arblast, I, 311 a: cross-bow.
archborde, III, 340, 23, 29 (in 29, MS. charke-bord): may be a misspelling of hachebord, st. 36 (hatch-bord, p. 342, 70). Barton grappled the ship to his archborde, from which we should infer that the word meant the side of the ship, as hatch-bord would naturally signify at p. 342, 70. But archborde might of itself mean the stern of the ship, a timber at the stern being still so called, and German hack-bord meaning the upper part of the stern of a ship. (It is singular that none of the difficult words archborde, hachebord, hall (III, 340, 29) occur in the York copy, IV, 503, which, however, has difficulties of its own.)
archery, III, 309, 41: collected archers.
arches, II, 307, 29: aims, shoots.
are, I, 327, 23: before.
armorie, I, 285, 34, seems to be employed in the sense of armament, men at arms.
armorye, III, 286, 56: armor.
arselins, V, [124], 12: backwards.
art, airt, quarter of the heavens. been at that art, III, 163, 87: in that quarter, at that place. See airt.
as, pron., I, 477, 6, 7, 13, 15; II, 4, D 4; 452, 14; V, [206] a, 1; b, 6: that, who.