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Lodge:dwelling in a forest,as originally made of boughs and leaves.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