| backbite (v.) | Old class(s): backe-bite | | slander, revile, speak badly [of someone] | | Headword location(s) | | |  | | backfriend (due north.) | Old form(due south): back friend | | false friend, someone who gives a pat on the back in an plain friendly way | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | backsword (adj.) | Old class(s): Back-Sword | | a basket-hilted sword with a single-edged bract and a thin back; later on, a sword-like stick with a basketwork hilt, used in fencing practise | come across likewise Weapons | Headword location(south) | | | | | | backwardly (adv.) | | | unfavourably, in a lowly manner; also: in reverse lodge of priority | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | baffle (v.) | Old class(s): baffel'd | | [of a knight] publicly disgrace, treat with infamy | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | bailiff (n.) | Old form(s): Bayliffe | | sheriff'due south officeholder who serves writs, carries out arrests, etc | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | baldric, baldrick (due north.) | Erstwhile grade(south): baldricke, Bauldricke | | leather shoulder chugalug, strap [for holding a bugle, sword, etc] | see as well Weapons | Headword location(south) | | | | | | balk, baulk (v.) | Erstwhile form(s): Cramp'd | | fall on ridges betwixt furrows; pile upwardly in mounds | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | bancrout, bankrout, bankerout (northward./adj./5.) | Onetime grade(south): backrout , banckrout , bankrupt | | bankrupt | | Headword location(south) | | | | | | bank (5.) | Old grade(s): bank'd | | [unclear meaning] put in a bank, win; pass by [as in a boat] | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | banneret (n.) | One-time class(s): bannarets | | standard of a knight entitled to lead his own body of troops | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | banquet, running | Old form(s): Banket | | light meal taken hurriedly, quickly served repast | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | barbarism (n.) | Old form(s): Barbarisme | | savagery, people in the about uncivilized state | | Headword location(south) | | | | | | blank-gnawn (adj.) | Old form(s): bare-gnawne | | totally consumed, worn abroad to nothing | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | bark about (v.) | Sometime form(s): bak'd | | encrust, form a crust [cover equally with tree-bark] | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | barley-break (north.) | Old class(s): Barly breake | | blazon of country game in which a couple occupies a den [nicknamed 'hell'] in the centre of a [barley] field, and tries to catch other couples, who may separate [break] when well-nigh to exist caught | | Headword location(southward) | | | | | | arid-spirited (adj.) | One-time form(s): arid spirited | | dull-minded, lacking the spirit to reply | | Headword location(southward) | | | | | | barricado (v.) | Former form(south): barracado | | fortify, defend, protect [equally with a barricade] | | Headword location(southward) | | | | | | base-courtroom (n.) | Old form(s): base of operations Courtroom | | [of a castle] lower courtyard, servants' courtyard | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | baseness (north.) | Old form(s): basenes , basenesse | | socially inferior trait, plebeian quality | | Headword location(south) | | | | | | baseness (n.) | Former form(s): basenesse, basenesse | | cowardice, degenerateness, deposition | | Headword location(southward) | | | | | | baseness (due north.) | Erstwhile form(southward): basenes, basenesse | | lowly activeness, contemptible work | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | basilisk (northward.) | One-time form(s): Basiliske, Basiliskes, Basilisque | | mythical snake which killed with its expect | | Headword location(southward) | | | | | | bate (v.) | Erstwhile form(s): baite, Bayted , bayting | | [falconry] beat the wings, flutter | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | battalia (n.) | Onetime form(s): Battaliaes | | large body of troops arrayed for battle, marshalled forcefulness | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | battle (n.) | One-time grade(s): Battaile , Battailes, Battell, battells , Battels | | regular army, fighting force, battalion | | Headword location(south) | | | | | | battle (n.) | One-time grade(s): Battaile, battailes , Battell | | battle assortment, war formation, ranks of soldiers | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | bay (n.) | Old form(s): baies, Bayes | | foliage of the bay-tree [used as a herb; symbol of triumph] | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | beadsman (n.) | Quondam class(s): beades-homo, Beads-men | | almsman, pensioner [who prays for others] | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | beam (n.) | Old course(south): beame, beames | | accomplish, range, line [of the eye, thought of as emitting beams of calorie-free] | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | deport (v.), past forms bore, borne | Old form(s): beare | | behave in mind, proceed note of | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | bear (five.), past forms bore, borne | Old form(s): beare | | sustain, carry through, continue going | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | bear (v.), past forms bore, borne | One-time form(southward): beare , beares | | carry on, manage, conduct [an affair] | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | carry (v.), past forms diameter, borne | Old form(s): beare | | behave, look, conduct [oneself] | | Headword location(due south) | | | | | | deport (5.), past forms bore, borne | Sometime course(s): beare , beares | | keep, nowadays, evidence | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | behave (v.), past forms bore, borne | Old form(south): beare, beares | | tolerate, endure, put up with | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | bear (v.), by forms diameter, borne | One-time form(s): beare | | bring forth, produce, yield | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | conduct (five.), past forms bore, borne | Old form(south): beares | | control, manage, take charge of | | Headword location(due south) | | | | | | comport (v.), past forms diameter, borne | Old class(s): beare | | carry away, accept as a companion | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | conduct (v.), past forms bore, borne | Old form(s): beare | | exist endowed with, have, possess | | Headword location(south) | | | | | | bear (five.), past forms bore, borne | One-time course(s): beare | | escort, accompany, keep with | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | behave down (v.) | Old class(s): beare downe , beares downe | | overwhelm, put downwards, overcome | | Headword location(southward) | | | | | | acquit in hand | Sometime grade(s): beare , beares | | abuse, take advantage of, delude, deceive | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | bear in paw | Old form(s): beare | | encourage with simulated hopes, foster expectation in | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | behave out (v.) | Former class(southward): beare , beare out, beares | | endure, weather, cope [with] | | Headword location(south) | | | | | | bearherd, conduct-herd, bearard, bearward, berrord (n.) | Old grade(s): Beare-heard, Berard , Berrord | | behave-keeper, behave-handler [for dancing or baiting] | | Headword location(due south) | | | | | | bearing-cloth (n.) | Old course(due south): bearing Material,, bearing-cloath | | christening garment, baptismal shawl | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | beauty-waning (adj.) | Former class(south): Beautie-waining | | of fading looks, of diminishing beauty | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | beckoning (n.) | Old form(s): beckning | | signal, significant gesture, meaningful sign | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | go (five.) | Old form(due south): becom | | put a good front on, give a pleasing appearance to | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | bedashed (adj.) | Old form(south): bedash'd | | dashed near, bespattered, splashed about | | Headword location(south) | | | | | | Bedlam (n./adj.) | Old form(s): Bedlem | | colloquial form of Bethlehem Hospital for the insane, in London | see likewise London | Headword location(s) | | | | | | bed-swerver (n.) | Old class(s): Bed-swaruer | | person unfaithful to the wedlock-bed, adulterer/adulteress | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | beefiness-witted (adj.) | Old form(south): beefe-witted | | beef-brained, thick-headed, dotterel | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | beer / ale, small | Old form(south): Beere | | trivialities, trifles, matters of picayune consequence | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | beest-eating (adj.) | One-time class(s): beast eating | | drinking the milk produced later the birth of a calf [considered undrinkable, except past rustics] | | Headword location(due south) | | | | | | beggar (v.) | Quondam form(due south): begger'd | | reduce to beggary, impoverish, make destitute | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | measly (adj.) | Old form(s): beggerly | | destitute, impoverished, poverty-stricken | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | beguile (v.) | Old form(s): beguild , be-guil'd , beguil'd | | amuse, captivate, bewitch | | Headword location(due south) | | | | | | behalf (north.), peculiarly: in behalf (of) | Old form(due south): behalfe | | respect, aspect, consideration | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | behalf (n.), especially: in behalf (of) | Old course(due south): behalfe | | advantage, involvement, benefit | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | behalf (due north.), especially: in behalf (of) | Old grade(s): behalfe | | proper noun, right, title | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | behaviour (n.) | Quondam class(south): Behauiour | | courtly behaviour, fine manners, etiquette | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | behove (five.) | Old form(s): Behooues , behoue , behoues | | befits, be appropriate to, be due to | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | behoveful, behoofeful (adj.) | Old class(south): behoouefull | | needful, necessary, useful | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | confute (v.) | Old form(s): exist lyde, beli'd , bely , belye , belyed | | slander, tell lies nigh | | Headword location(due south) | | | | | | bellman (northward.) | Old form(due south): Bong-man | | bell-ringer who announces an impending death [as of a condemned prisoner] | | Headword location(southward) | | | | | | bell-wether (n.) | Old form(s): Bell-weather condition, Belweather | | leading sheep of a flock [wearing a bong]; cuckold [of a ram, considering horned] | | Headword location(southward) | | | | | | belly-god (north.) | Former form(s): belly god | | someone who makes a god of the belly, guzzler | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | bereave (v.) | Old form(s): bereaued , bereaues | | have away [from], deprive, deny, rob | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | berhyme, exist-rime (5.) | Quondam course(s): berimd, berime | | celebrate in rhyme, put into rhyme | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | beseem (v.) | Old form(s): beseeme , beseemes | | befit, be fitting [for], be seemly [for] | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | bespeak (five.), by forms bespake, bespoke | Old form(s): bespake , bespeake | | address, speak to | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | indicate (v.), past forms bespake, bespoke | Old grade(due south): bespeake | | speak for, accommodate for, merits | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | bespeak (5.), by forms bespake, bespoke | Old form(s): bespeake | | ask for, order, request | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | best-conditioned (adj.) | Old form(s): all-time condition'd | | all-time-natured, of finest character | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | best-tempered (adj.) | Old form(south): best temperd , best temper'd | | most skilfully crafted, of the finest quality [as of metal] | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | bethink (five.), past form bethought | Old class(south): Bethinke | | resolve, determine, have a mind | | Headword location(due south) | | | | | | betime (v.) | Old form(s): be fourth dimension | | [unclear meaning] betide, befall, be advisable | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | bias (n.) | Former form(south): byas | | [weighting in a basin causing it to run obliquely] inclination, tendency, leaning | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | bias-drawing (n.) | Old form(s): bias drawing | | turning abroad from the truth, kleptomaniacal dealing | | Headword location(due south) | | | | | | bibble-babble (n.) | Old class(south): bibble babble, pibble bable | | chatter, gabble, empty talk | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | bid the base of operations / bass | | | claiming someone to a chase [from 'prisoner's base', a boy's chasing game] | | Headword location(south) | | | | | | nib (n.) | Old grade(south): Billes, bils | | [applied to diverse kinds of long-handled spear-like weapon] halberd; bill-claw | see besides Weapons | Headword location(due south) | | | | | | bird-bolt, burbolt (n.) | Old form(southward): Birdbolt | | brusque blunt-headed pointer for shooting birds | | Headword location(due south) | | | | | | birthright (n.) | Old course(due south): birth-correct | | inherited qualities, naturally endowed traits | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | bite ane'due south thumb | | | [gesture of insult or disobedience] insert the thumb nail into the mouth, making it click againt the upper teeth upon release | | Headword location(southward) | | | | | | blackamoor (n.) | Old class(due south): Black moores , Black-a-Moore, blackeaMoore | | night-skinned African | | Headword location(southward) | | | | | | blank charter, bare (n.) | Old course(due south): blanke , Blanke-charters, blankes | | promissory certificate with the corporeality to pay left open | | Headword location(due south) | | | | | | blazon (v.) | One-time form(southward): blason , type'st | | proclaim, display [as in a coat-of-arms] | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | cicatrice (v.) | Old form(s): blisterd | | raise blisters on [as if branded on the forehead as a whore]; tarnish, stain | | Headword location(south) | | | | | | blistered (adj.) | Old form(due south): blistred | | ornamented with puffs, displaying slashes to show the lining | | Headword location(due south) | | | | | | blood (due north.) | Old form(due south): bloud , blouds | | passion, feeling, stiff emotion [especially sexual] | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | blood-boltered (adj.) | Old form(s): Blood-bolter'd | | with hair disordered with claret, with tangled bloody knots of hair | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | bloody (adj.) | Old form(southward): bloodie , blouddy , bloudie, bloudy | | bloodthirsty, warlike, ferocious | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | bloody (adj.) | One-time form(due south): bloodie | | portending bloodshed; or: claret-blood-red, ruby-red | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | blossoms (n.) | Old form(s): blossomes | | prime, peak, full flowering [as of a institute] | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | blow one's nail / nails | Old grade(s): blowes, naile | | twiddle one's thumbs, wait patiently | | Headword location(south) | | | | | | blow wind in the breech | | | feel the air current [we leave behind], run to go on up [with usa] | | Headword location(southward) | | | | | | blubbered (adj.) | Onetime course(s): blubberd | | tear-stained, disfigured with weeping [no comic overtones] | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | blue-cap (northward.) | Old class(s): blew-Cappes | | [contemptous] one who wears a blueish bonnet; Scotsman | | Headword location(south) | | | | | | bode (five.) | Old form(s): boade , boaded , boades , boads | | forebode, portend, predict, augur | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | boiled (adj.) | Old grade(s): boyl'd | | receiving a sweating treatment [for crabs illness] | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | boiled-brain (northward.) | Old form(southward): boylde-braines | | hothead, maniac, headstrong beau | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | bouncy (adj.) | Quondam form(southward): boystrous , boyst'rous | | tumultuous, violent, tempestuous | | Headword location(southward) | | | | | | bouncy (adj.) | Old class(s): boistrous , boysterous , boystrous , boyst'rous | | vehement, violent, savage | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | boisterous (adj.) | Old form(southward): boysterous | | painful, hurtful, rough on the feelings | | Headword location(due south) | | | | | | bolting-hutch (n.) | Erstwhile form(south): Boulting-Hutch | | sifting-bin [used in filtering flour from bran] | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | bombast, bumbast (n.) | | | wool padding, stuffing; also: high-flown language, empty words | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | bondman (northward.) | Old form(due south): Bond-man , bond-mans , Bond-men | | bondservant, serf, slave | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | bondslave (n.) | Onetime form(south): bondslaue, Bond-slaues | | slave, bondsman, person in a status of servitude | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | bone-ache (n.), Neapolitan bone-ache | Old form(due south): os-ach | | [hurting in the basic from Naples] syphilis, crabs disease | | Headword location(southward) | | | | | | kicking (n.) | Sometime form(s): boote | | additional element, something added to the deal | | Headword location(south) | | | | | | abortive (adj.) | Onetime form(south): booteles , bootelesse , bootles , bootlesse | | useless, worthless, fruitless, unavailing | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | bootless (adv.) | Old form(southward): Bootlesse | | fruitlessly, uselessly, unsuccessfully, in vain | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | bo-peep (n.) | Old form(s): bo-peepe | | peep-bo, peek-a-boo [a game played with babies] | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | boresprit (n.) | Sometime grade(south): Bore-spritt | | bowsprit; boom extending from the bow to which the lower border of the front canvas is fastened | run into also Ships | Headword location(s) | | | | | | bosom, of i's | Onetime course(due south): bosome | | in ane'southward conviction, entrusted with one's secrets | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | lesser (n.) | Onetime form(s): bottome , Bottomes | | [nautical: keel, hull] ship, vessel | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | lesser (v.) | Quondam form(south): bottome | | reach a lower level than, probe more deeply than | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | lesser (five.) | Old grade(southward): bottome | | [of wool] air current into a ball; focus, concentrate | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | abysmal (adj.) | Old form(s): bottomelesse | | inexhaustible, unfathomable, infinite | | Headword location(south) | | | | | | bounty (northward.) | Former form(s): Bountie, Bounties | | peachy generosity, gracious liberality, munificence | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | boy (v.) | | | stand for by a boy, reduce to a male child-actor level [boys played the female parts in Shakespeare's time] | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | brain-sickly (adv.) | Old form(southward): braine-sickly | | foolishly, in such an addle-headed way | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | brave (adj.) | Old form(southward): braue , braue , Brauer , brauest | | noble, worthy, excellent | | Headword location(due south) | | | | | | brave (v.) | Onetime form(s): brau'd , Braue , braued, braues , Brauing | | challenge, defy, face up, provoke | | Headword location(due south) | | | | | | bravely (adv.) | Erstwhile form(s): brauely | | showily, with great display, with a fine flourish | | Headword location(southward) | | | | | | bravery (north.) | Onetime form(s): brauery , brau'ry | | splendour, fine display, ostentation | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | brawl downward (v.) | Old course(southward): braul'd downe | | destroy with uproar, force down with clamour | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | brawn-buttock (n.) | Former course(s): brawn buttocke | | fleshy buttock, well-rounded bottom | | Headword location(due south) | | | | | | brazen (adj.) | Onetime class(s): brasen , Brazon | | fabricated of brass, very strong, powerful | | Headword location(south) | | | | | | bread-chipper (n.) | One-time form(southward): Bread-chopper | | menial who cuts away the crust of a loaf | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | intermission off (v.) | Old form(south): breake , breake off | | stop talking, finish a give-and-take | | Headword location(southward) | | | | | | brief (adj.) | Onetime course(south): breefe, breefest , briefe | | quick, speedy, swift, expeditious | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | brief (adj.) | Sometime form(s): briefe | | [unclear meaning] rife, widespread; pressing, urgent | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | brief and the long / wearisome, the | Old form(southward): breefe , breff | | the long and the short | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | bringing-forth (n.) | Old form(due south): bringings forth | | achievement, achievement, public deed | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | Britain (adj.) | Sometime course(due south): Britaine , Brittaine | | living in Brittany, from Brittany | | Headword location(south) | | | | | | Britain (n.) | Old form(s): Britaines, Brittaines | | [pron: 'briten] Breton, person from Brittany | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | broach (v.) | One-time form(s): broach'd | | draw out, set flowing, cause to spurt out [by piercing] | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | broil (due north.) | Onetime form(s): broile, Broiles, broyle, Broyles | | turmoil, confused fighting, battle | | Headword location(south) | | | | | | broker, banker-between (due north.) | Quondam course(s): Broakers, brokers betweene | | get-between, intermediary, agent | | Headword location(due south) | | | | | | brook (v.) | Erstwhile form(s): brook'd , brooke , brookes | | endure, tolerate, put up with | | Headword location(due south) | | | | | | broom-grove (n.) | Quondam form(due south): broome-groues | | grove of broom [a yellow-flowered shrub] | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | brother, sworn | Erstwhile course(due south): sworne, sworne Brother | | companion-in-artillery, devoted friend | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | brow (due north.) | Old form(s): Browes | | forehead [often plural, referring to the ii prominences of the forehead] | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | browse (v.) | Former form(s): brouz , brows'd | | feed upon, nibble at, swallow [as animals] | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | bubukle, bubuncle (n.) | | | [malapropism for 'bubo' and 'carbunkle'] inflamed swelling | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | buck-washing (northward.) | | | process of washing very dirty wear in an element of group i mix [buck] | | Headword location(due south) | | | | | | vitrify jerkin | One-time grade(s): Buffe Ierkin, Buffe- Ierkin | | close-plumbing equipment jacket made of buff worn by constables and soldiers | come across as well jerkin (north.) | Headword location(s) | | | | | | bulk (north.) | Old form(s): Bulkes | | projecting office of a building, structure for displaying goods at the forepart of a store | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | Bull (due north.) | | | Taurus, the second sign of the zodiac, associated with cuckoldry, and also the neck and throat | encounter also Creation | Headword location(south) | | | | | | bull-beef (n.) | Old form(s): Bul Beeues | | articulation of beef [reputed to requite strength] | | Headword location(due south) | | | | | | not bad rook (n.) | One-time class(s): Dandy-Rooke, Rooke | | merry comrade, good mate, old rogue | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | bum-baily, bum-bailiff (n.) | Old course(due south): bum-Baylie | | bailiff, sheriff's officer [who catches people past sneaking upward behind them] | | Headword location(due south) | | | | | | burdened, burthened (adj.) | Former form(south): burthen'd | | crushing, heavy, oppressive | | Headword location(due south) | | | | | | burden-wise (adv.) | Onetime form(s): burthen-wise | | in the manner of a musical accompaniment | | Headword location(due south) | | | | | | bury (v.) | One-time form(s): burie , buryed | | abandon forever, export to oblivion, eliminate | | Headword location(south) | | | | | | buttery bar | Sometime form(s): Buttry barre | | ledge by the hatch of a buttery [liquor store] | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | purchase and sell, by form bought and sold | Old course(s): solde | | beguile, exploit, treat treacherously | | Headword location(s) | | | | | | buzzard (n.) | Former form(s): buzard | | [unclear significant] night-flight insect; cockchafer | | Headword location(s) | | | | | |
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