Glossary

[The numbers refer to cantos and stanzas.]

A

Abide, v, , to attend on.

About, i, , out of.

Acquite, viii, , release, set free.

Addrest, ii, , armed, equipped; x, , directed.

Advise, i, , consider.

Advizement, iv, , counsel, advice.

Afflicted, Int. , humble.

Affray, iii, , terror, alarm; v, , to startle.

Affronted, viii, , opposed.

Afore, x, , ahead, in front of.

Agraste, x, , favor, show grace.

Albe, v, , although.

All, x, ; xii, , although.

Almner, x, , almoner, distributer of alms.

Als, ix, , also, quite so.

Amate, ix, , dismay, dishearten.

Amis, iv, , linen head-dress.

Amoves, iv, ; viii, ; ix, , moves.

Andvile, xi, , anvil.

Apply, x, , attend to, add.

Aread, viii, , ; ix, , ; x, , , tell, explain; xii, , advise; ared, x, ; explained; areeds, Int. , urges.

Arise, vi, , depart, rise out of.

Armorie, i, , armor.

Arras, iv, ; viii, , tapestry.

Aslake, iii, , appease, abate the fury of.

Assay, ii, , approved quality, value; vii, , trial; viii, , assault; ii, ; iv, ; viii, ; xi, , try, assail, attempt.

Assoiled, x, , absolved.

Astond, ii, ; vi, ; ix, , astounded, amazed.

Attach, xii, , seize, arrest.

Attaine, ii, , reach, fall in with.

Attaint, vii, , obscure, discolor.

Avale, i, , fall, sink.

Avise, v, ; viii, , perceive.

B

Baite, i, , feed, refresh.

Bale, i, ; viii, , disaster, destruction; ix, , , trouble, grief.

Banes, xii, , banns of marriage.

Battailous, v, , warlike, ready for battle.

Battrie, ix, , assault.

Bauldrick, vii, , a leather girdle for the sword or bugle, worn pendant across the shoulder and breast.

Bayes, vii, , bathes.

Beades, i, , prayers.

Beadmen, x, , men devoted to prayer for the soul of the founder of the charitable institution in which they lived.

Become, x, , gone to; became, x, , suited.

Bed, ix, , bid.

Bedight, xii, , adorned.

Beguyld, xi, , foiled.

Beheast, iv, , command.

Behight, x, , name, declare; x, , intrusted, delivered; xi, , behot, promised.

Beseemed, viii, , suited, was becoming.

Beseene, xii, , (good) looking, or (well) dressed.

Bestedd, i, , situated, badly off.

Bet, iii, , beat; bett, vi, .

Betake, xii, , intrust to, hand over to.

Bethrall, viii, , imprison, take captive.

Bever, vii, , the lower and movable part of the helmet.

Bewaile, vi, , cause, bring about. Use either forced, or an error (Nares).

Bidding, i, , praying.

Bilive, or blive, v, , quickly.

Blame, ii, , hurt, injury, or blameworthiness.

Blaze, xi, , proclaim.

Blent, vi, , stained.

Blesse, v, ; viii, , brandish; vii, ; ix, , protect, deliver; pp. blest.

Blubbred, vi, , disfigured or swollen with weeping.

Blunt, x, , dim (of eyesight).

Bond, i, , bound.

Booteth, iii, , , profits, avails.

Bootlesse, v, , without avail.

Bost, iii, , vain glory.

Boughtes, i, ; xi, , folds, coils.

Bound, x, , lead.

Bouzingcan, iv, , drinking vessel.

Bowrs, viii, , muscles.

Bras, x, , money, cf. Lat. aes.

Brast, v, ; viii, ; ix, , burst.

Brave, x, , fair, beautiful.

Brawned, viii, ; brawny, muscular.

Breares, x, , briars.

Brent, ix, ; xi, , burnt.

Brode, iv, , abroad.

Brond, iv, ; viii, , firebrand.

Buffe, ii, ; xi, , blow.

Bugle, viii, , wild ox.

Buxome, xi, , pliant, yielding.

Bylive, ix, , quickly.

C

Call, viii, , cap, headdress.

Can, iv, , an auxiliary verb with preterite meaning; ix, , can=gan, began (Halliwell).

Canon, vii, , a smooth, round bit (for horses).

Carefull, v, , etc., full of care, anxious, sorrowful.

Careless, i, ; ii, , free from care.

Carke, i, , care, sorrow, anxiety.

Carle, ix, , churl.

Cast, x, ; xi, , resolve, plan.

Caytive, v, , captive; v, ; viii, ; ix, , base, mean.

Chaufe, vii, , chafe, warm by rubbing; iii, , , vex, heat.

Chaw, iv, , jaw.

Chear, ii, , , face.

Chearen, x, , regain cheerfulness, refresh (himself).

Cleare, x, , clean.

Cleene, ix, , clear, pure, bright.

Compare, iv, , collect.

Compel, i, , call to aid.

Conceit, conception or design.

Constraint, ii, , anguish; vii, , binding charms.

Corage, ii, , heart.

Corse, iii, ; iv, , etc., body.

Couch, ii, , lay (a lance in rest), level, adjust; couched xi, , laid in place (of armor plates).

Couched, vii, , lying down with head up, ready to spring.

Counterfesaunce, viii, , fraud, imposture.

Court, vii, , courteous attention.

Crime, x, , sin; xi, , cause.

Cruddy, v, , clotted.

Crudled, vii, ; ix, , curdled, congealed (with cold).

Cure, v, , charge.

D

Daint, x, , dainty, delicate.

Dalliaunce, ii, , trifling, light talk.

Dame, xii, , wife.

Damnify, xi, , injure.

Darrayne, iv, ; vii, , prepare (for battle).

Deare, vii, , hurt, injury.

Deaw-burning, xi, , bright with dew.

Debonaire, ii, , gracious, courteous.

Defeasaunce, xii, , defeat.

Defray, v, , appease.

Deitye, iii, , immortality.

Derth, ii, , dearness, high value.

Deryn'd, iii, , diverted, drawn away.

Despight, ii, , resentment; iv, , , etc., malice, spite, contempt; vii, ; xi, , injury.

Despoile, x, , strip.

Devise, xii, , plan.

Diamond, ix, , adamant, steel.

Dight, vii, ; iv, , etc., arrange, dress, adorn.

Disaventrous, vii, , ix, , unfortunate.

Discipline, vi, , teaching.

Discolourd, vii, , variegated.

Discourse, xii, , description; xii, , to narrate.

Disease, xi, , render uneasy.

Dishonesty, ii, , unchastity.

Dispence, iii, , pay for.

Dispiteous, ii, , cruel.

Disple, x, , discipline.

Disseized, xi, , dispossessed.

Dissolute, vii, , weak, unstrung.

Distayned, xi, , defiled.

Dites, viii, , raises (a club).

Diverse, i, , distracting.

Divide, v, , play (variations).

Documents, x, , doctrines.

Donne, x, , to do.

Doom, ix, , judgment.

Doted, viii, , foolish.

Doubt, vi, , fear.

Doughty, xi, ; xii, , strong, brave.

Dragonets, xii, , little dragons.

Dreed, or dred, Int. ; vi, , object of reverence.

Drere, viii, , sorrow.

Drery, v, , gloomy; vi, , dripping with blood.

Dreriment, ii, ; xi, , sorrow, gloom.

Drest, ix, , prepared, arranged.

Drift, viii, , impetus.

Droome, ix, , drum.

Drousy-hed, ii, , drowsiness.

Dry-dropsie, iv, (meaning doubtful).

(1) Dropsy causing thirst (Warton).
(2) A misprint for dire dropsie (Upton).
(3) A misprint for hydropsie (Collier).

Dye, ii, , chance, fortune (lit. a small cube used for gaming).

E

Earne, i, ; vi, ; ix, 18, yearn, long for.

Edifyde, i, , built.

Eeke, v, , increase.

Eft, ix, , again.

Eftsoones, x, , etc., forthwith.

Eke, iii, , also.

Eld, x, , old age.

Embalme, v, , anoint, pour balm into.

Embaye, ix, 13; x, , bathe.

Embost, iii, , encased; ix, , fatigued.

Embosse, xi, , plunge.

Embowed, ix, , rounded.

Emboyled, xi, , agitated, troubled.

Embrew, xi, , imbrue, drench.

Empassioned, iii, , moved to pity.

Empeach, viii, , hinder.

Emperse, xi, , pierce.

Emprize, ix, , undertaking, adventure.

Enchace, xii, , set off in fitting terms.

Endew, iv, , endow.

Enfouldred, xi, , shot forth (like a thunderbolt).

Engrave, x, , bury, entomb.

Enhaunst, i, ; v, , raised.

Enlargen, viii, , deliver.

Ensample, ix, , witness.

Ensue, iv, , pursue; ix, , persecute.

Entirely, xi, , with all the heart.

Entraile, i, , fold, twist.

Envie, ill will, hatred.

Equall, vi, , side by side.

Errant, iv, ; x, , wandering (in quest of adventure).

Esloyne, iv, , retire.

Essoyne, iv, , excuse, exemption.

Eugh, i, , yew.

Ewghen, xi, , made of yew.

Excheat, v, , gain; lit. property forfeited to the lord of a fief.

Extirpe, x, , uproot.

Eyas, xi, , young untrained hawk, unfledged falcon.

Eyne, eien, eyen, ii, , etc., eyes.

F

Fact, iv, ; ix, , feat, evil deed.

Fall, ix, , befall.

Fare, i, , etc., go, travel.

Fatal, ix, , ordained by fate.

Fattie, i, , fertilizing.

Fayne, iv, , gladly; vi, , glad.

Faytor, iv, ; xii, , deceiver, villain, sham.

Fearefull, i, , alarmed.

Feature, viii, , form.

Fee, x, , payment.

Felly, v, , fiercely.

Fere, x, , husband; lit. companion.

Fillet, iii, , snood.

Fit, ii, , death agony; iv, , struggle, passion; xi, , musical strain.

Flaggy, xi, , yielding, hanging loose.

Flit, iv, , crumble away.

Foile, iv, , leaf of metal.

Foltring, vii, , stammering.

Fond, ix, , foolish.

Fone, ii, , foes.

Food, viii, , feud.

Foolhappie, vi, , happy as a fool, "fortunate rather than provident" (Nares).

Fordonne, v, ; etc., undone, ruined, wounded to death.

Foreby, vi, , near.

Forespent, ix, , wasted, squandered.

Foretaught, vii, , either

(1) untaught, mistaught, or
(2) taught before, hence, perhaps, despised (Warren).

Forlore, viii, ; x, , forlorn, forsaken.

Forray, xii, , ravage, prey upon.

Forsake, xi, , avoid.

Forwandring, vi, , weary with wandering, or utterly astray.

Forwarned, ii, , warded off.

Forwasted, i, ; xi, , ravaged, utterly wasted.

Forwearied, i, , etc., tterly weary.

Forworne, vi, , much worn.

Fraight, xii, , fraught, freighted.

Frame, viii, , support, steady.

Francklin, x, , freeman, freeholder.

Fray, i, , to frighten; ii, , an affray.

Freak, iii, ; iv, , whim, caprice.

Frounce, iv, , curl, plait, friz (the hair).

Fruitfull-headed, viii, , many-headed.

Fry, xii, , crowd, swarm.

Funerall, ii, , death.

Fyne, iv, , thin; v, , fine.

G

Gage, xi, , pledge, the thing contended for.

Game, xii, , sport.

Gan, ii, , began, often used as auxiliary verb, "did."

Gate, i, , way; viii, , manner.

Geaunt, vii, , giant.

Gent, ix, , , gentle, gracious, fair.

German, v, , , brother.

Gest, x, , adventure, exploit.

Ghost, ii, , spirit.

Gin, v, , engine, instrument (of torture).

Gins, see gan.

Girlond, ii, , garland.

Giust, i, , tilt, joust.

Glitterand, iv, ; vii, , glittering.

Gnarre, v, , gnarl, snarl, growl.

Gobbet, i, ; xi, , lump, piece.

Gorge, i, , etc., throat.

Gossip, xii, , neighbor, crony.

Government, ix, , self-control.

Graile, vii, , gravel.

Graine, vii, , dye, fast color.

Gree, v, , favor, good will, satisfaction.

Greedy, viii, , eager.

Gren, vi, , grin.

Griesie, ix, , horrible.

Griesly, ix, , grisly, hideous.

Griple, iv, , greedy, grasping.

Groome, servant.

Grosse, xi, , fast, heavy.

Grudging, ii, , groaning.

Gryfon, v, , griffin (a fabulous animal half lion, half eagle).

Guerdon, iii, , reward.

Guise, vi, ; xii, , guize, mode (of life).

H

Hable, xi, , able, skillful.

Hagard, xi, , wild, untrained.

Hanging, ii, , doubtful.

Hardiment, ix, ; i, , boldness.

Harrow, x, , despoil.

Haught, vi, , haughty.

Heare, v, , pass for being so unlucky, in such evil case (Kitchin).

Heast, vii, , command.

Heben, Int. ; vii, , of ebony wood.

Heft, xi, , raised on high.

Henge, xi, , orbit; lit, hinge.

Hew, i, , etc., form, countenance; iii, , color.

Hight, ix, ; x, , called, was called; intrusted.

Hond, out of, xii, , at once.

Horrid, vi, ; vii, , rough, bristling.

Hot, xi, , was called; see hight.

Housling, xii, , sacramental.

Hove, ii, , rose, stood on end.

Humour, i, , moisture.

Hurtle, iv, , ; viii, , rush, clash together.

Hurtlesse, vi, , harmless, gentle.

Husher, iv, , usher.

I

Imbrew, vii, , imbrue, drench.

Impe, Int. ; ix, , etc., child, scion.

Impeach, viii, , hinder.

Imperceable, xi, , that cannot be pierced.

Imply, vi, ; xi, , infold.

Importune, xi, , violent.

Improvided, xii, , unforeseen.

In, i, , inn, lodging.

Incontinent, ix, , at once.

Infected, x, , ingrained.

Infest, xi, , make fierce or hostile.

Influence, viii, , power of the stars.

Intended, xi, , armed, stretched out.

Intendiment, xii, , attention.

Intent, i, ; ix, , aim, purpose.

Invent, vi, , discover.

J

Jealous, suspicious.

Jolly, i, ; ii, , fine, handsome.

Jott, x, , speck, small piece.

Journall, xi, , daily.

Joy, vi, , to be cheerful.

Joyaunce, iv, , gladness, merriment.

K

Keepe, i, , heed, care.

Keeping, xi, , care, guard.

Kend, xii, , known.

Kest, xi, , cast.

Kindly, iii, , etc., natural, according to nature.

Kirtle, iv, , coat, tunic.

Knee, ix, , projection (of rocks).

Knife, vi, , sword.

L

Lad, i, , led.

Launch, iii, ; iv, , pierce.

Lay-stall, v, , rubbish heap, dunghill.

Lazar, iv, , leper.

Leach, v, , ; x, , surgeon, physician.

Learne, vi, , teach.

Leasing, vi, , falsehood, lying.

Leke, v, , leaky.

Leman, i, ; vii, , lover, sweetheart, mistress.

Let, viii, , hindrance.

Lever, ix, , rather.

Libbard, vi, , leopard.

Liefe, iii, ; ix, , dear one, darling.

Lilled, v, , lolled.

Lin, i, ; v, , cease.

List, ii, ; vii, ; x, ; xi, , desired, pleased.

Lively, ii, ; vii, , living.

Loft, i, , (doubtful) air, sky, or roof.

Long, iv, , belong.

Lore, i, , knowledge.

Lorne, iv, , lost.

Loute, i, ; x, , bow, stoop.

Lowre, ii, , frown, darken.

Lumpish, i, , dull, heavy.

Lustlesse, iv, , feeble, listless.

Lynd, xi, , lined.

M

Mace, iv, , club.

Make, vii, , , mate, companion.

Mall, vii, , wooden hammer, or club.

Many, xii, , troop, crowd.

Mart, Int. , mass.

Mated, ix, , overcome, confounded.

Maw, i, , stomach.

Maynly, vii, , violently.

Mell, i, , meddle.

Menage, vii, , manage.

Ment, i, , joined, mingled.

Mew, v, , prison, lit. cage for hawks.

Mirksome, v, , dark, murky.

Miscreant, v, ; ix, , infidel, vile fellow.

Misdeeming, ii, , misleading; iv, , misjudging.

Misfeigning, iii, , pretending wrongfully.

Misformed, i, ; viii, , ill formed, or formed for evil.

Misseeming, ix, ; viii, , unseemly; vii, , deceit.

Mister, ix, , sort of, manner of.

Misweening, iv, , wrong thinking, wrong belief.

Moe, mo, v, , etc., more.

Mortality, x, , state of being mortal.

Mortall, i, , deadly.

Mote, iii, , etc., may, might.

Mought, i, , might.

Muchell, iv, ; vi, , much, great.

N

Nathemore, viii, ; ix, , none the more.

Nephewes, v, , grandchildren, descendants.

Ni'll, ix, , will not.

Nosethrill, xi, , nostril.

Note, xii, , know not.

N'ould, vi, , would not.

Noyance, i, , annoyance.

Noye, x, ; xi, , hurt, harm.

Noyes, Noyce, vi, , noise.

Noyous, v, ; xi, , harmful, unpleasant.

O

Offend, xii, , injure.

Offspring, vi, , ancestors.

Origane, ii, , wild marjoram.

Ought, iv, , owned, possessed.

Outrage, xi, , insult, abuse.

Overcraw, ix, , insult, crow over.

Oversight, vi, , want of prudence.

Owch, ii, ; x, , jewel or socket in which a jewel was set.

P

Paine, xii, , labor, treacherous skill; ii, , effort; iv, , take pains.

Paire, vii, , impair, injure.

Paled, v, , fenced off, inclosed with a pale.

Palfrey, i, ; iii, , a lady's saddle horse, here Una's ass.

Paramour, i, , lover (not in a bad sense).

Parbreake, i, , vomit.

Pardale, vi, , leopard.

Parted, iii, , departed.

Pas, iv, , surpass; xi, , step, pace.

Passing, x, , surpassing.

Passion, ii, , , deep feeling, lit. suffering.

Passionate, xii, , express feelingly.

Payne, vi, , pains, labor.

Paynim, iv, ; vi, ; xi, , pagan, heathen.

Peece, x, , something constructed (Cleopolis).

Penne, xi, , feather, quill.

Perceable, i, , that can be pierced.

Perdie, perdy, vi, , French par Dieu, a common oath.

Pere, viii, ; xii, , noble, prince.

Persaunt, x, , piercing.

Pight, ii, , etc., pitched, fixed, placed.

Pine, ix, , wasting away; viii, , pined, wasted away through torment.

Plate, vi, ; vii, , solid armor, as distinguished from the coat of mail, or light chain armor.

Pleasaunce, ii, , courtesies; iv, ; vii, , delight, conversational pleasure.

Point, (1) ix, , appoint;

(2) ii, , not a whit;
(3) i, ; ii, , (armed) at all points.

Pollicie, iv, , statecraft, cunning.

Portesse, iv, , breviary, small prayer-book.

Posterne, v, , small private gate behind.

Pouldred, vii, , powdered.

Pounces, xi, , a hawk's claws.

Poynant, vii, , sharp, piercing.

Poyse, xi, , weight, force.

Practicke, xii, , deceitful.

Prancke, iv, , display gaudily.

Praunce, vii, , strut proudly.

Pray, ix, , ravage.

Preace, iii, , crowd, throng.

Presently, immediately.

Price, ix, , pay the price of, atone for.

Pricking, i, ; iii, , riding, usually rapidly, i.e. spurring.

Priefe, viii, , trial; ix, , proof; x, , proved excellence.

Prime, ii, ; etc., springtime.

Privity, ix, , privacy.

Prowesse, vii, , bravery.

Prowest, iv, ; v, , bravest.

Puissance, i, , etc., power.

Purchas, iii, , lit. acquisition, cant term for theft, or robbery (Nares).

Purfled, ii, , embroidered on the edge.

Purposes, ii, , conversation.

Purveyance, xii, , provision.

Q

Quaile, ix, , subdue, overpower.

Quayd, viii, , subdued.

Quell, xi, , disconcert, daunt.

Quight, viii, , repay.

Quit, quitt, vi, , , to free.

Quite, viii, , ; x, , repay, return.

Quited, i, , return a salute.

Quoth, i, , etc., said.

R

Raft, i, , struck away (from reave).

Ragged, xii, , rough, rugged.

Raile, vi, , flow.

Ramping, iii, , etc., leaping, bounding, erect; ramp, v, .

Rapt, iv, , carried away.

Rare, ii, , thin-voiced.

Raskall, vii, ; xii, , vulgar, base.

Raught, vi, , etc., reached.

Ravine, v, , prey.

Raw, x, , unpracticed, out of training.

Read, i, ; x, , advise.

Reave, iii, ; xi, , snatch away, rob.

Recoyle, x, , retreat.

Recreaunt, iv, , base, cowardly.

Recure, v, , etc., refresh.

Red, vii, , etc., declared.

Redoubted, iv, , terrible.

Redound, vi, ; iii, , overflow.

Redresse, v, , restore, revive, reunite.

Reed, i, , notice, perceive.

Reele, v, , roll.

Reft, ix, ; x, , snatched away.

Refte, vi, ; xii, , bereft.

Renverst, iv, , turned upside down.

Repaire, vi, , return home.

Repining, ii, , failing (Percival), angry (Upton).

Repriefe, ix, , reproof.

Retrate, i, , retreat.

Reverse, ix, , bring back.

Revoke, vi, , call back.

Ridde, i, , remove, dispatch.

Rife, iv, ; ix, , much, exceedingly.

Riotise, iv, , riot.

Rode, xii, , anchorage, harbor.

Rove, Int. , shoot (an arrow with an elevation, not point blank).

Round, vi, , dance.

Rowel, vii, , ring of a bit.

Ruffin, iv, , rough, disordered.

Rusty, v, , rust-colored, bloodstained, filthy.

Ruth, v, , pity, sorrow.

S

Sacred, viii, , accursed—of ashes used impiously to receive the blood of the slain (Upton).

Sad, i, ; v, ; x, ; xii, , grave, mournful; iii, , firm, steady; i, , heavy.

Sallow, i, , a kind of willow.

Salvage, iii, ; vi, , etc., wild, woodland (adj.).

Sam, x, , together, same.

Say, iv, , serge cloth for cloaks (Halliwell).

Scath, iv, ; xii, , hurt, mischief.

Scor'd, i, , carved.

Scowre, ii, , run fast.

Scryne, Int. , chest, or case for keeping books, etc.

Sead, x, , seed, posterity.

Sease, xi, , fasten; seised, xii, , gained, taken possession of.

Seel, vii, , lit. sew up the eyes (of hawks), deprive of sight.

Seely, silly, vi, ; i, ; ii, , simple, innocent.

Seemly, ii, , polite.

Scene, v, , proved, tested.

Semblaunt, ii, , appearance.

Sent, i, , perception, sense.

Shadow, represent typically.

Shamefast, x, , shy, modest.

Shaume, xii, , a wind musical instrument.

Shend, i, , shame.

Shew, iii, , sign, track.

Shroud, i, , , shelter.

Single, vi, , weak; viii, , mere.

Sith, vii, , etc., since; sitheng, iv, .

Sits, i, , becomes, suits.

Slight, vii, , device; viii, , skill.

Snubbe, viii, , knob, snag.

Solemnize, x, , rite, solemnizing.

Sooth, iii, , truth.

Souce, v, , beat.

Soust, iii, , drenched.

Sowne, i, , sound.

Sperst, i, ; iv, , dispersed.

Spill, iii, , destroy.

Stadle, vi, , staff.

Stanneries, stannaries, tin mines or tin works.

Starke, i, . stiff.

Sted, stedd, viii, , etc., place.

Sterne, i, ; xi, , tail.

Stew, xi, , warm place.

Stole, i, , ; xii, , long robe.

Stound, vii, , stunned; vii, ; viii, , , , moment.

Stowre, ii, , etc., distress, peril battle.

Stye, xi, , ascend, rise up.

Subject, xi, , lying beneath.

Sure, ix, , secure.

Swarved, x, , swerved.

Swelt, vii, , burned.

Swinge, xi, , singe.

Swowne, i, , heavy sleep; ix, , swoon; swound, v, .

T

Table, ix, , picture.

Tackles, xii, , rigging.

Talaunts, xi, , talons.

Teade, xii, , torch.

Teene, ix, ; xii, , grief, trouble, hurt.

Then, x, , than.

Thewes, ix, ; x, , manners.

Tho, i, , etc., then.

Thorough, i, ; x, , through.

Thrall, ii, ; vii, ; viii, , subject; v, , ; viii, , , prisoner; vi, , one in distress.

Three-square, vi, , triangular.

Thrill, iii, ; x, ; xi, , pierce.

Thrist, vi, , thirst.

Throw, x, , throe, pang.

Tide, ii, , time (duration).

Timely, i, ; iv, , keeping time.

Tire, iv, , train, rank, company; viii, ; x, , headdress, attire.

Told, iv, , counted.

Tort, xii, , wrong.

Touch, iii, , touchstone.

Toy, vi, , sport.

Trace, viii, , walk.

Traine, trayne, i, ; viii, ; xi, , tail; iii, ; vi, , etc., deceit, wiles.

Transmew, vii, , transmute.

Treachour, iv, ; ix, , traitor.

Treen, ii, ; vii, , tree-like, of trees.

Trenchand, i, ; xi, , sharp, trenchant.

Trinall, xii, , threefold.

Truncked, viii, , truncated, with the limbs cut off.

Trusse, xi, , to secure a firm hold on.

Turnament, v, , tournament, combat of knights in the lists.

Tway, vii, , two, twain.

Twyfold, v, , twofold.

Twyne, vi, , twist.

Tyne, ix, , anxiety, pain.

U

Unacquainted, v, , unaccustomed.

Unbid, ix, , unprayed for.

Uncouth, i, ; xi, , strange.

Undight, iii, , unfastened.

Uneath, ix, , etc., with difficulty.

Unkindly, i, , unnatural.

Unlich, v, , unlike.

Untill, xi, , unto.

Unty, xi, , loosen.

Unwary, xii, , unexpected.

Unweeting, ii, , etc., unaware, not knowing.

V

Venery, vi, , hunting.

Vere, xii, , veer, change the direction of.

Vew, vi, , aspect, appearance.

Vild, ix, , vile.

Vine-prop, i, , supporting the vine.

Visour, vii, , visor, the part of the helmet which protected the eyes.

W

Wade, i, , walk, go, pass.

Wage, iv, , reward, pledge.

Wanton, ii, , , wild, unrestrained.

Ware, vii, , wary.

Warray, v, , wage war against.

Wastfull, i, , etc., barren, wild.

Wastnes, iii, , desert, wilderness.

Wax, iv, , grow.

Wayne, iv, , chariot.

Wayting, x, , watching.

Weare, i, , spend, pass.

Weedes, Int. ; ii, , clothes, x, , armor.

Weene, i, ; iii, , intend; x, , think.

Weet, iii, , , to know; to weete, iii, 17, etc., to wit.

Welke, i, , fade, grow dim.

Welkin, iv, , sky.

Well, ii, , well-being, health; i, , etc., quite, very; vii, , bubble up.

Wex, xi, , grow; woxen, iv, .

Whally, iv, , streaked (Warren).

Whenas, ii, , etc., as soon as.

Whereas, vi, , where.

Whot, x, , hot.

Whyleare, ix, , erewhile.

Whylome, iv, , etc., formerly.

Wight, ix, , , person, creature.

Wimple, xii, , veil, lit. covering for the neck;

wimpled, i, , folded, provided with a wimple.

Wist, v, knew.

Wonne, vi, , fought; wonne, vi, , dwell.

Wood, iv, ; v, , mad, furious.

Worshippe, i, , honor, respect.

Wot, i, ; wote, ii, ; ix, , know.

Woxen, see wax.

Wreakes, viii, ; xii, , anger, acts of vengeance.

Wreck, xi, , destruction, mischief.

Wrizled, viii, , wrinkled (Warren).

Wyde, i, , distant.

Y

Yborne, vii, , born.

Ycladd, i, ; yclad, i, , ; ii, ; ycled, iv, , clad.

Ydle, v, , airy, purposeless.

Ydrad, i, , dreaded.

Yede, xi, , go.

Yfere, ix, , together.

Ygoe, ii, , ago.

Ylike, iv, , alike.

Ymp, see impe.

Yod, see yede.

Younglings, x, , young of any animal.

Youthly, vi, , youthful.

Ypight, ix, , pitched, placed.

Yrkesome, ii, , weary; iii, , painful.

Yts, vii, , it is.