MARRY!

MATED = confused in mind (well lost).

MEED: lost in _mead_ = meadow (also obs.) _and

mead=metheglin_.

METE and METELY = fitting, also METE in 'mete it out', both

lost in _meet_ and _meat_.

MERE (_subs._).

MOUSE (_verb_): to bite and tear.

MOW = a grimace.

MUSE = to wonder: lost in _amuse_ and _Muse_.

NEAT = ox.

OUNCE = pard.

PALL = to fail.

PEAK: survives only in 'peak and pine' and in _peaky_.

PELTING = paltry, also PELT = a skin, lost.

PILL = to plunder.

PINK = ornamental slashing of dress.

POKE = pocket.

POLL = to cut the hair.

QUARRY (as used in sport).

QUEAN = a woman.

RACK (of clouds).

RAZE (to the ground). The meaning being the very opposite of

_raise_, the word _raze_ is intolerable.

REDE = counsel, n.b. change of meaning.

RHEUM: survives in rheumatic, &c.

SCALD = scurvy (_adj._).

SLEAVE = a skein of silk, 'The ravelled sleave of care',

usually misinterpreted, the equivocal alternative making

excellent sense.

SOUSE _(verb):_ of a bird of prey swooping.

SPEED: as in 'St. Francis be thy speed' = help, aid.

STALE = bait or decoy (well lost).

TARRE: to 'tarre a dog on' = incite.

TICKLE = unstable.

TIRE = to dress (the hair, &c.).

VAIL = to let fall.

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