A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580

by A. L. Mayhew; Walter W. Skeat

[ Despitously], adv. contemptuously, spitefully, S2, C2, C3; dispitously, C.

[ Despoilen], v. to despoil, to strip, MD; dispoilen, C2; dispoyled, pp., S3.—OF. despoiller; Lat. despoliare.

[ Dest], 2 pr. s. doest, S; see [Don].

[ Destrer], sb. a courser, war-horse, MD; dextrer, C2.—AF. destrer; Late Lat. dextrarium (from Lat. dextra, the right hand), the horse led by the squire on the right of his own horse.

[ Destroyen], v. to destroy, MD; destruien, MD, C; destrue, S2; distruen, S2; destrie, MD, W, W2; dysstrye, S2; distruyede, pt. s., W; distried, pp., W, W2.—AF. destruire. (pr. p. destruyant); Lat. destruere.

[ Destroyere], sb. destroyer, Prompt., MD; distrier, W.

[ Deð], pr. s. doeth, S, S2; see [Don].

[ Deð], sb. death, S; see [Deeþ].

[ Deð-vuel], sb. death-evil, S2.

[ Dette], sb. debt, C2; dett, adj. due, H.—AF. dette; Lat. debita.