"Germanis Camp, Exercitum, aut Locum ubi Exercitus castrametatur, significat: inde ipsis Vir Castrensis et Militaris kemffer, et kempher, et kemper, et kimber, et kamper, pro varietate dialectorum, vocatur: Vocabulum hoc nostro sermone nondum penitus exolevit; Nor folcienses enim plebeio et proletario sermone dicunt. 'He is a kemper old man, i.e. Senex Vegetus est:' Hinc Cimbris suum nomen: 'kimber enim Homo bellicosus, pugil, robustus miles, &c. significat.' Sheringham de Anglor. gentis. orig. pag. 57. Rectius autem Lazius [apud eundem, p. [49]]. 'Cimbros a bello quod kamff, et Saxonice kamp nuncupatos crediderim: unde bellatores viri Die Kempffer, Die Kemper.'" P.
Kems, i. 102, combs.
Ken, ii. 69, know;
kens, iii. [122], knows;
kenst, i. 196, knowest.
Kend, ii. 70, knew;
known, iii. [99];
kenn'd, ii. 365.
Kene, ii. 15, keen.
Kepand, ii. 81, keeping.
Kepers, i. 181. "Those that watch by the corpse shall tye up my winding-sheet." P.
Kester, i. 276, nickname for Christopher.
Kever chefes, kerchiefs or head covers.
(See vol. 3, p. [356].)
Kexis, ii. 27, elder sticks used for candles.
Kilted, iii. [132], tucked up.
Kind, nature. To carp is our kind, it is natural for us to talk of;
of hir kind, ii. 154, of her family.
Kirk, iii. [75];
kirke, i. 137, church;
kirk wa', iii. [238], church wall, or churchyard wall;
kirkyard, i. 243, iii. [132], churchyard.
Kirns to kirn, ii. 70, churns to churn.
Kirtle, i. 222, a petticoat, a woman's gown.
Kist, ii. 69, chest.
Kit, i. 123, cut.
Knave, servant.
Knaw, ii. 82, know.
Knellan, iii. [134], knelling, ringing the knell.
Knicht, iii. [237], knight.
Knight's fe, such a portion of land as required the possessor to serve with man and horse.
Knowles, knolls, little hills.
Knyled, i. 32, knelt.
Kowarde, i. 46, coward.
Kowe, ii. 21, cow.
Kuntrey, i. 124, country.
Kurteis, i. 125, courteous.
Kyd, ii. 21, shown.
Kye, ii. 134, kine, cows.
Kyrtel, ii. 42;
kyrtell, i. 65, petticoat, gown, a man's under garment.
"Bale, in his 'Actes of Eng. Votaries' (part ii. fol. 53), uses the word Kyrtle to signify a monk's frock. He says, Roger, Earl of Shrewsbury, when he was dying, sent 'to Clunyake, in France, for the kyrtle of holy Hugh the abbot there,' &c." P.
Kythe, i. 427, make appear, show, declare.
Kythed, appeared.
Laigh, ii. 117, low.
Laith, i. 101, ii. 70, loth.
Laithly, loathsome, hideous.
Laitl, i. 103, little.
Lamb's wool, iii. [183], a liquor composed of ale and roasted apples.
Lane, lain, lone;
her lane, ii. 69;
hir lain, iii. [95], alone by herself.
Lang, i. 101, ii. 20, long.
Lang'd, ii. 107, longed.
Langsome, i. 321, long, tedious.
Lap, iii. [93], [95], leaped.
Largesse, iii. [26], gift, liberality.
Lasse, ii. 13, less.
Late, ii. 47, let.
Latte, ii. 12, hinder.
Lauch, i. 101, laugh;
lauched, i. 101, laughed.
Launde, i. 170, clear space in a forest.
Lawlands, ii. 227, lowlands.
Lay, i. 79, law.
Layde, i. 291, lady.
Layden, i. 66, laid.
Layland, i. 66, 67, 79, green sward.
Laylands, i. 73, lands in general.
Layne, lain, laid.
Layne, i. 45, 46, deceive, break one's word.
Lazar, ii. 55, leper.
Leal, ii. 69, loyal, honest, true.
Leane, conceal, hide.
Lear'd, i. 307, pastured.
Lease, lying, falsehood;
withouten lease, i. 170, verily, without lying.
Lease, iii. [102], leash, thong, cord.
Leasynge, lying, falsehood.
Leaute, ii. 7, loyalty.
Lee, ii. 68, lea, field, pasture.
Lee, iii. [96], lie.
Leeche, i. 63, 75, 77, physician.
Leechinge, i. 63;
leedginge, i. 77, doctoring, medicinal care.
Leek, phrase of contempt.
Leel, ii. 112, true.
Leer, look.
Leeve London, i. 273, iii. [101], dear London.
Leever, i. 160, sooner.
Leeveth, i. 88, believeth.
Lefe, i. 173, dear.
Lefe, leave;
leves, leaves.
Leffe, leefe, dear.
Leid, iii. [96], lyed.
Leil, ii. 85, loyal, true.
Leir, ii. 82, learn;
lere, i. 306, learning.
Leive, i. 84, iii. [236], leave.
Leman, i. 186, 327;
leiman, i. 301;
lemman, iii. [97], lover, mistress.
Lemster wooll, i. 307, Leominster wool.
Lene, ii. 13, give.
Lenger, i. 64, ii. 20, longer.
Lengeth in, resideth in.
Lere, i. 72, face, countenance, complexion.
Lese, ii. 26, lose.
Lesynge, i. 174;
leasing, lying, falsehood.
Let, i. 24, hinder;
lett, ii. 85, hindrance.
Lett, i. 93, left or let be opened.
Lettest, i. 74, hinderest, detainest.
Letteth, i. 168, hindereth.
Lettyng, i. 172, hindrance, without delay.
Leugh, ii. 118;
leuche, ii. 81, laughed.
Leve, ii. 38, remain.
Lever, i. 46, 71, 75, 173, rather;
lever than, ii. 39, rather then.
Leves and bowes, ii. 42, leaves and boughs.
Lewd, i. 308;
leud, ii. 134, ignorant, scandalous.
Ley, iii. [123], lay.
Leyke, ii. 135, play.
Leyre, lere, learning, lore.
Libbard, leopard;
libbard's bane, iii. [198], the herb wolfbane.
Lichtly, iii. [147], lightly, easily.
Lig, i. 144, iii. [70], lie;
ligge, ii. 11;
liggd, ii. 83, lay.
Lightfoote, iii. [182], venison.
Lightile, i. 161, quickly.
Lightsome, i. 65, cheerful, sprightly.
Limber, ii. 260, supple, flexible.
Limitoures, iii. [208], friars licensed to beg within certain limits.
Limitatioun, iii. [208], a certain precinct allowed to a limitour.
Lingell, i. 308, a thread of hemp rubbed with resin, &c., used by rustics for mending their shoes.
Lire, flesh, complexion.
List, i. 256;
lith, ii. 11, lieth.
Lith, i. 156;
lithe, i. 268;
lythe, attend, hearken, listen.
Lither, i. 94, iii. [47], idle, lazy, naughty, worthless, wicked.
Live-lang, iii. [132], live-long.
Liver, i. 282, deliver.
Liverance, i. 282, 289, deliverance (money or a pledge for delivering you up).
Livor, i. 289, deliver.
Load;
lay on load, i. 74, give blows.
Lodly, ii. 63;
lodlye, ii. 56, loathsome.
Loe, ii. 70, iii. [99], love;
lo'ed, iii. [98], loved.
Logeyng, i. 43, lodging.
Loht, ii. 9;
be the luef, be the loht, whether you like it or loathe it.
Loke, i. 308, lock of wool.
Lokyd, ii. 73;
lokyde, i. 25, looked.
Lome, ii. 63, man, object.
Lond, iii. [207], land.
Longes, i. 218, belongs;
longeth, ii. 43, belongeth.
Longs, i. 30, lungs.
Looket, i. 149, looked.
Loone, ii. 145, idle fellow.
Looset, i. 115, loosed.
Lope, i. 65, 80, ii. 217, leapt.
Lore, ii. 9, 13, teaching, lesson, doctrine, learning.
Lore, lost.
Lorrel, i. 441, a sorry, worthless person.
Losel, ii. 134, 145, the same as Lorrel.
Lothly, ii. 142, loathsome.
"The adverbial terminations -some and -ly were applied indifferently by our old writers: thus, as we have lothly for loathsome above, so we have ugsome in a sense not very remote from ugly in Lord Surrey's version of Æn. 2nd, viz.—
"'In every place the ugsome sightes I saw' (p. [29])." P.
Loud and still, ii. 82, openly and secretly.
Lough, i. 95, laugh;
lought, ii. 282, laughed.
Loun, i. 322, loon, rascal.
Lounge, iii. [357], lung.
Lourd, iii. [100], rather (?)
Lout, ii. 117;
loute, ii. 26, stoop.
Louted, i. 72;
lowtede, bowed, did obeisance.
Lowe, i. 114, a little hill.
Lowne, i. 198, rascal.
Lowns, ii. 113, blazes.
Lowttede, i. 120, crouched.
Lude, ii. 82, loved.
Lued, i. 323, loved.
Luef, ii. 9, love.
Lues, iii. [75], loves, love.
Lugh, ii. 26, laughed.
Luik, i. 146, look;
luiks, i. 146, looks;
luikt, ii. 229, looked.
Luivt, ii. 82, loved.
Lung, ii. 28, long.
Lurden, i. 163;
lurdeyne, sluggard, drone.
Lust, ii. 42, desire.
Luve, i. 320, love;
luver, ii. 212, lover.
Luvely, i. 143, lovely.
Lyan, iii. [134], lying.
Lyard, ii. 9, grey; a name given to a horse from its grey colour, as Bayard from bay.
Lyff, ii. 49, life.
Lyk, i. 28;
lyke, ii. 38, like.
Lynde, i. 168;
lyne, i. 112, the lime-tree.
Lys, ii. 12, lies.
Lystenyth, iii. [371], listen.
Lyth, i. 306, easy, gentle, pliant, flexible, lithesome.
Lyvar, i. 30, liver
Lyven na more, live no more, no longer.
Lyyt, ii. 27, light;
lyytly, ii. 26, lightly.
Mad, ii. 24, made.
Mahound, i. 88, Mahomet.
Maining, ii. 211, moaning.
Mair, ii. 84, more, most.
Maist, i. 42, mayest.
Mait, iii. [99], might, may.
Majeste, maist, mayeste, may'st.
Makes, i. 50, ii. 78, mates.
Making, versifying.
Makys, i. 33, mates.
"As the words make and mate were, in some cases, used promiscuously by ancient writers, so the words cake and cate seem to have been applied with the same indifferency; this will illustrate that common English proverb, 'to turn cat (i.e. cate) in pan.' A pancake is in Northamptonshire still called a pancate." P.
Male, i. 28, coat of mail;
shirt of male, ii. 233.
Manchet, iii. [206], best kind of white bread.
Mane, i. 26, man.
Mangonel, ii. 8, a military engine used for discharging great stones, arrows, &c., before the invention of gunpowder.
March perti, i. 33;
march partes, i. 34, in the parts lying upon the marches.
March-pine, i. 306;
marchpane, a kind of biscuit.
Mare ii. 25, more.
Margarite, ii. 328, a pearl.
Mark, a coin, in value 13s. 4d.
Marke hym to the Trenité, commit himself to God.
Marrow, ii. 109, 363, match, or equal companion.
Mart, ii. 82, marred, hurt, damaged.
Marvelit, iii. [238], marvelled.
Mast, maste, may'st.
Masterye, i. 110;
maystery, i. 176, a trial of skill.
Maugre, ii. 8;
mauger, i. 23, in spite of.
Maugre, ii. 83, ill will.
Maun, i. 84, 143, 145, must.
Mavis, iii. [97], a thrush.
Mawt, iii. [123], malt.
May, i. 63, 113;
maye, i. 46, maid.
Mayne, i. 122, force, strength.
Mayne, a horse's mane.
Mayny, i. 120, a company.
Maze, a labyrinth, anything entangled or intricate.
"On the top of Catherine-hill, Winchester (the usual play-place of the school), was a very perplexed and winding path, running in a very small space over a great deal of ground, called a Miz-Maze. The senior boys obliged the juniors to tread it, to prevent the figure from being lost, as I am informed by an ingenious correspondent." P.