- unco, strangely, very.
- vanes, flags.
- venerye, hunting.
- vent, went.
- verament, truly.
- villanye, vilony, disgrace.
- vntill, unto.
- vones, (wones,) dwellest.
- vytouten, without.
- wa', wall.
- wace, wax.
- wad, pledge.
- wad, [212], waded.
- wadded, [9], woad-colored, blue.
- wadna, would not.
- wae, waefu', waesome, sorrowful, sad.
- waif, straying.
- wald, would.
- walker, [10], fuller.
- wall-wight men, [176], picked (waled) strong men, warriors: see vol. vi., p. 220, v. 15.
- wan afore, [255], came before.
- wane, dwelling.
- war, where.
- ware of, to be, to perceive.
- warld's maike, [264], companion for life.
- warluck, a wizard, a man in league with the devil.
- warsled, wrestled, struggled.
- warwolf, werwolf, manwolf.
- wat, wet.
- waught, draught.
- wauking, walking.
- waylawaye, alas.
- wee, little.
- weiest, [254], [Jamieson,] saddest, darkest.
- weird, fate.
- weird, destine.
- wend, weened.
- wer, were, war.
- wern, refuse.
- werre, worse.
- werryed, worried.
- wesch, wash.
- wete, weten, knowing.
- whareto, wherefore.
- wharfrae, whence.
- whereas, where.
- wi, with.
- wicht, strong, nimble,
- wide, [199], wade.
- widershins, the contrary way, the way contrary to the course of the sun.
- wide-whare, widely, far and near.
- wierd, fate.
- wight, strong, active, nimble.
- wilder'd, carried astray.
- win, go to, attain; win up, get up.
- win, rescue.
- wind blows in your glove, [67] ?
- winna, will not.
- wistna, knew not.
- wit, know, knowledge.
- wittering, information.
- witti, intelligible.
- wodewale, woodpecker.
- woe, sad.
- won, dwell.
- wonige, [275], [adj. qy. woning?] dwelling.
- wood, mad.
- worth, [276], become, be the result.
- worthy, I were, [26], it would become me.
- wow, exclamation of astonishment or grief.
- wpe, up.
- wrebbe, [98]; wrebbe and wrye, turn and twist?
- wrought, [240], for raught, reached.
- wrucked up, [240], thrown up.
- wrye, [98], wrebbe and wrye, turn and twist?
- wud, wood.
- wull, [253], wandering in ignorance of one's course, lost in error, bewildered.
- wylos, willow.
- wyndouten, without.
- wyne-berye, grape.
- wysse, wise.
- wyt, with.
- wyte, [136], blame.
- wyth, [276], wight, agile.
- wytouten, without.
- yard, staff.
- yat, that.
- yate, gate.
- y-born, born.
- y-doon, done.
- ychon, each one.
- yeen, [274], against, towards.
- ye'se, ye shall, will.
- yestreen, yesterday.
- yett, gate
- ylk, each.
- yod, went.
- yone, yon.
- yyng, young.
- zede, went.
- zonge, young. &c.
- ȝe, ye.
- ȝede, went.
- ȝit, yet. &c.
Transcriber's Notes
page [47] (line 148) added missing close quotation mark:
Nor keepe me lingering here in paine."
page [221] (lines 73, 74) moved close quotation mark:
"Pray, sir, did you not send for me, By such a messenger?" said she: