The Master of Game: The Oldest English Book on Hunting

by of Norwich Edward; count of Foix Gaston III Phoebus

• [Caboche,] to cut off the hart's head near the antlers, [176]
• Calf, calfe, the young stag in his first year
• Camamyle, camomile, [95]
• Campestris, beast of the field or chase—i.e. buck, doe, fox, martin, and roe-deer
• Candlemas, February 2
• Caraynes, carreyns, karin, carrion, carcase, [62], [77]
• Cardiac, cardryacle, a disease of the heart, [34]
• Carres, marshes, [45]
• Case to, stripping or skinning the hare, App.
• Catapucia, spurge (Euphorbia resinifera), [101]
• Catt, catte, cattys, cat, App.
• Cautelous, cautels, cautious, crafty, [45]
• Cete, a number of badgers
• Chaceable, chaseable, a hert chaseable, which is now called a warrantable stag, one fit to be hunted
• Chacechiens, grooms in attendance on hounds, [148], [177]
• Chalaunge, challenge
• Chase, forest; also used to designate a method of hunting, and also a hunting-party
• Chasse, a French hunting-note
• Chastised, trained, [189]
• Chater, chacer (rechater, recheat), a horn signal; also to chastise hounds
• Chaufed, achaufed, heated, in heat, [49], [98]
• Chaule, chaulis, chavel, jaw, [170]
• Chaunge, change, [31], [108], [111]
• Cheere, chere, cherish, welcome, [85]
• Cheveraus, roe-deer
• Chibollis, chives, [90]
• Childermas, Innocents' Day (December 28)
• Chis, dainty, [83]
• Chivaucher, chevaucher, to ride
• Chymer, riding-cloak
• Chymneyis, chimney, [98], [126]
• Clees, clawes, the "toes" of a deer's foot, [77], [80], [131]
• Cleeves, sur or dew cleeves at the back of a deer's fetlock
• Cleped, clepyd, called, [59], [140]
• Clere speres, clear spires, woods, App.
• Clicqueting, vixen fox when in heat, App.
• Clistre, enema, [100]
• Coddes, testicles of the hart
• Coiting stone, a quoit
• Colers, coliers places, collier or charcoal pits, [26]
• Concilida maior, comfrey (Symphytum officinale), [98]
• Concilida minor, prunella, selfheal (Prunella vulgaris), [98]
• Coninger, conigree, rabbit warren, App.
• Contre, counter, back, heel
• Contre, country, [36]
• Controugle, contreongle, hunt counter, hunt heel, [150]
• Conynge, rabbit, [18]
• Coolwort, cabbage, [100]
• Copeis, copis, coppice, [155]
• Corner, corneer, horn blower
• Cotes, quoits, [178]
• Couch, the resting-place of game; also hound's bed
• Couchers, setters, [120]
• Couertts, covert, shelter
• Counterfeet, countfeit, abnormal, [28], [142]
• Courser, cursar, curser, swift horse
• Couthen, conthen, couth, knew, to be able, ob. could, [2]
• Cowe, cow, also tail, from queue
• Crie, cry (of hounds), [65]
• Croches, the upper tines of a deer's horns; called also troches
• Croise, cross, [150]
• Crokes, stomach (of red-deer)
• Crokyng, crooked, curved, [128]
• Crommes, crumbs
• Cronen, groan, the roar of the stag
• Cross to, to dislodge roe-deer by hounds
• Crotethe, voiding excrements, [29]
• Crotey, crotils, crotisen, crotisings, excrements, [16], [29], [30], [133]
• Cuer, coer, heart
• Cuir, quir, leather, hide
• Curée, cure, rewarding the hounds (also kyrre and guyrre), [7], [29], [52], [208]
• Curres, currys, curs
• Curtaise, courteous, [115]

• [Daungere,] danger, [161]
• Dedis, deeds, [49]
• Dedut, deudiz, deduiz, déduit, pleasure pursuit, sport
• Defaute, defaunt, lack, default, [84], [140]
• Defet, deffeten, opening or undoing the boar and removing the entrails
• Defoile, track, [150]
• Delyuere, deliver, active, [124]
• Depiled, stripped of hair
• Desfaire, undoing (brittling) of deer or boar, App.
• Despitous, despytous, despiteful, furious, [49]
• Desterere, destrier, horse
• Detourner (le cerf), to harbour the hart, App.
• Deyeng, doing
• Deym, deyme, daine, dine, fallow-deer
• Dislaue, wild, [159]
• Dissese, disease
• Doo, doe
• Down, or huske, a number of hares, App.
• Dragmes, drachms
• Dreynt, drowned
• Drit, dritt, excrements of animals called "stinking beasts," also mud, [50], [66]
• Dryen, dry, [102]
• Dryue, driven, [128]
• Dryve, made
• Dune, donn, dun
• Dure, to last, endure, [43]
• Dyette, diet

• [Earth,] a fox and badger's lodging-place, App.
• Edight, done, set in order
• Eelde, old age, [123]
• Eendis, ends
• Eeren, hairs, [44]
• Eerys, eres, ears
• Egre, eager, [115]
• Eireres, harriers, [190]
• Ellis, else, [90]
• Emelle, emel, female, [41]
• Empaumure, the croches or top tines of a stag's antlers, App.
• Enbrowed, brewed, soaked, [177]
• Enchace, to hunt, [108]
• Encharnyng, blooding, feeding on flesh, [113]
• Enchasez, moving deer, &c., with a limer, App.
• Encorne, to place a dead stag on his back, the antlers on the ground underneath the shoulders, [174]
• Enfourmed, informed
• Engleymed, glutinous, [29]
• Enosed, a bone in the throat, [87]
• Enpeshed, prevented, [11]
• Enquest, hunt, [182]
• Enquiller, rousing a buck with hounds, App.
• Enquyrid, enqueyrreide, blooding hounds after death of deer; also rewarding of hounds, [173]
• Ensaumple, example, [79]
• Entente, intent
• Entrying, entering, beginning of
• Entryngis, entering, beginning of, [35]
• Envoise, envoyse, O. F. envoisse, to leave the line, or overshoot the line of the animal hunted, [31], [108], [170]
• Erbis, herbs
• Eres of roebuck, "target," [44]
• Ergots, argus, claws of boar, buck and doe; those of the boar were sometimes called gardes, [130], [144]
• Eris, eres, ars, anus, hinder parts; ears, occasionally thus spelt, [89], [95], [106], [116]
• Erthe, earth
• Escorcher, estorcher, flaying deer, and other beasts of venery, App.
• Espaules, shoulders
• Espayard, spayard, spayer, stag of the third year, App.
• Essemble, assembly, [150]
• Establie, stand occupied by sportsmen; also beaters
• Estoracis calamita, storax, resin, [96]
• Esye, easy
• Etawed, tanned
• Etyn, itvn, eat
• Euenyngis, evening, [11]
• Euerychone, everichon, each one, every one, [163]
• Euille, euell, evil, wicked, bad, [6]
• Evoised, at fault, or off the line
• Expedite, to maim dogs by cutting off some of their claws
• Eyne, eygh, eynen, eye, [116]
• Eyre, air

• [Facon,] faucon, falcon, [121]
• Fadir, fadere, father, [105]
• Fadmys, fadoms, fathoms, [125]
• Farowe, farewyn, pharowyn, farrow, bringing forth young pig, [47], [48], [68]
• Farsyn, farsine, farcy, [69], [92]
• Fasson, fassion, fashion
• Faund, fawned
• Faus, false
• Fausmanche, false sleeve
• Faut, fault
• Fechewe, fitchew, polecat
• Feeldes, fields, [158]
• Feerne, fern
• Felaues, fellows
• fele, many; also sensible, feeling
• Felle, fierce, cruel, treacherous
• Felle, fele, wise, sensible, feeling; also cunning, [30], [115]
• Felnesse, cruelty, fierceness, [71]
• Femellis, females
• Fencemonth, the month when deer had their young and were left undisturbed, App.
• Fermyd, firm, [162]
• Ferre, far, [16]
• Ferrettis, ferrets, [72]
• Ferrtest, farthest
• Fers, fierce, [47]
• Fersliche, fiercely, [86]
• Fesawnt, pheasant
• Feueryere, February
• Fewes, fewte, track, trace, foot. Some animals were called of the sweet foot, others of the stinking foot, [10]. See Appendix.
• Fewterer, feutreres, dewtrees, man who leads greyhounds, [129]
• Fiants, also Lesses, excrements of the wild boar, App.
• Fistoles, fistula, [92]
• Fixen, vixen, O. G. fuchsen, [64]
• Flay, flean, flene, to skin deer and certain other game, [174]
• Flayssh, flesh, [5]
• Flux, dysentery
• Foillyng, stag going downstream when hunted, [32], [173]
• Folies, foly, folly, lesser deer, not hart or buck, [196]
• Foltisch, foolish, [45]
• Foorme, forme, fourme, form of the hare, [14], [17]
• Foragle, strangle, straggle
• Forche, fourched, forked, said of stag's antlers, [140], [177]
• Forloyne, forlogne, forlonge, a note sounded on the horn, to denote that the quarry or hounds or both had distanced the hunters, [173]
• Forsters, foresters, [148]
• Forswong, M. E. Forswinger, bruised, beaten (tucked up), [88]
• Fort, the thick part of woods
• Forun, forewarn, [148]
• Fotyde, footed
• Fouaill, the reward given to the hounds after a boar hunt, consisting of the bowels cooked over a fire, App.
• Foumart, faulmart, folmert, polecat
• Fowtreres, fewterers, huntsmen who led greyhounds, slippers
• Foxen, ffixen, A. S. fixen—vixen, a bitch fox, [64]
• Foyne, weasel
• Fraied, rubbed, [135]
• Fray, frighten, scare, [149]
• Fray, to rub off the velvet on stag's antlers, [26], [135]
• Fraying-post, the tree against which it was done
• Freyn, excrements of the wild boar, App.
• Froot, frotid, rub, [53], [94], [95], [146]
• Fuants, excrements of the fox, martin, badger, and wolf, App.
• Fues, track, line, [18], [31]
• Fumes, fumee, fumagen, fimeshen, fewmets, femegen, fewmishings, excrements, droppings, particularly of deer, [9], [16], [38], [39], [133]
• Furkie, pieces of venison hung on a fork-shaped stick
• Furrour, fur, Fr. fourrure, [63]
• Futaie, futelaie, forest, wood of old trees, also plantation of beech-trees, App.
• Fynders, finders, hounds to start or find deer, [161], [165]

• [Gaderynge,] gaderyng, gathering, meet, [156], [163]
• Gadire, gather, [43]
• Gar, to force, to compel, [39]
• Gardes, the dew-claws of the wild boar
• Garsed, cupped, [90]
• Gin, gynne, trap, snare
• Girle, the roebuck in the second year, App.
• Gise, guise, manner of
• Gladnesse, a glade, a clear space, [137]
• Glaundres, glanders, [96]
• Glemyng, gleyming, slime, stickiness, [133]
• Gloteny, gluttony
• Gnappe, snap, [92]
• Gobettes, small pieces, [81], [177]
• Goot, goat
• Gorgeaunt, wild boar in his second year
• Goters, gootere, goutieres, gutters, the small grooves in the antlers of a stag, [143]
• Graunt sour, stag of fifth year
• Grauyll, gravel, [143]
• Grease, grece, the fat of certain animals, [25], [27], [49]
• Grease-time, the season of hart and buck when they were fattest, [160]
• Greater, of the, term used in counting the tines of a stag's antlers, App.
• Grede, seek, hunt, [183]
• Gres, upper tusks of wild boar, grinders, [50]
• Gressoppes, grasshoppers, [66]
• Grete, greet, great, [13]
• Greue, grieve, harass, injure, [45]
• Grey, badger, [68]
• Grovys, grooves
• Gustumes, customs, [4]
• Guttes, guts
• Guyen, gueyne, Guienne
• Guyrreis, quarry (curée), [105]
• Gynnes, gynes, gins, traps, ruses, wiles, tricks, [35], [73]
• Gynnously, by stratagem or ingenuity, [15], [39], [43], [59]

• [Haies,] hayes, nets, hedges, [74]
• Hallow, the reward given to the hounds at the death
• Halowe, halloa, App.
• Hamylons, the wiles of a fox
• Harbour, herborowe, harboure, harborow, to track a hart to his lair, [29]
• Harbourer, man who harbours the deer, [130], [148]
• Hardiethe, herds with
• Hardle, herdle, herdel, harling, hardel, fasten or couple hounds together, also to fasten the four legs of a roebuck together, [45], [190]
• Hardy, bold, courageous
• Haris, hares, [17]
• Harnays, herneis, harness, appurtenances, arms, &c., [60]
• Haronsblast, a crossbow, from O.F. Arcbaleste, [27]
• Harowde, herald, [139]
• Harthound, herthound, hound used to chase the stag
• Hast, haste
• Hastilettiz, the dividing of the wild boar into thirty-two pieces
• Hatt, hath
• Hatte, thicket, [118]
• Haukes, hawks, [120]
• Haukyng, hawking
• Hauntelers, antlers, App.
• Hauspee, haussepee, a trap; also a siege engine, [61]
• Hayter, harrier, App.
• Hearse, also Broket's sister, a red-deer hind in her second year, App.
• Heddyd, headed
• Heere, hair, [27]
• Heghes, hocks
• Heirers, harriers, [111]
• Hele, helthe, health
• Helyn, heal, [127]
• Hemule, hemuse, heymuse, roebuck in the third year
• Hendis, red-deer hind, [130]
• Her, hear
• Herbis, herbs, [14]
• Herborowe. See Harbour
• Herdle, to dress a roebuck
• Herneis, harness. See Harnays, also Appendix
• Heroun, heron, [1]
• Hert, heart; also stag, [23], [34]
• Hertis, harts, stags, [130]
• Hidre, hinder
• Highten, called, named, [148], [182]
• Hire, her, [19]
• Hoggaster, wild boar in his third year, App.
• Hokkes, hoghes, houghs, hocks, [99], [114]
• Hookes, hooks, first teeth of wolf and dog, [56], [83]
• Hoot (Be), promised, [79]
• Hoote, hot, [32]
• Hopeland, hopoland, houppeland, a long surcoat or gownlike garment
• Hoppyn, hoping
• Horred, hairy, [106]
• Hos, hoarse, [66]
• Houe, hoof
• Hough, howff, houff, a haunt, a resort, used especially for the holt, or dwelling-place of an otter, App.
• Houndis, hundes, hounds; also hands, [1]
• Hounger, hunger
• Hounter, hunter
• Howlyn, howl
• Hoxtide, feast fifteen days after Easter, App.
• Huske, a number of hares, App.

• [Iboyled], boiled
• Iclepid, called, [105], [144]
• Ileyn, lain, [136]
• Illoeques, illeoqs, here in this place, [183], [234]
• Ilost, lost
• Imakyd, made, [137]
• Imeyngid, mingled, [102]
• Imprime, unharbouring a hart
• Ingwere, inquere, inquire or seek, [151]
• Ipressid, pressed, [136]
• Ireeyned, rained, [157]
• Iren, iron, [90]
• Irenged, arranged, [142]
• Ironged, ranged
• Iroos, iris, [93]
• Ispaide, spayed, castrated; also to kill with a sword. See Spay
• Istamped, stamped, crushed, [93]
• Istered, stirred, [91]
• Itawed, tawed, tanned, [126]
• Ithrest, thrust, pushe, [136]
• Itred, trodden
• Itynded, tined, [142]
• Iweryd, worn, [147]
• Iweted, wetted, moistened, [97]
• Iwrethede, wreathed, [133]

• [Jangelere], jangler, [124]
• Jannere, January
• Jawle, jaw, [50]
• Jengeleth, jangeleth, said of a noisy hound, [110]
• Jolly, a bitch in heat, [54], [58]
• Jopey, juppey, to holloa, to cry out, to call, [171], [234]
• Juge, jugge, judge
• Juggementz, judgments, [130]
• Juill, July
• Juin, June
• Jus, juice
• Jweryd, worn

• [Kareynes], carrion, [48], [58], [68]
• Kele, cool, [91]
• Kembe, comb, [127]
• Kennettis, kenet, a small hunting hound, [111]
• Kepyn, keeping
• Kerre, kirre, kyrre, cure, curée, quarry, reward of hounds. See Curée
• Keuere, cover, [65]
• Keuered, covered, [80]
• Kitte, to cut, sharp, [95]
• Kittyng, cutting, [50]
• Knobber, stag in second year or broket, App.
• Knyff, knife, [90]
• Kounyngly, cunningly; also wisely
• Kunne, ken, to know, to be able, [15]
• Kyde, roebuck in first year
• Kyen, kine, cattle, [120]
• Kylleic, Welsh for grease time
• Kyndeleth, bring forth (said of the hare), [181]
• Kyndels, young hare, [19]
• Kyndely, naturally, M. E. kindely, kendeliche, cundeliche
• Kynningly, cunningly
• Kytons, kyttons, kittens, [71]

• [Labelles], small flaps, [174]
• Ladde, led
• Ladil, ladle
• Laies, pools, lakes
• Lair, the resting-place of the various kinds of deer, [10]
• Lammas, Lammasse, August 1, [2]
• Lammasse of Peter Apostull, June 29
• Lappe, lap, [158]
• Lasse, less, smaller
• Launcet, lancet
• Laundes, Londes, wild uncultivated land, [36]
• Lavey, unrestrained, wild, [111]
• Leather, the skin of deer and of the wild boar, App.
• Leches, leeches, doctor or surgeon, [12]
• Leder, leather, [126]
• Lefrer, levrier, greyhound
• Left, last, or live
• Legges, legs
• Leie, lair
• Leire, river Loire in France, [77]
• Leires, lair, bed of a stag, [136]
• Leith, layeth
• Lekes, leeks, [90]
• Lernyd, learned, taught
• Lese, leash, [59]
• Leseth, loseth, [52]
• Less, of the, term used in counting the tines, App.
• Lesses, Fr. laissées, excrements of boar and wolves, [139], [146]
• Lesshe, lesse, lesche, leash, [140]
• Lesshes, lesses, inferiors, [189]
• Lesyng, loosing, [119]
• Lette, hindered, [51], [163]
• Leuere, leaver, rather, sooner
• Leurettis, leverets, [19]
• Leuve, leave, [31]
• Leuys, leues, leaves, [138]
• Levir, leaver, rather
• Levrier, a hare hound
• Liam, lyam, rope by which the limer was held
• Libard, leopard, [70]
• Liff, life, [31]
• Liflode, lyvelode, livelihood, [59]
• Ligging, lygging, lair, resting-place, [24], [71], [149], [191]
• Lippis, lips
• Litere, litter
• Logges, lodges, [190]
• Londe, land, [75]
• Louen, love
• Loupes corryners (loup cerviers), lynx; occasionally it was probably applied to the wolverine, [70]
• Lowre, laugh, [81]
• Luce, pike, [113]
• Lyff, life
• Lymer, a tracking hound on a leash, [31], [38], [152], [157], [167-9], [235]
• Lymmes, limbs
• Lymner, lymerer, limerer, man who leads hounds on a leash, [148], [166], [235]
• Lymnere, used both for man and hound, App.
• Lynsed, linseed, [104]
• Lyoun, lion
• Lythis, lightis, lungs
• Lyven, lyuen, live