Accord, n., harmony
According, part., punning, or in harmony
Adamant, n., a diamond
Addercop, n., a spider
Afeard, part., affrighted
Afore, prep., before
Almery, n., a cupboard, a buttery
Anon, adv., immediately
Apaid, v., served, repaid
Apaired, adj., injured, impaired
Areared, adj., upright
Assay, v., to try
Aught, n., anything
Avisement, n., forethought, counsel
Away with, v., to suffer
Awreak, v., revenge
Ayencoming, n., returning
Ayenge, prep., against
Ayenward, adv., vice versa
Bate, v., hawking, to flutter the wings as if preparing
for flight
Bays, n., the fruit of the laurel
Because, conj., in order that
Beclip, v., embrace, enfold
Behind forth, adv., from back to front
Behooteth, v., advises, gives
Behove, v., to be necessary
Bernacle, n., a bridle
Beshine, v., to illuminate
Bisse, n., a second
Blemish, v., shrink, blench
Blow, v., to obtain lead, etc., from ores in a furnace
Boisterous, boystous, adj., thick, strong, solid
Bourgeon, v., to bud, burst forth
Bray, v., to pound
Brock, n., a badger
Buck, v., to wash
Busily, adv., carefully
But, prep., except
Car, n., means or instrument
Carfle, v., to pound
Carrions, n., corpses
Cast, v., to intend
Chaffer, n., trade
Chine, n., chink, cleft
Clarity, n., clearness
Clepe, v., call
Cliff, n., shore
Clue, n., a clew or hank (of yarn)
Comfort, v., to strengthen
Common, v., to share one's food with others and ayenward
Conject, v., conjecture
Coverture, n., covering
Craftily, adv., skilfully
Culvour, n., pigeon
Curtel, n,, a kirtle, a short coat, a covering
Deadly, adv., mortal
Deeming, n., judgment, opinion
Default, n., deficiency
Depart, v., to separate, share out
Despiteously, adv., contemptuously
Detty, adj., generous
Disperple, v., to scatter, destroy
Do, done, v., to put, to don
Doomsman, n., judge
Draust, n., dross, impurity
Ear, v., to reap
Else, adv., otherwise
Enform, v., to make
Even tofore, adv., opposite to
Expert, adv., tried
Fare, v., to happen
Fear, v. a., to frighten
Fell, n., an undressed skin
Fen, n., clay
Fine, n., a boundary
Fleet, v., to float, to swim; cf. "to flit"
Flux, n., a flow, a catarrh
Fore, n., trail, spoor; cf. "foor"
Frot, v., to rub
Fumous, adj., vaporous, cloudy
Fumosity, n., vapour
Fundament, n., foundation
Gentle, adj., noble, high-minded
Gesses, n., jesses, cords for fastening the legs of a hawk
Gete, n., goats
Ghastful, adj., frightful
Gin, a., machine
Glad, v. a., to please
Glimy, adj., slimy
Gloss, n., the comment on Scripture, compiled in the ninth
century from the fathers
Glue, n.. any glutinous substance
Gnod, v., to rub?
Grieve, v., to hurt
Grutching, n., growling
Gutter, n., drop
Hale, v., to drag
Hap, n., chance
Hards, hirds, n., tow
Haught, part., hatched
Heckle, v., to straighten out lint by a coarse comb
Hele, v., to cover; cf., heling
Hight, v., is called
Hoar, adj., feathered
Hop, n., the seed case of the flaxplant
Horrible, adj., unpleasant to hear
Housebond, n., husband
Hovey, part., hovel, cottage
Hoving, part., staying
Infect, adj., spotted, injured
Intendment, n., understanding
Jape, v., to cry out
Kele, v., to cool
Kind, n., nature
Kindly, adj., natural; adv., naturally
Langhaldes, n., ropes connecting the fore and hind legs of a
horse or cow to stay it from jumping
Latten, n., a kind of brass
Lea, n., pasture land
Lesings, n., untruths
Let, v., to hinder
Lewd, adj., ignorant
Liefer, adv., rather
Likelihood, n., resemblance
Limb, n., an instrument; cf., "limb of the law"
Limbmeal, adv., limb by limb; cf., "piecemeal"
List, n., a limit, border
Lodesman, n., pilot
Lowte, v., to trumpet
Make, n., a mate
Manner, adj., manner of, kind of
Mawmet, n., an idol or toy
Mean, n., intermediary, means
Mean, v., to assert, consider
Medley, v., to mix
Meinie, n., domestics, household
Merry, adj., fortunate
Meselry, n., leprosy Mess,n., portion
Messager, n., messenger
Mete, v., measure, apportion
Mews, n., originally a place in which hawks were kept "mewed
up"
Mildness, n., generosity
Minish, v., to narrow
Mirror, n., seems to have been used only when the surface was
curved, the word "shewer" being used for a plane mirror
Mistake, v., to take wrongly
Namely, adj., especially
Nathless, con., nevertheless
Ne, con., nor
Needly, adj., necessarily
Nerve, n., sinew
Nesh, adj., soft
Nether, adj., lower
Nice, adj., silly, small, trifling
Nicely, adv., sillily
Nother, con., neither
Noyful, adj., noxious, hurtful
Noying, n., harm
Ordinate, adj., ordered, prescribed
Otherdeal, adv., otherwise
Overthwart, adj., crossed over on itself
Passing, adj., surpassing
Patent, n., a plate or paten (patine)
Pight, adj., put, pitched
Powder, n., dust of any kind
Pricket, n., a spike used for candlestick, hence a candle
Principles, n., indecomposable elements
Pure, v.a., to purify
Pursueth, v, suiteth?
Quicken, v.i., to come to life
Quiver, adj., nimble, active
Ramaious, adj., (hawking), slow
Ravish, v., to snatch
Reclaim, n., (hawking}, the calling back of a hawk
Refudation, n., a process in which vinegar is poured on lead,
distilled off, and again suffered to act on it
Relief, n., a dessert
Rese, v., to rush on anyone
Resolve, v., to loosen, weaken, to dissolve
Rheum, n., salt humour
Ribbed, adj., beaten with a "rib," in dressing flax
Ridge, n., the back bone
Riever, n., a violent, robber, a raider
Rivelled, adj., wrinkled
Rively, adv., wrinkled, shrunk
Rodded, adj., separated from tow—"redded"
Routs, n., crowds
Ruthful, adj., sorrowful
Sad, adj., steadfast, solid
Sanguine, adj., blood-like
Scarce, adj., sparing, avaricious
Seethe, v., to boil
Selde, adv., seldom
Sele, v., to cover
Shamefast, adj., shamefaced
Sheltrons, n., palisades
Shern, adj., shore
Shewer, n., a looking-glass
Shingle, n., in roofing, brushwood, or small boards
Shipbreach, n., shipwreck
Shore, adj., shorn (of the hair)
Shrewd, adj., bitter; cf., shrew
Silly, adj., blessed, hence innocent, hence
simple
Sinew, n., a nerve
Slubber, v., to do anything carelessly
Smirch, v., to soil
Sod, adj., stewed
Solar, n., an upper floor
Solemn, adj., celebrated, earnest
Somedeal, adv., somewhat
Sometime, adv., once
Sooth, n., truth
Spanells, n., ropes connecting the fore or hind feet of an
animal to impede its movements
Spousehood, n., marriage
Spousebreach, n., adultery
Spronge, adj., sprinkled
Stare, v., to stay
Startling, part., leaping and jumping
Stint, v., to stop
Stint, adj., stopped
Straight, adj., confined
Straited, adj., narrowed
Sty, v., to climb
Suspect, adj., in suspicion
Tatch, n., spot
Tatched, adj., spotted
Tewly, livid
Tilth, v., to cultivate
Tilth, n., tillage
Tofore, prep., before
Toll, v., to entice
Trow, v., to believe; cf., trust
Unmighty, adj., unable
Unneth, adv., hardly
Uplandish, adj., rustic
Utter, adj., outer
Very, adj., true
Wait, n., a guard
Wanhope, n., despair
Warily, adv., carefully
Ween, v., consider, think
Wem, n., blemish, fault
Wend, adj., wound up
Werish, adj., insipid
Whelk, n., a swelling
Whet, v., to sharpen
Whiche, n., a wicket-gate cf., "wych gate"
Wilful, adj., of set purpose
Wit, n., a sense; cf "out of his wits"
Witty, adj., sensibly
Wonder, adj., wondrous
Wonderly, adv., wondrously
Wood, adj., crazy, frantic
Woodness, n., madness
Woose, n., fluid
Worship, n., reverence, authority
Wosen, n., the arteries
Wot, v., knew
Wrang, adj., injured, wrung
Wreak, n., revenge
Wreck, v., to revenge
Wrecker, n., avenger
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