• tet(e, tette, tat(e, taet, tetes, teten, tittes, teatis, tutes, titten, titta

stone and ȝaf her sone souke, þer fil downe out of her teete a litil mylk on þe same stone. c1450 Med.Bk.(1) Med-L 136 196/620 Mylk þt is hardyd in wymmens tetis: Seþe mynt in wyne and oyle and lay

• salve, salwe, salf(e, salffe, salife, salft, selve, s(c)ealfe, sealve, salves, salven, salvisht

Tristrem..is wounded..Leches wiþ salue and drink Him comeþ. c1350(a1333) Shoreham Poems Add 17376 1/18 For þe goute, sealue Me makeþe. (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn. Manly-Rickert A.2712 To oothere woundes and to broken armes Somme hadden salues and somme hadden charmes. c1390

• ben(e, bean(e, bi(e)n, bein(e, benes, benen, beanen

eten benen and pesen and swilche unorne metes. (c1300) Havelok LdMisc 108 769 He..broucte..In his poke benes and korn. a1325 Gloss.Bibbesw. Cmb Gg.1.1 330 Les favots: beene. (a1398) Trev. Barth. Add 27944 299b/b Boles ben y fatted wiþ..pesen and benen.

• tọrenden, tọrent(e, -rende -rendide, tọrent(e, -rend(e(n

Þat þe rasores nolden al is flechs to-drawen and to-rende. c1330 Degare Auch 353 Þan was þar a dragon grim..Þe knyȝt and squiers he had torent. (c1375) Chaucer CT.Mk. Manly-Rickert B.3215 Sampson..slow and al to rente the leoun. (a1382) WBible(1)

• unconning(e, unconing(e, uncuning(e, unkonning(e, unkoning, unkun(n)ing(e, onconning, oncunninge, unkunmande

unconninge sheep scattred wolde ben lost the shepherde shal not lete hem be lost. (1395) Wycl.37 Concl. Tit D.1 53 The vnkunnynge and vicious cumpani of cardinalis fulle of auarice, symonie, and pride mai chese oo Judas and Satanas and

• biside(s

us..xliiij li..besyde and above the acquitaunce of xvij lb. (1447) in Mullinger Cambridge 1 313 To have licence and powir to ley the furst stone..so that beside the mooste noble and glorieus collage roial of our Lady and saint Nicholas..may

• vice, vis(e, vias, vihs, wice, wis(e, visse, wisse, vices, vicice, vice

be wyld and vertues lame, And now be vicyce turned to game. (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars. Manly-Rickert I.464 Now ben ther general signes of gentilesse as eschewynge of vice and ribaudye and seruage of synne in word, in werk and contenaunce.

• waren, war(e, warre, wari(e, warae, waer, waer, wer, warede, warred

take vp his hounde and say to hym soft 'ware, rascayle, ware.' (c1410) York MGame Vsp B.12 104 For to kepe þat non hownde folowe to sheep, ne to oþer beestis aliȝt and take hem vp and bilaissh hem wel

• wiseli, wiselẹ, wisili, wisceli, whisilẹ, visili, viesli, vesili, weiseli, wyssyche, wiseliere, wiseleere, wiselokur, wislikere, wislocur, swyselyer

manly and wysely, there ys but dethe. c1475 3 Consid. UC 85 187 As witte and kunnyng defendith and maynteyneth him that theym hath Soo defendith and maynteyneth habundaunce of richesse theym that have theyme and will dispende theym and

• medicin(e, medicen(e, medisin(e, medecin(e, -cene, -sin(e, medcin(e, -sin(e, -sion, meticine, -sine, mettecin, midicine, medicyim

and deþe stondeþ, for he heleþ and woundeþ and doeþ medicine. ?a1425 Orch.Syon Hrl 3432 113/28 Þei witen wel þat þei ben poysoned..and ȝit wolen þei not resceyue no medicyn. ?a1425 Orch.Syon Hrl 3432 282/20 Leche, first heele þisilf

• rigge, rig(e, rigg, rigje, ridge, rugge, rug(e, rugg, rugh, regge, reg(e, regg, rog(ge, hri~x0021d~, hri~x0021d~~x0021d~e, ruggen, -ric-, -rich(e-, -righ-, rigghe, rhigge, -rik, -ringge, ruigge-, rhugg, -re, rid-

on (one's body, oneself); to bed and to , to and to bed , for wearing and for bedclothes; (e) in oaths and asseverations. c1150(?OE) PDidax. Hrl 6258b 33/20 Hyt pricaþ innan þan sculdru and on þan hriȝȝe. c1230(?a1200) Ancr.

• openen, open(e, openi, opin(e, opinnen, opon(e, opun, opne(n, oppen(e, openian, -iaen, -i~x0021d~an, hopeni, opinien, oppenien, up(p)in, upon, apon, openeth, -es, opened, openi~x0021d~t, opunni~x00fe~, open~x00fe~, opence, openae~x00fe~, openeth, openie~x00f0~, op(e)ned(e, opend, hopenede, opeind, opeinnede, oppind, oppint, opnit, openenede, upponed, open, opin, opun, opened(e, opned, opend(e, oppind, opinhed, opentid, open

(a1398) Trev. Barth. Add 27944 224a/a Eruca is an herbe..neisshynge and openynge, and comforteþ þe veynes and cureþ and heliþ þe palesy and exciteþ vryne & purgeþ þe bladder and reynes. a1400 Lanfranc Ashm 1396 257/23 If it [deafness] comeþ

• ese, aise, eise, ase, yese

ydel ese. (a1398) Trev. Barth. Add 27944 285b/a To hem þat lyueþ delicatliche and in ese and reste. a1400 Cursor Got Theol 107 22773 Siluer and gold and esse [vrr. ese, es, ais] of lijf. c1400(?a1387) PPl.C Hnt HM 137

• discrecioun, discrescioun, -crescon, -cres(s)ioun, -creacion, descrecioun, -cression

oon half, and ye personne..that espieth, fyndeth and preveth hit, be ye discretion of ye Tresorer and Barons of ye Eschequer, that oyer half. (1439) Doc. in Collect.Topogr.5 14 I prey him..that his reward..may be put in discrecion and iugement

• disposen, desposen, dispoisen

Donet Bod 916 5/28 Y wote not who in lyue cowde suche a noumbre [of books] and suche a foorme fynde and dispose, and þerwiþ pretende him in no poynt þerinne faile. (a1387) Trev. Higd. StJ-C H.1 1.109 Þe citee

• domb, doumb, dumb, domp(e, dom(me, dome, dum, doump, doum(e, doom, dumben

parlesy war helid grete wane, And dum and defe ful mani ane. a1450 Yk.Pl. Add 35290 205/132 Both dome and deffe..He cures þam right. a1500(?c1400) Gowther Adv 19.3.1 740 He garus þo blynd to see And þo dompe to speyke.

• ensaumple, ensampel, an-, in-

Assisi] were For bote ase a schewingue and Ansaumple. c1390 PPl.A(1) Vrn 5.17 Piries and Plomtres weore passchet to þe grounde, In ensaumple to Men þat we scholde do þe bettre; Beches and brode okes..In toknyng of drede. (a1398) Trev.

• pask(e, pasc(e, pasque, pascue, pash(e, pach(e, paskes, pashas, pashes, paches, phask

Paskes was so hegh a day, Þat þai myght a þeefe take And saue. c1470 Bible F. Cleve-W q091.92-C468 57/12 Peple..shal assemble in this toun for the Sabate and the Pasque. ?a1475 Ludus C. Vsp D.8 244/365 Ordeyn..A paschall lomb..For

• pesible, peas-, peac-, peis-, pais-, paiz-, pesable, pese-, peas-, pais-, peasebly, peisble, pos(s)ible, pesible(s

gode and paisible avys of the wysest and trewest. (a1398) Trev. Barth. Add 27944 175a/a Generalyche and comunelyche þis londe is peysible and quiete. (a1398) Trev. Barth. Add 27944 332a/b This weye..is clene and sadde, y-paued wiþ stone, euene and

• possessioun, possesion, possescioun, poseescion, posession, pocessioun, pocescioun, poscessioun, poscescioun, poscescien, passioun, possessiounes, pcesciownes, poste-styens

Collect.Topogr.5 15 I wil and prey my seid feffees..that thei kepe al yt same maner of Crauenes..in here hande and possession bi xx yer thanne next folwyng. c1440(?a1400) Morte Arth.(1) Thrn 2608 Of Alexandere and Aufrike and alle þa owte-landes,