The Master of Game: The Oldest English Book on Hunting
of Norwich Edward; count of Foix Gaston III Phoebus
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  • [Maistives], mastif, mastiff
  • Maistris, masters
  • Malemort, glanders, [96]
  • Malencolious, melancholy
  • Malice, cunning, [34]
  • Mamewe, mamunesre, mameue, mauewe, mange, [90], [91]
  • Manesseth, threatening, [51]
  • Mannys, man's, [151]
  • Marches, district, [19]
  • Marie, marrow
  • Marrubium album, white horehound (Marrubium vulgare), [101]
  • Martryn, martin, [73]
  • Mary Magdalene day, July 22nd, [26]
  • Mascle, masche, male, [67]
  • Mastin, a hound used for boar-hunting, a mongrel
  • Matere, matter
  • Mayned, maimed, bitten
  • Mayntyn, maintain
  • Maystif, mastif, mestifis, mastowe, mastiff, [118], [122], App.
  • Maystre, maistrie, maistrice, maystry, mastery, skill, [71], [107]
  • Meche, big, [113]
  • Mede, meadow, [163]
  • Medle, medel, mix, [91]
  • Mene, lesser, small, [128]
  • Menee, mennee, note sounded on a horn; also the baying of a hound hunting, [171], [179]
  • Meng, menge, mingle, [102]
  • Merrein, the main beam of a stag's antlers, App.
  • Mervaile, marvel
  • Merveiliost, most marvellous, [181]
  • Merveillous, merueylous, marvellous
  • Mestifis, mastifs, [118], [122]
  • Metis, meats
  • Metyng, metyngis, meet, meeting, [148]
  • Metynge, metyng, feeding or pasture of deer, [9], [25], [34], [152]
  • Meue, mew, meve, move, start, shed, [26], [42], [166]
  • Meule, mule, burr, part of the antler, App.
  • Meute, pack of hounds
  • Mevethe, meweth, to mew, casts or sheds. See Meue
  • Mews, house for hawks
  • Modir, mother, [105]
  • Modirwort, motherwort (Leonurus cardiaca), [101]
  • Monythe, moneth, monethenys, month, [27]
  • Moote, mote, a note or horn signal, App.
  • Morfound, morfond, to catch cold, glanders, [124]
  • Mornyngis, morning, [7]
  • MORSUS galline, chickweed, [101]
  • Mort, a note sounded on the horn at the death of the hart
  • Mosel, moselle, muzzle, [77]
  • Mote, moote, a note sounded on the horn, [168], [185]
  • Motying, moving, [150]
  • Mountenance, mountance, extent of, as far as, [21], [101]
  • Moustenesse, moisture, [124]
  • Mow, mowe, mowen, to have power, to be able, [97], [178]
  • Mowse, burr of an antler
  • Mue, mew, shed antlers, or feathers, molt. See Meue
  • Mule, meule, burr of a stag's antler, [141]
  • Mute, meute, a pack of hounds
  • Myche, the assibulated form of mukel, mikl, great, much, [41]
  • Myddes, midst
  • Myddil, middle
  • Mynde, memory, [2]
  • Mysiugen, misjudge, [29]
  • [Nail], name given to a disease in dogs' eyes, now called Pterygium, [94]
  • Nartheless, natheless, nevertheless, [149]
  • Natyuite, nativity
  • Nedel, needle, [61]
  • Nekys, neke, neckyd, neck, necked, App.
  • Nemeth, taketh, [75]
  • Nempe, name, [165]
  • Neres, kidneys
  • Nesche, neyssh, nessh, soft, tender, moist, [52], [130], [131]
  • Nethir, nether, lower
  • Nettelis, nettles, [89], [101]
  • Newlich, newly, freshly
  • Nombles, nomblis, part of the stag's intestines, App.
  • Noone, no more
  • Noorche, norshe, norssh, nourish, to bring up, to educate, [56], [58], [80]
  • Noosetherlis, nosethrelles, nostrils, [96], [105]
  • Norture, bringing up, [30]
  • Notis, nuts, [91]
  • Nough, nigh
  • Noyaunce, annoyance, [163]
  • Nyme, to take, to hold
  • [Okis], oaks, [144]
  • Olyff, olive, [90], [102]
  • Onys, once, [156]
  • Oo, oon, one, [17]
  • Opene, opyn, open (of hounds to give tongue), [108], [155]
  • Or, ere, before, [17]
  • Ordeyne, ordain
  • Orped, brave, valiant, [107]
  • Os, the dew-claws of the stag and hind, App.
  • Oscorbin (os corbin), a small bone in the stag's body given to the crows, App.
  • Ostoraces calamynt, storax or resin, [96]
  • Otyr, otere, otter, [72-4]
  • Ouerjawes, upper jaws, [176]
  • Ouersette, overcome, [60], [66]
  • Ouerwherte, athwart, [87]
  • Ourshette, overshoot, [159]
  • Ouyr, over
  • Oweth, owen, ought
  • Owrers, harriers
  • Oye, eye, [157]
  • Oyle, oil, [102]
  • [Paas], piz, chest, [114]
  • Paas, pace, to walk slowly
  • Pace, slot, track of stag, [132]
  • Pamed, palmated
  • Parasceve, Parasseue, Good Friday
  • Parfiters, parfitors, parfitours, parfyteiros, the third or last relay of hounds [7], [10]
  • Partel, a part of portion
  • Parteyneth, appertaineth
  • Partie, part
  • Pase, pace, to step slowly, [130]
  • Pearls, the excrescences on the stag's antlers, App.
  • Pece, piece
  • Peechtre, peochetre, peachtree, [102]
  • Pel, Fr. peau, skin
  • Percel, parsley, [101]
  • Perche, the main beam of the stag's antler, App.
  • Perfite, perfeet, perfit, perfect; also note sounded on the horn, [174]
  • Peritorie, wall pellitory (Parietaria), [101]
  • Pesen, peas, [26]
  • Peseth, paceth, [149]
  • Peyn, pain
  • Pierrures, "pearls" or excrescences on the stag's antlers
  • Pilches, pelisse, a coat of skin or fur, [63]
  • Playn contre, clear open country, [19], [65]
  • Playnes, plains
  • Playstire, plaster
  • Plecke, plek, pleck, plecca, piece of ground, place, [183]
  • Pleyn, pleyneth, complain, lament, [51]
  • Pleyn, playneth, pleignen, Fr. pleigner, complain, lament
  • Pointyng, pointing, track of hare
  • Polcattes, polecats, [73]
  • Pomeled, mottled, dappled, spotted, [45]
  • Poonde, poon, pond
  • Poort, parts, behaviour, manners, [4]
  • Popy, puppy
  • Porche. See Perche
  • Pouere, pouer, power, [164]
  • Pouture, keep, food, used in connection with hounds
  • Poynted, painted
  • Preef, proof, [88]
  • Prees, press, crowd, [118]
  • Preuyd, proved, [90]
  • Preuyli, priuyli, privily, [149]
  • Price, prise, priee, take, capture
  • Pricket, priket, the fallow buck in his second year, App.
  • Prik, prick, to hunt, [116]
  • Prikherid curris, rough-coated curs, App.
  • Prikkyng, pricking, footprint of hare, App.
  • Prime, noon (hie prime), midday
  • Prise, prize, pryce, a horn signal blown in France for the buck, in England for the hart and buck after the kill, [175]
  • Prive, tame
  • Procatours, proctors, [195]
  • Profiteness, perfectness, [2]
  • Pulegrun, pennyroyal (Mentha pulegium), [20]
  • Pulleth, poileth, take the hair off, Fr. poiler, [90]
  • Pursnettis, purse-nets, [67]
  • Purueaunce, perseverance, [80]
  • Puttes, pits
  • Pyche, pitch
  • Pyles, piles, the skin of the boar, wolf, and smaller animals
  • Pynsours, pincers, [98]
  • [Quales], quails, [119]
  • Quarry, the reward given to the hounds. See Curée, App.
  • Quat, couched, lying down, used for deer, [172]
  • Quattell, to quat, to squat, to crouch, to lie down, App.
  • Questy, Quest, to hunt, to give tongue, [110], [130], [155]
  • Quyere, quyrre, quir, quare, curée, quarry for hounds, reward, App.
  • Quyk, euelis, Quickevil, a disease of hounds
  • Quyrrcis, reward given to hounds. See Curée, App.
  • [Racches], hounds, [3], [74], [167]
  • Rage, madness
  • Ragerunet, ragemuet, dumb madness, [86]
  • Rascaile, rascayle, raskaile, lean deer; any deer under ten was usually called rascal, [7], [25], [150], [193]
  • Raveyn, prey, rapine, [57], [60]
  • Real, reall, a tine (in France, the bay) on the stag's antler
  • Reame, reaume, realm, [78]
  • Rear to, to dislodge a wild boar, App.
  • Rebelly, rebellious, unruly, [191]
  • Rechase, recheat, sound a note on the horn, to call back the hounds by sound of horn, also to put them on the right scent, [168], [178], [191-8], App.
  • Reche, to reck, to care, [57], [131]
  • Recheless, reckless
  • Recopes, recoupling, [179]
  • Refraied, refreide, refrected, chilled, cooled, [47], [99]
  • Reies, nets, App.
  • Relaies, relays (of hounds), [165]
  • Releved, Fr. relever, said of the hare rising from her form to go to her pasture, [14], [183]
  • Relie, relye, rally, [167]
  • Remeuve, remeyid, removed
  • Rennen, rained, rains
  • Rennyng, renneth, running
  • Renouet, renovel, Fr. renouveler, to renew, [48]
  • Resceyued, received
  • Reseeyuour, receiver, a greyhound in front of deer, [198]
  • Reseityng, reseating
  • Resouns, resouns, resons, reasons, [6]
  • Restif, quiet, restive, unwilling to go or to move forward, [109]
  • Restreyed, restrained, held back, [109]
  • Retreved, retrieved, [29]
  • Reuere, revere, river
  • Rewe, rue, [90]
  • Rewe, row, [193]
  • Rewle, rule, [55]
  • Rewme, Fr. rhume, a cold, [96]
  • Reyne, rain, [21]
  • Reyndere, reindeer
  • Reyson, reyse, raising, raise, [29]
  • Rialle, rial, royal, also tine of stag's antlers, [28], [140]
  • Ridingtime, redengtime, bucking time of the hare, [20]
  • Rig, ragge, backbone, App.
  • Riot, [74], App.
  • Roches, rokkes, rocks, [26]
  • Rodes, rods
  • Rotelyng, rattling, [162]
  • Roungeth, Fr. ronger, chews the cud, [181], App.
  • Rouse to, rowze, rouse, to dislodge buck or doe, App.
  • Rout, a number of wolves, [62]
  • Routes, synonymous with slot, line of deer, [132]
  • Royal, a tine, sometimes the trez tine (see Rialle), [28], [140]
  • Ruettis, horn or trumpet, [128]
  • Rusyng, rusing, [31], [45], [173]
  • Rutsomtime, rutson, rutte, rutting time of deer, [24], [109]
  • Ryges, back, haunches, [17]
  • Ryghtes, rights, a stag's rights, three lower tines of antlers; a hound was in his "rights" when hunting line, [174]
  • Ryot, noise, [121]
  • Ryuere, reuere, river, [77]
  • [Saynolfes,] spaynels, spaniels, [119]
  • Scantilonn, measure, [150], [165]
  • Scombre, scombere (stercoro in MS. Bod. 546), voiding excrements, [100], [127]
  • Scomfited, discomfited, [82]
  • Seat, the form of a hare, [16]
  • Seche, seek
  • Sechyng, sekyng, seeking, [110]
  • Seegh, seghe, saw, [13]
  • Seeld, seelden, seldom, [181]
  • Selidoyn, celandine, [94]
  • Semblaunt, semblance, pretence, [16]
  • Semble, assembly or meet, [9]
  • Semoly, seemly, [75]
  • Sengler, wild boar (Sanglier)
  • Sens, incense, [96]
  • Sentyn, scent
  • Serchyng, searching, [6], [29]
  • Sergeauntis, sergeants, [165]
  • Sesounn, sesoun, seson, season, [29]
  • Sesours, seizers, [114], [117]
  • Sette, set, place, part of forest round which "stables" or stations of men and hounds were placed, [149], [189]
  • Sewe, sue, Fr. suir, hunt, pursue, [150], [161]
  • Sewet, suet, fat of deer
  • Sewre, swear
  • Seyn, say, see
  • Shap, shape
  • Shapon, shaped
  • Sheeld, shield, shoulder of a boar, [49]
  • Sheellen, shall
  • Sheerde, cut, wound, [99]
  • Shent, shamed, disgraced, [79]
  • Sikerli, securely, [159]
  • Singular, the wild boar when he leaves the sounder, App.
  • Skirtis, skyrtis, the skin and tissue surrounding the stomach
  • Skulk, a number of foxes, App.
  • Slawthe, sloth, [5]
  • Slough, lower part of the heart
  • Slug-hound, a sleuth-hound, a track hound, App.
  • Slyke, slick, sleek or smooth, [44]
  • Smet, smytten, smitten, [192]
  • Snawe, snow
  • Soar, a buck in his fourth year
  • Soepol, wild thyme (Thymus serpyllum), [20]
  • Soile, soule, souille, wallowing pool, soil or mud; "to soil" means when a deer or wild boar takes to water or wallows in it, [37], [50], [144]
  • Soiourne, soiourn, soiournying, sojorn, sojourn, to remain, [98]
  • Solere, upper chamber, [126]
  • Somedele, somewhat
  • Somere, somer, summer, [45]
  • Sone, soon
  • Sonne, sunne, sun, [9]
  • Sonne, soune, sound
  • Sopere, soper, supper, [180]
  • Soppe, soppers, herd of deer, [25]
  • Sorrell, a buck in his third year
  • Sotelly, subtlety, cleverly
  • Sotil, sotille, sotilte, subtle, clever, [67], [80], [95]
  • Soule, soile, alone, [168]
  • Sounder, soundre, sundre, a herd of wild boars, [53], [143]
  • Sour, stag of fourth year, the colour of a deer's hide; according to Roquefort, a herd of swine, App.
  • Sousse, oxide of zinc, [95]
  • Souz-real, souch-real, sur-ryal, sur-antler, a tine of the stag's head, [140], [177], App.
  • Sowle, soul, [12]
  • Spainel, spaynels, spaniel
  • Sparhauke, sparrowhawk, [114]
  • Spatell, spittle, [92]
  • Spay, to kill a deer with a sword [10], [174], [258];
    to castrate, [84], [258]
  • Spayard, spayde, spayer, spycard, the stag in his third year, App.
  • Spaynel, spaniel, [119]
  • Speies, spires, young wood, [157]
  • Spires, spoyes, stalks, young wood; thick spires means thick wood, [65], [118]
  • Spitous, despiteful, [115]
  • Spraintes, spraytyng, excrements of the otter, [73], [139]
  • Springol, springald, springold, springall, siege engine to throw stones or balks of timber, [23]
  • Stable, stablys, Fr. establie, a post or station of huntsmen and hounds, [188]
  • Staggart, the stag in his fourth year, [29], [131]
  • Stalk, to go softly, creep, "Stalk the deer full still" (used by John Lydgate, about 1430)
  • Stall, to corner, to bring to bay, to stand still, [153]
  • Stanc, stank, stanges, stangkes, Fr. estanc, pool, tank, pond, [32], [72]
  • Steppis, steps, footprint of deer, [73], [137]
  • Stere, stir, [91]
  • Stert, stirt, start
  • Stinte, stynte, to stop, to blow a stint—i.e. to stop or check the hounds, a false scent, check, [19], [165]
  • Stone-bow, Fr. arc-à-pierre, a kind of cross-bow
  • Stoonys, stones, [143]
  • Stordy, estordic, giddy, [116]
  • Stoupen, stoop
  • Strake, to blow, [178]
  • Strangle, straggle, [188]
  • Stranling, stranlyn, squirrel
  • Stratere, straighter
  • Straught, straight, [128]
  • Strenge, strength, stronghold, thick woods, [16], [118], [156]
  • Strengeste, strongest
  • Strepid, to strip
  • Streynour, strainer
  • Streynt, strain, progeny or breed
  • Stripid, stripped, term to denote skinning of hare, wild boar, and wolf, App.
  • Stroke, strake, or stuke, to sound a note on a hunting-horn, [52]
  • Strong, said of woods and coverts, thick, dense, [25]
  • Sue, to seek, to hunt, [161]
  • Suers, followers
  • Suet, the fat of the red-deer and fallow-deer
  • Suete, sweet, [19]
  • Sugre, sugar
  • Surantler, a tine, generally the bay
  • Sur-royal, the surroyal tine, [28]
  • Sure batyd (of hounds' feet), battered, bruised from over running, [98]
  • Susrial, surroyal tine
  • Stynt, at fault; to stop
  • Suyte, suite, following
  • Swef, a hunting cry, meaning gently or softly, [182]
  • Swerde, sword, [11]
  • Swoor, swore
  • Swoot, swote, sweat
  • Sylvestres, beasts of venery—i.e. red-deer, hare, boar, and wolf, App.
  • Synnes, sins, [7]
  • Synowes, synewes, sinews
  • Sythes, times
  • [Tacches], habits, also spots, markings, [121]
  • Taloun, talon, heel, [130], [131]
  • Tawed, a kind of tanning, preparation of white leathers, [63]
  • Tawne, tan, tawny, [105]
  • Taylyd, tailed
  • Teaser, teazer, tesours, a small hound that "teases" forth the game in coverts, [189]
  • Teg, the fallow doe in her second year
  • Tent, tended, cared for, [103]
  • Tercelle, tiercel, the male of any species of hawk, [119]
  • Terer, teerors, terrier, [4]
  • Terpse, to poise an arrow for shooting
  • Terryers, terriers, [4]
  • Teste, head or antlers (tête)
  • Teyntes, touches, [65]
  • Thenderleggis, hind legs
  • Thenkyngis, thinking, [75]
  • Thennes, thence
  • Thidere, thither
  • Toches, teeth, [50], [56]
  • Togadere, togidre, together
  • Tokenys, tokens, [86]
  • Tosshes, tusks
  • Tounge, toong, tongue
  • Toure, tower, [77]
  • Towailles, towels, [164]
  • Townge, tunge, tongue
  • Trace, track or footprint of an animal, [9], [73], [130], [137]
  • Trauaille, travayle, Fr. travaillé, work, labour, [54], [93]
  • Tredeles, excrements of otter, [73]
  • Trenchour, trencher, [174]
  • Trestes, tryst, trist, [190]
  • Tresteth, trusteth, [49]
  • Treu, trewe, true, faithful
  • Trip, a herd of tame swine, [53]
  • Trochis, troches, the tines "on top," [28], [135], [140]
  • Trodes, trod
  • Troweth, believes or knows
  • Trustre, tryst, [118]
  • Twies, twyes, twice, [82]
  • Twin, between
  • Twygges, twigs, [22]
  • Tyme, season
  • Tyndes, tynys, tines, [132], [142]
  • Tysane, a medicinal tea, [11]
  • [Umbicast], to cast round, [151]
  • Undirnethe, underneath
  • Undoing, dressing of a deer
  • Undoon, undone, to cut up
  • Unneth, scarcely, [80]
  • Unsicker, uncertain
  • Unthende, unsuccessful
  • Unwayssh, unwashed
  • Unwexid, unwaxed
  • Unyoyne, unjoin, [97]
  • Uprear to, finding of the hart buck, and boar with the limer
  • Usyn, use
  • [Vanchasours,] vanchasers, the relay of hounds that comes first, [7], [10]
  • Vannchace, the first in the chase, [7], [10]
  • Vauntellay, vauntlay, vnlay, part of the pack held in reserve, when uncoupled on the line of the stag before the hounds already hunting had passed, [169], [172]
  • Veel, calf, used sometimes for the stag in his first year, App.
  • Veline, a horn signal, App.
  • Veltraga, veltrarius, a hound, an alaunt, App.
  • Vent to, said of an otter when it comes to surface of water for air; also to empty, to cast excrements, App.
  • Ventrers, ventreres, [116], [117]
  • Venyin, venom
  • Verfull, a glassful, [101]
  • Verrey, truly, true, [75], [105]
  • Vertegrece, vertegres, verdigris, [91]
  • Vesteing, investigating, looking, [151]
  • Veutreres, veautre, boarhound
  • Veyn, vein
  • Vishiteth, voiding excrements, [66]
  • Vmblis, umbles
  • Vndirtakyng, undertaking
  • Vndyrstondyng, understanding
  • Vngles, bugles, [128]
  • Vnnanys, onions, [102]
  • Voide, voyde, leave, go away, empty, [51], [191]
  • Voiden, to purge, [61]
  • Vois, voys, voice, [66]
  • Voynes, veins, [99]