Glossary of Obsolete English Terms and Words Occurring in the Ancient Texts of "the Master of Game" and in Appendix

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Abai, abay, being at bay, 29, 118
Acharneth, acharne, to set on, to eat flesh, 59, 60, 62
Achauf, heat, 38, 98
Acquiller, enquiller, to rouse animals of the chase with hounds, App.
Aferaunt, the haunch, 38
Affeted, fashioned, trained, 27, 141
Aforce, par force, by force, App.
Aiguillounce, thorny
Akelid, cooled, 186
Akire, Akkerne, acorns, 144
Alauntis, alauntz, alond, allans or allauntes, a large hound, 3, 116-8
Alvelue, covered with fleece, fat or woolly substance, App.
Analed, for avaled, hanging down, 114
Anceps, haussepied, a snare which caught the game by the foot and lifted it into the air, 61
Anches, rosemary
Apel, French hunting-note, App.
Aperyng, stoned, the roughness of antlers, 143
Apparaille, dressed venison
Arbitten, bitten, devoured
Arblast, cross-bow, 27
Areche, reach, 60
Arere, arrière, behind, back there, 182, App.
Areyn, spider, 137
Areyn, rain, 157
Arracher, to tear out; a term used for skinning certain animals, App.
Asaute, saute, in heat, 64, 66
Ascriethe, ascrie, to rate, shout at, to scold, 63, 74, 170
Assaien, try or test, 88
Assaye, essay, to try; taking assay, to see by a cut the thickness of the fat, App.
Assise, note on hunting-horn blown at death of stag which has been hunted by staghounds, App.
Asterte, escape
Astifled, inflammation in the stifle-joint, 103
Astried, rated, shouted at, 170
Athrest, thrust or push, 106
Atte fulle, when the stag's antlers show a certain number of tines, App.
Attire, the stag's antlers, App.
Aualed, availed, hanging down, 106, 114
Auerille, Avrille, April, 30
Auntelere, auntiller, aunculer, antler, 130, 140
Auntred, ventured, 28
Avaunt, auaunt, a hunting cry, "Forward," 182
Avauntellay, relay of hounds
Avayl, avail, profit, 13, 31
Avenaud, approachable
Avenery, oats
Avised, aware of, warned, informed, advised, cautious
Avoy, a hunting cry, probably from "Away," App.

Bace, for Luce, a pike
Baffers, barkers, 120
Bake, back
Balista, balesta, cross-bow, haronsblast, 27
Balowe, bellow, roaring of a stag
Bandrike, baldric, belt to which horn was fastened, 128, 140
Barateur, quarreller
Barbouris, barbers
Bareyn, barren, 35
Basco, Basque, Biscay, 106
Batyd, bruised, sore, 98
Batyng, bating
Baudes, baubles, trifles, 83
Beam, the main part of the stag's antlers, 142
Beendyng, bending
Beerners, berners, attendant on hounds, 148, 165
Beestale, bestaile, beasts, cattle, 36, 61
Beestis, beasts, App.
Bellen, belowyn, belerve, belowen, bellow or roar, 160
Beluez, velvet, 26
Beme, beam; also trumpet
Benes, beans, 26
Bercel, a mark to shoot at, App.
Bercelet, berslettis, barcelette, a shooting-dog used by archers, 122
Beries, burrows, earth of fox and badger, 67, 68
Beryed, buried
Berying, bearing, breaking, 136
Bestis of the Chace, beasts of the chase, usually fallow deer, roe-deer, fox, martin, 3
Bestis of Vénerie, beasts of venery, usually the hart, hare, boar, and wolf, 3
Bevy, a number of roe-deer together, App.
Bevygrease, the fat of the roe-deer, App.
Bewellis, bawaylles, bawellis, bowels
Billetings, the excrements of the fox, App.
Bisses, bises, bisches, red-deer hinds
Bisshunters, fur-hunters, 74
Bitte, bitten, taken, 17, 186
Blenches, marks, tricks, deceits, 159
Bocherie, butchery, 116
Bokeying, the rut of the roe-deer, 41
Boln, bolk, bolne, bellow or bark, 39, 162
Boochers houndis, butchers' dogs, 118
Boole, bull, 118
Boones, bones, stag's foot
Boonys, bones, 131
Boordcloth, table-cloth, 164
Boordes, boards
Booris, boars, 143
Boost, boast
Botches, booches, sores, 63
Botirflies, butterflies, 66
Bounte, bounty, goodness, 79
Bouyes, boughs, App.
Bowis, bowes, boughs, 137, 153
Brach, brache, a scenting-hound; later on it meant bitches
Brachetus, a hound for hunting, 22
Braconier, the man who held the hounds
Brayne, breyn, brain, 176
Brede, breadth
Brede, broad, 138
Breke, brook, break; also applied to dress a deer
Bremed, burnt, 112
Brent, burnt, 79
Breres, briars, 93
Brigilla, mildew, 96
Brimming, bremyng, be in heat, said of boar; the word breme, bryme, or brim, valiant-spirited, 47
Broacher, a red-deer stag of second year, App.
Brocard, a roebuck of the third year and upwards, App.
Brock, badger, App.
Brokes, brooches, broaches, the first head of a red-deer stag, and of roebuck, 45
Broket, brocket, young stag, 29
Broket's sister, hind in the second year, App.
Brond, proud, 46
Buche, byches, bitch
Bugle, buffalo; also horn for sounding hunting signals, App.
Bukkes, bukes, buckes, bucks
Bukmast, beechmast, App.
Bulloke, young stag in second year, 29
Burnysshen, burnish, to rub the antlers when the velvet is off, 134
Burr, the lowest part of the stag's antlers

Caboche, to cut off the hart's head near the antlers, 176
Calf, calfe, the young stag in his first year
Camamyle, camomile, 95
Campestris, beast of the field or chase—i.e. buck, doe, fox, martin, and roe-deer
Candlemas, February 2
Caraynes, carreyns, karin, carrion, carcase, 62, 77
Cardiac, cardryacle, a disease of the heart, 34
Carres, marshes, 45
Case to, stripping or skinning the hare, App.
Catapucia, spurge (Euphorbia resinifera), 101
Catt, catte, cattys, cat, App.
Cautelous, cautels, cautious, crafty, 45
Cete, a number of badgers
Chaceable, chaseable, a hert chaseable, which is now called a warrantable stag, one fit to be hunted
Chacechiens, grooms in attendance on hounds, 148, 177
Chalaunge, challenge
Chase, forest; also used to designate a method of hunting, and also a hunting-party
Chasse, a French hunting-note
Chastised, trained, 189
Chater, chacer (rechater, recheat), a horn signal; also to chastise hounds
Chaufed, achaufed, heated, in heat, 49, 98
Chaule, chaulis, chavel, jaw, 170
Chaunge, change, 31, 108, 111
Cheere, chere, cherish, welcome, 85
Cheveraus, roe-deer
Chibollis, chives, 90
Childermas, Innocents' Day (December 28)
Chis, dainty, 83
Chivaucher, chevaucher, to ride
Chymer, riding-cloak
Chymneyis, chimney, 98, 126
Clees, clawes, the "toes" of a deer's foot, 77, 80, 131
Cleeves, sur or dew cleeves at the back of a deer's fetlock
Cleped, clepyd, called, 59, 140
Clere speres, clear spires, woods, App.
Clicqueting, vixen fox when in heat, App.
Clistre, enema, 100
Coddes, testicles of the hart
Coiting stone, a quoit
Colers, coliers places, collier or charcoal pits, 26
Concilida maior, comfrey (Symphytum officinale), 98
Concilida minor, prunella, selfheal (Prunella vulgaris), 98
Coninger, conigree, rabbit warren, App.
Contre, counter, back, heel
Contre, country, 36
Controugle, contreongle, hunt counter, hunt heel, 150
Conynge, rabbit, 18
Coolwort, cabbage, 100
Copeis, copis, coppice, 155
Corner, corneer, horn blower
Cotes, quoits, 178
Couch, the resting-place of game; also hound's bed
Couchers, setters, 120
Couertts, covert, shelter
Counterfeet, countfeit, abnormal, 28, 142
Courser, cursar, curser, swift horse
Couthen, conthen, couth, knew, to be able, ob. could, 2
Cowe, cow, also tail, from queue
Crie, cry (of hounds), 65
Croches, the upper tines of a deer's horns; called also troches
Croise, cross, 150
Crokes, stomach (of red-deer)
Crokyng, crooked, curved, 128
Crommes, crumbs
Cronen, groan, the roar of the stag
Cross to, to dislodge roe-deer by hounds
Crotethe, voiding excrements, 29
Crotey, crotils, crotisen, crotisings, excrements, 16, 29, 30, 133
Cuer, coer, heart
Cuir, quir, leather, hide
Curée, cure, rewarding the hounds (also kyrre and guyrre), 7, 29, 52, 208
Curres, currys, curs
Curtaise, courteous, 115

Daungere, danger, 161
Dedis, deeds, 49
Dedut, deudiz, deduiz, déduit, pleasure pursuit, sport
Defaute, defaunt, lack, default, 84, 140
Defet, deffeten, opening or undoing the boar and removing the entrails
Defoile, track, 150
Delyuere, deliver, active, 124
Depiled, stripped of hair
Desfaire, undoing (brittling) of deer or boar, App.
Despitous, despytous, despiteful, furious, 49
Desterere, destrier, horse
Detourner (le cerf), to harbour the hart, App.
Deyeng, doing
Deym, deyme, daine, dine, fallow-deer
Dislaue, wild, 159
Dissese, disease
Doo, doe
Down, or huske, a number of hares, App.
Dragmes, drachms
Dreynt, drowned
Drit, dritt, excrements of animals called "stinking beasts," also mud, 50, 66
Dryen, dry, 102
Dryue, driven, 128
Dryve, made
Dune, donn, dun
Dure, to last, endure, 43
Dyette, diet

Earth, a fox and badger's lodging-place, App.
Edight, done, set in order
Eelde, old age, 123
Eendis, ends
Eeren, hairs, 44
Eerys, eres, ears
Egre, eager, 115
Eireres, harriers, 190
Ellis, else, 90
Emelle, emel, female, 41
Empaumure, the croches or top tines of a stag's antlers, App.
Enbrowed, brewed, soaked, 177
Enchace, to hunt, 108
Encharnyng, blooding, feeding on flesh, 113
Enchasez, moving deer, &c., with a limer, App.
Encorne, to place a dead stag on his back, the antlers on the ground underneath the shoulders, 174
Enfourmed, informed
Engleymed, glutinous, 29
Enosed, a bone in the throat, 87
Enpeshed, prevented, 11
Enquest, hunt, 182
Enquiller, rousing a buck with hounds, App.
Enquyrid, enqueyrreide, blooding hounds after death of deer; also rewarding of hounds, 173
Ensaumple, example, 79
Entente, intent
Entrying, entering, beginning of
Entryngis, entering, beginning of, 35
Envoise, envoyse, O. F. envoisse, to leave the line, or overshoot the line of the animal hunted, 31, 108, 170
Erbis, herbs
Eres of roebuck, "target," 44
Ergots, argus, claws of boar, buck and doe; those of the boar were sometimes called gardes, 130, 144
Eris, eres, ars, anus, hinder parts; ears, occasionally thus spelt, 89, 95, 106, 116
Erthe, earth
Escorcher, estorcher, flaying deer, and other beasts of venery, App.
Espaules, shoulders
Espayard, spayard, spayer, stag of the third year, App.
Essemble, assembly, 150
Establie, stand occupied by sportsmen; also beaters
Estoracis calamita, storax, resin, 96
Esye, easy
Etawed, tanned
Etyn, itvn, eat
Euenyngis, evening, 11
Euerychone, everichon, each one, every one, 163
Euille, euell, evil, wicked, bad, 6
Evoised, at fault, or off the line
Expedite, to maim dogs by cutting off some of their claws
Eyne, eygh, eynen, eye, 116
Eyre, air

Facon, faucon, falcon, 121
Fadir, fadere, father, 105
Fadmys, fadoms, fathoms, 125
Farowe, farewyn, pharowyn, farrow, bringing forth young pig, 47, 48, 68
Farsyn, farsine, farcy, 69, 92
Fasson, fassion, fashion
Faund, fawned
Faus, false
Fausmanche, false sleeve
Faut, fault
Fechewe, fitchew, polecat
Feeldes, fields, 158
Feerne, fern
Felaues, fellows
fele, many; also sensible, feeling
Felle, fierce, cruel, treacherous
Felle, fele, wise, sensible, feeling; also cunning, 30, 115
Felnesse, cruelty, fierceness, 71
Femellis, females
Fencemonth, the month when deer had their young and were left undisturbed, App.
Fermyd, firm, 162
Ferre, far, 16
Ferrettis, ferrets, 72
Ferrtest, farthest
Fers, fierce, 47
Fersliche, fiercely, 86
Fesawnt, pheasant
Feueryere, February
Fewes, fewte, track, trace, foot. Some animals were called of the sweet foot, others of the stinking foot, 10. See Appendix.
Fewterer, feutreres, dewtrees, man who leads greyhounds, 129
Fiants, also Lesses, excrements of the wild boar, App.
Fistoles, fistula, 92
Fixen, vixen, O. G. fuchsen, 64
Flay, flean, flene, to skin deer and certain other game, 174
Flayssh, flesh, 5
Flux, dysentery
Foillyng, stag going downstream when hunted, 32, 173
Folies, foly, folly, lesser deer, not hart or buck, 196
Foltisch, foolish, 45
Foorme, forme, fourme, form of the hare, 14, 17
Foragle, strangle, straggle
Forche, fourched, forked, said of stag's antlers, 140, 177
Forloyne, forlogne, forlonge, a note sounded on the horn, to denote that the quarry or hounds or both had distanced the hunters, 173
Forsters, foresters, 148
Forswong, M. E. Forswinger, bruised, beaten (tucked up), 88
Fort, the thick part of woods
Forun, forewarn, 148
Fotyde, footed
Fouaill, the reward given to the hounds after a boar hunt, consisting of the bowels cooked over a fire, App.
Foumart, faulmart, folmert, polecat
Fowtreres, fewterers, huntsmen who led greyhounds, slippers
Foxen, ffixen, A. S. fixen—vixen, a bitch fox, 64
Foyne, weasel
Fraied, rubbed, 135
Fray, frighten, scare, 149
Fray, to rub off the velvet on stag's antlers, 26, 135
Fraying-post, the tree against which it was done
Freyn, excrements of the wild boar, App.
Froot, frotid, rub, 53, 94, 95, 146
Fuants, excrements of the fox, martin, badger, and wolf, App.
Fues, track, line, 18, 31
Fumes, fumee, fumagen, fimeshen, fewmets, femegen, fewmishings, excrements, droppings, particularly of deer, 9, 16, 38, 39, 133
Furkie, pieces of venison hung on a fork-shaped stick
Furrour, fur, Fr. fourrure, 63
Futaie, futelaie, forest, wood of old trees, also plantation of beech-trees, App.
Fynders, finders, hounds to start or find deer, 161, 165

Gaderynge, gaderyng, gathering, meet, 156, 163
Gadire, gather, 43
Gar, to force, to compel, 39
Gardes, the dew-claws of the wild boar
Garsed, cupped, 90
Gin, gynne, trap, snare
Girle, the roebuck in the second year, App.
Gise, guise, manner of
Gladnesse, a glade, a clear space, 137
Glaundres, glanders, 96
Glemyng, gleyming, slime, stickiness, 133
Gloteny, gluttony
Gnappe, snap, 92
Gobettes, small pieces, 81, 177
Goot, goat
Gorgeaunt, wild boar in his second year
Goters, gootere, goutieres, gutters, the small grooves in the antlers of a stag, 143
Graunt sour, stag of fifth year
Grauyll, gravel, 143
Grease, grece, the fat of certain animals, 25, 27, 49
Grease-time, the season of hart and buck when they were fattest, 160
Greater, of the, term used in counting the tines of a stag's antlers, App.
Grede, seek, hunt, 183
Gres, upper tusks of wild boar, grinders, 50
Gressoppes, grasshoppers, 66
Grete, greet, great, 13
Greue, grieve, harass, injure, 45
Grey, badger, 68
Grovys, grooves
Gustumes, customs, 4
Guttes, guts
Guyen, gueyne, Guienne
Guyrreis, quarry (curée), 105
Gynnes, gynes, gins, traps, ruses, wiles, tricks, 35, 73
Gynnously, by stratagem or ingenuity, 15, 39, 43, 59

Haies, hayes, nets, hedges, 74
Hallow, the reward given to the hounds at the death
Halowe, halloa, App.
Hamylons, the wiles of a fox
Harbour, herborowe, harboure, harborow, to track a hart to his lair, 29
Harbourer, man who harbours the deer, 130, 148
Hardiethe, herds with
Hardle, herdle, herdel, harling, hardel, fasten or couple hounds together, also to fasten the four legs of a roebuck together, 45, 190
Hardy, bold, courageous
Haris, hares, 17
Harnays, herneis, harness, appurtenances, arms, &c., 60
Haronsblast, a crossbow, from O.F. Arcbaleste, 27
Harowde, herald, 139
Harthound, herthound, hound used to chase the stag
Hast, haste
Hastilettiz, the dividing of the wild boar into thirty-two pieces
Hatt, hath
Hatte, thicket, 118
Haukes, hawks, 120
Haukyng, hawking
Hauntelers, antlers, App.
Hauspee, haussepee, a trap; also a siege engine, 61
Hayter, harrier, App.
Hearse, also Broket's sister, a red-deer hind in her second year, App.
Heddyd, headed
Heere, hair, 27
Heghes, hocks
Heirers, harriers, 111
Hele, helthe, health
Helyn, heal, 127
Hemule, hemuse, heymuse, roebuck in the third year
Hendis, red-deer hind, 130
Her, hear
Herbis, herbs, 14
Herborowe. See Harbour
Herdle, to dress a roebuck
Herneis, harness. See Harnays, also Appendix
Heroun, heron, 1
Hert, heart; also stag, 23, 34
Hertis, harts, stags, 130
Hidre, hinder
Highten, called, named, 148, 182
Hire, her, 19
Hoggaster, wild boar in his third year, App.
Hokkes, hoghes, houghs, hocks, 99, 114
Hookes, hooks, first teeth of wolf and dog, 56, 83
Hoot (Be), promised, 79
Hoote, hot, 32
Hopeland, hopoland, houppeland, a long surcoat or gownlike garment
Hoppyn, hoping
Horred, hairy, 106
Hos, hoarse, 66
Houe, hoof
Hough, howff, houff, a haunt, a resort, used especially for the holt, or dwelling-place of an otter, App.
Houndis, hundes, hounds; also hands, 1
Hounger, hunger
Hounter, hunter
Howlyn, howl
Hoxtide, feast fifteen days after Easter, App.
Huske, a number of hares, App.

Iboyled, boiled
Iclepid, called, 105, 144
Ileyn, lain, 136
Illoeques, illeoqs, here in this place, 183, 234
Ilost, lost
Imakyd, made, 137
Imeyngid, mingled, 102
Imprime, unharbouring a hart
Ingwere, inquere, inquire or seek, 151
Ipressid, pressed, 136
Ireeyned, rained, 157
Iren, iron, 90
Irenged, arranged, 142
Ironged, ranged
Iroos, iris, 93
Ispaide, spayed, castrated; also to kill with a sword. See Spay
Istamped, stamped, crushed, 93
Istered, stirred, 91
Itawed, tawed, tanned, 126
Ithrest, thrust, pushe, 136
Itred, trodden
Itynded, tined, 142
Iweryd, worn, 147
Iweted, wetted, moistened, 97
Iwrethede, wreathed, 133

Jangelere, jangler, 124
Jannere, January
Jawle, jaw, 50
Jengeleth, jangeleth, said of a noisy hound, 110
Jolly, a bitch in heat, 54, 58
Jopey, juppey, to holloa, to cry out, to call, 171, 234
Juge, jugge, judge
Juggementz, judgments, 130
Juill, July
Juin, June
Jus, juice
Jweryd, worn

Kareynes, carrion, 48, 58, 68
Kele, cool, 91
Kembe, comb, 127
Kennettis, kenet, a small hunting hound, 111
Kepyn, keeping
Kerre, kirre, kyrre, cure, curée, quarry, reward of hounds. See Curée
Keuere, cover, 65
Keuered, covered, 80
Kitte, to cut, sharp, 95
Kittyng, cutting, 50
Knobber, stag in second year or broket, App.
Knyff, knife, 90
Kounyngly, cunningly; also wisely
Kunne, ken, to know, to be able, 15
Kyde, roebuck in first year
Kyen, kine, cattle, 120
Kylleic, Welsh for grease time
Kyndeleth, bring forth (said of the hare), 181
Kyndels, young hare, 19
Kyndely, naturally, M. E. kindely, kendeliche, cundeliche
Kynningly, cunningly
Kytons, kyttons, kittens, 71

Labelles, small flaps, 174
Ladde, led
Ladil, ladle
Laies, pools, lakes
Lair, the resting-place of the various kinds of deer, 10
Lammas, Lammasse, August 1, 2
Lammasse of Peter Apostull, June 29
Lappe, lap, 158
Lasse, less, smaller
Launcet, lancet
Laundes, Londes, wild uncultivated land, 36
Lavey, unrestrained, wild, 111
Leather, the skin of deer and of the wild boar, App.
Leches, leeches, doctor or surgeon, 12
Leder, leather, 126
Lefrer, levrier, greyhound
Left, last, or live
Legges, legs
Leie, lair
Leire, river Loire in France, 77
Leires, lair, bed of a stag, 136
Leith, layeth
Lekes, leeks, 90
Lernyd, learned, taught
Lese, leash, 59
Leseth, loseth, 52
Less, of the, term used in counting the tines, App.
Lesses, Fr. laissées, excrements of boar and wolves, 139, 146
Lesshe, lesse, lesche, leash, 140
Lesshes, lesses, inferiors, 189
Lesyng, loosing, 119
Lette, hindered, 51, 163
Leuere, leaver, rather, sooner
Leurettis, leverets, 19
Leuve, leave, 31
Leuys, leues, leaves, 138
Levir, leaver, rather
Levrier, a hare hound
Liam, lyam, rope by which the limer was held
Libard, leopard, 70
Liff, life, 31
Liflode, lyvelode, livelihood, 59
Ligging, lygging, lair, resting-place, 24, 71, 149, 191
Lippis, lips
Litere, litter
Logges, lodges, 190
Londe, land, 75
Louen, love
Loupes corryners (loup cerviers), lynx; occasionally it was probably applied to the wolverine, 70
Lowre, laugh, 81
Luce, pike, 113
Lyff, life
Lymer, a tracking hound on a leash, 31, 38, 152, 157, 167-9, 235
Lymmes, limbs
Lymner, lymerer, limerer, man who leads hounds on a leash, 148, 166, 235
Lymnere, used both for man and hound, App.
Lynsed, linseed, 104
Lyoun, lion
Lythis, lightis, lungs
Lyven, lyuen, live

Maistives, mastif, mastiff
Maistris, masters
Malemort, glanders, 96
Malencolious, melancholy
Malice, cunning, 34
Mamewe, mamunesre, mameue, mauewe, mange, 90, 91
Manesseth, threatening, 51
Mannys, man's, 151
Marches, district, 19
Marie, marrow
Marrubium album, white horehound (Marrubium vulgare), 101
Martryn, martin, 73
Mary Magdalene day, July 22nd, 26
Mascle, masche, male, 67
Mastin, a hound used for boar-hunting, a mongrel
Matere, matter
Mayned, maimed, bitten
Mayntyn, maintain
Maystif, mastif, mestifis, mastowe, mastiff, 118, 122, App.
Maystre, maistrie, maistrice, maystry, mastery, skill, 71, 107
Meche, big, 113
Mede, meadow, 163
Medle, medel, mix, 91
Mene, lesser, small, 128
Menee, mennee, note sounded on a horn; also the baying of a hound hunting, 171, 179
Meng, menge, mingle, 102
Merrein, the main beam of a stag's antlers, App.
Mervaile, marvel
Merveiliost, most marvellous, 181
Merveillous, merueylous, marvellous
Mestifis, mastifs, 118, 122
Metis, meats
Metyng, metyngis, meet, meeting, 148
Metynge, metyng, feeding or pasture of deer, 9, 25, 34, 152
Meue, mew, meve, move, start, shed, 26, 42, 166
Meule, mule, burr, part of the antler, App.
Meute, pack of hounds
Mevethe, meweth, to mew, casts or sheds. See Meue
Mews, house for hawks
Modir, mother, 105
Modirwort, motherwort (Leonurus cardiaca), 101
Monythe, moneth, monethenys, month, 27
Moote, mote, a note or horn signal, App.
Morfound, morfond, to catch cold, glanders, 124
Mornyngis, morning, 7
MORSUS galline, chickweed, 101
Mort, a note sounded on the horn at the death of the hart
Mosel, moselle, muzzle, 77
Mote, moote, a note sounded on the horn, 168, 185
Motying, moving, 150
Mountenance, mountance, extent of, as far as, 21, 101
Moustenesse, moisture, 124
Mow, mowe, mowen, to have power, to be able, 97, 178
Mowse, burr of an antler
Mue, mew, shed antlers, or feathers, molt. See Meue
Mule, meule, burr of a stag's antler, 141
Mute, meute, a pack of hounds
Myche, the assibulated form of mukel, mikl, great, much, 41
Myddes, midst
Myddil, middle
Mynde, memory, 2
Mysiugen, misjudge, 29

Nail, name given to a disease in dogs' eyes, now called Pterygium, 94
Nartheless, natheless, nevertheless, 149
Natyuite, nativity
Nedel, needle, 61
Nekys, neke, neckyd, neck, necked, App.
Nemeth, taketh, 75
Nempe, name, 165
Neres, kidneys
Nesche, neyssh, nessh, soft, tender, moist, 52, 130, 131
Nethir, nether, lower
Nettelis, nettles, 89, 101
Newlich, newly, freshly
Nombles, nomblis, part of the stag's intestines, App.
Noone, no more
Noorche, norshe, norssh, nourish, to bring up, to educate, 56, 58, 80
Noosetherlis, nosethrelles, nostrils, 96, 105
Norture, bringing up, 30
Notis, nuts, 91
Nough, nigh
Noyaunce, annoyance, 163
Nyme, to take, to hold

Okis, oaks, 144
Olyff, olive, 90, 102
Onys, once, 156
Oo, oon, one, 17
Opene, opyn, open (of hounds to give tongue), 108, 155
Or, ere, before, 17
Ordeyne, ordain
Orped, brave, valiant, 107
Os, the dew-claws of the stag and hind, App.
Oscorbin (os corbin), a small bone in the stag's body given to the crows, App.
Ostoraces calamynt, storax or resin, 96
Otyr, otere, otter, 72-4
Ouerjawes, upper jaws, 176
Ouersette, overcome, 60, 66
Ouerwherte, athwart, 87
Ourshette, overshoot, 159
Ouyr, over
Oweth, owen, ought
Owrers, harriers
Oye, eye, 157
Oyle, oil, 102

Paas, piz, chest, 114
Paas, pace, to walk slowly
Pace, slot, track of stag, 132
Pamed, palmated
Parasceve, Parasseue, Good Friday
Parfiters, parfitors, parfitours, parfyteiros, the third or last relay of hounds 7, 10
Partel, a part of portion
Parteyneth, appertaineth
Partie, part
Pase, pace, to step slowly, 130
Pearls, the excrescences on the stag's antlers, App.
Pece, piece
Peechtre, peochetre, peachtree, 102
Pel, Fr. peau, skin
Percel, parsley, 101
Perche, the main beam of the stag's antler, App.
Perfite, perfeet, perfit, perfect; also note sounded on the horn, 174
Peritorie, wall pellitory (Parietaria), 101
Pesen, peas, 26
Peseth, paceth, 149
Peyn, pain
Pierrures, "pearls" or excrescences on the stag's antlers
Pilches, pelisse, a coat of skin or fur, 63
Playn contre, clear open country, 19, 65
Playnes, plains
Playstire, plaster
Plecke, plek, pleck, plecca, piece of ground, place, 183
Pleyn, pleyneth, complain, lament, 51
Pleyn, playneth, pleignen, Fr. pleigner, complain, lament
Pointyng, pointing, track of hare
Polcattes, polecats, 73
Pomeled, mottled, dappled, spotted, 45
Poonde, poon, pond
Poort, parts, behaviour, manners, 4
Popy, puppy
Porche. See Perche
Pouere, pouer, power, 164
Pouture, keep, food, used in connection with hounds
Poynted, painted
Preef, proof, 88
Prees, press, crowd, 118
Preuyd, proved, 90
Preuyli, priuyli, privily, 149
Price, prise, priee, take, capture
Pricket, priket, the fallow buck in his second year, App.
Prik, prick, to hunt, 116
Prikherid curris, rough-coated curs, App.
Prikkyng, pricking, footprint of hare, App.
Prime, noon (hie prime), midday
Prise, prize, pryce, a horn signal blown in France for the buck, in England for the hart and buck after the kill, 175
Prive, tame
Procatours, proctors, 195
Profiteness, perfectness, 2
Pulegrun, pennyroyal (Mentha pulegium), 20
Pulleth, poileth, take the hair off, Fr. poiler, 90
Pursnettis, purse-nets, 67
Purueaunce, perseverance, 80
Puttes, pits
Pyche, pitch
Pyles, piles, the skin of the boar, wolf, and smaller animals
Pynsours, pincers, 98

Quales, quails, 119
Quarry, the reward given to the hounds. See Curée, App.
Quat, couched, lying down, used for deer, 172
Quattell, to quat, to squat, to crouch, to lie down, App.
Questy, Quest, to hunt, to give tongue, 110, 130, 155
Quyere, quyrre, quir, quare, curée, quarry for hounds, reward, App.
Quyk, euelis, Quickevil, a disease of hounds
Quyrrcis, reward given to hounds. See Curée, App.

Racches, hounds, 3, 74, 167
Rage, madness
Ragerunet, ragemuet, dumb madness, 86
Rascaile, rascayle, raskaile, lean deer; any deer under ten was usually called rascal, 7, 25, 150, 193
Raveyn, prey, rapine, 57, 60
Real, reall, a tine (in France, the bay) on the stag's antler
Reame, reaume, realm, 78
Rear to, to dislodge a wild boar, App.
Rebelly, rebellious, unruly, 191
Rechase, recheat, sound a note on the horn, to call back the hounds by sound of horn, also to put them on the right scent, 168, 178, 191-8, App.
Reche, to reck, to care, 57, 131
Recheless, reckless
Recopes, recoupling, 179
Refraied, refreide, refrected, chilled, cooled, 47, 99
Reies, nets, App.
Relaies, relays (of hounds), 165
Releved, Fr. relever, said of the hare rising from her form to go to her pasture, 14, 183
Relie, relye, rally, 167
Remeuve, remeyid, removed
Rennen, rained, rains
Rennyng, renneth, running
Renouet, renovel, Fr. renouveler, to renew, 48
Resceyued, received
Reseeyuour, receiver, a greyhound in front of deer, 198
Reseityng, reseating
Resouns, resouns, resons, reasons, 6
Restif, quiet, restive, unwilling to go or to move forward, 109
Restreyed, restrained, held back, 109
Retreved, retrieved, 29
Reuere, revere, river
Rewe, rue, 90
Rewe, row, 193
Rewle, rule, 55
Rewme, Fr. rhume, a cold, 96
Reyne, rain, 21
Reyndere, reindeer
Reyson, reyse, raising, raise, 29
Rialle, rial, royal, also tine of stag's antlers, 28, 140
Ridingtime, redengtime, bucking time of the hare, 20
Rig, ragge, backbone, App.
Riot, 74, App.
Roches, rokkes, rocks, 26
Rodes, rods
Rotelyng, rattling, 162
Roungeth, Fr. ronger, chews the cud, 181, App.
Rouse to, rowze, rouse, to dislodge buck or doe, App.
Rout, a number of wolves, 62
Routes, synonymous with slot, line of deer, 132
Royal, a tine, sometimes the trez tine (see Rialle), 28, 140
Ruettis, horn or trumpet, 128
Rusyng, rusing, 31, 45, 173
Rutsomtime, rutson, rutte, rutting time of deer, 24, 109
Ryges, back, haunches, 17
Ryghtes, rights, a stag's rights, three lower tines of antlers; a hound was in his "rights" when hunting line, 174
Ryot, noise, 121
Ryuere, reuere, river, 77

Saynolfes, spaynels, spaniels, 119
Scantilonn, measure, 150, 165
Scombre, scombere (stercoro in MS. Bod. 546), voiding excrements, 100, 127
Scomfited, discomfited, 82
Seat, the form of a hare, 16
Seche, seek
Sechyng, sekyng, seeking, 110
Seegh, seghe, saw, 13
Seeld, seelden, seldom, 181
Selidoyn, celandine, 94
Semblaunt, semblance, pretence, 16
Semble, assembly or meet, 9
Semoly, seemly, 75
Sengler, wild boar (Sanglier)
Sens, incense, 96
Sentyn, scent
Serchyng, searching, 6, 29
Sergeauntis, sergeants, 165
Sesounn, sesoun, seson, season, 29
Sesours, seizers, 114, 117
Sette, set, place, part of forest round which "stables" or stations of men and hounds were placed, 149, 189
Sewe, sue, Fr. suir, hunt, pursue, 150, 161
Sewet, suet, fat of deer
Sewre, swear
Seyn, say, see
Shap, shape
Shapon, shaped
Sheeld, shield, shoulder of a boar, 49
Sheellen, shall
Sheerde, cut, wound, 99
Shent, shamed, disgraced, 79
Sikerli, securely, 159
Singular, the wild boar when he leaves the sounder, App.
Skirtis, skyrtis, the skin and tissue surrounding the stomach
Skulk, a number of foxes, App.
Slawthe, sloth, 5
Slough, lower part of the heart
Slug-hound, a sleuth-hound, a track hound, App.
Slyke, slick, sleek or smooth, 44
Smet, smytten, smitten, 192
Snawe, snow
Soar, a buck in his fourth year
Soepol, wild thyme (Thymus serpyllum), 20
Soile, soule, souille, wallowing pool, soil or mud; "to soil" means when a deer or wild boar takes to water or wallows in it, 37, 50, 144
Soiourne, soiourn, soiournying, sojorn, sojourn, to remain, 98
Solere, upper chamber, 126
Somedele, somewhat
Somere, somer, summer, 45
Sone, soon
Sonne, sunne, sun, 9
Sonne, soune, sound
Sopere, soper, supper, 180
Soppe, soppers, herd of deer, 25
Sorrell, a buck in his third year
Sotelly, subtlety, cleverly
Sotil, sotille, sotilte, subtle, clever, 67, 80, 95
Soule, soile, alone, 168
Sounder, soundre, sundre, a herd of wild boars, 53, 143
Sour, stag of fourth year, the colour of a deer's hide; according to Roquefort, a herd of swine, App.
Sousse, oxide of zinc, 95
Souz-real, souch-real, sur-ryal, sur-antler, a tine of the stag's head, 140, 177, App.
Sowle, soul, 12
Spainel, spaynels, spaniel
Sparhauke, sparrowhawk, 114
Spatell, spittle, 92
Spay, to kill a deer with a sword 10, 174, 258; to castrate, 84, 258
Spayard, spayde, spayer, spycard, the stag in his third year, App.
Spaynel, spaniel, 119
Speies, spires, young wood, 157
Spires, spoyes, stalks, young wood; thick spires means thick wood, 65, 118
Spitous, despiteful, 115
Spraintes, spraytyng, excrements of the otter, 73, 139
Springol, springald, springold, springall, siege engine to throw stones or balks of timber, 23
Stable, stablys, Fr. establie, a post or station of huntsmen and hounds, 188
Staggart, the stag in his fourth year, 29, 131
Stalk, to go softly, creep, "Stalk the deer full still" (used by John Lydgate, about 1430)
Stall, to corner, to bring to bay, to stand still, 153
Stanc, stank, stanges, stangkes, Fr. estanc, pool, tank, pond, 32, 72
Steppis, steps, footprint of deer, 73, 137
Stere, stir, 91
Stert, stirt, start
Stinte, stynte, to stop, to blow a stint—i.e. to stop or check the hounds, a false scent, check, 19, 165
Stone-bow, Fr. arc-à-pierre, a kind of cross-bow
Stoonys, stones, 143
Stordy, estordic, giddy, 116
Stoupen, stoop
Strake, to blow, 178
Strangle, straggle, 188
Stranling, stranlyn, squirrel
Stratere, straighter
Straught, straight, 128
Strenge, strength, stronghold, thick woods, 16, 118, 156
Strengeste, strongest
Strepid, to strip
Streynour, strainer
Streynt, strain, progeny or breed
Stripid, stripped, term to denote skinning of hare, wild boar, and wolf, App.
Stroke, strake, or stuke, to sound a note on a hunting-horn, 52
Strong, said of woods and coverts, thick, dense, 25
Sue, to seek, to hunt, 161
Suers, followers
Suet, the fat of the red-deer and fallow-deer
Suete, sweet, 19
Sugre, sugar
Surantler, a tine, generally the bay
Sur-royal, the surroyal tine, 28
Sure batyd (of hounds' feet), battered, bruised from over running, 98
Susrial, surroyal tine
Stynt, at fault; to stop
Suyte, suite, following
Swef, a hunting cry, meaning gently or softly, 182
Swerde, sword, 11
Swoor, swore
Swoot, swote, sweat
Sylvestres, beasts of venery—i.e. red-deer, hare, boar, and wolf, App.
Synnes, sins, 7
Synowes, synewes, sinews
Sythes, times

Tacches, habits, also spots, markings, 121
Taloun, talon, heel, 130, 131
Tawed, a kind of tanning, preparation of white leathers, 63
Tawne, tan, tawny, 105
Taylyd, tailed
Teaser, teazer, tesours, a small hound that "teases" forth the game in coverts, 189
Teg, the fallow doe in her second year
Tent, tended, cared for, 103
Tercelle, tiercel, the male of any species of hawk, 119
Terer, teerors, terrier, 4
Terpse, to poise an arrow for shooting
Terryers, terriers, 4
Teste, head or antlers (tête)
Teyntes, touches, 65
Thenderleggis, hind legs
Thenkyngis, thinking, 75
Thennes, thence
Thidere, thither
Toches, teeth, 50, 56
Togadere, togidre, together
Tokenys, tokens, 86
Tosshes, tusks
Tounge, toong, tongue
Toure, tower, 77
Towailles, towels, 164
Townge, tunge, tongue
Trace, track or footprint of an animal, 9, 73, 130, 137
Trauaille, travayle, Fr. travaillé, work, labour, 54, 93
Tredeles, excrements of otter, 73
Trenchour, trencher, 174
Trestes, tryst, trist, 190
Tresteth, trusteth, 49
Treu, trewe, true, faithful
Trip, a herd of tame swine, 53
Trochis, troches, the tines "on top," 28, 135, 140
Trodes, trod
Troweth, believes or knows
Trustre, tryst, 118
Twies, twyes, twice, 82
Twin, between
Twygges, twigs, 22
Tyme, season
Tyndes, tynys, tines, 132, 142
Tysane, a medicinal tea, 11

Umbicast, to cast round, 151
Undirnethe, underneath
Undoing, dressing of a deer
Undoon, undone, to cut up
Unneth, scarcely, 80
Unsicker, uncertain
Unthende, unsuccessful
Unwayssh, unwashed
Unwexid, unwaxed
Unyoyne, unjoin, 97
Uprear to, finding of the hart buck, and boar with the limer
Usyn, use

Vanchasours, vanchasers, the relay of hounds that comes first, 7, 10
Vannchace, the first in the chase, 7, 10
Vauntellay, vauntlay, vnlay, part of the pack held in reserve, when uncoupled on the line of the stag before the hounds already hunting had passed, 169, 172
Veel, calf, used sometimes for the stag in his first year, App.
Veline, a horn signal, App.
Veltraga, veltrarius, a hound, an alaunt, App.
Vent to, said of an otter when it comes to surface of water for air; also to empty, to cast excrements, App.
Ventrers, ventreres, 116, 117
Venyin, venom
Verfull, a glassful, 101
Verrey, truly, true, 75, 105
Vertegrece, vertegres, verdigris, 91
Vesteing, investigating, looking, 151
Veutreres, veautre, boarhound
Veyn, vein
Vishiteth, voiding excrements, 66
Vmblis, umbles
Vndirtakyng, undertaking
Vndyrstondyng, understanding
Vngles, bugles, 128
Vnnanys, onions, 102
Voide, voyde, leave, go away, empty, 51, 191
Voiden, to purge, 61
Vois, voys, voice, 66
Voynes, veins, 99

Waggyng, excrements of foxes, 139
Waies, way, track
Walouyng, wallowing, 146
Waltrer, welter
Wanlace, put up game, 122
Waraunt, warrant, save, 31
Warderobe, werdrobe, excrement of badgers, 139
Ware, aware; also war, beware
Wareyn, wareyns, warren, 66
Warly, warily
Wayssh, wash
Wedir, weather, 8
Wedis, weeds
Welex, grow, 163
Welle, wolle, wool
Welspedde, well sped
Wene, know, to think
Wered, worn
Werkis, works, 5
Wervolf, werwolfe, a maneating wolf, 59
Wery, weary, 107
Wete, to wit, to know, 137
Wex, wax, to grow, 56, 85
Wexed, waxed, 128
Wexing, wexyn, growth, 26
Weytinge, waiting
Wheder, whether
Whitly, whiter
Wif, wiff, wife, 75
Wode, wood
Wodemannys, woodman's, 129
Wodmanly, woodmanly, 176
Wold, wish or would
Wones, dwellings
Wonned, wouned, wont, accustomed, 85
Woode, wode, mad, 61, 85
Woodness, madness, 85
Woote, know, 43
Worth up, on horse, mount on horseback, 175
Wortes, vegetables, roots, 11
Woxen, part of verb wax, to grow
Wreech, wreche, wretched, 55
Wrethis, wreaths, 133
Wroot, to root, 48, 144
Wrooth, wrath, 49
Wryteng, writing, 200
Wurthynes, worthiness
Wyleli, wililiche, wilily, 31
Wymmen, women, 200
Wynde, wind, scent, smell
Wyndeth, winds, scents, 17

Ybrend, burnt, dry, 134
Yede, went, 150, 166
Yeman, yeoman, 148, 165
Yeue, give, 110
Yfeted, made, well or evil shaped
Yflanked, a species of madness in hounds, "lank madness," 88
Yfore, therefore
Yfounde, found, 164
Ygote, begotten, bred
Yhewe, hewn, 152
Ylaft, left, 178
Ymakyd, made
Ynowe, ynow, enough, 1
Yongis, young
Youle, howl
Ypocras, Hippocras, 11
Ypoticaries, apothecary, 84, 101
Yrest, rested, 136
Ythowzt, thought of