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E an O me, E an O an O me, V, [275] a, 9, 10: simple exclamations, having here the character of a refrain.
é, II, 217, 24: ae, only.
ea, V, [214] b, 3: to be dropped; remnant of a corrected reading.
eaen, V, [267], 4: even.
eaght, the, the eighth.
ealky, elky, eke a, ylk a, ilka, V, [220] f., 4, 5, 8: each (one).
ean, V, [165], 2: eyes. See ee.
ear, I, 395, 1; 480, 54: early.
ear, eer, ever.
eare, ere, ayre, heir.
eare, v., I, 15, 12: plough.
earn, V, [115], 6: curdle.
eartly, II, 494, 1: earthly.
eased, III, 61, 101 (of horses): cared for, attended to.
eased we, V, [239], 35: used (as in 33), familiar with.
easer, IV, 315, 14; V, [271], 14: maple (mazer). See ezar.
easterling (born), V, [54], 3, 4 (in A, 48, 3, 4, stranger borne). The boy learned too fast for a native. Easterling, a native of the Hanse towns, or of the East of Germany. Halliwell.
eathe, III, 408, 33: easy.
eather, V, [224], 25; 241, No 156, 6: other.
eay, eayn, V, [238], 18, 28; [248], 18: eye(s). See ee.
edder-flowe, IV, 450 a, 2: adder-morass.
ee, III, 4, 9; 11, K: eye. Pl. een, eeen, II, 158 f., 5, 8, 18; 160, 4, 7, 17. See ean, eay, eghne, eyen.
ee (of a cup), IV, 221, 9: may be eye, top, brim.
ee, the table ee, II, 409, 20 (Motherwell, table eye): seems to be nonsense; edge does not suit. b, the printed copy, has play.
ee (A. S. ege, O. Eng. eȝe, eie, etc.), IV, 3, 15: awe; an unsatisfying emendation of lee, lye (eie would be better; I have not found ee). The Campbell MS. has fee, meant, I suppose, for value.
ee-bree, III, 11, K; IV, 257, 5: eye-brow.
een, IV, 257, 13: one.
een, v., III, 495, 23, 24; IV, 517, 21: even, make of the same value.
eenin, IV, 169, F 1: evening.
eerie, eiry, I, 342, 24, 36; 355, 46; II, 466, 39; IV, 175, N 5; 368, G 8: dreary, gloomy, weird, exciting superstitious dread.
eft, eft agayne = eftsones, III, 83, 238; 87, 238.
eftsones, III, 68, 238: hereafter, another time.
eghne, I, 327, 23: eyn, eyes.
eh, IV, 512, 11: exclamation of grief.
eight, the eight, I, 55, 9; 56, B 10; C 5, 11: eighth.
eihte, I, 244, 11: possession, valuable thing.
eild, III, 162, 46: age.
ein, I, 134, 13: een, evening.
eiry. See eerie.
eisin, IV, 331 b, 2: serve.
eke, also. At I, 133, L 1, eke ... eke seems to be wrongly used for either ... or.
eke a, III, 298, 57: each (one). See ealky.
elbouthe, I, 334, 5: elbow (the th for g or ȝ).
eldelike, I, 334, 5: elderly.
eldern, eldren, eldrin, I, 350, 12, 13; II, 20, 2; 26, 2; 27, 2; 61, 2; IV, 485, 28: old.
eldrige, elridge (hill, king), II, 58 f., 14, 15, 23, 25-7, 36==Scottish elric, elvish. The eldrige king has something of the character of the ellor-gást family in Beówulf (spirits who belong outside of mankind), haunts a hill, is a pagan, no one that has coped with him has come off alive. The lady who attends him, however, seems in no way extra-human. elric hour, I, 140, N (Pinkerton): hour when elves, or bad spirits, are active. In Elrick’s hill, II, 62, 8, 10, etc., the adjective is improperly turned into a noun. See elrick.
element, I, 286, 44: air, sky.
elephant, III, 211, 2: a species of scabious is so called, according to Halliwell.
elfin, elphin, elphan, n. and adj., I, 15 ff.; 341, 15; IV, 456, 13: elf, elvish. I, 346, 15 (the Elfins); 350, 28; IV, 456 f., 14, 15, 19, 24: fairy-land.
Elfins, the, I, 346, 15: fairy-land. See elfin.
elfish, n., I, 343, 15: elf.
elflyn, of the elves.
Elizium, V, [158], 16: Elysian.
elky. See ealky.
ell, ill, ull, v., will.
ellish, III, 481, 9: ellis, ells. (h may well be dropped.)
elphan, elphin, n. and adj. See elfin.
elrick, elritch, adj., II, 63, 18; I, 357, 53: elvish. Elrick’s, 62 f., 8, 10, 16, 21: as a substantive. See eldrige.
embowered, pret., II, 503, 13: used as bower.
eme, III, 296, 26: uncle. emys, III, 98, 38: uncle’s.
-en, -n, -yn, sign of plural of verb, I, 244, 9; II, 5 b, 3; 54, 61; 445, 62; III, 13, 2, 3, 4, 8; 35, 31; 63, 134; 92, 11; 104, 7; 105, 9, 11; 277, 15; 284, 3, 8, 17; 285, 30, 32, 33; 286, 48, 49; 404, 3; 406, 28; etc.
end, en, end. hous(e)-end, -en, I, 254, variations of Twa Corbies, b, 1, c, 1; toun-end, V, [267] f., 10, 11, 24. on end, IV, 353, 18: to an end.
-end, termination of the present participle. sighend, I, 55 f., B 7, 9.
endres daye, þis, I, 326, 1: the other day.
eneuch, enew, I, 102, 5; III, 318, 6; 440, 10; IV, 117, 8; 384, 8: enough.
enlured, III, 36, 45: allured (which is the word in b).
enter plea att my iollye, III, 278, 32: unintelligible to me. iollye should probably be iollytë. The king will have the head to serve some inscrutable purpose when he is making merry.
enterprise, v., I, 411, 9; III, 230, 70: undertake.
entertain, III, 153, 18: take into service.
envye, III, 296 f., 12, 30: ill-will, hostility, spite.
ere, V, [300], 3: eer, ever.
ere, eare, ayre, n., heir.
ere, v., heir.
ere, II, 216, 19; 470, 44; IV, 242 a; 378, 6; 433, 31: till.
ere syne, II, 362, 34: ere then, before that.
erlis, I, 329, 60: should probably be ernis, eagle’s (herons, yrons in other texts).
erlish, I, 355, 49: elrish, elvish.
ermeline, ermine.
ern, IV, 490, 12: iron.
-ës, -is, -ys, -us, preserved in gen. sing., I, 69, 52; II, 25, 7; III, 40, n.; 98, 21, 35; 99, 47 f., 52; 100, 64 f.; 111, 33, 36, 42, etc. In the plural, I, 72, 15; III, 40, n.; 97, 2, 3, 20; 98, 25, 33, 37, 40-2; 100, 63, 82; 109, 1; 111, 29, 31-37, 45 f., etc.
esk, I, 355, 50: newt. See ask.
ettled, IV, 47, 2: purposed.
even cloth, I, 324, 16: smooth, with the nap well shorn.
even down, IV, 110, 10, 11: flat to the ground. V, [124], B 14: perpendicular. [225] b, No 78: straight down (of heavy rain).
even forward, I, 324, 3: straight forward.
even up, I, 305, 7: straight up.
evening-mass, II, 168, A, 4: a religious service at the end of the day (as in Romeo and Juliet, IV, 1).
euery syde, III, 75, 398: each side of.
euerych, euerichone, euerechone, euerilkon, everlke ane, I, 334, 5; III, 22, 4; 65, 174; 67, 230; 98, 30: each, each one.
evidents, IV, 40 b: title-deeds.
evyll, adv., III, 26, 93: ill. euyll go, III, 77, 429: ill walk.
ew-bught. See bucht.
ewer, IV, 19, 8: dug, udder.
exaltre, III, 90 b: axletree.
examine, II, 58, 15: put you to test.
exite, II, 125, B 22; excit, V, [223] a, No 65, B 22: amended to sight under the supposition that exit must be impossible.
exoner, IV, 307, 42: exonerate.
ey, I, 415 b: egg.
eye (cote with one eye), III, 360, 117: window?
eyen, eyne, I, 472, 29; III, 74, 359: eyes. See ee.
eylde het the, III, 112, 62: yield, requite thee for it.
eylyt, I, 241 f., 5, 7: aileth.
eyre, pl., III, 113, 70: years.
ezar, II, 271, 17; 273, 23: maple. See easer, masar.