• flouroun

petal. c1450(c1386) Chaucer LGW Prol.(1) Benson-Robinson 217 A whit coroune she beer With flourouns smale [LGW Prol.(2) : many floures]..ryght as a dayesye ycorouned ys with white leves lyte, So were the flowrouns of hire coroune white. c1450(c1386) Chaucer LGW

• glaren

of þo sunne. (1440) PParv. Hrl 221 198 Glaryn, or bryghtly shynyn: Rutilo. c1450(c1380) Chaucer HF Benson-Robinson 272 Hyt is not al gold that glareth. (c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol. Manly-Rickert A.684 Swiche glarynge [vr. glayringe] eyen hadde he as an hare.

• creauncen

creauncen v. OF creancier v. To borrow (money); obtain credit. (c1390) Chaucer CT.Sh. Manly-Rickert B.1479 We may creaunce whil we han a name. (c1390) Chaucer CT.Sh. Manly-Rickert B.1493 Now goth this marchant..and byeth and creaunceth [vr. creaunseþ]. ?a1450 Add.Mir.Virg. Add

• aldiran

the old constellation Leo. [For opinions as to identification, see F. N. Robinson's ed. of Chaucer, p.824.] a1223 Cmb.Hh.6.8 Stars p.xliv Aldiraan..In fronte leonis. (c1395) Chaucer CT.Sq. Manly-Rickert F.265 Phebus hath laft the angle meridional, And yet ascendyng was the

• duracioun

OF Duration. (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn. Manly-Rickert A.2996 That same prince..Hath stabliced in this wrecched world adoun Certeine dayes and duracioun To al that is engendred in this place Ouer the whiche day they may nay pace. c1450(c1380) Chaucer HF Benson-Robinson

• Ebraik, Hebra(i)k

Ebraik adj. Also Hebra(i)k . Late L Hebraicus . Hebrew, Jewish. (c1390) Chaucer CT.ML. Manly-Rickert B.489 He..kepte peple Ebrayk [vr. hebrayke] from hir drenchynge. c1450(c1380) Chaucer HF Benson-Robinson 1434 The Ebrayk Josephus, the olde, That of Jewes gestes tolde. (a1464)

• edifice

edifice n. OF edifice . A building, edifice, structure. (c1390) Chaucer CT.Mel. Manly-Rickert B.2523 Castelles and othere manere edifices. ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo. Benson-Robinson 3.pr.12.81 He is as a keye and a styere, by which that the edifice of this world

• egalite

egalite n. OF (a) Equanimity, impassiveness; (b) impartiality, justice. (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars. Manly-Rickert I.949 She is as thise martirs in egalitee. ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo. Benson-Robinson 2.pr.4.128 Alle fortune is blisful to a man by the aggreablete or by the egalyte

• empoisouning, enpuisoning, enposining

Also enpuisoning , enposining . The action of poisoning, or the state of being poisoned. (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pard. Manly-Rickert C.891 Signes of empoisonyng. ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo. Benson-Robinson 1.pr.3.59 The enpoisonynge of Socrates. c1440 PLAlex. Thrn 110/9 He myghte neuer come

• enterchaungeable

adj. OF entrechanjable . Reciprocal, mutual. ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo. Benson-Robinson 4.m.6.21 Thus maketh Love entrechaungeable the perdurable courses; and thus is discordable bataile yput out of the contre of the sterres. ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo. Benson-Robinson 4.pr.6.163 Thilke ordenaunce..atemprith the elementz

• entune, enteune

Also enteune . Cp. tune & entunen . A tune, melody, or song. (For alternative explanation of Chaucer quot., see Philol.Quart.2 81). c1450(1369) Chaucer BD Benson-Robinson 309 So mery a soun, so swete entewnes. a1500(c1445) Lydg. Mir.Edmund Ashm 46 238

• equinoxial

c1400 Chaucer Astr. Brussels 4869 1.17.81a The myddel cercle..is clepid the cercle equinoccial..when the sunne is anentis the heuedes of Aries and Libra, thanne ben the dayes and the nyȝtes ylike of lengthe in al the world. c1400 Chaucer Astr.

• overkerven

intersect (sth.), cut across. c1400 Chaucer Astr. Brussels 4869 [1.21.] 83b This zodiac which that is part of the 8 spere ouercometh the equinoccial, & he ouerkerueth [vr. ouerkerued] hym agayn in euen parties. c1400 Chaucer Astr. Brussels 4869 [2.26.]

• Phitoun, phiton, pheton

by anal. with phitonesse . Python, the serpent slain by Phoebus. (c1390) Chaucer CT.Mcp. Manly-Rickert H.109 Phebus..slow Phitoun, the serpent, as he lay Slepynge agayn the sonne. (c1390) Chaucer CT.Mcp. Manly-Rickert H.128 Phebus..in signe..of victorie Of Phitoun [vrr. Phyton, Pheton]..Was

• ba

?A playful adaptation of OF baisier kiss; ?a nursery word. To kiss. (c1395) Chaucer CT.WB. Manly-Rickert D.433 Com neer, my spouse; lat me ba thy cheke. c1440 Chaucer CT.Mil. Add 35286 A.3709 Ba [so several MSS; crit.ed.: Go fro the

• ploungi

ploungi adj. From plungen v. Rain-bringing, stormy. ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo. Benson-Robinson 1.m.3.9 The firmament stant dirked with wete, plowngy cloudes [L Nimbosis]. ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo. Benson-Robinson 3.m.1.9 The sterres schynen more aggreablely whan the wynd Nothus leteth his plowngy [L

• pomel

adj. From pomele adj. Dappled; grei (gris) . c1415 Chaucer CT.CY. Lnsd 851 G.559 His Hakenay þat was al pomel gris So swete þat it wonder was to see. c1425 Chaucer CT.Prol. Petw 7 A.616 This Reue satte vpon a

• Priapus, pirapus, papus

god of vineyards and gardens. (c1395) Chaucer CT.Mch. Manly-Rickert E.2034 Ne Priapus [vr. Pirapus] ne myghte nat suffise, Thogh he be god of gardyns, for to telle The beautee of the gardyn. c1430(c1380) Chaucer PF Benson-Robinson 252 The god Priapus

• prideles(se, pridles, pruideles, proud, proud(e)les

proud adj.) proud(e)les . From prid(e n.(2). Without pride. (c1395) Chaucer CT.Cl. Manly-Rickert E.930 Hir goost was euere in pleyn humylitee..Discreet and pridelees [vrr. prideles, pruydeles, prydles, proudles, proudeles]. a1500(c1370) Chaucer Comp.L. Benson-Robinson 25 Hir name is Bountee, set in

• profect, profi~x0021d~t

. Error for prefect . A Roman prefect. c1415 Chaucer CT.SN. Lnsd 851 G.369 On Maximius þat was an officere Of þe profectes [Heng: Prefectes] and of Corniculere Hem hent. c1485 Chaucer CT.SN. Sln 1686 G.362 Profiȝt [Heng: hem biforn