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.
GLOSSARY. 5
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.
6 GLOSSARY.
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.
GLOSSARY. 7
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.
10 GLOSSARY.
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.
12 GLOSSARY.
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.
GLOSSARY. ,13
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.
14 GLOSSARY.
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.
GLOSSARY. 15
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.
16 GLOSSARY.
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.
GLOSSARY. 17
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.
GLOSSARY. 21
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.
GLOSSARY. 2$
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-
GLOSSARY. 25
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.
GLOSSARY. 27
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
GLOSSARY. 29
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.
GLOSSARY. 31
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.
32 GLOSSARY.
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.
GLOSSARY. 33
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
34 GLOSSARY.
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.
GLOSSARY. 35
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
GLOSSARY. 37
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.
GLOSSARY. 39
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
40 GLOSSARY.
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
GLOSSARY. 41
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.
42 GLOSSARY.
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-
GLOSSARY. 43
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.
44 GLOSSARY.
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.
GLOSSARY. 45
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.
46 GLOSSARY.
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.
GLOSSARY. 47
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.
48 GLOSSARY.
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
GLOSSARY. 49
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
50 GLOSSARY.
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.
GLOSSARY. 51
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
52 GLOSSARY.
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.
GLOSSARY. 53
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-
4 GLOSSARY.
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.
GLOSSARY. 55
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,
56 GLOSSARY.
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.
GLOSSARY. 57
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.
58 GLOSSARY.
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.
GLOSSARY. 59
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.
6'0 GLOSSARY.
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.
GLOSSARY. 61
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.
02 GLOSSARY.
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.
GLOSSARY. 63
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.
64 GLOSSARY.
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.
GLOSSARY. 65
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-
VOL. v. F
66 GLOSSARY.
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.
GLOSSARY. 67
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
68 GLOSSARY.
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.
GLOSSARY. 69
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.
70 GLOSSARY.
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.
GLOSSARY. 71
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.
GLOSSARY. 73
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.
GLOSSARY. 75
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.
76 GLOSSARY.
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.
GLOSSARY. 77
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.
78 GLOSSARY.
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.
GLOSSARY. 79
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.
80 GLOSSARY.
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-
GLOSSARY. 81
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.
GLOSSARY. 83
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.
84 GLOSSARY.
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.
GLOSSARY. 85
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.
86 GLOSSARY.
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.
GLOSSARY. 87
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.
GLOSSARY. 89
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.
92 GLOSSARY.
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.
GLOSSARY. 93
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.
GLOSSARY. 95
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.
96 GLOSSARY.
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.
GLOSSARY. 97
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.
VOL. v. H
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
GLOSSARY. 101
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.
GLOSSARY. 103
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
GLOSSARY. 105
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.
GLOSSARY. 107
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.
GLOSSARY. 109
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 —
GLOSSARY. 113
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.
GLOSSARY. 115
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.
GLOSSARY. 117
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-
GLOSSARY. 119
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.
GLOSSARY. 121
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.
GLOSSARY. 123
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.
GLOSSARY. 125
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.
126 GLOSSARY.
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
GLOSSARY. 127
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.
GLOSSARY. 129
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.
GLOSSARY. 131
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.
GLOSSARY. 133
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-
GLOSSARY.
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
GLOSSARY 137
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.
GLOSSARY. 139
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.
14O GLOSSARY.
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.
142 GLOSSARY.
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.
GLOSSARY. 145
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,
148 GLOSSARY.
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.
GLOSSARY. 149
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.
GLOSSARY. 151
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.
152 GLOSSARY.
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-
GLOSSARY. 153
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
154 GLOSSARY.
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
GLOSSARY. 155
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
156 GLOSSARY.
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.
GLOSSARY. 157
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.
GLOSSARY. 159
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.
GLOSSARY. 161
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.
GLOSSARY. 163
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.
164 GLOSSARY.
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.
GLOSSARY 165
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.
GLOSSARY. 167
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.
168 GLOSSARY.
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.
GLOSSARY. 169
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
GLOSSARY. 171
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.
172 GLOSSARY.
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.
GLOSSARY. 173
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
GLOSSARY. 175
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.
176 GLOSSARY.
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.
GLOSSARY. 177
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.
VOL. V. N
1?8 GLOSSARY.
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-
GLOSSARY. 179
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-
GLOSSARY. 181
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.
182 GLOSSARY.
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.
GLOSSARY. 183
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.
GLOSSARY. 185
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
GLOSSARY. 187
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.
GLOSSARY. 189
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.
19O GLOSSARY.
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.
GLOSSARY. 191
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
GLOSSARY. 193
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.
VOL. V. O
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,
GLOSSARY. 197
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.
GLOSSARY. 201
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.
202 GLOSSARY.
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.
GLOSSARY 203
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.
GLOSSAKY. 205
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.
GLOSSARY. 207
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.
GLOSSARY. 209
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
GLOSSARY. 215
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-
GLOSSARY, 217
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 —
GLOSSARY. 219
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
GLOSSARY. 221
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.
GLOSSARY. 223
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.
224 GLOSSARY.
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
GLOSSARY. 225
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.
VOL. v. Q
226 GLOSSARY.
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 !
GLOSSARY. 227
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.
228 GLOSSARY.
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.
GLOSSARY. 229
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.
GLOSSARY. 231
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.
GLOSSARY. 233
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.
GLOSSARY 235
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
GLOSSARY. 237
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.
GLOSSARY. 239
— 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.
VOL. V. R
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
GLOSSARY. 243
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
GLOSSARY. 245
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.
GLOSSARY. 247
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.
GLOSSARY. 249
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-
GLOSSARY. 251
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.
GLOSSARY. 253
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-
GLOSSARY.
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
256 GLOSSARY.
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.
GLOSSARY. 2157
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.
GLOSSARY. 259
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-
GLOSSARY. 261
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.
262 GLOSSARY.
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.
GLOSSARY. 263
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.
GLOSSARY. 265
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.
GLOSSARY. 26
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.
VOL. v. u
290
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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