Sheepebiter, 64/17, _s._ a thief, lit. a wolf, a cant phrase. See
Halliwell, s.v.
Shent, 57/45, _pp._ ruined, disgraced. A.S. _scendan_.
Shere, 3/7, _s._ shire, county. A.S. _scire_.
Shift, 9/39, _v._ manage, fare.
Shift, 104/1, _s._ excuse, makeshift.
Shifting, 95/5, _adj._ changing, often removing.
Shifting, 10/27, 10/34, _v._ trickery, cheating, acting shiftingly.
Shiftingly, 9/26, _adv._ by tricks or mean shifts.
Shock, 56/20, _s._ a certain number of bundles or sheaves of corn (in
some parts twelve). "A _shocke_ of wheate, _meta tritici_."--Withal's
Dict. 1608.
Shock, 57/10, _v. imp._ collect into _shocks_ or heaps of twelve
sheaves.
Shod, 17/6, _pp._ tired.
Sholue, 17/1, _s._ shovel.
Shoo, 102/2, _s._ pl. shoes. A.S. _sceo_, a shoe, pl. _sceon_.
Shot, 114/40, _s._ expense, reckoning.
Showreth out, 14/3, _v. pr. t._ is showery, rainy weather.
Shreaw, 16/17, _s._ thief, rascal, 67/24, _s._ shrew, scold. See Shrew.
Shred pies, 31/3, _s. pl._ mince pies, the meat being cut up into
_shreds_. A.S. _screâdan_, small pieces. "No matter for plomb-porridge
or _shrid pies_."--Sheppard's Epigrams, 1651.
Shrew, 64*/6, _s._ scold. "Shrewe, _pravus_. Schrewyd, _pravatus,
depravatus_."--Prompt. Parv.
Shroftide, 90/3, _s._ Shrove Tuesday, the day before the first day of
Lent.
Shrouing, 90/3, _s._ to be merry, probably derived from the sports and
merriment of Shrovetide. See Halliwell, s.v. Shrove.
Shut, _v._ 51/5, shoot, throw; 37/13, shoot out, spring up.
Sieth, 35/25, _s._ scythe. A.S. siðe.
Siethes, 39/39, _s. pl._ chives, spelt in Hollyband's Dict. 1593,
_sieves_, from Fr. _cive, Allium fissile_, L.
Sirops, 91/3, _s. pl._ sirups.
Siszers, 17/4, _s._ scissors.
Sithe, 17/14, _s._ scythe.
Skare, 2/7, _v._ frighten. Icel. _skirra_ = to drive away.
Skared, 69/4, _pp._ frightened, cheated of.
Skavel, 17/19, _s._ a kind of spade, having its sides slightly turned
up, used in draining, and cleaning narrow ditches. Compare _scuffle_, a
garden hoe, and _shovel_.
Skep, 17/3, _s._ a basket made of rushes or straw.
Skill, 114/38, _s._ plan, design.
Skillesse, 113/4, _adj._ simple, homely.
Skirrets, 40/19, _s. pl._ the water-parsnip. _Sium latifolium_,
contracted from _skirwort_, its older name, a corruption of
_sugar-wort_. Ger. _zucker-wurzel_.
Skreene, 90/2, _s._ fire-screen. See note E453.
Skreine, 17/16, _s._ sieve, screen. O. Fr. _escrein_.
Skuppat, 17/19, _s._ a spade used in draining and making narrow
ditches. Belgian _schup_, a spade.
Skuttle, 17/16, _s._ a screen for cleaning corn, i.e. a large broad and
shallow shovel for casting threshed corn from one side of the barn to
the other that light grains and dust may fall short.
Slab, 15/35, _s._ the outside cut of sawn timber.
Slabbered, 48/20, _pp._ dirtied, beslobbered. L. Ger. and Dut.
_slabbern_.
Slained, 106/15, _pp._ slain, murdered, but perhaps we should read
_stained_.
Slake, 1/4, _v._ to slacken.
Slapsauce, 98/2, _s._ "a parasite."--Minsheu. "A lickedish, a lickerish
fellow, a _slapsawce_."--Nomenclator, 1585.
*Slapt, 72_e_, _pp._
Slea, 107/3, _v._ slay, kill. A.S. _slean_.
Sled, 17/11, _s._ sledge, truck. Ger. and Dutch _slede_. Icel. _sledi_.
A.S. _slidan_, to slide.
Slept, 90/1, _pp._ slipt, forgotten, omitted.
Slise, 35/20, _v. imp._ slice, cut.
Sliuers, 23/1, _s. pl._ pieces of split wood, chips. A.S. _slifan_.
Slugging, 75/1, _s._ lying late in bed.
Sluts, 75/5, _s. pl._ slovens, slatterns. Ger. _schlutte_. Dutch _slet_.
Smack, 57/24, a pleasant repast.
Smalach, 45/20, _s._ celery, or water parsley. The _small ache_ or
parsley as compared with the _hipposelinum_ or great parsley.
Small nuts, 34/22, Smalnut, 33/57, _s._ hazel nuts.
Snag dragons, 43/30, _s. pl._ snapdragons, so called from its corolla
resembling the _snap_ or snout. Dut. _sneb_ of some animal. Called by
Lyte "Calf's snowte."
Snorting, 9/16, _adj._ snoring, sleepy. A.S. _snora_, a snoring.
Snudgeth, 62/2, _v. pr. t._ is economical or saving, or, works quietly
or snugly. In Lanc. _snidge_. A.S. _snid_. Danish _snedig_, cunning.
'Thus your husbandrye, methincke, is much more like the life of a
covetous _snudge_, that ofte very evill proves, then the labour of a
goode husbande, that knoweth well what he doth."--Ascham, Toxophilus,
p. 6.
Sockle, 35/30, _v. imp._ suckle, provide with milk.
Sod, 22/27, _pp._ boiled.
Soketh, 19/2, _v. pr. t._ wets, soaks.
Soles, 17/21, _s. pl._ a collar of wood, put round the neck of cattle
to confine them to the post.
Sollen, 89/13, _adj._ sullen, sulky.
Soller, 57/5, _s._ garret, loft, or upper room. "_Solarium_, an upper
room, chamber, or garret which in some parts of England is still called
a _sollar_."--Kennett, Gloss. p. 134.
Sooth, 10/61, _v._ to flatter.
Sops in wine, 43/31, _s._ a kind of pink resembling a carnation; the
clove pink. "The rose and speckled flowre cald sops-in-wine."--The
Affectionate Shepheard, 1594.
Sorell, 39/36, _s._ sorrell. Fr. _surelle_, a dimin. from L. Ger.
_suur_ = sour, from the acidity of the leaves. _Rumex acetosa_, L.
Sost, 48/20, _pp._ dirty, foul. "Of any one that mixes several
slops, or makes any place wet or dirty, we say in Kent, he makes a
_soss_."--Kennett MS.
Souse, 12/5, _s._ pig's feet and ears pickled.
Soutage, 57/51, _s._ bagging for hops, or coarse cloth. See More's MS.
Additions to Ray's North Country Gloss.
Southly, 16/20, _adv._ facing the south.
Sowce, 19/37, _v. imp._ steep in brine, pickle.
Sower, 35/51, _adj._ sour.
Spare, 113/3, _v._ economize, be sparing.
Spareth, 10/35, _v. pr. t._ are economical, save.
Spars, 33/16, _s. pl._ rafters.
Speedfull, 52/13, _adj._ useful, profitable.
Speeding, 2/10, _s._ progress, success.
Speered, 84/5, _pp._ sprouted, a term in malting. "I _spyer_ as corne
dothe whan it begynneth to waxe rype, _je espie_."--Palsgrave.
Spent, 15/41, _pp._ used, consumed.
Sperage, 40/18, _s._ asparagus. Lemery in his Treatise on Foods, 1704,
gives as the etymology: _ab aspergendo_, sprinkling, because 'tis
convenient to water them!
Spials, 64/12, _s. pl._ spies. Fr. _épier_. O. Fr. _espier_, whence our
_espy, spy_. Low Lat. _espia_.
Spide, 2/9, _v. pr. t._ beheld, saw.
Spight, 57/13, _s._ as a spite or grief to.
Spight, 97/6, _v._ spite, be unpropitious.
Spil, 102/6, _v. pr. t._ spoil, ruin.
Spilled, 50/6, Spilt, 56/54, _pp._ ruined, spoilt. A.S. _spillan_.
Spring, 48/11, _s._ young buds of felled underwood.
Spurlings, 12/5, _s. pl._ smelts. "Spurlin, a smelt, Fr.
_esperlan_."--Skinner. Sparling, smelts of the Thames.--Brockett's
N. C. Glossary. "First a sprat, then a small sparling, then a
sparling."--R. Holme, p. 325.
Squatteth, 16/38, _v. pr. t._ sit or crouch down. Welsh _yswatian_, to
squat, lie flat.
Squier, 10/57, _s._ squire, gentleman.
Stadled, 48/8, _pp._ "to stadle a Wood is to leave at certain distances
a sufficient number of young trees to replenish it."--T.R.
Staddles, 47/9, Stadles, 48/9, _s. pl._ young growing trees left after
cutting underwood.
Staid, 2/8, _v. pt. t._ kept, detained.
Staie, 10/7, _s._ means of support.
Staie, 19/40, _v._ prevent, stop.
Staied, 60/9, _adj._ steady, staid.
Stalfed, 21/11, _adj._ stall-fattened.
Stamp, 18/48, _v. imp._ bruise, pound.
Stands thee upon, 10/39, are suitable, proper for. To _stand_ a person
_on_ is _to be incumbent_ upon him, _it is his duty_.--Wilbraham,
Gloss. of Cheshire Words, 1818.
Star of Bethlehem, 43/34, _s._ Star of Bethlehem. _Ornithogalum
umbellatum_, a bulbous plant having a white star-like flower, like
pictures of the stars that indicated Our Lord's birth.
Star of Jerusalem, 43/35, _s._ perhaps sunflower or turn-sole. Ital.
_girasole_, familiarized into _Jerusalem_.
Stay, 114/31, _s._ rest, quiet.
Steade, 63/3, _s._ in steade = to advantage.
*Stede, 19, _v._ suffice, profit.
Steelie, 19/12, _adj._ hard, firm.
Steepe, 46/6, _adj._ a steepe = steeply.
Steeres, 36/8, _s. pl._ oxen in their third year. A.S. _steor_.
Sterue, 103/4, _v._ starve, perish. A.S. _steorfan_.
*Steruelings, 50, _s. pl._ half-starved animals.
Stick, 16/34, _v. imp._ to stick boards = to arrange them neatly one
upon another with sticks between.--T.R.
Still, 33/53, _v. imp._ quiet, stop from growing.
Still, 44/1, _v._ distill.
Still, 50/33, _s._ a still. Lat. _stilla_, a drop.
Stinted, 95/4, _pp._ appointed, settled.
Stirre, 77/6, _v._ move quickly, bestir herself.
Stitchwort, 45/23, _s._ stitchwort, chickweed, _Stellaria media_, Linn.
Stocke gilleflowers, 43/36, _s._ now shortened to stock, from stock,
the trunk or woody stem of a tree or shrub, added to _gilliflower_ to
distinguish it from plants of the pink tribe, called, from their scent,
_Clove-gilleflowers_.
Stocks, 22/13, _s. pl._ young trees.
Stoutnes, 9/9, _s._ force.
Stouer, 20/16, _s._ winter food for cattle, fodder from thrashed
corn, whether straw, chaff, or colder (broken ears of corn), from
the Old French _estavoir, estovoir, estouvier_, A.N. _estovers_, or
_estouvoir_, which denotes, according to Roquefort (Glossaire de la
langue Romane), 'provision de tout ce qui est nécessaire.'
Strangenes, 3/1, _s._ strangeness.
Strawforke, 17/1, _s._ a pitchfork.
Strawisp, 19/38, _s._ wisps of straw.
Streight waies, 114/8, _adv._ at once.
Strike, 16/9, _v. pr. t._ striking is the last ploughing before the
seed is committed to the earth.--M.
Strike, 17/1, _s._ a bushel measure. "Robert Webb of Shottre oweth me
iiij_s._ iiij_d._ lent hym in money for making ix _strycke_ and a half
of malt."--Will of John Cocks of Stratford-on-Avon, dated May 27th,
1600.
Stripe, 57/5, _s._ "beating upon a Hurdle or some other rough
thing."--T.R.
Stroieng, 48/17, _s._ destruction, injury. O. Fr. (_de_)_struire_. Lat.
_struere_.
Stroken, 35/31, _pp._ stroked, kindly treated.
Strowing, 42/1, _adj._ for strewing.
Stroyal, 10/23, _s._ waste all, wasteful.
Stub, 35/9, _s._ stump, buie at the stub = buy on the ground. A.S.
_stybb_, allied to Lat. _stipes_.
Stub, 33/47, _v. imp._ grub up.
"And badd hym take a mattock anon,
And _stubbe_ the olde rote away,
That had stonde there many a day."
--MS. Cantab. Ff. ii. 38, f. 129.
Stud, 33/16, _s._ the uprights in a lath and plaster wall. "In manie
places there are not above foure, six, or nine inches between _stud_
and _stud_."--Harrison, Pt. I, p. 233.
Stur, 62/6, _v._ move about, exert.
Sturs, 63/16, _s. pl._ disturbances, commotions.
Substanciallie, 9/23, _adv._ in reality, truly.
Subtiltie, 9/17, _s._ cunning, artfulness, deceit.
Sucker, 23/4, _s._ assistance, help, succour.
Suckerie, 91/2, Suckery, 39/38, _s._ succory, the wild endive, chicory.
Fr. _chicorée_, often replaced by fraudulent dealers with dandelion
roots, _Cichorium Intybus_, L.
Sudgerne, 10/8, _v._ settle down. Fr. _sojourner_. Cf. Barbour's Bruce,
E. E. Text Soc. ed. Skeat, 6/26, 16/47, and 20/356.
Suer, 84/3, _adj._ sure, careful. O. Fr. _seur, segur_. Lat. _securus_.
Suerty, 9/24, _s._ being security or surety.
Suite, 18/49, _s._ description, kind.
Suretie, 10/28, _s._ security, bail.
Swage, 114/26, _v._ assuage.
Swatches, 57/18, _s. pl._ rows or ranks of barley, etc.
Swathes, 55/2, _s. pl._ the line of grass or corn cut and thrown
together by the scythe in mowing. Cotgrave gives: "_Gerber des
javelles_ to bind corne of _swath_ into sheaues, to sheaue vp corne."
"Fœni striga. Monceaux de foin par ordre. The _swathe_ or strake of
grasse, as it lyeth mowne downe with the sithe."--Nomenclator.
Sweate, 56/20, _s._ a sweating, _i.e._ feel the effects of the heat.
Sweete Johns, 43/33, _s._ a species of _Dianthus_ or pink, called also
_Sweet John's-wort_.
Swerue, 96/42, _s._ fail, depart.
Swill, 78/5, _s._ hog's-wash.
Swim, 10/59, _v._ to abound, to overflow.
Swinge, 52/16, _v. imp._ cut down with the long swinging scythe used
for that purpose.
T.
Tack, 12/3, Tacke, 76/3, _s._ substance. A tough piece of meat is said
to have plenty of _tack_ in it.
Taile, 77/8, _s._ back.
Taint wormes, 65/3, _s. pl._ "A small red spider called _taint_ is by
the country people accounted a deadly poison to cows and horses."--Sir
T. Browne.
Tale, 83/4, _s._ tally, reckoning.
Talent, 59/9, _s._ the gifts and powers entrusted by God. Of course the
reference is to the Parable.
Tallie, 78/2, _s._ score, bill, charge.
Tallwood, 53/12, _s._ wood cut for billets. "Tall woode, pacte wodde to
make byllettes of, _taillee_."--Palsgrave.
Tampring, 17/16, _v._ tempering, mixing, thus the Bible speaks of
"_untempered_ mortar."
Tane, 66/1, _pp._ taken.
Tanzie, 39/40, _s._ tansy, _Tanacetum vulgare_, Linn.
Tapple up taile, 21/14. See note E125.
Tarie, 16/11, _v._ delay, keep back.
Tarragon, 40/21, _s._ tarragon. _Tragum vulgare_.--Gerard's Herball.
Used for perfuming vinegar in France. O. Fr. _targon_.
Tarrie, 85/1, _v._ wait for, await.
Tawnie, 43/3, _adj._ yellowish.
Ted, 54/1, _v._ to spread abroad new-cut grass. "I teede hay, I tourne
it afore it is made in cockes, _je fene_."--Palsgrave.
Tedder, 10/9, _s._ tether, "live within one's tether" = "within the
limits of one's income."
Teddered, 16/33, _pp._ tethered, tied up.
Teemes, 58/6, _s. pl._ teams.
Tell, 50/30, _v. imp._ count.
Temmes lofe, 16/11, _s._ "that made of a mixture of wheat and rye out
of which the coarser bran is taken."--T.R. "_Miche_, a fine manchet;
the country people of France call so also a loafe of boulted bread or
_tems_ bread."--Cotgrave.
Temper, 91/2, _s._ condition.
Tend, 10/39, _v. imp._ attend.
Tendance, 56/53, _s._ attention, care.
Tendeth, 62/3, _v. pr. t._ attends to, looks after.
Tere, 19/30, _s._ tares.
Thacke, 53/12, _s._ thatch, roof covering. "Erige, holme or
_thacke_."--Huloet, 1552. "Thakke, _tegmen, tectura_."--Vocab. MS.
Thacker, 36/24, _s._ thatcher. "A proud _thacker_ of Theeva would laugh
them to scorn."--Pilkington's Works, 381.
Thee, 10/8, _v._ thrive, prosper. "A very late example of this word; at
this time it was nearly obsolete. A.S. _théon_, to thrive, flourish.
"God that sittis in trinite,
Gyffe thaym grace wel to _the_
That lystyns me a whyle."
--MS. Cantab., Ff. v. 48, f. 47.
Theeuerie, 86/12, _s._ dishonesty.
Thencrease, 21/2, for the encrease = the increase, gain.
Thend, 19/40, for "the end."
Thetch, 57/32, _s._ thatch.
Thicker, 74/2, _adv._ more frequently.
Thies, 49/_c, s. pl._ thighs, limbs. A.S. _theoh_. Icel. _thio_.
Thiller, 17/4, the shaft-horse, also the last horse in a team. A.S.
_thil_, a pole or shaft. "Thylle horse, _veredus_."--Prompt. Parv.
Thoes, 19/40, pr. those.
Thon, 110, the one.
Thorow, 15/15, _v._ pass through.
Thother, 110, the other.
Thresh, 90/3, _v. imp._ whip, thrash.
Thresher, 86/13, _s._ a duster of furniture.
Thrift, page 3, _s._ fortune, success, prosperity. Icel. _thrif_.
Thriftie, 59/1, _adj._ thrifty, economical.
Thrift's ladder, 57/30, _s._ the ladder or road to fortune.
Thry-fallowing, 56/1, _s._ "the third fallow; perhaps also
cross-fallowing."--Mavor. "The third plowing of a summer fallow."--T.R.
Thwack, 18/3, _v. imp._ thump, beat together.
Tiburne stretch, 114/35, an execution. See note E498.
Tide, 63/2, _pp._ tied, fastened.
Tidie, 57/22, _adj._ "An old word signifying neat, proper, or in
season, from the word Tide."--T.R.
Tieth, 56/19, _s._ tithe.
Tilman, 16/4, _s._ farm labourers, ploughmen, etc.
Tilth, 4/2, _s._ tillage, cultivation. A.S. _tilð_, from _tilian_, to
till.
Tilth, 47/2, the ground tilled.
Tilture, 38/21, _s._ tillage, cultivation.
Time, 39/41, _s._ thyme. θυμος [Greek: thymos], from θυω [Greek: thuo],
fumigate, and identical with Lat. _fumus_, from its being used in
sacrifices.
Timelie, 55/9, _adv._ in time.
Timely, 16/19, _adv._ early, soon.
Tine, 50/18, _s._ wild vetch or tare, a plant that _tines_ or encloses
and imprisons other plants. _Vicia hirsuta_.
Tith, 56/12, _s._ tithe.
Tithers, 10/52, _s. pl._ payers of tithes.
Tithing, 10/52, _s._ paying tithes or dues.
Tits, 15/6, _s. pl._ horses. The phrase "a nice _tit_" is still in use.
Titters, 50/18, _s. pl._ a noxious weed amongst corn.
Tittle tattle, 22/3, chattering, gossipping.
To, 18/6, _prep._ for, as.
Tode, with an R, 62/17, _s._ See note E384.
Toesed, 114/5, _pp._ pulled, pinched. Cf. "to _tease_, or card wool."
A.S. _tæsan_, to pull, pluck.
Toieng, 61/1, _pr. p._ playing, amusing ourselves.
Toies, 57/34, _s. pl._ amusements, occupations.
Toile, 2/11, _s._ labour, work.
Tolleth, 55/12, _v. pr. t._ takes toll.
Ton, ... tother, 55/8, the one ... the other.
Tone, 10/10, the one.
Tooteth, 94/2, _v. pr. t._ looks or strives anxiously. "_Tooting_ and
prying."--Taylor's Workes, 1630, i. 119.
Toppingly, 49/1, _adj._ ?
Tost, 2/11, _v. pt. t._ agitated, harassed. Cf. _tease_.
Touch, 57/43, _s._ faith, honour, to keep touch, to keep faith,
perform a promise. The phrase occurs in the Ballad of "George
Barnwell," line 42.
Traie, 17/16, _s._ a mason's hod.
Traine, 32/2, _s._ draw. Fr. _trainer_, from L. Lat. _trahinare_, from
Lat. _trahere_.
Transpose, 59/10, _v._ arrange, dispose of.
Trauell, page 2, _s._ labour, work. Fr. _travail_.
Trauerse, 59/2, _v._ start upon, proceed upon.
Treachery, 9/27, _s._ breach of faith, perfidy.
Treene, 85/10, _adj._ wooden.
Trew, 113/2, _adj._ true.
Trick, 15/35,_ adj._ neat, clean, tidy.
Tricketh, 94/5, _v. pr. t._ dresses up, furnishes.
Trickly, 73/3, _adj._ neat, tidy.
Trim, 23/9, _v._ repair.
Trim, 3/2, _adv._ quickly, at once, easily. A.S. _trum_.
Trimlie, 57/34, _adv._ neatly, cleanly.
Trinkets, 17/5, _s. pl._ porringers (Halliwell), Ray gives:
counterfeits and trinkets, _s. pl._ porringers and saucers. Cheshire.
See note in Prompt. Parv.
Triue, 59/2, _v. pr. t._ (for contrive), attempt, try.
Troffe, 17/9, _s._ a trough.
Trope, 28/2, _s._ a phrase. From Greek τροπὸς [Greek: tropos], a
turning, lit., the use of a word or expression in a different sense
from that which properly belongs to it.
Troth, 1/1, _s._ truth. See an article on the derivation of this word
in "Leaves from a Word Hunter's Note Book," by Rev. A. S. Palmer, 1876,
p. 73.
Trowleth, 59/6, _v. pr. t._ helps on, moves towards. Welsh _troliaw_,
to _troll_ or trundle.
Trudge, 73/20, _v._ go, be spent.
Trudgeth, 10/21, _v. pr. t._ labours, journey's far.
Trull, 36/4, _s._ girl, lass.
Trustilie, 9/22. _adv._ confidingly.
Tullie, 112/5, Cicero.
Tumb, 106/15, _s._ the tomb, grave.
Tumbrel, 16/7, _s._ a tumbril, a dung-cart.
Turfe, 52/12, _s._ turf, peat. "Turfe of flagge, swarde of the erthe,
_cespes_."--Prompt. Parv. "A Turfe, _cespes_."--Cathol. Angl.
Turnebroch, 80/2, _s._ Before the introduction of _jacks_, spits were
turned either by dogs trained for the purpose, or by lads kept in the
family, or hired, as occasion arose, to turn the spit, or _broach_.
These boys were the _Turn-broaches_. See Halliwell.
Turn up, 46/18, _v._ deck, ornament.
Twelftide, 90/2, _s._ Twelfth Day, i.e. January 6th, twelve days after
Christmas. "At the city of New Sarum is a very great faire for cloath
at _Twelftyde_ called Twelfe Market."--Aubrey's Wilts. MS. Roy. Soc. p.
333.
Twifallow, 50/23, _v. imp._ till twice, plough twice. See Thry-fallowing.
Twiggers, 35/28, _s. pl._ first-class breeders. See Halliwell, s.v.
Twigging, 35/28, _s._ fast breeding.
Twinlings, 35/28, _s. pl._ twins (according to Dr. Mavor, but see note
E177).
Twinning, 35/28, _s._ bearing twins.
Twise, 59/11, _adv._ twice.
Twitcher, 17/17, _s._ instruments used for clinching the
_hog-rings_.--Mavor.
Twitchis, 53/2, _s._ pl. wounds, cuts.
U.
Undeskanted, 10/39, _pp._ untalked of.
Vndooeth, 10/46, _v._ ruins, destroys.
Vnfainedlie, 9/38, _adv._ unfeignedly, in truth.
Vnlustie, 19/24, _adj._ poor.
Vnmeete, 57/5, _adj._ unfit. A.S. _unmæte_.
Vnsauerie, 9/15, _adj._ wasteful, ruinous.
Vnshaken, 16/34, _adj._ perfect, in good order, free from _shakes_.
Vnspilt, 16/8, _pp._ not wasted.
Vntackle, 23/6, _v._ unyoke.
Vntangled, 57/50, _pp._ freed from the hop vines.
Vnthrift, 6/3, _s._ a prodigal, spendthrift.
Vnthriftely, 9/30*, _adv._ wastefully.
Vsher, 10/17, _s._ doorkeeper. O. Fr. _ussier, huissier_, from _uis,
huis_, a door.
V.
Vaine, 18/8, _s._ liking, fancy.
Vainfull, 2/13, _adj._ vain, fickle.
Valerian, 45/24, _s._ Valerian. _Valeriana officinalis_, Linn.
Vance, 114/7, _v._ advance.
Vantage, 3/7, _s._ advantage, profit.
Vegetiue, 55/7, _adj._ belonging to the plant.
Vent, 19/27, _s._ sale, disposal. Fr. _vente_, from Lat. _vendere,
venditum_, to sell. "There is no _vent_ for any commoditie except
wool."--Sir W. Temple.
Venter, 83/4, _v._ venture, risk.
Ventrest, 19/35, _v. pr. t._ risk, venture.
Vergis, 18/42, _s._ verjuice, the juice of crab-apples, or other unripe
fruit. Fr. _verjus_, from _vert_, green and _jus_, juice.
Verie, 92/4, _adj._ true, real.
Verlets, 63/18, _s. pl._ rascals, scoundrels. O. Fr. _varlet, vaslet_,
now _valet_.
Vermin, 33/7, _v._ destroy the vermin.
Vew, 114/24, _s._ view, sight.
Vewe, 75/7, _v._ view, examine.
Vice, 64/19, _s._ buffoon. The fool or punchinello of old shows.
"Light and lascivious poems, uttered by these buffoons or _vices_ in
plays."--Puttenham, ii. 9, p. 69.
Villeny, 9/21, _s._ unfair or mean treatment.
Vitleth, 97/1, _v. pr. t._ eats, dines.
Vittels, 57/39, _s. pl._ provisions, food.
Voyd, 64*/4, _v._ avoid.
W.
Wadling, 35/45, _s._ wattling, wattled fence. "Wattles are wood
slit."--T.R.
Wadmus (? Wadmul), page 37, note 1, a very thick, coarse kind of
woollen cloth, made originally of Iceland wool. Icel. _vadmâl_.
Halliwell, s.v. _Wadmal_.
Wag, 87/3, _s._ messenger.
Waid, 114/40, _pp._ considered, reflected on.
Waieth, 99/5, Waith, 101/5, _v. pr. t._ considers, reflects.
Waight, 56/24, _v. pr. t._ watch, wait about.
Waights, 10/44, _s._ weights, measures.
Waight, 99/1, _v._ attend or wait at table.
Waine, 48/22, _v. imp._ fetch, bring, lit. to convey in a _wain_ or
wagon.
Waine, 16/7, _s._ waggon. A.S. _wæn, wägen_.
Wake day, 90/5, _s._ a village festival, kept originally on the day of
the dedication of the parish church. See note E455.
Walke, 48/17, _s._ pasturing.
Wallow, 102/2, _v. pr. t._ make dirty, cover.
Wand, 33/45, _v. imp._ inclose with poles.
Wanteth, 94/8, _v. pr. t._ is in want.
Wantey, 17/5, _s._ a rope or leathern girdle, by which burdens are tied
to the back of a horse; _wamb-tie_, a belly-band.
Wanton, 90/5, _s._ merry girl. O. E. _wantowen_, from _wan-_, prefix
signifying lack or _want_, and _togen_, _pp._ of _teon_, to educate.
Wardens, 34/26, _s. pl._ a large baking pear. "I would have him roasted
like a _warden_."--Beau. and Flet.
Warely, 115/2, _adv._ carefully, warily.
Wares, 22/19, _s. pl._ productions.
Warily, 10/34, _adv._ discreetly, cautiously. A.S. _wær_.
Warrener, 33/7, _s._ the keeper of a warren.
Wart, 114/5, _v. pr. t._ wert, wast.
Waster, 79/1, _s._ wasteful.
Water furrow, 19/7, _v. imp._ draw furrows across the ridges in the
lowest part of the ground to act as drains or water-courses. "A watir
furre, _elix_."--Cathol. Anglicum.
Water-retting, 16/25, _s._ retting is the process of steeping flax in
water to separate the fibres. "Rettyn tymber, hempe or other like,
_rigo, infundo_."--Prompt. Parv.
Wayest, 10/4, _v._ considerest.
Weather, 57/5, _v. imp._ dry in the open air.
Weene, 67/12, _v. pr. t._ think. A S. _wenan_.
Webster, 15/17, _s._ a weaver. A.S. _webbestre_, a female weaver.
*Wedehoke, 79, _s._ a weeding tool.
Weeles, 36/31, _s. pl._ snares or traps for fish made of osiers or
twigs. "A weele, a wicker net, wherewith fishes being once entred,
there is no way for them to get out; a bow net."--Nomenclator.
"There plenty is of roches, bleakes, or eeles,
Which fishermen catche in their nets and weeles."
--Newe Metamorphosis, 1600.
Wefte, 84/1, _s._ a loss.
Well a fine, 114/19, to a good end or purpose.
Welthines, 10/36, _s._ plenty, wealth.
Wenches, 57/34, _s. pl._ girls.
Wennel, 20/28, _s._ a calf just _weaned_. "A lambe, or a kidde, or a
_weanell_ wast."--Spenser, Shep. Cal. September.
Wether, 90/7, _s._ weather.