Chaucer's Works, Volume 6 — Introduction, Glossary, and Indexes

by Geoffrey Chaucer

Wafereres, s. pl. makers of gaufres or wafer-cakes, confectioners, C 479.

Wafres, pl. wafers, A 3379.

Wages, pl. A 1803; pay, recompense, 4. 244.

Waget, for Wachet, A 3321 n.

Wagges, pr. s. wags (Northern), A 4039.

Wagging, s. shaking, T. ii. 1745. Cf. 'a reed shaken with the wind.'

Wailen, ger. to wail, lament, 6. 13; Waille, ger. I 178; v. E 1212; Waille, 1 pr. s. A 931; Wailleth, pr. s. wails, F 1348. See Wayle.

Waiten, v. attend on, L. 1269; Waiteth, pr. s. watches, E 708;

Waite, imp. s. observe, A. ii. 5. 11; Waiting on, pres. part. watching, observing, A. ii. 38. 12. See Wayten.

Waiting, s. watching, H 252.