPITOUS, adj. FR. Despiteux. Angry, spightfull.

R. 979.

SPITOUSLY, adv. Angrily. 3476. 5805. SPLAIE, v. FR. Desploier. To unfold. B K. 33. SPONE, n. SAX. A spoon. 10916.

SpONNE,pa. t.of SPINNE,fl. SAX. Spun. T. III.735.

SPORE, n. SAX. A spur. 2605.

SPORNE, v. SAX, To strike the foot against any

thing. 4278. T. n. 797. SPOUSAILE, n. FR. Marriage. 7991. 8055. SPRAY, n. SAX. A twig, or sprig. 13700. SPREINT, part. pa. of SPRENGE, v. SAX. Sprinkled.

4842. 13570. SPRINGOLDS, n. pi, FR. Espringalle. Machines

for casting stones and arrows. R. 4191. See

Du Cange, in v. MUSCHETTA. SQUAMES, n. pi. LAT. Scales. 16227. SQUAIMOUS. 3337. See the note. SQUIER, n. FR. A squire. See his CHARACTER,

ver. 79 — 100.

SQUIER, v. To attend as a squire. 5887. SQUIERIE, n. A number of squires. 10607. And

alle ther SQUIERIE. P L. 241. And of his

SQUIERIE gentille men auhtene. Ibid. 289.

240 GLOSSARY.

STACK, pr. n. Statius, the Roman poet. '2296. STACKE, n. SAX. A stack of wood, &c. P. 98. STACKE, pa. t. of STICK, W.SAX. Stuck. R. 458. STAFF-SLING. 13758. means, I suppose, a sling fastened to a staff. Lydgate in his Trag. 39. b. describes David as armed

" With a STAFFE SLYNGE, voyde of plate and

mayle."

STAKER, v. SAX. To stagger. L W. 2676. STALKE, v. SAX. To step slowly. 8401. Fulthefely gan he STALKE. L W. 1779. And to the bedde he STALKETH, stylle. Conf. Am. 32. STALKES, n. pi. SAX. The upright pieces of a lad der. 3625. STAMEN, STAMIN, n. FR. Estamine. A sort of

woollen cloth. P. 126. L W. 2349. STANT for STANDETH. 3677. 3695. STARFE,pa. t. of STERVE. Died. 935. 14141. STARK, adj. SAX. Stiff, stout. 9332. 14376. STARLINGES, n. pi. Pence of sterling money. 12841.

See ver. 12864. STAUNCHE, v. FR. To stop; to satisfie. Bo. in.

pr. 3. m. 3.

STELE, n SAX. A handle. 3783. STELLIFIE, v. LAT. To make a star. L W. 525.

F. n. 7S.

STENTE, v. SAX. To cease, to desist. 905. STENTEN, part. pa. C2970. STEPE, adj. 201. 755. seems to be used in the sense

GLOSSARY. 241

of deep ; so that eyen stepe may signifie eyes sunk deep in the head.

STERE, v. SAX. To stir. 12280.

STERE, n. SAX. A young bullock. 2151. — A rud der. 4868. 5253.

STERELES, adj. SAX. Without a rudder. 4859.

STERESMAN, n. SAX. A pilot. F. i. 436.

STERNE, n. SAX. A rudder. F. i. 437.

STERNE, adj. SAX. Fierce, cruel, 2612.

STERRE, n. SAX. A star. 2063.

STERT, n. SAX. A leap. At a stert. 1707. Imme diately.

STERTE, pa. t. of STERTE, v. SAX. Leaped, 11689. Escaped, ran away. T. iv. 93.

STERTING, part. pr. Leaping nimbly. 1504.

STERTLING, as STERTING. L W. 1202. 1739.

STERVE, v. SAX. To die, to perish. 12799.

STEVEN, n. SAX. Voice, sound. 2564. 15297. — A time of performing any action, previously fixed by message, order, summons, &c. At unset steven- 1526. Without any previous appointment. They setten steven. 4381. They appointed a time.

STEWE, n. FR. A small pond for fish. 351. — A small closet. T. in. 602. 699. STEWES, pi. Stews, baudy-houses. 12399.

STEYE, v. SAX. To ascend. T L. i. 315 b.

STEYERS, n. pi. SAX. Stairs. T L i. 315 b.

STIBBORNE, adj. Stubborn. 6038. 6219.

STIKE, v. SAX. To stick, pierce. 2548.

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242 GLOSSARY.

STILE, n. SAX. A set of steps, to pass from one field to another. By stile and eke by strete. 12628. Every where ; in town and country.

STILLATORIE, n. FR. A still. 16048.

STILLE, adj. SAX. Quiet. 11782.

STITHE, n. SAX. An anvil. 2028.

STIVES. 6014. as STEWES.

STOBLE-GOOS.4349. A goose fed on stubble-grounds.

STOCKED, part. pa. Confined. T. m. 381.

STOLE, n. FR. LAT. Part of the ecclesiastical ha bit, worn about the neck. 9577. See Du Cange, in v. STOLA. 2.

STOLE, n. SAX. A stool. 587O.

STONDEN, part. pa. of STONDE, or STANDE, v. SAX. Stood. 9368.

STONT for STONDETH. 3921.

STOPEN, part. pa. ofSTEPE, v. SAX. Stepped, ad vanced. 9388. 14827.

STORE. 10241. See the note.

STORE, n. FR. To stock, or furnish. 13203.

STORE, n. Any thing laid up for use. Hence the phrase, to tell no store of a thing. 5785. 15160. means, to consider it as of no use or importance.

STORIAL, adj. FR. Historical, true. 3179.

STORVEN,pa. t. pi. of STERVE. 12S20.

STOT, n. SAX. See the n. on ver. 617-

STOTE, n. A species of weazle; a pole-cat. 7212.

STOUND, n. SAX. A moment, a short space of time. 12 M. 4005. In a stound. 3990. On a sudden. In

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stound. R. 1733. should probably be In a stound.

The Orig. FR. has tantost. STOUNDES, pi. Times,

seasons. 5S68. T. in. 1758. STOUKDEMELE, adv. Momentarily, every moment-

R. 2304. T. v. 674.

STOUPEN. 14827- should probably be STOPEN. STOURE, n. SAX. Fight, battle. 14376. T. in.

1066. STRAKE, v. SAX. To proceed directly. Du. 1312.

Stracken, Stricken. Tendere. Kilian. STRANGE, adj. FR. Foreign. 10403. — Uncommon.

10381. He made it strange. 3978. 11535. He

made it a matter of difficulty, or nicety. STRAUGHTE, pa. t. of STRECCHE, v. SAX. Stretched.

2918. Cow/. Am. 184. STRE, n. SAX. Straw. 2920.

STREIGHT, part. pa. of STRECCHE, v. SAX. Stretch ed. Bo. in. pr. i. STREINE, v. FR. To constrain. 15255. — To press

closely. .9627.

STREITE, adj. FR. Strait. Streite swerd. 15363. STREMEDEN,pa. t. pi. of STREWED v. SAX. Streamed,

flowed. T. iv. 247.

STREMES, n. pi. The rays of the Sun. 1497. STRENE, n. SAX. Stock, race, progeny. 8038. R.

4859. STRENGEST-FAITHED, adj. Endowed with the

strongest faith. T. i. 1008. STREPE, v. FR. To strip. R. 6818.

244 GLOSSARY.

STRETE, n. SAX. A street. 3758. The maister strele. 2904. See the note.

STRIKE, n. SAX. A line, a streak. A strike of flax. 678.

STRIPE, n. LAT. Stirps. Race, kindred. C L. 16.

STRIPE, v. 10074. as STREPE.

STRODE, pr. n. T. v. 1856. The philosophical Strode, to whom, jointly with the moral Gower, Chaucer directs his Troilus, was probably Ralph Strode, of Merton College, Oxford. A. Wood, who had made the antiquities of that college a particular object of his enquiries, says only of him, " RA- DITLPHUS STRODE, de quo sic vetus noster cata- logus. Poeta fuit et versificavit librum elegiacum vocat. Phantasma Rodulphi. Claruit CIDCCCLXX." Some of his logical works are said to be extant in print. Venet. 1517- 4to. Tanner, in v. STROD.EUS.

STROF, pa. t. of STRIVE, v. FR. Strove, contended. 1040.

STRONDE, n. SAX. Ashore. 13.

STROTHER, pr. n. A town in the North. 4012. See the note.

STROUTE, v. To strut. 3315.

SUBARBES, n. pi. LAT. Suburbs. 16125.

SUBFUMIGATION, w. LAT. A species of charm by smoke. F. in. 174.

SUBGET, adj. FR. LAT. Subject. P. 125.

SUBLIMATORIE, n. FR. LAT. A vessel used by

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Chemists in Sublimation, i. e. separating certain parts of a body, and driving them to the top of the vessel, in the form of a very fine powder. 16261.

SUBSTANCE, n. FR. The material part of a thing. 14809.

SUCKINY, n. FR. Souquenie. A loose frock, worn over their other clothes by carters, &c. R. 1232.

SUE, v. FR. To follow. M. 121. 15343.

SUETON, pr. n. Suetonius, the Roman historian. 14638

SUFFISANCE, n. FR. Sufficiency, satisfaction. 492 8635.

SUFFISANT, adj. Sufficient. 1633. 3551.

SUGRED, part. pa. Sweetened, as with sugar. T. n. 384.

SUPPLIE, v. FR. To supplicate. Bo. in. pr. 8.

SURCOTE, n. FR. An upper coat, or kirtle. F L. 141.

SURPLIS, n. FR. A surplice. 16026.

SURQUIDRIE, n. FR. Presumption, an overween ing conceit. P. 42. 128.

SURRIE, pr. n. Syria. 4554.

SURSANURE, n. FR. A wound healed outwardly only. 11425.

SURVEANCE, n. FR. Superintendance. 12029.

SUSPECT, adj. FR. Suspected. 8417, 8.

SUSPECT, n. Suspicion. 8781. 12197-

SUSPECTION, n. Suspicion. 5101.

246 GLOSSARY.

SUSTER, n. SAX. Sister. SUSTREN, pi. 1021. T. in.

734.

SWA, adv. SAX. So. 4028. 4038. SWALE, pa. t. of SWELL, v. SAX. Swelled. 6549.

13490. SWAPPE, v. SAX. To throw down. T. iv. 244. —

To strike off. 8462. 15834. — v. neut. To fall down-

8975. SWART, adj. SAX. Black, of a dark colour. C D.

1862. SWATTE, pa. t. of SWETE, v. SAX. Sweated. 13706.

16028. SWEGH, ra. SAX. A violent motion. 4716. Bo. i.

in. 5.

SWELTE, v. SAX. To die, to faint. 3703. SWELT, pa. t. 1358. 9650.

SWERNE for SWEREK, pi. n. of SwERE, V. SAX.

Swear. R. 4834.

SWEVEN, n. SAX. A dream. 14902. 14928. SWE- VENES. pi. 14929. In ver. 14927. it is written Swevenis for the sake of the rime.

SWICHE, adj. SAX. corruption of Swilke. Such. 243. 487.

SWINKE, n. SAX. Labour. 188.

SWINKE, v. To labour. 187. 1280S.

SWIRE, n. SAX. The neck. R. 325. It is more com monly written Swere.

S WITHE, adv. SAX. Quickly, immediately. 5150. 12730.

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SWIVE, v. SAX. See Junii Etymolog. in v. SWOLOWE, n. SAX. A whirlpool. L W. 1102. SWONKEN, part. pa. of SWINKE. 4233. SWOUOH, n. SAX. Sound, noise. 1981. 3619. — A swoon, 6381. 8976.

T.

TABARD, n. 20. See the quotation from Speght's Gloss. Discourse, &c. n. 6.

TABLES, n. pi. FR. A game so called. 11212. — Tables Toletanes. 11585. See the note.

TABOURE, v. FR. To drum L W. 354.

TACHE, n. FR. A spot, or blemish. C N. 192.

TAILLAGER, n. FR. A collector of taxes. R.6811.

TAILLE, n. FR. A tally ; an account scored on a piece of wood. 572.

TAKE, v. SAX. To deliver a thing to another per son. 5137. 13334. 15691.

TAKE for TAKEN, part. pa. 1868. 10789.

TAKEL, n. SAX. An arrow. 106. R. 1727.

TALE, v. SAX. To tell stories. C D. 103. And namely when they TALEN longe. Con/1 Am, 27 b.

TALE, n. Speech, discourse. Bo. i. pr. 5. — Reckon ing, account. Litel tale hath he told of any dreme. 15124. He made little account of any dream.

TALENT, n. FR. Desire, affection. 5557. P. 20.

TALING, n. Story-telling. 13364.

TANE for TAKEN. C D. 888.

248 GLOSSARY.

TAPES, n. pi. SAX. Bands of linen. 3441. TAPINAGE, n. FR. En tapinois. Lurking, sculking

about. R. 7363. Con/. Am. 93 b. TAPISER, n. FR. A maker of tapestry. 364. TAPITE, v. FR. To cover with tapestry. Du. 260. TAPPE, n. SAX. A tap, or spigot, which closes that

orifice through which the liquour is drawn out of a

vessel. 3S90. TAPSTERE, n. SAX. A woman, who has the care of

the tap in a publick-house. 241. 3336. See the n.

on ver. 2019. That office, formerly, was usually

executed by women. See the Adventure of the

Pardonere and the Tapstere, in the Continuation of

the Canterbury tales, p. 594. Ed. Ur. TARE, pa. t. of TEAR, v. SAX. Tore. Magd. 150. TARGE, n. FR. A sort of shield. 473. 2124. TARS, n. Cloth of Tars. 2162. Tartarium. F L.

212. A sort of silk. See Du Cange, in v. TAR-

sicus, TARTARINUS. TAS, n. FR. A heap. 1007. 1011. TASSELED, part. pa. Adorned with tassels. 3251. TASTE, v. FR. To feel. 15971.— To examine. LW.

1991. TATARWAGGES, n. pi. R. 7211. The Orig. is —

Toutes freteUes de CROTES. All bedagled with

dirt. TAVERNER, n. FR. The keeper of a tavern. 12619.

12641. TAURE, pr. n. The constellation Taurus. 6195. 9761.

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TAWE, n. SAX. Tow. 3/72. TECHE, v. SAX. To teach. 310. TEINE, n. 16693, 7- 16708. seems to signifie a nar row, thin, plate of metal ; perhaps from the LAT.

GR. T&nia.

TEMPS, n. FR. Time. 16343. TENE, n. SAX. Grief. 3108. Cow/. Am. 140. TENS, v. To grieve, to afflict. T L. n. 338 b. TERCELET, TERCELL, «. FR. The male hawk.

10818.— The male eagle. A F. 393. TERINS, n. pi. R. 665. A sort of singing-bird,

called in FR. Tarin. See Cotgrave in v. TERMAGAUNT, pr. n. 13741. See the note. TRRRESTRE, n. FR. Earthly. 9206. TERY, adj. SAX. Full of tears. T. iv. 821. TESTERES, n. pi. FR. Head-pieces. 25O1. TESTES, n. pi. LAT. Vessels for assaying metals.

16286.

TESTIF, adj. FR. Head-strong. 4002. TETCH, n. as TACHE. R. 6517. TEWELL, n. FR. A pipe, or funnel. F. HI. 559. TEXTUEL, adj. FR. Ready at citing texts. 17184.

17265.

THACKE, n. SAX. Thatch. C D. 1771. THACKE, v. To thump, to thwack. 7141. THAN, adv. SAX. Quam. LAT. 219. 242. THANK, n. SAX. Thankfulness, good will. R. 2741 .

IN THANKE — is taken more. —

EN plus grant GRE', sont receus. Orig.

250 GLOSSARY.

So the phrases, his thankes, her thankes, [See the n, on ver. 1628.] answer to the French, son grtf, leur gre*.

TIIANNE, THAN, adv. SAX. Then. 1<2260. 12284.

THAR, v. SAX. impers. Behoveth. See the n. on ver. 4318.

THATTE, THAT, pron. dem. SAX. used as a relative. 10. 699. Thatte Seint Peter had. So this verse should be written. — That he mighte. 5456. As much as he was able; Quod potuit. — It is some times put, not inelegantly, for the same. See ver. 194. With gris, AND THAT the finest of the land. ver. 346. Offish and Jtesh, AND THAT so plen teous, ver. 3517. Shal fall a rain, AND THAT so wild and wood. See also ver. 563. 3938. 9280.

THATTE, THAT, conj. SAX. Qubd. LAT. 131. 226, 8.

THE, prep. art. SAX. See the Essay, &c. p. 26. The when prefixed to adjectives, or adverbs, in the com parative degree, is generally to be considered as a corruption of J>y, which was commonly put by the Saxons for J>am, the ablative ca, sing, of the art. ]>at, used as a pronoun. THE merier. 716. Eo Icetius. THE more mery. 804. Eo Icetiores. Of the same construction are the phrases — Yet fare they THE werse. 4348. Yet fare I never THE bet. 7533.

When the is repeated with a second compara tive, either adj. or ad,v. the first the is to be under-

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stood in the sense of the LAT. Quo. See ver. 5955.

The more it brenneth, the more it hath desire To consume every thing. — Quo magis — eo magis. —And ver. 8589.

And ay the further that she was in age, The more trewe (if that it were possible) She was to him in love and more penible. Sometimes the first the is omitted in the phrases, Ever lenger the werse. 3870. Ever lenger the more. 8563. See P. 119. For certes, if a man hadde a dedly wound, ever the lenger that he taried to warishe himself, the more would it corrupt — and also the wound wold be the werse for to hele. THE, v. SAX. To thrive. See the n. on ver. 3862. THEDOME, n. SAX. Thrift, success. 13335. THEFELY, adj. SAX. Like a thief. L W. 1779. THENNES, THENNE, adv. Sax. Thence. 5463. 6723. THENNESFORTH, adv. SAX. From thennesforth.

13495. From that time forward. THEODOMAS, pr. n. 9594. See the note. THEOPHRAST, pr. n. 9170. See the Discourse, &c.

n. 19. and the n. on ver. 9172. THER, adv. SAX. There, in that place; is frequently

used in the sense of Where. 7348. 7378. 12059. THER, in composition, signifies that, without includ ing any idea of place. See HERE. Therabouten. 939. Theragain. 7070. Therbeforne. 2036. Therby, 7786. Therfore, 777. Therfro. R. 4941. Ther-

252 GLOSSARY.

gaine. R. 6555. Therof. 3781. Theron. 161. Therto. 153. Therwith. 3780. Therwithall. 568.

THEWES, n. pZ. SAX. Manners, qualities. 8285. 9416.

THIDER, adv. SAX. Thither, to that place. 1265.

THIDERWARD, adv. SAX. Toward that place. 2532.

THILKE, adj. SAX. This same, that same. 5600. 5759.

THINKE, v. SAX. To consider. 12261. It is very frequently used as an Impersonal in the pr. and pa. t. in the sense of SEEMETH, or SEEMED. Me thinketh. 3170. Him thinketh. 3614. Him thoughte. 956. Hire thoughte. 9838. How think eth you ? 7786. Hem thoughte. 8282.

THINK E, adj. SAX. Slender, small. 9556. A thinne imagination. Bo. in. pr. 3. Tenui imagine. A thinne suspicion. Bo. in. pr. 12. Tenui suspicione.

THIRLE, v. SAX. To pierce through. 2712.

THIS, pron. demonst. SAX. is sometimes put for the prepositive article. 12619. THISE, pi. 6142. 11508.

THO, prep. art. pi. Da. SAX. used as a demonstrative pronoun. Those. 2315. 2353. 12482. M. 122

THO, adv. SAX. Then. 2214. 2393.

THOLE, v. SAX. To suffer. 7128. And what mis- chefe and male ease Christ for man THOLED. PP. 65 b.

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THORE. R. 1853. is put for THERE, for the sake

of the rime.

THORPE, n. SAX. A village. 8075. 17323. THOUGHTEN, pa. t. pi. of THINKE, v. SAX. 7612. THRALL, n. SAX. A slave, or villain. P. 114. THRALLE, v. To enslave. T. n. 773, THRASTE, pa. t. of THRESTE. 12194. TH RED-BARE, adj. SAX. Having the threads bare,

the nap being worn away. 16358. THREMOTE. Du. 376. should be written, in two

words, thre mote, as in the Bodl. MSS. MOT. n.

FR. is explained by Cotgrave to signifie, among

other things, the note winded by a huntsman on his

home.

THREPE, v. SAX. To call. 16294. THRESTE, v. SAX. To thrust. 2614. 9877- THRESWOLD, n. SAX. A threshold. 3482. 8164. THRETE, v. SAX. To threaten. L W. 754. THRETTENE, num. SAX. Thirteen. 7841. THRIDDE, adj. SAX. Third. 1465. 2273. THRIE, THRIES, adv. SAX. Thrice. 63. 564.

T. 11. 89. 1285. THRILLED for THIRLED, pa. t. of THIRLE. R.

7636. THRTNGE, v. SAX. To thrust. R. 7419. T. iv.

66.

THRISTE, pa. t. of THRESTE. T. in. 1580. THRONGE, pa. t. of THRINGE. 10227.

254 GLOSSARY.

THROPES for THORPES. A F. 350.

THROSTEL, n. SAX. A thrush. 13699.

THROW, n. SAX. Time. But a throw. 5373. But a little while. Any throw. 14142. Any space of time. Many a throw. 16409. Many times.

THRUST for THURST, n. SAX. Thirst. R. 5713.

TH RUSTY for THURST Y, adj. SAX. Thirsty. Magd. 70S.

THURGH, prep. SAX. Through. 2614, 9. — By means of. 1330, 1.

THURGHFARE, n. SAX. A passage. 2849.

THURGHOUT, prep. SAX. Throughout, quite through. 1098. 2569.

THURROK, n. SAX. The hold of a ship. P. 37. See the note.

THWITEL, n. SAX. A whittle; Cultellus. 3931.

THWITTEN, part. pa. Chipped with a knife ; whit tled. R. 933. Bien doU. Orig.

TIDDE, part. pa. of TIDE, v. SAX. Happened. Thee shulde never have tidde sofaire a grace. T. I. 90S. So fair a fortune should never have hap pened to thee.

TIDIFE, n. 10962. See the note.

TIKEL, adj. SAX. Uncertain. 3428.

TiL,/>r-ep. SAX. To. 2067. 2966. Hire till. 10812. To her.

TiMBESTEREj-rt. R. 769. is supposed by Lye, \Etym. Ling. Angl. in v.] to mean the same with Tombe-

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255

stere. The Orig. French has been quoted above in v. SAILOURS, which Chaucer has thus imi tated.

There was many a timbestere And sailours, that, I dare well swere, Ycouthe hir craft full parfitly. The timbres up full subtilly Thei casten, and hent hem full oft Upon a finger faire and soft, That thei ne failed never mo. According to this description, it should rather seem, that a Timbestere was a woman, [See the n. on ver. 2019.] who plaid tricks with timbres, (ba sons of some sort or other), by throwing them up into the air, and catching them upon a single finger : a kind of Balance-mistress. TIMBRES, n. pi. FR. R. 772. Basons. See TIM BESTERE.

TIPET, n. SAX. A tippet. 3951. TIPPED, part. pa. Headed; covered at. the tip, or

top. 7319. 7322. TIPTOON, n. pi. SAX. Tiptoes ; the extremities of

the toes. 15313.

TIRE, v. FR. To pluck; to feed upon, in the man ner of birds of prey. T. i. 7S8. For loke how that a goshauke TYRETH. Conf. Am. 132 b. TISSUE, n. FR. A ribband. T. n. 639. TITE for TIDETH. T. i. 334. Happeneth. TITERING, n. SAX. Courtship. T. n. 1744

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TITLELES, adj. SAX. Without title. 17172.

TITUS LIVIUS, pr. n. 11935. L W. 1681. The Roman historian.

To, adv. SAX. Too. 877- 996.

To, prep. SAX. To day. 7758. 7821. On this day. To morwe. 782. 1612. On the morrow, the fol lowing day. To yere. 5750. T. HI. 242. F. i. 84. In this year.

To, in composition with verbs, is generally augmen tative. 2611. The helmes they TO-HEWEN and TO-SHREDE, i. e. hewe and cut to pieces. 2613. The bones they TO-BRESTE, i. e. break in pieces. TO-BROSTEN. 2693. TO-DASHED. T. n. 640. Much bruised. TO-RENT. 12036. Rent in pieces. TO-SWINKE. 12453. Labour greatly. — Sometimes the adv. ALL is added. AL-TO-RENT, 14267. ALL-TO-SHARE. R. 1858. Entirely cut to pieces. ALL-TO-SHENT. Ibid. 1903. En tirely ruined.

TOFORE, TOFOREN, prep. SAX. Before. M. 115.

TOGITHERS, adv. SAX. Together. T. iv. 1322.

ToLD,p«. t. of TELL, v. SAX. Accounted. 14404.

TOMBESTERE, n. SAX. A dancing-woman. T L. n. 326 b.

TOMBESTERES, pi. 12411. See the note.

TOMEDES. T. ii. 1201. should be written as two words. To mede, or to medes, according to the Saxon usage, signifies/or reward, in return.

TONE, n.pl. SAX. Toes. 14868. F. HI. 938.

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TONNE-GRET, adj. Of the circumference of a tun.

1996.'

Toos, n.pl. 13337. as TONE. TORETES, n. pi. FR. Rings. See the note on ver.

2154.

TORNE, v. FR. To turn. 2320. The devil out of his skinne Him tome ! 16742. May the devil turn him, inside out ! TORNED, part. pa. 16639 TORTUOUS, adj. FR. Oblique, winding. 4722. TOTELER, n. A whisperer. L W. 353. TOTELAR-

Susurro. Prompt. Parv. TOTTY, adj. SAX. Dizzy. 4251. TOUGH, adj. SAX. Difficult. And maketh it full tough. 13309. And takes a great deal of pains. Or make it tough. T. v. 101. Or take pains about it. See also T. n. 1025. in. 87. And made it neither tough ne queint. Du. 531. Made no difficulty or strangeness.

Al be it ye make it never sa tewche, To me your labour is in vane.

MS. Maitland. The mourning maiden. Will. Swane makis wonder teivche.

Ibid. Peblis to the play. St. 21. TOUGHT, adj. SAX. Tight. 7849. TOUR, n. FR. A tower. 1032. TOURNET, n. R. 4164. should be written Tourette,

as in MS. Hunter. A turret, or small tower. TOUT. n. The backside. 3810. 3851.

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258 GLOSSARY.

TOWAIL, «. FR. A towel. 14663. 14671.

TOWARDES, prep. SAX. Toward. 12640.

TOWEL, «. 7730. is perhaps put for TEWEL ; a pipe ; the fundament.

TRACE, n. FR. A track, or path. 176. — A train. L W. 285.

TRADE, pa. t. of TREAD, v. SAX. Trod. 15184.

TRAGETOUR, n. F. HI. 187- as TREGETOUR.

TRAIE, v. FR. To betray. F. i. 390.

TRAIS, n. pL FR. Traits. The traces, by which horses draw. 2141. T. i. 222.

TRAMISSENE, pr. n. A kingdom in Africa. See the n. on ver. 57.

TRANSMEWE, v. FR. To transform. 8261. T. iv. 467.

TRAPPURES, n. pi. BARB. LAT. The cloths, with which horses were covered for parade. 2501. See Du Cange, !n v. TRAPPATURA.

TRASHED, part. pr. Betrayed. R. 3231.

TRATE, n. 7164. See the note. Bp. Douglas fre quently uses Trat for an old woman. JEn. VII. 416. in vultus sese transformat aniles he ren ders,

And hir in schape transformyt of ane trat. See also p. 96, 28. auld fra£— and p. 122, 39.

TRAVE, n. FR. Travail. A frame, in which far riers put unruly horses. 3282.

TRE, n. SAX. A tree; wood. 5682. Cristes ire. 3765. The Cross.

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TRECHOUR, n. FR. A cheat. R. 6308. 7168. TREDE-FOULE, n. A treader of hens ; a cock. 13951.

15457-

TREGETOUR, n. See the n. on ver. 11453. TRENCHANT, part.pr. FR. Cutting. 3928. TRENTAL, n. See the n. on ver. 7299. TREPEGET, n. FR. A military engine. R. 6279.

See Du Cange, in v. TREBUCHETUM. TRESSE, n. FR. An artificial lock, or gathering of hair. 1051. See Du Cange, in v. TRICA, TRECIA. TRESSED, part. pa. Gathered in tress, or tresses.

5926.

TRESSOUR, n. An instrument used in tressing the hair ; or an ornament of it, when tressed. R. 568. 3717- See Du Cange, in v. TRESSORIUM. TRETABLE, adj. FR. Tractable. P. 74. L. W.

411.

TRETE, v. FR. To treat, to discourse. 10534. TRETEE, n. Treaty. 9566. TRETIS, n. Treaty. T. iv. 64. 670. TRETIS, adj. FR. Long and well proportioned. 152.

R. 1016. 1216.

TREWE, «. FR. A truce. T. iv. 1312. TREWE, adj SAX. True, faithful. 2237. 3706. TREWE-LOVE, n. 3692. See the note. Since which Mr. Steevens has very obligingly suggested to me, that there is a herb called True-love, according to Gerard, in his Herbal. Ed. 1597. p. 328. " HERBA PARIS. One-berrie, or herbe Truelove >atthe

960 GLOSSARY.

very top whereof come forth fower leaves, di rectly set one against another, in manner of a Burgunnion cross, or a true love knot ; for which cause among the auncients it hath been called herbe Truelove." This herb, however, to the best of my remembrance, is rather too large to be carried conveniently under the tongue. — A trewe- love, of the same or another sort, is mentioned in the concluding stanza of the Court of Love. Eke eche at other threw the floures bright, The primerose, the violete, and the gold ; So than as I beheld the royal sight, My lady gan me sodenly behold, And with a trewelove, plited many a fold, She smote me through the very heart as blive, And Venus yet I thanke I am alive. TRIACLE, n. FR. corruption of Theriaque. A re medy, in general. 4899. 12248. TRICE, v. SAX. To thrust. 14443. TRIE, adj. 13785. f. Tried or refined. Gloss Ur. TRILL, v. SAX. To twirl, to turn round. 10630.

v. neut. To roll, to trickle. 7446. 13604.

TRINE, ad;. FR. Triple. Trine compas. 15513. The

Trinity. See COMPAS.

TRIPPE, n. 7329. evidently means a small piece of cheese. Les tripes d'un fagot, in FR. are The smallest sticks in a faggot. Cotgrave. TRISTE, v. for TRUSTS. T. n. 247. TRISTE, n. T. n. 1534. A post or station in hunt-

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ing. Cowell. This seems to be the true meaning of the word, though the etymology is not so clear.

TROMPE, n. FR. A trumpet. 2176. 2513.

TROMPOUR, n. A trumpeter. 2673.

TRONCHOUN, ». FR. A spear, without a head. 2617.

TRONE, n. FR. A throne. 2531. 12776.

TROPHEE, pr. n. 14123. See the note. It after wards occurred to me that the reference might possibly be to the original of the Troilus and Cre- seide, which, according to Lydgate, was called Trophe; [See the n. on P. 131. 1. 1. Vol. IV. p. 340.] but I cannot find any such passage, as is here quoted, in the filostrato.

TROTULA, pr. n. 6259. See the n. on ver. 6253.

TROUBLE, ad;'. FR. Dark, gloomy. 8341.

TROUBLER, comp. d. R. 7020.

TROWANDISE, R. 3954. for TRUANDISE.

TROWE, v. SAX. To believe. 7139. 7567.

TRUANDISE, n. FR. Begging. R. 6664. TRU- ANDING. R. 6/21.

TULLE, v. SAX. To allure. 4132. See ver. 5597.

TULLIUS, pr. n. M. 99, 100. M. Tullius Cicero.

See also R. 5286. A F. 31. TURKEIS, n. FR. A sort of precious stone. C L.

80.

TURKEIS adj. FR. Turkish. 2897. See the note. TURMENTISE, n, FR. Torment. 14435.

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TURVES, pi. of TURF, n. SAX. 10109.

TWAINE. T. in. 551. TWAY. 794. TWEY. 1696.

TWEINE. 8526. numer. SAX. Two. TWEIFOLD, adj. SAX. Double. 16034. TWIES, adv. SAX. Twice. 4346. TWIGHT, pa. t. and part, of TWITCH, v. SAX.

Pulled, plucked. 7145. 10732. TWINNE, v. SAX. To depart from a place, or thing.

837- 12364.

TWINNED, part. pa. Separated. T. iv. 476. TWIKE, v. Bo. in. m. 2. Twireth seems to be the

translation ofsusurrat; spoken of a bird. TWIST, n. SAX. A twig. 10223. TWISTE, v. SAX. To twitch, to pull hard. 10880. TWISTE, pa. t. Twitched. 9879.

V.

VALENCE, pr. n. A F. 272. Valencia in Spain. Gloss. Ur.

VALEKIE, pr. n. 6253. See the Discourse, &c. n. 19.

VALERIE, 14638. VALERIUS. 6747- pr. n. Va lerius Maximus.

VALURE, n. FR. Value. R. 5236.

VARIEN, inf. m. v. FR. To change, to alter. T. n. 1621.

VARIAUNT, part.pr. 16643. Changeable.

VASSALAGE, n. FR. Valour, courage, 3056. R. 5871.

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VAVASOUR, n. 362. See the note. VATJNTOUR, n. FR. A boaster. T. n. 724.

VECKE, n. ITAL. An old woman. R. 4286. 4495.

VEINE-BLODE, n. Blood drawn from a vein. 2749.

VEND ABLE, adj. FR. To be sold. R. 5804.

VENERIE, n. FR. Hunting. 166. 2310.

VENGE, v. FR. To revenge. M. 109.

VENIME, n. FR. Poison, venom. 2753.

VENTOUSING, n. FR. Cupping. 2*49.

VER, n. LAT. The Spring. T. i. 157.

VERAMENT. adv. FR. Truly. 13643.

VER AY, adj. FR. True. 6786.

VERDEGRESE, n. FR. Ferd du gris. The rust'of brass ; so called from its colour, a grey green. 16258.

VERDITE, n. FR. Judgement, sentence. 789. A F. 503.

VERGER, n. FR. A garden. R. 3618. 3831.

VERMEILE, adj. FR. Of a vermilion colour. R. 3645.

VERMELET, adj. C L. 142. as VERMEILE.

VERNAGE. 9681. See the note.

VERNICLE, n. 687- diminutive of Feronike. FR. A copy in miniature of the picture of Christ, which is supposed to have been miraculously imprinted upon a handkerchief, preserved in the church of St. Peter at Rome. Du Cange, in v. VERONICA. Madox, Form. Angl. p. 428. Testam. Joh. de Ne- vill. an. 1386. Item Domino Archiepiscopo Ebo-

264 GLOSSARY.

rumfratri meo i. vestimentum rubeum de velvet cum le verouike [r. veronike] in grants rosarum desu- per brondata [r. broudata]. It was usual for per sons returning from pilgrimages to bring with them certain tokens of the several places which they had visited ; and therefore the Pardoner, who is just arrived from Rome, is represented with a vernicle, sewed upon his cappe. See P P. 28 b.

An hundred amples on hys hatte sette,

Sygnes of Sinay and shelles of * Calice,

And many a crouch on his cloke and kayes of Rome,

Andvnz VERNICLE before, for men should knowe

And se by hys signes, whom he sought hadde.

VERNISH, v. FR. To varnish. 4147.

VERRE, n. FR. Glass, T. n. 867.

VERSIFIOUR, n. FR. A maker of verses ; a poet. M. 133.

VERTULES, adj. Without efficacy. T. n. 344.

VERTUOUS, adj. FR. Active, efficacious. 251.

VESSELL, n. FR. Vaisselle. Plate. 14154. 14310.

UGLY, adj. SAX. Horrid, frightful. 8549.

VIAGE, n. FR. A journey by sea, or land. 77- 794.

VICARY, n. LAT. A vicar. 17333.

VICE, n. FR. The newel, or upright centre of a winding stair-case. C D. 1310.

* MS. Gales. Perhaps it should be Galice. See ver. 468.

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VIGILE, n. FR. The eve of a festival. 379.— The wake, or watching of a dead body. T. v. 305. See the n. on ver. 2960.

VIGILIE, n. LAT. as VIGILE. 6138.

VILANIE, n. FR. Any thing unbecoming a gentle man. 7O. 6733.

VINOLENT, adj. LAT. Full of wine. 6049. 7513.

VIRELAYE, n. FR. 11260. " A round, freeman's . song." Cotgrave. There is a particular descrip tion of a Firlai, in the Jardin de plaisance. fol. xn. where it makes the decima sexta species Rhetorice Gallicane.

ViRGiLE,pr. n. 7101. L W. 924. F. i. 449.

VISAGE, v. FR. To front, to face a thing. 10147.

VISE, n. 1987. In MS. A. veze. Perhaps we should read rese, a Saxon word signifying violence, impe tuosity. See T. iv. 350. where (according to Gloss. Ur.) instead of rage some MSS. have rees ; and the Prol. to the Contin. of the Cant. T. ver. 498. 548. If this correction be admitted, we must also read in the next line rese for rise, with MS. A.

VITAILLE, n. FR. Victuals. 3551. 7935.

ViTELLON,pr. ?i. 10546. See the note.

UNBETIDE, v. SAX. To fail to happen. Bo. v. pr. 6.

UNBODIE, v. SAX. To leave the body. T. v. 1549.

UNBOKEL, v. FR. To unbuckle, to open. 17337-

UNCE, n. FR. LAT. Ounce. 16722. 16734.

UNCOMMITTED, part. pa. AF. 518. Office uncom mitted oft anoyeth. Compare ver. 16534, 5.. .

266 GLOSSARY.

UNCONNiNG,/>ar£. pr. Ignorant. 2395. UNCONNING. n. Ignorance. B K. 608. UNCOVENABLE, adj. Inconvenient. Bo. iv. pr.

6. UNCOUPLE, v. To go loose ; Metaphor from hounds.

14420.

UNCOUPLINGE, n. Letting loose. Du. 377. UNCOUTH, part. pa. Unknown. See COUTH. — Uncommon, not vulgar, elegant. 10598. T. in. 1803. F L. 276. C D. 93. UNCOUTHLY, adv. Uncommonly. R. 584. UNDEPARTABLE, adj. Not capable of departing.

Bo. iv. pr. 3.

UNDERFONG, v. SAX. To undertake. R. 5709. UNDERGROWE, part. pa. Undergrown, of a low

stature. 156.

UNDERLING, n. SAX. An inferior. P. 87. UNDERMELE, n. SAX. 6457. See the note. Upon further consideration, I am rather inclined to be lieve, that undermele signifies the time after the meal of dinner ; the afternoon. UNDERMELE, Postmeridies . Prompt. Parv.

UNDERN, «. SAX. The third hour of the artificial

day; nine of the clock. A M. 15228. See the n.

on ver. 813G. Till it was UNDERNE hygh, and

more. Conf. Am. 103 b.

UNDERNOME, pa. t. of UNDERNIME, v. SAX. Took

up, received. 15711. UNDERPIGHT, pa. t. See PIGHT. He dranfce, and

GLOSSARY. 267

wel his girdel underpight. 5209. He drank and

stuffed his girdle well. UNDERSPORE, v. SAX. To raise a thing, by putting

a spere. or pole, under it. 3465. UNDERSTONDE, part. pa. Understood. 4940.9559. UNDO, v. SAX. To unfold. R. 9. UNDOUBTOUS, adj. Undoubted. Bo. v. pr. 1. In-

dubitata. Orig. See DOUTOUS. UNESCHUABLE, adj. SAX. Unavoidable. Bo. v.

pr. 1. Inevitabili. Orig. UNESE, n. Uneasiness. C D. 867. UN-ETH, UN-ETHES, adv. SAX. Scarcely, not easily.

3123. 7685.

UNFAMOUS, adj. Unknown. F. in. 56. UNFESTLICHE, adj. Not suitable to a feast. 10680. UNGODELY, adj. Uncivil, ungenteel. R. 3741.

That I nolde holde hire UNGODELY. Orig. Que

je ne tenisse a vilaine. UNGREABLE, adj. Unpleasant, disagreeable. Bo. i.

m. 1. Ingratas. Orig. UNHELE, n. SAX. Misfortune. 12050. UNHIDE, v. To discover. R. 2168. UNJOINE, v. To separate ; to disjoin. Bo. in.

pr. 12.

UNKINDELY, adv. Unnaturally. 12419. UNKNOWABLE, adj. Incapable of being known.

Bo. n. m. 7. Ignorabiles. Orig. UNLETTED, part. pa. Undisturbed. C D. 1829. UNLOVEN, v. To cease loving. T. v. 1697.

26S GLOSSARY.

UNLUST, n. Dislike. P. 77.

UNMANHODE, n. Cowardice. T. i. 825.

UNMIGHTY, adj. Unable. T. n. 858.

UNPEREGAL, adj. Unequal. Bo. in. pr. 1. Im- par. Orig.

UNPIN, v. SAX. To unlock. T. in. 699.

UNPITOUS, adj. Cruel. Bo. i. m. 1. Impia.

UNPLITE, u. To unfold. Bo. n. pr. 8.

UNREST, n. Want of rest. 6686. — Uneasiness, trou ble. 8595.

UNRESTY, adj. Unquiet. T. v. 1354.

UNRIGHT, n. Wrong. 6675.

UNSAD, adj. Unsteady. 8871.

UNSCIENCE, n. Not-science. Bo. v. pr. 3.

UNSELY, adj. Unhappy. 4208. 15936.

UNSET, part. pa. Not appointed. 1526-

UNSHETTE, pa.t. Opened. 9921.

UNSKILFULLY, adv. SAX. Without reason. Bo. in. pr. 6. Injurld. Orig.

UNSLEKKED, part. pa. Unslacked. 16274.

UNSLEPT, part. pa. Having had no sleep. C D. 1834.

UNSOFT. adj. Hard. 9698.

UNSOLEMPNE, adj. Uncelebrated. Bo. i. pr. 3. Incelebris. Orig.

UNSPERDE, part, pa Unbolted. R. 2654.

UNSTANCHEABLE, adj. Inexhaustible. Bo. n. pr. 7. Inexhausta. Orig.

UNSTANCHED, part. pa. Unsatisfied. Bo. n. pr. 6. Inexpletam. Orig.

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INSUFFICIENT, adj. Insufficient. 10351. UNSWELL, v. To fall after swelling. T. iv. 1146. UXTHANK, n. No thanks; ill will. 4080. T. v.

699.

UNTIL, prep. SAX. To, unto. 214. UNTIME, n. An unseasonable time. P. 126. UNTO, adv. SAX. Untill. A F. 647. UNTBESSED, part, pa. Not tied in a tress, or tresses.

2291. 8255. UNTRETABLE, adj. Not admitting any treaty. Bo.

n. pr. 8. Bellum inexorabile. Orig. IloXe/xo? «wj-

UNTRISTE for UNTRUSTE, v. To mistrust. T. in.

841.

UNTRUST, n. Distrust. 10080. UNUSAGE, n. Want of usage. Bo. n. pr. 7. Inso-

lentia. Orig.

UNWARE, part. pa. Unforeseen. 4847.11668. UNWELD, adj. Unwieldy. 3884. R. 359. UNWEMMED, part. pa. Unspotted. 5344. 15605. UNWETING, part. pr. Not knowing. Unweting of

this Dorigen. 11 248. Dorigen not knowing of

this.

UNWETINGLY, adv. Ignorantly. 12420. UNWIST, part. pa. Unknown. T. n. 1294. Unwist

of him. 2979. It being unknown to him. — Not

knowing. T. n. 1400. UNWIT, n. Want of Wit. 16553. UNWOTE, v. SAX. To be ignorant. Bo. v. pr. 6.

270 GLOSSARY.

UNWRIE, v. To uncover. T. i. 859.

UNYOLDEN, part. pa. Not having yielded. 2644. 2726.

VOIDE, v. FR. To remove. 8786. 10502.— To quit, to make empty. 8082. 9689.

VOIDE, v. neut. To depart, to go away. 11462. T. ii. 9l"2.

VOIDED, part. pa. Removed. 11507. 11613.

VOLAGE, adj. FR. Light, giddy. 17188. R. 1284.

VOLATILE, n. FR. Wild fowls ; game. 13002.

VOLUNTEE, n. FR. Will. R. 5276.

VOLCJPERE, n. A woman's cap. 3241. A night cap. 4301. VOLYPERE. KERCHER. Teristrum. Prompt. Parv. But theristrum signifies properly a veil. See Du Cange, in v.

VOUCHE, v. FR. Vouchen sauf. 11885. To vouch safe. Voucheth sauf. 11355. Vouchsafe ye. As ye have made present, the king VOUCHES IT SAVE. P L. '260.

Up, prep. SAX. Upon. Ther lith on up my wombe and up myn hed. 4288. There lieth one upon my belly and upon my head. Up peine. 1709. 2545. Upon pain. Up peril. 6727. Upon peril.

UP, adv. SAX. Up on lond, 704. Up in the country. Up so doun. 1379. 16093. P. 23. Upside down. The londe was tourned UP so DOUN. Conf. Am. 37. 159. But Pandare up. T. in. 549. An elliptical expression, of which it is not easy to give the precise meaning.

GLOSSARY 271

UPPER, comp. d. Higher. F. n. 376.

UPHAF, pa. t. of UPHEVE, v. SAX. Heaved-up. 2430.

UPHEPING, n. SAX. Accumulation. Bo. n. pr. 3. Cumulum. Orig.

UPON, adv. 6964. He had upon a courtepy of grene. He had on a courtepy, &c. Or perhaps it is an elliptical expression for He had upon him. See ver. 6141.

UPPEREST, adj. superl. Highest. Bo. i. pr. 1.

UPRIGHT, adj. SAX. Strait. Upright as a bolt. 3264. Strait as an arrow. It is applied indif ferently to persons lying, as well as standing. 4264. 6350. 13246. 13541. 14489. 15048.

URCHON, n. A hedge-hog. R. 3135.

URE, n. FR. Fortune, destiny. B K. 152. C L. 634.

URED. adj. Fortunate. Wellured. CD. 144.

USAGE, v. FK. Experience, practise. 2450.

USANT, part. pr. FR. Using, accustomed. 3938. P. 95.

UTTER, comp. d. of OUT, adv. SAX. Outward, more out. 15966. T. in. 665.

UTTERESTE, superl. d. Uttermost. 8663.

UTTERLY, adv. FR Oultre'ement. Thoroughly, en tirely. 8829. LW. 1488. UTTREN, inf. m. of Utter, v. SAX. To publish.

16302. UTTREN, pr. t. pi. 6103. Give out; sell.

272 GLOSSARY.

w.

WADE, pr. n. 9298. See the note. WADE, v. SAX. LAT. To pass through water, with out swimming. 7666. — To pass, generally. 9558.

14412. q? WAFERERS, n. pL Sellers of wafers, a sort of cakes,

12413.

WAFOURES, n. pi. Wafers, a sort of cakes. 3379. WAGET. 3321. See the note. But, upon the whole,

I believe that a light waget should be understood

to mean a light blew colour. WAIMENTING, n. SAX. Lamentation. 904. 997. WAINE, n. SAX. A waggon. Bo iv. m. I. WAITE, v. FR. To watch. 3295. WAKE, v. SAX. To watch. 7482. CD. 1904. WALACniEjor. n. Walachia. Du. 1024. WALA WA, or WA LA WA, inter j. SAX. Woe!

alas ! 940. See the note. Wala wa the while !

4790. Alas the time ! WALNOTE, v. SAX. A walnut, j. e. a French, or

foreign nut. F. in. 191. WALWE, v. SAX. To tumble about, to wallow.

6667. 6684.

WALWING, part. pr. 3616. WAN, pa. t. of WIN, v. SAX. Gained. 444.

7059.

WANE, t. SAX. To decrease. 2080. 3027- WANG, «. SAX. A cheek-tooth. 4028.

GLOSSARY. 273

WANGER, «. SAX. A support for the cheek, a pil low. 13840.

WANHOPE, n. SAX. Despair. 1249. P. 128, 9.

WANTRUST, n. SAX. Distrust. 17230.

WAPED, part. pa. SAX. Stupefied. An. 217.

WARDECORPS, n. FR. Body-guard. 5941.

WARDEIN, n, FR. A warden of a College. 3997. — A guard. T. in. 666. — A keeper of a gate. T. v. 1177- WARDEINS, pi. Guards, watchmen. 6788.

WARDERERE, 4099. perhaps a corruption of the FR. Garde arriere.

WARDROPE, n. FR. Garderobe. A house of office. 13502.

WARIANGLES. 6990. See the note; and Cotgrave, in v. Pie and Engroude, where he explains " the Wariangle to be a small Woodpecker, black and white of colour, and but halfe as big as the ordi nary green one."

WARICE, WARISH, v. FR. To heal. 12840. — v. neut. To recover from sickness. M. 81.

WARISON, n. R. 1537. seems to be put for Re ward. Son merite. Orig. WARYSON. Donativam. Prompt. Parv.

WARNE, v. SAX. To caution ; to apprize. 8949. 16058.— To refuse. R. 3652. S730.

WARNESTORE, v. To furnish; to store. M. 114.

WARRIE, v. SAX. — To abuse; to speak evil of. 4792. T. n. 1619.

TOL. V. T

274 GLOSSARY.

W ASHEN, part. pa. of WASH, v. SAX. 3311.

WASTEL-BREDE. 147- Cake-bread; Bread made of the finest flower ; from the FR. Gasteau, a cake.

WASTOUR, n. FR. A spoiler. 9409.

WATE, v. SAX. To know. R. 5399.

WATERING OF SEINT THOMAS. 828. A place for watering horses, I suppose, a little out of the borough of Southwark, in the road to Canterbury. The same place, I apprehend, was afterwards called St. Thomas a Waterings, probably from some chapel dedicated to that Saint. It was a place of execution in Q. Elizabeth's time. Wood, Ath. Oxon. i. 229.

WATLYNGE STRETE. F. n. 431. An old street in London.

WAVE, pa. t. of WEAVE, v. SAX. Wove. LW. 2353.

WAWE, ft. SAX. A wave. 1960.

WAY, n. SAX. is often put for the time in which a certain space can be passed through. A furlong way. 3637. 4197. A mile way. 13206. Any short time. — At the leste wey. 16144. seems to signifie no more than At the lest. 4458. At least. — A devil way. 3136. 7824. A twenty devil way. 3713. 4255. 16250.

WAY, adv. Away. Do way. 3287. 15955. Do away, put away.

WAYE, v. SAX. To weigh. L W. 398.— To press with weight. LW. 1786.

GLOSSARY. 275

WEBBE, n. SAX. A weaver. 364.

WEDDE, n. SAX. A pawn, or pledge. To wedde. 1220. 13353. For a pawn. And leyde TO WEDDE Normandie. R G. 393.

WEDE, n. SAX. Clothing, apparel. 8739. Under wede. 13845. See the note; and R. 6359. where Under wede seems to signifie simply In my cloth ing.

WEDE, n. SAX. A weed ; an useless herb. T. i. 947.

WEHEE. A word to express the neighing of a horse. 4064. P P. 36 b.

WEIVE, v. SAX. To forsake. 17127. 17344.— To decline, to refuse. T. n. 284.

WEIVE, v. neut. To depart. 9357. 10298.

WEIVED, part, pa, Departed. 4728.

WERE, v. SAX. To grow weak. T. iv. 1144.

WEKE, adj. SAX. Weak. 889.

WEL, adv. SAX. Well, in a good condition. 4372. WEL WAS THE WENCHE, with him mights mete. C D. 270. WEL WERE THEY, that thider might twin. Tt is joined to other adverbs and adjectives, as full and right are ; and still more frequently to verbs; in the sense of the FR. bien.

WELDE, v. SAX. To govern, to wield. 7529. 14583.

WELDY, adj. SAX. Active. T. n. 636.

WELE, adv. for WEL. 928. 2233.

WELE, n. SAX. Wealth; prosperity. 3103. 4595. 9166.

276 GLOSSARY.

WELEFUL, adj. Productive of happiness. 4871. WELEFULNESS, n. SAX. Happiness. Bo. u. pr. 8. WELKE,/>a. t. of WALK, v. SAX. Walked. C D. 828. WELKED, part. pa. of WELKE, v. SAX. Withered,

mouldy. 5859. 12672 WELKIN, n. SAX. The sky. 9000. WELL, n. SAX. A spring. 7924. Well of vices.

4743. — of perfection. 5689. — of alle gentillesse.

10819. WELLE, v. SAX. To flow, as from a spring. T. iv.

709. WELMETH. R. 1561. seems to be put for WELLETH ;

Springeth.

WELTE, pa. t. of WELDE. 14016. WEL-THEWED, adj. SAX. Endowed with good qua lities. Bo. iv. pr. 6. WELWILLY, adj. SAX. Favourable, propitious. T.

HI. 1^263. WEMME, «. SAX. A spot; a fault. 10435. R. 930.

Without WEMME. P P. 98 b. WENCHE, n. SAX. A young woman. 4165. It is

sometimes used in an opprobrious sense. 10076.

I am a gentil woman and no wenche. WEND for WENED, pa. t. of WENE, Thought; in tended. 3693. 4257. WENDEN, pi. T. iv. 683.

724.

WENDE, v. SAX. To go. 21. 1393. WENDE, v. SAX. Guess, conjecture. B K. 463.

perhaps for WEN E.

GLOSSARY. 277

WENE, n. SAX. Guess, supposition. Withouten wene. R. 574. 732. Not by supposition; cer tainly.

WENE, v. SAX. To think; to suppose. 2197. 5893.

WENT, part. pa. ofWENDE. Gone. 3665. 13470.

WENTE, WENT, pa. t. of WENDE. 78. 257. Went at borde. 61 10. Lived as a boarder. WENTEN, pi. 822.

WENT, n. A way, a passage. T. HI. 788. F. i. 182,— A turn, in walking. T. n. 815. T. v. 605. in bed. T. n. 63.

WENT, v. F L. 150. for WANT.

WEP, pa. t. of WEPE, v. SAX. Wept. 2823.

WEPELY, adj. SAX. Causing tears. Bo. HI. m. 12.

WEPEN, n. SAX. A weapon. 1593.

WERCHE, n. % v. as WERKE.

WERE for WEREN, ind. m. pa. t. pi. of AM. v. SAX. 18. 41. It is sometimes used for HAD, according to the French custom, with reflected verbs. 12595. Thise riotoures — WERE set HEM in a taverne for to drinke. — S'E'TOIENT mis, S'E'TOIENT assis.

WERE, subj. m. pa. t. sing. 89. As it were. 148. If on of hem were. 1159. Whether she were. 2115. Were it. 2288. It were a game.

WERE, ». SAX. To wear. 2177. 2950.— To defend. 2552.

WERE, n. FR. Guerre. Confusion. His herte in

278 GLOSSARY.

suche a WERE is set. R. 5699. Son cueur a mys en tel GUERRE. Orig. 5289. L W. 2675. And in a WERE gan I wexe and with myself to dispute. P P. 54 b.

WERE, n. SAX. A wear, for catching fish. T. in. 35. AF. 138.

WEREN, pa. t. pi. of AM, v. SAX. 28, 9. Were.

WERKE, n. SAX. Work. 3311. 12274. WERKES, pi. S308.

WERKE, c. SAX. To work. 3133. 353O, 1.

WERNE, v. 5915. as WARNS.

WERRE, n. FR. War. 47. 1673. In T. v. 1392. it seems to be used as WERE.

WERREIE, v. FR. To make war against. 1546. 103-24. 14338.

WERSE, comp. d. of ILL, adv. SAX. Worse. 4348. 5753.

WERSE, comp. d. of BAD, adj. SAX. Worse. 1226. 3870.

WERSTE, superl. d. of BAD. Worst. 9094. 13091.

WERY, adj. SAX. Weary. 4105. 4934.

WESH,/>a.J. of WASH, v. SAX. Washed. 2285. 4873.

WESTREN, inf. m. v. SAX. To tend toward the West. T. ii. 906.

WETE, adj. SAX. Wet. 2903.

WETE, v. SAX. To wet. T. m. 1121.

WETE, v. SAX. To know. 7096. 10305.

WETHER, n. SAX. The weather. 10366. — A cas trated ram. 3542. T. iv. 1374.

GLOSSARY. 279

WETING, n. SAX. Knowledge. 1613. 6231.

WBVE, v. SAX. To weave. L W. 2341.

WEVE, v. SAX. To put off, to prevent. T. n. 1050.

See WEIVE. WEx,pa. t. of WAXE, or WEXE, u. SAX. Waxed,

grew. 4232.

WEXING, part. pr. Increasing. 2080. WEYEDEN, pa. t. pi. Weighed. 456. See WAYE. WHAT, prow, interrog. SAX. is often used by itself,

as a sort of interjection. 856. WHAT? welcome be

the cutte — 3477- WHAT? Nicholas! WHAT^OUJ?

man ! — 3491. WHAT? thinke on God. — See also

3900. 6496. 7820. WHAT, pron. indef. Something. A little what. Bo.

iv. pr. 6. MJX/JOV fi. What for love and for distress.

1455. Partly for love and partly f. d. See 3965.

4441, 2. F. n. 43. Weteye what? 10305. 17031.

Do ye Jcnow something ? Ne elles what. F. HI.

651. Nor any thing else. OvS' «XXw? n. WHAT, when joined to a n. subst. (either expressed

or understood) is a mere adj. answering to Qualis.

LAT. Quel. FR. 40, 41. What they weren. 1705.

What men they were. — What so. 524. 6873. What

that. 5602. 7113. Whatsoever. WHEDER, con/. SAX. Whether. 9838. 15141. WHELM, v. SAX. T. 1. 139. To sink, to depress.

WHELMYN a VESSELL. Supprimo. Prompt. Parv. WHENNES, adv. SAX. Whence. 12269. WHER, con/. SAX. Whether. 7032. 10893.

280 GLOSSARY.

WHER, adv. SAX. Where. 423. 899.

WHER, in composition, signifies Which. See HERE

and THER. Wherfore. 8533. Wherin. 13732.

Wherthrough. R. 3733. Wherwith. 304.— or

What, when used interrogatively. Wherof. 5654.

Wherwith. 5713.

WHETHER, adj. SAX. Which of two. 1858. 6816. WHETTE, part. pa. of WHET, 0. SAX. Sharpened.

T. v. 1759. WHICHE, pron. rel. SAX. Who. 16482. Whom.

13083.— ad;'. What; what sort of. 2677- 5621.

6875. WHILE, n. SAX. Time. In this mene while. 7027-

In the mean time. — How he might quite hire while.

5004. How he might requite her time, pains, &c.

L W. 2225. R. 1542. God can ful wel your

WHILE quite. So MS. Hunter. WHILERE, adv. SAX Some time before. 16796. WHILKE, adj. SAX. Which. 4076. 4169. WHILOM, adv. SAX. Once, on a time. 861. 9121. WHINE, v. SAX. To utter a plaintive cry. 5968.

See An. 158.

WHITE, adj. SAX. Fair, specious. T. in. 1573. WHITE, v. To grow white. T. v. 276. WHO, pron. interrog. SAX. 1350. 1456.

WHOS, gen. ca sing. 5438.

WHO, pron. rel. SAX. 3154. It is generally ex pressed by that. WHOS, gen. ca. sing. 7908. 9047.

GLOSSARY. 281

WHO, pron. indef. T. HI. 268.

For wel thou wost, the name as yet of her Amonges the people, AS WHO SAYTH, halowedis. Where as who sayth seems to be equivalent to a* one should say. See also Du. 559. In Bo. HI. pr. 4. the same phrase is used to introduce a fuller explanation of a passage ; as we might use — That is to say. — WHO so. 743. WHO THAT. 8O7. Whosoever. In ver. 4298. there is a phrase which I know not how to explain grammatically. JBut sikerly she n'iste WHO WAS WHO. See also C D. 1305, 6.

WIDE-WHERE, adv. SAX. Widely, far and near. 4556. T. in. 405. Cow/. Am. 162.

WIERDES, n. pi. SAX. The fates, or destinies; Parcce. T. in. 618.

WIF, n. SAX. A wife. 2260. — A woman. 6580.

WIFHOOD, n. SAX. The state of a wife. 10064.

WIFLES, adj. SAX. Unmarried. 9112. 9124.

WIFLY, adj. SAX. Becoming a wife. 8305.

WIGHT, n. SAX. A person, male or female. 2108. 13917. 4234.— A small space of time. 4281.— Weight. T. ii. 1385. A witch. 3484. WYTCH CLEPYD NYGHT MARE. Epialtes. Promp. Parv.

WIGHT, adj. SAX. Active, swift. 4084. 14273. Of hem that ben deliver and WIGHT. Conf. Am. 177 b.

WIGHTES, n. pi. Witches. 3479. See the note.

WIKE, n. for WERE. T. 11. 1273.

282 GLOSSARY.

WIKET, n. FR. A wicket. 9919.

WIKKE, adj. SAX. Wicked. 5448. 15429.

WILLIAM ST. AMOUR, pr. n. R. 6763. A doctor of the Sorbonne in the XIII Century, who took a principal part in the dispute between the Univer sity of Paris and the Dominican Friers. See Moreri, in v.

WILLY, adj. SAX. Favourable. B K. 628.

WILN for WILLEN, pi. n. of WILLE, v. SAX. 6870. 12848.

WILNE, v. SAX. To desire. 2566.

WIMPLE, n. FR. A covering for the neck. It is distinguished from a veil, which covered the head also. R. 3864.

Wering a vaile, instede of wimple, As nonnes don in hir abbey.

WINDAS, n. FR. Guindal. An engine to raise stones, &c. 10498.

WINDE, v. SAX. To turn round. 6684.

WINDE, as WENDE ; To go. R. 2055.

WINE OF APE. 16993. See the note.

WINNE. R. 3674. v. SAX. To gain. 715.7003. To winne to. R. 3674. To attain. See L W. 2416.

WIRRY, v. SAX. To worry. R. 6264.

Wis, adv. SAX. Certainly. 11780. See Ywis.

WISE, n. SAX. Manner. 1663. T. n. 921.

WISLY. adv. SAX. Certainly. 1865.3992.

WISSE, v. SAX. To teach, to direct. 6590. 6991.

GLOSSARY. 283

So God me wisse. 7440. So may God direct me. WYSSYN OR LEDYN. Dirigo. Prompt. Parv. WISTE, pa. t. of WISTE, v. SAX. Knew. 1158.

8690.

WITE, v. SAX. To know. 9614. R. 7661.— To blame. 10051. 145S8.— To impute to. Wite it the ale of Southwark. 3142. Impute it to the a. o. S.— or, Blame the a o. S. for it. 14756 WITE, n. SAX. Blame. 16421. WITH. prep. SAX. is used in the sense of by. 4895. Was with the leon frette ; was devoured by the lion. — In with his thought. 9460. In with hire bosom. 9818. Within his t. Within hire b.—With meschance. 5316. 7797. With meschance and with misaventure. 6916. With sorwe and with meschance. 4410. With sorwe. 5890. 5922. are phrases of the same import as God yeve him meschance. 5334. God yeve me sorwe. 5733. They are all to be con sidered as parenthetical curses, used with more or less seriousness. And so are the following phrases. With evil prefe. 5829. With harde grace. 7810. With sory grace. 1281O. WITHHOLDS, v. SAX. To stop. 14002. WITHHOLDEN, WITHHOLD, part. pa. Retained, de tained. 513. M. 84. 15813.

WlTHSAIN, infi. TO. Of WlTHSAY, V. SAX. 1142.

WITHSAYE, WITHSEYE, v. SAX. To contradict, to

denie. 15915. L W. 367- WITNESFULLY, adv. SAX. Evidently. Bo. iv. pr. 5.

284 GLOSSARY.

WITNESSE, n, SAX. Testimony; a witness. Wit- nesse on Mida. 6533. Witnesse on Mathew. 12568.

WITTE, n. SAX. Understanding, capacity. 748. To my witte. 11187- F. II. 194. In my judgement.

WITTES, n. pi. SAX. The senses of man. M. 120.

WIVE, n. for WIF. 1862.

WIVERE, n. SAX. A serpent. T. in. 1012.

WLATSOM, adj. SAX. Loathsome. 14542. 15059.

Wo, n. SAX. Woe, sorrow. 1360. 1384. Wo were us. 8015. Wher me were wo. 10893. are expres sions derived from the Saxon language, in which us and me were equivalent to nobis and mihi, without the addition of the prep. to.

Wo, adj. SAX. Sorrowful. R. 312. C L. 32.

WO-BEGON. 3372. 3658. Far gone in woe. See BEGON.

WODE, WOOD, adj. SAX. Mad. 3507. Violent. 3517. For wode. L W. 2409. F. in. 657- Like any thing mad. See ver. 2952. Into the fire, that brent as it were wood.

WODE. v. SAX. To grow mad. 15935. Bo. iv. m. 5.

WODEWALE, R. 658. pr. n. of a bird. Widewael. BELG. Oriolus. Kilian. According to Ray, our Witwall is a sort of Woodpecker. Synop. Av. p. 43.

WOL, v. auxil. SAX. To will. 42. 805. It is used sometimes by itself, the in/in, v. being understood. 10810. As she to water wolde. i. e. would dissolve into w. 1093. And to the wood he wol. i. e. will

GLOSSARY. 285

go. 16453. Ful many a man hath he begiled er this, And wol. i. e. will begile.

WOLDE, pa. t. WOULD. 144. WOLDEN, pi. 4666. —pa. t. subj. m. Wolde God ! 9932, 5. God wolde ! Du. 665. 814. O that God were willing! Newolde God ! 11068. God forbid!

WOLD, part. pa. Willed ; been willing. M. 83. 120. LW. 1207.

WOMANHEDE, n. Womanhood ; the virtue of a woman. 8951.

WONDE, v. SAX. Wandian. To desist through fear. L W. 1185.

WONDE, pa. t. CMV. 102. may perhaps be de duced from WINDE ; to turn; to bend. SeeT. i. 257.

The yerde is bet, that bowen wol and WINDE, Than that that brest.

WONDE, pa. t. of WONE. Dwelled. L W. 2241.

WONDER, adj. SAX. Wonderful. 2075. 5465.

WONE, n. SAX. Custom, usage. 337- 13434, Du. 475. — Habitation. 7687. 13730. — A heap; an as sembly. R. 1673. L W. 2159.

WONE, v. SAX. To dwell. 7745.

WONEDEN, pa. t. pi. Dwelled. 2929.

WONED, part. pa. Wont, accustomed. T. i. 511 Du. 140.

WONING, n. SAX. A dwelling, 608.

WONNE. part. pa. of WINNB, v. SAX. Won, con quered. 51, 59.— Begotten. L W. 2553.

286 GLOSSARY.

WONT, part. pa. of WONE. Accustomed. Bo. iv.

pr. 4.

WOOD, adj. as WODE. WOODNESS, n. Madness. 3452. 12430. WORDLES, adj. SAX. Speechless. C D. 514. WORLDES, gen. c. of WORLD, n. SAX. is used in

the sense of the adj. WORLDLY. Every worldes

sore. 2851. My worldes bliss. 15206. WORT, n. SAX. A cabbage. 8102. 1522?. — New

beer, in a state of fermentation. 16281. WORTH, v. SAX. To be, to go. C M. 95. Wo wor-

the ! T. ii. 344, 5, 6. Unhappy be ! or Wo be

to! — To climb, to mount. 13681. T. n. 1011. WOST for WOTEST. 1165. 1176. 6144. Knowest. WOTE, WOT, v. SAX. To know. 1142. 1262, 4, 5. WOT, pa. t. Knew. 4856. WOWE (rather Woe) v. SAX. To woo. T. v. 791.

L W. 1245. WOXE, pa. t. of WAXE, or WEXE, v. SAX. Grew.

7703.

WOXEN, part. pa. Grown. T. v. 1014. WRAIE, v. SAX. To betray, discover. T. in. 285. WRATHEN, inf. m. ». SAX. To make angry. 17029.

P. 7. WRAWE, adj. SAX. Peevish, angry, 16995. WRAWE.

FRO WARD. ONGOODL Y. Perversus. Bilosus, Prompt.

Parv.

W RAWNESS, n. Peevishness. P. 77. WRAY, v. 11256. as WRAIE.

GLOSSARY. 287

WRECHE, n. SAX. Revenge. 14521. 14533.

WRENCHES, n. pi. SAX. Frauds, stratagems. 16549.

WREST, v. SAX. To twist. B K. 48. The nightin gale With so great might hire voice began out wrest. To turn forcibly. T. iv. 1427.

WRETCHES. Bo. u. pr. 7. should probably be WRETCHED.

WRETHEN, part. pa. of WRITHE. F L. 57. Wrethen in fere ; Twisted together. In Urry's Edit, it is printed — Within in fere.

WREYE. v. 3503, 7. as WRAIE.

WRIE. v. SAX. To cover. 7409. R. 6795.— To turn, to incline. 17211. T. n. 906.

WRIGHT, n. SAX. A workman. 616.

WRINE, for WRIEN, inf. m. of WRIE. R. 6684.

WRING, v. SAX. To squeeze so as to express moist ure. 1370G.

WRITHE, v. SAX. To twist, to turn aside. 3283. T. iv. 986.

WRITHING, n. A turning, 10441.

WRONGE, part. pa. of WRING. His hondes wronge. T. iv. 1171. Later writers have used the same expression of distress. I suppose it means to clasp the hands, and squeeze them strongly one against the other. I do not recollect a similar expression in any other language.

WROTE, v. SAX. To dig with the snout, as swine do. P. 150. Or like a worm, that wroteth in a tree. Lydg. Trag. 33.

288 GLOSSARY.

WROUGHT, part. pa. of WORKE, v. SAX. Made. 11184.

Y.

Y at the beginning of many words, especially verbs and participles, is merely a corruption of the Saxon Ee, which has remained uncorrupted in the other collateral branches of the Gothic language. What the power of it may have been originally, it is im possible, I apprehend, now to determine. In Chaucer it does not appear to have any effect upon the sense of a word ; so that there seems to be no necessity for inserting in a Glossary such words as yblessed, ygranted, &c. which differ not in signification from blessed, granted, &c. Some, however, of this sort are inserted, which may serve at least to shew more clearly the ex tent of this practice in Chaucer's time. Several other words are shortly explained under this let ter, of Which a more full explanation may be found under their respective second letters.

YA, adv. SAX. Yea. 3455. 823 1. It is used empha tically with both. 4827. Ya, bothe yonge and olde. 6832. Ye, bothe faire and good.

YAF,pa. t. of YEVE. v. SAX. Gave. 498. 1902.

YALTE for YELTE. R. 4904. Yalte him. Yieldeth himself. Se rend, Orig.

YARE, adj. SAX. Ready L W. 2258.

YATE, n. SAX. A gate. 8889.

GLOSSARY. 289

YAVE, pa. t. ofYEVE. Gave. 304. 602.

Y-BE, part. pa. Been. 10275.

Y-BERIED, part. pa. Buried. 948.

Y-BETE, 981. See the note, and R. 837.

Y-BLENT, part. pa. of BLEND. R. 1610. Blinded.

Y-BLENT, part, pa. of BLENCHE. 3751. Shrunk, started aside. See the note on ver. 1080.

Y-BLINT, part. pa.. 3806. Blinded.

Y-BORE, part. pa. of BERE. 380. Born, carried.

Y-BOURDED, part. pa. Jested. A F. 589.

Y-BRENT, part. pa. OI'BRENNE. 948. Burned.

Y-CHAPED, part. pa. 368. Furnished with chapes. From chappe. FR.

Y-CLOUTED, part. pa. R. 223. Wrapped in clouts, or rags.

Y-CORVEN, part. pa. 2015. Cut. See CORVEN.

Y-COUPLED, part. pa. 9095.

Y-CRASED, part. pa. Du. 324. Broken.

Y-DELED, part. pa. 7831. Distributed.

Y-DIGHT, part. pa. T. v. 541. Adorned.

Y-DO, part. pa. 2536. Done, finished.

Y-DRAWE, part. pa. 946. Drawn.

YE, adv. SAX. as YA. 9212. Ye wis. T. n. 887- Yea certainly.

YEDDIKGES, 237. See the note. The Prompt. Parv. makes Yedding to be the same as Geste, which it explains thus. GEEST OR ROMAWNCE. Gestio. So that of yeddinges may perhaps mean of story telling.

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GLOSSARY.

YEDE, part. pa. of YEDE, v. SAX. Went. 13249-

16609. YEFTE, n. SAX. A giftl 9185. YEFTES, pi. 2200.

9186. YELDE, v. SAX. To yield, to give. 6494. 8719. —

To pay. 5712. God yelde you ! 7759. God reward

you !

YELLEDEN, pa. t. p. of YELLE, v. SAX. 15395. YELPE, v. SAX. To prate, to boast. 2240. T. in.

308.

YELTE for YELDETH. T. i. 386. YEMAN, n. SAX. A servant of middling rank; abail-

lif. 6962- 6977.— THE KNIGHTES YEMAN. See

his CHARACTER, ver. 101 — 17. — THE CHANONES

YEMAN. See his PROLOGUE, ver. 16022 — 16187.

YEMEN, pi. 2511. 2730. See the n. on ver. 101. YEMANRIE, n. The rank of Yeoman. See the n.

on ver. 101. YERDE, n. SAX. A rod, or staff. 149. T. n. 154.

Under the yerde, 13027. See the note. YEREfor YERES, n. pi. SAX. Years. 4919. 11125. YERNE, adj. SAX. Brisk, eager, 3257- YERNE, adv. Briskly, eagerly. 6575. 12332. Early.

T. in. 337. As yerne. T. HI. 151. T. iv. 112.

Soon, immediately. YERNE, v. To desire, to seek eagerly. T. in. 152.

T. iv. 198. YERNING, n. Activity, diligence. R. 5951. Esveil.

Orig.

GLOSSARY. 291

YETEN, part. pa. R. 5702. Gotten.

YEVE, v. SAX. To give. 5O7. 613.

YEVEN, YEVE, part. pa. Given. 1088. 1091.

7135.

Y-FALLE, part, pa, 25. Fallen. Y-FEINED, part. pa. 8405. Lordes hestes may not

ben y-feined. The commands of sovereigns may

not be executed with a feigned, pretended zeal ;

they must be executed strictly and fully. Y-FETTE, part. pa. 1O488. Fetched. Y-FONDEN, part. pa. 10154. Y-FOSTERED, part. pa. 3944. Educated. Y-FRETEN, part. pa. L W. 1949. Devoured. Y-GETEN,par£.pa. 3564. Gotten. Y-GLOSED,/>ar£. pa. 16983. Flattered. Y-GLUED, part pa. 10496. Glewed; fastened with

glew.

Y-GO, part . pa. 288. Gone. Y-GRAVE,/>ar£. pa. 6078. Buried. Y-HALOWED, part. pa. L. W. 1869. Kept holy. Y-HERD, part. pa. 3736. Covered with hair. Y-HOLD, part. pa. 1309. L W. 1952. Beholden. Y-JAPED, part. pa. 17094. Tricked, deceived. Y-LESSED, part. pa. T. i. 1090. Relieved. See

LISSED. Y-LICHE, Y-LiKE,ad/. SAX. Resembling. 594. 1541.

Equal. 2736. Y-LICHE, Y-LIKE, adv. SAX. Equally, alike. 2528.

7796.

292 GLOSSARY.

Y-LIMED, part. pa. G516. Limed; caught, as with bird-lime.

Y-LOGGED, part. pa. 14997. Lodged.

Y-MASKED, part. pa. T. in. 1740. Mashed, or Meshed. Masche. BELG. Macula retis. Kilian.

Y-MEINT, part. pa. 2172. Mingled.

Y-MELL, prep. SAX. Among. 4169.

YMENEUS, pr. n. Hymenaeus, 9604.

YNOUGH,YNOW, adv. SAX. Enough. 11020. 13988.

YOLDEN, part. pa. of YELDE. Given. 3054. — Yielded. T. in. 1217.— Repaid. R. 4556.

YONGHEDE, n. SAX. Youth. R. 351.

YORE, adv. SAX. Of a long time. 4692. 7944. — A little hefore. 9990.— Yore agon. 13639. Long ago. In olde times yore. 9016. Of time yore. 11275.

YOVE, pa. t. of YEVE. C L. 688. Gave.

YOURE, pron. poss. SAX. is used for YOURES. 16*16. T. ii. 587. L W. 683. C L. 855.

YOURES, pron. poss. SAX. used generally, when the Noun, to which it belongs, is understood, or placed before it. 7495. 8379. 1O911. He was an oldfelaw of your es. 12606. He was an old com panion of yours, i. e. of, or among, your compani ons. See the Essay, &c. n. 29.

YOUTHEDE, n. SAX. Youth. R. 4931.

YOXE, v. SAX. To hickup. 4149. YYXYN. Sin- gultio. Prompt. Parv.

Y-PIKED, part. pa. 367. Picked, spruce.

GLOSSARY. 293

Y-QUEINT, part. pa. 3752. Quenched.

Y-BEIGHT, pa. t. F. in. 284. Reached.

Y-REKEN . 38SO. seems to be put for the old part. pr. Y-REKEND. Reeking.

YREN, re. SAX. Iron. 1996. 6488.

Y-RENT, part. pa. 5265. Torn.

Y-RONNE, Y-RONNEN, part. pa. 3891. 2695. Run.

Y-SATELED, part. pa. 10279. Settled, established.

YSE, n. SAX. ICE. F. m. 40.

Y-SERVED, part. pa. Treated. 965.

Y-SETTE, part. pa. 10487- Set, placed. Appointed. 1637.

Y-SHENT, part. pa. 6894. Damaged.

Y-SHOVE, part. pa. L W. 726. Pushed forwards

Y-SLAWE, part. pa. 945. 4904. Slain.

YSOPE, pr. n. M. 101 . So the name of the Fabulist was commonly written, notwithstanding the dis tinction pointed out by the following technical verse.

" Ysopus est herba, sed yEsopus dat bona verbal In this and many other passages, which are quoted from YEsop by writers of the middle ages, it is not easy to say what author they mean. The Greek collections of fables, which are now cur rent under the name of /Esop, were unknown, I apprehend, in this part of the world, at the time that Melibee was written. Phsedrus too had dis appeared. Avienus indeed was very generally read. He is quoted as jEsop by John of Salisbury, Polycrat. L. vii. Ut ^Esopo, vel Avieno, credos.

294 GLOSSARY.

But the name of jEsop was chiefly appropriated to the anonymous * author of 60 fables in Elegiac

* Several improbable conjectures, which have been made with respect to the real name and age of this writer, may be seen in the Menagiana, Vol. I. p. 172. and in Fabric. Bibl Lot. Vol. I. p. 376. Ed. Patav. In the edition of these fables in 1503, the com mentator (of no great authority, 1 confess,) mentions an opiniou of some people, that " Galterus Angelicus fecit hunc librum sub no mine Esopi." I suppose the person meant was Gualterus Anglicus, who had been tutor to William II. King of Sicily, arid was Archbi shop oi Palermo about the year 1170. I cannot believe that they were much older than his time ; and in the beginning of the next century they seem to be mentioned under the name of JEsopus, among the books commonly read in Schools, by Eberhardus Beth- uniensis in his Labyrinthus, Tract, in. de Versificatione. v. n. See Leyser, Hist. Poet. Med. JF.m. p. 826. About the middle of the same Century (the xiu) Vincent of Beanvais in his Speculum Histor. L. in. c. 2. gives an account of ^Esop, and a large speci men of his fables, " quas Romulus quidam de Greeco in Latinum transtulit, et ad f Hum suum Tyberinum dirigit." They are all, as I remember, in the printed .Romulus.

Soon after the invention of printing, that larger collection of the fables of ^Esop \vas made and published in Germany, which has been mentioned in Vol. iv. p. 303 It is divided into vi. books, to which is prefixed a life of ^Esop e Grtcco Latino, per Rimiciumfac- tu. The in. first are composed of the 60 Elegiac fables of the metrical ^Esopus, with a few trifling variations ; and to each of them is subjoined a fable on the same subject in prose from Romulus. Book iv. contains the remaining fables of Romulus in prose only. The v Book has not more than one or two fables which had ever appeared before under the name of ^Ksop. The rest are taken from the Gesta Romanorum, the Calilah u Damnah [See Vol. iv. p. 326. n. *. p. 331. n. $] and other obscurer authors. The vi and last Book contains 17 fables with the following title : Sequun- tur fabuUe nova: Esopi ex translatione Remicii. There has been a

GLOSSARY. 295

metre, which are printed in Nevelet's collection under the title of " Anonymi fabulce jEsopicce" I have seen an Edition of them in 1503, by Wynkyn de Worde, in which they are entitled simply " Esopi fabulee" The subjects are for the [most part plainly taken from Phaedrus ; but it may be doubted whether the author copied from the ori ginal work of Phsedrus, or from some version of it into Latin prose. Several versions of this kind are still extant in MS. One of very considerable antiquity has been published by Nilant, Lugd. Bat. 1709, under the title of Fabulce Antiques, to gether with another of a later date, which is pre-

great diversity of opinion among learned men concerning this Re- micius or Rimicius [See Pra?f. Nilant.], while some have confound ed him with the fictitious Romulus, and others have considered him as the Editor of this collection. I have no doubt that the person meant is that Rinucius, who translated the life of jEsop by Planu- des and 96 of his fables, from the Greek into Latin, about the mid dle of the xv Century. [See Fabric. Bibl. Med. ./Et. in v. RIMI CIUS. In his translation of the Epistles of Hippocrates, MS. Harl. 3527. lie is styled in one place Verdensis, and in another Castilionensis.] All the fables from Remicius which compose this vi Book, as well as the Lite of ^Esop, which is professedly taken from Rimicius, are to be found in this translation by Rinucius. There is an Edition of it printed at Milan about 1480; but it might very possibly have come into the hands of the German col lector in MS. some years sooner, as the first translations of Greek authors were eagerly sought after and circulated through Europe at that time, when very few persons were capable of reading the originals.

296 GLOSSARY.

tended to have been made from the Greek by an Emperour Romulus, for the use of his son Ti- berinus. They all shew evident marks of being derived from one common origin, like what has been observed of the several Greek collections of ^Esopean fables in prose [Dissert, de Babrio. Lond. 17/6.]; like them too they differ very much, one from another, in style, order of fables, and many little particulars ; and, what is most ma terial, each of them generally contains a few fa bles, either invented or stolen by its respective compiler, which are not to be found in the other collections ; so that it is often impracticable to verifie a quotation from jEsop in the writers of Chaucer's time, unless we happen to light upon the identical book of fables which the writer who quotes had before him.

I have printed in the Discourse, &c. n. 29. a fable of the Cock and the Fox, from the French Esope of Marie, which i s not to be found in any other collection that I have seen, and which, I suppose, furnished Chaucer with the subject of his Nonnes Preestes tale. In the same French ./Esop, and in a Latin MS. Bibl. Reg. 15 A. vn, there is a fable, which, I think, might have given the hint for Prior's Ladle. " A country fellow one day laid hold of a faery (un folet. FR.), who in order to be set at liberty, gave him three wishes. The man goes home, and gives two of them to his wife.

GLOSSARY. 297

Soon after, as they are dining upon a chine of mutton, the wife feels a longing for the marrow, and not being able to get at it, she wishes that her husband had an iron beak (long com li Wite- cocs. FR. long as the Woodcock) to extract this marrow for her. An excrescence being imme diately formed accordingly, the husband angrily wishes it off from his own face upon his wife's." — And here the story is unluckily defective in both copies ; but it is easy to suppose, that the third and last remaining wish was employed by the wife for her own relief.

A fable upon a similar idea, in French verse, may be seen in MS. Bodl. 1687 ; the same, as I apprehend, with one in the King's library at Paris [MS. n. 7989. fol. 189.], which is entitled " Les quatre souhaits Sainz Martin." See Fabliaux, &c. T. in. p. 311. The vanity of human wishes is there exposed with more pleasantry than in the story just cited, but, as it often happens, with much less decency.

Y-SOWE, part. pa. 5653. Sown.

Y-SPREINT, part. pa. 2171. Sprinkled.

Y-STICKED, part. pa. 1567. Sticked, thrust.

Y-STORVEN, part. pa. 2016. Dead.

Y-TAKE, part. pa. 3353. Taken.

Y-TEYED, part. pa. 459. Tied.

Y-TRESPASED, part. pa. M. 120. Trespassed.

Y-VANISHED, part. pa. 6578.

298 GLOSSARY.

YVEL, adj. SAX. Bad, unfortunate. 4172. 4182.

YVEL, adv. SAX. 111. 1129. 3? 15. YVOIBE, n. FR. Ivory. Du. 946. Y-WIMPLED, part. pa. Covered with a wimple. 472. Y-wis, adv. SAX. Certainly. 3277- 3705. Y-WRAKE, pa."t. T. v. 1467. Wreaked, revenged. Y-WRIE, part. pa. 2906. Covered.

Z.

ZEUXIS, pr. n. 11950. A Grecian painter.

WORDS AND PHRASES NOT UNDERSTOOD.

Afere. R. 4073. Agathon, pr. n. L W. 526. Blakeberied. 12340. Broken harm. 9299. Cankedort. T. n. 1752. Carrenare. Du. 1029. Consite. C D. 1238. Cost. 1480. Countour. 361. Cuppes. To turnen c. 3926. Cytherus, pr. n. F. in. 137- Douced. F. in. 131.

WORDS AND PHRASES NOT UNDERSTOOD. 299

Dulcarnon. T. in. 933, 5.

Durense. C D. 1199.

Eclympasteire, pr. n. Du. 167.

Farewell feldefare. R. 5510. T. in. 863.

Fortenid crese. R. 4875.

Frape. T. in. 411.

Gattothed. 470. 6185.

Gnoffe. 3188.

Hawebake. 4515.

Hermes Ballenus, pr. n. F. in. 183.

Hugest and Collo. T L. B. 11. p. 499.

Hyghen. F. in. 1062.

Jack of Dover. 4345.

Kirked. R. 3137-

Limote, pr. n. F. in. 184.

Louke. 4413.

Madrian. 13898.

Parodie. T. v. 1547.

Pavade. 3927.

Paysaunce. C D. 1673.

Pell. F. in. 220.

Popper. 3929.

Pouder marchant. 383.

Proserus, pr. n. F. in. 138.

Radevore, L W. 2341.

Raket, T. iv. 461.

Rewel bone. 13807.

Sered pokettes, or pottes. 16270.

Span-newe. T. in. 1671.

300 WORDS AND PHRASES NOT UNDERSTOOD.

Squaimous. 3337.

Temen. F. in. 654.

Tidife. 10962

Trippe. 7329.

Viretote. 3768.

Vitremite. 14378.

Vounde stone. R. 7113.

Wades bote. 929S.

Whipul-tree. 2925.

Winder, Wintred. R. 1018, 20.

Zansis, pr. n. T. iv. 414.

Zedeories, pr. n. T L. B. i. p/485 b.

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