Lithe:listen.Icelandic -alyoa,to listen.

Liveray:what is 'livre,'or delivered,as a 'livree'of clothes,food,etc.

Lodge:dwelling in a forest,as originally made of boughs and leaves.

Lough:laughed.

Lourdain:blockhead.

Lown:loon,dull,base fellow.

Makis:husbands.

Male:bag.

Manople:a large gauntlet protecting hand and fore-arm.

March parti:border side.

Masars:bowls or goblets.

May:maid.

Meany:meynie:body of retainers,or domestic following.

Meet:narrow.First English -maete,little.

Met:mete:measured.

Mister:need.

Mo:more.

Mort:the note sounded at death of the deer.

Mote I thee:May I thrive.First English -theon,to thrive.

Mote:meeting for decision of cases in ecclesiastical or civil law,or for other public purposes,as ward-mote,etc.Strong men were said to oppress the weak by being "mighty to mote."

Nicher:neigh.

Numbles:liver,kidneys,etc.French -nombles.The word was often written in English umbles and humbles.The umbles,with skin,head,chine,and shoulders of the deer,were the keepers'share in the brittling.There was a receipt for "umble pie"in the old cookery.To "eat humble pie"

was to dine with the servants instead of from the haunch at the high table.

Okerer:usurer.

Pace:pass.

Pay:satisfaction.The old sense of the word in the phrase "it does not pay"--does not give satisfaction.A man could be served "to his pay,"meaning in a way that satisfied or pleased him.

Pieces:drinking-cups.

Pluck-buffet:whichever made a bad shot drew on himself a buffet from his competitor.

Prest:ready.Prestly:readily.French -pret.

Prief:proof.

Proseyla:Venus'shells,porcelain.

Pye:coat a py:a rough coarse cloth.Dutch -py,or a coat made from it.The word remains in our "pea-coat."

Quarry:the skin of the deer on which entrails,etc.were piled as the dogs'share of the spoil.French -cuiree,from cuir,hide.

To be distinguished from the quarry,a square bolt for the crossbow,or the quarry or squared stones,both from Latin -quadratus.

Quh:=Wh.

Quite:requite.

Ray:striped cloth.

Raikand:ranging.

Rawe:row.

Rede:counsel.

Reve:plunder.

Room:space or spacious."The warldis room,"the space of the world;or "The warld is room,"the world is wide.

Salved:saluted.

Scheuch and syke:furrow and rill.

Seid:seed.

Shaw:covert of the wood.

Shear:in different directions.First English -sciran,to divide.

Shend:blame;shent:blamed.

Shete:shoot.

Shot-window:according to Ritson,is a window that opens and shuts.

Sicker and sad:sure and firm.

Sigh-clout:sieve-cloth.

Somers:sumpter horses.

Spleen,on the:in anger or discontent.The spleen was once supposed to be the seat of anger and discontent.

Spurn:strife,as a kicking against."That tear began this spurn,"

that rent began this strife.

Stalworthy:stalwart.

Stound:space of time.

Stour:conflict.

Stown:stolen.

Suar:heavy.First English -swaer.

Tarpe:probably a misprint for targe.In the Promptorium Parvulorum we have the "Targe,or chartyr--carta."

Tene:vexation,sorrow.

Thee,mote I:may I thrive.See Mote.

Threap:argue back pertinaciously.

Throw:space of time.

Tine:lose.

Tirled:twirled.

To-broke:"to"is intensive.

Told:counted.

Tone:the tone =that one,as the tother =that other;"that"

being the old neuter of "the."

Tray:surly,unwillingly.Icelandic -thra,obstinate.First English -

thrafian,to blame.

Tynde:horns of hart.

Unketh:unknown,unexpected.

Unneth:not easily.

Voided:quitted the place.

Wap:throw quickly.

Weal:twist.

Wed:pledge.

Weird:fate.

Well away:wo,alas,wo!First English -wa,eala,wa!

Welt them:tumbled them over.First English waeltan,to roll or tumble.

Wight:a being.

Wite:wete:weet:know.

Wone:crowd.

Wonning wan:where is thy,in what direction is thy home?"Wan"is an adverbial affix with the sense of Latin versus.

Wood:wode:mad.

Woolward:clothed only in wool.

Wough:"wo and wough."First English -wo,wa,the cry of lament for evil.Wough,First English -woh,is the evil done;the first sense of the word is a swerving from the right line,then wrong and evil.

Y-and I-as prefix =the participial prefix ge-(g being pronounced like y before the weak vowel e).So y-dight:y-granted:

y-slaw:I-nocked.

Yede:yode:First English -eode,went.

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