The references are to the sections and lines, as numbered. Besides the usual contractions, note that v. = verb in the infinitive mood, pr. s. = present tense, third person singular, unless 1 p. or 2 p. is added. Proper names are included in this index.

Able, adj. fit, suitable, 121/16.
Abrode, adv. abroad, 10/30.
Abused, pp. ill-suited, 151/13.
Accompte, s. account, inventory, 151/1; A-compte, account, 146/92.
A-cloyde, s. accloyed; a hurt caused by running a nail into a horse’s foot, 115/1. From O. F. cloyer, same as clouer, to nail.
Acre, s. acre, 12/4.
A-crosse, adv. on the cross, crosswise, 61/8.
Affreyd, s. a disease in horses caused by hard riding, 104/1. Cf. E. fray; and see frayer in Cotgrave.
After, prep. according to, 15/22, 121/12; close to, 25/22.
Aftermath, s. a second crop of grass, 70/32.
All-onely, adv. only, 37/23, 65/4. Cf. Lowl. Sc. al-anerly, only.
Almes, s. alms, 168/3.
Almes-dedes, s. alms-deeds, 168/1.
Al-onely, adv. alone, 141/9. See All-onely.
Ambrose, St., 156/23, 163/9, 167/11.
Amended, pp. mended, 141/32.
Amerced, pp. fined, 148/22.
An, num. adj. one, 133/11.
Anastasius, 164/14.
And, conj. if, 6/12, 24/21, 25/16, 68/62, 70/34, 142/7.
Anis, s. pl. awns, 34/25, 29.
Anna, Hannah, 165/53.
Apparell, s. apparel, 151/3.
Appeyre, v. injure, 18/31; appeyreth, pr. s. impairs, injures, 18/17.
Aray, s. array, 151/13.
Araye, imp. s. dress, 146/11.
A-slope, adv. slanting, 2/24.
Assaut, s. assault, 167/37.
At-after, prep. after, 22/10. (Not uncommon.) It occurs in Chaucer, C.T. 11531.
Athanasii, gen. s. of Athanasius, 161/4.
Attempte, v. to tempt, 167/4.
Atteynt, s. attaint, a disease caused by overstepping, 113/1. “Of an upper attaint, or nether attaint, or any hurt by over-reaching.”—G. Markham, Husbandry, b. i. c. 54.
Auctorytie, s. authority, 141/19; auctorytes, pl. powers, prol. 21.
Aue, Ave Maria, 166/12.
Augur, s. auger, tool for boring holes, 41/8; gen. augurs, i.e. made by an auger, 3/57.
Auoyde, v. depart, 167/36.
Austyn, St. Augustine, 156/19, 157/3, 158/1, 164/26, 168/25.
Auyse, pr. s. advise, 141/1.
Awry, adv. awry, 50/5.
Axil-pynnes, s. pl. axle-pins, 5/20.
Axiltre, s. axle-tree, 5/18.
Backe-syde, s. back side, back, 127/9.
Badger, s. badger, 71/7.
Bagges, s. pl. bags, 141/69.
Bakbandes, s. pl. back-bands for a horse in a cart, 5/28.
Baken, s. bacon, 121/18.
Balkes, s. pl. divisions of land (covered with grass) in an open field, 6/17.
Ball, s. a white streak, 73/1. See Bald in my Etym. Dict.
Band, s. band for barley, 28/8. See below.
Bandes, s. pl. bands, the bands that tie bundles of faggots together, 131/8.
Bargeins, s. pl. transactions, 36/20.
Barbes, s. pl. the barbles, small excrescences of flesh in a horse’s mouth, 82/1. See Lampas.
Baste, s. piece of bast, 138/30; bastes, pl. 136/22.
Bate, v. to lower, abate, 153/16.
Bauson, s. badger, 71/7.
Bayly, or Baylye, s. bailiff, 134/3, 141/57, 148/40.
Bayting. See note to sect. 8 (ch. 8, ll. 9 and 13); p. 131.
Beate, v. improve [not beat], 8/20. Lowl. Sc. beet, A. S. bÉtan, to better. “Beet-axe, the instrument used in beeting ground in denshering.”—Wright.
Beetle-browed, having projecting brows, note to 56/9; p. 139.
Begonne, prob. an error for be gone, i.e. are dropped, 18/10. See the note.
Begotten, pp. obtained, 169/30, 42.
Behouable, adj. fitting, 155/10.
Belte, v. to shear the buttocks and tails of sheep, 40/24. Burl is used in the same sense; see belt and burl in Old Country Words, ed. Britten, pp. 134, 136.
Belybandes, s. pl. belly-bands for a horse in a cart, 5/28.
Bende, adj. bent, 3/49; as s. bent piece, 4/33.
Bendfoder, s. fodder of straw and hay mingled, note to 6/27; p. 131.
Be-pysse hym-selfe, give out moisture, 25/27.
Bere-barleye, s. a kind of barley, 13/26. A reduplicated word. Bere is the same as bar- in bar-ley. A.S. bere, barley.
Bernard, St., 156/25, 164/10.
Best lykinge, adj. superl. goodliest, best in appearance, 48/13.
Besyde, prep. on the one side, sideways out of, 139/17.
Better, adj. compar. 5/12.
Beyked, pp. warmed, dried, 24/23. M.E. beken, answering to an A.S. form bÉcan* (not found), formed as a secondary verb, by vowel-change, from A.S. bÓc, pt. t. of bacan, to bake. So also lay from lie, set from sit, etc. See beken in Stratmann, who refers to Le Bone Florence, l. 99, Iwain and Gawain, l. 1459, O.E. Homilies, i. 269, and Test. of Creseyde, 26.
Beykyng, s. warming, drying, 24/12. See above.
Beytynge, pres. pt. feeding, lit. baiting, 22/12.
Bier, s. buyer, 134/30.
Bigge, adj. big, large (with reference to clods), 10/4.
Blacke-thorne, s. blackthorn, 124/14.
Blankettes, s. pl. blankets, 146/79.
Blend-corn, s. wheat mixed with rye, 34/19. (Blend = blended.)
Blesse, v. to bless, 146/2.
Blome, pr. pl. bloom, 24/16.
Bloude, s. blood, 145/8; also the name of a sickness among sheep, 48/2.
Bloud-yren, s. bleeding-iron, lancet, 58/29.
Blyssomme, v. to copulate, said of sheep, 37/14. A ewe is said to be blissom, i.e. blithe-some, eager. Cf. lissom = lithe-some.
Bobbed, pt. pl., struck, 166/29.
Bodkyn, s. bodkin, 142/6.
Boget, s. a budget, wallet, 142/1.
Boke, book, 3/2, etc.; bokes, pl. 142/4.
Bolles, s. pl. pods, 146/50. Lit. “swellings;” see below. Cf. Du. bol, swollen.
Bolne, v. to swell, 128/29; bolneth, pr. s. swells, 128/21. Cf. Swed. bulna, Dan. bulne, to swell.
Bolster, s. place of support, 4/51. The bed of a timber carriage is called a bolster (Wright).
Bord-clothes, s. pl. table-cloths, 146/45.
Borde, s. board, 122/27.
Bores, s. pl. boars, 121/9.
Bottelles, s. pl. bottles, 141/69.
Bottes, s. pl. bots, a kind of worms troublesome to horses, 102/1.
Bowes, s. pl. boughs, 122/21.
Bowes, s. pl. the bent pieces of wood (beneath the yoke) which pass round the necks of yoked oxen, 5/3. Usually called oxbows, as in Tusser.
Bracer, s. bracer, armour for the arms, 142/3. See Chaucer, C.T. 111.
Braked, pp. bruised in a brake or machine for crushing flax, 146/42.
Breade-come, s. corn to be ground to bread meal, for making brown bread, 20/16. See note to P. Plowman, C. ix. 61.
Breake thy faste, phr. breakfast, 149/8.
Breaketh, pr. s. breaks in, 120/3.
Brede, s. breadth, 110/3, 132/18. A.S. br?du.
Brekefaste, s. breakfast, 146/12.
Bren, v. burn, 27/10; brenne, 131/2.
Brode, adj. broad, 2/14.
Brodye, adj. ready to lay (as hens), lit. brood-y, 146/24.
Broken-wynded, s. a being broken in the wind (said of a horse), 85/1.
Brome, s. the plant broom, 44/4.
Brouse, s. small sprigs which the cattle eat, 132/3; and see notes to 38/3, 126/9. O. F. broust, a sprig.
Brouse, v. to browze, eat off, 131/3. Derived from the sb. above.
Broyse, imp. s. bruise, 59/12; broysed, pp. 6/30.
Brue, v. to brew, 146/15.
Brumentes, s. pl. inventories, 152/5. Roquefort gives: ‘Brevememt [obviously an error for Brevement], État de dÉpense, mÉmoire, agenda, bordereau.’ He also notes breumen, used for brevement, briefly. Hence brument is for brevement, i.e. short list, abstract.
Brused, pp. bruised, 129/4.
Bryckle, adj. brittle, 100/8.
Bryne, s. brine, 44/8.
Brynke, s. brink, brim, top, 148/3.
Bryse, imp. s. bruise, 129/3. See Broyse.
Buddes, s. pl. buds, shoots, 126/11.
Bukler, s. buckler, 142/3.
Bulder-stones, s. pl. smooth large round stones, 15/28.
Bull, s. harrow-bull, 15/9. See Harowe-bulles.
Bulleys, s. pl. bullaces, 136/4, 140/1.
Bunnes, s. pl. dry stalks, 70/9. “Bun, a dry stalk;” Wright. Cf. Gael. bun, a root, stock, stump; bunan, stubble.
Burges, pr. s. buds, burgeons, 135/8.
Burthen, s. crop, 12/21.
Bussheles, s. pl. bushels, 12/8.
Busshell-pokes, s. pl. bags or s acks holding a bushel, 141/69.
Bustardes, s. pl. bustards, 146/29.
But, prep. except, 122/1; but and, conj. if, 44/2.
By, v. buy, 56/5; bye, 148/36.
By and by, phr. exactly, distinctly, in order one after the other, 126/15; immediately, 42/8. See Wright’s Gloss.
Byd, v. to bid, invite, 152/18.
Byer, s. buyer, 118/6.
Bygge, s. bigg, the name of a kind of barley, 13/27. Bigg occurs as the name of a kind of barley A.D. 1474–5; see Rogers, Hist. Agric. vol. iii. Icel. bygg, Dan. byg, barley.
Byghte, s. (bight), bend, 132/6.
Byrdes, s. pl. birds, chickens, 146/30.
Caluary, Calvary, 166/32.
Cambrydge-shyre, 2/27.
Camborell, s. the hock of an animal, 107/3. Usually cambrel or gambrel.
Can, pr. s. knows, 52/7; pr. pl. 147/26.
Candell-lyghte, s. candle-light, 149/5.
Candelmas, s. the day of the purification of the Virgin, Feb. 2, 134/22.
Canker, cancer, a disease of horses, note to 83/1; p. 141.
Cannes, s. pl. cans, 141/68.
Capitayne, s. captain, 167/28.
Carte-ladder, s. a frame-work behind a cart, 5/27. See carte-ladders, 5/30.
Cart-sadel, s. the small saddle placed on a horse in the shafts, 5/27.
Caryage, s. traffic of carts, 128/12.
Caryen, s. carrion, 6/34, 58/10.
Casses, s. pl. the name of a kind of apple, 130/4. Roquefort gives casse, as meaning an oak. Cf. Low Lat. casnus, F. chÊne, an oak.
Caste, v. to swarm, as bees, 122/6; caste, pp. thrown over, as ploughed earth, 33/4.
Castynge, s. casting, 13/16. See 13/13.
Cattell, s. cattle, 37/2.
Cayphas, Caiphas, 166/27.
Chafed, pp. heated, over-ridden, 85/5.
Chafynge, pres. pt. growing warm, 88/2.
Chall-bones, s. pl. jawbones, 86/3.
Challes, s. pl. jaws, 75/3. Chall = jowl; see jowl in my Etym. Dict.
Champyon, s. flat, open, said of country, 66/15. (The same as champaign.) See Tusser’s Husbandry.
Chapmannes, s. gen. merchants, purchasers, 118/4.
Chapyter, s. chapter, 141/13; pl. chapyters, 141/3.
Charte, s. cart, 19/5.
Cheape, adj. cheap; better cheape, cheaper (where cheap was orig. a sb.), 146/2.
Currante, adj. running, moving, 128/4; sloping downwards, 128/8.
Customers, s. pl. customers, 119/13.
Damme, s. dam, mother (said of a mare), 68/75.
Dampsons, s. pl. damsons, 136/4, 140/1.
Darbyshyre, 17/21.
Darnolde, s. darnel, 20/4; dernolde, 20/21.
Dauyd, David, 156/34, 168/17.
Deceypt, s. deceit, 146/102.
Declared, pp. explained, 147/28.
Dee-nettylles, s. pl. purple dead-nettles, 20/47.
Defautes, s. pl. defects, faults, 141/54.
Departe, v. to part, separate, 145/15.
Dernolde, s. darnel, 20/21.
Detters, s. pl. debtors, 170/11.
Dettes, s. pl. debts, 170/10.
Deuyded, pp. divided, prol. 18, 11/15.
Dewbolne, s. a disease; lit. “swollen with dew,” 60/1. Bollen = swollen. “Dewboln, a swelling, beginning at the neather part of the dewlap;” G. Markham, Husbandry, c. 37 (bk. ii.).
Dewlappe, s. dewlap, 59/10.
Discretion, s. discernment, wisdom, 11/1; discreation, 146/122.
Displeasure, s. displeasure, offence, 153/22.
Disport, s. sport, 153/11.
Dockes, s. pl. docks, 20/3, 12.
Dodder, s. a kind of weed, 20/47. See Dict. of E. Plant-names, p. 154; and doder in Turner’s Names of Herbes.
Dogfenell, s. stinking chamomile, Anthemis Cotula, 20/4, 32. See Dict. of E. Plant-names.
Domynation, s. dominion, power, 54/22, 152/30.
Dongynge, s. manuring, 13/4.
Dounged, pp. manured, 13/2.
Dout, imp. s. doubt, 151/27.
Douues, s. pl. doves, 17/34.
Dowles, s. pl. tholes, pegs, 5/9. “Doul, a nail or pin sharpened at each end;” Wright. “Tholle, a cart-pynne;” Palsgrave.
Dradde, pp. dreaded, 167/8.
Drake, s. a kind of darnel, 20/17. Also called drawk (Wright); and see E. Plant-names, p. 159.
Draughte, s. a team of horse or oxen, 22/10; a manner of drawing, 15/22.
Dresse, v. to prepare, by cutting off all small twigs, 132/5.
Drone, s. a drone, 122/49.
Duetie, s. debt, 157/19.
Dunne, adj. dun, brown, 34/40.
Dychynge, s. ditching, 124/2.
Dysheryte, v. to disinherit, 153/24.
Dyssheborde, s. dish-board, dresser, 146/9.
Dystaffe, s. distaff, 146/46.
Ebbe, adj. shallow, 33/4.
Ecclesiastici, gen. s. of Ecclesiasticus, 169/35.
Eddered, pp. bound at the top of the stakes, 126/7. See yeather in Ray, Gloss. B. 15, p. 75.
Edderynge, s. the binding at the top of stakes used in making hedges, also called ether, 126/6; edderynges, pl. 126/14.
Eest, s. east, 133/20.
Effectually, adv. sincerely, 145/16.
Ellore, s. the elder tree, 126/2. Usually eller, which also means the alder; see E. Plant-names, p. 168.
Elne, s. an ell, 15/23.
Encreace, v. increase, 17/18.
Endent, v. indent, 23/15.
Endure, v. to last, 148/36.
Enfecte, adj. infected, 58/12.
Enforme, v. inform, 11/29, 155/8; enfourme, teach, tell, 134/26.
Englysshe, English, 166/8.
Ensample, s. example, 36/9.
Entente, s. purpose, 7/11.
Enterfyre, s. interference of the feet, the knocking of one foot against the other, 109/1. See the note. “Enterfayring is hewing one leg on another, and striking off the skin;” G. Markham, Husbandry, c. 58.
Ere, conj. before, 15/35; er, 36/2.
Eschewe, v. to eschew, 146/107.
Estate, s. state, condition, 70/28; estates, pl. wealthy persons, 153/9.
Euery, adj. every, 127/40.
Ewerie, s. ewery, place for pitchers, etc.; note to 140/8.
Exaltation of the holye crosse, i.e. Sept. 14, 37/16.
Expende, v. to spend, 147/13.
Extende, v. to extend, reach to, 147/14.
Eyen, s. pl. eyes, 48/6; eien, 48/8.
Faculty, s. ability, wealth, 147/18.
Facyons, s. pl. fashions, kinds, 2/3.
Faldynge, s. a kind of frieze, or rough cloth, 44/14. See Chaucer, C. T. 393.
Falowe, v. to plough, 16/3. See below.
Falowynge, s. ploughing land for the first time (for wheat), 4/42. See 16/3.
Fan, v. to winnow corn, 35/6; fande, pp. 35/10.
Farcyon, s. the farcy, a disease of horses, in which swellings appear on his body, 93/1. Cf. F. farcer, to stuff.
Faste, adv. very near, close, 25/32.
Fayne, adj. obliged, compelled, 151/14.
Feitergrasse, s. the name of a kind of grass (spelt fettergrass in ed. 1598), 59/11.
Felle, v. to fell, 131/1.
Felow, s. fellow, i.e. neighbouring furrow, 9/9.
Fellyes, s. pl. pieces of wood joined together to make the circle of a wheel, 5/9.
Felly-fole, s. filly-foal, filly, 68/52.
Female hempe, s. wild hemp, 146/57.
Fenbrede, s. mud-board, or mould-board, 3/4, 27. See note to 3/1. Fen = mud; as commonly in M. E.
Fence, v. to form a fence, 125/5.
Fenel-sedes, s. pl. fennel seeds, 20/18.
Ferny, adj. covered with ferns, 50/10.
Ferre, adv. far, 48/11, 150/6, 164/8.
Ferthermore, adv. furthermore, besides, 151/17.
Fetelockes, s. pl. fetlocks, 99/3.
Fette, pt. s. brought, 166/34.
Fettred, pp. fastened together, bound, 5/10.
Filberdes, s. pl. filberts, 136/3.
Flaine, pp. flayed, 58/21. See Fley.
Flanke, s. flank, 85/4.
Flasshes, s. pl. marshy places, 70/8. The usual sense is “pool.”
Flaxen wheate, s. flaxen wheat, a kind of wheat, 34/23, 25.
Flayle, s. flail, 5/33.
Fley, imp. s. flay, 38/11; spelt flee, 58/8.
Flokes, s. pl. flukes, 56/16.
Floures, s. pl. flowers, 156/6.
Flyntered, pp. said of “small corn wrinkled and dried,” 34/43. Cf. flinders, fragments; and cf. splintered.
Flytte, imp. s. remove, 148/15; flyte, v. 18/3; flytteth, pr. s. 18/28. Lit. “flit.”
Fodered, pp. foddered, fed, 70/40.
Folden, pp. folded, 52/6.
Foled, pp. foaled, 118/10.
Foole, s. foal, 68/7, 11; fools, pl. 56/4.
Fooled, pp. foaled, 68/13.
Foolynge-tyme, s. foaling time, 68/40.
For, prep. against, to prevent, 18/33, 32/8, 35/8, 44/15, 51/9, 52/1, 70/46, 139/19. (Observe this use.)
For nothynge, phr. on no account, 124/14, 138/10.
Forecroppe, s. fore-crop, a part of a cow or bullock, 57/2. I learn that the fore-crop is the upper part of the fore quarter of an ox, and lies between the neck and the sirloin. “... it shews he is wel tallowed, and so doth the crop behind the shoulders;” Markham, Husbandry, Of Oxen.
Fore-wedge, s. fore-wedge (before the coulter), 4/23.
Forowe, s. a furrow, 4/6.
Forther, adj. front, foremost, 92/2. “Forther-fete, the forefeet;” Wright.
Fortune, v. to chance, happen, 3/1, 120/17, 124/38, 153/24.
Fote, plough-foot, 4/12. See Plough-fote.
Fote-teame, s. (apparently) the end of the drawing-gear which is fastened to a plough or harrow, 4/37, 15/12. See Wrethyng-temes.
Foughten, pp. fought, 169/11.
Foule, s. an ulcer in a cow’s foot, 64/1.
Freeholders, s. pl. freeholders, 130/22.
Freteth, pr. s. eats away, 20/7.
Fretter, s. a corrosive, 43/5.
Fullymartes, s. pl. polecats, 146/31. M.E. fulmart.
Fyfte, adj. num. fifth, 75/3.
Fylberdes, s. pl. filberts, 140/4.
Fyled, pp. defiled, dirtied, 41/1, 45/4.
Fyllettes, s. pl. fillets, 76/6. “Filet, the fillet of a beast;” Cotgrave. “Fillets, in a horse, are the foreparts of the shoulder next the breast;” Bailey’s Dict. vol. i. ed. 1735.
Fynde, v. to provide with, furnish, 153/20.
Fyre-wodde, s. fire-wood, 132/2.
Fysking, s. fidgeting, roaming about, 45/2. See examples in my note to P . Plowman, C. 10/153.
Fytches, s. pl. vetches, 20/40, 70/8.
Garches, s. pl. an error for garthes, i.e. hoops, 134/7. See Garthe-webbe.
Garniter, the officer who had care of the granary, note to 140/8.
Garthe-webbe, s. webbing for a girth, 10/23. “Garth, a hoop or band;” Wright. See Garches. A girth-web is mentioned A.D. 1502; see Rogers, Hist. Agric. vol. iii.
Geare, s. gear, implements, 5/2; gere, 142/7.
Geld, pr. pl. cut too high (said of beans), 29/9.
Gelly, s. jelly, 44/7.
Gete, pp. gotten, taken up, 129/11; gette, gotten from, taken from, 137/7. A.S. geten, pp.
Gethereth, pr. s. gathers, 28/5.
Gise, s. guise, fashion, way, 35/8.
Glaunder, s. glander, usually in the plural, 87/2. See below.
Glaunders, s. glanders, a disease in the glands, 86/1.
Gleyd, s. kite, 146/31. A S. glida.
Glose, s. gloss, comment, 168/34.
Glotony, s. gluttony, 152/23.
Gloues, s. pl. gloves, 142/3.
Gnappe, v. to bite slightly; gnappe of, rub off with their teeth (said of horses), 93/6. The same as kneppe, to bite slightly, in Best’s Rural Economy in Yorkshire (Surtees Society); mod. E. nip.
Golds, s. pl. corn marigold, 20/25; gouldes, 20/4. See Ray, Gloss. B. 16, p. 83; Tusser, note to 39/21.
Gore, v. to gore, 70/43.
Gostely, adj. spiritual, 167/38.
Goten, pp. gotten, 154/9.
Gouldes, s. pl. corn marigolds, 20/4; golds, 20/25.
Goute, s. gout, 65/1.
Gowty, adj. gouty, 56/6.
Goyng vppon, walking about upon the ground, 18/23.
Graffe, v. to graft, 136/6.
Graffe, s. a graft, slip, 136/17.
Graffynge-sawe, saw for grafting, 136/7.
Grammer-schole, s. grammar-school, 147/11.
Grasier, s. grazier, 40/1.
Grauelynge, s. graveling, caused by gravel in a horse’s foot, 114/1.
Grayned, pp. forked at the top, 41/9. “Grain, a prong of a fork;” Wright. (Common). “Grain-staff, a quarter-staff with a pair of short tines at the end, which they call grains;” Ray, Gloss. B. 16, p. 84.
Greatte; a greatte, by wholesale, 134/18.
Gregorye, St. Gregory, 162/12; Gregory, 155/24, 161/15, 165/26, 167/6.
Grese, v. to grease, 148/1.
Hyer, higher, prol. 33.
Hynder, adj. latter, 148/11.
Iagged, adj. jagged, 20/26.
James, St., 169/12.
Ielly, s. jelly, 58/23.
Ieoperdy, s. jeopardy, peril, 5/13, 139/2.
Iherome, St. Jerome, 155/1, 161/20; Jerome, 168/7.
In lyke, alike, 25/6.
In regarde, phr. for his part, lit. according to his estimation, 153/6.
Inam, applied to wheat, note to 9/13. Cf. “Innom barley, barley sown the second crop after the ground is fallowed; North.”—Ray, Gloss. B. 15, p. 50.
Infecte, infected, 164/29.
Infydeles, s. pl. infidels, 166/45.
Inke, s. ink, 142/4.
Intend, pr. pl. intend, 148/1.
Inuentorys, s. pl. inventories, 151/2.
Iob, Job, 156/7.
Iohan, John, 165/34.
Isodorus, St. Isidore, 164/18; 165/37, 49; 169/33; Isodore, 165/29.
Judas, 166/25.
Iudges, s. pl. castles (in chess), prol. 20.
Kedlokes, s. pl. charlock, Sinapis arvensis, 10/13, 20/3, 9. Also called cadlock, cadlick, chadlock, chedlock, carlock, charlock, callock, etc.
Kelles, s. pl. cases of maggots, 18/10; gossamer-threads, 54/22. “Kells, cones of silkworms; kell, a film over the eyes;” Wright. The usual sense is ‘caul.’
Kente, Kent, 2/15.
Kerchef, s. kerchief, handkerchief, 142/1.
Keys, s. pl. part of a cart, 5/22.
Knolles, s. pl. knolls, mounds, lumps, 128/29.
Knowen, pp. known, 8/2.
Knyfe, s. knife, 142/6.
Knytte, pp. joined together as a swarm of bees, 122/9, 22; knytte, v. to join, 122/10.
Kydde, v. to bind up faggots in bundles, 131/7, 132/7. See below.
Kyddes, s. pl. faggots, 5/29. “Kydde, a fagotte;” Palsgrave.
Kyd-wodde, s. faggot-wood, 134/20.
Kye, s. pl. cows, 56/7, 146/10. A. S. cÝ, pl. of cÚ.
Kylde, pp. killed, 103/6.
Kynde, s. nature, 128/23.
Kyrfe, s. incision, 136/10. “Kerf, an incision;” Wright. Derived from A.S. ceorfan, to carve, to cut. Spelt kerfe in Ray, Gloss. B. 16, p. 85.
Kyrtels, s. pl. kirtles, skirts, 151/16.
Lampas, s. an excrescence of flesh above the teeth in horses, which often prevents their eating, 81/1. “Hava de bestias, the lampas, a disease in the mouth of beasts, when such long barbles grow in their mouthes, that they cannot well feed;” Minsheu, Spanish Dict.
Landes, s. pl. 5/4. Evidently some part of the gear for ploughing, but I can find no such word. Perhaps an error for bandes, i.e. bands. Mr. Peacock, in his Glossary of Manley Words, has—“Lanes, Lains, an iron ring at the end of the beam of a plough to which the horses are yoked.” Perhaps this is it.
Landes, s. gen. field’s, 2/17; landes, s. pl. ridges, 13/7.
Lankesshyre, Lancashire, 2/26.
Lanses, s. pl. shoots, 138/1.
Lathe-legged, pp. slender-legged, 78/4.
Lathes, s. pl. laths, 15/9.
Laude, s. praise, 163/1, 167/17.
Lazare, Lazarus, 166/22.
Ledde, pp. carried, 28/12.
Ledder, s. leather, 10/23.
Lees, s. pl. leas, pastures, 148/18.
Leisshe, s. leash, 142/3.
Lene, v. to lean, 124/35.
Lenger, adj. compar. longer, 3/38, 3/55, 70/13; adv. 67/4, 128/32.
Lente-corne, s. Lent corn, spring corn, 148/7.
Let hym blode, bleed him, 48/7.
Let, v. hinder, 24/19: lette, pr. pl. 82/2, 164/1.
Lette, s. hindrance, 135/6.
Leue, v. leave off, 41/15.
Leue, s. leave, 143/7.
Leuse, v. to loosen, 126/16, 129/10.
Ley, v. to lay, lay eggs, 146/23.
Leycestershyre, 2/26.
Leye-hey, s. meadow hay, 25/34.
Leys, s. pl. pasture-grounds, 6/17, 8/5.
Leysshe, s. leash, 10/25.
Like, pr. pl. thrive, 53/9.
Linsede, s. linseed, 146/53.
Lockes, s. pl. pieces torn off a fleece, 146/79.
Lode, v. load, carry, 32/2.
Lodynge, s. loading, 22/11.
Loken, pp. locked or closed up, 146/53. See note.
Lollers, s. pl. lollards, 166/45.
Long-eare, s. long-ear, a kind of barley, 13/22.
Longe-rained, pp. long in the reins, 78/2.
Longe-soughte, s. lung disease, 59/2. A.S. suht, disease (Grein).
Loode, v. to carte, 146/87.
Loppe, v. to lop, 132/1.
Lose, adj. loose, 27/4.
Louyngely, adv. lovingly, kindly, 152/16.
Lowe-brawned, pp. strong in the lower muscles, 75/2.
Lower, adj. compar. lower, 125/5.
Lowsy, adj. full of lice, 117/1.
Luke-warme, adj. lukewarm, tepid, 44/12.
Lye, s. urine, note to 44/8. Cf. 1 Hen. IV. ii. 1. 23. O.F. lie, lees.
Lyfte, adj. left, 28/4.
Lyke, v. to thrive, 57/10, 123/14, 140/8.
Lyncoln, 2/27.
Lyne, s. measuring line, 124/28.
Lyngel, s. a shoemaker’s thread, 142/6. “Lyngell, that souters sowe with, lignier;” Palsgrave.
Lyn-pinnes, s. pl. linch-pins, 5/19. See Linchpin in my Etym. Dict.
Lytter, s. litter, straw for a horse’s bed, 100/3.
Lyuer, s. liver, 55/15.
Malander, s. a sore place on the inside of the fore-leg of a horse, 94/1. “Malandres, the malanders, a horses disease;” Cotgrave. “Malendre,” the same.
Male, s. bag, pack, portmanteau, 142/2.
Mall, s. a mallet or club, 126/14; malles, pl. 15/46.
Mallet, s. mallet, wooden hammer, 136/15.
Malte, s. malt, 146/14.
Mane, s. a piece of grass left unmown, 23/17.
Maple, s. maple, 126/3.
Marke, St. Mark, 170/3.
Marle, s. rich earth used as manure, 2/6; a blue marble-like earth, note to 16/29–35.
Marley, s. marl, 138/26. See above.
Marre, v. mar, spoil, 70/50.
Marreis, adj. marsh, 5/15; marreys, 124/20.
Marreys, s. marsh, 54/13.
Martok, Martock (Somersetshire), 27/17.
Martilmas, Martinmas, St. Martin’s day, Nov. 11, 134/21.
Mathes, s. pl. maggots, 18/8, 45/1. “Cimex, maÐu;” Wright’s Vocab. i. 24.
Mathes, s. pl. stinking chamomile, corn chamomile, Anthemis Cotula, 20/4. Called stynkynge maydweede in Turner’s Names of Herbes.
Matter, s. pus in a sore, 87/3.
Mattockes, s. pl. mattocks, tools to dig up roots and weeds, 8/20. See Beate.
Mawe, s. the stomach, 102/2.
May, pr. s. can, is able, 66/20.
Mayn whyte, principally white, 68/70.
Meane, adj. middling, ordinary, 2/6, 124/19; neither very moist nor very dry, 70/27.
Meane, s. means, way, 166, rubric; 167, rubric.
Measure, s. measure, moderation, 147/10.
Meete, imp. s. measure, 146/16.
Medle, v. to mix, 17/16; medled, pp. 2/6, 34/21, 43/1.
Melch kye, s. pl. milch cows, 70/21.
Mete, adj. even, 138/23.
Metelye, adv. meetly, 12/7.
Middes, s. midst, 48/7.
Mo, adj. compar. more (in number), 58/34; 141/50. A.S. mÁ. See Moo.
Moche, adj. large, 47/3, 15.
Moderate, v. lessen, 44/26.
Molde, s. mould, 9/6; moldes, pl. pieces of earth, 45/7.
Molten, pp. melted, 43/4, 45/7.
Moneth, s. month, 93/8.
Moo, adj. compar. more (in number), 40/8, 121/20. See Mo.
Moralytes, s. pl. moral principles, prol. 15.
More, adj. compar. greater, 127/4.
More harder, adj. compar. harder, 137/13.
More hyer, adj. compar. higher, 67/3.
Morfounde, s. a disease in a horse’s feet, occasioned by its taking cold, 10 0/1. “Se morfondre, to take cold, catch cold;” Cotgrave.
Morteys, s. mortise, 3/13, 20, 39. (It is a hole in a piece of wood made to receive something that can be tightly wedged up in it.)
Mosse, s. moss, 131/3.
Mouldywarpe-hilles, s. pl. mole-hills, 23/20.
Mountenance, s. amount, 58/31.
Mournynge, s. a disease appearing either in the tongue or back of a horse, apparently cancer, 83/1, 87/1, 119/4. See mourrues, mourue in Cotgrave.
Mowen, adj. mown, 70/32.
Mowes, s. pl. stacks, heaps, 32/3.
Mucke, s. manure, 17/2.
Mucke, v. to manure, 17/5.
Muck-wayne, s. manure-cart, 146/86.
Muldes, s. pl. pieces of mould or earth, 41/3, 45/8, 124/23.
Murren, s. murrain, 57/13.
Murtheryng, s. murdering, killing, 51/6.
Musell, s. muzzle, note to 39/9.
Myldewe-grass, s. mildew-grass, 54/17.
Myldewes, s. pl. mildews, 44/24.
Myllettes, s. pl. a disease behind the fetlocks of horses, 110/1.
Mynystratours, s. pl. ministers, 165/5.
Nache, s. the point of the rump, 57/3. See Old Country Words, ed. Britten, p. 105. “A big nach, round and knotty,” said of an ox; G. Markham, Husbandry, Of Oxen.
Narowe, adj. narrow, close, difficult, 4/26.
Nathes, s. pl. naves of a wheel, 5/9.
Nauyll, s. navel, 57/6.
Nauylgall, s. navel-gall, described as a kind of sore on a horse’s back, 105/1.
Necessaryest, adj. superl. most necessary, 1/4. (Used with most preceding).
Nede, s. need, necessity, 44/16.
Nedle, s. needle, 142/5.
Nether, adj. compar. lower, 5/22, 31/7.
Norfolke, 2/27.
Nose-thrilles, s. pl. nostrils, 84/2; nosethrylles, 75/3; sing. nosethryll, 85/3.
Nother, for other; an nother, another, 2/19.
Nourysshe, v. nourish, 130/24.
Nowe-a-dayes, adv. nowadays, 153/5.
Nycked, pp. notched, 21/4.
Nyckes, s. pl. notches, 4/38, 122/41.
Occupy, v. use, 1/5; occupie, 148/10; occupied, pp. used, 15/36.
Of, adv. off, away from it, 136/12; off, 5/2; ploughe-yrons, pl. 2/19.
Plowe, v. plough, 6/14.
Plowes, s. pl. ploughs, 2/1.
Plummes, s. pl. plums, 136/4, 140/1.
Plyenge, pres. pt. bending, 24/14.
Pockes, s. pl. pocks, pustules, a disease in sheep, 49/1.
Pole, 12/5. See Perche.
Polerd wheat, s. coarse wheat, pollard wheat, 34/23. So called because it has no awns: to poll is to clip, etc. See Pollard.
Poleyn, s. pl. poultry, fowls, 146/21.
Pollard, short-horned, said of a ram, note to 37/6. See Polerd.
Pommes, pumice, 142/4; pomis, 100/6.
Ponch, s. punch, 139/9.
Pondre, v. to ponder, consider, 153/28.
Poores, s. pl. pores, 70/26.
Popeler, s. poplar, 130/5.
Potte, s. pot; good for the potte, good for boiling, 146/35.
Pottell, s. a pottle, two quarts, 44/8.
Potycarye, s. an apothecary, 120/8.
Pouertee, s. poverty, 147/15.
Pourpose, v. purpose, intend, 27/19.
Poynte, s. a tagged lace, 142/5.
Practyue, s. practice, 4/29; practiue, 141/21.
Predication, s. preaching, 154/19.
Prefixe, v. to fix beforehand, 157/7.
Processe, s. relation, story, tale, 2/29, 120/13; in processe, in course of time, 127/8.
Profe, s. proof, 161/24.
Proferre, v. to put into, insert, 138/13.
Profytablest, adj. superl. most profitable, 37/5.
Promesse, s. promise, 157/16, 21.
Propertie, s. method, 12/17.
Prouander, s. provender, 23/11.
Proued, pp. tried, 141/22, 23.
Prycke-eared, pp. with sharply pointed erect ears, 77/1. Cf. the phr. ‘to prick up one’s ears.’
Pulled, pp. gathered, 146/41.
Pursy, s. short-windedness (in a horse), 84/1. See Pursy in my Etym. Dict.
Pursynes, s. short-windedness, 87/4.
Put, v. push, 70/42.
Pygges, s. pl. pigs, 146/89.
Pyke, v. pick, 35/3.
Pykforke, s. pitchfork, 5/6, 25/4.
Pyl, v. to peel, 134/23; imp. s. 134/11. See Pill.
Pylate, Pilate, 166/26.
Pyllynge, s. strip of bark, 136/22.
Pymples, s. pl. pimples, 49/2, 93/3.
Pyn-awgur, s. a boring-tool for making holes for pins or pegs, probably a gimlet as distinguished from a rest-awgur, 5/32.
Pynder, s. the petty officer of a manor, whose duty it was to impound all strange cattle straying on the common, 148/25, 39.
Pynfolde, s. pound, 148/26.
Pynte, s. pint, 58/31.
Pypes, s. pl. hollow stalks, 70/9.
Pyrre-stocke, s. a pear-stock, 137/10.
Pysell, s. pizzle, 56/7.
Pytchers, s. pl. pitchers, 141/68.
Quicke, adj. alive; waxe quicke, become alive, 91/5.
Quikens, s. pl. live things, 55/16.
Quiteth, pr. s. requites, repays, 14/13.
Quyche, s. couch-grass, 14/17.
Quyche-hey, s. hay of couch-grass, 25/21.
Quycke, adj. alive, 102/4.
Quycke, s. quicke, sensitive part, 115/2.
Quycke-sande, s. quicksand, 128/24.
Quyckeset, v. make quickset hedges, 123/8.
Quycksettes, s. pl. quickset hedges, 124/3.
Rache, s. a streak or mark on a horse’s forehead (misprinted rathe in ed. 1534), 68/64. See the spelling ratch in the note to the line. ‘Raitch, a white line in a horse’s face; Yorksh.’—Wright. See Rase.
Radel-marke, s. a mark made on sheep with ruddle, or red ochre, 52/5.
Raine, s. gutter, water-course, furrow between ridges, 13/7; rayne, 7/20. See Rean in Wright, and below.
Ranke, adj. rank, strong, 10/10, 12/20; fertile, 17/29.
Ranknes, s. abundance, repletion, 101/1.
Rapes, s. pl. turnips, 20/9. O. F. rabe, rave, ‘a rape or turnep’; Cotgrave.
Rase, s. streak, mark, 73/1. See Rache.
Ratch. See Rache.
Rate, s. rate, 121/12.
Rathe, s. an error, (in ed. 1534) for rache, 68/64. See Rache.
Rather, adv. compar. sooner, quicker, easier, 46/3, 66/22, 133/5.
Rathes, s. pl. frames of wood placed on a cart to make it broader, for carrying hay, 5/22. (Also called raves.)
Raunsome, s. ransom, 148/28.
Raye, pr. s. subj. have diarrhoea, 41/1. “I beray, I fyle ones clothes with spottes of myer, properly aboute the skyrtes, ie crotte;” Palsgrave.
Rayment, s. raiment, apparel, 151/9.
Rayne, furrow, 7/20. See Raine.
Reane, s. gutter; furrow between the ridges of ploughed land to take off the water, 21/15; 33/6, 8, 10. See Raine.
Recheles, adj. reckless, 7/8.
Red wheate, a kind of wheat, 34/35.
Rede, s. reed, 27/21.
Reduce, v. bring back, turn, 7/15.
Redy, adj. dressed, 146/8. See note.
Reed, pp. shaken in a sieve, so that the chaff collects to one place, 36/3. “Ree, to pass corn through a sieve for the purpose of cleaning it from chaff;” Wright. See E.D.S. Gloss. B. 16, p. 89.
Reed, adj. red, 49/1, 55/2, 102/3.
Reedwaxe, s. red wax, sealing-wax, 142/4.
Regum primo, in the first Book of Kings (Samuel), 165/52.
Reke, s. rick, 29/13, 32/5. A.S. hreÁc.
Relent, v. to melt, 44/16.
Remytte, v. to leave, 7/14; pr. s. 1 p. I pass over, prol. 27. See note.
Ren ryot, phr. to run riot, 148/38.
Renne, v. to run, 138/20; renneth, pr. s. runs, 54/11; rennynge, pres. pt. running, 44/6.
Rennynge, s. running, 85/2.
Reparation, s. repair, 5/8.
Repes, s. pl. handfuls (of corn, also of beans, etc.), 29/4, 7. “Repe, a handful of corn;” Wright. Allied to E. reap.
Repeyled, pp. rippled, 146/41.
Reproued, pp. reprobate, 144/8.
Rere, v. rear, rise, 16/6.
Reson, s. reason; of reson, of course, 12/33.
Rest, s. a plough-rest, 3/4, 22. See note to 3/1.
Rest-awgur, s. perhaps a boring-tool, the head of which rests against a support (?), 5/33. Or, more likely, for wrest-augur, one which resembles a centre-bit, and is wrested round (?).
Rest-balke, pr. s. subj. 2 p. make a rest-balk, 16/31. See below.
Reste-balkes, s. pl. ridges of land between furrows, 4/4.
Retayle, imp. s. sell by retail, 134/1.
Rideled, pp. sifted, 146/51.
Ridge-bone, s. back-bone, 60/12.
Ripeled, pp. rippled, stripped, 146/51.
Role, v. roll, 15/50.
Ronges, s. pl. steps of ladders, rungs, 134/10.
Ronne, v. to run, 41/14. (Perhaps a misprint for renne, q.v.)
Rote, s. root, 127/7; rotes, pl. 91/5, 129/10.
Rounde, adj. in a rounded form, 33/16.
Rowme, s. room, 26/8, 131/10.
Ruddiest, a better reading for rudeste; see note to 34/38. See Rudeste.
Ruddyer, adj. compar. redder, 48/11.
Rudeste, adj. sup. ruddiest, reddest, 34/38. See Ruddiest.
Rut, s. rutting, 37/17.
Ry, s. rye, 8/14.
Rychesse, s. riches, 156/1.
Rydge, s. ridge, 7/20. See Rygge.
Rygge, s. ridge; holowe rygge, the hollow between two ridges, 17/11.
Rygge, v. ridge, 9/7; rygged, pp. ridged, in ridges, 13/2.
Ryggynge, s. edging, 13/3.
Ryghtuousenes, s. justice, 157/36.
Ryghtwysly, adv. righteously, 156/32.
Ryngbone, s. a disease on a horse’s foot, above the hoof, 98/1.
Rysen-vppon, s. a disease; lit. ‘risen upon,’ swollen up, 61/1.
Ryppon, Ripon, 17/22, 79/11.
Sacke, s. sack, 10/26.
Sadelclothe, s. saddlecloth, 142/2.
Sacrament, s. sacrament, 145/7.
Salesman, s. seller, 134/29.
Salomon, Solomon, 157/8, 169/14, 31.
Salue, v. salve, anoint, 18/35.
Sandiuer, s. scoria of glass, note to 46/3. “Suin de verre, sandever, the fatty substance floating on glasse when it is red-hot in the furnace, and which being cold is as hard as stone, yet brittle and easily broken;” Cotgrave.
Sandy, adj. sandy (said of colour), 68/74.
Sappe- tyme, s. sap-time, 133/22.
Sauegarde, s. safeguard, 18/32, 123/37; saue-garde, 35/8.
Scab, s. sore place, sore, 42/5; scabbe (in horses), 116/2.
Scabbed, afflicted with scab, 18/8, 42/1.
Scaffolde, s. support of a rick, to keep it off the ground, 32/6.
Scape, 2 pr. s. subj. escape, 148/43.
Scarce, adj. sparing, stingy, 150/2.
Scaresdale, Scardale, a hundred of Derbyshire, 17/21.
Sclatte, s. slate, 122/38.
Scote, s. privy part of a colt, 101/2. See colt-evil, explained in Markham’s Husbandry, b. i. c. 32. Cf. sheath in Wright.
Scyences, s. pl. scions, suckers, 140/2. “Sciens of cherry-trees;” W. Lawson, Orchard and Garden, 1648, p. 122. See note.
Seame, used as equivalent to a quarter (of beans), note to 12/13.
Sede-forowe, s. seed-furrow, 4/37.
Selander, s. a disease in the bend of a horse’s leg, 95/1.
Selden, adv. seldom, 54/29.
Semeth, v. impers. appears; me semeth, it appears to me, 34/12.
Seneca, 161/9.
Senewes, s. pl. sinews, 75/3.
Sere, imp. s. sear, 63/7.
Serewe, s. a disease in a horse’s leg, on the inner side, 96/1.
Serue, v. to feed animals, 146/20.
Sethe, v. boil, 44/5; imp. s. 55/18.
Sette, v. to plant, 129/1; pp. set, 129/20.
Settes, pl. slips set in the ground to grow, cuttings, 124/10.
Seuer, v. sever, separate, 53/2.
Seueral, adj. several, separate, 6/6.
Seueraltye, in, phr. separately, 123/28.
Shaken, adj. full of cracks in the wood, 132/11.
Shakyll, s. shackle, 15/13.
Shap, s. privy part of a mare, 68/22.
Sharbeame, s. the wooden frame to which the share of a plough is fixed, 2/10; sharebeame, 3/3.
Share, s. ploughshare, 3/6.
Share-hogges, s. pl. yearling sheep that have been once shorn, 53/4.
Shede, imp. s. part, 42/4; sheede, v. to part, 110/2.
Shedynge, s. spilling, 35/9, 70/46.
Shefe, s. sheaf, 28/6.
Sheldbrede, s. shield-board, 2/23; 122/10.
Spokes, s. pl. spokes of a wheel, 5/9.
Spon, pp. spun, 146/42.
Spores, s. pl. spurs, 142/2.
Sporte, s. sport, 153/18.
Sprede, v. spread, 10/38.
Sprot-barley, s. sprout-barley, a kind of barley, 13/19.
Sprutteth, v. sprouteth, 13/38.
Sprynge, s. young wood, shoots, 126/11; 135/4, 7, 27.
Spyndel, s. spindle, 103/5.
Spyres, s. pl. shoots, sprigs, 20/12. See note to P. Plowman, C. xiii. 180.
Squecke, s. a disease of turkeys, note to 144.
Stacke, s. stack, 131/11.
Staffe, s. a staff, stick, 41/9; handle, 21/8.
Staffe-hokes, s. pl. staff-hooks; sharp hooks fastened to long handles to cut peas and beans, and trim hedges, 29/3.
Stare, v. to stand on end, bristle up, 56/11, 98/4, 111/3.
Starkely, adv. stiffly, with difficulty, 65/3.
Staues, s. pl. staves, bars, rails, 70/45, 141/48; ‘rough staves,’ 3/5, 35. See note to 3/1.
Staunche, v. to staunch, stop, 58/32.
Staye, s. support, 3/41.
Steeled, pp. steeled, 21/9.
Steke, imp. s. shut, fasten, 40/14, 165/48; v. 167/34.
Stele, s. handle, 24/18. A. S. stel.
Stere, v. stir, 16/24.
Sterte, s. stalk, 20/23. Cf. start = tail.
Steryngtyme, s. time for stirring, 16/26.
Stilt, s. the right-hand handle of a plough, 3/4. See note to 3/1.
Stocke, s. stock, stem, 136/19.
Stocke-heed, s. head or top of the stock, 138/26.
Stole, s. stool, 122/17.
Stooles, s. pl. stools; but, apparently, part of the gear of a plough, 5/44.
Stoupe, v. to stoop, 21/26; to obey, 41/18.
Stranguellyon, s. strangury, retention of urine, 88/1. “Stranguyllyon, a sicknesse, chauldepisse;” Palsgrave. And see Markham, Husbandry, b. i. c. 30.
Streyte, adv. close, 56/17.
Stringe, s. string, 142/3.
Strykes, s. pl. strikes, London bushels, 12/8. (The measure varied.)
Stryndes, s. pl. streaks, 55/2.
Stryng-halte, s. string-halt, a twitching lameness in horses, 108/1.
Stubbes, s. pl. old roots, or stumps, 127/27.
Sturdy, s. ‘the turn,’ i.e. giddiness, note to 62 (rubric).
Sturred, pp. stirred, 17/8, 141/42.
Sturrynge, s. stirring, 4/40.
Styffe-docked, pp. having a stiff stumpy part of the tail, 74/2.
Styffe-eared, pp. having stiff ears, 76/1.
Stylkynges, s. pl. some part of harness for oxen, 5/4.
Styred, pp. stirred, 146/108.
Subleuate, lifted up, 165/43.
Suet, s. suet, 44/7.
Swarth, adj. grassy, note to sect. 8 (ch. 8, l. 30).
Swathe, s. a row of cut grass, 23/16.
Sweate, v. give out moisture, as cut grass, 23/13.
Swyneherde, s. swineherd, 123/16.
Swyngletre, the bar that swings at the heels of the horse when drawing a harrow, 15/42; swyngle-trees, pl. swinging bars to which traces are fixed, 5/25.
Syde, adj. long, trailing, 151/14. A.S. sÍd, long.
Syde-longe all, close beside, 38/7.
Syde-tailed, pp. longtailed, 77/3. See Syde.
Syde-wedges, s. pl. side-wedges (at the side of the coulter), 4/22.
Sye, imp. s. strain (milk), 146/10. “I sye mylke, or clense, ie coulle du laict. This term is to muche northerne;” Palsgrave.
Symbalo, for symbolo, abl. s. in the creed, 161/3.
Symylytude, s. likeness, 160/9.
Synagoges, s. pl. synagogues, 165/21.
Synge, v. sing (as land), 10/19.
Syre, s. sire (said of a horse), 68/75.
Sythe, conj. since, 157/41.
Syues, s. pl. sieves, 36/3.
Syxte, adj. num. sixth, 75/3.
Tables, s. pl. tablets, 141/31.
Take, pr. s. subj. lay firm hold of, 126/12.
Tancardes, s. pl. tankards, 141/68.
Tarre, s. tar, 47/16. See Terre.
Tawed, pp. dressed, 146/42.
Tayle, s. plough-tail, 3/18.
Tedde, v. to spread or turn hay, 25, rubric; tedded, pp. 25/2. “I teede hey, I tourne it afore it is made in cockes;” Palsgrave.
Teddered, pp. tethered, fastened, 6/17.
Teddynge, s. spreading, 25/4.
Tedure, s. tether, 147/31.
Tedure, v. to tether, 148/14.
Tell, v. count, 30/5.
Temper, s. adjustment, 4/46; tempre, 4/56.
Tempered, pp. adjusted, set, 2/30, 4/3; worked together (as clay), 122/26.
Temporal, adj. worldly, 154/17.
Tenaunte, s. tenant, 123/31.
Tenaunte, s. tenon, 139/6.
Tennes-balles, s. pl. tennis balls, 91/4.
Terre, s. tar, 41/4.
Terre, s. tare, tares, 20/36; ter, 20/4.
Terre-boxe, s. tar-box, 41/10.
Thacke, s. thatch, 27/20. “Thacke of a house, chaume;” Palsgrave.
Thacke, v. thatch, 27/10.
Thacking, s. thatching, 27/24.
Thanke, s. thanks, 169/23.
There-as, conj. where, 33/13, 45/9, 58/9.
Theyues, s. pl. ewes of the first year, 53/4. “Theave, a ewe of a year old (Essex); a sheep of three years old (North);” Wright. See thaive, theave, in Index to Old Country Words, ed. J. Britten (E.D.S.).
Thimble, s. thimble, 142/5.
Thistyls, s. pl. thistles, 20/3; thistyll, s. 20/6.
Thopinion, the opinion, 12/37.
Thorowe, adv. through, 23/16, 44/10, 128/19.
Threde, s. thread, 142/5.
Thresshe, pr. s. subj. 2. p. thresh, 35/2; thresshen, pp. 13/40; thresshed, pp. 10/9.
Throughe, adj. passing through, continuous, 96/3.
Thryfte, s. thrift, thriving, 129/8.
Thyn-cressed, pp. thin in the crest, 78/2. The crest is ‘the rising part of a horse’s neck;’ Wright.
Tinded, pp. furnished with tines, 15/24. See Tyndes.
To, adv. too, 2/24, 2/29, 43/5, 148/34, 150/2.
To, prep. in going to, 146/16.
To, frequently inserted in imperative clauses; thus, to fel, i.e. remember to fell, 134/15; to sell, be sure to sell, 134/18; &c.
Togwith, or Togewith, s. part of the draught apparatus of a plough or harrow, to which the swingle-tree was attached, 5/25, 15/43. Lit. “tug-withe;” cf. “tug-iron, an iron on the shafts of a waggon to hitch the traces to;” Wright.
Tolle, s. toll, 146/17.
Tomblynge, s. tumbling, 102/5.
Toppes, s. tops, 31/12.
Tothe, v. furnish with teeth, 24/7.
Toure, s. tower, 146/104.
Towels, s. pl. towels, 146/45.
Towne-syde. s. farm-yard side, 10/11.
Traile, v. to drag on the ground, 141/49.
Tree, s. piece of wood, 3/9; tre, 3/11.
Trenche, s. trench, 124/30.
Tresses, s. pl. traces (for drawing a plough), 5/25, 15/42.
Trouse, s. the trimmings of a hedge, 38/3, 126/9. “Trouse, to trim hedgings”; Wright.
Tryanglewise, adj. in the form of a triangle, 4/34.
Tucke, v. to tuck up short, 151/14.
Tuell, s. fundament (of a horse), 85/4.
Tuftes, s. pl. tufts, 70/3.
Turne, s. a disease of cattle, giddiness, 62/28.
Twon, pp. twined, 25/32.
Twyche, v. to twitch, 108/2.
Twyrle, v. turn round; twyrle upon, i.e. turn round by pressing upon, 55/1.
Twyse, adv. twice, 147/28.
Twytches, s. pl. jerks, 15/21.
Tyckes, s. pl. ticks, small insects, 135/19.
Tyndes, s. pl. tines, teeth, 15/26.
Tyne, v. to shut, 141/49. A.S. tÝnan.
Tythes, s. pl. tithes, 30/13.
Vaine, s. vein, 50/11; vaines, pl. 70/26.
Valentynes daye, Feb. 14, 137/4.
Vermynne, s. vermin (said of noxious beasts), 146/32.
Viues, s. pl. “Certaine kirnels growing under the horsses eare;” (Topsell, 1607, p. 360), 91/1. “Vyves, a disease that an horse hath, auiues;” Palsgrave. See Avives in Cotgrave.
Vncomely, adj. unsuitable, prol. 13.
Vnconuenient, adj. unsuitable, unbecoming, unfit, 151/16, 154/16.
Vnderstande, pp. understood, 156/27.
Vnder-wodde, s. underwood, 131/2.
Vndouted, adv. doubtless, 146/48.
Vngiue, v. to give out the damp, 25/16.
Vnhappy, adj. unhappy, unfortunate, 144/20.
Vpholdyng, s. maintaining in repair, 5/38.
Vppe, adj. up, risen, 149/8.
Vppe, adv. up, 13/8.
Vpwarde, adv. upward, 16/17.
Vse, pr. pl. are accustomed, 21/29.
Vtter, adj. compar. outer, 138/12.
Vttermoste, adj. superl. most outward, 4/41.
Waincloutes, s. pl. pieces of iron for strengthening the axle-tree of a waggon, 5/19. On clouts, see J. E. T. Rogers, Hist. of Agriculture, i. 546.
Wained, pp. weaned, 135/14.
Waked, pp. awake, 146/1.
Wallettes, s. pl. wallets, 141/69.
Walnutshell, s. walnut-shell, 94/4.
Walnuttes, s. pl. walnuts, 136/4, 140/4.
Want, v. to lack, 79/12; wante, pr. s. subj. be lacking, 164/27.
Warde, s. management; harde of warde, harde to manage, 79/4.
Wardens, s. pl. large baking pears, 136/2.
Warden-tree, s. a pear-tree, bearing large baking pears, 137/3.
Wardropes, s. pl. wardrobes, 151/2.
Ware, s. ware, merchandise, bargain, 118/4.
Ware, v. to spend, 123/23. See Gloss. B. 15 (E. D. S.), p. 72; Gloss. B. 2, p. 42.
Warke, s. work, 6/9, 21/26; warkes, pl. prol. 22, 143/11.
Warrybredes, s. pl. worms just under the skin, 63/1. “Wary-breeds, or Warnel-worms, worms on the backs of cattle within their skin;” Bailey’s Dict. vol. i. ed. 1735. Cf. “Warbot, a worme, escarbot;” Palsgrave.
Wartes, s. pl. warts, 118/2.
Washen, pp. washed, 122/15; wasshen, 51/2.
Waspes, s. pl. wasps, 122/47.
Water-bowes, s. pl. smaller boughs or shoots of a tree (probably from their containing much sap), 129/17.
Water-forowed, pp. drained by making furrows, 13/6, 33/5.
Wauerynge, pres. part. wavering, 165/42.
Waxen, pp. grown, 156/36.
Wayne, s. a wain, waggon, 5/6.
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