Iuele, adv. S. evilly, 2755. Me yuele like, displease me, 132. Cf. [Ille liken].
Kam. See [Komen].
Kaske, adj. strong, vigorous, 1841. Sw. karsk.
Kaym, n. p. Cain, 2045. See [note in loc].
[Kayn], n. 31, 1327. Evidently a provincial pronunciation of Thayn, which in the MS. may elsewhere be read either chayn or thayn. By the same mutation of letters make has been converted into mate, cake into cate, wayke into wayte, lake into late (R. Hood, I. 106), &c., or vice versâ. See [Thayn].
Kaysere. See [Cayser].
Keft, part. pa. purchased, 2005. Sure keft = sourly (bitterly) purchased it. See Sure and [Coupe].
Keling, n. 757, cod of a large size, Jam. q.v. The kelyng appears in the first, course of Archb. Nevil’s Feast, 6 Edw. IV. See Warner’s Antiq. Cul. Cotgrave explains Merlus, A Melwall or Keeling, a kind of small cod, whereof stockfish is made.
Keme. See [Komen].
Kempe, n. S. knight, champion, 1036. V. Jam. in v.