- Undermeales, [88]. Intermediate meals after dinner, and thence, as here = in the afternoon.
- Unproper, [371].
- Untame, [252].
V.
- Vade, [169]. Used contemporarily as fade, but generally as a strengthened or more emphatic form, as shown here by “utterly wither”.
- Valure, [130]. Valour.
- Virtutes. Virtues, i.e., the order of angels so called. Pl. of Lat. virtus.
- Void = Avoid, and so Trevisa, 1397.
W.
- Wag, [324]. Probably used in an ill sense, as a chatterer who makes himself conspicuous by his interference.
- Wax, [249]. To increase and thence to grow, and to grow or become, whether the growth be increase or not.
- Wealth, [A iii.] Weal.
- Wheeking, [301]. An onomatopæic word.
- Where, [429]. Whether.
- Whereas, [419]. Whereat, at which.
- Whitmeats, [281]. Milk-whitepots, custards, cheese-cakes, butter, cheese (Bailey). In fact, any thing or any dish made of milk. Lactucaria (Th. Cooper, Holyokes Rider).
- Wist, had I, [374]. See note.
- Witch. Used by Scot and others for both wizards and witches, though the former word was known in English in 1582 (Witches at St. Osees, by W. W.). So used till at least 1670.
- Witchmonger. (a) Those who dealt with witches, as with wise women. (b) Those who sought them out for punishment.
- Wreath, [225]. Translation of Lat. vertere, to wrest or twist violently.
- Wrote, [199]. Wrought.
X.
- Xenophilus, [378]. Wier’s Zenophilus. A friend suggests same as φιλοξενος, a friend to strangers, hospitable. The difficulty is, what is such a one’s outwardly distinctive form?
Y.
