caas (A.N.) _case_
cacchen (A.S.) 236, _to catch, take_. _part. past_, caught, 361
cachepol (A.S.) 372, 373, _a catchpole_
kaiser, kayser (A.S.) 404, _an emperor_
cammoke (A.S.) 414, a weed more commonly known by the name of _rest-harrow
(anonis)_
kan (A.S.) _can_
capul, caple (A.N.) 354, _pl._ caples, 415, 416, _a horse_ (said to be
derived from the Low-Latin _caballus_)
caractes (A.N.) 233, _characters_
cardiacle (Gr.) 266, 430, _a disease affecting the heart_
careful (A.S.) _pl._ carefulle, 403, _full of care_
carien (A.S.) _to carry_
caroyne, careyne (A.N.) _carrion, flesh, a corpse_
carpen (A.N.) 356, 400, _to talk, chat, tell_. _part. pas._ y-carped, 313
+cary (A.N. ?) 475, _a kind of coarse cloth_
casten (A.S.) _to cast_
catel (A.N.) 70, 78, 175, 437, _goods, property, treasure, possessions_
cauken (A.S. ?) 223, 241, a technical term, applied to birds at their time
of breeding. It is found in the St. Albans Book of Hawking, 1496, sign. A.
i.; "And in the tyme of their (the hawks') love, they calle, and not
_cauke_."
kaurymaury, 81, _care, trouble_?
+cautel (A.N.) 469, _a cunning trick_
kaylewey ( .) 334 (?)
kemben (A.S.) 174, _to comb_
kene (A.S.) _sharp, earnest_
kennen, kenne (A.S.) 355, 396, 410, _to teach_, _pres pl._ konne, 3.
_imperat._ kenne (_teach_), 20. _pret._ kenned, 67, 241, kennede, 409
kepen, kepe (A.S.) _to keep, to abstain_, 60. _pret. pl._ kepten, 235, 404.
have kepe this man, 352, _have this man to keep_
kernelen (A.N.) 113, _to embattle a building, build the battlements_
kerse (A.S.) 174, _cress_
kerven (A.S.) _to carve_. +_part. past_, y-corven, 460
kerver, 184, _a sculptor_
cesse (A.N.) 375, _to end, cease_
kevere (A.N.) 445, _to recover_
kex (A.S.) 361, _the dried stalk of hemlock_
chace (A.N.) 351, _to race, to go fast_
chaffare (A.S.) 131, 292, 301, 305, 338, _to deal, traffic, trade_
chaffare (A.S.) 3, 31, 85, 268, 305, _merchandise_
chalangen (A.N.) _to challenge, claim_. chalangynge, 82. chalanged, 87
chapitle (A.N.) _a chapter_
+chaple (A.N.) 485, _a chapel_
chapman (A.S.) _a merchant, buyer_
+chapolories (A.N.) 483, _chapelaries_
+charthous (A.N.) 490, _Carthusians_
chastilet (A.N.) _a little castle_
chatre (A.N.) 287, _to chatter_
chauncelrie (A.N.) _chancery_
cheke (A.S.) 68, _the cheek_, maugree hire chekes, 68. We have in Chaucer,
_maugré thin eyen_, _maugré hire hed_, &c. See Tyrwhit's Gloss, v.
_Maugre_. One of these instances is exactly analogous to the passage of
Piers Ploughman (C. T. l. 6467):--
And happed, al alone as sche was born,
He saugh a mayde walkyng him by-forn,
Of which mayden anoon _maugré hir heed_,
By verray fors byraft hir maydenhed.
cheker (A.N.) _the exchequer_
chele (A.S.) 176, 439, _cold_
chepen (A.S.) 296, _to buy_
chepyng (A.S.) 68, 135, _market, sale_
cherl (A.S.) 210, _pl._ cherles, 337, 375, _a serf, peasant, churl_
+cherlich (A.N.) 485, _richly, sumptuously_
chervelle (A.S.) 134, _chervil, a plant which was eaten as a pot-herb
(cerefolium)_
chese (A.S.) 296, _to choose_
cheeste, cheste (A.S.) 33, 169, 253, _dissension, strife, debate_
cheve (A.N.) 375, _to compass a thing, to succeed, or bring to an end, to
obtain, adopt_. _pres. s._ cheveth, 287. _pret. pl._ cheveden, 3, chewe,
381, 439. lat hem chewe as thei chosen, _let them take as they choose_
chewen (A.N.) 26, 490, _to eschewe_
chibolle (A.N.) 134, _a kind of leek_, called in French _ciboule_
chicke, _pl._ chicknes, 67 (A.S.) _a chicken_
chevysaunce (A.N.) 92, 426, _an agreement for borrowing money_
chiden (A.S.) _to chide_
child (A.S.) _a child_. _gen. pl._ childrene, 72
chymenee (A.N.) 179, _a fire-place_
chirie-tyme, 86, _cherry-time_
chyvelen (A.S. ?) 88, _to become shrivelled_
+chol (A.S.) 464, _the jowl_
kidde, _see_ couthen
kirk (A.S.) _a church_
kirtel (A.S.) _a kirtle, frock_
kissen (A.S.) 395, _to kiss_. _pret. s._ kiste, 394
kith, kyth (A.S.) 55, 324, 400, _relationship, family connection_. to kith
and to kyn, 268, _to family connection and kindred_
kitone (A.N.) _kitten, young cat_
clawe (A.S.) 274, _to brush, to stroke_
clene (A.S.) _pure, clean_. clenner, 410, purer. clennesse, _purity,
cleanness_
clepen, clepe (A.S.) _to call_. _pret._ cleped, 436. _part. pas._ cleped,
174
clergie (A.N.) _science, clergy_
clerk (A.N.) _pl._ clerkes, _gen. pl._ clerkene, 72, _a scholar_
cler-matyn (A.N.) 135, _a kind of fine bread_
cleven (A.S.) _to split, cleave_ (intransitive). _pret. s._ cleef, 373
cleymen (A.N.) 389, _to claim_. _pret. s._ cleymede, 430
cliket (A.N.) 114, _a kind of latch key_. cliketten, 114, _to fasten with a
cliket_. Tyrwhit explains the word simply as meaning a key--but in Piers
Ploughman it is put so in immediate apposition with the word key, that it
must have differed from it. In Chaucer, C. T. 9990, et seq. it appears to
be the key of a garden gate:--
This freissche May, that I spake of so yore,
In warm wex hath emprynted the _cliket_
That January bar of the smale wiket,
By which into his gardyn ofte he went;
And Damyan, that knew al hir entent,
The _cliket_ counterfeted prively.
In a document of the date 1416, quoted by Ducange, v. _Cliquetus_, it is
ordered that, Refectorarius semper teneat hostium refectorii clausum _cum
cliqueto_
clyngen (A.S.) 276, _to shrink, wither, pine_. Reliq. Antiquæ, vol. ii, p.
210:--
When eld me wol aweld, mi wele is awai;
Eld wol keld, and _cling_ so the clai.
clippe (A.S.) 359, 394, _to embrace, enfold_
clips (A.N. ?) 377, _an eclipse_
clyven (A.S.) 367, _to cleave, stick to_
clokken (A.N.) 45, _to limp or hobble, to walk lamely_
clomsen (A.N.) 276, _to shrink or contract_. A verb used often in the
Wycliffite Bible. In Prompt. Parv. aclomsid.
clooth (A.S.) _cloth_
clouch (A.S.) _pl._ clouches, _a clutch_
clouten (A.S.) _to patch, mend_. _part. past_, y-clouted, 120
clucche (A.S.) 359, _to clutch, hold_
knappe (A.S.) 133, _a knop, a button_
knave (A.S.) 14, 66, _a servant lad_
+knoppede (A.S.) 476, _full of knobs_
knowelichen (A.S.) _to acknowledge_. _pret. s._ kneweliched, 239, 407.
_part. act._ knowelichynge, 400
knowes (A.S.) 98, _knees_
knowen, knowe (A.S.) 408, _to know_, _pres. pl._ knowen. _pret. s._ knew,
232. _pl._ knewen, 237. _part. pas._ knowen, knowe
coffe (A.S. ?) 120, _a cuff_
+cofrene (A.N.) 455, _to put in a coffer_
coghen (A.S.) 367, _to cough_
coke (A.S.) _a cook_
cokeney (A.N.) 134, _some kind of meager food, probably a young or small
cock, which had little flesh on its bones_. This meaning of the word (which
has been misunderstood) may be gathered from a comparison of the passage in
Piers Ploughman with one in the "Turnament of Tottenham," where the writer
intended to satirize the poorness of the fare:--
At that fest were thei servyd in a rich aray,
Every fyve and fyve had _a cokeney_.
Heywood, in his Proverbs, part i, chap. xi, gives a proverb in which the
word is evidently used in the same sense, and appears to be intentionally
contrasted with a _fat hen_:--
--Men say,
He that comth every daie shall have _a cocknaie_,
He that comth now and then, shall have a fat hen;
But I gat not so muche in comyng seelde when,
As a goode hens fether or a poore egshell.
I think that _cokenay_ in Chaucer is the same word, used metaphorically to
signify a person without worth or courage (C. T. 4205):--
And when this jape is tald another day,
I sal be hald a daf, _a cokenay_.
coker (A.S.) 120, _a short stocking, or glove, a sheath_
coket (A.N.) 135, _a kind of fine bread_
cokewold (A.N.) 75, _a cuckold_
cole (A.N.) 134, _cabbage_
coler (A.N.) _a collar_
collen (A.N.) 203, _to embrace, put one's arms round a person's neck_, in
French, _accoller_
colomy (A. .) 267 (?)
colvere (A.S.) 319, _a dove, pigeon_
come (A.S.) 416, _to come_. _pres. s._ he comth, 18, 332. _pret. s._ cam,
kam, coom, 168, com, 400. _pl._ comen, 438, come, 235, 237, 430, coome,
416, coomen, 438. _subj._, til he coome, 328, er thei coome, 353
comsen (A.N.) 23, 24, 49, 77, 81, 119, 136, 152, 244, 372, _to begin,
commence, to endeavour_. _pret. s._ comsede, 402, 403. comsynge, 382
comunes (A.N.) 80, 420, _commons, allowance of provision_
confus (A.N.) _confused_
congeyen, congeien (A.N.) 258, _to give leave, dismiss_
congie (A.N.) 258, _leave_
konne (A.S.) 401, 408, 437, _to learn, know_. _pres. s._ kan. _pret._
kouthe, 411, koude. _subj._ in case that thow konne, 424, and thou konne,
397, _if thou know_. _pret. act._ konnyng, 206, _knowing_
konnynge (A.S.) 409, _knowledge, science, cunning_
contenaunce (A.N.) 2, 203, _appearance, gesture, carriage_
contrarien (A.N.) 367, _to go against, vex, oppose_
contree (A.N.) _a country_
contreve (A.N.) _to contrive_. contreved, _contrived_
conying (A.N. ?) _a rabbit_
copen (A.N.) 51, _to cover with a cope, like a friar_
coppe (A.N.) 44, 191, _a cup, basin_
coroune (A.N.) _a crown_
corounen (A.N.) _to crown_. _part. p._ y-corouned
cors (A.N.) 295, _the body_
corsaint (A.N.) 109, _a relique, the body of a saint_
corsen (A.S.) 305, _to curse_
corsede (A.S.) _cursed_. corseder, 421, _more cursed, worse_
cost (A.N.) 33, 151, 376, _a side, region_
costen (A.N.) _to cost_. _pret. s._ costed, 13. _part. pas._ costned, 13
cote (A.S.) 152, _a cottage, cot_
coten (A.N.) 51, _to dress in a coat_
+cotinge (A.S.) 468, _cutting_
coupable (A.N.) 366, _guilty, culpable_
coupe (A.N.) 44, 95, _a cup_
coupen (A.N.) _to cut out, fashion_ (?) _part. past_, y-couped, 370
courben (A.N.) 19, 28, _to bend, stoop_
courtepy (A.N.) 82, 128, _a short cloak of coarse cloth_
couthen (A.S.) 87, _to make known, discover, publish_. _pret._ kidde, 103,
269
+couuen (A.S.) 473, perhaps an error in the old printed text for _connen_
coveiten (A.N.) _to covet_
covent (A.N.) 428, _a convent_
coveren (A.N.) 238, _to recover_
cracchen (A.S.) 211, 322, _to scratch_
crafte (A.S.) _craft, art_. crafty-men, 121, _artisans_
creaunt (A.N.) 239, _believing_
crepen (A.S.) _to creep_. _pret. s._ crope, _pl._ cropen
cryen (A.N.) _to cry_. _pret. s._ cried, cryde, 374, _pl._ cryden, cride
croft (A.S.) _a small inclosed field, a croft_
crokke (A.S.) 412, _a pot, pitcher, vessel of earthenware_
+crom-bolle (A.S.) 476, _a crum-bowl_
crop (A.S.) 332, 334, _the head or top of a tree or plant_; hence the
expression "root and crop," still in use
cropiers (A.N.) _the housings on the horse's back_
croppen (A.S.) 319, _to eat (said of a bird), to put into its crop or craw_
crouche (A.N.) 109, _a cross_. Hence is derived the name of _the Crutched
Friars_
+crouken (A.S.) 495, _to bend_
+crucchen (A.S.) 495, _to crouch_
cruddes (A.S.) _curds_
cruwel (A.N.) 269, _cruel_
ku, _pl._ kyen (A.S.) 125, _a cow_
kulle (A.S.) 344, kille, 434, _to kill_. _pret. s._ kilde, 431. _part.
past_, kulled, 339. to kulle, 338
culorum (_Lat._) 60, 198, _the conclusion or moral of a tale_
cultour (A.S.) 123, kultour, 61, _a culter, blade_
cuppe-mele (A.S.) 90, _cup by cup_
kutte, 79 (A.S.) _to cut_. _imperat._ kut, 75. _pret. pl._ kitten, 128
kynde (A.S.) _nature, race, kind_
kynde (A.S.) _natural_. kyndeliche, 382, _naturally_
kyng (A.S.) _pl._ kynges. _gen. pl._ kyngene, 21, 400, _a king_
kyng-ryche (A.S.) _a kingdom_
kyn, _gen. s._ kynnes (A.S.) 40, _kin, kind_. This word is used in the
genitive case in such phrases as the following: of foure kynnes thynges,
151, _of four kinds of things_. othere kynnes men, 177, _other kinds of
men_. none kynnes riche, 213, _no kind of rich men, or rich men of no
kind_. many kynnes maneres, 359, _many sorts of manners_. any kynnes catel,
400, _any kind of property_