Mr. Lambe also interprets "Bickering," by rattling, e.g.,
And on that slee Ulysses head
Sad curses down does BICKER.
Translat. of Ovid. P.
Bide at hame, iii. [97], remain at home.
Biilt, ii. 63, built.
Bil, i. 168, pike or halbert.
Bille, i. 282, 289, ii. 143, writing.
Biqueth, ii. 12, bequeath.
Bird, iii. [94], child, term of affection usually applied to a woman.
Birk, ii. 363, iii. [238], birch-tree.
Blak, ii. 21;
blake, ii. 21, black.
Blan, i. 269;
blane, i. 30;
blanne, i. 68, 91, 275, ii. 144, lingered, stopped.
Blaw, i. 145, iii. [147], blow;
blawing, iii. [147], blowing.
Blaze, ii. 260, emblazon, display.
Blee, i. 72, ii. 56, colour, complexion.
Bleid, iii. [94], bleed;
bleids, ii. 116, bleeds.
Blend, iii. [55];
blent, iii. [51], blended.
Blent, ceased.
Blink, ii. 120, a glimpse of light.
Blinkan, iii. [123], twinkling.
Blinks, iii. [74], twinkles, sparkles.
Blinne, iii. [46], cease, give over.
Blissing, iii. [208], blessing.
Blist, i. 310, blessed.
Blude, i. 34, blood;
blude reid, i. 100, blood red.
Bluid, i. 59, 83 blood;
bluidy, i. 144, bloody;
reid bluid, red blood, i. 146.
Blyth, ii. 68, joyous, sprightly.
Blyth, iii. [74], joy, sprightliness.
Blyve, i. 175, instantly.
Bode, i. 120, abode, stayed.
Boist, boisteris, boast, boasters.
Boke, ii. 16, book.
Bollys, ii. 21, bowls.
Boltes, shafts, arrows.
Bomen, i. 24, bowmen.
Bonny, iii. [147], handsome, comely.
Bonys, ii. 22, bones.
Roundebonys, ii. 22.
Bookes-man, iii. [52], clerk, secretary.
Boot, ii. 97;
boote, i. 109, 115, 136, ii. 59;
boots, iii. [154], gain, advantage, help, assistance.
Bore, iii. [112], boar.
Bore, iii. [40], born.
Borowe, i. 162, to redeem.
Borrow, i. 275, borrowe, i. 269, pledge, surety.
Bost, ii. 24, boste, i. 122, pride;
boast, ii. 8.
Bot, ii. 60, but.
Bot, ii. 109, without;
bot and, i. 144, and also;
bot dreid, without dread, or certainly;
bot gif, ii. 83, unless.
Bots, iii. [186], a worm troublesome to horses.
Bougill, i. 147, bugle-horn, hunting-horn.
Boun, i. 146, ready.
Bowen, ii. 44, ready.
Bower, iii. [125], [126], [131], parlour, chamber.
Bower-window, iii. [125], chamber window.
Bowne, i. 63, 77, ii. 94, ready;
bowned, prepared;
bowne ye, i. 107, prepare ye, get ready;
bowne to dine, going to dine.
Bowne is a common word in the North for "going," e.g. Where are you bowne to? Where are you going to? P.
Bow're-woman, iii. [96], chambermaid.
Bowyn, i. 41, ready.
Bowynd, i. 40, prepared.
Bowys, i. 28, bows.
Brade, ii. 107, 112, broad.
Brae, iii. [147], the brow or side of a hill, a declivity.
Braes of Yarrow, ii. 363, hilly banks of the river Yarrow.
Braid, broad.
Braid, i. 100, open.
Brand, i. 83, 96;
brande, i. 25, 30, 40, 48, 67, sword.
Brast, i. 66, 168, ii. 56, 98, iii. [61], burst.
Braw, ii. 227, brave.
Braw, ii. 69, bravely, handsomely.
Brayd attowre the bent, ii. 84, hastened over the field.
Brayn-pannes, ii. 25, skulls.
Bread, ii. 192, breadth.
Bred, i. 43, broad.
Breeden, i. 108, breed.
Breere, i. 111, briar.
Bren, i. 80, 145;
brenn, ii. 57, burn.
Brenand drake, ii. 23, fiery dragon.
Brenn, i. 144;
brenne, i. 73, 159, burn;
brent, i. 160, ii. 55, iii. [87], burnt;
brenning, ii. 142, burning.
Brest, i. 29, breast.
Brest, ii. 21, burst.
Brether, i. 87, brethren.
Bridal (bride-ale), nuptial feast.
Brigue, iii. [95];
briggs, iii. [92], bridge.
Brimme, ii. 257, public, universally known;
A.-S. bryme.
Britled, iii. [12], carved.
Broche, ii. 22, any ornamental trinket. Stone buckles of silver or gold with which gentlemen and ladies clasp their shirt-bosoms, and handkerchiefs, are called in the North broches, from the Fr. broche, a spit. P.
Brocht, ii. 85, brought.
Broder, ii. 360, brother.
Broding, i. 64, 78, pricking.
Broht, ii. 13;
brohte, ii. 8, brought.
Bronde, i. 49, sword.
Brooche, brouche, a spit, a bodkin.
Brooke, enjoy;
and I brook, i. 34, if I enjoy.
Brouke hur wyth wynne, ii. 20, enjoy her with pleasure.
Browd, i. 24, broad.
Broyt, ii. 21, brought.
Bryttlynge, i. 25, cutting up, quartering, carving.
Buen, ii. 12;
bueth, ii. 13, been, be, are.
Buff, i. 150, arm, dress.
Bugle, i. 65, 78, bugle horn, hunting horn (being the horn of a bugle or wild bull).
Buik, book.
Buit, ii. 81, help.
Burgens, ii. 383, buds, young shoots.
Burn, iii. [147], bourne, brook.
Bushment, i. 122, ambush, snare.
Busk, i. 146, dress, deck;
busk ye, i. 107, ii. 363, dress ye;
busk and boun, i. 146, make yourselves ready to go;
buske them blyve, i. 175, get them ready instantly;
buskit, i. 143, dressed;
buskt them, i. 122, prepared themselves, made themselves ready.
But, without;
but let, without hindrance.
But, i. 75, ii. 144, unless;
but an, i. 144, unless;
but yf, ii. 23, unless.
Bute, ii. 83, boot, good, advantage.
Butt, ii. 70, the outer room.
See Ben.
By three, of three.
Byde, ii. 83, stay.
Bydys, i. 28, bides, abides.
Bye, buy, pay for.
Byears, i. 33, beeres, biers.
Byhynde, ii. 19, behind.
Byre, iii. [236], cow-house.
Byste, i. 41, beest, art.
Ca', iii. [93], call.
Caddis, i. 376, worsted ribbon.
Cadgily, ii. 68, merrily, cheerfully.
Caitif, iii. [228];
caitive, ii. 135, wretch.
Cales, ii. 243, Cadiz.
Calliver, a large pistol or blunderbuss.
Camscho, iii. [385].
(Glossary—Eldridge) grim.
Can, i. 44, 77, ii. 24, 70;
cane, i. 47, gan, began.
Can, ii. 37, know.
Canna, iii. [123];
cannæ, i. 59, 146, cannot.
Cannes, wooden cups, bowls.
Cantabanqui, i. 374, ballad-singers, singers on benches.
Cantells, ii. 23, pieces, corners.
Canty, ii. 69, cheerful, chatty.
Capul, ii. 24, a poor horse;
capulys, ii. 24, horses.
Capull hyde, i. 107, 114, horse hide.
Carle, ii. 68, iii. [123], clown, a strong, hale old man.
Carlish, i. 133, iii. [14], churlish, discourteous.
Carlist, iii. [329], churlish?
Carp, ii. 136;
carpe, ii. 19, to speak, recite, also to censure, i. 33, complain.
Carpyng, ii. 20, tumult.
Cast, i. 26, mean, intend.
Caste, ii. 128, stratagem.
Catives, ii. 302, wretches.
Cau, ii. 71, call.
Cauld, i. 143, ii. 68, cold.
Causey, ii. 139, causeway.
Cawte and kene, i. 44, cautious and active.
Cent, i. 130, scent.
Cetywall, i. 307, setiwall, the herb valerian, or mountain spikenard.
Cham, ii. 288, I am, in Somersetshire dialect.
Chanteclere, i. 307, the cock.
Chap, iii. [93], [95], knock.
Charke-bord, ii. 203? same as archeborde, side of the ship.
See Hach-borde.
Chayme, ii. 74, Cain, or Ham.
Chays, i. 26, chase.
Che, ii. 286, I. in Somersetshire dialect.
Cheare, ii. 216, chair.
Checke, i. 301, to stop, to chide.
Cheefe, the upper part of the scutcheon in heraldry.
Cheffe, i. 28, chief;
cheffest, iii. [44], chiefest.
Cheften, i. 28, chieftain.
Cheis, choose.
Chevaliers, knights.
Cheveron, ii. 25, upper part of the scutcheon in heraldry.
Chevy Chase, i. 19, Cheviot chase or hunt.
See same contraction in Tividale.
Chield, fellow.
Child, iii. [58], knight.
Children, i. 66, 77, knights.
Chill, ii. 286, I will, in Somersetshire dialect.
Cholde, y-cholde, ii. 12, I would.
Choul'd, ii. 287, I would, in Som. dialect.
Christentie, christentye, i. 92, ii. 61;
christianté, i. 31, Christendom.
Church-ale, iii. [198], a wake or feast in commemoration of the dedication of a church.
Chyf, chyfe, chief.
Chylded, ii. 382, brought forth, was delivered.
Chylder, ii. 25, children's.
Chyviat chays, i. 26. (See Chevy Chase.)
Claiths, ii. 69, clothes.
Clattered, beat so as to rattle.
Clawde, clawed, tore, scratched;
figuratively, beat.
Clead, ii. 69, clad, clothe;
cleading, iii. [237], clothing.
Cleaped, i. 306, called, named.
Cled, iii. [147], clad, clothed.
Clepe, ii. 13, call;
cleped, ii. 14, called.
Cliding, iii. [97], clothing.
Clim, i. 155, contraction of Clement.
Clough, i. 155, a broken cliff.
Clout, i. 197, a cloth to strain milk through;
rag, ii. 71.
Clout, ii. 100, mend.
Clowch, clutch, grasp.
Clymme, ii. 74, climb.
Coate, i. 309, cot, cottage.
Cockers, i. 308, a sort of buskins or short boots fastened with laces or buttons, worn by farmers or shepherds.
Cokers, fishermen's boots (Littleton's Dict.)
Cog, iii. [203], to lie, cheat.
Cohorted, ii. 382, incited, exhorted.
Cokenay, ii. 28, explained by Percy to be a diminutive of cook, from the Latin coquinator, or coquinarius; it really means a lean chicken.
Cold, ii. 232;
colde, ii. 55, could.
Cold, iii. [6], knew,
where I cold be;
i. 286, where I was.
Cold rost, nothing to the purpose.
Cole, iii. [108], coal.
Coleyne, iii. [33], Cologne steel.
Collayne, i. 48, Cologne steel.
Com, ii. 12;
come, ii. 21, came;
comen, i. 89;
commen, i. 33, come.
Con, ii. 27, can.
Con fare, went, passed.
Con springe, ii. 11, spread abroad.
Con twenty thanks, iii. [210], give twenty thanks.
Confeterd, i. 120, confederated.
Confound, i. 218, destroy.
Contray, ii. 19, country.
Cop, ii. 9, head, the top of anything.
Coppell, ii. 21, name of a hen.
Cordiwin, i. 318, originally Spanish or Cordovan leather, afterwards commoner leather.
Cors, ii. 21, body.
Cors, i. 26, curse.
Corsiare, i. 30, courser, steed.
Coste, ii. 30, coast, side, region.
Cote, i. 303;
cott, iii. [183], cottage.
Cote, iii. [53], coat.
Cotydyallye, ii. 381, daily, every day.
Could bear, ii. 137, did bare.
Could be, was.
Could dye, died.
Could his good, knew what was good for him.
Could weip, wept.
Coulde, cold.
Counsayl, secret.
Countie, i. 303, count, earl.
Coupe, i. 300, coop, or a pen for poultry.
Courtas, ii. 82, courteous.
Courteys, ii. 46, courteous.
Courtnalls, iii. [182], courtiers.
Couth, i. 306, could.
Couthen, ii. 13, knew.
Cowde, i. 44, could.
Coyntrie, i. 308, Coventry.
Cramasie, iii. [75], [147], crimson.
Crancke, i. 307, exultingly.
Cranion, iii. [198], skull.
Crech, ii. 27.
This word is incorrectly explained in the text as crutch. It is really a form of the French crèche, a crib or manger. It occurs as cracche in the "Promptorium Parv." (1440).
Crepyls, ii. 24, cripples.
Cricke, i. 196, properly an ant, but used for any small insect.
Crinkle, iii. [10], run in and out, run into flexures, wrinkle.
Cristes cors, Christ's corse.
Croche, ii. 312, crouch.
Croft, ii. 22, inclosure near a house.
Crois, ii. 13;
croiz, ii. 12, cross.
Crook, ii. 70, twist, wrinkle, distort;
crook my knee, ii. 71, make lame my knee.
They say in the North "the horse is crookit," i.e. lame;
the "horse crooks," i.e. goes lame. P.
Crouneth, ii. 12, crown ye.
Crowch, i. 180, crutch.
Crown, i. 26, head.
Crowt, iii. [10], to pucker up, draw close together.
(Another form of crowd.)
Crumpling, ii. 257, crooked, horned.
Cryance, i. 65, 66, 78, fear.
Cule, ii. 229, cool.
Cum, i. 28, 59, 101, 143;
ii. 132, come, came.
Cummer, ii. 133, gossip, friend;
Fr. commère, compère.
Cure, ii. 76, care, heed, regard.
Dale, deal;
bot gif I dale, ii. 83, unless I share.
Dampned, i. 161, damned, condemned.
Dan, an ancient title of respect, from Lat. Dominus.
Danske, ii. 254, Denmark.
Dare, ii. 360, their;
ii. 361, there.
Darh, ii. 14, need.
Darr'd, ii. 118, hit.
Dart the tree, ii. 115, hit the tree.
Dat, ii. 360, that.
Daunger halt, ii. 16, fear holdeth.
Dawes, iii. [368], days.
Dawkin, ii. 19, diminutive of David.
De, ii. 360, the.
De, i. 26, 30, die.
Dealan, iii. [134], dealing.
Deare, ii. 308, hurt.
Deare, iii. [82], dearly.
Deas, iii. the high table in a hall.
F. dais, a canopy.
Ded, ii. 26;
dede, i. 30, dead.
Dede is do, ii. 36, deed is done.
Dee, iii. [99], die.
Deemed, iii. [52];
deemedst, ii. 217, doomed, judged; thus in the Isle of Man judges are called Deemsters. P.
Deere, ii. 304, hurt, mischief.
Deerely, ii. 194, iii. [27];
preciously, richly.
Default, i. 303, neglect.
Deid, ii. 83, dead;
deid bell, iii. [134], passing bell.
Deid, i. 101, 147, deed.
Deip, i. 60;
deep.
Deir, i. 83, 101;
dear.
Deir, iii. [96], dearly.
Deir, ii. 82, hurt, trouble.
Deie, ii. 35, deal, bit.
Dele, ii. 45, to deal.
Dell, deal, part;
every dell, every part.
Delt, iii. [119], dealt.
Dem, ii. 361, them.
Demaines, iii. [209], demesnes, estates.
Deme, ii. 265, judged, doomed.
Denay, i. 217, deny, refuse.
Dent, ii. 21, a dint, blow.
Deol, ii. 13, dole, grief.
Depart, ii. 37, separate;
departing, ii. 84, dividing.
Depured, i. 129, purified, run clear.
Deray, ii. 28, confusion.
Dere, ii. 20, dear, also hurt.
Dere, ii. 19, dire or sad.
A.-S. derian, to hurt. "My dearest foe"—Hamlet.
Dere, iii. [357], wild animals.
Derked, ii. 37, darkened.
Dern, ii. 82, secret;
I'dern, ii. 83, in secret.
Descreeve, i. 63, describe;
descrying, iii. [168], describing.
Devys, ii. 12, devise, the act of bequeathal by will.
Dey, ii. 361, they.
Dey, i. 33;
deye, ii. 12, die.
Did off, i. 114, took off;
did on, iii. [65], put on.
Dight, i. 63, 74;
dighte, ii. 162, decked, dressed, prepared, wrought, fitted out, done.
Diht, ii. 11, wrought;
ii. 12, sent.
Dill, ii. 82, share.
Dill, still, calm, mitigate.
Dill, i. 63, 77, 78, dole, grief, pain, sorrow;
dill I drye, i. 64, pain I suffer;
dill was dight, grief was upon him.
Dinge, iii. [51], knock, beat.
Dis, this.
Discreeve, i. 77, describe, or discover.
Disna, iii. [123], does not.
Disteynyd, i. 124, stained.
Distrere, iii. [108], the horse ridden by a knight in the tournament.
Do, ii. 36, done.
Dochter, i. 59, 145, ii. 68, daughter.
Dois, i. 59, 83, does.
Dois, days.
Dol, ii. 13;
dole, i. 63, 137, 292, dole, grief, sorrow.
Doleful dumps, i. 188, 261, sorrowful gloom or heaviness of heart.
Dolours, dolorous, mournful.
Don, iii. [208], do.
Don, ii. 23, be made.
Done roun, ii. 80, run down.
Dosend, iii. [123], dosing, drowsy, torpid, benumbed.
Doth, dothe, doeth, do.
Doubt, iii. [327], fear.
Doubteous, doubtful.
Dough, ii. 360, though.
Doughty, iii. [26];
doughtye, i. 305;
dowghtye, i. 40;
formidable.
Doughete, i. 28, a doughty man.
Dounae, i. 60, cannot.
Dout, ii. 23, fear.
Doute, i. 167, doubt.
Doutted, i. 123, redoubted, feared.
Douyty, doughty.
Doy-trogh, ii. 24, dough trough, a kneading trough.
Doys, i. 34, does.
Doyter, ii. 20, daughter.
Drake;
brenand drake, ii. 23, burning, fire-breathing dragon.
Drap, drop;
draping, ii. 114, drapping, iii. [97], dropping.
Dre, i. 31, 83, suffer.
Dreid, ii. 82, dread.
Dreips, i. 146, drips, drops.
Dreiry, iii. [100], dreary.
Drieps, iii. [146], drips, drops.
Drie, i. 144, suffer;
ill, i. 284;
undergo, i. 83.
Drighnes, i. 119, dryness.
Drogh, ii. 26, drew.
Drovyers, i. 254, drovers, cattle-drivers.
Drye, i. 49, 64, 78, suffer, endure.
Dryng, ii. 8, drink.
Duble dyse, double or false dice.
Dude, ii. 7, did;
dudest, ii. 9, didst.
Duel, ii. 11, grief.
Dughty, ii. 19, 26, doughty;
dughtynesse of dent, ii. 21, sturdiness of blows.
Dule, i. 83, 145, dole, grief, sorrow;
dulefu', ii. 69, doleful.
Dumps, i. 188, 261, ii. 69, heaviness of heart.
Dwellan, iii. [134], dwelling.
Dy, die;
dyan, iii. [134], dying.
Dyd on, i. 159, put on;
dyd off, i. 164, doffed, put off.
Dyght, i. 30, dressed, put on.
Dyht, ii. 14, to dispose, order.
Dynt, i. 30, dynte, i. 31, dyntes, i. 32, dint, blow, stroke.
Dystrayne, ii. 37, afflict.
Dyyt, ii. 24, dight, dressed.
Eame, uncle.
Eard, earth.
Earn, ii. 70, to curdle, make cheese.
Eathe, i. 273, easy.
Eather, iii. [100], either.
Eche, ii. 246, each.
Ee, i. 101, 178, ii. 60;
een, i. 320, eye, eyes.
Eene, iii. [75], even.
Effund, iii. [301], pour forth.
Eftsoon, iii. [304], in a short time.
Egge, ii. 259, to urge on.
Eik, ii. 83, also.
Eiked, ii. 85, added, enlarged.
Ein, i. 145, even.
Eir, i. 101, 146, 320, ever.
Eise, ii. 212, ease.
Eke, ii. 13, also.
Eldridge, i. 64, 78, wild, hideous, ghostly, lonesome, uninhabited.
"In the ballad of Sir Cauline we have 'Eldridge Hills,' p. [65], 'Eldridge Knight,' p. [65], 'Eldridge Sword,' p. [67]. So Gawin Douglas calls the Cyclops the 'Elriche Brethir,' i.e. brethren (b. ii. p. 91, l. 16), and in his Prologue to b. vii. (p. 202, l. 3) he thus describes the Night-Owl:—
"'Laithely of forme, with crukit camscho beik,
'Ugsome to here was his wyld elrische skreik.'
"In Bannatyne's MS. Poems (fol. 135, in the Advocate's Library at Edinburgh) is a whimsical rhapsody of a deceased old woman travelling in the other world; in which
"'Scho wanderit, and yeid by, to an Elrich well.'
"In the Glossary to G. Douglas, Elriche, &c. is explained by 'Wild, hideous: Lat. Trux, immanis;' but it seems to imply somewhat more, as in Allan Ramsay's Glossaries." P.
Elke, each.
Elles, ii. 20, else.
Ellumynynge, i. 123, embellishing.
Elyconys, i. 119, Helicon's.
Elvish, peevish, fantastical.
Eme, i. 44, ii. 9, uncle, kinsman.
Endyed, i. 123, dyed.
Ene, eyn, eyes.
Ene, even.
Enharpid, i. 123, hooked or edged.
Enkankered, cankered.
Enouch, iii. [100], enough.
Enowe, i. 275, enough.
Ensue, ii. 43, follow.
Entendement, ii. 382, understanding.
Entent, ii. 49, intent.
Ententifly, ii, 382, to the intent, purposely.
Envie;
envye, i. 42, malice, ill-will, injury.
Er, ii. 20, 26, are.
Ere, ii. 36, 42, ear.
Erlys, ii. 47;
erlés, iii. [94], earls.
Erst, i. 83, heretofore.
Etermynable, i. 126, interminable, unlimited.
Ettled, ii. 116, aimed.
Evanished, iii. [133], vanished.
Everych, ii. 27, every;
everychone, i. 156;
iii. [108], every one.
Ew-bughts, iii. [74], pens for milch-ewes.
Eyen, i. 72;
eyn, ii. 15;
eyne, i. 132, eyes.
Ezar, iii. [97], maple.
Fa', i. 84, 146, fall;
fa's, iii. [123], falls.
Fach, i. 33, feche, fetch.
Fader, iii. [365];
fadir, i. 83;
fatheris, father, father's.
Fadge, iii. [236], a bundle of sticks, a thick loaf of bread, coarse heap of stuff.
Fadom, i. 102, fathom.
Fae, ii. 109, foe.
Fain, ii. 69;
faine, i. 164, 287;
fayne, i. 157, glad, fond, well pleased;
faine of fighte, i. 92, fond of fighting.
Fair of feir, of a fair and healthful look;
perhaps, far off (free from) fear. P.
Falds, iii. [123], thou foldest.
Fallan, iii. [133], falling.
Fals, ii. 212, false.
Falser, iii. [161], a deceiver, hypocrite.
Falsing, ii. 61, dealing in falsehood.
Fand, iii. [324], found.
Fang, ii. 26, make off.
Fann'd, ii. 246, found.
Fannes, instruments for winnowing corn.
Fantacy, ii. 136;
fantasye, ii. 160, fancy.
Farden, i. 72, flashed.
Fare, i. 84, ii. 21, go forth, pass, travel.
Fare, the price of a passage, shot, reckoning.
Farley, i. 107, strange.
Fauht, i. 122, fought.
Fauld, ii. 85, field.
Fauyt, ii. 30, fought.
Fawkon, i. 42, falcon.
Fawn, iii. [122], fallen.
Fawte, i. 122, fought.
Fay, i. 178;
faye, i. 106, faith.
Fayrere, ii. 45, fairer.
Faytors, i. 215, deceivers, dissemblers, cheats.
Fe, i. 178, fee, reward, also bribe.
Applied to lands and tenements which are held by perpetual right, and by acknowledgment of superiority to a higher lord.
Feare. In feare, ii. 149, company.
Feat, i. 300, nice, neat.
Featously, i. 306, neatly, dexterously.
Fedyrs, ii. 22, feathers.
Fee, ii. 140, property.
Feere, i. 63, 76, mate, companion.
Feill, ii. 86, fail(?).
Feil, fele, many.
Feirs, ii. 114, companions.
Feir, i. 101, ii. 82;
feire, ii. 212, fear.
Feit, i. 84, 102, feet.
Felawe, ii. 44, fellow.
Feld, ii. 25, field.
Fell, i. 65, 78;
ii. 19, furious, fierce, keen, i. 306.
Fell, ii. 25, hide.
Feloy, ii. 25, fellow.
Fend, ii. 21;
fende, ii. 59, defend.
Fendys pray, i. 125, the prey of the fiends.
Fere, ii. 36, fear.
Fere, i. 64, 68, 73, 156, ii. 20, mate, play-feres, i. 59, play-fellows.
Ferly, ii. 19, wonder;
also wonderfully, ii, 25.
Ferlyng, ii. 8, furlong.
Ferr, i. 62, far.
Fersly, i. 160, fiercely.
Fesaunt, i. 42, pheasant.
Fest, ii. 27, feast.
Fet, ii. 128, iii. [193];
fett, i. 286;
fette, i. 50, 68, fetched;
deepe-fette, i. 76, deep-drawn.
Fethe, i. 29, faith.
Fettle, i. 116;
fetteled, i. 108;
fettled, i. 113, 116, prepared, addressed, made ready.
Fey, ii. 118, predestinated to some misfortune.
Feyytyng, ii. 19, fighting.
Fie, ii. 82, sheep or cattle.
Fier, i. 149, fire.
Filde, field.
Filinge, iii. [63], defiling.
Fillan, iii. [134], filling.
Finaunce, i. 125, fine, forfeiture.
Find frost, find mischance or disaster.
Firth, ii. 85, copse, wood.
Fit, i. 27;
fitt, ii. 177;
fytte, i. 44, part or division of a song.
Fitts, i.e. divisions or parts in music, are alluded to in "Troilus and Cressida," act. iii. sc. 1.
(See Steevens's note.) P.
Fit, foot, feet;
a fit, ii. 70, on foot.
Flatred, ii. 25, slit.
Flayne, iii. [25], flayed.
Flearing, i. 215, sneering.
Flee, iii. [97], fly.
Fles, ii. 24, fleece.
Fleyke, ii. 134, a large kind of hurdle;
cows are frequently milked in hovels made of fleyks.
Flindars, iii. [97], pieces, splinters.
Flix, iii. flux.
Flote, i. 201.
To flote is to flete or fleet, to flit, to change position easily, to move away quickly; as fleeting moments, flitting birds
Flote and flete are two forms of the same word; and flutter bears the same relation to flote that flitter does to flete.
In the Roxburghe copy of the ballad of Willow, Willow this word is printed as "fleet." (Roxb. Ballads, ed. Chappell, part i. p. 172.)
Flout, ii. 179;
floute, i. 197, to sneer;
fflouting, i. 289.
Flowan, ii. 364, flowing.
Flude, ii. 364, flood.
Flyte, i. 196, 281, 288, to contend with words, scold.
Fole, iii. [108], foal.
Fonde, ii. 12, contrive, endeavour, try.
Foo, i. 50, foe.
Fooder, ii. 66, wine tun;
Germ. fuder.
For, on account of.
For but, ii. 146, unless.
Forbode, commandment.
Force, no force, no matter.
Forced, ii. 76, regarded, heeded.
Forefend, i. 268;
forfend, ii. 97, prevent, defend, avert, hinder.
Forewearied, over-wearied.
Forfeebled, ii. 107, enfeebled.
For-fought, ii. 25, over-fought.
Fors, ii. 21, strength.
Fors. I do no fors, ii. 16, I don't care.
Forsede, i. 122, heeded, regarded.
Forst, ii. 76, regarded.
Forthynketh, i. 174, repenteth, vexeth, troubleth.
Forthy, therefore.
Forwarde, i. 44, van.
Forewatcht, ii. 77, over-wakeful, kept awake.
Fosters of the fe, i. 175, foresters of the king's demesnes.
Fot pot, ii. 9, with his foot push on.
Fote, i. 49, foot.
Fou, i. 147, iii. [75];
fow, iii. [99], full, also fuddled.
Fowkin, ii. 22, crepitus ventris.
Fox't, drunk.
Frae, i. 144, from.
Fraemang, ii. 107, from among.
Fraid i. 323, afraid.
Freake, i. 31, man, person, human creature.
Freake, a whim or maggot.
Freckys, i. 29, men.
Freers, ii. 128;
fryars, friars.
Freits, i. 146, ill omens, ill-luck.
Freke, i. 49, ii. 25, man;
frekys, ii. 25, men.
Freyke, ii. 135, humour, freak.
Freyke, i. 29, strong man.
Freyned, ii. 134, asked;
freyned that freake, ii. 134, asked that man.
Frie, ii. 82;
free.
Fro, i. 159;
froe, i. 106, 139, from.
Fruward, forward.
Furth, ii. 21, forth.
Fuyson, i. 123;
foyson, plenty, also substance.
Fyer, ii. 55, 105, fire;
fyerye, iii. [118], fiery.
Fyers, fierce.
Fyhte, ii. 12, fight.
Fykkill, i. 123, fickle.
Fyl'd, iii. [147], defiled.
Fyll, i. 121, fell.
Ga, ii. 24;
go;
gais, ii. 83, goes.
Ga, ii. 113, gave.
Gaberlunyie, ii. 71, a wallet;
gaberlunyie man, ii. 67, a tinker, beggar, one who carried a wallet.
Gade, iii. [122], went.
Gadelyngys, ii. 20, gadders, idle fellows.
Gaderyd, ii. 27, gathered.
Gadryng, ii. 22, gathering.
Gae, ii. 70, gave.
Gae, i. 143;
gaes, ii. 69, go, goes.
Gaed, ii. 69, went.
Gair, ii. 86, strip of land.
Gair, i. 59, geer, dress.
Gait, iii. [95], gate.
Galliard, ii. 162, a sprightly kind of dance.
Gamon, i. 67, to make game, to sport.
A.-S. gamenian jocari.
Gan, i. 63, 129, 309, ii. 68, began.
Gan, i. 30;
gane, i. 30, ii. 69, gone.
Gang, i. 83, ii. 69, go.
Ganyde, i. 28, gained.
Gar, ii. 70;
iii. [94], gare, garre, i. 44, make, cause, force, &c.;
gars, i. 321, makes.
Gard, iii. [97];
garde, i. 28;
garred,
garr'd, ii. 117;
gart, iii. [97], made.
Gargeyld, i. 128, from gargouille, the spout of a gutter.
The tower was adorned with spouts cut in the figures of greyhounds, lions, &c.
Garland, i. 111, the ring within which the prick or mark was set to be shot at.
Garth, ii. 391 garden, yard.
Gat, i. 146, got.
Gate, i. 108, way.
Gaup, ii. 139, gapes, waits.
Gear, i. 322, iii. [122], goods, effects, stuff.
Gederede ys host, ii. 8, gathered his host.
Geere, i. 274, 288, property.
Gef, ii. 31, give.
Geid, gave.
Geir, ii. 69, gear, property.
Gerte, iii. [357], pierced.
Gesse, ii. 49, guess.
Gest, ii. 85, act, feat, story, history.
Gettyng, i. 43, booty.
Geud, i. 103, good.
Geve, ii. 53, give.
Gibed, jeered.
Gi', i. 145;
gie, i. 145, give;
gied, i. 321, gave.
Giff, i. 322;
giffe, ii. 57, if.
Gilderoy, i. 320, red boy (or gillie);
Gaelic, Gille ruadh (pronounced roy).
Gillore, ii. 361, plenty.
Gimp, ii. 110, neat, slender.
Gin, i. 60, iii. [74], if.
Gin, iii. [203];
Ginn, iii. [53];
engine, contrivance.
Gins, ii. 53, begins.
Give, ii. 237;
if.
Glave, ii. 115, sword.
Glede, i. 26, a red-hot coal.
Glent, i. 24, glanced.
Glente, iii. [356], slipped aside.
Gleyinge, i. 408, minstrelsy.
Glist, ii. 110, glistered.
Glose, i. 120, gloss over.
Glowr, iii. [75], stare or frown.
Gloze, iii. [203], canting, dissimulation, fair outside.
God before, God be thy guide, a form of blessing.
So in Shakespeare's "King Hen. V." (A. iii. sc. 8) the King says:—
"My army's but a weak and sickly guard;
Yet, God before, tell him we will come on." P.
Gode, ii. 21, good.
Gods-pennie, ii. 140, earnest money.
Gon, ii. 21, began.
Gone, go.
Good, a good deal.
Good-e'ens, ii. 68, good evenings.
Good-se peny, ii. 147, earnest money.
Gorget, ii. 57, the dress of the neck.
Gorrel-bellyed, ii. 346, pot-bellied.
Gowan, ii. 364, the common yellow crowfoot or gold cup, daisy.
Gowd, i. 145, iii. [75], gold;
gowden glist, ii. 110, shone like gold;
gowden graith'd, ii. 230, caparisoned with golden accoutrements.
Graine, i. 158, i. 197, scarlet.
Graith'd, ii. 230, caparisoned.
Gramarye, i. 91;
grammarye, i. 92, grammar, abstruse learning.
Gramercy, i. 173;
gramercye, ii. 95, I thank you.
Fr. grand-mercie.
Graunge;
peakish graunge, i. 299, a lone country house.
Graythed, ii. 21, made ready.
Gre, ii. 21, prize.
Grea-hondes, i. 24, grey-hounds.
Grece, i. 129, step, flight of steps.
Greece, fat;
hart of greece, i. 170, a fat hart. Fr. graisse.
Greet, iii. [100], weep.
Grein, iii. [75], green.
Gresse, i. 43, iii. [62], grass.
Gret, ii. 12, grieved.
Greves, i. 24, groves, bushes.
Grippel, ii. 254, griping, tenacious, miserly.
Grone, iii. groan.
Ground-wa', i. 145, groundwall.
Growynde, i. 48, 49, ground.
Grownes, ii. 256, grounds.
Growte, ii. 256.
In Northamptonshire is a kind of small beer extracted from the malt after the strength has been drawn off. In Devon it is a kind of sweet ale medicated with eggs, said to be a Danish liquor. (Growte is a kind of fare much used by Danish sailors, being boiled groats, i.e. hulled oats, or else shelled barley, served up very thick, and butter added to it.—Mr. Lambe.) P.
Grype, ii. 57, a griffin.
Grysely groned, i. 49, dreadfully groaned.
Gude, ii. 70, 82, good.
Guerdon, iii. [18], reward.
Guid, i. 83, good.
Gule, iii. [7], red.
Gyb, ii. 22, nickname of Gilbert.
Gybe, ii. 257, jibe, jest, joke;
gybing, ii. 260.
Gyle, gyles, guile, guiles.
Gyn, ii. 9, engine, contrivance.
Gyrd, ii. 22, girded, lashed.
Gyrdyl, ii. 22, girdle.
Gyse, guise, form, fashion.
Ha, i. 196, has;
hae, ii. 71, have;
haes, iii. [235], has.
Ha', i. 84, iii. [94], hall;
ha's, ii. 109, halls.
Habbe ase he brew, ii. 8, have as he brews.
Habergeon, a lesser coat of mail.
Hable, i. 121, able.
Hach-borde, ii. 193, probably that part of the bulwark of the ship which is removed to form the gangway or entrance on board,—in fact, the "hatch"—(or half-door) "board."
Haif, ii. 82, have.
Haggis, ii. 132, a sheep's stomach stuffed with a pudding made of mince-meat, &c.
Hail, ii. 83, healthful.
Hair, ii. 81, 86, hoar or grey.
Halch, iii. [325], salute.
Halched, i. 280, saluted, embraced, fell on his neck.
Halesome, ii. 142, wholesome healthy.
Halse, iii. [75], the neck, throat.
Halt, ii. 16, holdeth.
Ham, ii. 21, them.
Hame, i. 143, home;
hameward, ii. 84, homeward.
Han, ii. 13, have.
Handbow, the long-bow or common bow, as distinguished from the cross-bow.
Hap, i. 255;
happ, iii. [138];
happe, i. 283, fortune;
hap, i. 287, chance, happen, i. 303.
Hard, ii. 312, heard.
Hare ... swerdes, ii. 8, their ... swords.
Harflue, ii. 30, Harfleur.
Harlocke, i. 307, perhaps charlock, or wild rape, which bears a yellow flower, and grows among corn, &c.
Harneis, i. 273, armour.
Harnisine, ii. 112, harness, armour.
Harrowe, i. 280, harass.
Harowed, i. 164, harassed, disturbed.
Hart, iii. [128], heart;
hartes, i. 50;
harts, i. 138;
hartis, i. 147.
Hartely, ii. 38, earnestly.
Hartly lust, i. 124, hearty desire.
Harwos, ii. 27, harrows.
Haryed, i. 41, 22, pillaged.
Hastarddis, i. 120, perhaps hasty, rash fellows, or upstarts.
Hatcht, ii. 77, seized.
Hauld, i. 143, hold.
Hauss bone, iii. [75], the neck bone (halse bone), a phrase for the neck.
Have owre, i. 102, half over.
Haves, ii. 20, effects, substance, riches.
Haveth, ii. 8, has.
Haviour, i. 304, behaviour.
Hawberke, i. 66, a coat of mail, consisting of iron rings, &c.
Hawkin, ii. 19, diminutive of Harry, from Halkin.
Haylle, i. 43, hale, strong.
He, i. 171, hie, hasten.
He, i. 24, high.
Heal, i. 29, hail.
Hear, i. 103, here.
Heare, ii. 77;
heares, hair, hairs.
Heathynesse, iii. [40], heathendom.
Heawying, i. 31, hewing, hacking.
Hech, ii. 27, hatch, half door of a cottage (sometimes spelt heck).
"Dogs leap the hatch," King Lear, act. iii. sc. 6.
"'He'll have to ride the hatch' is a familiar phrase about Looe, and signifies 'He'll be brought to trial.' It is generally used jocosely in the case of any loud professor of religion who has been 'overtaken in a fault;' and the idea is that his trial will be the ordeal of attempting to ride or sit on the top or narrow edge of a hatch or half-door, when if he maintain his seat he will be pronounced innocent, if he fall he is guilty. If he fall inwards (i.e. within the room or building), he will be pardoned, but if he fall outwards, he will be excommunicated." W. Pengelly (Devonshire Association Report, vol. vii. p. 488).
Hecht to lay thee law, promised (engaged) to lay the law.
Hed, hede, head;
hedys, ii. 25, heads.
Hede, ii. 12, had.
Hede, hied.
Hee, i. 42, high.
Heele, i. 291, he will.
Hees, ii. 70, he is.
Heght, ii. 117, promised.
Heiding hill, ii. 231, the heading (or beheading) hill. The place of execution was anciently an artificial hillock.
Heigh, iii. [94], high.
Heil, ii. 81, health.
Heir, ii. 83, here;
also hear;
herid, iii. [96], heard.
Hele, ii. 42, health.
Helen, ii. 15, heal.
Helpeth, ii. 12, help ye.
Hem, ii. 13, them.
Hend, i. 72, i. 74, 80, kind, gentle, courteous.
Henne, ii. 8, hence.
Hent, ii. 26, laid hold of.
Hepps and hawes, ii. 284, hips and haws.
Herault, ii. 59, herald.
Her, ii. 393, hear.
Her, ii. 35, their.
Here, ii. 42, hair.
Herkneth, ii. 7, hearken ye.
Herry, ii. 19, Harry.
Hert, i. 59, heart.
Hes, ii. 80, has.
Hest, hast.
Hest, i. 67, command, injunction.
Het, ii. 346, heated.
Hete, ii. 41, heat.
Hether, hither.
Hether, heather, heath.
Hett, iii. [6], bid, call, command.
Heuch, ii. 86, rock or steep hill.
Hevede, ii. 9, had, hadst;
hevedest, ii. 12.
Hevenriche, ii. 12, heavenly.
Hewberke, i. 72, coat of mail.
Hewkes, iii. [26], party-coloured coats of the heralds.
Hewyns in to, hewn in two.
Hey-day guise, iii. [204], rustic dances, a corruption of "heydegies."
Heynd, ii. 82, gentle, obliging.
Heyye, ii. 13, high.
Hi, hie, he.
Hicht, a-hicht, on height.
Hie, i. 32, high;
hier, ii. 169, higher;
hire, iii. [324].
Hight, i. 29, 270, 286, promise, promised, engaged, also named, called.
Hilt, ii. 98, taken off, flayed.
Hinch boys, pages of honour.
Hind, ii. 70, behind.
Hinde, i. 32, gentle.
Hings, iii. [97], hangs.
Hinnible, iii. [304], horse, or pony.
Hinny, ii. 84, honey.
Hip, iii. [99], the berry which contains the stones or seeds of the dog-rose.
Hir, i. 143;
hire, iii. [207], her;
hir lain, iii. [95], herself alone.
Hird, ii. 81, herd.
Hirsel, i. 143, herself.
Hit, ii. 13, it;
hit be write, ii. 12, it be written.
Hode, i. 164, hood, cap.
Holden, ii. 14, hold.
Hole, i. 124, 126, iii. [280], whole.
Hollen, iii. [325], holly.
Holp, i. 120, help;
holpe, iii. [32], helped.
Holt, ii. 140, wood.
Holtes, i. 42, woods, groves.
In Norfolk a plantation of cherry-trees is called a "cherry holt." P.
Holtis hair, ii. 81, 86, hoary or grey woods or heaths.
"Holtes seems evidently to signify hills in the following passage from Turberville's "Songs and Sonnets," 12mo. 1567, fol. 56:—
"Yee that frequent the hilles,
And highest Holtes of all;
Assist me with your skilfull quilles,
And listen when I call."
"As also in this other verse of an ancient poet:—
"Underneath the Holtes so hoar." P.
Holy, wholly.
Holy-rode, ii. 22, holy cross;
holye rood, ii. 56.
Honde, hand;
honden wrynge, ii. 11, hands wring.
Hondert, i. 50, hundred.
Hondrith, i. 24, 25, 30, 32, 34, hundred.
Hong, ii. 77;
honge, i. 161, hang; hung, i. 308.
Hooly, iii. [134], slowly, gently.
Hophalt, limping, hopping, and halting.
Hore, iii. [327], whore.
Hount, i. 26, hunt.
Houzle, ii. 60, give the sacrament.
Hoved, i. 129, heaved;
hovered, i. 43.
Howers, ii. 234, hours.
Huche, ii. 81, wood, or a shed.
Hud, ii. 23, proper name.
Hue, ii. 12, she.
A.-S. heo; refers to huerte, which is feminine. It is an interesting example of the continuance of a grammatical gender in English.
Huerte trewe, ii. 11, true heart.
Huggle, iii. [72], hug, clasp.
Hull, i. 307, hill.
Hur, ii. 20;
hurr, ii. 24, her.
Hye, i. 136, high, highest;
hyest, ii. 59;
hyer, iii. [63], hire.
Hyght, i. 44, promised or engaged.
Hyght, high;
on hyght, i. 41, 47, aloud.
Hyllys, i. 32, hills.
Hynd out o'er, ii. 115, over the country.
Hyp-halte, ii. 27, lame in the hip.
Hyrdyllys, ii. 27, hurdles.
Hys, ii. 20, his.
Hyssylton, ii. 19, Islington.
Hyt, hytt, ii. 49, it.
Hyyt, ii. 20, promised.
I-clipped, i. 129, called.
I-feth, i. 29, in faith.
I-lore, ii. 13, lost.
I-strike, ii. 16, stricken, struck.
I-trowe, verily.
I-tuned, tuned.
I-ween, verily.
I-wis, i. 276, verily;
I-wys, i. 68, 70.
I-wot, verily.
Ich, ii. 286, I;
ich biqueth, ii. 12, I bequeath.
Ich, ii. 22;
icha, ii. 25, each.
Ide, iii. [72], I would.
Ild, ii. 69, I'd, I would.
Ile, i. 196, I'll, I will.
Illfardly, ii. 70, ill-favouredly, uglily.
Ilk, same;
this ilk, this same.
Ilk on, ii. 21, each one;
ilka, ilke, every;
ilka ane, iii. [122], every one.
Im, i. 103, him.
Ime, i. 198, ii. 57, I am.
Incontinent, iii. [187], forthwith.
In fere, ii. 36, together, in company.
Ingle, ii. 68, fire.
Inogh, ii. 26, enough;
inoughe, ii. 147, enough.
Into, iii. [238], in.
Intres, i. 129, entrance, admittance.
Irke, ii. 148, angry.
Is, i. 149, ii. 8, his.
Ise, ii. 211, iii. [236], I shall.
I'st, i. 289, 292, I'll.
It's neir, it shall never.
Iye, i. 432, eye.
Janglers, ii. 85, talkative persons, wranglers, tell-tales.
Jear, ii. 118, derision.
Jetted, iii. [186], strutted, or went proudly.
Jille, iii. [77], used here as a man's name.
Jimp, i. 145, slender.
Jo, i. 320, ii. 132, sweetheart, friend, contraction of joy.
Jogelers, i. 441, jugglers.
Jow, iii. [134], single stroke in tolling.
Juncates, iii. [202], junket, curds and clouted cream.
Jupe, ii. 116, an upper garment.
Kall, i. 125, call.
Kame, iii. [147], comb;
kameing, iii. [97], combing.
Kan, i. 123, 430, can.
Kantle, iii. [26], piece, corner.
Karlis of kynde, i. 120, churls by nature.
Kauk, ii. 71, chalk.
Kauld, i. 103, called.
Keel, ii. 71, ruddle.
Keepe, i. 309, ii. 256, care, heed.
So in the old play of "Hick Scorner," "I keepe not to clymbe so hye;" i.e. I study not, care not, &c.
Keip, ii. 82, keep;
ii. 84, watch.
Keipand, ii. 82, keeping.
Kell, iii. [101], net for a woman's hair.
Kembe, iii. [100], [186], to comb;
kembing, iii. [102], combing;
kemb'd, iii. [302], combed.
Kempe, i. 90, 94, ii. 183, soldier, warrior.
Kemperye man, i. 94, soldier, fighting man.